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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #355 - VidCon 2016

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about VidCon, where he chaperoned his daughter Rachel, and the lessons he learned from it.

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0:00.0

I'm pulling on my parking space.

0:03.1

We all know what that means.

0:04.3

It's time another drive to work.

0:06.5

And I drop off my son at camp today.

0:08.9

Okay, so today, I had interesting experiences last week that I was going to share today on my podcast.

0:16.4

I'm used to fandom.

0:18.3

I obviously, I work on a game that has a lot of fans and definitely has lots of followers.

0:23.6

And over the years, I've been to many conventions.

0:26.6

I go to game conventions all the time.

0:28.9

But this last week, I actually went to, my daughter wanted to go to a convention.

0:36.4

And one of the things we do with our kids is we sort of, during the course of the year,

0:40.9

there's opportunities they can earn as they do well as students and stuff.

0:46.6

And so the big sort of prize for my daughter this year was a trip to VidCon.

0:52.9

So for those who don't know, let me explain what VidCon is.

0:56.2

VidCon, which I assume the vid is short for video. Basically, it is for YouTubers, for people

1:03.9

that do, I mean, I guess not just YouTube, but do videos, sort of professional video makers.

1:10.0

And both my daughters, both Rachel and Sarah, are

1:12.8

very, very into to YouTube and vloggers and the whole world. And it's a world that I know

1:19.9

very little about. I know my, I know my daughters are both really into it. And I mean,

1:24.6

obviously, it's especially among their generation. It's huge. And so what happened was, it's, especially among their generation, it's huge.

1:28.7

And so what happened was, there's a guy named Hank Green and a guy named John Green,

1:33.0

the brothers. John Green is an author also, Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, and they've made

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