I'm putting on a driveway. We know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay. Today is another one of my series of 20 years and 20 podcasts. So we're up to 2004. So we are past the halfway point.

Okay. So let's talk about this year.

It was an interesting year on many levels.

So we'll start with January 16th to the 18th was Pro Tour Amsterdam.

At it, Nikolai Herzog of Norway defeats Osama Fujita of Japan.

So Nikolai Herzog had a good year.

Starts by winning a pro tour.

He also would later go on to become a Pro Tour Hall of Famer.

And Nikolai won a number of European, multiple European championships.

And as we'll see, multiple pro tours.

Anyway, this event was Rochester draft.

It used Myridden.

Mirden had come out in the fall of 2003.

For those that don't know what Roshester draft is because it's sort of fallen out of favor.

It's when you spread all the cards out.

You open up a pack, land all the cards, and people take turns picking the cards.

So it's a draft format

which is all open, rather than sealed, rather than closed information like a booster, where only

you know what you've taken. Also, by the way, on a personal level, January 16th, which was

the first day of the pro tour, was also the birth of my twins, Adam and Sarah.

And so what happened was, originally, back in my bachelor days, I used to go to everything

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