Hello and

welcome to another episode of the Grey NATO,

a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear,

and most certainly watches.

We're up to episode 155 in the driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

We're up to episode 155, and we thank you for listening.

Hey James, how's it going?

Yeah, pretty good man.

It's an episode I'm pretty pumped about.

It's the start of a good week in my side of the world or my part of our side of the world I suppose.

Yeah, how are you? Yeah doing pretty well. Your your Canadian forest fires are blowing a lot of smoke around here, so it's kind of hazy days, but other than that, it's, yeah, it's been well.

We've mostly avoided, we haven't had the, yeah, isn't it crazy how quickly the summer's going by?

Yeah. But yeah, we mostly haven't had any of the smoke out this way just yet, so it seems to be trending more southern and still somewhat to the to the west but you know I've got family out on the west coast and it's it's an issue for sure.

So if anyone listening who's dealing with that either, you know, kind of directly like in your backyard or just from a smoke standpoint, we're thinking of you and we hope that it literally blows over as soon as possible.

You know, I remember the first time I woke up, I guess it would have been the fires of 2016,

just north of Vancouver, or kind of all around Vancouver.

Oh yeah. But I

remember I woke up and I thought I thought I actually thought something was wrong

with my vision because it was so orange all the light in my room my bedroom was was so orange and I thought no I'm having a stroke or something's not right.

Yeah. And I ended up taking going outside to try and figure out what it was, taking the dog for a walk, had a dog at the time,

and then realizing like, oh, he's, this is smoke, I shouldn't have the dog outside.

Yeah. So we went back inside and then started to Google like,

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