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great NATO.com for more details my name is James Stacy and I'm joined as ever by

my pal and co-host Jason Heaton

Jason you're just back from the West Coast how you feeling good yeah it was a great. It was a really fun trip. I'm I'm feeling a little

fatigued about air travel. It seems like I'm on a two-week flying cycle and then in another two weeks

it's off to Chicago but then I'm looking forward to

being home kind of for most of the month of August I think that would be that would be nice but no I mean all

things considered it was a it was a great trip and I had the folks at Topper were great it was a it was a wonderful dive watch night event

Nice it looked great really well attended I think they said there were about 120 people that came and some old friends showed up.

Jeff, the expedition leader from my Oceania expedition was there and

Kev, my old Alcatraz swim coach who I ended up going diving with on Sunday

was there and Asha and a lot of orange caps.

I mean it was really quite funny to kind of look around the room and spot a lot of

orange TGM caps. A few people had t-shirts on and straps of course and it was just really fun to say

hi to everybody and you know I think my talk was well received it was it was a lot of

fun we did a little Q&A and some trivia afterwards and nice and then before that I sat down with Russ Rob and Zach and recorded an episode of

the Berlin Game and Park podcast that's the Topper Jewelers in-house podcast that they run and that

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