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0:00 The surf culture in Sri Lanka is a whole other beast, man.

0:02 These people are going I remember I was at this table at the retreat.

0:05 So, I was just meeting everybody and one of the women women running

0:08 it had a couple of her mates and they were like, all working.

0:11 They ain't like they're working in the day.

0:13 And I came over and was like, "All right, so what are you guys doing later?

0:16 Like, are you We're going to Is there like a thing

0:18 to go to like a bar or I don't know, you know what I mean?

0:20 Like, just to socialize." And they were like,

0:22 looked at me as if I was actually speaking another language.

0:24 I was like, "What's going on?" And they went, "We go to bed at 10:00.

0:28 We wake up at 5:00.

0:29 We surf." Oh, dude.

0:31 I love it.

0:32 No joke with the surf.

0:33 Keith.

0:34 Honestly, they looked at me like,

0:35 "What do you mean go out?" Like, bro, sunrise, I'm on the waves.

0:40 I was fascinated by it.

0:41 And the core message is one, you can't have your phone.

0:45 You're out in the water, truly present.

0:48 And you can't document it.

0:50 You can probably get someone to film you or your mate if you wanted to, sure.

0:53 No, no, people are filming it from the You have to do surf analysis.

0:58 [laughter] It's not not story.

1:00 People film themselves to get better.

1:01 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:02 But but I know what you're saying.

1:03 They don't necessarily like it's not like a spend a day with me surfing.

1:08 No, it's kind of a an individual pursuit without attention.

1:12 Like, truly nature-dependent.

1:14 People are looking at these these apps and being like,

1:16 "Yo, we have this 2-hour window to catch the best waves."

1:19 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to work with the world.

1:22 to work with the Yeah, you have to work with the ocean.

1:24 And and you have to respect it.