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driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 367 and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew.

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My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, James Stacey.

James, happy Monday. We're recording a day early today.

Yeah, we sure are. I'm in New York. And so we're using a different set of gear than we might normally.

I flew down to the city early this morning and just because of a kind of a busy week of, yeah, shows and little meetings and previews for watches and wonder stuff. I have to make

sure I don't say something I'm not allowed to say on this episode. But yeah, it's nice to be in the

city. It was so bitter cold in Toronto that coming here to where I think it's like maybe one or two Celsius. Yeah,

it's one. It feels nice. Oh, sure. I'm not wearing a giant winter jacket. And so that's nice.

It's always nice to see the team and that sort of thing. And I've got a few other updates. But we do have

some sort of fun housekeeping. And I don't want to step on the major one, which is this is your

50% or your midway auction recap. Why don't you bring people up to speed on the CWN1 prototype

auction, which is going on on Slack as we're recording this? Yeah. So if you didn't tune in to

episode 366 last week, we introduced an auction that we're doing to raise money

for Second Harvest Heartland, which is a food bank here in Minneapolis that is quite large

and has a good reputation. We actually had a few folks on Slack that said they had volunteered

with them and vouched for them. And we're raising money to kind of help them in their efforts

to bring relief to those that are struggling with food shortages, specifically here in the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin.

And what we're doing is we're auctioning off the prototype of the crew watch number one that we did in collaboration with CWC last year.

This is the prototype piece that was delivered to me

in Wales in June of two years ago when I did the fan dance, and I wore it for that, and kind of

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