And to hell with you, dirty ol muckraking Hillary Clinton!
Here’s something like an Obama-in-2007 moment.
Two weeks ago, Ain’t That Swell podcasters, Jed Smith and Vaughan Blakey, spent forty-five minutes on a Skype call to the wanna-be democratic nominee for the presidential race, Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard is a surfer, lives in Hawaii, loves to shred.
Vaughan woke up one morning to a DM saying, “Hey guys, love the show, love to come on sometime.”
Vaughan’s nostrils were almost fatally distended by the presidential perfume.
He replied,
Tulsi didn’t reply for a couple of months.
Vaughan thought he’d blown it.
Then, when he was putting together a “Power Women” show, featuring Jodie Cooper, he figured he’d give it another shot.
“She didn’t flinch, said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it right away’,” says Vaughan.
Couple of weeks went by while the call was set up (“I got the vibe they were checking me and Jed out to make sure we weren’t complete psychopaths”) before they connected.
Listening back to the interview, Vaughan says his voice is a whole octave higher than normal.
“I was fucking gushing, it’s hard for me to listen to,” he says. “Did we handle it well or not? It felt unfuckingbelievable that someone in her position, running for the job she’s going for fucking had a sense of humour and wanted to be part of what we’re doing.”
Tulsi performs well, she references other episodes of Ain’t That Swell and patiently remains silent as the broadcast is diverted by Jed on his many wonderful little rants.
“I got off the phone buzzing off my head,” says Vaughan.
The beauty of the interview, he says, and beyond anything, is the acknowledgement that there’s still a filament that connects people who surf.
“That accessibility to someone like her, it sounds weird to say, only came through surfing,” he says.
Listen here.
There are a good number of commenters who are obviously emotionally invested in America and American politics. I just want to put it out there that I couldn’t give 2 fucks.
the Tulsi song is very Syd Barrett
Write one story with a whiff of politics in it and all the BG crack pots come out!
I’d be down with that. She’s a smart woman.
‘Smartly dressed’ but nothing much going on intellectually under the hood.
Graduated Cum Laude from Wharton School of Business at Univ. of Penn. Successful CEO of her own multi-million dollar company. She now has extensive experience implementing US foreign policy negotiating with foreign heads of state.
I believe your assessment is really, really far off and probably wrongfully influenced by your distaste for her being a smart woman and a Trump. Too much for you to accept?
Did anyone listen to rest of the podcast? The best part was the Tyler piece. Tyler is back for the last event. Very informing interview with her. Finally we know where she has been. Sounds likes she has been to hell n back.
Fake news. She has as much chance being president as I have as winning the pipe Masters.
Australians are so stupid they most likely think they can vote vote for her and she’d be their president!
I used to deliver her brother’s mail. Nice bloke. He has since moved back to Hawaii to assist her election efforts. Although, doesn’t she have some sort of weird spiritual advisor or something?
That’s exactly the schoolboy stream of consciousness sycophantically spunky DM you would send a hotty who liked some random post.
If you were 13.
And didn’t know how to punctuate a sentence.
I don’t give a fuck.
Vaughan sings like a sick sheep.
Fuck him.
Has he had a recent lobotomy? Or he just spends too much time with his dopey mate?
Don’t think so, bex.
Born that way imnsho.
But yea, no wonder they get on so well.
Vaughan should consider a career in art or supermarket trolley collection.
Sure Tulsi – who were the “terrorists” on 9/11? At least your video below was good, even though you unintentionally pointed out whose proxies the terrorists were thus contradicted yourself. The terrorists are called Al-CIA-Qaeda. Yes – guys – JOHN PILGER is a great man. However, if you actually listened to Pilger, you would know he heavily condemned Obama. Wow. Cool song!
https://youtu.be/wMe3UsC0B5g
https://youtu.be/gXL998q7skI
Trump also killed Bambi.
Cognitive dissonance; can’t handle the impotence. Al Qaeda supposedly murdered 3,000 Americans on 9/11 yet America bombs Libya & Syria, letting/wanting the Al Qaeda ground troops to infinitely grow in size & takeover. Try to imagine your family died on 9/11 yet your government lets the so-called murderers grow, thrive & murder millions of others. If Bambi was your beloved girlfriend, Chas Smith murdered her but you were satisfied justice was done when Chas Smith was allowed to murder me. Sounds like Palestinians punished for Nazi crimes. That’s the world you live in.
I’m sure they know what they’re doing and well all live happily ever after, happy and having fun all the time
Yer, 15 of the 19 were Saudi nationals, including Osama himself who was a member of the Saudi royal family, and is also the epicentre of Sunni wahhabist ideology in the Islamic world. Yet somehow they end up attacking a nominally secular country with a majority Shia population with no connection to 9/11, that being Iraq.
That’s like Chas murdering your girlfriend bambi then you attacking a bystander for revenge. Then you invite Chas in for dinner and make sure he’s ok, and also would he like to continue the close fiancial and military ties you both have had for 40 years.
These guys are starting to make
The Grit
sound good
As an Australian living here in the states I’m just just fucking embarrassed. Imagine Chas and DLS weighing in on Australian politics like this? They don’t have a fucking clue about the candidates and issues in a race that has no direct effect on their lives But hey she surfs and she seemed pretty cool on the Joe Rogen show and she complimented our show so she should be president of that country where we don’t vote or live in.
It’s like when Peter Garrett got into politics and everyone got all excited.
Then he gave the green light to a couple of uranium mines.
Typical lefty neohypocrite kook.
Lol – Americans don’t have a clue
About?
Everything.
Who has a clue?
ND.
I look forward to your excellent reports from Pipe!
Noa Deane? you mean the “fuck the wsl” thing? far out man.
Do Australians other than you?
If shoes were clues I’d be barefoot.
Cause ‘Merica doesn’t get involved with anything globally and have never had any influence on politics and voting in other countries…
My friend bubba said trump was set up by the ozzies
Thank you.
Mate seppo politics is in our news feed daily. U can’t compare it to Australia. U only got to turn on Foxtel in Australia and watch one of the many shows dedicated to the subject. They not claiming to be political experts either I would have thought. Don’t like it dont listen. It’s a free podcast they always have shit u can take or leave.
Gough Whitlam vs CIA
Aint that swell has been team tulsi before the rogan apperiance I believe. Not to mention tulsi is the only dem candidate that is outspoken about changing the USA military role globally to a non interventionist approach and that seems to be the message that has the guys at ain’t that swell stoked. But I agree completely with the notion that Chas and DLS would struggle to competently speak about Australian politics.
Unless your name’s Trump, you’re not beating the incumbent. viva 2024!
Following Donald Trump’s 2nd Term, Donald Trump Jr. is going to make a great 46th POTUS.
not endorsing any of this sorry crop, just stating that the incumbent will win. Cheers Otto.
Left or right by the way.
Even the most champagne of socialists would have to admit Trump is a solid President.
And surprisingly crushing it.
Nah, they don’t.
Too busy getting their sex slaves transgendered to notice I guess
We all gotta embrace our inner hipocrit Bexy. Every last one of us.
I’m going home to jerk mine off
#me too
If you think that Trump’s apparent lean towards serving Russian interests aimed at regaining all of the former USSR oppressed nations, by weakening NATO, is “crushing it” then I guess all of the Americans who died in WW2 to stand up against fascism just wiffed it?
Trump is globally known for his blatant failures to tell the truth, with almost 5,000 lawsuits against him for failure to pay invoices for people he hired; for being fined for $2,000,000 for misuse of funds raised by his so-called charity, for being fined for his fraudulent University; not to mention his failed and bankrupted casinos, and on and on and on.
Trump is a pathological liar, who is apparently financially obligated to Russians, potentially Putin himself; and whom is making decisions that weaken America’s position in relationship to our NATO allies whom we need to keep strong to prevent Russia from reinstating its greedy totalitarian mafioso control of Eastern Europe, and perhaps control of Western Europe itself. Good for him if he actually raises tarifs on China. But he’s achieved nothing against NK, and he’s weakening our relations with SK and their relations with Japan.
Trumps a bloated fraud who knows how to lie loud enough to manipulate uneducated rascist confederate voters.
Tulsi? I have no idea what she’s done for Hawaiians.
That a long list of bad stuff.
Still ,Hilarys be way longer.
And he’s lesser of two evils no doubt.
So I take it you aren’t voting for Trump?
It’s all good ricmatic. You’re right about incumbents. They are difficult to remove from office.
George Bush
Kanye 2024!
Wiggs 2024
Sadly he’s not American-born that we know of.
Even better! Birther cunts with no life can argue for years about it.
Ex BG contributer Rory Parker did this already, like fkn ages ago.
On a podcast?
Yes mate.
Did what? Talk to someone?
I don’t recall him talking to Tulsi and pretty sure I listened to all of them.
Rory interviewed Ultra-Lib, 3-time Women’s Longboard Champ Cori Schumacher. She is a local City council person from my home city of Carlsbad, CA.
Chas even wrote a story on BG about how much he loved the content. https://beachgrit.com/2016/…
Not exactly a potential presidential candidate, but maybe someday.
Read her bio here: http://www.carlsbadca.gov/c…
Now that’s how you reach the American voter. Go on an Australian podcast. Bloody hell. Democrats are an odd lot.
Her complete dismantling of Kamala was sweet. Never recovered from it.
Don’t reckon her going on the poddy had anything to do with reaching voters back home – she listens and enjoys the podcast, she’s surfs, and the episode was about female surfers. Seems harmless to me
If I apply for a high paying job that I have no chance of getting will ATS call me?
back to the ironing board, matey.
Just for the record; I wanted to say “back to the ironing board, cunt.” as it would have been more situationally apropos, but I held back, thinking it might breach the meniscus of our professional working relationship.
No worries mate. Cunt and mate are interchangeable in my book. Didn’t actually notice.
Pay sucks. But the the book deal/ speaking fees are pure gold. Former Presidents be buying vineyard summer homes.
If your application may get you shot perhaps.
Come on Wigs, we all know you would not take their call.. Would you? We can only hope. Would be the best podcast yet. How about you, Chas and David Scales? They could disguise your voice.
Tulsi has been fully endorsed by David Duke, Richard Spencer and she is good friends with Steve Bannon. I can’t roll with it.
Can you provide some sauce?
Am curious. I know nothing beyond a brief glance at her Wiki entry.
Tulsi is probably the only US presidential candidate ever accused of carrying the agenda of the white supremacists, the Russians, the Hindutva, and the Republicans all at the same time… simply because her opponents are just too lazy (or too stupid) to rebut her arguments 🤷🏻♂️
Big UTFS!
Yes agreed but if Jed mentions rugby league as the cause of his retardation one more time I’ll have to snap the skinny cunt myself. It’s the bongs mate. It’s the bongs…… I’m a victim myself.
Ha, fuck. I’m glad after throttling cones from age 18 to 30 I retired. Now I only do really stupid shit on alcohol. Fuck, grog is actually heavy. Got a bunch of weed for my last significant birthday(cough) so I may get back in saddle.
I used to actually get shit done on weed. When I had to stop weed (smelled bad to wife) and went onto booze I became a full couch potato.
Maybe I’ll try a bit of ice. Those people seem rather motivated.
I used to play a bit of golf regularly, and I would get high as hell at the “club” afterward with this one guy who played big guy, but was actually a regular dude. I would come home to an empty house, because playing golf regularlike ruins your family and soul, so as I was high as hell i would vacuum and clean the whole fucking house. I stopped getting high and gave up golf
The old clean the fuck out of the house cause you’re high and remorseful? Been there!
Exactly.. LOL
Motivated to dismantle an old cassette deck
I’m making a commitment to smoke more weed. Fuck alcohol.