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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #53 - Tales From The Boat

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

🗓️ 13 September 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks about Magic's history with The Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach, California.

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

0:03.9

We all know what that means.

0:05.9

It's time for another drive to work.

0:09.2

Okay.

0:10.3

So today, many weeks ago, I did a podcast about the Pro Tour, and I realized that there were a lot of fun pro tour stories to tell.

0:22.4

And that every once in a while I thought might be fun.

0:25.3

So real quickly, a little history with myself, which is I got involved with the pro tour very early on.

0:34.5

And so I was with the pro tour.

0:36.1

I went to every single pro tour, you know, barring one or two

0:38.4

for eight years, I believe. So anyway, I have a lot of stories from those times. And it's fun

0:46.0

to sort of peek back and look at the, look at some of the tales of the pro tour. So today, I've dubbed

0:52.6

today's episode, Tales from the Boat. Okay, what does

0:57.1

that mean? See, Pro Tour regulars will know what that means, but I'll explain. So, the Pro Tour

1:04.0

moves around, and, you know, there's a lot of different locales the Pro Tour's been in. It's been all

1:08.8

around the world. It's been on every continent

1:11.5

save, I guess we haven't had a pro tour yet on Africa, South America, or Antarctica, but we've

1:16.9

had we've had protors on every other continent. And we've had other events, you know, in the, for

1:23.0

example, invitationalists have happened in both Africa and South America. Anyway, but one of our most

1:29.3

constant, like most of the time we went to different places, but there were a few places that

1:34.1

we repeated, and probably the most famous place that held multiple pro tours was what

1:40.9

the pros called the boat, but is known as the Queen Mary. This is down in Los Angeles,

1:47.7

technically in Long Beach, I believe. And so the Queen Mary, once upon a time, was a luxury

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