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Today is July 20th, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. I'm joined, always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you doing on

this fine Sunday? Spencer, hello, I'm doing quite well. It's been, man, it's been a super

productive week for me, and we'll get into it here at the top. But we're in that spot now where

we just got a couple

weeks left until patch right like this is the last it's the last two weeks of patch there's also

that weird like preseason thing coming up and that's it and we're we're into 112 and off and

running and it feels a little weird that it's it's this close but i got say, I've been making a point to check stuff off my list and also take advantage of the stuff that's going on right now with the limited time buffs and everything.

So I've been playing like quite a bit of wow, really, although I think it, you know, compared to when we last spoke, I think it's going to drop

off here until patch, because I'm starting to really whittle down that, that patch and season

checklist for sure. Well, that's good, because they release their official What's Going

Away blog, which we'll chat about in today's episode for people who are concerned about what

they still have left to finish if they want to complete

everything before those sorts of rewards go away. So that'll be in this week's episode.

We also had that housing blog we did not get around talking about last week, which will probably

fit in here as well. So we can have some chat about that. Bank revamps is happening. There's going to be like whole new bank for all your storage and everything is getting upgraded and looking fancy. So we'll chat about that this week as well. So there's a bunch of things going on. Yeah, because, you know, that's a thing they usually slide right into a, you know, build note two weeks before a batch comes out. Yeah, sure,

why not? But hey, this is the era of wow that we're in, I guess. Yeah, this is one of those things where, you know, I feel like this is this, if they did this with the auction house, it would have been everyone would have been like, what is going on? Where, you know, at least auction house wise, we got like a blog post of hey we intend to do this hey we're experimenting with it hey you know

there's going to be extended maintenance and everything wise we got like a blog post of hey we intend to do this hey we're experimenting with it hey

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