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 342, and it's proudly brought to you

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and if you'd like to support the show, please visit thegraynado.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton, and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, James Stacey. James, you're at the cottage today. It's feeling rather autumnal, I hear. I am, yeah. We actually only got up Sunday afternoon, so we've only been here for a bit, and then I moved the recording forward because I want to try and get two recordings in next week because obviously Labor Day and then the days right after that are going to be quite busy for, you know, certainly for myself, but I'm assuming for you too. And so, yeah, we've mixed up the schedule just a little bit, but yeah, I'm up at the cottage. I mean, it's an absolutely gorgeous day. But, you know, it's kind of up and down in terms of temperature. And right now it's much more of a fall temperature than, you know, a summer one. You know, we've definitely had octobers that are warmer than today. So, yeah, it's a little bit on the chilly side, but I'm not against it.

It's fine.

It's nice to be up here. I'm probably going to pump up the kayak for a little paddle this afternoon, maybe go for a little walk, take the camera out, that sort of thing. But yeah, it's been a nice little weekend. How about you? What have been up to you since we talked last? I mean, obviously you've had an adventure into the big city.

Yeah, back from New York Friday. How about you? What have been up to you since we talked last? I mean, obviously you've had an adventure into,

into the big city. Yeah, back from New York Friday night and kind of just spent the weekend getting

resettled here, you know, getting caught up on household stuff and went for a run and, you know,

just ever since we got back, like the temperature just changed completely and it really felt like fall this weekend and, you know, just ever since we got back, like the temperature just changed completely

and it really felt like fall this weekend. And I love this weather. I find it, you know,

really makes it easier to kind of just do stuff day to day without always kind of dripping

and sweat and, you know, feeling kind of sluggish. But on the other hand, it does have that

bit of melancholy foreboding that the season's going to change and and you know i don't want to get too negative here but you know then that brings winter behind that and whatever so i'm i just want to hold on to summer a little longer and i think we'll we'll get we'll get back to it for another month or so but uh but i'm not complaining i built a fire outside last night, and that felt kind of nice. Yeah. Yeah. There's some wildfires around my cottage, so I don't believe I'm allowed to do a fire. I think that like it's a full ban. Wow. Currently, I think the fires are under control now, but it's been an issue for the last few weeks in this area, not too far from us. But yeah, I agree. Like, I'm not against the fall, but I don't want it in August. Right. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I still want the days where, like, I feel like I'm, I have to get in the water. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, hey, you take, you take what you're going to get. It's sunny and nice here today. So I'm, I'm certainly not complaining. and I've still got, you know, like that sort of modified lighten schedule, just a few things to deal with each day.

In honor of last week's guest, I realized that, you know, some time ago I had bought a copy of

terminal lists and only read maybe the first few chapters. And then it was probably around the time that

the first season of the TV show came out. And then it was probably around the time that the first

season of the TV show came out. Yeah. Jack was a delight to have on the show. And I thought you did a great job chatting with him. And I was like, let's go back and do this. I pulled it up on my Kindle. It was $3 for the first one. And I read it and I finished it at about 4 a.m. this morning. I was up. The young lad decided to wake up after sleeping for a very long time. And he was up with a shout. And I was like, you know what? I probably only have like two chapters left. Let me finish this. Wow. And I put it down. So it went down in just a couple of days. And I enjoyed it. It's super pulpy. I think it reads a lot like a James Bond. A James Bond

that's more violent and less suits. You know what I mean? Like it's exceptionally violent.

Yeah. And that's coming from chain gang All-Stars and Heart of the West and some of this other

stuff I've been reading lately, which is also exceptionally violent. But yeah, I enjoyed it. I immediately

bought the next one. Yeah. So I'm just, just finished the first chapter of book two. And then with

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