I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Coronavirus edition. Okay, so I've been doing fun interviews and I continue with that. So today I am with

Whitney Williams. So this is somebody you guys might not know. So Whitney, hello. Hello, Mark. How are you?

So one of the things that I've been wanting to do with this podcast is there are so many people that work on magic and so many people that do a lot of work that I don't think you guys know.

So Whitney's one of those people that does a huge amount of work and does a lot of things that you're aware of, but I don't think you really realize there's a person behind it and a whole team, and not just one person, but a whole team behind this.

And so I want to introduce Whitney and really talk about what Whitney does and introduce

Whitney to all of you.

You ready for that, Whitney?

Yes, I'm ready.

Okay, so the first question I always ask is how you got into magic, but you're in the case

where you didn't know magic before you came to wizard. So let's start with how did you get to wizards, and we'll eventually talk a little bit about

how you got into magic.

So how did you get to wizards?

So I was working at Seattle Children's Theatre as a stage manager, and one of the stage managers

that I was working with got recruited to Wizards by another woman who was

previously a stage manager in the Seattle theater scene. So for a few years there, we were all

getting pulled in through the stage manager network in Seattle. So I came to work at Wizards

in September of 2003 to be the manager of the

Pro Tour. So let's talk real quickly. What do you do? Because I don't sure the audience even

knows what you do. So what do you do at Wizards? What is your responsibility? So I'm the director

of global events. And what that entails is we oversee the execution

and strategic vision of events from competitive magic all the way to what happens at conventions,

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