Hey, what's up David Scales here for the Surf Splendor Network, bringing you an all-new episode of The Grit today for February 5th, 2018.

Before I do, I just want to give a shout out to album surfboards.

AlbumSurf.com was where we recorded today's episode, and we had kind of a last-minute scheduling change,

and the shaper at album mat was

gracious enough to accommodate us with very little notice so check out album surf.com you've seen

josh kirk writing their boards they do a lot of a little bit of everything asymmetricals

guns really interesting alternative short boards high high performance shortboards, all sorts of

really beautiful boards.

They run one of the best glass shops in Southern California, lights out glassing.

So really cool stuff, AlbumSurf.com.

Thank you for that.

Matt, for hosting us.

And then also, I just wanted to ask that you support the brands that support

this show. And today's episode is brought to you by health IQ.com. You've heard me talk about them

in the last couple of episodes. HealthIQ.com slash surf splendor is where you go to save money on life

insurance. Health IQ is a life insurance agency that offers savings for living a healthy

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driving record. Health IQ is offering the same principle to the world of life insurance. This is

something directly designed to benefit you and I as surfers. Much of their data for their mortality

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as to what's involved in athletically in surfing and some other things that I do to support my lifestyle,

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