I'm Plame Driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay. So today, so at, as I'm recording this, Magic 30 has not happened yet.

But as you were listening to this, it has happened. Ah, the mystery of recording ahead.

So today, I want to talk about my speech,

the preparations and the making of... So what happened basically was when they were planning out

the, when they were planning the schedule for the panels and the talks, they said to me,

we'd like to give you your own hour, and you can talk about

whatever you want to talk about, which, by the way, is a very daunting task.

Here, whatever you want.

But I said to them, okay, any clarification?

And one thing they said is, well, you know, it is the start of our 30th anniversary.

And by the way, yes, I understand technically the 30th anniversary starts next year, but this is the beginning of the very long process of sobering our anniversary,

so I do realize that.

But anyway, it's the start of our celebration of the 30th anniversary.

And so they're sort of like, well, if you could somehow hit upon the idea that magic's 30 years old, that would be great.

So I was trying to think of like, what could I do?

And the other thing, I'm a really big believer in the medium is the message, meaning I was doing a presentation.

I had the ability to sort of show pictures and things.

And so I'm like, okay, you know,

what can I do that would be the most fun?

And then I realized that there's a lot of picture,

like I started thinking about the idea of showing magic history through pictures.

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