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 340, and it's proudly brought to you

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

James, you can tell I emphasized my last name because we have a very confusing show today.

We have another Jason A H on that sounds strangely like

Jason Heaton, but this is Jason Hutton. So now that we have that out of the way, how are you doing?

Yeah, I'm doing really well. You know, our kind of push to have a bunch of guests on, you know,

cross them off the list. We've got another exciting one coming up for next week, I believe,

that I'm pretty pumped over it. But this week's going to be a good one. You know, we wanted to fill in some blanks for the Toronto Time Peace show and the Vancouver show and all these things. And we've had little snippets with Jason on in the past. And this time we got him for a full episode. So we just recorded that and it came out really well. We'll get to in just a few minutes time here. Let's see. Show kind of housekeeping. Yes, it's just that,

you know, send in your q and a questions we're going to kick off a whole run of q and a episode starting in september so if you'd like to offer up a question for the q and a's these are the fifth episode a month it'll be a much more than that through September, October, November as we catch up on

the year's backlog. We have a ton of great questions, but if you have a question for the Q&A, please

just put it into a voice memo on your phone and then send that file to the Grey Nato at Gmail.com,

and we will add it to the queue. We've been getting a ton. Some of them are really good questions.

I was just organizing a bunch of them the other evening and and it's been great. So I am looking forward to kind of kicking off that as we get back into September and I get back into full time sort of work mode and that sort of thing. So I think that's all I've got as far as a housekeeping. We don't have to talk about the Toronto Timepiece show because we've got a whole main topic about that. What have you been up to for the last week? Gosh, you know, I, it's a bit of a blur. It's been hot here. And so I've been trying to get in the water as much as I can. You know, just fortunately I live in the land of 10,000 lakes as it's called here in Minnesota. and so there's always a lake just down the street. So I've been doing a bit of that.

And I guess speaking of... 10,000 lakes as it's called here in Minnesota. And so there's always a lake just down the street.

So I've been doing a bit of that. And I guess speaking of swimming, I just actually just about

an hour before we started recording, I signed up. There's this event in Lake Superior every year

that I've wanted to do for many years. It's called the Point to La Point swim. And it goes from

Bayfield, Wisconsin, across a stretch of Lake Superior to Madeline Island.

Oh, cool.

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