First episode: Matt "Mayhem" Biolos and his amazing volume tank!
Let me be the very first to welcome you to BeachGrit’s newest offering. A television series we call Like, Bitchin!
Each two-to-three minute episode will pull back the curtain on some pointless extravagance of our little surf world. Some inconsequential but almost fun-ish insight.
Are you curious about how rocker changes the way you ride?
About Michael Tomson’s opinion as to why our industry died?
About China’s bald-faced Horn of Africa land grab and how this is affecting the world potash market?
Well, take your shoes off and pour whatever alcohol you have nearby into whatever juice was leftover from breakfast. You’re going to need it!
It won’t be the most exciting 2:51 you’ll spend today but it is worth it to watch Matt Biolos, a sculpture in his absolute prime, do a Chris Ward impression. Also of note is host Chas Smith’s very clear ignorance around a surfboard. He has no idea what volume has to do with anything and is still puzzling over which half of the board is the deck.
This first season will feature eight episodes in total. Number one explores Matt “Mayhem” Biolos and his Volume Tank.
I went to Matt’s lovely San Clemente artist cottage on a fine spring day to hear him talk volume and what it means to the shaper and, thereby, us. It won’t be the most exciting 2:51 you’ll spend today but it is worth it to watch Matt Biolos, a sculpture in his absolute prime, do a Chris Ward impression. Also of note is host Chas Smith’s very clear ignorance around a surfboard. He has no idea what volume has to do with anything and is still puzzling over which half of the board is the deck.
Real quick, do you remember Like, Bitchin? Derek and I started a blog years and years ago with that name. I can’t remember anything about it and do you want to know why?
We became very embroiled in a certain controversy and ripped the whole thing down and we ripped it down so so successfully that there is no trace of it anywhere. Poof. Gone.
But back to Like, Bitchin! 2.0. It is much better than the original. Maybe.
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Now we should all get barrels….to check our liters
science is hard
Wasn’t as good as this: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Yeah my friends had seizures from that shit, at expo. Great time!
what do expect the engineering team to do, weld a second 55 gal. drum on top of the other one?
The height of three Mexicans.
it would be cool if buoyancy and volume were equivalent. we need to measure buoyancy in pounds. just push down on it with a bathroom scale and see what it takes to sink the whole deal. epoxy corks compared to PU.
I see stars & bars flag flying on the white truck. wow, future blood feud?
oh. one more thing. there should be a competition. commentators send in your videos now. we just need a prize to fuel the enthusiasm.
of note, the boys have just provided proof that Biolos and Kevin Smith are the same guy.
oh. and there should be a uniform for all hosts. i have just the thing.
you are welcome.
put shade cloth on chas’s head and he’d look like a cocktail umbrella.
the solution is a pompous british accent. turns any mediocre production into gold. just ask the bbc. i can source for you if you please. either that or Glaswegian accent. has the same effect but by fuck do you laugh … oh so joyous especially after the lads are onto the 5th pint.
but whateve you do, please make it so i never have to hear a californian accent in surfing again. it has to stop because my ears can bleed no more.
BG should get Micro on board.
seems a bit archaic, surely theres some lazer gadget thingo that can measure the litres?
the CAD program is using bullshit math to reach a number, but this is the only way to check it, and they’re really getting displacement
doesn’t the whole board need to be under water to measure displacement? edit – never mind I have the attention span of a fucking hummingbird.
Bravo Boys. Biolos is still a fucking kook.
i love him. he makes me look ‘fit’.
I liked the production immensely. I’d say less surfing and more people moving forward.
worse than stab mag
I’m just happy that my profile picture is suddenly so relevant.
What’s up with Biolos’ hair? Is that really the best he can do?
3 minutes is not a TV episode you fuckin lazy bludgers
Was that a Haole Puncher Production?
when did you guys pick up ellen to host the show?