The Grey NATO – 200 – The Past, Present, and Future of TGN

Thanks to all of you, we’ve made it to 200. Our plucky little watch-and-other-topics podcast is still just as plucky but has grown quite a bit since the first episode came out in January of 2016. For this anniversary episode, we take a look back at how the show started, share how it’s going after two hundred episodes, and offer an idea of what is to come in the future (along with asking what you might want from the show).

When Jason and James first met, photo by our good pal and TGN catalyst Mike Pearson. Also, it was March of 2014! Almost two years before the first episode.

When we started, we just wanted to make a podcast about the things we liked and whatever had our attention and curiosity at the time. Amazingly, and entirely thanks to the support of both the audience and our friends, colleagues, and families, the show is going strong and 200 feels like less of a milestone than 100.

We’re simply thrilled that we get to keep making TGN and while we fully admit this is a pretty “navel-gazing” episode, we also promise we won’t do another like it any time soon.

So thanks so much for listening, sharing, commenting, supporting, downloading, Instagramming, emailing, recording your questions, and for otherwise being the best audience that a couple of watch nerds and would-be adventurers could ask for. Here’s to another 100 and more.

[Jason and James]

Click here if you want to play episode 200 from your browser – thanks so much for listening.

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1:00 Windup Chicago
3:46 MKII x Prometheus Design Werx Paradive 
4:22 Prometheus Design Werx Waterman Wetsuit Jacket
6:37 Halcyon H-View mask 
13:40 Seiko SPB143 
15:27 Becky Schott with the giant bracelet 
16:27 Jason’s 1985 CO20 Aqualand 
22:20 Mike Pearson!
26:00 Ben’s early Hodinkee post about TGN 
53:44 “Thoughts On Outside’s Layoffs, Outdoor Media, and Adventure Journal” -
Adventure Journal 
1:00:00 Moko waterproof phone pouch 

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