Would Pottz or Chas Smith win in a surf contest? Wrong(ish)!
It is time again for your close to biweekly podcast featuring the professional David Lee Scales and me. And let me be very frank up front. I thought we had a lot of surf things to chew over but once seated in front of the mic I couldn’t remember many. Or any. David Lee did an admirable job keeping the ship moving but… I feel I let him down.
I feel I let you down.
This episode features gun control, guitar hero, capitalism, libertarianism, O’Neill’s disastrous marketing arm, the futility of local wildcards, Kelly Slater’s love of shaming other wave pool technologies, the idiocy of content, O’Neill’s super weird surf team, LuluLemon’s cult, Nick GoPro making a billboard of himself, Pottz’s inability to surf in the modern era because he has a boring voice, why the WSL commentators would get smashed by basically anyone in the surf media (excluding yours truly), asymmetry, technobutter, microbeads, x, ex, xcel, carbon fiber, carbon fibre, thermoflex, thumping beach barrels, Filipe Toledo and you.
Never mind. Everything here pretty much rules.
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I watched Joe Turpel ride a whole wave in front of me once as I was paddling back out. He rode it pretty well so when he got back to the line up I paddled over to him and took him through it, blow by blow, in my very dullest monotone. When he tried to paddle away I followed because I hadn’t hit a few of my key phrases. I hadn’t mentioned “vision” or “jam” or “knifing”. And I hadn’t asked him if he wanted to jump on the ski and re-set.
Grant Ellis gets mistaken for Curren at George’s daily; as for Todd…
Bring it.
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You guys forgot aboit Brett Barley on the O’Neil team. I agree about the shit branding though, but i mention brett because his entire career is based on content creation.
Here are 84 pages of unbiased wetsuit review from people who paid full retail.
http://forum.surfer.com/for…
O’Neill is the wierdest. I haven’t listened so you may have mentioned it, but, the fuck is this shit? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
looks like some designer just re-watched braveheart and was trying to get fired, all in the same day.
Or, knowing O’Neill, was trying to get promoted.
Yes! This is the campaign I was talking about. WTF?!!
I reckon they took some last words of wisdom from ol’ Jack on his death bed about the next marketing campaign.
This is what he came up with.
But give him a break, he was dying.
And become a color scheme for WaveStorms.
I’ll have to rememember to keep forgetting to buy that mag.
no app. where do I get?
App Store. You should have an icon on your phone for that
Hahaha. Fuck, just write it out and read to him.
Amazing.
Home of the smartest podcast listeners & website readers in the game….
Rasta the colorway?
Hey Steve….oh don’t worry.
How do I put on the phone? I want to mow the lawn and listen.
Explain as if talking to a retarded 5 year old with severe learning difficulty.
I was joking. You’re just being super fucking nasty.
Way to get heavy on it hey
At least you make the people feel SOMETHING!
You have a private education? No wonder you’re so much better than me!
Sadly no I don’t, I have no idea what that guy is on about, I went to the magnificently semi retarded public Pittwater High School in Mona Vale, where my friends and I earned lasting fame on our final day of school by mounting a six foot papier mache penis on top of the tallest available building.
But one could ,thanks to Gough Whitlam go to uni for free in those wonderful hot buttered years.Had a magic board from Greg Trotter at KC surfboards out of the Mona Vale factory during that era .Did the penis have water views?A powerful symbol of your future profession.
The Penis could see everything. It had Powers.
Pittwater high was actually pretty gnarly back in the day. I took a chick out from there.. She fingered me.
Glad to see that Puberty Blues was not restricted to Sydney’s Southern Extremity
Pranks were so much better in the old days. The early 80’s saw a cadre of malcontents cut off a white Falcon XE roof, whack a blue flashing light and siren on a single roof rack, attach enough flotation to keep it afloat and let it loose in the local river beside a major road. The cherry on top was the cop who dived in to bravely save his mates.
More Yemen please. Or has it concluded?
No! Day after tomorrow!
I just listened and I cannot fucking believe you unionised surf media.
I tip my fucking hat to you.
You’re out of your minds, I’d smash the lot of yas on a single fin.
I was trying to figure out what outlet you write for the most!
I’m a Soul Writer man. I write for myself. Not the fucking people. Me!
Like an old nickelodeon that charged a nickel.
Was it your quiver of Byrnes that has been haunting me, Nick? Channel bottom swallows sprawled out in a backyard, maybe? It’s been driving me mad!
Right I’m gonna shoot a channel quiver pic just for you AG
Do you know the photo I’m talking about?!
ah yeah probably at Hornbaker’s in HI back in the day, I don’t have that pic though
Not even the one I was thinking of. Older shot, like mid-90s?
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
clockwise from front: 6’4″ Dale Wilson/AB, 6’5″ AB, 7’0″ AB, 7’1″ AB, 8’1″ AB, 6’5″ FF 10 channel, 6’0″ Dale Wilson, 6’3″ AB, 5’9″ Dale Wilson. Doesn’t count the ones in Hawaii. The 8’1″ is the best surfboard I’ve ever owned or ridden.
Masterful quiver, jesus christ man. I’m always scouring Craigslist for Spears.
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Never apologise to the people. We will judge you harshly anyway.
fuck that was good….
if you are buying wetsuits off a marketing campaign you are a kook
Except technobutter. No word has ever charmed me so.
anything with “2” after is just pleasing the stockholders that new product with higher prices points and no real technological advancement came out and sell in is higher than last year.