Kelly Slater
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So they would run their media rights.
Billabong would run them the way they want, Quicksilver the way they want, and they would own everything from that particular event.
Now we have a world tour.
The WSL took over from what the ASP, it used to be called ASP, and they took it over and they own all the media rights to all the events now.
So it's not the individual sponsors.
So that kind of changed as well.
And, you know, you could argue good and bad points about that, but it changed what our sport is to some degree.
But the brands, the original brands are not what they were.
And I don't know if there's anybody at any of the companies that would try to claim that they are the same.
Right.
It just changed.
The environment's changed.
And now new brands are coming in.
I mean, I created my own brand.
What's that one?
It's called Outer Known.
How's that doing?
We're doing all right.
You've got to be, man.
You're the greatest surfer of all time.