Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey NATO. It's a loose discussion of travel, adventure,

diving, driving, driving gear, and most certainly watches. This episode 371, 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

were listening to the show and would like to support us, 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 are we doing? Well, I took the winter wheels and tires off the Prius yesterday, and we did the same. Lo and behold, the forecast says there's some snow coming this week. So, you know, it was inevitable.

It's like I also put away my Red Wing ice cutter winter boots a couple days ago. Just tucked them in the closet, you know, thinking, okay, no more cold, icy walks. But I don't think there'd be much ice anymore. But, you know, this is a winter that just keeps holding on. I mean, we're into April already and still hanging on. But other than that, yeah, I'm doing fine. Good. I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, we took the winter tires off as well. So we've got a bigger drive coming up in the next little while, hopefully good weather across that drive. We'll see. You know, if you never know.

It's definitely preferable to have them, but it doesn't make sense to wait forever with them on.

Look, we've got an exciting show, part 10, the final 2025 Slack crew and A.

We're still getting questions on Slack asking, hey, where's the threat to offer up a question?

So we're going to finish this. And then

later in the month, probably towards the end of April, after we get past new watch season and the

megastode and the rest of it, we're going to launch the 2026 round. But we've got a bunch of stuff

to kind of get through in terms of housekeeping. The first one is for the Watches and Wonders, TGN show schedules.

So this episode will come out Thursday, April 2nd, and then there will not be a new episode

for the 9th or the 16th.

It's simply too busy, and then by the 16th, we're in the middle of Watches and Wonders.

We will have our, we will have our annual post watches and wonders megastode for April 23rd.

So that's the schedule coming up for for this. And, you know, because we, we don't commonly take a two-week break.

We do have something kind of special to offer. And, you know, I'll let Jason describe it, but a huge thank you to Jackson B and for Tom Place for setting this up. Jason, why don't you walk people through what they can do for some entertainment in our two weeks off. Yeah, well, you might remember at the beginning of the year we did, um, is that last year? It was last year that we did the draft. Last year. You might remember at the beginning of last year, we did the kind of the tournament bracket,

emulating the March Madness basketball tournament shenanigans that people take part in every year.

With regard to favorite watches, well, this being the 10th anniversary of TGN, going back to 2016,

it has been proposed and bandied about on Slack that we have some kind of a selection

tournament for best episode of TGN, which is, there's some stiff competition.

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