Welcome to the Spawn Shunks episode number 226 for Monday, January 2nd, 2023.

My name is Joel Duggan and joining me as always is my friend Johnny, who the internet

knows better.

Especs or Especs, hello sir.

Hello and happy new year to all Spawn Shunks listeners.

If you wanted to hear what we've been up to over Christmas and new year, we've been

talking about travel plans and generous gifts from friends and family.

That's all in the rendered distance, which you can get from patreon.com slash the Spawn

Shunks.

It is the first episode of the new year.

We are delighted to go into 2023 with the support of our patrons and January's monthly

hangout is going to have a lot to cover almost as much as we covered in the rendered distance

because we've been talking for a little while here just catching up, but we didn't have

time to squeeze a patron hangout into December because we had a lot going on towards the

end of the month over the holiday break and hopefully people got time to play a little

bit more Minecraft over their holidays.

So we're looking forward towards the end of the month catching up with all of our patrons

in the January monthly hangout.

We also have the patron quarterly hangout coming in at the end of or somewhere is in January.

I'm not sure when yet, but that'll cover the fourth quarter as far as podcasting business

and downloads and stuff in 2022.

But also our January quarterly review tends to cover like a look at 2022 as a whole or

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