The Weekly Grit with David Lee Scales and Chas Smith…
What can I tell you? I love Mexican food, Southern gothic writers, horror movies, fireplaces, people who tell the truth, corn on the cob, Dr Pepper (which I cannot find in Bondi), old movies, Céline, ketchup on my steak and…
The Weekly Grit with David Lee Scales and BeachGrit principal Chas Smith.
It isn’t exactly weekly, and if there’s anything more excruciating than something that proclaims a regular slot but doesn’t meet scheduling I’m yet to find it, but when it does appear I’m a fan of sorts.
In this almost one-hour-and-a-half episode, Chas and David talk surf media wars and the latest roughhousing between Stab and the Inertia (“Zach comes across as, well… pathetic… is a nice word,” says Chas) as well as Chas’ “scorched earth policy” media strategy.
“I dragged everyone into the gutter,” says Chas.
Also, whether you’re a “goober” if you punch your surfboard, neck tattoos, a discussion on whether or not the Hypto Krypto is for clumsy hoodlums and some rumination on the question, has a pro surfer has ever grown a satisfactory beard.
“John John l0oks like a 108-year-old Chinese man,” says David.
Listen here.
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Stop wearing wetsuits from the big brands.
David and Chas are fun to listen to… I just have to try to get the fact out of my head that both David and Chas are too lazy to want to wax their own surfboards and want to hire some poor schlep to do it for them. Lost 90% of the respect that you had built up. Chas, even with that said, I will pull that canister cord as requested if i see you out at the “D” sometime soon. Worth listening if you have not yet.
Ketchup on steak?
That is a fucking travesty right there!! Marinated all day then quick 1 1/2 min per side on the old webber and it is the bomb!! No other condiments needed
Salt and garlic powder . A thin slice of butter stop for the last 30 seconds…..
ok yep in marinate – all day 7/8 hrs then it perfect – will try butter addition
Oops, sorry. I can’t expect any sort of cool or hip factor when DLS uses the term “Shred On” with all seriousness and not any bit of irony.
At about the 1hr 48 min mark of Rory Parker’s latest podcast, he and Jake Tellkamp recount how Jake was once living at Tom Curren’s house, but Jake ended up getting kicked out due to smoking weed with Tom’s sons…using Tom’s weed pipe! If I understood them correctly (the disjointed story was difficult to follow but the words are there), a Beach Grit / The Grit follow up would be amazing.
no one cares about smoking weed
Apparently you do.
fuck off
classic..
I would prefer to never again hear one of Jake Tellkamp’s stories.
What – somebody thought Jake Tellkamp was worth a podcast?
Word, Chas Smith needs to meet Chaz Dean and get that wig piece fixed
Nice to see you trying your hand at some in-house badvertorial, Derek.
P.S. Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
I’ve been waiting three years for a legitimate reason to name check Flannery O’Connor. Thanks Dekka.
Most Hayden Shapes made at GSI in Thailand. That’s one reason for being considered a kook. Plus isnt the goal to surf better? Hayden thought so, opened a factory, but didnt get the amount of orders he expected. Too many 5’8 kooks bought in and think they’re ripping on 6’2 epoxy HKs. They’re too dumb and surf so seldom to know better. The achilles heel..
AND so I predicted the addition of another brand to GSI while watching rhe HKs fall from the graces of those that live by trend. The ironiy though for me is Supers marketing blitz here in conjunction with their upcoming partnership with GSI. That tells me their business model has required some changes as well. Not a pretty picture
#HorseShitShapes
Beards? Bradshaw, Lynch, Cooper. In no order of hairiness.
Bob Cooper, not Jodie, but haven’t seen a photo of her for some time.
the dude that made wetsuits, he had quite the beard, and the shaper Chandler from the North Shore, those are my favorite
Southern Gothic? If William Faulkner can be pigeonholed into this poky little genre, I’m with you all the way to Jefferson Mississippi!
Maybe his mom is a fish …
Back fridges of Nio & Tony’s for the Dr Pepper
God you’re so close to me I can feel you breathing on my neck!
Would you call this irony or a comic lack of self-awareness?
So when are you going on Ain’t that Swell Mr Crab? 🦀
I sit by the window, candle burning, waiting for invite.
Don’t rush, only a podcast virgin once.
Still, for the most part, the high water mark of surf podcasting. At least if you want a laugh. Though the Surf Europe one is sneaky good. Paul Evans and Ben Mondy aren’t prolific, but fuck they’re funny.