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 345, and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew.

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please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is James Stacey, and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton. Jason, how we doing? A Monday evening recording this time. Lots, lots going on with the Toronto Time Peace show this week. Yeah, it's a weird, weird week, short week for both of us. I'm traveling. As people listen to this, I will probably be sitting at the airport waiting to board my flight to come up to YYZ airport there and meet you shortly after that. And I feel like we've been talking about the Toronto Time Peace show for months. I mean, I think we talked about this back in the spring. That's crazy. Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, it's a big cycle for that. we really like being a part of it. For those of you who didn't catch the news

on... That's crazy. Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, it's a big cycle for that. We, you know, we really like being a part of it.

For those of you who didn't catch the news on the Slack or otherwise, if you'd like to see the live recording of the episode for the show from the Toronto TimeP Show, that'll be next week's episode.

If you're listening to this purely remotely, that will take place at 2.30 p.m.

on Saturday at the show if you have any questions feel free to drop us a line at the

gray nato at gmail.com otherwise we'll see you there and it's going to be a great show if you

listen to last years we're basically looking to do something fairly similar and and I

think it's going to be an absolute blast. And then the other thing we're saying,

you know, since the last episode is just that if you're waiting on an opportunity for some merch,

that should be coming in the next couple of weeks. We're just getting the last few of our samples in.

I got a couple in that I'm really excited about. I even teased one on Instagram, which immediately kind of

popped off on the slack. So we're having fun with that. I wore one piece all through the weekend

and found it quite comfy and cozy, so that'll be a good addition as well. Jason, how have you been?

How was your weekend? Yeah, good. I got some samples in here as well, one of which was far too

warm for the weather we're having here, if that's a of a hint to everybody. But, yeah, summer kind of returned. We've had, I've actually got the air conditioner on today, which feels strange for mid-September. But, you know, that's not unheard of. I mean, summer does linger into September, but it does feel like this is the, this is kind of the swan song for it. And so yeah,

Christy and I got out yesterday and we kind of, we did this sort of ceremonial farewell to the season.

We kind of spontaneously decided, you know, Minneapolis is called the city of lakes and there's

just this network of lakes with beaches

and some are connected by waterways that you can paddleboard through and a creek that connects

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