Welcome to the Sporn Shunks, episode number 383 for Monday, January 5th, 2026.

This is a podcast all about Minecraft, available across all major podcast platforms, including a video version on YouTube and Spotify.

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you're listening to this. My name is Johnny, but the internet knows me as Pixariffs,

and joining me in from the cold is Joel Duggan. Hi, Joel. Hello, happy new year to all

the new listeners and all the old listeners and all the long time listeners. We have a lot in store

coming up this episode, but if you want to hear more,

you can listen to the render distance. It's the extended version of the podcast. We were talking

about how the holidays went, how Canada is very cold right now, and how the UK is following

a suit. And everybody is indoors, doing indoor things like tabletop gaming and talking about the

latest things we've been streaming on various services and looking forward to films and shows

coming up in the new year so if you're interested in that you can check out the render distance by

going to patreon.com slash the sponge chunks supporting at any level get you access to that which is

something we do every single week. There's always extra content.

Once a month, we do the Minecraft Hangout, which is going to be a larger one in January,

coming up on probably Saturday the 31st.

And that is going to cover what our community has been up to in Minecraft, not only for

January, but probably for December as well, because we didn't have a holiday Minecraft hangout

because of course everybody's busy over the holidays. And then following that,

we also have a quarterly hangout coming up. Usually the first week in February is when we

will recover Q4 of 2025. But then also a look back at 25 as a year and that's how the podcast is doing download numbers

Spotify reviews that kind of thing so if that's the kind of thing that you're interested in

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