The master Matt Warshaw speaks. Of course you listen!
I will tell you what the highlight of last few years was right now. Hanging out with Matt Warshaw for an extended weekend is what. Oh sure I have seen the man for a quick meal or quick drink time and again in the past but never no not ever did we have time to waste. There were always constraints. Bumpers. And so the fact that he was an esteemed guest of the Florida Surf Film Festival in New Smyrna Beach, Florida pretty much sealed the deal for me and oh did he deliver.
Between getting him lost and him buying jeans… wait. Those were the low points! Matt Warshaw is incredible. Honest, intelligent, funny, self-aware, a true and genuine and honest icon of our game.
And so it was with the most pleasure that I sat across a small wooden table from David Lee Scales and shoulder to shoulder with Matt Warshaw to deliver this edition of the Grit! We talk about the relative value of surf film, the importance of Lisa Andersen and the future.
Always the future.
Maybe that is what makes Matt Warshaw so special. He has made his living chronicling surfing’s past but he is never bound by it. He realizes, maybe more than anyone, that surfing exists only in the moment and other than that it is one big laugh.
Thank God he is ours.
P.S. We stayed at Mar a Lago pre film fest. In your face.
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tis I. I’m too afraid to comment though.
Matt is the opposite of surf media and soooo good to listen to. Stories constantly pouring out of him.
Stayed there for a week once. Tremendous. MAGA notwithstanding.
Bye Felicia
Mar a Lago? Didn’t realize Warshaw was never coming back to Seattle.
Also I’m jealous that a man of that age can still sit on a couch like an unusually limber 3rd grader. Writing surf history apparently is quite easy on the knees.
now the real reason Mar a Lago was the hotel of choice , there’s a vicious unsubstantiated rumor running thru the Glass shops in SoCal , that representatives have been sent to see Donald Trump about putting 30% tax on all imported surfboards into the USA , to save , Made in the USA , Jobs , and exterminate Asian made surfboards from the USA market.
Insiders say , “it’s really for the people” , which makes you wonder …join the dots…..Warshaw/Smith and D/Lee scales…..hmmmm
I live 45 minutes north of miralago. I’m still more convinced it’ll be bombed by Russia before any of this idiots plans go into effect.
I thought it was a Russian State already?
On that same note there’s a vicious and legitimate rumor that one of those glass shops created a fake Instagram using my personal information and work to make me look like an idiot, I can do that myself just fine.
yes your name says it all……power to women?
hang on isn’t all this stuff in the book I wrote about Lisa back in 2005?
this movie better be good Chassy. LA’s one of the boys. well you get my drift.
Every bit of it! It was my bible!
You heard Warshaw, didn’t learn a thing he didn’t know..
Encyclopedia publishers are hard to impress. Wouldn’t you think?
When I actually think about it.
No.
I like how during the post-movie Q & A (after the outro music), Matt didn’t answer David’s question (starting 50:37) AT ALL, instead just talking about whatever and name dropping all over the place as is his habit… classic!
I didn’t learn anything about Lisa in Chas’ movie. Instead of panicking at David’s question, I redirect to Mimi Munro. She gets a round of applause, Chars’ feelings are spared, my shorts remain unsoiled, how is that not a win-win-win?
I wasn’t making fun… yeah, I kinda was about the name dropping (why does being an asshole tempt me so?), but sincerely, I enjoyed your answer immensely. I thought David’s question was stupid. You’d ask that at a premiere? The person answering can’t really say “no.”
Being an asshole can be quite becoming herr KVF. Dont ever change.
Thanks KV. The next night somebody in the audience asked what my favorite EOS entry is. If I’d been a half mg lighter on the Ativan I would have fled the stage. All credit to Chas and people like him who can roll with those kind of brain-freezers.
Chars that brain-freeze spared.