I'm pulling up a driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

And today, I'm going to talk about something that if it didn't exist, I would not be making magic today.

So today I'm going to talk about magic the puzzling. So for those that have no idea what I'm talking about, and some you probably do,

back in the day, my claim to fame was I was the puzzle guy. So let me walk through what magic the puzzling was and how it played into the whole magic scene, if you will. So

I've told the story, obviously. So for those who listen to my podcasts all the time,

I know I have a habit of telling the same stories.

Although, in my defense, this is like my 300-something podcast, and it's a lot of time to

fill.

So I try to give new twists on the stories when I repeat them.

But yes, I do know that there are some repetition.

And today I'll be talking about some stuff that you've heard before.

But I'm trying to get some vantage points.

So you understand the story a little bit different than how you heard before.

So I often talk about how I started in magic.

So this has to do with today, the magic of the puzzling.

So what happened was

in the winter of 1994. So magic came out in 1993 in the summer. I got involved in the late

summer. And I got really into magic. Really, I mean, really, I was hook, hook, line, sink. I was

very into magic. And at the time, there was so little, sinker. I was very into magic.

And at the time, there was so little written about magic.

It just was, I would, whenever I would find anything, you know, I would buy the tiniest of magazines, because they'd have a little tiny article on magic.

I was just starved for information on magic.

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