Chas Smith and broadcaster David Scales tackle the big issues!
Recently, Chas Smith had his bi-weekly frolic with the podcaster David Scales on his show Surf Splendor. Usually, I find podcasts an ordeal, a torture likely to put me in bed for a week or longer.
Does anyone know how to cut the dead air? The gags that don’t work? The eternal diversions that stretch the things beyond an hour?
Mr Scales, however, is a passionate broadcaster, and pedant, whose fury when the rules of grammar are broken is something worth listening to. Last week, Albee Layer had his neck wrung; today it’s Martin Potter for using the world literally instead of figuratively.
(Will someone point out to Mr Scales about his own grammar crimes, such as the unstoppable onslaught of the word, like, as a filler word, the Californian semi-colon.)
Chas, meanwhile, talks about Wilko’s hair, why forced marriage is a good thing, the ideal body shape for surfers, front-foot deck grip, soft surfboards and so forth.
It’s light but it ain’t indolent.
Listen.
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Ironic part is that based on the podcast banter (and I really like the podcast), the only person who seemed to have not seen any of these Insta posts was David’s co-host. And to think the Chas posted many of them.
Start a GoFundMe to buy Chas and Dave a bottle of shampoo to share
That bottle would last a longtom, sorry long time.
Long live the Dirty Chop Hop.
Chas- something David said regarding your persona in writing versus in person drew a parallel to an interview with a famous actress I heard once. The actress said, “when someone comes up to you and says I HATED you in that movie!”, it’s actually a huge compliment because that means you are playing the part so well and are tapping into their emotions which is a real art. My guess is that your writing evokes similar emotions in people. Bravo!
scales sucks! shame too because the topics should/could be interesting but he kills it with his blowhard grammar police, half-educated sanctimony.
how to cut? do that snip snip that the miracle of non-linear editing programs allow and put a music sting in between if necessary. keep it moving!
imagine you’re telling stories in a bar – if eyes are glazing over and watching highlights of day-old games, edit
Dear The Editors/Derek: I’m not sure how well-versed in the skate world you are, but The Nine Club podcast is fan-fucking-tastic. I don’t generally like podcasts either! YouTube it! It’s a long form interview format with skate world heavy hitters. Our own Circe Wallace gets some major props in the Paul Rodriguez episode! It’s so wonderfully open and natural. The opposite of overly conservative surf world interviews, certainly.
you like it better than Tommy G’s one? Reynolds’ one last week was entertaining. We need a boss in surfing so badly.
Way better! Reynolds on the 9 Club was SO GOOD. No disrespect to Tommy G of course. Different format too.
I can’t repeat this enough. Fuck a surf podcast, The Nine Club is where it’s at.
What are your fave episodes? Mine are Reynolds, Stevie Williams, Marc Johnson, Biebel… And I really like Prod now, after listening to his.
Marc Johnson was favorite. Also really liked the Austin Amelio one. Carroll, Sinclair were good. The filmer kid who gave them the sign was funny, although he tried a bit too hard. Stevie Williams is hilarious.
That’s the thing, they’re all funny without trying too hard to be funny. That’s where the surf guys go wrong: they’re all trying too hard and they make themselves the center of the conversation instead of centering on the stories from the past where the real shit is so funny it can’t be denied.
Agree. And yeah, Sinclair was great. Carroll was somehow more of a weirdo than I expected. Reda was good too. We could go on for hours.
Pottz is figuratively using the entire world, Scales won’t have it.
How dare you criticize David’s explanations for the people who don’t have smart phones, have no computer or any sort of internet connection, and only realize there is a podcast out there that highlights the most important surf news and gimmicks, from parking lot fodder?! That’s the only thing that drives them to a public library to wait in line while the homeless finish their section 8 house applications online to check BG and listen to the most recent episode!
my first website! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
not really. but i wish it was!
ahhh those were the days. the ‘design’ kookiness was epic. so much better than this cookie cutter crap.
i mean his spots are secret, aren’t they?
Who is Steve Shearer? WHO IS STEVE SHEARER? FFS
bus driver, chicken farmer, lover of bonzer surfboards, epic wife who makes underground surf films about women (thank YOU!), can handle beer but weak on the harder sauce, very principled, kicker of Rip Curl ass, writer of crystal clear prose, reader of only manly literature, dapper wearer of saggy straw hats, secretive rock fisherman.
A GINGER!
yes, i am a stalker. i can see you right NOW, steve.
v. creepy Angel.
principled surf writer, teeheeheee. You’re funny.
DrunkenAngel said you are very principled, but said nothing about you being a surf writer. And to think he is your biggest fan. Not to mention something about wearing diapers? Confused in Cali
who are “the editors”?
it seems a way to slide some work experience kiddies and more unpaid lovelies into the fray while avoiding any personal attachment to them and so communist uprising on their behalf to demand a seizing of the means of production.
The conversation flows like a really awkward first date.
DONT EVER DO A LANDING PAGE LIKE STAB! CAPS LOCK
$100 bucks Beachgrit would do the biggest, longest loading, epileptic seizure inducing landing page in CAPS LOCKS the World has ever seen if they could afford the luxury.