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Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we are doing on Thursday afternoon.

I guess it's evening out on the East Coast.

And that's where our guy, Vince Goodwill, is joining us from Boston, Massachusetts.

What up, though, Wendy?

How are you doing?

I'm good, man.

I'm in L.A.

And joining me from up north in NorCal in Sacramento, is he in his

backyard or is he in his studio with a picture of his backyard behind him? You be the judge,

Anthony Slater. Well, you were talking about like what time it is in various places. It's like

permanently 1 p.m. in this location than I am. Zero mile per hour wind. You won't see any

movement behind me. But yes, you can decide. Am I in my backyard or am I in a fake version of it?

Vince, when he got his new studio set up and they, you know, they had this beautiful

screen behind him, people were upset that we didn't have the backyard anymore. We, we sort of

tracked the year by by the growth in the backyard. And, you know, so the backyard is back. That's

all I can say. You know, it was funny. I thought it was a, I thought it was a screen the whole

time. Really? Like even, it would have been an impressive screen.

I was doing, there was like some December hits where I was talking about like Clay Thompson.

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