The World Surf League President of Content, Media and Studios (Erik "Elo" Logan) podcast is here!
I’ve never been able to hold a “corporate” job, all fault my own. I’m a butthole. Incorrigible but I’ve only just realized this within the last few years. Back when I was quitting my submarine captain gig at Disneyland by calling in “sick” with tuberculosis, back when I was passing all my students at Los Angeles City College as long as they didn’t tattle to administration on me for spending weeks per semester in the Middle East, I thought I was only playing funny angles as opposed to being an incorrigible butthole.
Oh I know Disneyland and Los Angeles City College are not “corporate” per se but imagine how much worse my modus would play in a real office?
I imagine very bad.
And so it is with much wonder and confusion that I observe Erik “ELo” Logan, President of Etc. at the World Surf League.
You’ve seen me be a butthole here, here, here, here, here, here, here etc.
And I thought he’d be smart enough to sort of take it but never stupid enough to actually engage.
He actually engages.
This will be an ongoing conversation, of course, but here we have the first of hopefully many chats with the powers that actually be.
Why does he have so many damn pictures of himself surfing? Because he thinks a person can never have enough!
Who does he want to fuck, marry, kill between Kai Lenny, Kelly Slater and Laird Hamilton?
He wants to move to Utah and marry all three, living in a wonderful pluralistic relationship like Big Love!
What else?
Listen here!
eSto-ked on the last bit with Jessi Miley-Dyer
I won’t listen to that later
“hold on buddy” that’s who david is. just a guy. chas and elo hit it off well, great chemistry, interesting stories and firm understanding of who each other is. david is a low-level worker bee, is just another simpleton from the oc that truly believes he’s interesting to others. he’s not interesting, nor will he ever be interesting and that’s why elo cut him off by telling him to hold on buddy.
Absolutely!
I can picture ELO afterwards going, “Yes Beach Grit is great- I think they’re really cute!”
Chas will do better next time, I’m pretty sure.
Not too sure about Mango-Shark but I’m sure they’ll draw the fins backwards.
If you can surf El Porto you can surf any wave in the world. Did ELo really say that? What a fucking dumbass
All the El Porto–South Bay surfers say that. It helps them not to feel so bad (depressed), about having to surf some of the worst beach break in the world………
…with the string too.
Could say the podcast has jumped the shark.
17:35 ELO said, “The whole mission of what was started back in 1976 was really the best surfers on the best waves…”
This one sentence was the surf journalistic equivalent of a drawn-out 8′ wall at the most pristine point break you will ever see, it begged to be ripped.
So what did you do?
You went straight…barney.
Elo just made the Grit his bitch. Sad.
You mean the “wave basin”?
Heard the term ‘business and sport’ used multiple times. I believe to the vast majority of surfers surfing is ‘not’ a ‘business or a sport’ –and that just may be the downfall of the Wsl and Durk Ziff. Sam George may have summed it up perfectly many years ago when he said–“Real Surfers don’t want to watch–we want to Ride………
Durk and Natasha are throwing away a lot of $$$$– at least a lot of it is going to help feed pro surfers in Brazil. hahahaha.haha……..
Sam George’s wisdom was probably more relevant at the time but is very true. I don’t know anyone who would cut short a session in good waves to catch round 3 heat five on the live broadcast. the fact it is even available should be enough.
I think of it like pornography. of course you would rather engage in the real thing but its not always there so watching others is a good alternative. you might see manoeuvres you didn’t know were possible and there is a good chance you will feel like a kook in comparison but there is a glut of new material (granted the quality varies) available everyday and its hard not watch it.
I dont know, I personally really don’t enjoy watching surf vids or clips. It just doesnt seem to do anything for me, I’d rather paddle out in some mediocre surf and catch a few myself….
And for your other point about feeling like a kook, a Phil Edwards quote for you– “The most fun you’ll ever have in surfing is the first time you catch a wave–and then you start wondering who’s best–and it’s all downhill from there”………..
True Phat boi, but (in my case) since most of the contests are not in California, and since i’m not watching the pool based events, I seriously get down watching WSL events, and I am by all definitions a “real surfer”. My only diss is the Judging: and the “obvious” need for all of the events to be in world class surf locations. I accept the fickle reality to timing for a good swell, but the location should be the highest, not lowest level.
Left a lot of meat on the bone boys
Yeah — I would, sure.
over modulated
Over hatulated by Chaz
Boring!
Oprah has a big fucking mouth. Fact.
ELO wants to make surfing popular. Fact.
Good luck to all on the west coast if he gets her to spruik how fabuuuulous surfing is to all of middle America.
I have no fucking idea why anybody who surf wants it get popular in the first place.
And secondly…you know I love guys like brothers but it kinda sounds like you two are happy to hop on the ELO train in some fashion which will make you guys facilitators as well. I reckon you took the first step in this interview.
Sure, the ELO train means more mainline exposure for Chas.
I think I heard him call ELO fam at one point.
Playing both sides? The truth will come out.
I’m a big fan of both guys. I enjoy listening to them report what is going on. Just seems in this interview they kinda shifted from outsiders looking in, to guys on the insidish…which would mean they are guilty by association in spruiking the expansion of surfing. And…. I say this with all the love in the world.
Who am I to begrudge a guy doing his thing? Best of luck.
yep, in Chaz’s defense everybody gotta eat.
True. I like both of them, but it doesn’t do us any good.
Oh man…. I don’t eat. I drink. And this helps me drink more but doesn’t pay for it.
Happy to buy you a drink anytime Chaz.
I’m 53 and live in Victoria. I’ll be dead by the time the Chinese get competent enough to handle the place, and middle America figures out the difference between Australia and Austria.
The beanie confirms it
I did feel this was entirely softball.
Possibly even the string-ball thing,
Early days. (I hope)
Softly softly catchee monkey.
The guy won’t shut up
But he tells ya nothing
What a surprise
They should never mention his name again
You can’t really want more?
There isn’t any more
Its just polished gibberish
Why fuck was Prodan lurking in the corner like the corpo heavy?
Oh yeah. He is.
But doesn’t Elo have several times the wily nouse not to say anything incriminating without ole’mate Davo grunting warnings from behind the curtains?
Their house, their rules. Pretty normal to have the media/PR rep sit on on a set-up like this one. To be fair though, usually you can just ignore them and ask your questions — it’s more revealing if they jump in, and most of ’em are smart enough to know that.
Every lie contains 80% truth.
Why on earth would anyone ever think they need a PR rep present when Chas is talking to someone like ELO?
Probs just habit, honestly!
I was on a call with a female athlete recently that had not one, but two! PR reps on it with me. It was for a super routine story where nothing weird was going to go down, but there they were, sitting on the call.
I like reading you Chas, but fuck me, hearing you shits me to tears