The Grey NATO – 200 – The Past, Present, and Future of TGN
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 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.
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
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner” - Julia Cameron
Wow 4 to 1 editing time. I had no idea you put that much time in. Always sounds excellent and now I understand why. So glad to contribute.
Congratulations guys! Excited to see where the next 200 episodes go. I'm going to go ahead and say that a KILLER TGN collaboration would be a grey bezel (and pick your dial color) Bremont S302 with TGN on the caseback. 100% would buy!
Also, as far as communities go, there is a TGN subreddit r/TheGreyNato that only has like 20 subs. But could totally be used as a community forum for those interested. You lose the personal touch as Reddit is primarily about anonymity, so there is that.