Welcome back. Look what we have for you today. Our annual check-in with Matt Warshaw.

Warshaw and Dickmets are going toe-to-to-for the title of Most Frequent Guest. And it's an honor for me to even be able to say that. Both are welcome back anytime.

But this is our annual check-in with matt warshaw we always do it at the

end of the year uh if you're new here welcome but you should know that matt warshaw is the author

and founder of the encyclopedia of surfing and the author of the history of surfing he's an

original z boy from dogtown if you've seen that documentary

in the film adaptation. He's the Oxford English Dictionary Consultant for all things, Surf.

He's a former pro-surfer, former editor at Surfer Magazine, and much, much more. He's dedicated

the last decade of his life to the EOS.s.surf, also known as the

Encyclopedia of Surf.com, which is in the middle of its fund drive. So become a member

for $5 a month if you aren't already. And if you are responsible for a charitable budget

here at the year end, consider allocating some of that towards preserving

surf history. Matt has spent the last year or two building out a new project called EOS

Archives and he'll explain that here today. Suffice to say he's dedicated to cataloging and archiving

surfing's original source material, often directly from the mouths of the people themselves who lived

it and created it. And without him, so much of it would actually be lost. And very little of it

currently is accessible on the internet. Or very little of it actually even exists digitally.

So this is a very important project that we need to support his efforts on because without him,

nobody else is doing it.

But before we get into it, a quick word to acknowledge our industry partners without whom

Surf Splender would not be possible.

That is the Surf Rider Foundation, Real Water Sports, and Vayer Watches.

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