Hello and welcome to another episode of the Gray NATO, a loose discussion of travel, adventure, diving, gear, and most certainly watches.

This is episode 56, and we thank you for listening.

Boy, that's just about as much as I can muster in that peppy tone. Take a sip of coffee.

Yeah, I've, no, I've, oh man, I'm several espressos deep this morning.

So it's, for everyone listening, it's a couple days after Jason I have returned back from

Basel and I'm fried.

Jason it sounds like you're catching up.

Yeah well you've got a couple hours further west than me and you your flights longer and you stayed in

Basel a day longer so you'll I'm sure you'll be right in a day or two.

Yeah so I apologize if I seem let's be generous and say, fuzzy throughout this episode, but we're excited to be doing

this episode.

This is one of my favorite episodes of the year and it's certainly one of the biggest ones for the

show.

So this is our Basel Megasode. We're not going to do a lot of like what's new. the show

So this is our Basel megasode. We're not going to do a lot of like what's new. The truth is what's new is hustling for

Basel and now it's over and just kind of recovering. And I do I do want to say before we jump into watches a quick kind of public apology to

the litany of people that asked if we could hang out.

Jason I'm speaking in some manner for you as well, but this is certainly for me.

You get to the show and people see you there and they start to DM you on Instagram and you

literally can't get to all of them even to the extent of just turning down the invites which is kind of a

bummer I would have liked to have met with all of you and had a chance to hang out you

know I was there with Hodingi this year and I was part of their schedule so it wasn't a scenario where I necessarily

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