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the podcast about World of Warcraft and people who play it.

Today is May 22nd, 2026, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and

subscribing to the podcast. I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you

doing on this fine Friday? Spencer, hello. I would, I would like to be wishing you a, you know,

a happy Friday. We got a big summer kickoff holiday weekend here in the States, but it's like in

the mid-50s Fahrenheit. It's very rainy and we're supposed to get like, like massive rainfall and

high winds and stuff this weekend. So no backyard barbecues in my neck of the woods. But, you know,

it just works out that way sometimes, I guess. Yeah, you did it a weekend too late. We had our, the earliest we'll ever get

Victoria Day was last weekend. It's always the first, sorry, the last Monday before the 25th. And so

typically we have what we call a May 24 weekend, which means we have a long weekend that, that May 24th

weekend, but this is that weird time where the Monday falls the weekend before, which meant last weekend was our big holiday weekend. And it was bright and sunny and hot. And so you missed out, man. It's one too late. I mean, we had a heat wave here to start the week off. It was in the mid 90s all week, which is, it's very early this time of year around here. and then it plunged into the, you know, yeah, now we're in the mid 50s. So not exactly the summer kickoff weekend we were looking forward to, but I guess it means more time to sit inside and play video games, which is, that's okay with me. And Azaroth, it's sunny with a chance of void. So we'll see what lies in the show for this week.

Before we do, let's talk a bit about this past week in World of Warcraft.

I continued the Prague with my raid team on Lura, the big crystal chandelier boss.

And man, it's incremental, right? Because it's a boss where you're like,

okay, some teams that are doing this boss on Mythic are doing 400 to 500 pulls. So you just sort of

accept that like if a raid night is spent consistently getting 15 or 20 seconds farther into the fight. Great. That is,

that is progress. That is good, healthy progress. So you just sort of accept that about it.

So we got to the point where we were consistently seeing intermission, which was great. And then on

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