Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey Nato, loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, driving,

driving, gear, and most certainly watches. This is episode 382, and it's proudly brought to by the

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like to support the show, please visit thegraynado.com for more details. My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host James Stacey. James, you staying cool there or as it is hot as it is here? I am not staying cool. I just finished. It was too hot to bother going for a run or even a walk outside and I had a bunch of emails and expenses to do. And so I did it on the

treadmill and goodness sakes, I used to be in my cool basement downstairs. Now I'm upstairs. And yeah,

it's even with the fan, it's plenty warm today. We're up over, I think we're just up over 30 degrees

Celsius, which is no laughing matter,

although not as bad as what's going on throughout parts of Europe right now. Yeah. You know, it's been a busy week. The weekend went by very quickly, and it was one of those ones where we hadn't been at the cottage for a couple weeks. So we went up and there's just a ton of chores. And by the time everything was done, it was like, all right, let's pack the van and head home.

Oh, geez.

So, so yeah, let's pack the van and head home. Oh, geez.

So, yeah, hoping this weekend, the weather cooperates again.

It was lovely weather this past.

But, man, we've got some busy weeks coming up, for sure.

We're getting really close to Chicago.

Yeah, we sure do.

We've got this week and then next week.

Basically, we fly out. And, yeah, we've got kind of a packed schedule. We were just going over it before we started recording here. And I mean, it's all fun stuff. It's going to be great. We've got our event and we're doing some diving and meeting up with old friends and sushi, of course. Nice little social weekend. Yeah, exactly right. We are doing an event with Citizen at Forbidden Route. The RSVP is currently full. That said, we are running a wait list. And we simply ask that if you're wanting to come to the event, it's seven to nine on the Friday night. But join the wait list. And the other side that we would ask is if you're into the event and can't make it or decide you don't want to come or whatever, please just render your like cancel your RSVP so that the ticket goes back into the pool and we can get as many people there as possible. But we are at absolute maximum capacity for for the number of people that forbidden route can accept for an event.

So if we end up with a sizable wait list, we will have to maybe look into other options next year.

But it is very difficult to predict these sorts of things.

Yeah, so very much looking forward to that and hoping to see many of you listening now at that event in just a couple weeks time.

Yeah, it's looking like a sizable crowd. It's going to be just a packed space and, you know,

just I can imagine all the chatter and the fun conversations and the great watches and that sort of thing.

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