Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a Houdinck

podcast. It's a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 124 and we thank you for listening.

Well, James, we've finally getting around to our crop of August Q&A and we've got a bit of a new format.

Yeah, so this is the first time that we're doing the Q&A kind of in this format.

It's not going to be like a normal show where we squeeze a Q&A inside of some chit chat at the top and then some final notes at the end.

We're getting a lot of these questions.

We actually probably have too many to get to despite the change in format, but the Q&A moving forward will be just an

episode for people who are subscribed and kind of dialed into the show. I think

that's who calls in and leaves us messages. So I think that's the easiest way to kind of do these. Like we said, we wanted to separate this from the bi-weekly ones so that we still did two normal shows and then a kind of bonus Q&A so that's what you're

listening to now.

So yeah we're not going to talk about our land rovers and our jeeps and and you know

new bags and hats and stuff like that unless it comes up in the questions.

So for anyone who for whatever reason if this is the first episode that you're

getting us at thank you so much for checking it out. We do a kind of a different format for most other episodes but there is a

monthly Q&A which we drop kind of at the start of the following month so this is

the August Q&A and you'll be getting it early September and otherwise we do a show every two weeks on

Thursday mornings it will come out and yeah check that out for kind of the normal three-part format.

But with that in mind, if you're listening to this and it spurs a question in your soul, recorded into the voice memo app on your phone,

and then email that question to the Gray NATO at gmail.com that's how you get

on the show keep the message under a minute preferably and we would love to chat about whatever

topics kind of on your mind. So with that in mind, how about we start with this first one from Paul?

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