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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #36 - Tales From The Pit

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

🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rosewater talks about his comic, Tales From The Pit.

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:03.5

We all know what that means.

0:05.2

It's time for another drive to work.

0:07.7

Okay, so today, I just celebrated, I mean, upcoming for me in the past for you guys,

0:17.3

is I celebrated the two-year anniversary of Tales from the Pit,

0:21.7

which is my daily comic strip.

0:24.3

And I decided I would talk about Tales from the Pit today.

0:28.0

I'm hoping, actually, it's a larger discussion than just the comic itself,

0:31.4

but sort of like what goes into making a creative endeavor.

0:35.4

But I wanted to sort of talk about where it came from and sort of what, why I make it

0:42.7

and, I don't know, just some behind-the-scenes stories of the comic itself.

0:46.1

So, let's begin with the story, the origin story, if you will, issue number one.

0:52.7

So what happened was, I have an iPhone, for those that are unaware.

0:58.2

I'm a giant, giant Apple fan.

1:01.1

In fact, something people may not know.

1:03.8

My entire adult life, and I'm 45, I've never had a computer at home or at work ever that wasn't a Mac or wasn't an Apple computer.

1:18.5

I guess before Macs existed at home, we had an Apple 2E way back in the day.

1:24.2

And my dad actually got an Apple, like the very first Apple you could get, like the consumers could get.

1:29.6

My dad got that.

1:31.2

And originally, you had to load it with a cassette tape.

1:34.1

This is before discs happen.

1:35.9

And you had to, like, put a cassette tape in for, like, three minutes ago, you know,

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