I'm not pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work, coronavirus edition. So I have a fun guest today. Brian David Marshall of many things. We'll talk all about that today. So welcome, Brian.

Hey, Mark. Thanks for having me. This is going to be fun. Okay, so I'm going to start with the question to ask everybody. How did you first start to play magic? How did you learn about magic? So I was working for a chain of comic book stores in New York City. I was doing marketing and promotion for them, putting on signings. This is like right around death of Superman and the image boom. And like so, you know, all these huge events are happening in comics. And I had come out of Superman and the image boom. And like, so, you know, all these huge events are happening in comics.

And I had come out of PR and was working for this game store, I mean, this comic store,

doing like their marketing and also sort of as the guy who played games would answer

questions from people who had questions about games.

And so people kept coming in and asking if we had any of that magic or magic. And I first I thought they were talking about like mage.

There was like a white wolf product.

And finally someone just was like grabbed me.

I've told the story before, but it's true. Like

picked me up by the lapels of my jacket and shook me against like the Warhammer miniatures,

you know, and he's like, why can't I find this bleep and game anywhere? And so like I, you know,

he stormed off or was arrested or something and I

dusted myself off and was like okay we need to figure out what this product is and we need

to carry. And it was a while right this is right in between the beta and unlimited release of magic.

And there'd been very, very, very little beta in New York City.

Not a lot of it on the East Coast, but unlimited came out and we weren't able to get any in the store,

but me and my friends were able to buy a bunch of unlimited starters and some unlimited boosters and start playing.

And that's how I got into magic.

And I've literally never stopped.

Okay.

We haven't gone two weeks without playing magic in the intervening 27 years.

Yeah, it's funny.

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