I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm continuing a series you guys know called 20 Years and 20 Podcasts.

So for those that I've never heard of this series before, what I'm doing is I'm going through every year of magic's existence from its beginning and spending a podcast talking about it.

And we are up to 2003.

So let's get going.

Okay.

So January 17th to the 19th was ProTor Chicago.

So this is important, historically speaking, as I believe it's the last P.T. win thus far of

Kai Buda from Germany, the German juggernaut.

So Kai Buddha defeated Nikolai Herzog.

So whenever you have two future Hall of Famers playing each other in the finals,

that's pretty impressive. The other real famous thing about this PT was it's the one time in the

top eight that John Finkel played Kaibuda. And they played in the semifinals and obviously Kai won

since he won the whole thing. So the interesting story here is back in the day,

I used to be in charge of the producer for the video,

for all the coverage.

And so I would pick what match we would start on.

And so I remember going back to talk to everybody.

I said, okay, here's what's going to happen.

We're going to start on Finkel on Buddha,

and then we're going to not end until it ends.

I was like, we're going to them, we're not moving away.

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