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Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone, the podcast about World of Warcraft and people who play it. Today is November 14th, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey. Thank you so much for listening

and subscribing to the podcast. I'm joined today as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason,

how are you doing on this fine Friday? Oh, Spencer, hello. Good morning to you. It's still

technically morning Eastern time. It is. We record this. It is Friday. It was a very weird

short week recording schedule for us,

but luckily, I think, uh, Ian has a coastis was sensitive to the needs of our recording

schedule this week. So he provided us with an episode. Um, as he, as he has done so many times in

the past, uh, as we've been doing the show. So, um, that's great. Um. I'm doing well. I'm about to go out of town for

a little while. So I am a little stressed because I got a lot of stuff to check off the list

before we get going. So but, you know, other than that, you know, I'm good. It's been there hasn't

been a lot of wow stuff since we last spoke, but there's been there's been some been some you know in terms of what i've been up to and um we got we got a we got a bunch of news this week right we got we got stuff coming right around the corner beta is live now i haven't even tried to get into it but every time i watch somebody who's trying to stream it they're like i can't get into beta right now. So I figured, you know what?

I'm going to do something else.

But I mean, we got patch news. We got some, you know, we got some other kind of future stuff coming up. I mean, it's been, even though we last spoke like five days ago, there's been a ton of stuff that's happened in that. There has. have two birthdays coming up, I believe, that are rather important.

Yeah, I do. Yeah. I mean also have two birthdays coming up, I believe, that are rather important.

Yeah, I do. Yeah. I mean, it's like, man, we're going on vacation. Then it's going to be straight into U.S. Thanksgiving, holiday season.

My birth, my, my wife's birthday, my birthday. Uh, it's just, it's going to be a real blur until, uh, sometime in like, mid-January, maybe. You just had some for your twins, right? Like you were just coming past that. It's just the twins birthday a couple weeks ago. And, you know, that was less of a, it was less of a big deal than maybe we did in some previous years because we have, you know, we have vacation coming up and all that. So it was like, all right. One thing at a time. It's like we're not, you know, their birthday is well past in the mind of a nine year old at this point. But, um, you know, this is sort of like part of it's sort. It's there was a bunch of reasons why we wanted to go this time of year and it's kind of like all that stuff it's in between birthdays it's you know it's in in jersey

like the kids the school kids don't go that like they have a lot of time off in november because

of various reasons so it's like it's a good time for them to miss some school you know just stuff

like that so oh well nice it's kind of how it turned out but it's like mega's a good time for them to miss some school, you know, just stuff like that. So it's kind of how it turned out, but it's like mega hectic. Well, I'm excited to hear about the trip when you get back and, uh, and how much fun it was and everything's going on because pretty cool thing to do. But yes, all right. This past week, World of Warcraft. Uh, I actually have been out of the loop this past week.

I had a passing in the family, sadly, last, just after recorded, actually, is when I found out.

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