Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey NATO. It's a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving gear, and most certainly watches. This episode 377, and it's proudly brought to you by the always-growing TGN supporter crew. We thank you also much for your continued support, and if you're listening and might want to support the show, you can 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 today? Doing pretty well coming off a long weekend. You know, as you were reading the intro there that's so familiar now, I spent a couple days on this long holiday weekend.

Christy and I went and did some kayaking and hanging out with some friends that have a cabin a bit further north from here.

And inevitably, you know, there's new people in the group that I hadn't met.

And they're like, what do you do?

Oh, I co-host a podcast.

And then what's it called?

What's it about?

And then there's just so many questions to answer that I still don't have a good elevator pitch. I just don't have a good reply. I don't know about you. Do you run into that a lot? Or it's just not that often. I mean, one, I'm not an not an immensely social person. Most people have some idea of what I've what I'm getting into. The people I hang out with. But I would say, you know, when it comes up, I usually just say, oh, I, you know, I host a podcast for people who like watches. Yeah. And usually unless, like, if you're, if that's interesting, the next question will make sense and we can have a conversation about it. And most people are just kind of like, okay. Yeah. And move on. Yeah, right, right. You know, it's not that the door is closed, but it's a, you know, a door with a specific sort of key at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you mentioned watches and some people like draw a blank and then move on or some people then want to, they've got some great story about some, oh, I've got my dad's's watch do you know anything about this and then lo and behold it's some interesting old thing it's so it can go one of

two ways but yeah it's uh yeah for sure like they they remember the last big celebrity watch

story or their boss has a cool watch or their grandpa did or yeah that sort of thing yeah yeah yeah but yeah

i don't i don't typically i don't typically go through the you know the what do we call them the

the the accolades the the TGN sort of pillars yeah with everybody who might be wanting that

pitch right but yeah we've got a little bit of housekeeping before we dive into what we've

been up to I want to hear more about your long weekend. I saw some

some fairly extensive body work that you did in the home garage. I think we should dig into that

for sure. Yeah. But just wanted to highlight we have an upcoming event, which will be at Wind Up

Chicago, the Friday night of that weekend. We will be doing an event with Citizen. We're still working on finding a spot. So far, we haven't had a lot of luck finding a place that can kind of suit our needs. If you're in Chicago and have a spot to recommend, that could hold a good number of people and, you know, do beer and food and that sort of thing. Let us know the granado at gmail.com or if you own such a

place like that, we'd love to get in touch. But yeah, Jason, with that out of the way, definitely looking forward to being in Chicago in July and seeing you and seeing a few other folks, obviously, and holding that event. Speaking of a good weekend, how was your, how was your long weekend? Yeah, it was good. And before we move on from the event in Chicago, you know, I just had a brainwave that maybe

we should just host it at our favorite sushi place.

Just shut the place down.

Or yeah, maybe we do the whole thing at the Museum of Science and Technology in Chicago.

We just, it'll be like, you know, a mass social event, you know, maybe around their large train model or something like that. Oh, in the submarine, in the, in the, in the, in the submarine. Yeah, for sure. I don't know if I, I don't know if we could get a liquor license to serve on that submarine. Yeah, that's true. That might be a difficult bit of paperwork.

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