Kai Lenny on The Plug w/Justin Jay
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today Justin Jay chats with professional big-wave surfer and one of the most respected watermen on the planet, Kai Lenny. He's mastered stand-up paddling, windsurfing, kitesurfing, and foiling—pushing the limits of what's possible on waves of consequence. The two discuss his relationship with Zuck, his relief efforts after the Maui fires, building a multi-disciplinary career, and staying grounded through it all. Enjoy The Plug with Justin Jay on all podcast platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all David Scales here for Surf Splendor, and I'm just here to introduce you to Justin Jay. |
| 0:06.4 | Justin is a longtime friend. He's a New York City-based photographer, music fashion, some surf. |
| 0:13.2 | You actually may remember him from his coffee table book, H-I-1K, documenting his 10 winters on the North Shore. |
| 0:24.2 | He also has a podcast called The Plug with Justin Jay, and last week he just dropped an episode with Kai Lenny. I thought that you might |
| 0:30.2 | want to hear that. And also know that in two weeks on April 24th, he's also releasing an episode |
| 0:35.1 | with Jerry Lopez. These aren't softball interviews. He talks |
| 0:39.4 | about wave storms with Jerry. He talks about Mark Zuckerberg today with Kai Lenny. And the reason |
| 0:44.9 | that I'm putting this Kai Lenny episode in Surf Splenders feed is that I could tell you to click |
| 0:49.6 | around to go find his podcast, but that might be a click too far for some of you. But hopefully after hearing |
| 0:56.2 | this Kylie Lenny chat, then you will be motivated to go subscribe to the plug with Justin Jay, |
| 1:01.9 | just to make sure that you catch that next Jerry Lopez interview. And by the way, |
| 1:06.0 | past episodes feature interviews with Nathan Florence, Herbie Fletcher, Stacey Peralta, Lisa Anderson, and a host of other |
| 1:14.0 | celebrities, musicians, art world luminaries. It's pretty far ranging. So go check it out. And in the |
| 1:20.6 | meantime, enjoy this chat with Justin and Kai Lenny. And in fact, I'm going to be back here |
| 1:26.1 | on Surf Splendor this week with an |
| 1:28.1 | episode with Sam George, less than a week. I mean, I'll be here within 24 hours. I'll publish |
| 1:33.4 | that in this feed as well. So look forward to Surf Splendor with Sam George and enjoy this |
| 1:38.7 | conversation with Justin Jay and Kai Lenny. All right. See you soon. I always ask myself, how much is my life worth? And in the |
| 1:46.4 | moment, when you're underwater, you'd pay anything. It's not a fair world in big waves, because the ocean |
| 1:52.0 | doesn't care about whether you're rich, you're poor. It's just this incredible force that if you're in |
| 1:57.9 | the wrong place around in time, everyone's treated absolutely equally. |
| 2:06.4 | And so what's the price of admission? You either pay it forward or you pay it on the day. |
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