Hey everybody it's your host Stephen here. If you're a regular listener you've

probably noticed that we took the last two weeks off from publishing Hodinky

Radio. With everything going on in the United States right now following the murder of George Floyd, it just didn't feel right to us to keep going on business as usual.

Now, we know that for a lot of our audience, Hodinky Radio provides relief from the usual news cycle and it's a chance to

step out and enjoy the things that you're passionate about. But as we grapple with bigger and more

important conversations happening on the global stage, we thought that it was important to step aside and to give some space to these other voices and other conversations.

And those conversations are far from over. In fact, many of them are just getting started.

But we decided to bring the show back this week anyway.

I just want to say personally that it's a tremendous privilege to be able to talk to you all every week

and to share the stories of the incredible people we get to have on this show.

With all of that in mind, we've got a particularly fun episode for you this week.

It's Kara, James, John, and me doing what watch lovers do,

sitting around, goofing on each other and

daydreaming about the next edition star collections. This is the official

Hodinke Radio Summer Watch Fantasy Draft for 2020. If you've listened to our past fantasy drafts, you'll have some idea of what I'm talking about here, but there are a few new twists, with some new rules and a slightly modified format.

We get into the nuts and bolts of what constitutes a well-rounded collection for each of us,

what we look for in an ideal summer watch, and which pieces we wish didn't have such long wait lists.

And, as with all fantasy drafts, things go a little off the rails, but I think the show's all the better for it.

So without further ado, let's do this. And the All right, what's going on, fam?

Long time to see.

How you doing?

Good, good.

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