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Todays guest is Scott Bass the "Podfather" of surf talk. Scott is a 50 year old male that drinks oolong tea and plays pickle ball, but don't hold that against him. He's a frothed out surf grom at heart. He helped coin the phrase "Yeah Guy"!!! And he'll be the first to admit it, that "surfers are the worst". With a chance meeting with "Surfer" Magazine editor Steve Hawk on a Mexico surf trip he got the opportunity to work for Surfer as the "Online Editorial" Director for 10 years. Scott and Surfer Magazine both weathered the storm in this new digital landscape. While working at Surfer Magazine Scott would developed an idea for a "Surf Talk Show". It was clunky back then but Scott would have a panel of revolving guests on his Internet radio surf talk show. These guests...mostly Chris Mauro, James Pribram and Jeff "Baldy" Baldwin. The Surfer Magazine gig would eventually fizzle out and Scott Bass and "Baldy" took their show to terrestrial radio...a "Sports" station of all places, where they rebranded the name of the show to "Down the Line Surf Talk Radio" with a focus on San Diego Surf with Report "Call-ins" and revolving "Drop-ins" from the Surf Community. The Show was high energy with a clash of personalities and a pattern of Scott constantly interrupting his guests but especially His Co-Host "Baldy". Scott held the Torch for "Surf Talk" Radio for decades...keeping it alive with his stoke and passion. Radio would run its course and "Bassy" and "Baldy" would part ways. David Scales, an emerging surf media talent was in another county looking for a knowledgeable surf personality to help him Co-Host a "Surf News" Style show for his "up and coming" Surf media juggernaut called the "Surf Spledor Network". Scott and David would eventually hook up and start recording "Surf Talk". The two has amazing chemistry and what they had together. Together they would go on to Co-Create the surf podcast know as SPIT, a surf news show where there cover everything under the sun. One of the best Surf Podcasts of all time! All the while that was going on in Scott Bass's life there was something else going on behind the scenes...Scott hustles surfboards. Him and his wife would turn it into a business, a surfboard trade show called "Sacred Craft" a yearly event honoring the true craftsmen of the surfboard making industry...the backbone, the guys covered in dust stinking like resin in the back allies. And where better to do it then the County that makes more surfboards than any other place in the world....San Diego Baby! Anyways...The "Sacred Craft" Surfboard gathering would grow and become the premier Southern California surf Festival.......with the popularity of the growing event, Scott decided to rebrand the event name to "THE BOARDROOM SHOW" a gathering of the surfboard making industry under one roof. Bringing together legends, shapers, craftsmen, designers, artisans, lovers of music, friends and all things surf. And he's doing it once again..BIGGER and BETTER than ever!! Join us this September 25th and 26th as Scott Bass brings you "THE BOARDROOM SHOW" at the Del Mar FAIRGROUNDS in San Diego California. Till then...here is my conversation with the great...SCOTT BASS!!! YEAH GUY!