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

Coronavirus edition. So we have another interview for you today. Elaine Chase is here, and Elaine has done a little of everything at Wizard.

So we're going to walk through all the stuff she's done. She's done lots of different things.

And also, so Elaine, hello?

Hello.

Hi, Mark.

Hi, listeners.

Okay, so I'm going to ask you the question.

I've been asking everybody when we start here is,

how did you learn to play magic?

Okay, so it was the summer before my senior year in college,

which was 1994. And I had a job, a summer job,

like most people do, and I was the lifeguard at a holiday inn for the indoor pool weekday shift.

And the thing to know about this holiday in weekday is that it was a business clientele mostly in the weekdays.

So like literally I would sit there from 10 in the morning till 5 at night and like maybe one person came into the pool like once.

So I sat there and stared at an empty indoor pool for like 40 hours a week.

And I was bored out of my mind.

So I got a copy of games magazine.

And in this issue of games magazine, which was probably like the, I don't know, May June, June,

you know, 1994 edition, there was a review of this game called Magic the Gathering and an ad and an editorial, like an article about it.

And it was just, it looked really interesting.

And so my boyfriend at the time, now my husband of 20 years, we just had our anniversary very recently.

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