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 is episode 343, and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew. We thank you so much for your continued support, and if you're listening to the show and would like to support us, please visit thegrayno.com for more details. My name is James Stacey, and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton. How are we doing, Jason? I've been pretty well. We're front-loading our shows this week, because next week is a short holiday week, being Labor Day in the U.S. and you wisely suggested that we record a second episode this

week. So we're only a couple days out from our previous one. Yeah. It's a nice idea. Yeah, we haven't

done a ton, but, but yeah, with Labor Day and then knowing that I'm going to be stepping back

into a very busy job after nearly two months of not managing the day to day, just kind of the longer term stuff for Houdinke. I just figured Tuesday, Wednesday, these are all going to be a complete joke as far as like time management. So if we record today, it's a Thursday, I can probably edit this tomorrow, kind of have it ready. And look, we were kind of due to get back into the Slack crew and A's. We had obviously

a great run of guests. I actually just started lining up a couple more guests that I think are

going to be really cool. Yeah. So maybe that will become part of a future evolution of the show is

like more guest work. But we had a great run for the last little while with guests that have been a

lot of fun. And we just thought we jump into a quick Q&A for that. But we'll get to that in just a moment. I do want to do a little bit of housekeeping right at the top. And then we can kind of cover what you've been up to for what the last 48 hours since we recorded last or maybe a little longer because we recorded Monday. But just very quickly, if you're going to be in Toronto for the Toronto TimeP Show and you can stick around for Sunday evening, we would love to have you at the Marathon Party. The RSVP link is in the show notes. If you've listened to the last three episodes, I've rambled on greatly about this. We would absolutely love to have you. We are at about 85% capacity right now. So there's still room for a handful more people.

And honestly, those numbers we could,

we could probably squeeze.

We're not really interested in turning people away.

And yeah,

I think that's probably going to be an incredible night with Marathon like it was last year.

And then very quickly,

if you would like to get a question into our kind of supporter side Q&A episodes. We've taken a break with those

since May because of my pending and then arriving child. And we're going to get back into that

in, we're going to get back into that in September. And we've got a ton of great questions coming

in. But if you would like to send in a question for that, please record the question into the voice memo app on your phone and then just email us the file. The gray nato at gmail.com. You don't need a description. Just send us the file and we put it, we put it in a folder and we get to them in order. But we're going to be doing a ton of those for the next several months to catch up. Make sure everybody gets the value that they want from those Q&A questions. I think it's going to be good. So if you have a great question, could be about watches, could be about something else. Feel free to send it into the Grey Nato at gmail.com as a voice memo. All right, buzzed right through that. Jason, what have you been up to for the last couple of days? The previous episode, 342, we recorded on Monday, when you normally record

on a Tuesday, but we did it on a Monday because Tuesday had plans to go to the Minnesota

State Fair, which, um, did, uh, pretty much all day on Tuesday. And I hadn't been to the fair

in, geez, a couple of decades. I kind of my previous experience had been like just hot day,

too many people fighting crowds sure food I

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