Come spend time with the utterly charming Matt Biolos of Lost surfboard fame!
It is almost always a pleasure to sit down with Moncler Jesus aka Matt Biolos. His lovably cantankerous take on life in general, and surfing specifically, is such a welcome relief from the usual jibber jabber of any day. It is refreshing like the last sip of French press’d coffee in the morning. The one where lukewarm and bitter grounds dance in perfect harmony.
Today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with him and David Lee Scales at the Surf Heritage and Culture Center in sunny San Clemente. We spoke of surfboard design and professional surfers. Of Brazil and a world title landing nowhere but Brazil for the next decade. Of the surf media’s love of looking at normal heart rhythms and turning them into the massive spikes and falls of a heart-attack.
“You guys take the smallest thing…” he says “…and just blow it all the way out. It’s garbage, it’s lazy and it’s damned nonsense.”
We also spoke about movies, energy drinks and the bullish surfboard market.
That enjoyable crinkly sound you’ll hear is not bad audio. It is Matt Biolos’s insistence on playing with a small piece of velcro for the entire second half.
I think it may be our best show yet.
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wtf is on off cheese smiths head?
What about the goggins size elephant in the room aka that fucken thing (half) on Chas’ head ?
Real talk: Biolos is a shitty interview.
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Someone should draw Chas as a Japanese anime character, like a member of the Gorillaz. With Japan Olympics coming, doing some animation of Derek, Chas, Negatron, Wiggs’ and other assorted characters here would be pretty dope. If for no other reason than blocking E-Lo doing something like that with Kanoa.
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Wardo belts the living piss out of his missus and still gets whatever boards he wants off the racks….
You can’t pick yer mates…
Oh wait.
You can.
But you can belt your family?
and then get a free pass from your previous sponsor?
I enjoyed that. Matt Biolos may have a slight tendency towards grumpiness and arrogance (takes one to know one), but he is articulate, can think, is interesting, and somehow comes across as really generous.
Chas “murdoc” Smith
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Elo will be shredding on a Mayhem soon enough too! There’s got to be a baby buggy couch potato pocket rocket demon in the quiver.
Maybe that is who his new asym is for
For the Val who has had the epiphany.
Clueless but can participate.
#poolsmyfavwave #elofordaasym #elomayhem #mahalomatt
#crotchRocket
E-Lo.
Pipe
Normal board.
You watch. It’s coming.
Shapers are the worst.
If only they’d take things more seriously dammit!!
One of my local ones is so good he’s given up shaping altogether.
Now happy retailing the global brands and taking his cut.
The local surf population is rejoicing after many years of non support of his shit designs and egotism and having to buy outside of the area.
Only took him about 40 years to figure it out.
I laugh like fuck when some ignorant media types refer to him as a legend.
Fuckn handbrake is what he was/is.
Dish
Biolos is the only shaper to have ever figured out how to make boards for people with non – Derek Zoolander build. Praise him.
A first ! Made it the whole way through. No breaks. No stimulants or other substances.
That took some steely resolve, I can tell ya.
I was in the room, slightly hungover and under caffeinated, so fully understand and commend your commitment.
Chas, is that a TCB⚡️tattooed on your right forearm? If so, you are my hero. Please forgive me for all past remarks I have made about your swallow tatoo on your neck and anything else I may have said to offend you. I proudly wear an authentic imitation Elvis TCB⚡️necklace around my neck whenever I have a lot of stuff to do that day and it really helps me get everything done and really Take Care of Business!!! It helps me to channel Elvis’ kick ass attitude and just really get shit done. A karate kick and couple of chops through the air when I finally take it off. It’s one of my prize possessions. (And I think it makes me look like a real kingpin.) Nice work Chas. From one Elvis fan to another.
Has anybody even approached Wardo for an interview? That I would pay money for.
The best one-two punch combo in the history of Cali surfing?
Genius….
Holy fuck.
“ding ding”
honestly your honour, I heard a bell.
Suprised never been interviewed post law troubles . Despite his run ins with the law still is one of my all time fav surfers…performance wise
So off him.
He’s a fuckwit hey. Can no longer appreciate his shit.
“Run ins with the law”
= getting done for knocking seven bells outta his missus?
Welp… that’s one way of perspective-ising I guess.
When Bilos was guest editor at stab they managed to avoid the wardo issue completely.
Interesting. How long past the incident was it?
I would love to hear what he has to say. Ask him some real tough questions about what happened and his side of things. That would be a controversial interview, that would generate some controversy and clicks. Cuz some people would say that giving him any publicity at all is minimizing his past acts, and he should be shunned and ignored publicly as punishment for his crimes. Not me, I would love to here what he’s up to and how his life has changed lately. And he does rip like no one else.
A shaper giving a lecture on education. That’ll do me.
Biolos is full of shit. Talking about Kolohe and Griff being “The best one-two punch in the history of California”…. um, what about Curren and Gerr in ’86? One a World Champ and the other a top 10 competitor/already event winner? Shut the fuck up. Kolohe hasn’t even won one ‘CT event in his ENTIRE career. And he rambles on about how unmoored and hyperbolic surf media is…
Even Richie Collins (who I thought was rad) won Bells, Huntington and Steamer Lane.
and he had paddle gloves.
Bobby Martinez had more success than Andino will ever see. Collapinto is an unwritten book.
Matt is talking about them for the longboard tour I reckon. Surely he’s given up on their CT careers they’re fucken shit.
Fuk, I dunno Wiggs. If that filthy, god bothering, snowballing cunt can win a Triple Crown – anything’s possible.
Go easy on John John buddy, can’t choose your hair.
Hahahaha – v funny cuntee.
What??
Yeah sorry thought was talking about Coffin not Griffin. I just read Gerlach and put the two together. Griffin is the great white hope of America. Gerlach is a cunt
Theyre all cunts in my book, Wiggs.
It’s a prerequisite to be a sponno imnsho.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this angry Karl.
I believe Rob Machado and Timmy Curran would trump Kolohe and Griff as of right now as well. Timmy won at least a couple CT’s and Rob was #2.
‘oldest grumpiest (most accurate commentator) local’
Couldn’t agree more with the homeschool take. If your kids want to be able to afford to live near where they can surf, and they aren’t fucking John John, make them to go school. Please.
Totally. I mean, look at all these kids who’ve graduated from high school. Have you met any of them? Shining paragons of intelligence and ambition, most of em. Obvs our edjewcayshunl system is the key to future success. Cunt.
Certain spots near San Clemente/Trestles are crawling with kids all week long during school hours, dropped off by their “surfmoms”. Most are average/slightly above average for their age. They have shit manners in the water. Great fucking long term plan for life success. Golfclaps all around.
I roast kids during school hours, 8am -2pm its a frenzy of stuffing kids unless the said kid has a six figure contract.
Best yet? I thought your MC episode was pretty epic. I’ll def be listening later…
Oh. This one is definitely not the best.
Can you do one with Maurice Cole?
That would be the best.
Did you think that they meant Michael Ciarmella?
Who’s that clown?
I just wanna hear more from broke guys travelling the world.
Maraschino Cherry?
Fuck that he has had his 5 minutes twice already this century
Do one with that old arrogant bully cunt Robert Nat Young
You can’t let the guest hijack your show, certainly not with Velcro. I can’t understand how Biolos could be so sloth-ish on the mic yet need to get all OCD with Velcro of all things.
49.19 old Matt drops a fart from all those pistachios or prawns or whatever the fuck he’s eating.
I’ll listen to it later
I save you the hour
Homeless lookin dude gets all cunty bout shit.
The end.