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

the people who play it. Today is January 3rd, 2026. 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 Saturday morning? Oh, Spencer, good morning and happy New Year to you for a show

of 2026 this week. Yeah, doing a bit of an odd recording schedule. But hey, that's,

that's kind of what we do around here sometimes, especially lately, you know, with end of year

stuff happening and holiday season stuff. But we are now starting to come out of that, you know,

fugue state of the holiday season unfortunately so you know after this

weekend we kind of back to normal which is you know that's never a good

feeling but we got to get back to it at some point I guess so you know I've been like

working weird you know disjointed three-day weeks right because I'm like in

and out of the office around you know Christmas Eve Christmasointed three-day weeks, right? Because I'm like in and out of the office around,

you know, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. And then it's like, oh, well, we're open Friday. And then straight into a weekend, very weird schedule this year for all that stuff. So, you know, some people don't know what day of the week it is this time of year and that's great like my kids have

no idea what's happening because they've just been on school break and it's like are you supposed to be

working today are you not working like why are you why are you in the living room like what's going on

but uh i'm not in a position i know exactly what day of the week it is and i'm not happy about it

uh that's that's been my experience this

holiday season. That's fair. I've certainly had a nice break so far. It has been quite the

lead up this end of year with work and another life stress right up into the break. So

this has been very needed. And yes, there was two days this week where I was confused as which day of the week it was because I had been on break long enough that my brain just let go of that. And what a wonderful feeling it is when your brain just lets go of that. And you're like, oh, man, especially when you think it's later in the week than it is. And then you have more days, and you're like, oh, it's like gained a day because my brain forgot what day it was.

A little time travel, yeah.

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