

Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
Conversations and stories about surfing. www.SurfSplendorPodcast.com email: hello@surfsplendorpodcast.com
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Apr 29, 2020 • 1h 11min
322 - Dustin Barca: Part Two
Professional MMA fighter, surfer, activist Dustin Barca discusses homelessness in Kauai, the environmental impact of genetically modified agriculture, political corruption, and how discipline has helped him find focus and purpose. Part two of two. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 22, 2020 • 1h 8min
321 - Dustin Barca: Part One
Professional MMA fighter, surfer, activist Dustin Barca discusses homelessness in Kauai, the environmental impact of genetically modified agriculture, political corruption, and how discipline has helped him find focus and purpose. Part one of two. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 15, 2020 • 1h 40min
320 - Jeff Hakman
Mr. Sunset and co-founder of Quiksilver USA Jeff Hakman talks about dressing in drag to avoid Vietnam, earning and losing a small fortune, conquering a 30 year substance addiction, and positioning himself to surf into 100 years of age. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 9, 2020 • 31min
319 - Nathan Meyers talks "Here & Now"
As part of our contribution to The Lockdown Surf Film Festival, David Scales interviews The Surfer's Journal Editor and film director Nathan Meyers about his film "Here & Now". The film is screening for 24 hours on LockdownSurfFilmFestival.com. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 8, 2020 • 1h 22min
318 - Mark "Papa Sau" Sausen
Californian Mark Sausen made his way with one board, a Terry Martin shape, to Kauai in 1970. Over the next 50 years he'd marry into a native family, develop a craft for building some of the most acclaimed boards for the local waves, and come to share ownership of the most prized land in all of Hawai'i. This is his story. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 2, 2020 • 2h 24min
317 - The Garden Isle
The beauty and relative seclusion of Kauai has long made it favorite, albeit somewhat little disclosed, destination for surfers. It's recently become a prized location for tech billionaires and agricultural corporations. The convergence of these varied interests has led to rapid change and an erosion of traditional Hawaiian culture. Today we hear from Max Medeiros, Bronson Lovell, and Lance Ebert about building boards and adapting to life on the Garden Isle. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 25, 2020 • 1h 29min
316 - Taylor Knox
Twenty year ‘CT veteran, meditation teacher and envy of every single surfer since 1993 for his power prowess, Taylor Knox opens up about boneheadedness, the fallacy of regret, and why his power is based in stillness. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 19, 2020 • 1h 19min
315 - Sticky Bumps: John Dahl
John Dahl is the founder/owner of Sticky Bumps and a pioneer of surf wax. Today he explains how he's been the beneficiary of serendipity, how he's leveraged incremental lessons into sustained returns and when it's the appropriate to fire or promote family members. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 12, 2020 • 1h 21min
314 - Ryan Harris
Board builder Ryan Harris runs the world's only zero waste surfboard factory. Today he shares his origin story, how designing shoes translates to shaping, the importance of starting at the bottom, and how he'll make more money from his trash than he will from selling surfboards. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 5, 2020 • 39min
313 - Jeff McCallum: Creative Kin
In this new 6 part series surfboard shaper Donald Brink spends a week in the mountains with board builders and artists. Today he chats with Jeff McCallum about the fallacy of "sustainable" surfboards, the virtues of the twin-fin Egg, and the unimportance of legacy. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices