Come and listen to the longest podcast in surf's history!
You are well aware, at this point, that I am one half of a biweekly podcast that is part of the Surf Splendor Network. It is called Grit! and hosted by the note perfect David Lee Scales who is actually and truly named after David Lee Roth. You probably also know that podcasts are not my natural environment. I love the written word. Love to sit down at the computer and punch away.
Podcasts are so… long. So… talky. Oh, sure, men like J.P. Currie can’t get enough, raving:
Painful. Chas – stick to words on a page, paper or web. That way I can read them in something other than monotone drone. You’re a ball hair away from Spicoli. David – stick to earnestness and interviews. I know Chas makes you swoon and you’re elated to be hanging with the cool kids, but you’re trying too hard.
But still. I feel like I’m finding my feet. I always feel like shorter is better but people who listen to podcasts want long so do you know what I did? I went and tried to break the medium. To test not only your patience but your sanity as well.
And here Mr. David Lee Scales and Mr. Chas Smith present the first three hour long podcast in surfing’s long and illustrious history.
Three hours!
What could possibly be talked about for three hours?
Gerry Lopez not getting barreled at Kelly Slater’s wave pool, leather-lined sneakers, Tom Carroll’s Gath helmet, ummmm ukulele playing, vodka, asymmetrical surfboards, uhhhhh and how much I hate egg shaped surfboards. (visit surfspendorpodcast.com for a visual guide!)
I dare you listen to all three hours. Defy you even. I bet you can’t. I bet your will isn’t strong enough. I bet you give up when trying to jog. I bet you can only ride your bike for two miles.
I bet you ride an egg shaped surfboard.
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F**k the haters
You win!
I’ll listen tonight. I have an early egg thing called ‘Da Slippah’. Fun but boggy. I must admit I’m kinda going off it. I’m sure they’ve improved the design since I got mine 20+ years ago. I’m saving up to buy an unsuitably small board to relive my youth (when I actually rode a board too big)
Sorry, maybe I should just go hide in the Inertia.
and yet you focus group Bruce from Austin. i can’t listen to this shit much more. but you totally redeem yourself with shitting on that egg business. that guy could have been doing Parko hacks on a shortboard. listen to Scales with his “drawn out lines”, just get on a mal already.
Someone had to do it
way to pile on Bobby and then agree with everything he said about the new WSL format 15 minutes later
i think the pile on is that who gives a fuck about bobby martinez anymore
I have never listened to a single pod cast in my entire life.
It’s funny that David is named after David Lee Roth, because this podcast is beginning to seem as endless as a Van Halen guitar solo
holy fuck, did you just try to make a case that posing in the pocket is funner than getting barreled? that is so not barrel.
Yes! If the barrel is a two foot thing you’ve got to contort to get inside.
Agree. Full Barrel
FACT: I rip eggs (and egg farts sometimes)
You dig the new Mogwai record, my dude?
So I’ve been listening to it while driving for work all morning. I got to the office to type and turned the contest on so I have something to listen to while typing. I check beachgrit and see the hatred for egg’s, that last line just made me pull out headphones to listen to the rest of the podcast while I type instead. Only 52:03 to go.
Full disclosure. I make fun of my brother for riding a devon howard egg all the time and he just bought a huevo ranchero 🙁
PS: Yes it can be to long. An hour is the goal I’d say.
No wonder they named you after him.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
What a song, what a band. Gimme some Wah Wah Dirty.
Amen. You’re out of the band.
I quit.
For the proposed article with Devon on a shortboard, Chas should get on an egg.
Devon can def ride a shortboard.
I don’t think that is in question. I just want Chas on an egg.
Good analysis on Gerry – he def wasn’t going to contort himself to fit inside a machine made micro barrel
And he’s a fucking yogi! If he can’t do it, god help us all!
what, exactly, is wrong with riding an egg-shaped surfboard?
oh, nvm, listened to that section and nothing, nothing is wrong with the egg, you’re just nutso
You would always have more fun on a non-egg unless it is 1ft windchop.
Considering that 1 ft windchop is about the only time an egg ISN’T fun, I’m inclined to believe that you’ve never really tried one.
Shiiiitttt. I’ve never ridden one. Now I guess I need to, just to see who’s right maybe 😀
first an egg, next thing ya know you’re down on your knees on a Greenough hull with a camera in a wooden box duct taped to your back
I feel like there are probably worse fates, really!
Do you like fun?
Nope, never! No fun here ever!
👀
Precisely! This is such joyful folly!
Exactly what I tell my brother nearly every session.
The extra glide/trim you get from eggs/mid-lenghts is a good feeling. Don’t know how u can hate that unless you’ve never really tuned into it. Variety and an open mind = stoke and positive energy. I know you will get it one day Chas. Namaste
it’s the best feeling
I’m sure it’s all killer and no filler, but I might wait and read KVF’s review.
Incidentally, is one of you fuckers from Nomads Hotel reading this? Give yourself an uppercut.
One of my favourite boards is an egg. I hope you didn’t talk about kicking them in the face.
did you listen Chazz?
Any highlights worth aiming for?
I’ve never made it past the intro on a podcast.
Oh don’t start with this one! Though at some point I utter “bullshit” about riding eggs and it sounds funny.
I’m a fucking troglodyte. I just find the written word more entertainment…..and I don’t know how to download the things, which means sitting in front of puter for 3 hrs.
btw, that contest report yesterday was perfect. note perfect. Tres entertainment.
podcasts are only good if the podcasters have nice voices and the production is top notch. otherwise id rather read it.
No, I didn’t.
You’re definitely wrong about podcasts in general. There is some truly mindblowing stuff out there. It’s a massively underrated form of media. I’m also not sure how anyone performs menial chores etc without them. Cooking, driving, cleaning, dog walking, shed building…all enriched by podcasts. Get yourself a cheap set of Bluetooth headphones and educate yourself! (But don’t let this Chas n Dave thing be your marker).
Podcast underrated?
Maybe in sunny Scotland…….you can’t walk down the main street here without tripping over someone making a podcast.
It’s as popular as breathing.
I always got the impression that on your “street” the only things you might be in danger of tripping over would be chooks or blackfellas.
Hey JP Currie, what’s chooks and blackfellas?
Listen, I know you’re chuffed with yourself because you know my real name n all. But it’s becoming a bit like in school when a kid overhears a teacher calling another teacher by their first name and then uses in front of his classmates to try and look cool.
I’d really rather you didn’t try to talk to me at all.
The most egregious behaviour on this site was when MC did you nasty like that.
Nah, it wasn’t him. I think I originally outed myself because of the stramash over the thing I wrote about Dane. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. I don’t crave anonymity (though it was sometimes fun), I just get a bit bored with the same 2 or 3 people here using my real name like it’s some kind of dirty word!
Unless you’re a black fella you should probably leave that term alone. Same with chook.
Don’t dare try and misconstrue this as me intending that term as a racist slur you moron.
And what are you actually saying? That only chooks should be allowed to call themselves chooks? Good one.
That’s exactly what I’m saying about chooks you humourless fucking wank stain! Fuck me!
Our previous interactions haven’t exactly been marked by good natured jibes and jest, have they?
I do concur.
Podcasts are great if the content is interesting and the talent can engage the audience. Oh, and if the talent isn’t American.
In the podcast, you talked about WSL shying away from controversy. Well, it just happened again… at the 8:33 mark this morning, Kolohe started punching what appeared to be his locker and possibly board after he lost. The camera man recorded it for 2 seconds, then quickly turned away! I’m sure they are in the process of erasing it as we speak.
I got a video of it, it’s on my Insta story right now @SurfSplendor. The WSL might edit it out of the Heat Analyzer. Once again, Turpel calmly ignored it.
fake news. what, they threaten to take your press credential?
Did it get pulled down already?
I wish they showed more of that. Like losing round 2 to Jaddy at your own home break? What is Dino saying to him right now? Will he start surfing Uppers to avoid showing his face at post-event Lowers? There’s just so much to be seen and heard!