May 23, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode we discuss the lengths we can sometimes go to in our efforts to justify a watch purchase, Vu gives an update on his Zombie Apocalypse Watch plans, and we touch on a recent Rolex event we attended and whether our thoughts have changed on any of the new releases.
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Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Booey. And today we're going to catch
up on some topics. We have a lot of little rattling
around in those domes. Well, OK, back when we used to
have what you would call a dailypodcast, then we never ran out
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of opportunities to talk about like watch things that we
thought about. It is It is weird to have all of
these thoughts. It's.
Like who do we talk to each other?
Every single morning. OK, a few things we'll cover
today as a little teaser, you know, zombie apocalypse update.
OK, Yeah, you can guess who's who's that is.
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I like that it's an update. It's an update and a Rolex
event. Yeah.
Yeah. That we attended.
Yeah. And using watches for motivation
or motivation for watches. Or motivational watches.
Oh, they're like, you can do it.I believe in you.
Well, there are watches with cute little sayings on them.
I like them. Like.
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Or there's the it's late o'clock.
Or the ones that say, never mind, well, I realized we're a
family friendly podcast. You know, the ones that say
yeah. Yeah, you.
Know something about time? Yeah, Yeah.
I thought you were gonna like, Iforget who makes the watch that
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says like we're all going to diesomeday anyway.
Oh, that yeah. I don't usually go just bleak.
Just. Morbid.
No, OK. OK, I'm going to start with my
zombie apocalypse update now. Just so that people know we are
not a late breaking news show. I don't know anything about
impending zombie. Apocalypse.
OK, OK, cool. The update, yes, is on my
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thoughts about some of the most important things you have to
think about when buying watches,which is which watch is for the
zombie apocalypse. The main thing that interests me
is just that this is not a thought that ever crosses my
mind in any way really. Even right now.
It's going in and out just like,like if in one minute you were
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like, what were we talking about?
I would be like. I'm not really sure.
OK, take zombies out of it. I think it's more fun to talk
about it because. Same though it.
Feels less dire and realistic when you say zombie apocalypse,
but just take any societal breakdown event yeah where there
will be a sustained period of time with a lack of large
infrastructure right for society.
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I've been on record saying I'm not going to make it.
I'm going to go pretty early. But I said that to someone as we
were discussing this topic and he said you'll be the one that
just lives forever. And I'll be like, oh man.
Yeah. So, OK.
But I like to talk about it through zombie apocalypse terms
because we have so many reference points for what that
will be like because of movies and TV shows, right.
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And thinking about this, so we did an episode last year where
we did talk about zombie. Apocalypse, do you remember what
you said? I don't oh, I should have looked
that up, but I feel confident that I had said something about
I. Don't know why I asked that,
because I shouldn't. I feel confident.
I probably said something like aRolex on a bracelet.
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Interesting. OK, OK, so that's that I, I
think that's the biggest change is moving away from that, but
OK. So thinking through like some of
the media around this, right? You have shows like The Walking
Dead, which did like I yeah, howmany seasons over 10 seasons or
maybe 10 seasons, Something a little too long.
It lasted a little too long, butRick Grimes wore this Kenneth
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Cole watch, right? This is over a decade ago,
right? 15 plus years ago.
And so like right in the beginning of the series, there
were watches, but it was it was in a different time, right?
There was no Tag Hoyer sponsorship at the time.
That. Was that was happening there
were watch sponsorships because there was already the Bond
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franchise and all of that stuff going on, but I don't know if it
was as widespread as today. And like Morgan, who's a
character who also it was in oneof the spin offs of of Walking
Dead was wearing an IWC, right. So there were some watches in
there and The Last of Us, which is like the the modern day
reference for these shows, Joel wears a watch that doesn't
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exist. It was just built and and it
comes from the game where also they had just created this
watch. It's not based on any individual
model and it's not a brand tie in.
However, since then there have been real watches in the show.
I should say real, real life watches, right?
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Like Tommy, his brother, wears aMortimer Data matic from like
the 70s. And then more recently, people
noticed that Jesse, one of the characters, the newer characters
from the second season, he's wearing a Seiko 5.
It's kind of cool. Right.
And then Abby is wearing a Timexand it's solar where I'm like,
oh. That's a good plan.
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That's a good plan. You get those solar watches,
right? So OK so I've thought about this
a lot because I think deep down I am a little bit of a prepper
but I'm a lazy prepper who doesn't want to prep so mainly
think about prepping. You're like, you know what?
I love thinking about prepping. That's the most you thing I've
ever heard anyone listening to this podcast, who who knows Boo,
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Like even probably if you've listened to this podcast more
than 5 episodes and you're like,I'm unsurprised by this planning
to do it. Well, OK, OK, deep down and
somewhat of a prepper, OK, I would say the reason that this
even popped up in my head again was because of our Portugal
experience. And I'm not going to call that
like an apocalyptic experience. No, no, no.
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Even though if you read some of the accounts online for some of
the vacationers, they, they, they made it seem like the world
had ended. But I, it did make me think more
about preparation. And then that got me into
thinking again about watches andwhat watch I would want.
And like, when I think about what I used to think, which was
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the most, what in my mind was the most robust watch possible.
So like, for example, it doesn'thave to be this brand, but like
a Rolex Explorer, it's like, OK,great, that can, you know, do
all the things you've got to do right.
But I've changed my mind a little bit.
So for one thing, I would be a double wrister in the
apocalypse. You are a double wrister in
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current life. I am.
I don't think that right. Now I wear an Apple Watch on one
side and in the apocalypse. No, you got to get.
Rid of I'm not charging every day, right?
So on the yeah. Probably not.
On the right wrist would be AG shock with tough solar.
I think that is what you originally said.
Yeah, I don't think this has changed, right, Because I do
think having that like that is such a strong, dependable, great
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choice. And as long as the radios with
atomic clocks exist, you know, unless they actually, well, I
guess they'd just lose power. But anyway, let's.
Do yeah, it can sink for a while.
Right and the second watch, the one on the left wrist for me.
What was the bracelet watch? But now I I really I I believe I
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own the watch that I would want for the zombie apocalypse and it
is the tutor FXT. Okay, why the change?
Okay. Well, as I thought, I'm glad you
asked. So am I.
Okay, when I thought about dealing with a watch with a
bracelet, there's a few things that comes to mind, right?
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I see where that part's going. Even just resizing so in an
apocalyptic situation, you're probably not always going to
have like, steady food, at leastnot in the beginning years,
right? She's not going to make it.
She's not, She's not. She's gonna make it.
She likes comfort. You belong in the White Lotus
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series instead of in The WalkingDead series.
OK, so even just like if you lose enough weight, you have to
take out a little link. Are you going to have a tiny
screwdriver? And then what are you going to
keep that link with you? You know, like you're running
from your for your life from zombies?
So I'm like, you know what with the probably little, the likely
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weight fluctuations that you will go through, a bracelet's
going to be a pain A. Quick adjust just won't cut.
It no even T fit with all of that adjustment.
I don't think it's enough. So I I so that is 1 and then
repairability like if you break your bracelet right, that's
going to be hard to. So you don't see watchmakers as
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like the. They, I don't think the first
few years that they will be prioritized in society.
Look, I have I. Love watch.
And I just want to say, watchmakers, I'm not throwing
shade because Brand Consultant goes first, OK, They'll they'll
need me later for the rebirth. Podcasters, they absolutely go
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first. They will be thrown to the
zombies. Just take me away.
OK, so if all of that is true, No, that is true, right.
So that that's the difficulty ofa bracelet.
So then I was like, oh, OK, So then you just wouldn't you?
You can put things on NATO. You can put things on Erica's
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original. You put it.
There's all these fabric straps or leather straps and they are
more repairable. Even in the field, needle and
thread, you can make repairs, right.
But the problem is spring bars. They are point of failure.
That is true. And they are not strong things.
And they're hard to find on the forest floor when you're
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changing it while waiting for the zombies.
I don't even know what happens. I don't know how it works.
I also don't watch any of these shows so I'm.
Like, why not? I'm not going to say the shows
are all accurate about how it will work.
OK when the zombie. Yeah.
But anyway, OK, we're getting lost in the zombies.
This is about watches. OK, so then that's where fixed
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lugs, right? Lug bars becomes like this is
the golden watch, right? Because you don't even need a
strap. OK, that's true.
You could. Technically use a a a A.
You could tear a piece of fabricoff of a rag off of your shirt
and just like tie the watch on and it would work just fine.
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I I'm not saying that's a good long term solution, but you
could wear it like that until. You find a zombie for longer.
That that that is wearing like aNATO strap or something.
You could take it off the zombie.
That gets bleak. It also that means, you know
that they were an enthusiast before.
You're like, we could have had such great discussions, but you
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got bit. OK, so so the other thing is
like it allows for more sizes because with spring bars, you
can thread a NATO through springbars, but if you undersize, it
increases the likelihood that you'd put too much pressure on
it and it would break. But with the fixed bars, you
could easily with 22 mil lug width, you could wear A20A21A22,
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an 18 even and it would work just fine.
So it just like gives you all ofthat versatility.
So I need to be like tutor. I need a baby FXD because it
will help me survive. Yeah.
I wasn't going to survive, but now I'd like to.
With an FXD like cute little. Baby FXD really cute.
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I do think even if it it doesn'thave to be like like because I.
Like a 37 again like the. 37 would be amazing.
So I have 236 millimetre timexeswith fixed lugs.
It one is the Nigel K Born collab, the other is the
engineered garments collab. You've worn them.
They look great on you. They look great on me.
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Awesome size with fixed lugs. Great, we need the baby FXD.
I will have to next time I see the designers, I'll get to be
one of those people and be like,hey, can you make me a baby FXD?
Well, OK, so. I'd like it to be called Bebe.
Bebe FXD so with these two watches, I feel like you could
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survive long enough. Obviously you need other things
as well, right? But if you survive and you have
these two. Watches not going to make it
you. Could survive long enough to
wear like watch making my maybe either it's safe enough where I
could just learn watchmaking myself and then I could maintain
the watches. You know, swap out the battery
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eventually The G shock battery isn't going to hold the charge
very well anymore. 1520 years inright I then.
Nope, not for me. Or, you know, there will be
watchmakers because society willslowly rebuild itself, you know,
so I, I feel like those 2 watches that, that you're pretty
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set, you know? Yeah.
Yeah, that's, that's my, that's my, that's my plan.
I have some reflections on this and 0 idea of what I would bring
because again. Wait, I was hoping you'd have an
idea. No, absolutely not.
But here's my first reflection is that we've been listening to,
we listen to a lot of watch podcasts and a lot of other
podcasts that are longer form and typically in the first like
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5 to 10 minutes, they're just chit chatting.
Meanwhile, on this watch live, you are in the zombie apocalypse
at 2:00, 2 minutes even before your like brain has woken up.
If it's the morning, you're likeso zombie watch.
Oh yeah, maybe you know a. Lot of podcasts do like chips.
But I, I think we have that, youknow, the daily thing because
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you would be like, OK, and bye. Here's the topic.
The the second reflection I havethat is or, or just a, a funny
anecdote about this is that we were recently, recently at a
Rolex event, which was amazing. We'll talk about it a little
more in a little while. But we told we were sitting with
some people, they were asking like, oh, wait, why are, you
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know, why are you at this Rolex thing?
It's like, oh, because we're, you know, we shop a lot at
Neimanzer and then also we have a podcast and photography, blah,
blah. And they're like, how could you
even talk about watches that much?
Later on in the lunch, Vu goes into what probably was a similar
15 minute discussion of zombie apocalypse watches.
That was because I was still percolating.
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And then I just said when, when,you know, he stopped.
And this is the podcast. You did say that because they.
Really I was like and this is what, this is what it is.
I do think it was funny that they thought like, how could you
even have a watch podcast beforewe even said, oh, we did it
daily for 200 episodes, that that's at another level.
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They just don't know the amount of things you think about daily.
These are important topics. I want to be ready.
OK, I have them thinking actually about, well, because
you were inspired by watching The Last of Us.
That's got you back into thinking about this.
And I've been thinking about recently it was announced that
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the, you know, the new Star Warsslate of movies that Sean Levy
is directing a movie called StarWars Star Fighter, and it's
starring. I haven't heard of this.
Star Wars Stars Star Wars star fight.
Heard of this one? And it's starring Ryan Gosling,
and Ryan Gosling is A tag wear ambassador.
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He's great about wearing tags inmovies.
Well, because the thing about Ryan Gosling is he is not on
social media. So they are paying so much for
him to wear it when people see it.
And when do people see him in movies that.
Movies and red carpets, that's the only opportunities.
So I have this question. There haven't been any Star Wars
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watches in in the movies that were branded in any way.
Yeah, my personal take is they should absolutely not do it,
but. You mean make like a Star Wars
universe tag Hoyer? No, yeah, like in the star that
it would be in the movie. And it would make sense in the
movie, like it would be. It would it would look like
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something from the Star Wars universe, yes, But it would be
from Tag Hoyer. Like even in Barbie?
Yeah. Where Ken, Listen, he wasn't the
good guy. I just want to be clear.
You know, he discovered the patriarchy.
And he had three cool gold tags on.
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So even for that, they were like, look, we've got it.
And then all the press. He loved all the press.
He wore the pink tag Hoyer. So I'm just super curious, how
do they sort of get around it? They've paid all this money for
a brand sponsor like this brand ambassador who does this one
thing, which is being movies. And that is almost the only time
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other than at the premiere typically because he's not
someone who's like going to all different things or like he
really is like at premiere or award ceremony or during the
movie. And so I'm so curious.
So OK so there is already a template for this because
Hamilton worked with the prop master from Dune Part 2.
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Mm Hmm. And they, I don't know what came
first, but they worked with the prop master and there's a wrist
worn device in Doom Part 2. It's not like a regular watch.
So they this isn't like an interstellar where in the movie
like Hamilton like put a Hamilton into the movie.
And they they did make it specifically for the movie, but
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it still was a a Hamilton watch.This is not that because
Hamilton doesn't exist on Iraq is in Dune, right.
And so, but they worked with theprop master to take that wrist
worn device from the movie and make a Ventura that is inspired
by it. So it's it's a Dune like
Hamilton watch, but it's not directly the prop from the
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movie. So I could see how they could
put on Ryan Gosling, a wrist worn device that looks like and
feels like and and just like it's from the Star Wars
universe. And then Tag Hoyer could release
a watch that relates to it. But unlike Hamilton, TAG Hoyer
doesn't do that kind of thing. You know, like they don't have
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weird watches in that way, whereas like Hamilton has the
Ventura, they've they've done more kind of like conceptual
watches. Tag Hoyer.
That would be strange for them maybe.
Yeah, it would be. I mean, it would be very
interesting because also like they're more in racing and even
they're, yeah, they don't have anything that looks like it
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could live in the Star Wars universe.
So maybe the play is actually then to create a really awesome
like Star Wars inspired tag, which I mean, they've done
collaborations like Mario and different things, but it's
still, I don't know, in my mind,it's like, what could you come
up with that would be so cool? It's like he wears something on
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his wrist, but maybe it's like painted over and so you can't
see what you know like it serve it's more but if you think a
look and a feel to it and then you do the reveal after.
Yeah, I mean if you. Think watching Star Wars like.
But if you think about Star Warsand how everything is designed
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right, it's kind of like 80s future.
Tech, Yeah, right. Yeah.
But watches do come obviously from wait, long time ago you had
these tiny mechanics, right, that people were making by hand?
But somehow that doesn't really fit the Star Wars universe.
No, I mean, we've been watch. We just finished Andor Season 2
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and one of the times I was like,there's a thing on the wrist.
It wasn't a watch. But it's still like you can't
take the watch enthusiast out ofthe watching experience.
But I just think it's interesting.
It's interesting because this isa huge role for a huge
franchise. So it's like huge franchise plus
huge star. We're seeing that with like the
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F1 movie for IWC. It's like, does Tag figure out
some way to get in on like, whatis Star Wars truly like?
A magical combination? Yeah, in my.
You mean Ryan Gosling plus Star Wars?
Yeah, like, yes. Plus and plus Sean leaving.
Like very good. I, I, I'm in for it.
So that that's been rattling around.
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OK, OK, that's a good topic. I like it, I like it.
OK my topic #2. Oh yeah.
Is about justifying watches or or OK, OK it's it's I was
thinking about this as I was building up this idea in my head
for why I needed a watch and you.
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Are way more into this than I amthat that like I'm only just now
thinking about it because I'm kind of like, oh, I like it, I
can get it, I buy it. But I OK, I like to categorize
things and I like for things to serve a specific.
What? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Big, big, big, big.
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Shocking. Right, right.
So it's like, OK. So you're like, I'm trying to do
this. So I.
There's a watch I want. I don't know if I can get it OK
right, but there's a watch I want.
It's the tutor Pilagos FXD Chrono, the cycling one in pink.
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OK, so you could wear that during a zombie apocalypse that.
Could be my new my new, my new zombie.
One gas will be hard to come by.Yeah, yeah.
Well also I could time things, but I mean the good thing about
the FXD is it has anywhere. OK.
No, we're done. With I was not trained to get us
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back. OK, no, so OK, Tudor recently
announced. I love You're always like, OK,
OK, OK. Listen to that.
Here we go. Here.
Here it is. Shooter recently announced so
last year they released the Peligos FXD Chrono Cycling
Edition. Yeah, you thought it was.
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I mean, we talked about it on the podcast.
It's super cool because it serves a purpose for a specific
thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so they instead of a typicallike layout where you have the
tachymeter, most tachymeters on watches only go down to 60 per
unit, right? So like you could time 60
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kilometers an hour up to like 360 kilometers an hour.
But most cyclists aren't riding 60 kilometers an hour or 60 mph,
whatever their reference point is, right?
So this has along the rehab like3 revolutions for the timing.
So it goes all the way down to 20 kilometers an hour, which
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then for a cyclist totally makessense.
So anyway, the watch. Is broken that speed.
You have absolutely broken 20 kilometers an hour, but so
really cool watch. It's got the fixed lugs.
It's in a carbon fiber case or they call it carbon composite
case. Like it's, it's a very cool
watch, but the all the accent colours are red, which makes
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sense because the Tudor cycling team colours are black and red.
So it makes sense that the watchwould be black and red.
However, right away, because this was right after they
released the pink chrono that I have right?
The tutor black bait chrono in pink.
I was like, they're going to do a pink version of this.
You did say I will wait. I want a pink version.
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Then they actually gave away 1A1of 1 pink watch to the winner of
the Guerre de Italia last year. I believe it was the Guerrero.
Yeah, I think so. Right?
And it was, but it is slightly different from the one that
they've released now. Well, it should be.
If it was a one of one, I'd be like I won this race.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Poker Car and and it had a fully pink strap.
Cool, cool. And so, but he's sponsored by
Richard Meal, so I don't he probably isn't wearing the tutor
very much so he should just giveit to me.
But anyway, OK. OK.
That's just. That's the point.
Give it to you. Yeah, yeah.
OK, I'll buy it. I'll buy it.
Oh, OK, OK. But not above retail.
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Retail. There's a precedent now.
So the Giro de Italia is one of the more famous races, right?
Tour de France is probably the most famous race.
Giro. I don't know, Second, third, who
knows, right? Because I I didn't poll our
listeners to see. OK to see if people had heard
of. It if people had heard of the
Giro de Italia, but whoever's winning wears a pink jersey.
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It's the maglia Rosa. Right.
So. Pink is kind of the color of.
This race, because the winner iswearing pink, so each.
Leg of the race. It's, it's whoever is the
overall winner because there's, there's many different types of
winning in, in, in these big races because they happen over
the course of many days and there's different types of
winning. There's points for things,
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there's climbing, there's sprinting.
So you can be, there's a bunch of different jerseys for these
different things that you could be leading at any given time.
But the pink jersey is for the overall leader of the race and
in the end the winner of the race.
Magalia Rosa, right? So pink color of Guerra de
Italia and they put it on this watch.
Amazing combo. I think it looks even better
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than the red, even though I lovered and black together, but this
works very well. And So what?
I've convinced myself. OK.
But first I have a question. Would you double wrist the pink?
You look pinky and this one likea pink pink like like.
My pink black Bay and this. As like a weird I mean because
they wouldn't cool in that case for each other.
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I don't know, maybe I'll try it.Yeah, on a bike on.
A bike? Yeah, on a bike.
OK, so OK, in my mind what I have said, OK, so in my mind,
what I thought, it's like if I get this watch right, then I'm
going to train for the Veteran Runden, which is A-350, a 315
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kilometre bike ride around Lake Veteran in Sweden.
It's like super famous bike ride, right?
But it's open tall. Yeah.
And an important thing about this, because I asked this
question when you talked about it a long time ago, you do do it
in a day, you do the 315 kilometres.
I, I, I estimate that it will probably take me like 14 hours
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because, you know, breaks and all that kind of stuff.
And I, I did a half one. So it was 160 kilometers.
Yikes. But that was a decade ago.
I am in horrible shape compared to then.
So that was part of the motivation.
Like if I get this watch then I will start training again and
then in June of next year because the race is in a few
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weeks. OK, not going to make it for
that one. So.
June of next. We're probably not going to make
it June of next year. I will be ready to ride this
ride. Right?
OK. So number one, I become healthy.
OK, so the watch, that's great. Again, the watch equals do the
race equals become healthy. So the watch has made me
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healthy. So that's one thing that the
watch has already done. Got it.
The one Wait, just for everyone keeping track here, that's the
watch VU does not have. That's what it's already done.
Well, it's already done it in the future.
You're already healthy. In the future, I'm already
healthy because I got this watchright?
And then I probably need to get a new bike.
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Yeah, obviously, because you have to.
Kind of. To watch, you have to start over
with everything well. There's a a bike that I've
wanted for a couple years now and it does have pink in the
color screen anyway. So this is like a multi layered
and leveled scheme of things youneed to buy, negative things you
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need to buy. Himself negative.
This is a very positive thing. Don't forget I'm super healthy.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now in the future.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, OK. I like that part.
One of the biggest things that'skind of healthy, right?
And then I thought, you know, from day one of picking up the
watch and then going and doing all my training.
And of course now I'll have likethis one, I will measure out one
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exact kilometer. And so every time I go on a
ride, I will do that kilometer and I'll time it on my little
watch. Right.
So content, content you know, but all content plan.
So but then I will create an entire documentary of me going
couch to 3:15 in a year wearing this watch.
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So also now I'm a documentarian again.
Been a long time since I've shotcool videos, like shot myself.
So I'm healthy, I'm producing amazing creative content.
Yeah, I'm riding bikes, spend more time outdoors.
I have a cool new bike, right? And everyone's like applauding
(29:36):
when I ride it by because it's such a cool bike.
Yeah, right. I love that watch too, bro.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. It matches that cool bike.
I did look at because Tudor's cycling kit is actually they
have one of. The course you did, you're like,
I just just very simple. OK, So you're going to be tutor
(29:57):
boy. No, like instead of only boy.
No old, old, long, long term, long term listeners.
We'll know that when Boo was working at Oakley, Yeah, Even
the people he worked with, his colleagues called him Oakley Boy
because he wore so much. Oakley I like to go all in on
things. I know that's a surprise.
Tutor boy, is what we're creating healthy?
(30:17):
Here's the thing. I looked at the kit.
It's made by ASOS. It's a really good kit.
It's basically they sell to regular folks like me, you know,
future healthy people. Yeah, like they'll sell you
replica kit. Cool.
It's made by the same company, probably not to the same spec,
but like it looks the same. And then I thought, that's too
far. You're just riding around
(30:38):
Switzerland and you're like, hey.
I buy ABMC bicycle get resigningby.
Tutor HQ and you're like one daythey're gonna accidentally put
me in with the other racers in the truck.
Hey, come on. Well.
After this year and then I go and you know when when tutor
watches my documentary that I make about this journey.
(30:59):
When tutor. Watches.
Watches. Yeah, yeah.
They're gonna be like, you need to be on the cycling team.
Oh. Clearly Ohk.
OK, what's the average age of the cycling team?
I'm not trying to be. Just say less, less less than
me, but you know as you age. Cycling isn't like only a young
person's sport. Depends on the type of cycle so
(31:21):
endurance sports are often one but you know these are the multi
day non-stop. Don't sleep, just ride like.
I'm not going to make it. I feel like I should say that
again. I'm not going to make it.
It's just ultra endurance eventsare often one by people who
(31:43):
aren't as young. Okay, but things like sort of
France? Okay, so the actual the.
Yeah, I mean, I was thinking about how, yeah, you know, I
think I watched the presentationlast year that tutor did and
they were, they they were children looking, you know, like
they they're not, but they're like 20 twenties.
(32:05):
A lot of them are. A lot of them are 20s.
That's a child. But you're not gone in your 30s.
OK, OK. But you might be gone when
you're 48. Like you're like, not gone in
your 30s. I may not be in my 30s anymore.
OK. But so, you know, after this
year, I'll probably look like I am.
OK. Because I bought this watch.
(32:27):
OK. There's only 300.
That's the thing. OK, it's a limited edition.
You're like, I'd like to go for the hardest watch so that if I
don't get it, none of this has to come true.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Because that's my question.
I can't just get healthy on my own, you know, You need
motivation. This is why it's a scheme.
But all of this got me thinking because I was in the midst of
(32:49):
like dreaming all of these dreams of this incredible
accomplishment that I've done, you know, in the future.
And it made me realize that maybe, just maybe, we go to
great legs to justify by watches.
That's. If you're like, you know what?
Maybe there is a chance that I do some mental gymnastics, which
(33:14):
unfortunately doesn't make me healthier, to justify buying
certain watches. OK, there's this video that I
love, and it really has inspiredme to do a lot of things.
It's a very old video on YouTubeby someone called Dave Frank.
Yeah. And it's about this idea of
brain crack and. And becoming addicted to brain
crack and. Basically, you're addicted to
(33:35):
these ideas in your head and then everyone will be applausing
you. Yes, yes, yes.
But you know, he said you don't do that, but the but the bummer
is, you know, you need to do them and then you, you know,
kind of do it poorly the first time, but then after a few times
you have the experience. So like how does that play into
this scenario? If I don't get the watch.
(33:56):
What happens? Well then I'll just stay on the
couch. You can't go couch to 315K
without a cycling chronograph onyour wrist.
But what about the red 1? Like you can't do it now.
I mean, The thing is. You're like, what if you do
that? The idea for a year that they
were going to release a pink oneand they did.
(34:18):
So now what? Am I going to go back to red?
Who do you think I am? But I think the the end results
are really good, so it would be super nice if you know you could
keep the. Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
We'll see how it goes. Right now I'm motivated to try
and get one of these watches. I think this is your biggest
(34:39):
justification scheme ever, that that's my, my gut, my gut
feeling up. I would love for it all to
happen and we will report back one year.
Well, no, They'll see the documentary.
It'll probably be at the Cannes Film Film Festival or something.
Oh OK, the documentary would come out before you had to.
Do the. Actual ride 'cause that feels
(35:00):
dicey. Part 2, Yeah.
To watch to watch Part 2 to findout, did he win?
I mean, it's not a competition. It's not a race.
But did he win this, this ride? Yeah.
Interesting, I think I've had things like this but never
watches like and even when I think about like.
(35:22):
It's cameras. Yeah, sure.
OK. Actually, yeah.
Sure you've gone on. This exact journey cameras.
Every time I buy a new camera, I'm like, now I'm going to shoot
only photos with this for at least one calendar year.
Yeah, which isn't even long. Every day.
Post every day. You'll create a new Instagram
account. Yeah, exactly for those.
(35:43):
So then we have to think about how to keep you on track.
So Step 1 though you have. To step one is announce it on
your podcast. Okay, before you even see if
there before there's any possibility.
But now I have all these people.Rooting for you are.
Rooting for me. They're supporting everything
I'm doing here. No one who listens to this will
(36:06):
be like, I disagree with this. No, there's no way.
It's impossible. OK, my last topic is that we
went to the Rolex event we did in Stockholm with our AD
Neimanser. They are.
I thought it was just, it was super cool because they did it
in this gorgeous, you know, Swedish Royal Opera House.
(36:30):
Which we had never been to somehow.
I mean, we've, we've seen it many.
Times how much opera have you? Oh, do you use opera houses only
for well, it's in the name. Anyway, but one thing I was
reflecting on 1st is like the setting was so beautiful.
We're in the Swedish Royal OperaHouse is from 1773.
(36:53):
RAD authorized dealer Neiman's ear is they started in 1851.
And then one of the watches thatwas being shown is the Rolex 19
O 8. And I was like, Europe is wild.
I was just like, wow, this stuffis so old.
Also the ceilings in that place.Yeah, it was just an absolutely,
(37:13):
like, incredible setting. There was an opera singer who
did one, one song and two balletdancers.
Just super beautiful and really cool and like, fun to see the
watches in this very, like, grand, grand setting.
I had one goal and one goal only.
(37:36):
See The Land Dweller 36. Yes.
OK, I did. Know in white Rolazor, which is
just steel, but now I guess we're calling it white Rolazor.
The bezel is white gold. Yeah, I know, but.
It is technically 2 metals, yeah, and that's what roll the
story. Is I know.
So that's not wrong. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm
(37:56):
just saying it's like a little long.
Winter. Oh, so the centerlinks should be
white gold as well in order to make this claim?
No, I don't know who. I don't know who wants, who
wants 'cause every song happens to stretch more.
I don't want that. They are slightly different.
No, I know, I know. OK, but any, Yeah.
(38:19):
So anyway, the white roll, OK, so I'm just saying it's not
white. Wanted to see the.
Whole thing, yes. And and you did.
I did you. Tried it on again, Yes.
Oh wait, you hadn't. Tried had only tried on the 36
in gold. In rose gold with tons of
baguettes and just beautiful. That was amazing.
Yeah, it was. It was gorgeous. 10 out of 10.
Weirdly the 40 mil land dweller like the regular steel one also
(38:44):
fits you very well. Yeah, but definitely oversized,
yeah. Yeah.
The 36 was perfect. It was perfect.
Yes, it looked. Really good on you.
It looked so good. It only reaffirmed my love for
it and just interest in it. An amazing thing is I sent my
sister Mindy some photos of it and she said oh I love the land
(39:05):
dweller. Now my mind has been changed and
this is the one who her originalquote was like did Rolex
release? That PRX looking.
No, no. A copy Royal Oak.
Oh, was it copy Royal Oak? That was it.
No, my mom said it looks like the PRX on the cruise.
Hard to hard to know. But the best part is Mindy says,
(39:27):
Oh, my mind was changed because when I saw that watch on James's
story, on Watch Puppy story, I sent she's like when I saw it on
him. It.
Changed so a true trendsetter yeah James he.
Is he is. I then I asked Instagram, I did
(39:49):
a poll and this is just to me funny and this is like being on
the Internet. So it's just this is my
commentary on being on the Internet.
So I wrote like I posted the photo of me and the 36.
I said, should I go for it? The choices were obviously.
The second choice, yes, for sure.
The third choice, you're such a Rolex fangirl, but also yes.
And the the 4th 1 is everyone knows would I did I count that
(40:12):
in order 1234 anyway. And the fourth one was everyone
knows you won't be able to resist.
And mostly people wrote obviously all these different
people. And then one guy wrote to me and
said if you have to ask. And I was like, all the answers
are yes. It's just.
A joke? Oh, he was like splaining at
you. Yeah, like if you have to ask.
(40:32):
If you have to ask. And you know, you don't like it,
but I was like, they're all the answers.
Like. But I mean, maybe this is.
Something maybe he didn't read. People.
Yeah. But maybe this is something
people don't always realize about my polls.
Is there? Never really.
There's always the answer I want.
Very infrequent that you actually do polls where someone
(40:54):
could choose yes or no. Yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause I think
it's more fun. Really.
Yes, kind of yes. Or of course.
Yes, or like you don't listen tome, you do what you want.
And that one's only for my mom, you know, like, sorry, sorry.
Yeah. So that just made me laugh a lot
because I was like, that's an extra answer.
I did not expect to. If you have that.
(41:17):
But overall, all I saw from the results is everyone said yes,
yes. But 41% did say obviously, yes.
So that's. That's pretty good.
That's I even though all of themwere a yes like the majority of
people went with the most yes. Yeah.
Well, no. And then 26% just said everyone
knows you won't be able to resist.
(41:37):
So that's more of like you're going to do it.
That one feels a little bit likeyou're going to do it even if
you shouldn't. Yeah, but that's typically me
with Rolex. But I think it's beautiful.
The interesting thing about the Land Dweller, OK, people are
still a bit complaining about the name, but overall I've seen
(42:00):
a lot of shifts with the actual look of the watch and especially
when people are seeing it in person now, then the feel or
Mindy seeing it on James's watch.
Maybe people should just go and look at James's stories and they
could all be converts. And then you can change your
mind. But yeah, it's just I I really,
really, I really loved it. That was the one watch I wanted
(42:22):
to see. I looked at everything else but
I that was what I paid most attention to other than one
other special thing. But what did you did you look
at? Like anything?
Did anything change your mind? I didn't change my mind about
anything, but I did like so as Isaid from the beginning, I love
(42:43):
the land dweller, but that lack quick adjust is a kind of a
killer for me, right? And now that I'm very focused on
zombie apocalypse watches. As your next category.
Yeah, Zombie. Apocalypse slash cycling.
Oh, OK. Cool, if there only was a watch
that could do. Both there is perfect.
(43:07):
But no, not really changed my mind about anything.
I felt really like I I I tried abunch of watches on again, very
just felt really confident in the things I had already felt
about them. It was more reaffirming than
anything else. I love the new OP colors,
(43:27):
especially the pistachio. But we still did not get.
To see that blue 1 yet I know I.Really want to see the new blue.
I think I'm going to love that. Blue.
I think so too. I.
See it in photos. I I I love it.
But yeah, and the nineteen O 8 is I I love that watch on that
bracelet. You know, that one makes sense
that it doesn't have a quick anyway.
(43:48):
OK, I want to. Have to say no, let's.
Quick adjust. Again, but I got to see
something I didn't know I would love and because I didn't even
know it would be there. OK, so there were two watches at
the event where they were like, oh, you can't photograph these.
Which obviously I was like, I love that.
(44:09):
I love that I can't. Take a photo, but don't.
Yeah, there's just something cool and rolexy about it.
And like, look, I'm not above hype.
No, not being able to photographit makes me want to look at it
more, Yeah. Yeah, I you you probably looked
at that watch much longer than you would have if you got.
Short for sure, because I was like blinking my eyes and saying
(44:31):
click click, you know, because that's the humor I have.
They've never heard that. One, but I did it.
OK, so there was there were two of them. 1 is a Daytona that's
called like a giraffe and it haslike all of these like diamond
setting and kind of a weird pattern.
Not that one. I honestly probably if I looked
(44:55):
at photos, I would have picked that one.
It's like, oh, I really want to see that.
But no, there was this gorgeous blue sapphire white gold, which
you know, I never want white gold because I don't want to pay
for it. If you think it's steel.
Yeah, this one has gems. OK, so it kind of makes it?
Amazingly, gem set so both around the middle case there's
(45:19):
54 diamonds around the bezel, 36sapphires and then it was like a
deep grey black like textured. They were calling saying it
looked like almost like Panther like a Panther skin or fur.
And then so that like as you looked at it kind of shift and
(45:41):
played with the light, I also had the perfect shirt that had
like a small amount of blue and it was a very like vibrant,
beautiful blue that matched the sapphire.
And then there was blue on the subdials, the numbers on the
subdials, which just looked so cool, blue sapphire indices.
And this brought me back to, I guess this is the one time I
have this like, kind of like you, the thought rattling around
(46:03):
in my brain, very opposite to yours.
Zombie apocalypse. Watch those gems.
What if I sell it all and I justhave one watch like this that no
one thinks is real, but it is true because it's just it
doesn't, you know, like I have apretty casual style.
That's true. I don't have like a lot of, you
(46:25):
know, you and I like Japanese brands that are that like aren't
well known. Always logos.
Yeah, you don't see a lot of logos.
No, you don't know what anythingcosts.
Exactly. And so then.
You would look like you're wearing a fake.
One, I would look like so then it like kind of takes a bit of
the target off. We don't even go fancy places.
No, we're very like, we're just casual and then no.
(46:47):
One down at the local pizza place would think it's.
Real. I would get to have all of that
money just on my wrist all the time just looking at it.
Just looking at your money. And it was so beautiful.
It was, it was. I will say that watch was
gorgeous. Yeah, look it up if you go.
You said you liked it more than rainbow Daytona.
(47:08):
I did. I do think yes, because I think
this one you could wear more. Well, the rainbow Daytona is
clearly more fun because of all the colors and all of that.
This was quite subdued. But you wanted to just keep
looking at it and in different lights, sometimes the dial
looked more black, just like fully black.
And then you see, and the Daytona was still written in
(47:30):
red. Really.
OK, if you. Did a good job of snapping this
mental photo. I don't remember anything about
it. No, but you can OK.
You can see there are some photos like Oracle time did OK.
People have photographed it. Not not photographed it.
Most of the things are like. Like an artist's render.
No, no, but like most of the things people have gotten like a
(47:53):
cat, like the catalog shot, the online catalog shot that's off
like it's. Not catalog piece.
Because it's not on, it's not inthe catalog for it's probably
like, you know, some, some dealer somewhere, yeah.
Yeah, OK, OK. OK.
And so if you look up Rolex off catalog blue sapphire, then
(48:13):
you'll see some photos of but the photos do not do it justice.
So maybe that's why they didn't let us like you're not going to
be able to, you're not going to make it nice.
No, no, it was, it was gorgeous.The whole event was absolutely
lovely. It's always fun to go and you
just like sit and talk about watches, see watches hang out
(48:34):
with watch people. If any of our table is
listening, sorry you had to listen to booze the zombie thing
again, but welcome to. This watch, you know my thoughts
were incomplete on that day. OK, still formulating still.
Formulating Beep Boop. OK, so we listen to a lot of
podcasts or I listen to a lot ofpodcasts and if you're in the
car, you will listen as well. And then there are a few
(48:56):
podcasts that you actually tell me to save so you can listen
with me. So I listen to a lot of
podcasts, you listen to a few, but one of the things we've
enjoyed in other people's podcasts is that at the end of
the podcast they do recommendations.
And I do this when, you know, once a month.
I'm on the Form and Function podcast, which I love with James
and Ken, and it's super fun. And at the end they have a
(49:18):
thing, they call it homework, which makes it sound not fun,
but it is fun. Yeah, we're not calling it that.
We're not calling it because I was a teacher.
I was a teacher though, so it could be called homework.
No, we're not stealing the form and function.
Homework. How?
What if? But what if we just call it?
Do it. Do it.
Oh, we're calling it Do it. Like, yeah, you're like go.
(49:38):
It's not quite the Nike. What you're doing?
Yeah, yeah. Just do it.
But yes, and also a recommendation of something that
we like. But also worn and wound does it.
And great NATO. Great NATO does it podcast.
We really like listening. To don't watch podcasts, do it.
Yes. So today we will, yes.
OK, there's a show we both love,Yes, and it's only 4 episodes
(50:00):
in. The fourth episode came out this
week. And what?
Why don't you talk about it? Because I think you may love
this more than me, and that's weird.
It is weird, but it's OK, it's not that weird.
So The thing is, I don't love violent shows.
This show is violent. Unless they're funny.
(50:22):
That's true. You loved Peacemaker, and that
is an incredibly. Violent show if it, yeah, if it
doesn't feel like it's just, youknow.
You don't like violent serious shows?
Yeah. Because then there it's too
much. This season of Andora was hard
for me. It was a, it was, I mean
beautifully done, but it was a tough, a tough watch.
(50:43):
I prefer a little bit of levity with my killing.
So, so we started watching the Apple TV series called
Murderbot. And this was one, there's always
this moment where Vu and I will like watch the trailer.
And he's like, do you want to watch this or not?
And this one, I immediately was like, yes.
Because I was in. First of all, Alexander
(51:06):
Skarsgard is amazing. So good.
It's so good, it's so funny. He has found, like, truly a
level of like, the right character where his comedic
timing could not be better. Yeah, it's so perfect.
It's so perfect and it's just a really fun show.
(51:26):
Honestly, when we watched the latest episode it was like only
it's only like 25 minutes and itfelt like 4.
I was like. No, it was OK.
It's not a long show, which is kind.
Of good too. I like that part.
Super easy watch. It's on Apple TV, so, you know,
you have to be subscribed to Apple TV.
He is so good. But the whole cast is great.
(51:49):
It's cast very well and essentially, like, no spoilers
here, but it's about a robot whohas kind of hacked it.
I mean, this is what you see in the trailer.
Hacked its own programming to give itself more freedom, but
it's on this mission. OK, but there you can stop
there. Just watch it.
(52:10):
I'm not a spoiler, I know. So this is Murderbot.
It's so good, and although Murder Bot makes it like that,
you feel like that's telling youwhat the show is about.
It's not really. No, that's the part I like about
it, because if you would know. When you saw the title, you were
like, and I was like, let's justwatch the trailer because it's
so good. It it is really, really fun.
(52:31):
I also, I mean, I think Apple TVright now is some of my favorite
shows because I've also loved the studio.
I watched all 10 episodes. I thought it was great.
Your friends and neighbors you've been watching.
Yeah, that one I don't recommendthough, I just watch it now.
I kind of. Got.
I just got too far in, too far into it so.
I kind of want to know. Early on that, yeah.
(52:52):
So that one I don't recommend, but the studio is awesome too.
Yeah, yeah. And if you're into games, my
favorite game that I've been waiting for like 10 years, yes,
to come out, Fantasy Live is finally out, a new version on
the Switch. Because you played on 3DS over
10 years ago. Yep.
And now it's out on Switch? Yep, right before Switch 2
(53:14):
comes. Bye, everyone.
I'm gone. I'm gone for the next, I don't
know, 300 hours of playtime. Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, you're done. Now you're.
Cooked, yeah. You're in fantasy life.
Welcome to this Watch LIVE. Hi, I'm Lydia Winters.
And I'm Boo Booey. And today we're going to catch
up on some topics. We have a lot of little rattling
around in those domes. Well, OK, back when we used to
have what you would call a dailypodcast, then we never ran out
(00:29):
of opportunities to talk about like watch things that we
thought about. It is It is weird to have all of
these thoughts. It's.
Like who do we talk to each other?
Every single morning. OK, a few things we'll cover
today as a little teaser, you know, zombie apocalypse update.
OK, Yeah, you can guess who's who's that is.
(00:51):
I like that it's an update. It's an update and a Rolex
event. Yeah.
Yeah. That we attended.
Yeah. And using watches for motivation
or motivation for watches. Or motivational watches.
Oh, they're like, you can do it.I believe in you.
Well, there are watches with cute little sayings on them.
I like them. Like.
(01:11):
Or there's the it's late o'clock.
Or the ones that say, never mind, well, I realized we're a
family friendly podcast. You know, the ones that say
yeah. Yeah, you.
Know something about time? Yeah, Yeah.
I thought you were gonna like, Iforget who makes the watch that
(01:31):
says like we're all going to diesomeday anyway.
Oh, that yeah. I don't usually go just bleak.
Just. Morbid.
No, OK. OK, I'm going to start with my
zombie apocalypse update now. Just so that people know we are
not a late breaking news show. I don't know anything about
impending zombie. Apocalypse.
OK, OK, cool. The update, yes, is on my
(01:54):
thoughts about some of the most important things you have to
think about when buying watches,which is which watch is for the
zombie apocalypse. The main thing that interests me
is just that this is not a thought that ever crosses my
mind in any way really. Even right now.
It's going in and out just like,like if in one minute you were
(02:16):
like, what were we talking about?
I would be like. I'm not really sure.
OK, take zombies out of it. I think it's more fun to talk
about it because. Same though it.
Feels less dire and realistic when you say zombie apocalypse,
but just take any societal breakdown event yeah where there
will be a sustained period of time with a lack of large
infrastructure right for society.
(02:39):
I've been on record saying I'm not going to make it.
I'm going to go pretty early. But I said that to someone as we
were discussing this topic and he said you'll be the one that
just lives forever. And I'll be like, oh man.
Yeah. So, OK.
But I like to talk about it through zombie apocalypse terms
because we have so many reference points for what that
will be like because of movies and TV shows, right.
(03:02):
And thinking about this, so we did an episode last year where
we did talk about zombie. Apocalypse, do you remember what
you said? I don't oh, I should have looked
that up, but I feel confident that I had said something about
I. Don't know why I asked that,
because I shouldn't. I feel confident.
I probably said something like aRolex on a bracelet.
(03:25):
Interesting. OK, OK, so that's that I, I
think that's the biggest change is moving away from that, but
OK. So thinking through like some of
the media around this, right? You have shows like The Walking
Dead, which did like I yeah, howmany seasons over 10 seasons or
maybe 10 seasons, Something a little too long.
It lasted a little too long, butRick Grimes wore this Kenneth
(03:49):
Cole watch, right? This is over a decade ago,
right? 15 plus years ago.
And so like right in the beginning of the series, there
were watches, but it was it was in a different time, right?
There was no Tag Hoyer sponsorship at the time.
That. Was that was happening there
were watch sponsorships because there was already the Bond
(04:11):
franchise and all of that stuff going on, but I don't know if it
was as widespread as today. And like Morgan, who's a
character who also it was in oneof the spin offs of of Walking
Dead was wearing an IWC, right. So there were some watches in
there and The Last of Us, which is like the the modern day
reference for these shows, Joel wears a watch that doesn't
(04:33):
exist. It was just built and and it
comes from the game where also they had just created this
watch. It's not based on any individual
model and it's not a brand tie in.
However, since then there have been real watches in the show.
I should say real, real life watches, right?
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Like Tommy, his brother, wears aMortimer Data matic from like
the 70s. And then more recently, people
noticed that Jesse, one of the characters, the newer characters
from the second season, he's wearing a Seiko 5.
It's kind of cool. Right.
And then Abby is wearing a Timexand it's solar where I'm like,
oh. That's a good plan.
(05:15):
That's a good plan. You get those solar watches,
right? So OK so I've thought about this
a lot because I think deep down I am a little bit of a prepper
but I'm a lazy prepper who doesn't want to prep so mainly
think about prepping. You're like, you know what?
I love thinking about prepping. That's the most you thing I've
ever heard anyone listening to this podcast, who who knows Boo,
(05:38):
Like even probably if you've listened to this podcast more
than 5 episodes and you're like,I'm unsurprised by this planning
to do it. Well, OK, OK, deep down and
somewhat of a prepper, OK, I would say the reason that this
even popped up in my head again was because of our Portugal
experience. And I'm not going to call that
like an apocalyptic experience. No, no, no.
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Even though if you read some of the accounts online for some of
the vacationers, they, they, they made it seem like the world
had ended. But I, it did make me think more
about preparation. And then that got me into
thinking again about watches andwhat watch I would want.
And like, when I think about what I used to think, which was
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the most, what in my mind was the most robust watch possible.
So like, for example, it doesn'thave to be this brand, but like
a Rolex Explorer, it's like, OK,great, that can, you know, do
all the things you've got to do right.
But I've changed my mind a little bit.
So for one thing, I would be a double wrister in the
apocalypse. You are a double wrister in
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current life. I am.
I don't think that right. Now I wear an Apple Watch on one
side and in the apocalypse. No, you got to get.
Rid of I'm not charging every day, right?
So on the yeah. Probably not.
On the right wrist would be AG shock with tough solar.
I think that is what you originally said.
Yeah, I don't think this has changed, right, Because I do
think having that like that is such a strong, dependable, great
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choice. And as long as the radios with
atomic clocks exist, you know, unless they actually, well, I
guess they'd just lose power. But anyway, let's.
Do yeah, it can sink for a while.
Right and the second watch, the one on the left wrist for me.
What was the bracelet watch? But now I I really I I believe I
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own the watch that I would want for the zombie apocalypse and it
is the tutor FXT. Okay, why the change?
Okay. Well, as I thought, I'm glad you
asked. So am I.
Okay, when I thought about dealing with a watch with a
bracelet, there's a few things that comes to mind, right?
(07:56):
I see where that part's going. Even just resizing so in an
apocalyptic situation, you're probably not always going to
have like, steady food, at leastnot in the beginning years,
right? She's not going to make it.
She's not, She's not. She's gonna make it.
She likes comfort. You belong in the White Lotus
(08:17):
series instead of in The WalkingDead series.
OK, so even just like if you lose enough weight, you have to
take out a little link. Are you going to have a tiny
screwdriver? And then what are you going to
keep that link with you? You know, like you're running
from your for your life from zombies?
So I'm like, you know what with the probably little, the likely
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weight fluctuations that you will go through, a bracelet's
going to be a pain A. Quick adjust just won't cut.
It no even T fit with all of that adjustment.
I don't think it's enough. So I I so that is 1 and then
repairability like if you break your bracelet right, that's
going to be hard to. So you don't see watchmakers as
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like the. They, I don't think the first
few years that they will be prioritized in society.
Look, I have I. Love watch.
And I just want to say, watchmakers, I'm not throwing
shade because Brand Consultant goes first, OK, They'll they'll
need me later for the rebirth. Podcasters, they absolutely go
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first. They will be thrown to the
zombies. Just take me away.
OK, so if all of that is true, No, that is true, right.
So that that's the difficulty ofa bracelet.
So then I was like, oh, OK, So then you just wouldn't you?
You can put things on NATO. You can put things on Erica's
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original. You put it.
There's all these fabric straps or leather straps and they are
more repairable. Even in the field, needle and
thread, you can make repairs, right.
But the problem is spring bars. They are point of failure.
That is true. And they are not strong things.
And they're hard to find on the forest floor when you're
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changing it while waiting for the zombies.
I don't even know what happens. I don't know how it works.
I also don't watch any of these shows so I'm.
Like, why not? I'm not going to say the shows
are all accurate about how it will work.
OK when the zombie. Yeah.
But anyway, OK, we're getting lost in the zombies.
This is about watches. OK, so then that's where fixed
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lugs, right? Lug bars becomes like this is
the golden watch, right? Because you don't even need a
strap. OK, that's true.
You could. Technically use a a a A.
You could tear a piece of fabricoff of a rag off of your shirt
and just like tie the watch on and it would work just fine.
(10:52):
I I'm not saying that's a good long term solution, but you
could wear it like that until. You find a zombie for longer.
That that that is wearing like aNATO strap or something.
You could take it off the zombie.
That gets bleak. It also that means, you know
that they were an enthusiast before.
You're like, we could have had such great discussions, but you
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got bit. OK, so so the other thing is
like it allows for more sizes because with spring bars, you
can thread a NATO through springbars, but if you undersize, it
increases the likelihood that you'd put too much pressure on
it and it would break. But with the fixed bars, you
could easily with 22 mil lug width, you could wear A20A21A22,
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an 18 even and it would work just fine.
So it just like gives you all ofthat versatility.
So I need to be like tutor. I need a baby FXD because it
will help me survive. Yeah.
I wasn't going to survive, but now I'd like to.
With an FXD like cute little. Baby FXD really cute.
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I do think even if it it doesn'thave to be like like because I.
Like a 37 again like the. 37 would be amazing.
So I have 236 millimetre timexeswith fixed lugs.
It one is the Nigel K Born collab, the other is the
engineered garments collab. You've worn them.
They look great on you. They look great on me.
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Awesome size with fixed lugs. Great, we need the baby FXD.
I will have to next time I see the designers, I'll get to be
one of those people and be like,hey, can you make me a baby FXD?
Well, OK, so. I'd like it to be called Bebe.
Bebe FXD so with these two watches, I feel like you could
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survive long enough. Obviously you need other things
as well, right? But if you survive and you have
these two. Watches not going to make it
you. Could survive long enough to
wear like watch making my maybe either it's safe enough where I
could just learn watchmaking myself and then I could maintain
the watches. You know, swap out the battery
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eventually The G shock battery isn't going to hold the charge
very well anymore. 1520 years inright I then.
Nope, not for me. Or, you know, there will be
watchmakers because society willslowly rebuild itself, you know,
so I, I feel like those 2 watches that, that you're pretty
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set, you know? Yeah.
Yeah, that's, that's my, that's my, that's my plan.
I have some reflections on this and 0 idea of what I would bring
because again. Wait, I was hoping you'd have an
idea. No, absolutely not.
But here's my first reflection is that we've been listening to,
we listen to a lot of watch podcasts and a lot of other
podcasts that are longer form and typically in the first like
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5 to 10 minutes, they're just chit chatting.
Meanwhile, on this watch live, you are in the zombie apocalypse
at 2:00, 2 minutes even before your like brain has woken up.
If it's the morning, you're likeso zombie watch.
Oh yeah, maybe you know a. Lot of podcasts do like chips.
But I, I think we have that, youknow, the daily thing because
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you would be like, OK, and bye. Here's the topic.
The the second reflection I havethat is or, or just a, a funny
anecdote about this is that we were recently, recently at a
Rolex event, which was amazing. We'll talk about it a little
more in a little while. But we told we were sitting with
some people, they were asking like, oh, wait, why are, you
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know, why are you at this Rolex thing?
It's like, oh, because we're, you know, we shop a lot at
Neimanzer and then also we have a podcast and photography, blah,
blah. And they're like, how could you
even talk about watches that much?
Later on in the lunch, Vu goes into what probably was a similar
15 minute discussion of zombie apocalypse watches.
That was because I was still percolating.
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And then I just said when, when,you know, he stopped.
And this is the podcast. You did say that because they.
Really I was like and this is what, this is what it is.
I do think it was funny that they thought like, how could you
even have a watch podcast beforewe even said, oh, we did it
daily for 200 episodes, that that's at another level.
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They just don't know the amount of things you think about daily.
These are important topics. I want to be ready.
OK, I have them thinking actually about, well, because
you were inspired by watching The Last of Us.
That's got you back into thinking about this.
And I've been thinking about recently it was announced that
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the, you know, the new Star Warsslate of movies that Sean Levy
is directing a movie called StarWars Star Fighter, and it's
starring. I haven't heard of this.
Star Wars Stars Star Wars star fight.
Heard of this one? And it's starring Ryan Gosling,
and Ryan Gosling is A tag wear ambassador.
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He's great about wearing tags inmovies.
Well, because the thing about Ryan Gosling is he is not on
social media. So they are paying so much for
him to wear it when people see it.
And when do people see him in movies that.
Movies and red carpets, that's the only opportunities.
So I have this question. There haven't been any Star Wars
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watches in in the movies that were branded in any way.
Yeah, my personal take is they should absolutely not do it,
but. You mean make like a Star Wars
universe tag Hoyer? No, yeah, like in the star that
it would be in the movie. And it would make sense in the
movie, like it would be. It would it would look like
(16:38):
something from the Star Wars universe, yes, But it would be
from Tag Hoyer. Like even in Barbie?
Yeah. Where Ken, Listen, he wasn't the
good guy. I just want to be clear.
You know, he discovered the patriarchy.
And he had three cool gold tags on.
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So even for that, they were like, look, we've got it.
And then all the press. He loved all the press.
He wore the pink tag Hoyer. So I'm just super curious, how
do they sort of get around it? They've paid all this money for
a brand sponsor like this brand ambassador who does this one
thing, which is being movies. And that is almost the only time
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other than at the premiere typically because he's not
someone who's like going to all different things or like he
really is like at premiere or award ceremony or during the
movie. And so I'm so curious.
So OK so there is already a template for this because
Hamilton worked with the prop master from Dune Part 2.
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Mm Hmm. And they, I don't know what came
first, but they worked with the prop master and there's a wrist
worn device in Doom Part 2. It's not like a regular watch.
So they this isn't like an interstellar where in the movie
like Hamilton like put a Hamilton into the movie.
And they they did make it specifically for the movie, but
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it still was a a Hamilton watch.This is not that because
Hamilton doesn't exist on Iraq is in Dune, right.
And so, but they worked with theprop master to take that wrist
worn device from the movie and make a Ventura that is inspired
by it. So it's it's a Dune like
Hamilton watch, but it's not directly the prop from the
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movie. So I could see how they could
put on Ryan Gosling, a wrist worn device that looks like and
feels like and and just like it's from the Star Wars
universe. And then Tag Hoyer could release
a watch that relates to it. But unlike Hamilton, TAG Hoyer
doesn't do that kind of thing. You know, like they don't have
(18:50):
weird watches in that way, whereas like Hamilton has the
Ventura, they've they've done more kind of like conceptual
watches. Tag Hoyer.
That would be strange for them maybe.
Yeah, it would be. I mean, it would be very
interesting because also like they're more in racing and even
they're, yeah, they don't have anything that looks like it
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could live in the Star Wars universe.
So maybe the play is actually then to create a really awesome
like Star Wars inspired tag, which I mean, they've done
collaborations like Mario and different things, but it's
still, I don't know, in my mind,it's like, what could you come
up with that would be so cool? It's like he wears something on
(19:34):
his wrist, but maybe it's like painted over and so you can't
see what you know like it serve it's more but if you think a
look and a feel to it and then you do the reveal after.
Yeah, I mean if you. Think watching Star Wars like.
But if you think about Star Warsand how everything is designed
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right, it's kind of like 80s future.
Tech, Yeah, right. Yeah.
But watches do come obviously from wait, long time ago you had
these tiny mechanics, right, that people were making by hand?
But somehow that doesn't really fit the Star Wars universe.
No, I mean, we've been watch. We just finished Andor Season 2
(20:15):
and one of the times I was like,there's a thing on the wrist.
It wasn't a watch. But it's still like you can't
take the watch enthusiast out ofthe watching experience.
But I just think it's interesting.
It's interesting because this isa huge role for a huge
franchise. So it's like huge franchise plus
huge star. We're seeing that with like the
(20:36):
F1 movie for IWC. It's like, does Tag figure out
some way to get in on like, whatis Star Wars truly like?
A magical combination? Yeah, in my.
You mean Ryan Gosling plus Star Wars?
Yeah, like, yes. Plus and plus Sean leaving.
Like very good. I, I, I'm in for it.
So that that's been rattling around.
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OK, OK, that's a good topic. I like it, I like it.
OK my topic #2. Oh yeah.
Is about justifying watches or or OK, OK it's it's I was
thinking about this as I was building up this idea in my head
for why I needed a watch and you.
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Are way more into this than I amthat that like I'm only just now
thinking about it because I'm kind of like, oh, I like it, I
can get it, I buy it. But I OK, I like to categorize
things and I like for things to serve a specific.
What? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I know. Big, big, big, big.
(21:39):
Shocking. Right, right.
So it's like, OK. So you're like, I'm trying to do
this. So I.
There's a watch I want. I don't know if I can get it OK
right, but there's a watch I want.
It's the tutor Pilagos FXD Chrono, the cycling one in pink.
(22:01):
OK, so you could wear that during a zombie apocalypse that.
Could be my new my new, my new zombie.
One gas will be hard to come by.Yeah, yeah.
Well also I could time things, but I mean the good thing about
the FXD is it has anywhere. OK.
No, we're done. With I was not trained to get us
(22:22):
back. OK, no, so OK, Tudor recently
announced. I love You're always like, OK,
OK, OK. Listen to that.
Here we go. Here.
Here it is. Shooter recently announced so
last year they released the Peligos FXD Chrono Cycling
Edition. Yeah, you thought it was.
(22:42):
I mean, we talked about it on the podcast.
It's super cool because it serves a purpose for a specific
thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so they instead of a typicallike layout where you have the
tachymeter, most tachymeters on watches only go down to 60 per
unit, right? So like you could time 60
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kilometers an hour up to like 360 kilometers an hour.
But most cyclists aren't riding 60 kilometers an hour or 60 mph,
whatever their reference point is, right?
So this has along the rehab like3 revolutions for the timing.
So it goes all the way down to 20 kilometers an hour, which
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then for a cyclist totally makessense.
So anyway, the watch. Is broken that speed.
You have absolutely broken 20 kilometers an hour, but so
really cool watch. It's got the fixed lugs.
It's in a carbon fiber case or they call it carbon composite
case. Like it's, it's a very cool
watch, but the all the accent colours are red, which makes
(23:50):
sense because the Tudor cycling team colours are black and red.
So it makes sense that the watchwould be black and red.
However, right away, because this was right after they
released the pink chrono that I have right?
The tutor black bait chrono in pink.
I was like, they're going to do a pink version of this.
You did say I will wait. I want a pink version.
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Then they actually gave away 1A1of 1 pink watch to the winner of
the Guerre de Italia last year. I believe it was the Guerrero.
Yeah, I think so. Right?
And it was, but it is slightly different from the one that
they've released now. Well, it should be.
If it was a one of one, I'd be like I won this race.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Poker Car and and it had a fully pink strap.
Cool, cool. And so, but he's sponsored by
Richard Meal, so I don't he probably isn't wearing the tutor
very much so he should just giveit to me.
But anyway, OK. OK.
That's just. That's the point.
Give it to you. Yeah, yeah.
OK, I'll buy it. I'll buy it.
Oh, OK, OK. But not above retail.
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Retail. There's a precedent now.
So the Giro de Italia is one of the more famous races, right?
Tour de France is probably the most famous race.
Giro. I don't know, Second, third, who
knows, right? Because I I didn't poll our
listeners to see. OK to see if people had heard
of. It if people had heard of the
Giro de Italia, but whoever's winning wears a pink jersey.
(25:15):
It's the maglia Rosa. Right.
So. Pink is kind of the color of.
This race, because the winner iswearing pink, so each.
Leg of the race. It's, it's whoever is the
overall winner because there's, there's many different types of
winning in, in, in these big races because they happen over
the course of many days and there's different types of
winning. There's points for things,
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there's climbing, there's sprinting.
So you can be, there's a bunch of different jerseys for these
different things that you could be leading at any given time.
But the pink jersey is for the overall leader of the race and
in the end the winner of the race.
Magalia Rosa, right? So pink color of Guerra de
Italia and they put it on this watch.
Amazing combo. I think it looks even better
(25:58):
than the red, even though I lovered and black together, but this
works very well. And So what?
I've convinced myself. OK.
But first I have a question. Would you double wrist the pink?
You look pinky and this one likea pink pink like like.
My pink black Bay and this. As like a weird I mean because
they wouldn't cool in that case for each other.
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I don't know, maybe I'll try it.Yeah, on a bike on.
A bike? Yeah, on a bike.
OK, so OK, in my mind what I have said, OK, so in my mind,
what I thought, it's like if I get this watch right, then I'm
going to train for the Veteran Runden, which is A-350, a 315
(26:41):
kilometre bike ride around Lake Veteran in Sweden.
It's like super famous bike ride, right?
But it's open tall. Yeah.
And an important thing about this, because I asked this
question when you talked about it a long time ago, you do do it
in a day, you do the 315 kilometres.
I, I, I estimate that it will probably take me like 14 hours
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because, you know, breaks and all that kind of stuff.
And I, I did a half one. So it was 160 kilometers.
Yikes. But that was a decade ago.
I am in horrible shape compared to then.
So that was part of the motivation.
Like if I get this watch then I will start training again and
then in June of next year because the race is in a few
(27:25):
weeks. OK, not going to make it for
that one. So.
June of next. We're probably not going to make
it June of next year. I will be ready to ride this
ride. Right?
OK. So number one, I become healthy.
OK, so the watch, that's great. Again, the watch equals do the
race equals become healthy. So the watch has made me
(27:47):
healthy. So that's one thing that the
watch has already done. Got it.
The one Wait, just for everyone keeping track here, that's the
watch VU does not have. That's what it's already done.
Well, it's already done it in the future.
You're already healthy. In the future, I'm already
healthy because I got this watchright?
And then I probably need to get a new bike.
(28:07):
Yeah, obviously, because you have to.
Kind of. To watch, you have to start over
with everything well. There's a a bike that I've
wanted for a couple years now and it does have pink in the
color screen anyway. So this is like a multi layered
and leveled scheme of things youneed to buy, negative things you
(28:31):
need to buy. Himself negative.
This is a very positive thing. Don't forget I'm super healthy.
Yeah. OK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now in the future.
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, OK. I like that part.
One of the biggest things that'skind of healthy, right?
And then I thought, you know, from day one of picking up the
watch and then going and doing all my training.
And of course now I'll have likethis one, I will measure out one
(28:53):
exact kilometer. And so every time I go on a
ride, I will do that kilometer and I'll time it on my little
watch. Right.
So content, content you know, but all content plan.
So but then I will create an entire documentary of me going
couch to 3:15 in a year wearing this watch.
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So also now I'm a documentarian again.
Been a long time since I've shotcool videos, like shot myself.
So I'm healthy, I'm producing amazing creative content.
Yeah, I'm riding bikes, spend more time outdoors.
I have a cool new bike, right? And everyone's like applauding
(29:36):
when I ride it by because it's such a cool bike.
Yeah, right. I love that watch too, bro.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly. It matches that cool bike.
I did look at because Tudor's cycling kit is actually they
have one of. The course you did, you're like,
I just just very simple. OK, So you're going to be tutor
(29:57):
boy. No, like instead of only boy.
No old, old, long, long term, long term listeners.
We'll know that when Boo was working at Oakley, Yeah, Even
the people he worked with, his colleagues called him Oakley Boy
because he wore so much. Oakley I like to go all in on
things. I know that's a surprise.
Tutor boy, is what we're creating healthy?
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Here's the thing. I looked at the kit.
It's made by ASOS. It's a really good kit.
It's basically they sell to regular folks like me, you know,
future healthy people. Yeah, like they'll sell you
replica kit. Cool.
It's made by the same company, probably not to the same spec,
but like it looks the same. And then I thought, that's too
far. You're just riding around
(30:38):
Switzerland and you're like, hey.
I buy ABMC bicycle get resigningby.
Tutor HQ and you're like one daythey're gonna accidentally put
me in with the other racers in the truck.
Hey, come on. Well.
After this year and then I go and you know when when tutor
watches my documentary that I make about this journey.
(30:59):
When tutor. Watches.
Watches. Yeah, yeah.
They're gonna be like, you need to be on the cycling team.
Oh. Clearly Ohk.
OK, what's the average age of the cycling team?
I'm not trying to be. Just say less, less less than
me, but you know as you age. Cycling isn't like only a young
person's sport. Depends on the type of cycle so
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endurance sports are often one but you know these are the multi
day non-stop. Don't sleep, just ride like.
I'm not going to make it. I feel like I should say that
again. I'm not going to make it.
It's just ultra endurance eventsare often one by people who
(31:43):
aren't as young. Okay, but things like sort of
France? Okay, so the actual the.
Yeah, I mean, I was thinking about how, yeah, you know, I
think I watched the presentationlast year that tutor did and
they were, they they were children looking, you know, like
they they're not, but they're like 20 twenties.
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A lot of them are. A lot of them are 20s.
That's a child. But you're not gone in your 30s.
OK, OK. But you might be gone when
you're 48. Like you're like, not gone in
your 30s. I may not be in my 30s anymore.
OK. But so, you know, after this
year, I'll probably look like I am.
OK. Because I bought this watch.
(32:27):
OK. There's only 300.
That's the thing. OK, it's a limited edition.
You're like, I'd like to go for the hardest watch so that if I
don't get it, none of this has to come true.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Because that's my question.
I can't just get healthy on my own, you know, You need
motivation. This is why it's a scheme.
But all of this got me thinking because I was in the midst of
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like dreaming all of these dreams of this incredible
accomplishment that I've done, you know, in the future.
And it made me realize that maybe, just maybe, we go to
great legs to justify by watches.
That's. If you're like, you know what?
Maybe there is a chance that I do some mental gymnastics, which
(33:14):
unfortunately doesn't make me healthier, to justify buying
certain watches. OK, there's this video that I
love, and it really has inspiredme to do a lot of things.
It's a very old video on YouTubeby someone called Dave Frank.
Yeah. And it's about this idea of
brain crack and. And becoming addicted to brain
crack and. Basically, you're addicted to
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these ideas in your head and then everyone will be applausing
you. Yes, yes, yes.
But you know, he said you don't do that, but the but the bummer
is, you know, you need to do them and then you, you know,
kind of do it poorly the first time, but then after a few times
you have the experience. So like how does that play into
this scenario? If I don't get the watch.
(33:56):
What happens? Well then I'll just stay on the
couch. You can't go couch to 315K
without a cycling chronograph onyour wrist.
But what about the red 1? Like you can't do it now.
I mean, The thing is. You're like, what if you do
that? The idea for a year that they
were going to release a pink oneand they did.
(34:18):
So now what? Am I going to go back to red?
Who do you think I am? But I think the the end results
are really good, so it would be super nice if you know you could
keep the. Yeah, we'll see how it goes.
We'll see how it goes. Right now I'm motivated to try
and get one of these watches. I think this is your biggest
(34:39):
justification scheme ever, that that's my, my gut, my gut
feeling up. I would love for it all to
happen and we will report back one year.
Well, no, They'll see the documentary.
It'll probably be at the Cannes Film Film Festival or something.
Oh OK, the documentary would come out before you had to.
Do the. Actual ride 'cause that feels
(35:00):
dicey. Part 2, Yeah.
To watch to watch Part 2 to findout, did he win?
I mean, it's not a competition. It's not a race.
But did he win this, this ride? Yeah.
Interesting, I think I've had things like this but never
watches like and even when I think about like.
(35:22):
It's cameras. Yeah, sure.
OK. Actually, yeah.
Sure you've gone on. This exact journey cameras.
Every time I buy a new camera, I'm like, now I'm going to shoot
only photos with this for at least one calendar year.
Yeah, which isn't even long. Every day.
Post every day. You'll create a new Instagram
account. Yeah, exactly for those.
(35:43):
So then we have to think about how to keep you on track.
So Step 1 though you have. To step one is announce it on
your podcast. Okay, before you even see if
there before there's any possibility.
But now I have all these people.Rooting for you are.
Rooting for me. They're supporting everything
I'm doing here. No one who listens to this will
(36:06):
be like, I disagree with this. No, there's no way.
It's impossible. OK, my last topic is that we
went to the Rolex event we did in Stockholm with our AD
Neimanser. They are.
I thought it was just, it was super cool because they did it
in this gorgeous, you know, Swedish Royal Opera House.
(36:30):
Which we had never been to somehow.
I mean, we've, we've seen it many.
Times how much opera have you? Oh, do you use opera houses only
for well, it's in the name. Anyway, but one thing I was
reflecting on 1st is like the setting was so beautiful.
We're in the Swedish Royal OperaHouse is from 1773.
(36:53):
RAD authorized dealer Neiman's ear is they started in 1851.
And then one of the watches thatwas being shown is the Rolex 19
O 8. And I was like, Europe is wild.
I was just like, wow, this stuffis so old.
Also the ceilings in that place.Yeah, it was just an absolutely,
(37:13):
like, incredible setting. There was an opera singer who
did one, one song and two balletdancers.
Just super beautiful and really cool and like, fun to see the
watches in this very, like, grand, grand setting.
I had one goal and one goal only.
(37:36):
See The Land Dweller 36. Yes.
OK, I did. Know in white Rolazor, which is
just steel, but now I guess we're calling it white Rolazor.
The bezel is white gold. Yeah, I know, but.
It is technically 2 metals, yeah, and that's what roll the
story. Is I know.
So that's not wrong. I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm
(37:56):
just saying it's like a little long.
Winter. Oh, so the centerlinks should be
white gold as well in order to make this claim?
No, I don't know who. I don't know who wants, who
wants 'cause every song happens to stretch more.
I don't want that. They are slightly different.
No, I know, I know. OK, but any, Yeah.
(38:19):
So anyway, the white roll, OK, so I'm just saying it's not
white. Wanted to see the.
Whole thing, yes. And and you did.
I did you. Tried it on again, Yes.
Oh wait, you hadn't. Tried had only tried on the 36
in gold. In rose gold with tons of
baguettes and just beautiful. That was amazing.
Yeah, it was. It was gorgeous. 10 out of 10.
Weirdly the 40 mil land dweller like the regular steel one also
(38:44):
fits you very well. Yeah, but definitely oversized,
yeah. Yeah.
The 36 was perfect. It was perfect.
Yes, it looked. Really good on you.
It looked so good. It only reaffirmed my love for
it and just interest in it. An amazing thing is I sent my
sister Mindy some photos of it and she said oh I love the land
(39:05):
dweller. Now my mind has been changed and
this is the one who her originalquote was like did Rolex
release? That PRX looking.
No, no. A copy Royal Oak.
Oh, was it copy Royal Oak? That was it.
No, my mom said it looks like the PRX on the cruise.
Hard to hard to know. But the best part is Mindy says,
(39:27):
Oh, my mind was changed because when I saw that watch on James's
story, on Watch Puppy story, I sent she's like when I saw it on
him. It.
Changed so a true trendsetter yeah James he.
Is he is. I then I asked Instagram, I did
(39:49):
a poll and this is just to me funny and this is like being on
the Internet. So it's just this is my
commentary on being on the Internet.
So I wrote like I posted the photo of me and the 36.
I said, should I go for it? The choices were obviously.
The second choice, yes, for sure.
The third choice, you're such a Rolex fangirl, but also yes.
And the the 4th 1 is everyone knows would I did I count that
(40:12):
in order 1234 anyway. And the fourth one was everyone
knows you won't be able to resist.
And mostly people wrote obviously all these different
people. And then one guy wrote to me and
said if you have to ask. And I was like, all the answers
are yes. It's just.
A joke? Oh, he was like splaining at
you. Yeah, like if you have to ask.
(40:32):
If you have to ask. And you know, you don't like it,
but I was like, they're all the answers.
Like. But I mean, maybe this is.
Something maybe he didn't read. People.
Yeah. But maybe this is something
people don't always realize about my polls.
Is there? Never really.
There's always the answer I want.
Very infrequent that you actually do polls where someone
(40:54):
could choose yes or no. Yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause I think
it's more fun. Really.
Yes, kind of yes. Or of course.
Yes, or like you don't listen tome, you do what you want.
And that one's only for my mom, you know, like, sorry, sorry.
Yeah. So that just made me laugh a lot
because I was like, that's an extra answer.
I did not expect to. If you have that.
(41:17):
But overall, all I saw from the results is everyone said yes,
yes. But 41% did say obviously, yes.
So that's. That's pretty good.
That's I even though all of themwere a yes like the majority of
people went with the most yes. Yeah.
Well, no. And then 26% just said everyone
knows you won't be able to resist.
(41:37):
So that's more of like you're going to do it.
That one feels a little bit likeyou're going to do it even if
you shouldn't. Yeah, but that's typically me
with Rolex. But I think it's beautiful.
The interesting thing about the Land Dweller, OK, people are
still a bit complaining about the name, but overall I've seen
(42:00):
a lot of shifts with the actual look of the watch and especially
when people are seeing it in person now, then the feel or
Mindy seeing it on James's watch.
Maybe people should just go and look at James's stories and they
could all be converts. And then you can change your
mind. But yeah, it's just I I really,
really, I really loved it. That was the one watch I wanted
(42:22):
to see. I looked at everything else but
I that was what I paid most attention to other than one
other special thing. But what did you did you look
at? Like anything?
Did anything change your mind? I didn't change my mind about
anything, but I did like so as Isaid from the beginning, I love
(42:43):
the land dweller, but that lack quick adjust is a kind of a
killer for me, right? And now that I'm very focused on
zombie apocalypse watches. As your next category.
Yeah, Zombie. Apocalypse slash cycling.
Oh, OK. Cool, if there only was a watch
that could do. Both there is perfect.
(43:07):
But no, not really changed my mind about anything.
I felt really like I I I tried abunch of watches on again, very
just felt really confident in the things I had already felt
about them. It was more reaffirming than
anything else. I love the new OP colors,
(43:27):
especially the pistachio. But we still did not get.
To see that blue 1 yet I know I.Really want to see the new blue.
I think I'm going to love that. Blue.
I think so too. I.
See it in photos. I I I love it.
But yeah, and the nineteen O 8 is I I love that watch on that
bracelet. You know, that one makes sense
that it doesn't have a quick anyway.
(43:48):
OK, I want to. Have to say no, let's.
Quick adjust. Again, but I got to see
something I didn't know I would love and because I didn't even
know it would be there. OK, so there were two watches at
the event where they were like, oh, you can't photograph these.
Which obviously I was like, I love that.
(44:09):
I love that I can't. Take a photo, but don't.
Yeah, there's just something cool and rolexy about it.
And like, look, I'm not above hype.
No, not being able to photographit makes me want to look at it
more, Yeah. Yeah, I you you probably looked
at that watch much longer than you would have if you got.
Short for sure, because I was like blinking my eyes and saying
(44:31):
click click, you know, because that's the humor I have.
They've never heard that. One, but I did it.
OK, so there was there were two of them. 1 is a Daytona that's
called like a giraffe and it haslike all of these like diamond
setting and kind of a weird pattern.
Not that one. I honestly probably if I looked
(44:55):
at photos, I would have picked that one.
It's like, oh, I really want to see that.
But no, there was this gorgeous blue sapphire white gold, which
you know, I never want white gold because I don't want to pay
for it. If you think it's steel.
Yeah, this one has gems. OK, so it kind of makes it?
Amazingly, gem set so both around the middle case there's
(45:19):
54 diamonds around the bezel, 36sapphires and then it was like a
deep grey black like textured. They were calling saying it
looked like almost like Panther like a Panther skin or fur.
And then so that like as you looked at it kind of shift and
(45:41):
played with the light, I also had the perfect shirt that had
like a small amount of blue and it was a very like vibrant,
beautiful blue that matched the sapphire.
And then there was blue on the subdials, the numbers on the
subdials, which just looked so cool, blue sapphire indices.
And this brought me back to, I guess this is the one time I
have this like, kind of like you, the thought rattling around
(46:03):
in my brain, very opposite to yours.
Zombie apocalypse. Watch those gems.
What if I sell it all and I justhave one watch like this that no
one thinks is real, but it is true because it's just it
doesn't, you know, like I have apretty casual style.
That's true. I don't have like a lot of, you
(46:25):
know, you and I like Japanese brands that are that like aren't
well known. Always logos.
Yeah, you don't see a lot of logos.
No, you don't know what anythingcosts.
Exactly. And so then.
You would look like you're wearing a fake.
One, I would look like so then it like kind of takes a bit of
the target off. We don't even go fancy places.
No, we're very like, we're just casual and then no.
(46:47):
One down at the local pizza place would think it's.
Real. I would get to have all of that
money just on my wrist all the time just looking at it.
Just looking at your money. And it was so beautiful.
It was, it was. I will say that watch was
gorgeous. Yeah, look it up if you go.
You said you liked it more than rainbow Daytona.
(47:08):
I did. I do think yes, because I think
this one you could wear more. Well, the rainbow Daytona is
clearly more fun because of all the colors and all of that.
This was quite subdued. But you wanted to just keep
looking at it and in different lights, sometimes the dial
looked more black, just like fully black.
And then you see, and the Daytona was still written in
(47:30):
red. Really.
OK, if you. Did a good job of snapping this
mental photo. I don't remember anything about
it. No, but you can OK.
You can see there are some photos like Oracle time did OK.
People have photographed it. Not not photographed it.
Most of the things are like. Like an artist's render.
No, no, but like most of the things people have gotten like a
(47:53):
cat, like the catalog shot, the online catalog shot that's off
like it's. Not catalog piece.
Because it's not on, it's not inthe catalog for it's probably
like, you know, some, some dealer somewhere, yeah.
Yeah, OK, OK. OK.
And so if you look up Rolex off catalog blue sapphire, then
(48:13):
you'll see some photos of but the photos do not do it justice.
So maybe that's why they didn't let us like you're not going to
be able to, you're not going to make it nice.
No, no, it was, it was gorgeous.The whole event was absolutely
lovely. It's always fun to go and you
just like sit and talk about watches, see watches hang out
(48:34):
with watch people. If any of our table is
listening, sorry you had to listen to booze the zombie thing
again, but welcome to. This watch, you know my thoughts
were incomplete on that day. OK, still formulating still.
Formulating Beep Boop. OK, so we listen to a lot of
podcasts or I listen to a lot ofpodcasts and if you're in the
car, you will listen as well. And then there are a few
(48:56):
podcasts that you actually tell me to save so you can listen
with me. So I listen to a lot of
podcasts, you listen to a few, but one of the things we've
enjoyed in other people's podcasts is that at the end of
the podcast they do recommendations.
And I do this when, you know, once a month.
I'm on the Form and Function podcast, which I love with James
and Ken, and it's super fun. And at the end they have a
(49:18):
thing, they call it homework, which makes it sound not fun,
but it is fun. Yeah, we're not calling it that.
We're not calling it because I was a teacher.
I was a teacher though, so it could be called homework.
No, we're not stealing the form and function.
Homework. How?
What if? But what if we just call it?
Do it. Do it.
Oh, we're calling it Do it. Like, yeah, you're like go.
(49:38):
It's not quite the Nike. What you're doing?
Yeah, yeah. Just do it.
But yes, and also a recommendation of something that
we like. But also worn and wound does it.
And great NATO. Great NATO does it podcast.
We really like listening. To don't watch podcasts, do it.
Yes. So today we will, yes.
OK, there's a show we both love,Yes, and it's only 4 episodes
(50:00):
in. The fourth episode came out this
week. And what?
Why don't you talk about it? Because I think you may love
this more than me, and that's weird.
It is weird, but it's OK, it's not that weird.
So The thing is, I don't love violent shows.
This show is violent. Unless they're funny.
(50:22):
That's true. You loved Peacemaker, and that
is an incredibly. Violent show if it, yeah, if it
doesn't feel like it's just, youknow.
You don't like violent serious shows?
Yeah. Because then there it's too
much. This season of Andora was hard
for me. It was a, it was, I mean
beautifully done, but it was a tough, a tough watch.
(50:43):
I prefer a little bit of levity with my killing.
So, so we started watching the Apple TV series called
Murderbot. And this was one, there's always
this moment where Vu and I will like watch the trailer.
And he's like, do you want to watch this or not?
And this one, I immediately was like, yes.
Because I was in. First of all, Alexander
(51:06):
Skarsgard is amazing. So good.
It's so good, it's so funny. He has found, like, truly a
level of like, the right character where his comedic
timing could not be better. Yeah, it's so perfect.
It's so perfect and it's just a really fun show.
(51:26):
Honestly, when we watched the latest episode it was like only
it's only like 25 minutes and itfelt like 4.
I was like. No, it was OK.
It's not a long show, which is kind.
Of good too. I like that part.
Super easy watch. It's on Apple TV, so, you know,
you have to be subscribed to Apple TV.
He is so good. But the whole cast is great.
(51:49):
It's cast very well and essentially, like, no spoilers
here, but it's about a robot whohas kind of hacked it.
I mean, this is what you see in the trailer.
Hacked its own programming to give itself more freedom, but
it's on this mission. OK, but there you can stop
there. Just watch it.
(52:10):
I'm not a spoiler, I know. So this is Murderbot.
It's so good, and although Murder Bot makes it like that,
you feel like that's telling youwhat the show is about.
It's not really. No, that's the part I like about
it, because if you would know. When you saw the title, you were
like, and I was like, let's justwatch the trailer because it's
so good. It it is really, really fun.
(52:31):
I also, I mean, I think Apple TVright now is some of my favorite
shows because I've also loved the studio.
I watched all 10 episodes. I thought it was great.
Your friends and neighbors you've been watching.
Yeah, that one I don't recommendthough, I just watch it now.
I kind of. Got.
I just got too far in, too far into it so.
I kind of want to know. Early on that, yeah.
(52:52):
So that one I don't recommend, but the studio is awesome too.
Yeah, yeah. And if you're into games, my
favorite game that I've been waiting for like 10 years, yes,
to come out, Fantasy Live is finally out, a new version on
the Switch. Because you played on 3DS over
10 years ago. Yep.
And now it's out on Switch? Yep, right before Switch 2
(53:14):
comes. Bye, everyone.
I'm gone. I'm gone for the next, I don't
know, 300 hours of playtime. Yeah, I guess.
Yeah, you're done. Now you're.
Cooked, yeah. You're in fantasy life.
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