Okay, I'm pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today, I'd like to use my podcast to do different things. But one of the things that I've had fun is using them as kind of a historical marker to sort of talk about the history of magic and where it came from.

So today, I thought I'd talk about Wizards of the Coast, the company that brought you magic

and continues to bring you magic. The history of wizards. It's something that those of us who work at

wizards, you know,

know about, because it's something that as a company they sort of definitely want to make sure we know

where we came from.

But I don't know if this story has been shared

all that publicly. I mean,

it's on the internet, I guess, if you hunt it down.

So,

where did it all begin?

It began in Seattle in the late 80s.

Well, the story begins in the late 80s.

So Peter Atkinson, who was a gamer, mostly, he was a role-playing gamer.

He loved role-playing.

Loved, loved it.

And he, at a time, Peter worked for Boeing, I believe.

And he and his friends used to role-play all the time.

And one day, Peter said, you know, maybe be cool if we started a company to make role-playing

stuff.

Now, I understand at the time, and Peter was working full-time at Boeing, so Wizard of the Coast

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