Yesterday’s story about a local surfer’s close encounter with a shark is still a-tearing up the Internets, with 141 Facebook reposts at last count and a long thread of comments in which people accuse each other of being Nazis and such.

Well, just a few moments ago the surfer himself — known to us only as “Benji,” or maybe “Benjie” — talked with KHUM’s Larry Trask about what it’s like to mix it up with a great white. Listen!

Benji