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Published on Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:12:49 -0700

Synopsis

In this episode of the 40 and 20 WatchClicker podcast, hosts Andrew and Everett discuss recent watch releases and personal updates. Andrew shares his excitement about spring sports season with his kids' lacrosse and baseball activities, while Everett celebrates the Mariners' win against the Yankees. The hosts dive into several new watch releases, including Tissot's downsized 38mm Gentleman collection, which Andrew sees as a spiritual successor to the discontinued Seiko SARB. They examine new releases from Amida, Baltic's innovative GMT world timer with stone dials, Longine's revamped Hydro Conquest, and Raymond Weil's 50th-anniversary chronograph featuring restored vintage movements.

The conversation takes critical turns when discussing Omega's new Constellation release, which both hosts find disappointing due to its oversized dimensions and unnecessary Master Chronometer certification. They praise Doxa's Sub 200-2 size expansion and Nomos's new Club Campus colorways. For "Other Things," Andrew describes his family's molecular gastronomy experiments making watermelon caviar, while Everett enthusiastically recommends both the book and film adaptation of "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, starring Ryan Gosling, noting how each medium tells the story effectively in different ways.

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Andrew Hello, fellow watch lovers, nerds, enthusiasts, or however you identify. You're listening to 40 and 20, the WatchClicker podcast with your hosts, Andrew and my good friend Everett. Here, we talk about watches, food, drinks, life, and other things we like. Everett, how are you? Just crushing it. Uh no, I'm good. Uh I was trying to come up with I have nothing to report. I'm doing great. I'm doing well. Uh oh. Baseball season. Did I already talk about this? You've caught talked about it a couple times. Oh Mariners won their first game against the Yankees last night. And then I think they lost tonight. But uh we're just gonna talk about the Mariners beating the Yankees. Yeah, that's what's important. That is what's important. Because sports in the spring are in full swing. Winter sports are winding down. Uh you may listen to this in March, but likely you're gonna hear this in April. Um yeah. I'm still I like I got home from a practice and shoved some food in my face and finished up the little odds and ends that need to happen before we can record. And I'm still wearing shoes. I don't I don't know. The last time I wore shoes when we recorded. And not slippers, to be clear. We've established that both of us are feet never nudes. Um but yeah, I don't know. Last time I wore shoes. Now I mean I wear shoes all the time because I have to come across the street. But you also wear slippers about 50% of the time. Maybe not quite 50%, but yeah, more more times than yeah, often enough. Yeah. Even in the wet. It's it's a short walk. It's a very short walk, yeah. It's a short walk. It's the most people's walk to their mailboxes from our front doors. Yeah. I mean yeah. That's right. Not just in our street, but just generally speaking, most people have to travel further to their mailbox than we do door- toto- doordoor. Yeah, that's right. I think you're right. It's super convenient. Easy enough to do the math on that. But uh Andrew, how are you? Uh I'm good. I'm, you know, I'm enjoying finally like, my body not being shocked by the tree allergens. So I'm like actually feeling good and starting to enjoy this spring weather that we're intermittently enjoying. Uh yeah, kid activities, man. Four nights a week. We are slam packed. And then starting this Saturday, we've got doubleheaders every Saturday for the next six weeks. Lacrosse doubleheaders? Yep. How long does that take? Well, it depends. A couple of their games are back to back, but some of them one starts at nine and one starts at one. Ooh, brutal. So your entire day is how long is the lacrosse game? An hour. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The back to back ones I feel bad for the kids, but I prefer them. Yeah, that's not I mean an hour's not bad. You know, the baseball game, the doubleheaders, you know, there's less they're less strenuous for the kids. I think easier on the kids, but for the parents, like get ready for the next six hours of your life. That's why you can trust baseball dad's opinion on what uh folding chair to get. I can make you a good recommendation. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Uh no, and I I do feel bad for the kids for lacrosse doubleheaders and especially this age group. So this is the first year he's gonna play on a hundred and twenty-yard field. Um so nine nine fiyeld plaers in a goalie per team and lacrosse very much like soccer is played almost entirely in transition. Yeah, I was gonna well I was gonna ask you, is this is it like line change like hockey or is it like substitution like soccer? It's line changes like hockey that have to be learned, right? 'Cause hockey line changes are an art, right? Like when to when to sub and you know it's it's incumbent on the player who's like making these decisions kind of on the move, like well no, we're on defense, so I don't care it doesn't matter if you're tired. Like sorry, run more. Um So we'll see. You know, fifth and sixth graders are still you can s like the kids who really are standout players are are are not just like athletic kids, but they're smart kids, right? They're the kids who can look at and understand the field. Like they have a high sport IQ for the game. And those are really the kids that kind of pull away in this age. And then that gap kind of closes because you know, as kids get older, everyone starts to understand the concepts of the game. But uh yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting. These kids are wiped at the end of practice. Like, I mean, you know, Mark, he's happy go lucky and chipper all the time. He's dead after practice. Oh, he he's like dragging his bag and like one leg. You'd think he just came home from the trenches of Flanders at when he gets home from lacrosse practice. I'm like, dude, it's 75 minutes. You're okay. You're gonna be all right. Yeah. It's like it's just seventy-five minutes. Yeah. Yeah, that's uh no, you it it's it's a fun, it's a fun time. You know, it's right about now, fifth and sixth grade where they s really start to you, know, grasp the sport beyond where's the ball, right? The you know, fourth grade, you know, those elementary school kids really do a lot of ball watching and um they get into middle school and they start to conceptualize you know strategy beyond beyond that off ball movement when I coached soccer this last season that was my entire thing was off ball movement. If you had the ball, you couldn't move. Yeah. And if it if you lost it, like that's on you. We were working with at baseball practice tonight, we're working with the kids on um like base running scenarios, right? So infielders, running baseball, base running scenarios, right? So you got a guy first and third. What's the play? From everyone runs home. Yeah, well, direct route. They're you know, you know, thinking about like, okay, well, if I throw to second base to get the guy stealing second, that leaves third open. But these kids are still doing that a a lot at thisge a guy steals first that catcher pops up and throws to second and but it's the the steal from third that's right you know it's like 130 right to make that throw though it's this huge throw. Which isn't even easy as an adult. That's right. No, it's a hard throw. And so there, you know, inevitably what happens is the guy from third just waits for the throw and then he's popped a home. Uh well and he's home before the ball has even made it to second. You know, so showing him hey, if you pop up and you throw the ball, look like you're you know, signal you're gonna throw to second, and then instead throw to the pitcher, all of a sudden we've got options. Uh so you know it I I guess the point is just uh it's cool to see like they're at that age now where you can layering in tactics. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Like that we're no longer just uh catch-rowth hit. We're like actually playing baseball and it's super fun. I'm having so much fun with it. So uh but in any event, we're not here to talk about lacrosse or baseball. Rather, we're here to talk about watches, watches, wrist watches, those things that you wear on your wrist or perhaps in your pocket. Um rarely. Uh Andrew, do you wanna do you wanna lead us off? You're such a gentleman that you would let me lead it off with a show that you sent me all the same links I sent you. I didn't look at your links. That makes sense. I want to start with Tissot. So Tissot has sized down the gentleman collection to 38 millimeters. And I gotta say, just top down right on this, this is very much T so, but this fills a gap that was left by the Sarb in a like not one-to-one way, but really, really close. This is a high polished, thin, thin outer bezel. It doesn't have that same sexy Sarb step. But this price range, right? What are we looking at? Oh, where's the 695 Swiss francs? So under a thousand dollars. This zone has been missing, I think, a dress sport watch as refined as the Sarb since the Sarb's demise, right? There's there's a few things out there that that kind of fit the bill, but not quite the same way the gentleman does now sized down to a 38. I think I would prefer it as a 36, but 38 is an excellent uh alternative step in the right direction, perhaps. So what we have is a 38mm case, 11.53 height, 100 meters of water resistance, the power matic 80 movement. This is this this is the natural successor, I think, now to the SARB, which I think this our affordable space has been missing, right? Like a large production, wellufac-mantured dress sport watch. You know what what else is there? You know, I'm struggling to come up with something. I I I didn't think I don't think SARV at all when I see this. Oh, but I can understand why why you do. Um it didn't it didn't come to my mind and and looking at it I'm like yeah sure that makes a lot of sense uh but certainly didn't pop into my mind. That's right where I went when I saw it. Yeah. No, I I mean I think it is at least. I do think that there are other watches that fit this bill, but this is great. twice in two weeks. That's not unusual. I think it is. I I mean I can't T so kinda we they lulled at the end of last year, but early last year, I think T so does the bulk of their push ahead of all the watch shows. Like I think the first quarter of the year we see the most T so releases. I could be wrong. Fact check me if you will and I don't care. That's when I feel like we talk about T so the most is early in the year. Yeah. Because this isn't PRX. This is like a modern. There's nothing about this that screams vintage inspired, right? This is just a modern dress sport watch that's affordable, that's well spec. And I love it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, and at, you know, 37 by 12. I think it I think, if I remember right, the SARB is just a hair under 12, but I mean it's right it it's right there, you know, yeah, dimensionally. I think it's it's a super similar certainly a more boring case, but that's not bad, especially for a watch like this, right? Yeah. I I th I think the SARB was kind of in a league of its own and remains so and will kind of always be like this, you know, flash in the pan of uh really, really refined, elegant watch making at a super affordable price, right? It's it's it's it happens a lot, right? But the Sarb was was kind of in a league of its own. For what it's worth, I do think you can still get a Seiko Sarb for they're 800 bucks. Yeah. Um but it y you know this is a a pretty reasonable this is a pretty reasonable alternative. Chrono twenty four right now, they are uh just my quick Google list. They're they're sitting a thousand bucks right now. Shit, I need to sell my SARB. Yeah, yeah, I mean six hundred and thirty. Mine's in pretty good shape. Mine's mine's not in like new shape, but it's in I'd say used very good. I think if you pay attention, you could probably get one of these for under five hundred used, obviously. But um yeah, no, just just just on the T Cell. I think this is a really cool, a really good looking option. I like the N link, even though it's a mail in link. I thought they did just a great job with this all around. It's um you know, in some ways, we talked about that visidate last week. In some ways, I I think that this is the earny to the visidate birth, you know, really uh two very similar watches, but uh but doing the similar or same or similar thing in in two really different ways. I I like this release a lot. And and you know, is not anything different than the 40, in fact, I I want to say but it's sized better, right? The a 40 millimeter gentleman is a 42 millimeter bambino. Give us the right size, right? Yeah. Uh four dial colors on this, silver, black, blue, or green. I think I'm the silver's definitely silver. It's not crispy Arctic white. But it's it's pretty pretty light silver. Yeah. Of these, the only color I think I'd wear is the black. Oh. Yeah. I I I probably wouldn't rock it. The green. I would definitely wouldn't rock the silver. The blue's nice. It's not a bad blue, but um it's not Tudor blue, but it's a I I like that blue. It's sort it's not quite petrol, but it's got sort of that your fucking blue gun metal y thing going on. Um Pantone six four two one blue. Yeah, I th I think you're actually like for someone who talks about watches, your watch vocabulary is embarrassingly low. But perhaps. Yeah. Yeah. My my vocabulary of blue is you're you're you're on a thing where you you bring it up every week and I'm like Andrew we talk about watches you could maybe come up with other words I just I blue is blue to me maybe I'm colorblind yeah or just stupid one of the two perhaps we'll flip a coin. Amida. Oh yes. Amida released a watch this week, which very similar to a watch they released last year, but it's just ungroup. Interesting enough that I thought we'd talk about it. So this is the Amida Digitrend. So I think the Digitrend was released in I want to say 2025. Oh, I thought it was before that. Uh you know, you it you could 2024. Okay. Uh revival debut in 2024. Because there was that big push. A bunch of there was like five of these watches released these like horizontal view yeah digitals um and and so this is the same as that it's it's a uh you know roughly 39 by 39 millimeters stainless steel monocock case, uh, which sits on top of your wrist and is meant to be viewed from the side. So we've got a uh it y yeah yeah, we've we've it's a side view, right? Um similar to the cascade from Garrett Perigo or or or whatever, right? The the dozen that got that came out in the last three years. They've released this now in a NASA edition limited to a hundred pieces, and it is it's really cool, right? It's got sort of like a space shuttle thing going on with uh a prominent NASA snak uh what do we call it worm logo at well on the top. I was gonna say at six o'clock or at four thirty, but it's not it's on the it's on the top the case top. That's right. The cover, perhaps. And you know, it comes with a bunch of cool shit. We've got like a Kennedy Space Center patch and uh It's the the it's like a quilted uh hook and loop back Strap on this thing. It's kind of bizarre, but like sort of fits. Yeah, textile on rubber on the strap. It sort of gives you like some EVA suit. I was thinking like the like the inside of like a of a of a bulkhead. Right? It's like that sharp little screen. Yeah, when you bonk your nugget, it's not like on onto the aluminum foil thin hole. It's it's on some kind of padding. The white portions are so stainless steel. The white portions are polished white ceramic. Um cool. Uh which actually uh the the worm logo is a shuttle era logo and and the shuttle used a polished ceramic heat shield. Uh so there's a bit of like this was some Easter eggs here. Uh this thing's pretty cool, man. I mean it it's an expensive watch, right? So these things come in at I think $30,400 Swiss francs, only 100 of these available. Uh what's the non-NASA? Isn't that much off of this price point though? Yeah, no, I I mean it's this is this isn't a ton more expensive. It is a base caliber so prod Newton, the P092, and they've got the jumping hour module is developed in-house and added on top. Dimensions, I you know, we could talk about dimensions. I don't really think that's super meaningful. Um, but it's it's not small, right? 39 by 39 by 156 thick. 50 meters of water. Otherwise you can't read it. Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's why I said dimensions are common. The the legibility comes entirely from fifteen six. Um online orders opened yesterday, I believe, I believe there are still some of these left. So uh scheduled delivery in May, uh $4,420 American dollars if you go to the website. Uh as of the time of recording, which is probably about 10 hours, maybe, maybe eight hours before the time this will publish. Well, we'll actually publish tonight. So yeah, like nine minutes. Depending on when you hear this, I think there may be some of these left if if you're really into that. And I I can s I mean this might be something that you just take a flyer. This is cool. It's an expensive watch. Horizontal read watch design. I'm surprised never really gained any traction for stick pilots. What do you mean? Like stick and yoke. Imagine imagine you're flying on on like aviation controls. Where's your watch facing away from you? But this horizontal read, when you're controlling your yoke, whether it be a yoke or a s or a stick air platform, you're looking at your wrist. You know, not like a motorcycle. When they when they angle it, when you're when you're angled and you can see it. Not like you know that that angle of viewing time on your watch, I'm I'm surprised has never gained any traction from like auto sports or aviation. Because you it's just a quick glance down to view your instrument, which a watch in this environment is an instrument. Um I'm just yeah no there's ergonomically it makes perfect sense. Yeah there's some pragmatic reality to that to what you're saying. Yeah. It it just it never cause it's weird. It it is weird. I mean I I I think that that's you you sort of hit the nail on the head. I think that's really all you have to say about it. It's weird. Um but cool. Undoubtedly cool. You want to know something else weird? Tell me. Doxa Sub 200 number two collection. That's weird. Uh it's it's weird for So the 200 came out what a long time ago, but in twenty nineteen it was revived and was met with some kind of mixed reviews. Because it's a round case. It isn't the the Doxa case that you think about. But the size was amazing. And then people loved it. So the mixed reviews were like, oh, it's not Doxa, but it's also sized really great and I love it. Um the new Doxa 200 sub 200 2 uh comes with five new colorways, and they beefed up the size. So if you weren't a fan of the 38 millimeter case that is now that was released, it is now available in a 44. Was it a 38 or a 40? I doesn't matter. It's now available in a 44 with a 48 lug to lug, 12.8 thick. It still has an SW200 movement. Um Um it 200 meters of water resistance. Uh and the same the same price, right? It's still 1700 bucks on rubber, seventeen hundred and fifty bucks on a bracelet. It's a weird like I I just I don't understand the why why grow the watch, right? They have it almost as like they're they're releasing a competitor for their up market watches you know I don't think increasing the size I don't think it's as small as you're recalling. I I wanna say the two hundred is it that was what got people excited. Is it a forty or a thirty-eight? No, I want to say it's forty two. Is it really? Yeah. I I don't think uh I think your recollection is is that it was small. Forty two on the forty two. Oh, I thought it was smaller. Um either way, this is this is now a big no bullshit round dive watch from Doxa that I think is you know, I st I think because of the way they proportion this, so so one looks great. I still have the liar lugs. I actually think that this isn't gonna wear all that bigger. Also, we've gone from fourteen millimeters to twelve eight. I think this thing's gonna wear better than the original sub two hundred. That's my it may vary. That's my take on it. Because the seven fifty wore like a dream and and was like wearing a manhole cover in size, but it it wore like an absolute dream. I think this is actually a really great update. Well, it's not an update. It's an iteration like it's a it's an also two. So these are both of them. Uh yeah, they're gonna keep the forty two millimeter and they've now introduced it in forty four. Right now they've got four colorways: the red coral, shark hunter vintage, shark, oh, five colors, excuse me, shark hunter, Caribbean, and sea emerald. But I think we can reasonably expect that in the next six months, we're going to see about a dozen color releases for the sub two hundred two, uh, to match the entire lineup, right? This is kind of a doxa thing to do, like hey, we have this new watch in three colors, and then um or in a limited edition. and And then then the the actual platform gets unrolled with the typical dozen Doxa colors. I just think it's interesting for the two hundred, which was meant to be kind of a lighter tour tending towards a skin diver for Doxa to then size it up to match the size of the 300, 300T, and not quite the 750, but still like to size it up and match that. I think it's an interesting uh size iteration that we talk about we want brands to do, right? Give it, give me, release the watch, give it to us in three sizes, and they're all gonna sell out. Because then everyone gets what they want. Yeah. Th thus far, my only objection to this is that at this point we don't see I don't see any indication that they're gonna release this with a bead of rice. No, it's the mesh. Yeah. So w you know, I think we've yet to I think in six in the next six months we'll see this on a beads of rice with the twelve normal with however many colors it is. I think it's twelve. Uh I I really like the size update on this. I think this makes this a more from for my part a more interesting update for sure. The thin or the thinness. Got it on that Jenny Craig and Yeah, I I I like it. Uh gnomos, uh just quietly doing gnomos things, which I I know a lot of people don't people have said to me recently more, than one person has said to me, I've never got gnomos. I'm like, there's nothing to get. It's a watch, you idiot. Uh but I think I understand what they mean, right? Gnomos is just weird they're different the way they do the way they do releases is different um they're like this bizarre sort of and like affordable and yet in-house and like they're kind of a middle finger, but in the most polite way. Like from Nana. Like getting the middle finger from Nana. Right. Um they've released they've released just they were just like, oh, here's two new versions of the club campus on both sizes. Um don't mind us. Like, hey, well, you you guys, if you if you're interested. Uh so uh we've got a full olive and then what they're calling a well excuse me, full rose and all olive. Um which I just think these are both terrific. The all olive in the the small is that has my number. Yeah, you you know it these two were really small. So it with with long lugs, they're it's kind of an interesting club campus is a weird. I used to like be really into it and thought that's what I want. And then I tried on a 38 and I was like, oh it like I I I think it's not gonna work for everybody. Uh yeah, that's confirmation. The Yankees lost or the Yankees won the second game in the Mariners series. I know everybody at home has been waiting for my update on that. On pins and needles. They paid for the whole seat, but they only needed the edge. So now sit back, get comfortable, and we'll keep talking about watches. But in terms of colors, man, the this the the the the the full rose is like this dusty pink that's got like s a little bit of like mauve it it looks tan purple thing going on. Uh your boots after you spent the day walking through cinder block. Right. Like sin like a freshly cindered road that dried out. It looks like that. Of course California dials on these mana club campus, small seconds. Um I I think these are great. If you are not a Neanderthal and you like thin watches. Gnomos has your back. These are both eight point one and eight or these are eight point one and eight point four millimeters thick respectively. Uh like all club campuses, right? Very, very thin, super wearable on that Z dimension. Those lugs might get you though. They get some people. Uh because it's a very flat watch. Yeah, they're super flat. Bigger would be like Speedmaster Hangover the Edge. Yep. Long. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Um you are getting uh in-house manual wind movement, hundred meters of water resistance. Uh the the sort of in-house their swing system escapement. I I mean really a compelling I don't do care. It's a vegan velour strap. 1890 for the small one, 2070 for the big one. Um Yeah, you can get sapphi sapphire case back for an additional three hundred bucks. So it's a pretty movement. So a Sapphire? Sapphire. Never heard you make that noise before. Um yeah, these are just these are really, really terrific. The all olive is the first time I think that I've seen a gnomos and gotten like it's it is phenomenal. Because it's an interesting contrast, right? It's a really like OD, like ammo can, olive green uh on this really modern design. Like it there's a contrast there between that color, at least the way my my brain sees that color, and a California dial with small seconds high polish um yeah you know I am I'm just noticing something isn't aren't the no Roman numerals normally on top in a California dial? So this has ten, twelve, and two in Arabic and and then four and eight in isn't a California dial dial normally. But I think you're I that feels right. Like as you're saying it now, it didn't occur to me, but I I do think that typically I see six and eight Yeah, you know, I've just never uh this has never occurred to me before, but it's like an upside down code. What's that effect? What's that called? Where where you like see the thing or think of the thing that's actually wrong? I don't know. When everyone like misquotes the movie because it's been so misquoted. Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's the it's some kind of it's an effect thing where I want to say it's like Nielsen but it's not uh like one small one stall one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind is in fact not what was said, but it's so repeated. Right. Luke, I am your father. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh yeah, interesting. Oh um How about we talk about the new Baltic colors. Or just the new Baltic watch watch. Yeah. Yeah, but I want to talk about the colors. So of the new watch? Can can we do it one step at a time, please? Uh so Baltic is often like kind of somewhere between either on the cutting edge or like right on the bleeding trail. Like they're either first to it or last to it, I feel like, with Baltic. So they have now introduced a new model. I was kind of hoping that you were going to talk about this one, but I want I I want to talk about the watch itself. Uh you want to take a swing at that name? Um Horz Demond, maybe? Yeah. Or's de Mond. Okay. It is a 37 millimeter, 11.3 with the crystal, 9.3 without. And I I I'm kind of annoyed that that we've made such a big deal as watch enthusiasts that an 11.3 GMT is unacceptable to us, but they have to qualify it with but without this box crystal, it's only 9.3, which is baller in hundred meters of water resistance soaprod C125 GMT movement 42 hours of power reserve with four hertz move with four hertz not chronometer uh 1300 bucks so now let's get into it. We have three amazing stone colorways. We have a stone dials. They were they're stone dials. Yeah, well stone, yeah, stone dials, stone colorways, we have three great colors. The sodalite in blue, labradorite in gray blue, and tiger's eye. These are absolutely killer. Independent of the fact that Baltic makes a really, really fantastic GMT. The design on this is great. We have a really traditional world timer bezel on this that's excuse me, double stacked thick. Uh so it's a thick, thick bezel. Um internal twenty-four hour track and then the stone dials that are like I bitched in the last month uh that I was I'm over stone dials and and it's like Baltic herd me and they're like, Don't worry, man. We got you. And they dropped three gorgeous iterations of stone dials on this world timer GMT. So this uh the blue is is the most boring because it's just gorgeous. The Labradorite Labradorite which I assume is a meteorite found in Labrador? Can we it's no? Can we can it can you give me just about 15 seconds? No. Yeah, give me 15 seconds. Uh so this is great. Labrador. So I know nothing about minerals. Let's just start there. Labradite. Labradorite is a plagioclase feldspar mineral. Famous for labradorescence. It's from the Crystal System Triclinic. It's not a meteorite? Why would they call it iT? And it's primarily found in mafic igneous rocks such as basalt, gabbro, and anorthosite. Anorthocyte. We are have we have enough trouble with words. Why would they do this? I just wanted to say all those words that I have no clue what they mean. That's all I wanted to do. I was just reading about this and I was like, who the fuck wrote this? First of all. Second of all, why is it not a meteorite if it ends with iight. I don't know, buddy. I don't accept it. Uh it's a meteorite in my head. Uh it's not. It's stone. I accept this now. I don't like it. Um it is gorgeous. It's like cutting into like aged, thick, hard packed ice. There's great tones of black and blue and white that cut through it. Uh and it is absolutely gorgeous. The tiger's eye is a tiger's eye. We've all seen that. It's this really lovely orange and yellow kind of sandy the beautiful colorway. Uh but this labradorite that grows in basalt. Does it grow? It's a crystal then. I mean like I don't fucking know. I think it's it's igneous, so no, I wouldn't I don't think it grows. You made that word up. Uh, I think this comes on an Italian calf leather strap, beads of rice, or a steel flat link. Uh, these Baltic is just knocking it out of the park on this release. Yeah, so this is actually. There's more there's more going on here than meets the eye. Um, or perhaps than meets the eye. This is a this is a callback to the original world timer styling, which is to say it's not just a bezel with city names on it. There's also an internal rotating disc. So what Baltic has done is taken the hour module or the date module, excuse me, and slipped in this disc along the outer ring of this dial that rotates slipped into the DM on a 24 hour cycle. So the idea is that you can in theory tell the local time via the two internal hands or the two central rotating hands. But at any given moment, you can also see what time it is anywhere in the city or anywhere in the world, right? So if you want to know what time it is in Istanbul, you just look at that outer ring and it'll tell you Hora Hemplo that it's you know three o'clock or whatever in uh well if it's set to Istanbul time. No no that doesn't make sense no no it the you the bezel and that rotating ring rotate separately and so it's an ongoing It's a constant No that doesn't expression of time brain. So you rotate your bezel to the brain. No, you don't have to touch your bezel. It all because the ring rotates on a 24 hour cycle, it always tells you what the time is in those places. Against what? It it doesn't matter, right? Because it it rotates. It it rotates, right? So right, you know, so look at this. Look at the picture. Look at the lead picture. No, I see it. I understand because we have a sun and a moon marker on that internal rotating bezel. We have a six o'clock arrow. And that rotates on a 24-hour cycle. So in that lead picture at Samoa, it's 10 o'clock. And in an hour, it'll say Samoa eleven o'clock and in the next hour Samoa sun for noon. Right? It be it moves. So at any given time you can tell what time it is in Paris twenty two hundred or Samoa ten hundred. And then the next hour it'll have moved to tell you what time it is now. I don't understand it. It's it's actually, a clock, Andrew. No, I don't accept this. Okay, well. Um so it dimensionally this watch is South Georgia is not the same time. What? Andrew, you go around the dial understand how words work. I I'm I'm struggling So Tokyo Buenos Aires on opposite sides. I get this. Give me a minute to let this sink in. This is a crazy watch. This is the original style for a world timer watch. And we don't see this much now. And in fact, we see you know them come up at auction occasionally. This is an outrageously cool watch. Also, 100 meters of water resistance, like, come on, Baltic. 37 millimeters by leading edge. Like you said. Well, I mean, very old style of watch, but who's doing it? Nobody else does this. I don't GMP. This this thing's rad, dude. This is a really, really cool watch. Uh, 200 pieces per rock. Um stone. Individually numbered. Uh this is a fantastic watch. And they're super thin. It and looking at the comments on Hodenki, I like Baltic, but this one does not do much for me. Hands are too short, no second hand, something just feels shut up. Shut up. God, I hate comments. I should I should never look. No seconds, no date. Miss. This is the guy who gets no second dates. Yeah, this is gorgeous. That was a good burn. I feel good about that. Really oh, also loom everywhere. Oh, a little too thick for the side. Yeah, the amount of loom on this thing. There's there's more BGW9 than there is stone. Bezzle loomed, 24 hour ring loomed, 12 hours are loomed, the hands are loomed. It's this just concentric loom rings. Baltic. Well nailed it. Well done. Nailed it. Yeah, this is crazy good. I would check the time at about now because I'm like, gosh, we are gonna go way short. And every time I check it in about 42 minutes, I'm like, oh, we should consider picking up the pace. That was mine, so it's your choice next. That was yours. I think that one was mine. No, because you talked about the gnomos, because that's not a watch that I would talk about. I actually cut it from my list knowing that you would talk about it. Um so we've had uh some updates this week uh to watches that we know and perhaps love from the past. I'm gonna talk about the one I like. Andrew, I'm gonna look to see if the one I don't like is on your list. It's not. Interesting. Okay. Oh no, it is. There it is. So the one I like is the longine updated hydro Conquest. Uh Hydro Conquest, I think, is a underrated watch. It's slept on. Slept on watch. Maybe not underrated, but certainly slept on. Longing recently released this with a GMT complication that was very cool, but a pretty big watch. They've just revamped this. And I think that they are really trying to make a statement with this. Longine, we've we've discussed Langine a number of times over the last couple of years. It it seems to me that Longine has really, like, at some point, in the last, you know, say five years, Lunging decided, you know what? We're a serious watch company. Mm-hmm. And we're gonna make serious watches. And there's no reason that we can't be every bit as good as Tutor and and perhaps we can do what Tutor does and just be better. And just be better. And they've accepted the need to get with the modern watch design. So that we've seen a lot of updating. They released this new Hydro Conquest in both 42 and 39, which I think is nailed it. I think you did that exactly right. Case height is eleven seven for both of these. Uh we've got sort of a more modernized dial instead of the weird sort of numerals. Uh we've got a bezel that is good. A bezel that is good. We've got fonts that I'm not wild about, but that are very much Logine fonts. Uh, we've got an exclusive caliber with the L888.5, which is a 72-hour power reserve, great caliber. Fantastic, fantastic bracelet with where they've put in a female N-link that is exactly what it should be. Um, we've got like sort of a denim blue, a black, and royal blue, bezel, uh, a terrific green. Green on green. Obviously, black on black is gonna be where I head to. I I just think this is a release that is gonna not interest or not excite anybody but at whatever these are 22 to 2400 dollars I'm like man this is a really compelling watch. Does Torud sell even a single watch besides what's the big Tudor dive watch? The Black Bay. No, not the Black Bay. The big watch. Longos. Does not sell a single watch besides the Palagos that I find more interesting than this. And I think that I for me, so when I saw this, I was like, this is just a hydro conquest. But it's not no, because what really told the story for me was looking at the side-by-side evolution of this watch. And I was like, oh. The old one's ugly, this one's not. Yeah. But in my head, it still is. And then I look at the side by side. I'm like, oh yeah, that's why it's just a hydro conquest. And then you pull over to the new version, you're like, oh, this is what it should have been all along. They've pulled the date window all the way out to the minute track. They've changed the fonts. They've done some big color updates to make it an actually attractive watch so yes it's boring the the crown guards are just like they're slightly more aggressively curved. So they're they're shorter. Oh, I like these crown guards so much. Oh, they're they're so much better. The lugs are just ever so slightly just just they've they've they've made this a felt dive watch rather than kind of like a clunky antiquated. I don't like the old one. I love this release and I and I'm I looking at this if if you view this watch independent of what you think of Long Jean and what you think of the Hydro Conquest this is an entirely new platform. And I think it deserves a new name from Hydro Conquest because it's not. This is the this is the new standard bearer for it. And I am here for it. This, you know, there are plenty of critiques to be made of like, oh sub uh no, it's a it's a baller dive watch that exists in the two thousand to three thousand dollar category that is it doesn't miss. Yeah. I I I really enjoyed. I really, really like this one. The colors are good. The fonts are good. Throw away everything you've thought about the Hydro Conquest and look at this through an entirely new And the Hydro Conquest has its fans. I I uh imp important to note, a lot of people really love the old Hydro Conquest. I was not one of them. Uh for the reasons we've already discussed, I love this watch. I 39 and 42 is options is great. This is I I think for for I take this over a black bay any day of the week. Yeah, and at 42. Yeah. I think I want this in a 42. I think so too. Uh Steel Mash or an H Link. I don't like H links. Yeah, I mean I don't think at tw I I mean I think you know maybe some Christopher Ward stuff that I like. I I mean this is really sh a very compelling. This is a very compelling. We've got Doxa. We've got maybe some Zin stuff that is kind of in there. Yeah, the U50s are they're a little bit more than this, aren't they? Or they're like in the 3000s. They're a little bit more. We've got some Seiko stuff that's right at this level, but I I mean frankly, I think that this is you know, there's always gonna like the Black Bay is an incredibly popular watch, no doubt about it. Very good watch, popular. And for a reason. For a reason. That's right. It's a great watch. I like this better. I think that this is a much more compelling entry. I think it's more interesting. We got Orus Aquaus. I I think that the Aquas is about this price. No, I you got we get and and I think the Ocean King is about this and I like and and similar flavored. Yeah. Uh Aquas is right about there. I um I I like this way better than the Aquas. And I don't know or hate anyone who has this watch. W what's next? Next up for me. I was surprised you didn't talk about this one. The Dennison ALD. No, no, that's not the one you need to talk about. Let's talk about the other new one that I hate. Oh no, I'm gonna leave that one for you. You have another one on the list. So the Dennison ALD dual time. This is a watch that we talked about, I don't know, six months ago. And I think we talked about it right after um before. We talked about it right before because it was a watch that we were interested in seeing. I saw it in person. I gotta say, I hate pictures of this watch. Hmm. I do not like the way this watch shows up in digital media. In person, I'm for it. I liked it in person. Uh, and I have to assume that uh these new pictures, these new colorways, because so what we have is the ALD released in three new colorways and they are calling them blue, brown, and green. Under a thousand bucks. So they're 820 on the steel bracelet, 740 on the strap. Um, these are great. They're 37 millimeter case, 35.6 lug to lug. They do feel big because they uh they're squares, right? That's just that's the way it is. They're 6.1 millimeters thin. We can't even call that thick at this point. This dual-time functionality uh was really really cool in person. Uh so the blue is a dark blue on the left and a light blue on the right, brown, just the same. Green, just the same. The colors are good. Uh this dual display is interesting. Uh, and I I have to say, in in pictures, I still don't like them. But I know having seen them in person that this like mocha brown is gonna be hot fire. The blue is gonna be really good. Cause like I might be colorblind. These blues look r like almost identical to me. I don't r really see much of a difference, unlike in the green and the brown. Oh no, in that picture. It doesn't matter. It does not matter. These are gonna be really good. I I like these new colorways. Uh no, that's the same color blue. That's the same. Yeah. I'm broken. I accept. Uh I like these new colorways. And I like this watch. And this is this is one of the few watches that I've I've uh most watches you see it in person and you're like, oh now I really get it. You're like, oh, it's good looking watch in pictures. And then in person you're just smitten. Uh, I hate this watch in pictures. And in person, I really, really dig it. Yeah, I I I like it too. I mean, I mean, obviously, it's a watch the whose reputation kind of precedes it, you know, GPHD winner and and everything. Um you know, uh uh a sort of shamelessly a quartz watch, which in 2026 is not rare but not super common. Um really high high levels of craftsmanship in terms of fit and finish, beautiful casebacks on these. Um yeah, it's just super interesting. It's hard to, it's hard to argue that this isn't an interesting watch. Double double ten thirty two double ten thirty-two movements. Um yeah. And still at six point one yeah well it's yeah yeah like it it's super thin quartz movements but it yeah it's this this is a a really intriguing watch okay uh Omega. Oh, you're gonna do that. You're gonna leave the other one for me, huh? Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega, Omega. Omega, very near and dear to me, my two favorite watches, without a doubt, that I own are Omega. It's Omega. I spend roughly, I don't know, 60 to 70% of the time wearing an Omega. I love the brand. I love. I just love and yet Omega has their head so far up their ass that they are I think at risk of becoming the tag hoyer of nineteen ninety eight uh look. They do so much weird stuff. No, it's not weird. It's not weird. It's that Omega has developed a very cool movement. And in 2006 or whatever when the coaxial movement came out, or maybe I've got that date all wrong, I I think it was very interesting. At this point, it's just like sorry omega, nobody cares anymore. Release a a cool watch. So they have the Omega Constellation, one of the most interesting historic watches possible this time. 1999 was then the coaxial movement was introduced. Pipan dials, just gorgeous. A vintage constellation is gorgeous. Small watches. But absolutely gorgeous. Uh these angular cases, they've got this lug set up. They're called dog leg lugs, uh or they're called, referred to as dog leg lugs. Um they've re-released the constellation and I think that this is an opportunity to release a, let's say you don't want to be crazy Omega. You're like, you know what, 38, fine. I'm okay with that. But but 38 and and you know what what are you gonna what are you gonna do? You're gonna do 11 omega? Okay, I can deal with that. No, no. We're gonna do damn near 40. We're gonna re-release the constellation in damn near 40 at 12 and a half millimeters thick with a 47 millimeter. Just go away. No, it's master chronometer. Why does this watch need a coaxial? I They must have too many coaxial movements and they're just finding ways to put it into things. So that's why I want to talk about this watch. Because it's it is so disingenuous to the original constellation. It doesn't make sense. Hmm. It it's gonna make money. They're gonna sell like hotcakes because people will take anything that Omega does and treat it as canon, and I don't know. So these are like 11 to 12,000 in steel. Yeah. Uh and 20. You can get Sedna or Moonshine at 38,000 or cannabis gold for 44,000. Platinum and gold is at 578. Uh uh and it's a two-hander, I just I don't it's it's a master chronometer. This is like the first foray into this chronometer plus movement certification. So dumb. I don't know. This is my like my least favorite one. I I saw this and I was like s sick. Oh. Oh. Gross. Gross. This is such I fucking hate this watch. It it doesn't make and I hate it. I I I sorry. When I say I hate it, I the reason I hate it is because it's not at all what I wanted. It I've I've thought about this watch before. If they release this under any name, if they release this under a new skew. And also 12,000 bucks for a it's a master chronometer. I I it I don't get it, dude. I think I think Omega's totally lost the plot here. Uh yeah. I think they've totally lost the plot. Yeah, they I uh they are they are treading in um uncertain waters. This is just absurd and dumb and I hate it. What's next? Uh well so this wasn't on my list, so I didn't even read about it. But the fifty with a restored value. I'm like you get to do back to back. Yeah, Mele Same uh chronograph by compacts uh from Raymond Weill. And what? And the which which they've done this before, right? But the But it's not what we know Raymond Weill for. The twist here is that they are making 50 of these to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and these are all coming with a factory restored Value 236 column wheel chronograph from 1976. Uh which is like, yeah, okay, Raymond Wilde. I love everything about this watch. Fantastic sector dial. Um, it's stunning. Dimensions are uh unlike a few other brands, they were like, you know what, let's release this in a way that makes sense. So it's 37 millimeters, 10, 7 high, 18 karat gold white bezel. Uh it's fucking perfect. This is perfect. The the first time I I was reading the spec sheet on this, I was just kind of doing a glance through. Uh and I didn't read piston style pushers. I wrote I read prison style pushers. Oh yeah. And I was like, why is it prison? Yeah. That's interesting. And I kept reading it as prison. It took several like focused looks. Oh, piston. Different. Different. Of course, you know, being a restored movement, there's only fifty of these being made, and so they're gonna be really tough to get. Price is eighty six hundred or eighty six fifty Swiss francs, so like ten thousand dollars of you know, or less than a a new constellation. Uh and better in every way. Oh god, this is so much better. If yeah. I love this release. Obviously, gonna be very hard to get. I assume gonna be very hard to get. I I can't imagine the dial on this thing is beautiful. Any of us will know somebody who gets a hold of one of these. Oh my gosh. I think this is such a fucking cool watch. This is an awesome. This is m one of my, if not my favorite anniversary release. Because it's out so out of character in in my head for Raymond Weill, but it it fits and works perfectly. You know, the I I read an article about this watch that said, you know, Raymond Wilde didn't really capture the enthusiast market at all until 2023. And I was like, well, that's not fair. But then I was like, no, I think that's right. Mm-hmm. It took him a minute. Right. Like it it it was it was kind of like the way Jack Mason took some time to build up some momentum and and then like get a read of the environment and the marketplace and then once they did they just they did. Yeah dude they I mean they nailed it. What a cool what what a cool release. Yes. That movement is just fr oh. They just don't make them like they used to. They sure don't. They sure don't. Uh that's all I have to say about that. Yeah. I I mean I I don't think there's much else to say. I think using restored or new old stock vintage movements is Is like one of the coolest things a a watch company can do. I mean it's risky. It it is, but you you also know that you're taking a risk for a super limited run. Right? If you're getting into 50 movements that can either be restored or are new old stock, you're gonna sell them. You're not gonna be sitting on 49 restored 7750s or r new old stock 7750s. Or, you know, in this case, what are they? The this uh the RW 1976. You're just not. Yeah. It's an uh it's the it's the 23-6. It's the the Raymond Wilde 1976 because they restored them, but it's the the Valju 236. You're you're not gonna sit on those. Really cool. Really cool. Andrew, other things. What do you got? Oh, so I um I I made my first foray into molecular gastronomy this week. So we talked, I don't know, not too long ago about how my kids got super uh excited by Nick Di Giovanni and his food experiments, and they they's this one episode that they like specifically ask for. It's a watermelon episode. And he does, I don't remember the number 50, we'll call it, ways to eat a watermelon. And some of them are super dumb. It's like here's a new watermelon cutter. The one that they have been I don't feel like daily is an exaggeration asking if they could do was to make watermelon caviar. Uh and so this last week I was at the grocery store and I was like, oh yeah, get watermelon. Oh, I also have to order something. So I I got onto the Amazon and I ordered Agar Agar Powder, which is a kelp-based thickening agent. It acts really similar to gelatin and really fast. Like there's not a it cools at a much higher temperature and gelatinizes at a much higher temperature. So like we we did half watermelon and I I s I ruined the batch because I was like, I need to let this cool, like to at least room temperature. And then I looked at it, you know, 10 minutes later and I was like, well that looks set. And I poked it and it was like the consistency of warm jello. It just kind of like broke apart and was gelatinized. And I was like, maybe if I warm it back up and whisk it, no, damage was done. So uh it this was crazy easy. I took half a watermelon and I put it in the blend tech and juiced it and poured it into a pot. Did it did it blend? It it did blend. It it turned into juice, in fact. Even the seeds. It's just it's a watermelon, so it doesn't have black seeds. There was one black seed in this whole, you know, personal watermelon. Um, and it's this, so it's this this method called spherification. I also learned that olive oil does freeze, uh, not solid, but it does freeze. So don't put that shit in your freezer. Just put it in your fridge for an hour. Because you will forget about it in the freezer. So anyhow, it's it was crazy simple once like I worked out a couple of the kinks because I wasn't really working off of an exact recipe. I like kind of read a couple and I was like, oh, okay, I get this. It did not watch a YouTube video, follow it precisely. Uh you take the juice and it is a 10 to 1 ratio of gram weight agar agar powder to this juice. You just give it a quick simmer to get it dissolved and just let it cool a little bit and then you take a little eroyedpper or anything that you can drip into this jar of cold oil, and these drops get chilled by the oil, and there's a little oil bubble created around it, and it creates this beautiful little sphere of fruit juice that then cools into like a jello, but like more like a boba, but not quite as firm because boba bubbles like they freak me out and I hate them. Uh caviar is the best way to describe it. Uh so that me and the kids made it and it was super fun. It was like a activity for them where they got to use their kitchen knives because I have plastic kitchen knives for the kids, like plastic chef's knives, and chop them watermelon and then goes in the blender. And um then they're doing all the eye dropping like my fingers are tired. I'm like, bitch, you wanted to make this. This is not on me. Work harder. Uh and they turned out really well. I sent pictures to you. They don't keep well. Uh but they turned out really lovely. Had it on vanilla ice cream. You can do this with any kind of fruit juice. And it was a a fun foray into molecular gastronomy that I will continue to do until I exhaust the smallest container of agar, agar powder that I could find, which was like half a pound. So I used six grams of my uh eight-ounce container. I wonder uh if Harry Stiles would consider rewriting that watermelon sugar song for watermelon caviar. I I you know I'll hit him up, I'll slide into his DMs. Uh I've got another thing. Do me. So we've taken my family, I say we, my family, really my daughter and I, but my my wife will also participate. Have taken to reading books that are going to be turned into movies. Okay. If we haven't yet read them, or sometimes even if we have, or if I have, I'll go back and read it again. But my daughter is like kind of dedicated to this idea that yeah, I want to see that movie. I'm excited, but I really want to read the book first. So um that is in some ways uh a challenging it it it's it's challenging to do that because you you sort of set yourself up for some expectations that are gonna be hard to meet or or you know, sometimes they just the two things just don't anyway. Long story short, Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling was announced, you know, quite a while ago. I'm super sure I saw this movie. And Betty had mentioned, you know, I w I want to read that and then I want to go see it close to, you know, release date. Uh I said, yeah, let's do it. I haven't read it. Uh uh Andy Weir, I think is just terrific. Uh but I I haven't read that. And so, yeah, let's do it. And and so we did. And so we did. Uh first, let me just say, uh, that book is fantastic. Uh, the way Andy Weir writes is he he writes with science. And in fact, my wife didn't like this book. She said, yeah, he's it's a little dense. My wife's take was he's a little, it's a little dense. I disagree. It's not dense at all. He just writes through sort of surface level scientific principles, right? And he's not diving deep into the science. However, the twists of his books, and this is true for the Martian, it's true for Artemis. His twists oftentimes focus on sort of scientific principles or anomalies. Anyway, uh I really really, enjoyed the book. I don't want to give too much away, but the characters are fantastic, and you really fall in love with these characters. Went to see the movie. And predictably, pretty different, right? You cannot, in the context of a two-ish hour movie, spend anywhere near as much time on science, right? Because it requires words and the dial. I mean it just wouldn't work, right? You have to assume it, right? Like you can you can depict what takes five pages to describe. That's right. Happens in a moment. That's right. And and so there are anyway, long long story short, they they had to make some changes, right? They had to cut some stuff, they had to sacrifice some ideas, they had to sacrifice some events. Um But what I will say is having finished that book and then within about 72 hours having gone to see the movie. Um, I really, really enjoyed both of these. Uh, they're the same but different. Um, there are things about both of them that I really liked. So my other thing for the week is both the book, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and also the movie, Project Hail Mary, with Ryan Gosling, produced by Andy Weir. Uh I I just had a really good time both reading this book and watching this movie. Um I just thought it's terrific. If you don't know anything about the story, uh I'm I'm not gonna necessarily recommend reading the book first. If you don't know the story and you just like yeah, I'll go see I you should see it because it's a really delightful story. And I wouldn't say you you really have to read the book first. Uh what I will say is I think they're both super well done, super enjoyable, really, really good. Uh and and that's true independent of one another. I don't think you need the book for the movie. I don't think you need the movie for the book. Um, would I have liked the movie more if I hadn't just read the book? Maybe. I don't know. I don't think so. I just really, really good stuff. So that's my other thing for the week is Project Hail Mary. I'm sort of I'm a fanboy. Like I need to I've considered getting like shirts, like Project Hail Mary shirts, because I just love the story so much. I'm really enamored by the characters. Why didn't you just wear wear your Ken shirt? Uh I don't know what that oh like from Barbie? Yeah. Uh we already have a few Ryan Gods. That's true. Uh that's true. Um well, you know. Next time. Yeah. Yeah. So Andrew says, you know, I swear I've seen this movie. I was like, it's actually not possible. I saw a trailer for it and I was like, this is this can't just be coming out. I and maybe like I it's possible and and it not even possible. What happened was I was certainly half asleep when I saw a trailer for it, and then my my brain made a movie around the trailers. Um, that's the only viable option for why I feel like I've seen this movie. Uh because I did some Googling. I was like, I feel like I've seen this before and they' likere, you're maybe conflating it with the Adam Sandler spaceman movie. And that's what that's what AI said. And I was like, nah, no, that's really different because that was a spider. Uh no what happened? I had to have like fallen asleep and been in like a half asleep state watching a trailer for it. Um I will say I did I did really work very hard. You know, it's not like the olden days, right? Where if a movie came out, you were blasted with I can by and large avoid commercials. I've got YouTube Premium. Oh, see, I we don't have any of the premiums. So even our Netflix has ads. I can by and large avoid any sort of commercials. And I specifically did. I didn't want to watch a trailer because I knew I was gonna read. Like, I didn't want to have any poisoning of any pots. Uh, and I I'm glad I'm glad for that. So it's because everything was a surprise. If you had to compare season one Game of Thrones with book one Game of Thrones in the way of a screen adaptation. Right? Which which I think is probably one of the finest examples of a screen adaptation of a book. Yeah, they did a great job with it. Um and the rest of the seasons, take what you will, but season one w was I I really I I think the best adaptation I've ever seen. Yeah, I mean they did a great job all the way. I mean they did a great job for a lot of seasons. So how does it line up in the way of an adaptation? Because a movie's different, right? Yeah. Now I I mean I you don't get 10 hours to tell the same story. Yeah, very different. I I mean, really How about the Martian, maybe? I I actually think they did a uh it's a slightly different take, right? The Martian, I think, really relies on Matt Damon's charisma to tell that story. Because it's one man show, basically. Yeah, that that's right. And uh and and with Project Hale Mary, they they did something a little different, which is which is to say, uh, the character Ryland Grace is not a particularly charismatic guy. And and and Ryan Gosling does a good job of not being overly charismatic. He's still Ryan Gosling. Uh, but he does a pretty good job of being a dick, right? Kind of being a self-absorbed jerk. And and and yet and yet the the dynamic between again I don't want to give any spoilers the dynamic between him and the other characters is really good and compelling and I thought it was just great. I thought it was just great. I I really I really enjoyed it as a movie, as a film. Uh which is to say it was different than the book, but I I liked them both. All right. Yeah. Good to know. That's all I have to say about that. That's all I got to say about that. That's all. Uh anything you want to add? No, I'm out of things. Hey folks, thanks for joining us to this episode of 40 and 20 of the WatchClicker podcast. Do me a favor, you can go to our website, that's WatchClicker.com uh sometimes we post things on that website if you want to follow us on social media you can do that at watchclicker or at forty and twenty underscore watchclicker both on Instagram sometimes we post things on those Instagrams. If you want to support us, and this is important, guys, because we really need you to support us, you can do that at patreon.com slash forty and twenty. That's how we get all the money to keep both the website and this podcast going. Patreon.com slash 40and20. And don't forget to tune back in next Tuesday for another hour of watches, food, drinks, life, and other things we like. Bye-bye.