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Today is February 1st, 2026, and my name is Spencer Downing.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to my podcast.

I am joined as always by my co-host, Jason Lucas.

Jason, how are you doing on this fine Sunday?

Spencer, what is up?

I'm doing okay.

I will say, I know that the Wow team was talking about, you know,

upcoming revamps for Northrend.

I didn't realize that they would be happening in my geographic location.

I have been in the deep freeze since we last spoke.

It has not been above freezing in my neck of the woods.

I got like just completely frozen solid snow all over the place.

I don't love it, you know. So I think tomorrow we're supposed to get above freezing for the

first time in like over a week. So that's very exciting. We're going to get up to like, you know,

35 degrees Fahrenheit or something tomorrow. So it's incredible stuff happening in my neighborhood.

We, we have, I mean, I'm, I'm not getting above zero for a while. I think we're several weeks away. You know, we, we have snow banks that are seven feet tall. We've just been stacking it up. Like it's, I don't know, there's nothing. You can't put it anywhere. You're waiting for the city to come through with dump trucks to, like, start removing it and dumping it somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Start getting tempted to make a flamethrower to sort of clean some of the stuff up. Like, you know, there's just lots of, that is winter. That is what we get used to here. So, yeah, I am sitting upon my frozen throw. Excellent. Good to hear. Yeah, welcome. Welcome to Northrend, where I live.

Yes, that is, it is certainly the state of affairs outside at the moment.

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