Recorded on 30 November 2022 // 35 mins

New Zealander Tom Hobbs is the Co-Founder of Spooked Kooks - a surfboard company that kicked off in 2018, making softboards made from recycled post-consumer plastic waste. Their surfboards are sold worldwide and have used 7500 kilos (and counting) of diverted plastic waste in the process.

Links to show content:

Spooked Kooks website:

spookedkooks.com/

Spooked Kooks ‘Dead Hippie’ review:

youtube.com/watch?v=9VjEDwTbBNo

Plastic Bank - who provide SK with their recycled plastic:

plasticbank.com/

Sea Trees - SK’s regenerative offset partner:

sea-trees.org/

Lazy Daisy, SK’s new surfboard:

spookedkooks.com/products/lazy-daisy-8ft

Boylan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup:

theoceancleanup.com/

Produced and hosted by the team at Wavechanger based in Sydney, Australia. Thank you to Julien Barbagallo for allowing us to use his single 'Debout' for the opening musical segment. Taken from his album Les Grands Brûlés (2021).