The Grey NATO – 353 – A Chat With Ben Fogle [Adventurer, Broadcaster, Author, And Owner of Buffalo Systems]

The Grey Nato

James Stacey and Jason Heaton

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey Nato, a loose discussion of travel, adventure,
0:08.0	diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 353 and it's proudly brought to you by
0:13.4	the always growing TGN supporter crew. We thank you all so much for your continued support, and if
0:17.6	you'd like to support the show, please visit thegraynato.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton, and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, the traveling man himself, James Stacey, James, you're about to board a flight in a matter of hours. How are you doing? Well, yeah, I mean, it all depends on podcast timing. I'm doing just fine, to be clear, that my status is not based
0:38.3	on podcast timing. Where I am is. Yeah. When you're listening to this, I will be in, in Geneva,
0:45.5	probably just putting the final touches on my outfit for the GPHG award ceremony, the evening of
0:52.8	the 13th. I'll actually, if you listen to this late, I'll already be on the way home.
0:56.8	Wow.
0:57.2	So yeah, it's been a bit of a whirlwind of travel.
0:59.8	We're recording kind of two episodes back to back.
1:03.3	So there won't be a ton of chit-chat.
1:05.2	But yeah, by the time you've heard this, I've been in, I've been in central Europe for a variety of projects for 10 days or nine days by this point.
1:14.2	So and now Jason, when they're listening to this, will you be on the ocean?
1:19.0	Yeah, I will be, it'll be our second to last day out on the peace boat out in the Channel Islands.
1:24.4	Yeah, we'll be returning on Friday the 14th.
1:30.3	So headed back to Ventura Harbor. So yeah, and then an overnight there. Yeah, we'll be returning on Friday the 14th. So headed back to Ventura Harbor. So,
1:34.2	yeah, and then overnight there and then fly home Saturday the 15th. So yeah, yeah, we're both going to be gone. Our disembodied voices will be out in the airwaves while we're off doing other
1:39.4	things. So I guess that's usually the case, but. Yeah, and we don't have a ton of like chichap
1:44.0	because of the timeline. As I mentioned on last week's case, but... Yeah, and we don't have a ton of, like, chichap because of the timeline.
1:45.7	As I mentioned on last week's episode, if you're keen on sort of a download from my time in and around Switzerland and Jason's time out in the...
1:55.0	on a liverboard boat with Blancpon.
1:57.3	We'll get to that next episode.
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