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Music Yo, what's up and welcome back to the show.

This is, of course, David Scales for the Surf Splendor Network, bringing you an episode of The Grit today with Chas Smith.

This is our show where we kind of recap, assess, analyze the surf industry

gossip. And to be honest, not even really the surf industry, just surf culture gossip.

So before we get into that, though, I'll just give you a reminder that surf splendor podcast.com

is where you can find everything that we discuss in this episode. The topics are torn

from the pages of Beach Grits. You can also check out Beachgrit.com, which is my co-host,

Chaz's website in partnership with Derek Riley. And then through the end of this month,

of course, we're doing that Motai custom board bag giveaway. These board bags are actually made from recycled wetsuit materials and they are tailored

to your specific surfboard.

You send them the size dimensions and then they will custom make a board bag for your surfboard.

And the way that you win that board bag is just by supporting this show.

So we have a donation link set up on surfsplenderpodcast.com.

If you've ever made a donation subscription to this show ever,

you are entered to win that board bag.

But you've got to get that in before the end of this month of August,

and you will be entered to win.

We'll announce the winner via social media,

and that'll be that.

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