Honoured to be joined this week by Selema, my only guest so far to have voiced a surfing penguin in one of my favourite films, Surfs Up!
We discussed many things starting with his life as a world renowned action sports commentator and presenter and why surfing is his chosen love.
We then moved onto one of the serious issues that no matter how hard many people have tried, cannot be ignored in 2020 after the whole world watched a policeman kneel on a black mans neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
As a white, middle class man who grew up in a tiny town in the highlands of Scotland, my first real awareness of these problems arose on my first trip to Cape Town, seeing a country (also my favourite city in the world btw) living so differently to how I grew up. With this in mind we've all had to look at our roles in the issue of race in 2020. I'm humbled that Selema was willing to talk about his experiences and knowledge with me and I hope to continue to educate myself.
Throughout our entire conversation one thing that continued to come up was to always be authentically yourself. The idea that when you try to mimic or behave like someone else, whether it's a peer or even a hero of yours, it never works. There is only 1 you, and by being you, you can achieve so much more than if you try to be someone else.
Finally we discussed beers, what we've been watching during lockdown and the odd nature of meeting famous people.
