Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey Nato, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 311, and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew.

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please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton. I'm joined as ever by my friend and

co-host, James Stacey. James, we're counting down here last couple episodes of the year, right?

You're feeling in the holiday mood yet? I actually, I actually really am. I guess I just,

I'm just my mother's son to some extent. My mom lives for Christmas.

Yeah. Like I, I'm, I would not be surprised if right now my mom is considering Christmas gifts for next Christmas.

Whoa. Like she's done enough for this year. Yeah. And that she made some, I'm one of six kids. I think this is on the record that you know it's a big

family which I absolutely adore yeah and also I the rare treat as I get older I realize just

how rare it is we all get along yeah we don't get in each other's ways we don't step on each other

we just have a good time yeah and everybody's really chill there's a lot of grandkids it's a good

time and I really have come

to look forward to this time of year. And I would say when I call it this time of year after the 20th,

doing the Houdinke thing, especially with my current role where I'm overseeing all of it,

which largely means doing a lot of the like planning and and logistics.

Yeah.

It's a lot.

Yeah.

But I really, I love this for multiple reasons.

From the watch world, we all look back at the previous year and you start to remember all

these great watches.

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