Are you ready for your mind to be blown?
Joe Turpel, cool as ice, maybe a mafia hitman hiding in the witness protection program, maybe an undercover CIA operative, has refused to say the word “shark” like he is getting paid off. I have begun to wonder if he as a speech impediment. Can he not make sibilants? Can he not make voiceless velar stops?
Any time a shark swims though the lineup Joe Turpel calls it something else. Either a “hop on the sled to reset” a “little moment in the water” or “another incident in the lineup.”
Never a shark.
Until yesterday. New footage has surfaced of Joltin’ Joe Turpel finally uttering the word shark.
Ladies and gentlemen…..
Joe Turpel saying the word “shark.”
Shark! Shark!
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Does anyone else think Joe mispronounced ‘moment’ and actually meant ‘movement’?
Joe’s hawaii t shirt rivals chad’s defend hawaii t shirt. !!
Am i the only one who feels there is something a bit spooky about Chas? – like he is the Rolf Harris of surf journalism. Like in a few years some creeped out scandal will be exposed. That combo of antagonistic, ice cold journalism with those sleazed out loose necked shirts and that weird sleave gives me the jitters. I’m not from America tho so maybe he normal over there??
It would appear so.
You realise if he does say “shark” then the flood gates will open
“I’m here with 89 world champ Shark potter”, “top turn bottom shark combination” ” he sharks it off the top” and so on…………
Few articles by Negs, longtom and whoever can put their hand up, to pad this shit out
Michael’s only been gone 4 hours and Beachgrit hits rock bottom!
Lets drill through the God damn rock-bed and go deeper!
First he needs to get throwing disqus to make a turpel puppet,I like the Photoshop, but let’s be real some dimples a chin slats and a hand up his ass would really give the click bait some substance. Next talk about the low times when Joe couldn’t decide airwalk or vans in the mid 90’s. Investigative journalism, man!
There are new rock bottoms to discover!
The eternal question; when will peak stupidity be achieved?
Just when you think things can’t get any stupider, you usually hear the phrase “Hold my beer”.
I’m stoked to have been lucky enough to collaborate with Chas and helping BeachGrit raise the bar for surf journalism #proudface
I thank you from the very bottom of my heart……
It’s the polysyllabics that he struggles with. 2+ and the middle bit just becomes a slushy mess