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I'm Welcome back to the show.

This is David Scales.

And today we wax on with Matt Warshaw.

You've heard from Matt Warshaw recently through other media sources, I'm sure.

He's been doing a press junket as part of a membership drive for his website, The Encyclopedia of Surfing.

It's a $3 monthly membership.

The reason that I support the Encyclopedia of Surfing is because it's the main resource and reference when I'm researching a guest on this show.

What I think is actually really exciting about 2017 is that there are so many independent

artists and businesses offering us interesting things to wear, to view, to consume.

Certainly, big business isn't inherently bad, but as a kid getting into surfing,

everybody, all my friends, all the random surfers that I'd see in the water, we all wore the

exact same wetsuits. We watched the exact same films. We emulated the exact same surfer.

And all those things were really relevant at the time, but we just had fewer decisions about what to watch, ride, wear, read.

This particular moment, I think in time, just feels like a renaissance,

where you have really talented and interesting people pursuing their own interests

and sharing them independently without having to homogenize it to fit

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