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Surf Splendor

224 – Aaron James, PhD: Surfing with Sartre

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Today’s episode is with Dr. Aaron James. A Harvard PhD, professor and chair of philosophy at UC Irvine, James is a lifelong surfer and the author of the new book “Surfing With Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry Into A Life of Meaning”. The book examines our current era of leisure, the value of centering one’s … Continue reading "224 – Aaron James, PhD: Surfing with Sartre" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the show. I just got back from Florida for the Florida

0:06.6

Surf Film Festival. Perhaps you heard about that over on the grit, but it was awesome to connect

0:13.4

with East Coast fans. Thank you all for coming out. It was also really rad to watch surf films

0:19.6

in a theater. Great environment. It's kind of what

0:23.0

surf film was designed for. The energy is palpable in a group of people and a group of like-minded

0:29.1

people, no less, surf fanatics. Also, though, through interacting with people, I realized

0:34.1

through a few conversations that not everyone is aware somehow, not everyone is aware of the various shows that I'm producing.

0:42.9

As I've kind of delineated things onto their own feeds, I think things get lost for people who aren't listening on a weekly basis.

0:50.9

So this is your reminder that you can find everything.

0:53.9

I'm producing a lot of shows. You can find

0:55.8

them all on surf splendorpodcast.com. The shows are spit with Scott Bass for surf news,

1:03.6

The Grit with Chaz Smith for surf gossip. Those are gross generalizations, but that is essentially

1:09.7

the genre for each of those shows

1:11.5

and now surfboard shaper donald brink has his own show swell with my soul so those are the shows

1:19.2

those are the titles you could search for in your iTunes app but again you could find them all

1:23.6

on surf splendor podcast.com and then if you enjoy this content and that content,

1:30.9

you should know that it's all listeners supported with an assist from sponsors like Spy and Need

1:37.3

Essentials. If you're interested in being a sponsor, feel free to reach out. But to support

1:43.3

the listeners who contribute to this show, I am raffling

1:47.0

off a surfboard this month and a liar. So everyone who's made a financial contribution to the

1:52.7

show in the month of June will be entered to win. I'm going to select that winner on July 1st.

1:58.2

Leon from Morningwood Surfboards on Oahu will shape a custom-built

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