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diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 338, and it's proudly brought to you

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My name is Jason Heaton in Minneapolis, and I'm joined, as ever, by my friend and co-host James

Stacey in Toronto.

James, how are we doing?

Yeah, not too bad.

You know, catching up on some sleep, you know, trying to lean into the summer of it all.

How about you?

How's the last week been? Yeah, it's been pretty good. I had an interesting experience over the weekend that I've never had before in that I officiated at a wedding. Oh, cool. A very old friend of mine going back, you know, 30 years, one of my first jobs I worked with him, and he kind of got me into into cycling and we've climbed a mountain in Colorado

together and we both owned defenders and whatever. Anyway, he's a good friend and he just married

his girlfriend, now his wife, clearly, on Sunday morning. So I got the license here in Minneapolis

to be a marriage officiant and performed the rituals there on Sunday morning.

It was a lovely ceremony outdoors. And then we all went for brunch. Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

I think I might have a knack for it. It might be a third or fourth career for me.

If anyone in Hennepin County here wants to get married, I'm offering my services.

That's fantastic. Well, we've got a reverend on duty. I like it. That's good. That's so much fun. Well, that's cool. That's a fun thing to get into for sure.

We've got a few things to kind of jump into as far as news about things going on with the show and the rest of it.

But we can get to that in just a moment. I, you know, I spent my weekend up at the cottage

for a couple of days, kicking around with the new Aqualand 40, the 40th anniversary citizen

Aqualand. You know, obviously we've talked literally ad nauseum about the 2007-17 W, the loom dial version of this watch. And then for the 40th, they brought out the sort of one that reflects more the original model with sort of a dark tone case and a lot of gold accents and that sort of thing. And man, I just had a blast with it. We'll get more into it in wrist check in a few minutes. But that's kind of what we got up to, a little bit of kayaking, some snorkeling. I tried out the depth sensor in about, you know, by my measure, about eight or nine feet of water and I couldn't get it much over two meters. These things with the first few feet are never pinpoint accurate. So that's that's to be expected. I hope to give it a chance to get a little bit deeper, maybe later in the summer.

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