Hello and welcome to another episode of The Grey NATO, a Hodinckie podcast, a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 106 and we thank you for listening.

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James, how is it going this week?

Good man, how are you? Nice to hear your voice.

Yeah, yeah, it's this has become kind of a weekly thing that I'm looking forward to.

We don't really talk the rest of the week.

We certainly chat a lot on slack, but this is...

Yeah, you're one of the few people outside of my wife that I actually speak with regularly.

Yeah, yeah I know I know what you mean.

You know there's a lot more kind of conference calls and that sort of stuff with Hodinke.

Yeah, but this is definitely a call that I look forward to, you know, it's on, literally on our terms and we haven't

quite gone to the point of, you know, Zoom calls just to hang out you know I think we do pretty like we've mentioned before we do pretty well in this relative mode of isolation

Yeah, I know that you you actually did get out of the house this week how was how did that work out?

Oh it was great you know we've had this kind of up and down weather one day warm

one day cold and cloudy and now we're back to cloudy today but last weekend was the timing was perfect it was spectacularly sunny and

reasonably warm and Kishani and I went out for a hike there's a

Regional Park 20,000 acre regional park.

Wow, just about 20 minutes south of us and we drove down there and there were a lot of

cars in the parking lot because I think everybody had a similar idea but we kind of aimed for the

the more muddy trails that are back in the woods and we hardly saw anybody except a few dog walkers but we went for a good five mile hike and

you know just saw birds and deer and we kind of were looking for mushrooms although I think it's a little

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