Hello, welcome to the collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing here in

mid-August on a Thursday morning. Joining me from Oakland, California is Anne Skates,

Mark Spears. Hello, Mark. How was you? How was your summer go?

A room of bike yesterday. That was fun. We weren't fishing in a couple of weeks ago.

I think, man, this is another fishing excursion. But go ahead.

I just love how you fell in love with fishing in the bubble.

Yeah. You know what my other new hobby is, Brian? But go ahead and finish on that.

It's like you and Clay. I feel like you and Clay, you know, Clay like what he was recovering during

COVID got into the boat. I feel like you should be out on Clay's boat. I should. I should.

And he hasn't invited me. And he he shot me out a couple times because he was said I was the first

person he interviewed with in the bay. But he hasn't invited me on the boat. I'm kind of

disappointed. I only had to bring my fishing pole. I just wanted to go with Captain Clay and

and take that ride. You know what I'm saying? I bring a life jacket with me. But you know,

my latest one is I can't even wait for this. Vinyl collection.

Boy, you are straight on midlife crisis with that, man.

No, no, I'm loving it, Brian. I'm loving it. And their collectors items too, man. So it's like

figuring out puzzles, trying to get it and get the ones I want. But

I do. Do you like them for the nostalgia or do you like them for like the quality of the audio or

whatever? Probably both. But you know, you'll laugh at this. My wife was like giving me a hard

time about it. She's like, we have all the streaming services. Like, why do you need these records?

Right. It's like it does a bit. And he said. And then I played this Mary J. Blige. What's the 411

album in the way it sounded? She rarely gives me a my bad. But she gave me. You enjoyed that one.

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