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Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey NATO.

It's a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving,

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And if you're listening and would like to support the show, 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's 2026 for you, man? We're what, five days in? Five days in, yeah. And this is our second go-round with a year that ends with six, right?

This is our 10th year.

Pretty well. I was trying to figure it was like, I was like, I think both of you and I have been around longer than. Yeah. No. But it's, yeah, it's crazy. I mean, it's pretty wild to think. I think we, didn't we calculate a few weeks back? We were trying to figure out what the date of our very first show was. And I think it was right after SIAH-2016, which would have been late January. It was late 20s in January. You know, those of you who have been listening for a really long time, one, thank you for that. Two, we used to be on SoundCloud. And then there was this great SoundCloud outage. And I was like, all right, I got to rethink this whole thing.

Our podcast is down. And like, it was like three or four days that SoundCloud was down. And in that span of time, we moved to Buzz Sprout. So that's why I don't remember what number it was where we moved. It's probably pretty obvious in the show. but if you go far enough down on Buzzsprout where we're hosted now,

you can see that all of a sudden every show came out the same day. And that was the day

that we migrated. So yeah, I don't have a strong, a strong option. You know, you go back 10 years.

This is before my time with Houdinke. Jason, you were a freelancer with Houdinke at the time. And kind of the, we started a show. We had like, you know, 120 listeners, maybe. Yeah. Something like that. If I remember, I feel like that number was quite important, like breaking into the three digits. And then Ben at Haudenke wrote a story about how we had started the podcast. And

either of us had talked to him about it. We, you know, it wasn't, we weren't then and over the 10

years haven't become especially good at self-promotion. And Ben wrote this story. And that kind of like

immediately got us our first 500 plus sort of listeners. And we've kind of been going since then. And, you know, it's been,

it's been a wild ride. But yeah, we'll have lots of, I think, retrospective style episodes coming this

year. You know, we have a couple cool merch ideas. We might do a 10th anniversary series of something.

If you have a great idea, the slack is the spot to put that in.

We could make it happen. I think a lot of what we're going to talk about in today's show is about

things we are going to do this year. And in some cases, we aren't going to do this year.

You know, we considered resolutions that feels kind of boring or maybe something we've done

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