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Today is August 17, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. I am joined as always by my co-host, Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you doing on this fine Sunday? Spencer, hello. I am struggling because I had to log out of season three

to record the show today. So that's very sad. I'm feeling it, man. I've been playing a lot of wow this

week and feeling very rewarded for my time. So it's been great. It was a great kickoff to the season.

And I played probably more wow, especially like yesterday, than I was really responsible of me.

So, you know, I think, but I do feel like sometimes you got to, I just got to let myself do that.

I'm not going to do that probably again, but, you know, that's what happened yesterday.

But it's been obviously a super busy week of just exploring all the new stuff, getting into the new endgame and gearing up and all that, which is like one of the most fun times of the

game, you know, outside of expansion launch, first week of the season, new rate opening is

it's like the biggest, coolest thing that happens. So, true. So far, season three has not

disappointed, I don't think. Yeah, no, season three has been going great so far. It is

probably the most I've played

wow this week in a while. I kicked everything off, obviously, by sort of starting it with

some delves. And, well, actually, let's start with vaults, let's start with vaults, because

vault's really the first thing you do on a Tuesday. So, uh, we, we, we had a raid prep Monday night. That went well for the raid this

week. It was our final meeting before we actually started killing bosses. Got the vault stuff on

Tuesday. And vault for me, I didn't take it right away because our team had a strategy in place

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