Kelly Slater

Yeah.

It's funny because Andy Irons, who I mentioned before, he and I had a big rivalry and then that went on for about six or seven years or something.

So that motivated you?

Yeah, but then he and I became pretty good friends and we kind of dropped the whole thing.

You know, we like kind of got past our, you know, both of our peaks in the rivalry and stuff.

And I remember being in the water with him.

We're in Huntington Beach and there's about 30,000 people on the beach.

he was really like he was in a real like personal growth phase and he was like trying to get some things together in his head and you know step back from the the surf thing like the being the pro surfer a little bit and and um do some personal growth and i remember he looked up at the beach and he goes

fuck, I hate this.

That's what I mean.

He just looked at the beach and goes, I fucking hate it.

I just don't even want, why am I even, why did I put myself out here?

I don't even want to be here right now.

Yeah.

And I was like, yeah, I mean, I've totally felt that before.

Gary, I get paid to go surf around the world.

Well, that's true.

Money's a motivator too.

I can't complain.

It's not all that hard.