Hello, David Scales here.

Quick reminder, before we get into today's show, this show is listeners supported,

and as a thank you to everyone who contributes,

Allman Surfboards has kindly donated a surfboard for us to give away.

It's their R-series soft-top.

But not just any soft-top, a high-performance soft- top, if there ever was one, with stringers,

quad, futures, fin boxes, the whole thing is recyclable and made in the USA.

It's a great addition to any quiver.

On September 1st, we will raffle it off to one lucky person who gets plucked from those who have

donated to this show in the month of

August.

So if you want in, you can donate on surf splendorpodcast.com slash donate, where I also have

photos of that board and links to almond surfboards.com.

Oh, and look who we have as a guest next week. I guess the space race for

for these wave pools, it's going to be, it's going to be awesome, you know, it's only going to

benefit surfing. But I find that after I've been there for a day or whatever, going back to the

ocean, I just get way more excited to surf in the ocean. But look, it's incredible.

That's three-time world champ Mick Fanning. He was in LA for 24 hours and I caught up with him

to chat about, quote, retirement, basically his post-CT life and get his thoughts on some current

topics, including the WSL shortcomings,

whether he'd be willing or not to surf a wave pool as a CT event.

That's all next week, Wednesday.

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