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 314 and it's proudly brought to you by the always growing TGN supporter crew.

We thank you all so much for your continued support. And if you'd like to

support the show, please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined, as ever,

by my friend and co-host James Stacey. Well, we're heavy on the most certainly watches part of

part of things this episode and last episode, but it's been a lot of fun. How are you doing? I'm doing really well. Yeah, we've got, uh, sort of an interesting episode. I hope you

all listen to the previous one. If you don't hit every episode, I would suggest going back to

313. Uh, Jason and I each pick 16 of our own watches and we did a bracket tournament to go from 16 to the elite eight. In this episode,

we're going elite eight to the final four. And I do think it's helpful to have listened to the

previous episode before getting into this one. But look, before we get into the tournament,

we actually have a little bit of news surrounding the terrible fires in California and an attempt

to do our part and TGN's part in supporting the

firefighters. So Jason, why don't you kick off that little project, which really spun up just

in the last couple of days. Yeah, I think, you know, this highlights why we love TGN so much. It's,

it's kind of our ability to be nimble and respond and to just pool these great resources

we have in our crew.

And this is a great example of that because I had posted a story on my Instagram late

last week.

It was a photo, I believe, that came from the New York Times on Instagram of a firefighter.

And I just said something like, not all heroes wear capes.

And I got a response from a local friend,

John Awada, who goes by 1010 Enterprises on Instagram. He's also on our Slack, John O'Wada.

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