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Okay, so back in 2012, I started doing my podcast, and I think my 15th podcast, so back in around November of 2012, was one on code names. And at the time,

I talked about every codename up to the point that was public at the time I did the podcast.

And it dawned on me, it's actually labeled in my internal thing, code names part one, because the idea

was, oh, maybe later I'll do it. And I just realized I was looking over themes that, uh, so I'm in charge of doing code names.

I'm going to, I'm going to talk a little bit of code names and I'm going to pick up from

where I left off.

Uh, in fact, it's funny.

I did blood sweat and tears and there's secretly there's fears, which if you listen to my

2016 podcast, you heard me talk about. But really quickly, before I jump into talking about all the different code names and where

they came from, and I want to tell a little bit of behind the scenes of how I became the

codename guy.

Now, one of the things that I've often talked about is when I first came to Wizards,

I was the word guy in a room full of math people. I was the person who like learned, like, I went to school

and learned communications and writing, and I was surrounded by mathematicians and engineers

and just people very, not word-centric. Um, and I, I've always been fascinated

with words. I'm a, I mean, I obviously became a writer and stuff, but, um, and so anyway, I very

early on just was fascinated by the idea of the code names. And so I just kind of took it on,

I just sort of took it on. It was, no one really asked me to do it, uh, way back when. I just kind of took it on. I just sort of took it on. No one really asked me to do it way back when.

I just sort of was entertained by the idea.

And some of the early, I mean, some of the very early podcasts I didn't pick,

but I eventually got the point where I started doing podcasts.

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