Realwatersports.com is our beloved sponsor today. You know them, you love them. I'm sure that you've been to their website by now.

And what they're known for, really, is their surfboard inventory and doing really great reviews of all of their surfboards.

Real Water Sports just took inventory of 50 Maurice Cole surfboards. Of course, I've talked about the Roger Heinz time machine that he and I were working on. It's a board design that he and I were working on that he is delivered to Real Water Sports. I think there's a couple of those left. So go check those out. And of course, they also stock board bags, fens, leashes, all the gear that you would need for surfing in general.

So go check them out for anything and everything that you need. And also because they're such a great retail partner for us here on Surf Splendor.

So realwatersports.com. Enjoy. com enjoy it is our four hundredth episode episode if you can believe it is our 400th episode, if you can believe that.

And that's just of Surf Splendor, by the way.

We've got hundreds of episodes, of course, of spit in the grit.

Probably verging on a thousand in total.

Probably within this year, I would think we'll hit that mark.

Anyways, I would love to be able to

throw a party for this 400th celebration. At the bare minimum, just creates some sort of a celebratory

graphic for social media. But to be honest, who has time for any of that? I'm just having a hard

time keeping up with our regular recording and publishing schedule, much less promote these

individual episodes. So no time to party, but this is just a subtle nod of acknowledgement and

gratitude for being able to do this work and a gratitude for you. It's also kind of worth

acknowledging that particularly good episodes or resonant episodes tend to land on milestones.

That happened again this year with Alex Gray's epic tale of being quarantined on cloudbreak to kick

off 2022 or in years past. Derek Heinz episode was the first of the year. Dick Met's series was all

kind of right at the end in the beginning of the year. And so the

alignment of those important episodes, the ones that become everyone's favorite, aligning with

milestones, are completely happenstance. And so it is with this 400th episode and fan favorite

Salema Massacela. It's been two years since our last one-on-one

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