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Welcome to this watch live hi 
I'm Lydia winters and I'm. 

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Vu Bui for the 200th time. 
Why are you still here? 

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What are you doing? 
Actually, technically for me it 

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is the 199th. 
Time. 

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Oh no. 
One episode. 

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Mindy was on it as my Co host 
so. 

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You are here for the 200th. 
Time. 

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Yes, this is 200 episodes and we
were thinking about a look back 

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because wow. 
Because wow. 

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Because wow. 
I mean 200 episodes all within a

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year. 
Yes, I should start by saying 

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the 100 episode club cards will 
someday be delivered, but I am 

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hand making them so it's just it
is it? 

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Is handmade production at its 
finest, I will say, and Lydia 

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really has poured over this 
design for for a long time. 

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And so it's, it's wonderful that
everyone is being very, very 

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patient. 
Yes, they will come out before 

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we get to 300. 
That's my. 

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Is that your? 
Promise. 

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So we're going to talk about 
things we learned about 

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ourselves, things we learned 
about the industry, about 

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watches, about the watch 
community and also our listeners

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for a big like 200 episode 
roundup. 

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Yeah. 
What did you learn about 

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yourself? 
Whoa, That's where we're 

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starting with what did we learn?
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that surprises me because I 
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thought into starting a daily 
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No 3 days. 
You pitched it two or three days

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before we actually started it, 
but it turns out we really love 

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watches. 
We love watch designs, We love 

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watch brands, We love watch 
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Not every single one of them, of
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And even though, you know, I 
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putting out episodes, like my 
interest in watches has never 

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waned. 
And we've talked about watches 

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almost every single day for this
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like little mentions, like we've
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Monday through Friday for most 
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Year. 
Occasionally I'm like, Oh no, 

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watches again. 
Can we talk about cats? 

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Really. 
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really has been whenever I say, 
Oh yeah, we have a daily podcast

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or now a three time a week 
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but how do you know? 
How do you have enough to talk 

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about including watch people, 
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most of us talk about watches 
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sometime our family. 
We maybe. 

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That's. 
That's talking at them like 

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anyone who will listen. 
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agree it really has like kept my
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stronger. 
Yeah, and you know, we reduced 

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to only three episodes a week, 
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of content. 
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So just a lack of time A. 
Lack of ability, yes. 

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But. 
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learned about ourselves is that 
we really thrive when we overdo 

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a challenge. 
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We love a good like look. 
My mom has always, since I'm a 

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child, my mom has always said 
it's not done until it's 

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overdone. 
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projects, we need to be in the 
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The ones that we've done the 
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projects once a day for a year 
now, we've never made it a year.

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But but still I did it like 130.
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That's over 100 days. 
I've done 90 days before. 

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Like, you know, it's that daily 
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It's different, difficult, but 
it also drives you. 

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know, I'm still. 
Proud that we got to 180 

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episodes without missing any. 
I think that's a huge feat. 

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That yeah, 180 without ever 
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And we restarted, which is also 
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bigger feat that's actually 
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Link Think of the number of 
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our YouTube channel. 
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23, so I don't know, 2023. 
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on it? 
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I think I wrote everything very 
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Yeah, September 2000. 23. 
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So then I was thinking about 
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decided to outsource this so 
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through 200 episodes or try to 
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And so I just asked. 
I just asked AI. 

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OK. 
You asked AI about us. 

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Yes, about this watch life 
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Like what topics do they cover? 
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Curious Watch releases, new 
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from various brands yes, we have
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updates on the watchmaking 
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acquisitions and major 
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a few yes some LVMH, you know 
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Don't know about mergers. 
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histories of different watch 
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Something I'd like to do more of
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watch brands, so that's 
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Watch culture Discussions on the
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surrounding watches Watch events
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coverage of watch fairs, 
exhibitions and events more 

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like. 
We go. 

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There and then, we discuss. 
Here's what happened. 

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Personal Experiences Lydia and 
Vu share their personal watch 

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related experiences and stories.
OK, that is true. 

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I'm. 
Impressed with? 

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This and the last one said 
technical insights, deep dives 

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into watch movements, 
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aspects of watchmaking, which we
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Yeah. 
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It also I have to say it says 
Widdy and fun banter. 

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You added that. 
No, it says. 

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The podcast is known for its 
witty and fun banter, making it 

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both entertaining and 
informative. 

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Wow, Yeah. 
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Did it look at review? 
Are there reviews of our 

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podcast? 
There are some reviews. 

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Well, there are on the platform.
Yeah, it's a good time to ask. 

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If you haven't reviewed us and 
you would like to review us 

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positively, please do. 
If you haven't reviewed us and 

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you want to do it negatively, 
please don't. 

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No, then just send us an e-mail 
and tell us what you don't like.

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Someone one day sent an e-mail 
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raise it, and I worked to. 
Raise it you. 

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Worked really hard. 
So if you have any constructive 

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criticism, send it directly 
through on e-mail and we will 

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file that. 
Approval. 

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OK, So what have you learned 
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Yeah, watchmaking industry, 
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True, and it was the thing that 
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we were the least in touch with 
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the watch industry and part of 
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things for our episodes. 
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events, we've met more people, 
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even heard a little gossip here 
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And we've just been exposed to 
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it's just pretty much like Ebony
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problem, same all same kind of 
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be solved like we've worked in 
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lower tech, maybe older and 
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industry, but has a lot of 
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than the gaming industry, but 
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dominated. 
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individuals and organizations 
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better every day, right? 
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by money, Like money is a 
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surprise by creativity and the 
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many of the people in the 
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companies big and small, but 
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independent brands were like, 
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to make them, and that's really 
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very much runs on status and on 
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much fueled by passion. 
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big company or a small company, 
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people are doing. 
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lot of things because like when 
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think there's the same need for 
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Like these are luxury products. 
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innovation, and there are 
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that luxury products move 
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have been pushing forward on, 
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actually heritage, it's history,
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worth the money that they are 
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You have the, the, the MBNFS and
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Yeah, I am simplifying, but that
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that makes it very different 
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It's. 
Slower, but it's also much more 

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volatile, right? 
Because when economies like, if 

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you look at where the economy 
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economy. 
This is a celebration episode, 

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but. 
It is, but you said what have we

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learned? 
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we've learned that the watch 
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is, is, is much more affected 
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things change in the world, 
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So I think that's that's an 
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it also changes how you interact
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So what have you learned about 
watches or like even your watch 

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collecting? 
I've learned that I shouldn't 

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have never gotten into watches 
and watch collection. 

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OK, Yeah. 
We say that all the time. 

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I we don't mean it. 
You're like buy one watch. 

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I've started daily watch 
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That's the. 
Progression. 

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That is the. 
Progression when you're an all 

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in person like the two of us. 
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about talking about watches 
every day is that like, like the

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way we do it, we don't just wing
it, right? 

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So that means that every day, 
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the research parts and batches, 
but like we're constantly 

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researching and learning new 
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So like we're just this year 
we've gotten so much more 

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knowledgeable about watches. 
Yes, Even you have learned all 

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of this technical knowledge that
you didn't even want to learn. 

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No, because you always say that 
you're not interested in the 

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technical side. 
No. 

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But I, that's not really true. 
Yeah, it's not really true. 

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Watches. 
I I, I am interested in it. 

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And I think it's been you're not
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that I'm not. 
But it is more about finding the

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things that I'm most interested 
in. 

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Yeah. 
You know. 

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I mean, one of the, the biggest 
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you have learned about watches 
and I think it has affected not 

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necessarily how I think about 
it, but I think I had a 

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realization that I am more like 
you than I thought is that 

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you've said that the watches, 
like in the abstract on their 

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own are less interesting than 
they are with the people who 

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make them and the people who 
wear them. 

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this year, both in talking about
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something very amazing. 
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everybody. 
Like I obviously have more of an

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enjoyment of the purely 
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even I am not fully on that side
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like, well, I don't care about 
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Which? 
I care about the technical 

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achievements. 
Which the nice part is that both

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are totally fine. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you. 

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Do in my own watch collecting, 
you do you in my own watch 

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collecting. 
I do think this year has changed

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a lot. 
It's the year in the past last 

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few years that I've bought the 
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though I've had this year and I.
The least number of watches, but

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you bought some really amazing. 
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least number. 
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goes towards, you know, kind of 
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time and you're thinking about 
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we were reading, you know, 
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philosophies and we're asking 
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more about sort of culture of 
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why you do it. 
I for me, I think that has made 

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some like a little bit of a dent
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mentality. 
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I mean, I wasn't really buying 
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mean? 
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I mean, you've slowed down, 
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think everyone goes through. 
They don't need to do a daily 

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watch podcast. 
No, I don't think that's the way

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forward for anyone. 
OK, so about the watch 

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community, what would you say 
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community? 
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the podcast, we already were 
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on Instagram and in real life. 
It's going to. 

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A lot of people, many, many, 
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And you can kind of call it one 
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communities. 
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of like the people who have 
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just like this deep passion, 
like a share weird passion for 

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horology, like the artistry, the
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create these timepieces and then
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I think it's been amazing to see
all of the knowledge sharing and

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like the the kindness of 
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anyone who listens to this watch
life who's like, hey, that isn't

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really right. 
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nice because it's, if it's done 
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amazing. 
That. 

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And like you said, is with 
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something new to learn and that 
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hobbies because you're like, oh,
I'm never done. 

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Yeah, I never like, oh, I 
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Now I'm done. 
There's no, there's no end game.

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As you said, I. 
Still want to do the water 

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resistance mega episode? 
OK, I I I've been talking to Ken

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Arkin and. 
You. 

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Want to do? 
This. 

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I wanted to but it's not a 20 
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I think we may need 2 hours for 
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OK, that's a special episode 
that I'm not. 

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Part of you, you should be a 
part of it I. 

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Think you should be a part of 
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has been such a sense of 
community. 

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You know, so many of you just 
sharing this love for watches, 

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but sharing stories and like 
talking about, you know, we have

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a, a couple who both were 
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they, you know, he said that 
that like they didn't know that 

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they had this shared love of 
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And so he started listening and 
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And like, to me, that's so nice 
because it's that like sense of 

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community and also just being 
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where it's just like fun, where 
like people offering tips and 

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tricks and here's what you 
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always encouragement. 
Buy it, buy it. 

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That's the best, worst kind of 
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And and also, I think just the 
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very impressed and like we, we 
obviously have tried to do 

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different episodes, like of all 
different, you know, caliber of 

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watches. 
I don't want to say caliber 

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because that's. 
Were you trying to be punny? 

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Yeah, I was, but I don't like it
because of all different price 

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points and types of watches 
because it is so fun to have 

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listeners who have such a 
variety of interests and like 

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also feeling like there's a lot 
of inclusive discussions that we

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can talk about high end luxury 
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but hopefully in an inclusive 
and respectful way. 

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And I've only seen that from our
audience too, from all of. 

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You. 
Yes, I agree to. 

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Share in that which has been 
really nice, so. 

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OK, I pulled up some stats. 
Now we host our podcast on 

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Spotify, but then it also goes 
out to all these other places. 

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And so these stats are based on 
Spotify, but Spotify makes up 

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45% of our audience, right? 
Apple podcast is just over that.

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So this is, I think fairly 
representative and, and we just 

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thought we'd share because it's 
something we think a lot about. 

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Like who are our listeners? 
Who do we want our listeners to 

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be? 
Who do we want? 

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Well, we want everyone to feel 
welcome, but like, who do we 

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want to encourage to listen to 
our podcast? 

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So we'll start with gender. 
Like as of now, we're at 84.2% 

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male, 13.4% female, 1.7% non 
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And so you know that like, I 
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complain about here. 
But obviously I would love for 

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us to find ways to be more open,
to bring more diversity into our

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listenership and make people 
feel really welcome and want to 

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be here. 
Yeah, our age on is fun because 

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I think we have .4% zero to 17, 
which you know what, young 

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youngsters are welcome here. 
They are yeah 17 and under .4. 

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Percent. 
Then it's a really, it's a very,

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you know, bell curve. 
Yeah, yeah, basically, for sure 

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with a large portion of the 
audience being in the 28 to 59 

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range. 
Then you have my parents list 

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years in that 2.5% sixty plus 
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And there's a point 1% unknown 
age. 

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So. 
Who knows? 

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No one knows. 
But obviously the biggest chunk 

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is 35 to 44, and that makes 
sense for a number of reasons. 

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That's. 40% and also that I am 
in that age range, yes. 

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Yes, and I oh, I just left on. 
No, you just left. 

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It but our average age is within
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OK, Yes, that's true. 
Geographic locations, I mean we 

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talked about it long ago, but an
amazing number of countries 

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listening top is US, second is 
UK, third is Sweden, which way 

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to go Sweden because I mean 
that's. 

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Population. 
Population that's that's. 

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I'm really impressed that 
Sweden's at 9%, yeah. 

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Then we have Canada, we have 
Australia, Germany, Netherlands,

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Norway. 
That's impressive for Norway, 

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too. 
Norway, percent of our listeners

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like yeah. 
And but I mean, the thing that 

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like those stats are fun, but 
the thing that has impressed me 

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the most about this amazing 
community of people who are 

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listening are just that we have 
watch collectors who have huge 

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collections, people who are just
getting into watches. 

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Yes, we have industry 
professionals like founders of 

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watch brands, yeah, that we 
love. 

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We have watch makers. 
And we even have people who are 

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not into watches. 
Yes, Deirdre and Jeremy, my 

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brother, thank you. 
You too. 

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There might be more, but those 
are the ones we know. 

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About but just the fact that 
like casual enthusiasts all the 

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way to people who are. 
Incredibly, who are? 

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Working on it every day and to 
me, whenever someone says like, 

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oh, I've I listen to the podcast
or I listen to an episode, I 

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just feel so amazing and and 
thankful and kind of blown away 

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that some amazing person is 
listening. 

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So the biggest thank you to all 
of to all of you for sticking 

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with us and for. 200 episodes. 
Listening for so, so long. 

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Thank you. 
Thank you. 

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Thank. 
You maybe we'll do 2 100 more. 

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I I can't say that. 
I can't say that, but. 

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We'll be back on Monday. 
So yeah, we're waiting a 

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goodbye. 
It just. 

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Wasn't thank you. 
It's. 

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Just appreciation, yes. 
Oh, but actually it is a bye 

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'cause it's a Friday, Is it? 
It is, yeah. 

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OK. 
Bye bye, bye, bye bye, bye, bye.

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Bye. 
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye bye

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bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye 
bye. 

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Bye bye, bye, bye, bye. 
Bye bye, bye, bye, bye bye. 

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Bye bye, bye bye, bye. 
Bye. 

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Bye bye, bye bye bye, bye, bye 
bye. 

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Bye, bye, bye. 
Bye bye, bye, bye, bye.