In this live stream with the NC Vinyl Community crew, I jumped in with Todd, Larry, and Big Chief to talk through the music moments and releases that defined 2025 for us—vinyl, a little gear talk, and the kind of community banter that makes the VC fun in the first place. We hit some big-picture stuff like AI music showing up more and more (especially the Spotify conversations), the Led Zeppelin IMAX documentary (yeah… “Dazed and Confused” in that sound had me in my feelings), and the way the year also came with some real losses in the music world. For me personally, 2025 was huge because of the Austin Record Convention. That trip helped me level up my collection in a big way—especially with key Black Sabbath pressings after Ozzy passed—and it also led to meeting up with Jason Rojas and doing streams with him and his crew. We also talked Record Store Day (April and Black Friday), and I’ll keep it real: April did nothing for me, but Black Friday was better—I grabbed stuff like Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and Talking Heads, and honestly the hang with friends was half the point. We wrapped a big chunk of the stream with “Grey Beards Nation Jeopardy,” where we joked about overpriced grails, pressing trivia (matrix/runout numbers matter), and even wow & flutter. It’s basically a year-end hangout with vinyl heads—records, laughs, and a little truth-telling along the way.