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

Okay, so today's topic is something that I've written a column about many years ago,

but I've yet to do with podcast on. I wrote an article many years ago called The Leak That Was,

and I was talking about why I hate leaks, why Wizards in general hates leaks.

So I'm going to talk about why I think leaks are a bad thing.

This is kind of a controversial topic.

There are a lot of people that love leaks and think leaks are wonderful.

So I want to explain why I think they're bad.

I'll explain sort of what I think some of the arguments for them are and why I

disagree with them. But anyway, that's my topic today. And if you can, and if you listen closely,

it is raining today. So it's ironic that my leak article is about the water leaking from the sky,

which probably means all a slightly longer podcast than normal, because as we all know, if you learn

nothing else from my podcast, it's that Seattleites can't drive in the rain. So, okay, so let's

start. So there are two metaphors I'm going to use for today. So let me get my metaphors up front

center. Metaphor one is I'm going to compare leaks to trailers of movies. I'm going to talk about how

movies sort of let the audience know ahead of time what the movie is about, using the trailers.

The second thing, I'm going to talk to the metaphor of Christmas morning. I have three kids,

and for those who don't know, I'm Jewish, but my wife is Christian.

So together, we are raising our kids under both religions, so we do celebrate Christmas.

And Christmas morning is an interesting experience where the kids are, you know, we've spent

time and energy getting them present

and want them to be very excited.

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