Miscellaneous
In Episode 18 of Dropping In former professional surfer Omar Etcheverry and award winning journalist Cyrus Saatsaz welcomed KTVU meteorologist and legendary Northern California surfer Bill Martin to talk about his friendship with Green Day co-founder Mike Dirnt and how they surf together regularly, the correlation between surfers and cowboys, his early surfing days where he was living in a van while working as a meteorologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, the potential impact of rising seas from global warming on surfing and waves, being a part of the '70s and '80s countercultural surfing scene in San Francisco, how we as a society should listen more to scientists, and his experience interviewing President Barack Obama. Plus Omar and Cyrus discussed Kelly Slater's relative inaction pertaining to the Black Lives Matter movement and the show wraps up with the crew hyping up True Surf which is the greatest surfing video game on the planet.