Episode #469: New Leadership
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🗓️ 4 August 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:25.0 | You're listening to the starting zone. |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to the Starting Zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. |
| 0:38.0 | And now, here are your hosts. Well, hello and |
| 0:43.0 | hello and welcome to the Starting Zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. |
| 0:50.0 | Today is August 3rd, 2021 and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to our podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Today I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas, Jason. |
| 1:00.0 | Wow, a lot of new stuff. |
| 1:02.0 | I guess announcements happened this morning hello it's been it's been a it's been a very busy morning we look up to you some big news and then we also got a very detailed response from the employees of Blizzard. |
| 1:15.7 | Obviously, you know, if you're listening to this by now, you've probably heard the big |
| 1:19.6 | news about leadership changeover at Blizzard. |
| 1:24.0 | So we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:25.0 | We're going to talk about what the employees have to say about |
| 1:27.0 | that and what Activision Blizzard is doing. |
| 1:32.0 | Obviously, this is going to be an ongoing conversation for a while, but we will get into some |
| 1:36.9 | wild stuff once we let you know where we're at and what you should know and and what the employees are saying. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, I mean I I don't foresee that every week we will have as much news as we have from this morning when it comes to what's going on around this conversation, but we do want to highlight |
| 1:54.0 | obviously the largely impactful things. |
| 1:55.6 | And honestly, if there was a leadership change over at any other time, just like there was |
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