Okay, I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So, a while back, I started a little mega series I called 20 Years and 20 Podcasts.

Based on a 20 years and 20 minute segment I did at World last year, where I talked about

every year of the 20 years of magic,

one minute at a time. And this podcast series is allowing me to, you know, stretch out,

talk about a year a little more than one minute. So each year, or each podcast, I'm talking

about a different year. I'm going in chronological order. I've talked about 93, 94, and 95. So today is, of course,

1996. Okay, where do we begin? Okay, so in 1995, I explained that what I call the second wave of R&D started getting hired.

So the first wave of R&D were the people that were actually playtefters for Magic back in the day.

People like Scafellias, Jim Lynn, Dave Petty, Charlie Kittino, Joel Mick, people who had worked on magic as playtefters and would later come to R&D to work in R&D on Magic.

Then the second wave were people that had not, weren't playtifters, but got involved in Magic early and R&D pulled them in.

Bill Rose, who actually was a playtefter,

ended up coming during the time period,

as did William Jockish and myself.

That'll happen in 1995.

So the fourth member of a little band,

Mike Elliott, actually started in January of this year.

Mike had been met at a convention by Joel Mick, and they were just looking for people

they thought were passionate and smart and understood magic, and Mike got hired.

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