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The Grey Nato

The Grey NATO – 375 – A Chat With Kim Frank (Explorer, Author, & Filmmaker)

The Grey Nato

James Stacey and Jason Heaton

Hobbies, Leisure, Arts

4.9973 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey Nato is a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving, driving gear, and most certainly watches.

0:11.0

This is episode 375, and it's proudly brought to you by the always growing TGN supporter crew.

0:16.6

We thank you all so much for your continued support, and if you're listening and might want to support the show,

0:20.4

please visit thegraynado.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 today? I'm doing pretty well for a Monday. The weather's warming up. It was kind of a chilly weekend. But yeah, this week looks good. and we just got done with a chat with a great guest, Kim Frank.

0:39.3

And I'm excited for people to listen to that conversation.

0:43.1

Yeah, I'm really good. I really enjoyed the chat with Miss Frank. It was a, I didn't know Kim before the call.

0:49.2

And then it just went really well. And she had some great answers. And it's a nice look forward to the eventual release of her film and you know following the release of her book so we'll get into that in just a few minutes

0:59.6

yeah you know we had a massive episode last week that was our attempt to actually keep it short

1:05.3

believe it or not you know pushed about two hours so after that I kind of I kind of you know

1:10.3

by the time that was up

1:11.3

and got to the weekend, it was Mother's Day weekend. So we did all sorts of Mother's Day stuff.

1:16.4

And then, yeah, otherwise got up to the cottage for the first time this season. You know, the May

1:22.6

long weekend in Canada as next weekend versus Memorial being the other in the States. So we wanted to get up

1:29.8

and ready to be up there next weekend with some family. So super nice to be up there. And it's where

1:35.2

the certain season really feels like it starts when you get up there and it's not freezing cold.

1:40.2

And you're like, once the dock's in the water, I could jump in and that sort of thing.

1:44.0

Yeah. Speaking of getting in the water, I could jump in and that sort of thing. Yeah.

1:45.3

Speaking of getting in the water,

1:46.5

I did a,

1:47.3

Christine and I did a sauna session last evening. And it's, oh, nice. You know, it was kind of perfect conditions because it was, the air was cool enough that, you know, I mean, we've done it in the summer before and it's just not great to go from, you know, 80-something Fahrenheit into a 180-degree sauna.

2:03.8

So it was kind of perfect that that kind of cool spring

2:06.2

evening weather. And then the lake, they put the sauna right by the lake down the street here

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