Welcome back to the show. Instead of our usual one-on-one conversation, we're having a roundtable discussion today with two of the four founders of the recently launched One Planet, One People, an organization that provides resources and data for climate action, racial and social equality, both in and around the surf space.

One Planet One People was founded by Ryan Harris, Salema Masacela, Danielle Black Lions, and Hunter Jones in direct response to Black Lives Matter.

Or should I say in response to various surf industry leaders and brands

contacting these four individuals and asking for guidance, consulting, and direction for how to

diversify their businesses? So Ryan and Silema will explain one planet, one people, as well as

their perspective on the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement through

the lens of surfing. Ryan Harris is a surfboard builder in Los Angeles, California. He

owns and operates Earth Technology surfboards, the world's first zero-waste surfboard factory.

I did a full episode with Ryan back on March 12th of this year. So if you'd like to

hear his backstory and more about his surfboards, go ahead and check that out. Salema Masakala,

you probably know best as Sal. He's an American television host, longtime action sports commentator

whose parlayed his work at the X Games and the 2014 Olympics

to be a correspondent and executive producer on the Emmy Award-winning Vice on HBO, as well as

their Viceland series. Massacela is also the co-founder of stoked mentoring, an organization dedicated

to mentoring at-risk youth through action sports.

He also serves on the advisory board for the Lunchbox Fund, which is a nonprofit that provides daily meals to students in South Africa.

He's also the son of famed jazz musician Hugh Massacela, which is relevant to part of our conversation here.

And he's been on this show twice before, first in March of 2017, and then again in January of

2020. So our conversation here today was scheduled for June 17th in Palm Springs, California.

We had all been invited by a mutual friend to surf the testing phase of the new Palm Springs

Surf Club.

We were planning to surf it from 9 a.m. until noon and then record this podcast after lunch,

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