Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey Nato, loose discussion of travel, adventure,

diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 358, our last of 2025, 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'd like to support the show, please visit thegrayno.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host James Stacey. One more time for 2025. How are you doing? One more time. And yeah, everything's great. Happy that it's, you know, we're close to the end of the season or close to the end of the year start of the holiday season. I'm looking forward to that kind of break and the wind down. Obviously, I adore making TGN. So the break there is mostly because it gets difficult to schedule things and people and time when when everyone's moving around, less so needing a break. But yeah, it's, it's been a big

year, certainly a big year for TGN. It's something we can probably get into next year when we

start to, you know, approach the idea of what we'll want to accomplish with our 10th year

as a functioning podcast. But yeah, everything's great. We just recorded a QA, which is the October

one. By the time this comes out, that should be live. The final Q&A for the year, which is November,

should go out just before the end of the year, probably just after Christmas. But we'll see. I might

get it out earlier than that. All depends. And then the show will be back as normal on January 7th which should be pretty good

Jason what have you been up to with your the last kind of week and in the you know with the

holiday sort of looming on the horizon yeah it's kind of um you know as as you said it's this time of

kind of a break it does feel welcome and i And I, you know, I don't consider myself

nearly as busy as you with, especially with your work at Houdinke. And I, I just think,

it, it all comes down to this sort of sense of building towards people want to get stuff

done before the end of the year. We have a few episodes.

We got to get through.

And then it's just stuff like, oh, I forgot I need to buy a gift for so-and-so.

Or, you know, I promised to make cookies for this party.

Or, you know, there's any number of gatherings that people want to do.

And it's all fun stuff.'s it does kind of add to this

especially for a person of kind of my demeanor I don't want to say I get easily

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