Does anyone know the story behind the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue? Because we’d like to hear it. Whoever the genius behind switching up a boring ass sports weekly into a multimedia powerhouse institution like the Swimsuit Issue is someone we need to learn from. Anyway, pardon our ignorance and enjoy the latest episode of Alana Blanchard’s “Surfer Girl” where she learns she’s going to be in SI. Honestly, she doesn’t sound that pumped about the news, but maybe they recreated that part, and she still turned it up in Las Vegas. See her complete pictorial here.

In a world of economic depression, constant threat of war, and social inequities that boggle the mind, sometimes all we need is to watch a beautiful girl surfing. Thank you Network A, you may have just saved the planet.