Big show today.

Big show today. World ranked number two in 1991, Big Wave TOW-in Charger in the mid-2000s,

son of an Olympic high diver who drilled into him the paramount importance of style.

Brad Gerlach is our host today.

Not our guest, but our host.

As for our guest, he holds more records in surf than anyone.

Youngest world champ, oldest world champ, most world titles, 11.

Most heat wins, most contest wins.

He is a diamond-handed Bitcoin investor. He has

gracefully aged to 49 years. And if you watch the video that accompanies this interview, it appears

as though he's actually reverse aging. Co-owner of Firewire Surfboards and Slater Designs, co-owner

of Outer Known Clothing, co-founder and

conceptualizer of Kelly Slater Wave Company.

The man owns the waves, the boards, the clothing, and he was just one spot away from representing

Team USA in surfing's inaugural debut at the Olympics. John John Florence came back from injury in 2019 simply to surf in the Pipe Masters to protect

his own Olympic spot against Kelly Slater's climb up the rankings and in fact John John

was able to secure that spot. As the 2021 season reconvened after the COVID

hiatus and was gearing up for the Olympics in July, John John Florence hit a wonky end section

during a heat at Margaret River, and he tore his ACL in his left knee upon the landing. So here he

was in May with an injury with only two months

to be ready for the Olympics. This gave Kelly Slater a glimmer of hope as the first alternative.

But this wasn't to be. John John had surgery almost immediately within days after that ACL tear.

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