Hello and welcome to another episode of the Grey NATO, a Hodincke podcast.

It's a loose discussion of travel, diving, driving gear, and most certainly watches.

And you know what, this is episode 80, and we thank you for listening.

Wow, 80.

I was, yeah, right?

I was noticing that earlier and I was thinking, when 100 comes, we're going to have to do something special. I don't know what.

Yeah, I'm seeing I'm starting to see that on the timeline for next year.

Yeah and yeah we'll have to we'll have to figure that out. I don't know yeah yeah maybe a lot crazy live

episode or something wouldn't that be a great I wouldn't require too much

planning yeah yeah right So what's new man? How you been? Good. Good. Yeah. I mean I think since we since we last recorded. Let's see I had just gotten back from Bonair and we've traveled a bit in between. I was just in California

this past weekend. Gishani and I went out there for a quick dive photo shoot out in Catalina Island which was it was tough work I mean it's a lot of

gear hauling it's it's shore diving but it's you're pushing carts around with a lot of heavy gear and then we we were dry suits so it was

You're wearing a lot more lead than you would with a wet suit and then for sure.

It's just but it was it was great weather and the shoot went well and I always enjoy going out there the kelp and the

some interesting critters we saw a huge must have been three or four hundred pound black sea bass which is

endemic to that part of the Pacific and just huge I mean it's just lurking among

the kelp and you come upon it and it's just jet black just like the size of a big grouper yeah just just kind of hung there and kind of stare at us which was really kind of kind of eerie but also thrilling because everything else you see there is a lot of kind of little orange Garibaldi fish and yeah I like those guys

some other stuff but yeah it was good.

Catalina's a Catalina is super fun you um did you get to the mini golf

or too busy no no it was pretty much hit the ground running and straight through to the end but yeah

Pretty good mini-golf for anyone who makes it to Catalina some good food too. Yeah, we had some good food. Yeah nice all right. How about? You were traveling as well. I was, yeah, I actually, not like, not unlike you, a little

cagey about some of the details, but I went to, I was in St. Louis for a day.

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