Welcome to the spawn chunks episode number 273 for Monday, November 27th

2023. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as

Pixarifs and joining me as always is the scam fighting superhero, Joel Duggan.

Hi Joel. I don't know about superhero, but we were talking in the render distance today about potentially

avoiding holiday scams via email and text message and login prompts and all the fishing attempts that the bad actors send out this time of year

with all of the holiday shopping that is going on. We were also talking a little bit about Black Friday

deals and or the lack thereof really and things like that on the

render distance that's the extended version of the podcast if you're new this

week and you've never heard of it that is extra audio that our paid patrons get to

listen to every single week it's about a half an hour to 40 minutes of

extra content. You can go to Patreon.com slash the sponge chunks join at any level outside of the free level of course. The paid

members get access to that.

They also get access to things like the monthly Minecraft hangout and the quarterly hangout.

The November Minecraft hangout took place this Saturday on the 25th and that will be published on the Spongch

Patreon page later today and will auto populate the RSS feed there. If you are

looking forward to the December hangout. They normally happened on the last

Saturday of the month. However, that's December 23rd, which is really close to Christmas.

So people in our discord will have to keep an eye on the announcements channel to see when we sort out the timing of the next Minecraft hangout.

We are currently discussing our holiday schedules and trying to figure out what's going to happen in December, but we will let everyone on the podcast know about when the episodes are going out and then we will let everybody in the discord know about where the extra content is happening over the holidays.

But if you got some Black Friday deals, then maybe you have a little bit of

spare pocket change consider signing up to the patriotic can make a good Christmas

present for the family as well if you're interested in getting deeper into

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