317 - The Garden Isle

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

The beauty and relative seclusion of Kauai has long made it favorite, albeit somewhat little disclosed, destination for surfers. It's recently become a prized location for tech billionaires and agricultural corporations. The convergence of these varied interests has led to rapid change and an erosion of traditional Hawaiian culture. Today we hear from Max Medeiros, Bronson Lovell, and Lance Ebert about building boards and adapting to life on the Garden Isle. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, David Scales here for Surf Splendor. I've got a gargantuan episode for you today.
0:05.5	This one has been in the works for some time, but the gift of quarantine is probably the reason
0:11.2	why I was able to actually execute my plan here. There is probably 40 hours wrapped up in this episode.
0:18.2	So aside from the travel and conducting the interviews themselves,
0:22.3	which in the case of this episode are probably twice the length, the raw interviews themselves
0:28.3	are twice the length of what you will hear on air. In addition to all that stuff, there's also a
0:33.6	lot of prep, editing, publishing, backend tech related to all of that stuff. And it's been really kind of interesting that through a lot of prep editing publishing backend tech related to all of that stuff and it's been really
0:39.7	kind of interesting that through a lot of the planning for this episode and then releasing this
0:44.7	series amidst this COVID-19 crisis I have found it increasingly important and prudent to not
0:52.2	entirely rely on the surf industry for our support
0:56.4	as a podcast and as a network. And that's actually how we designed this business once it became a
1:03.4	business a couple of years ago after doing it for free for four years. The goal was to set it
1:09.8	up in such a way that we didn't fall into the same pitfall that
1:13.5	legacy surf media found itself in, where their editorial was being influenced by the companies
1:19.2	who bought advertising. So as our former guest, Jamie Brissick, worded it in my episode with him.
1:26.8	When he took the position as editor-in-chief at
1:28.8	a surf magazine, he said that he was disillusioned by the reality that his job was simply
1:34.2	writing glorified press releases for the brands. So we, of course, love the surf industry
1:41.1	and want to support it and want to work with brands that we like and that we
1:46.1	choose to work with. But we made the decision to open up a donation platform where this show
1:51.4	would remain free, but you, the listener, could contribute however you saw fit. And then we would
1:57.1	just grow the business and the shows to the degree that the donations came in.
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