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 341, 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. for more details. My name is James Sacey and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton. Jason, how are we doing today? I'm doing pretty well. I'm in New York. Well, actually, I'm not as we're recording this, but as you're listening to this, if you're up on your episodes and listening on the day this comes out, that's where I am.

Yeah, so we're recording this on a Tuesday afternoon and I fly out tomorrow morning.

So it's one of those weeks.

I haven't traveled in a while and I'm headed to New York for the launch event for the new

Paul and Mara dive watch, which launches on Thursday evening at the windup shop in Brooklyn, as I've been kind of teasing or talking about the past couple of weeks, but I'm excited to go and get on with that. It should be fun. Oh, that's going to be great, man. Yeah. You know, when we were chatting with this briefly on the previous episode that you were going to be in Brooklyn, I was trying to remember the last time we were in New York together. Yeah. And I can't

quite place it because it might have been a Doxa event, but I can't remember if you came to either of those. No, I didn't. Those last couple that I went to and then, you know, there was the time we did Explorers Club and then the really good Thai food. That might have been the last time. That might have been the last time. I mean, man, that's 19? Yeah, it was probably before the pandemic. Yeah, for sure.

We've been like October, October. That might have been the last time. That might have been the last time. I mean, man, that's 19?

Yeah, it was probably before the pandemic.

Yeah, for sure.

We've been like October, October 2019.

I'd have to go back and look at my phone.

But it was a while.

Man, I'm happy that you're going to get there.

And what a cool thing to be able to check out the wind-up showroom and to help launch a cool

new dive watch. That's fun. Yeah, I'm excited. I just haven't been to New York in a long time. And, you know, as I've said, I'm not really a city person, but I've never spent any time in Brooklyn at all. So we're staying near Prospect Park, explore the whole area on foot, which I always like. And it's just around the corner from the wind-up shop.

So very cool. It should be great. I like being nimble and mobile on foot when I go to a big city like

that. So it should be great. Yeah. And it's such an easy place to get around. And if you're near

Prospect Park, then you've got a great museum. You've got like an literally endless supply of breweries,

cafes, you know, vintage bookstores, thrift shops, like all the good stuff. So I hope you have yourself a proper day. If the weather's good, you're going to have such a good time. Should be great. How about you? You were just, you just got back from the cottage about an hour or so ago, you said? Yeah, I don't actually have much to report. Normally,

this would be the time of year where you and I would have taken these couple of weeks off.

Yeah. We always do in August leading up to Labor Day. But obviously, all of you listening were kind enough to allow me to take a few weeks when my son was born back in July, so we're

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