 Deck the Halls with festive plungers because we're back for another video game story time advent calendar video. Today we'll solve the mystery that has confounded gamers for decades. Why is Mario a plumber? Of course Mario didn't start life in the plumbing trade, he was originally a carpenter before changing professions. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, in Donkey Kong Mario was actually a carpenter and he was working on a building and then the next game we made after that was a game called Mario Brothers and that was a game set in the sewers and the pipes were green and there were turtles coming out of the pipes. And so we thought in this game it would make sense that Mario be a plumber because of all the pipes and so that's where the plumber came from. But my vision of Mario has always been that he's sort of representative of everyone. He's a kind of blue collar hero and so that's why we chose these roles for him that were things like carpenters and plumbers. So that's the answer. Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to feel relatable to everyone, although anyone who's ever had a painfully large plumbing bill might not relate to plumbers all that much. Join us tomorrow for another of these tiny videos.