You're listening to the starting to the starting zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it.

And now, here are your hosts.

Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft,

the people who play it today is June 29th, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to our podcast. I'm joined today as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason,

how are you doing on this fine Sunday? I am here. I have not yet evaporated. It is very hot

in my neck of the woods this weekend, but I'm, I am doing well. I'm managing to, uh, to stay cool, stay hydrated.

It is, it is midsummer fire fest. So that's, I guess that's what happens. Yep.

But yeah, I'm doing well, you know, I'm in sort of, um, an interesting, kind of a weird spot

with wow right now, because obviously we're very deep in the season. I've had a lot

of roster turnover and stuff and just interest overall in this season is dropping off, right?

It's summertime, obviously. People have other stuff to do. This content's been out since

early March. But I've still been doing a bunch of stuff in wow and I've started calling it

recreational wow because it's stuff that doesn't really fit into the weekly checklist of like, oh, I got to do this stuff for my vault and I got to do that and whatever.

I'm doing some of that still, obviously, but, you know, there's other stuff to do that is more sort of like a longer tail goal or just more casual kind of stuff.

And there's a bunch of that stuff actually coming up this week with some events that are kicking off.

And to me, that's kind of more exciting.

I guess it's more exciting than the tail end of season two, right?

I kind of meddle my goals with end game stuff.

And it's like having some other stuff to chase or just some stuff

to kind of play at my own pace is actually really appealing right now. So I'm looking, I have a

couple of things like that that I'm still in the middle of of existing stuff, looking forward

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