#784: It's All Magic
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not pulling out of the driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work. |
| 0:06.3 | Coronavirus edition. Okay, so today's topic is an interesting one. I've dubbed this, it's all magic. |
| 0:15.1 | So I want to talk about something near and dear to my heart, something that I hope will speak to people and maybe make you guys think |
| 0:23.0 | about things a little differently. Okay, so I'm going to start my story. I'm going to tell a few |
| 0:28.8 | little stories and I promise this all link together. So first I'm going to talk a little bit about |
| 0:33.7 | being a gamer when I was a kid. So I am 53. So I grew up in the 70s, when I was a kid, |
| 0:44.9 | 70s and 80s. I was born in 67. So my dad was a gamer and he got me into gaming. |
| 0:55.7 | And my whole, my, my, my dad was like a gamer gamer. |
| 0:58.0 | And my, my mom, you know, my whole family played like social games and stuff. |
| 1:01.9 | And so, um, on holidays and things or, you know, sometimes, um, we, we would play games. |
| 1:07.1 | We, we were a family that played games. |
| 1:09.0 | And my dad is specifically really introduced me to even |
| 1:11.9 | some more hardcore games, if you will. But one of the things about gaming back in the 70s and 80s |
| 1:18.2 | was it was not cool. It was seen as kind of geeky or nerdy. And so what that meant was if you |
| 1:26.9 | were a gamer, you would find your gamer friends. |
| 1:29.4 | You'd find people to game with. |
| 1:30.4 | But you didn't advertise really loudly that you were a gamer. |
| 1:34.3 | That it was something that came with a little bit of, I don't know, shame. |
| 1:39.2 | I'm not sure what to call it. |
| 1:40.3 | But it wasn't, it was something where, oh, this wasn't something that you were supposed |
| 1:44.7 | to be proud of. |
| 1:46.8 | And one of the things that I really like about sort of where the world has gone is, there's |
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