Hey everyone, it's James. Quick note from me at the top as this episode was recorded very shortly before Sarah and I welcomed our baby boy into the world. And so it's a little late and I appreciate everybody's patience on that. I think it's a great episode with a couple of incredible guests. People were really proud to have on the show to chit chat with. So a huge thank you to everybody for the patience on this episode, including those on the episode itself. And thank you all for the well wishes and the support

at this time. Mom and Baby are happy and healthy. So let's get to the show.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey NATO.

It's a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving, driving gear, and most certainly watches this episode 336. 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're listening and would like to support the show, please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is James Stacey and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host Jason Heaton.

Jason, how are we doing? Doing pretty well. This is a very unusual week, and this was really touch and go today. You wrote me, I was out for a run about an hour and a half ago, and I get this message on my Garman that said, FYI, Sarah's having contractions, might not be able to make the episode.

Are you okay? ago and I get this, I get this message on my Garman that said, FYI, Sarah's having contractions,

might not be able to make the episode. Are you okay? I might have to leave.

I'm running it by yourself. And here we are. You're here possibly for the whole episode? We're not

sure, but we have some support today. We have a couple of special guests, one of whom has been on

the show before

and one who has not, but it's long overdue being here. It's our two Slack moderators, Jake Thebalt, speaker, and our good buddy Chris Sol jumped on in the last minute to kind of fill in a gap here. You know, James, if you weren't going to be here. And now we got four of us on the line. So excited to have you all here.

Happy to be here, guys.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, I think this is going to be great. This has been like, I mean, I feel like I've traded at least five or six different DMs with, with Jacob, about being on the show, more specifically for the other side of the baby coming and me kind of wrapping up.

And just because I knew that from what I've experienced with you online, I knew that you would be fine to handle a show with Jason and with Chris and I would just be the editor. But this is nice. I'm glad that I get to be part of it. I might have to boogie at any moment. I don't really know. That still might happen. You know, we're always, yeah, we're always trying to find a way to talk when I bought a watch on the show.

If I have to leave for. That still might happen. You know, we're always, yeah, we're always trying to find a way to talk when I bought a watch on the show.

If I have to leave for the hospital on the show, that's good podcasting, I think.

Absolutely.

I'm secretly hoping for that.

I mean, I would love that.

Not just for the show, but for you and Sarah for waiting.

Yeah, I need to get on with this for sure.

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