Gary Brecka

I mean, and it stands to reason that you love the ocean and you respect the waves and you respect nature so much, but how did that come about?

Did you just build a respect and a love, not just through the sport, but for the ocean and for the environment?

Or was it, did you see things going on that just kind of turned your stomach and you became this evangelist for the environment?

I mean, talk a little bit about like your, you know, why you're so passionate about conservancy.

I mean, even your sunscreens, you know, you talk about how they're not, they're re-safe.

Yeah, I think that's different than carbon emission.

I mean, they're starting to melt it down and turn it into other stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, we lived in Miami, and the condo that we were in had a recycle chute and a trash chute.

And for like a year and a half, we would put recycle down the recycle chute and trash down the trash chute.

And then one day, I had something show up in the receiving, and I actually saw that they came into the same bin.

Unbelievable.

And it was just piled up on one side of the bin and piled up on the other side of the bin.

Yeah.

going through all that effort.

Yeah, you felt good when you were upstairs, but when you went downstairs and saw the real thing.

I love it.

You know, sometime around September of last year, you had a prenovo body scan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was actually this year.