Injury-inducing pornography!
I got in big trouble on today’s podcast, our 51st, for raging against the World Surf League’s Wall of Positive Noise without having a stable, well-thought, good-ish enough concept of how to replace it. Kevin Miller, worshiper of President Erik Logan and co-founder of the Florida Surf Film Festival was incensed, outraged that I dare destroy instead of build.
Oh, my response to him was too easy. Destruction is the skill I have. Construction is for others but we (read: you) cannot construct without first punching giant holes into Santa Monica.
The Encyclopedia of Surfing’s Matt Warshaw joined and provided historical clarity. You must please donate to his labor of love, our memories here. Scott Hulet of Surfer’s Journal fame also sat behind a mic hating every minute but also providing the best of them. Kevin Miller and Florida Surf Film Festival John Brooks were also in the bar.
John, a fireman, had just come from an emergency situation where a man was masturbating so heavily to big-screen pornography in his house that he fell off his bed and hurt himself to the point of calling 9-1-1.
Our best show yet? With that nugget I don’t know how it couldn’t be.
I’m glad you had Kevin Miller on the podcast. It’s fun to hear some opposing ideas, questions, and criticisms being thrown around too. Also, I just listened to 10 or 15 minutes of the WSL’s podcast and Dave Prodan gave a shout out to The Grit and Surf Splendor (and others) saying people should check em’ out. So the WSL Is directing people to its biggest critics. Good stuff. Also, the best way to go after the WSL would be to find yourself a billionaire to fund a different tour. Seriously, billionaires don’t have enough places to put all their money. What about that Wework guy? What did Ziff pay for the tour, 30 million? People are paying over 90 million for paintings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…. Someone’s gotta be up for starting a new streamlined surf tour. It wouldn’t be that hard to find 15 ripping surfers, etc… A little competition wouldn’t hurt surf competitions. Hell Vince McMahon is bringing back the XFL. Maybe he wants a surf tour too. Have Michael Tomson hit him up. They had to have partied together at some point in the 80’s.
my favorite part was when Scales told Chas in an even tone he’s drunk and Chas responded like a teenager, “no I’m not!” and then Scales told him to make Kevin another drink
why not ad UFC bouts before heats at Lemoore? Say GMed vs Zeke for a couple of rounds and then surf in the pool head to head. Points added or subtracted to wave scores depending on severity of injury inflicted on your opponent, especially if it impedes wave riding.
I think this is what the flamboyant showman , Peter Drouyn , had in mind went he invented man on man surfing ?
Yes, of course! It was toned down somewhat until the bronzed aussies and rabbit ruffled some feathers in Hawaii,
Who wouldn’t want to see Owen vs Jordy, Jesse vs Mikey, Kanoa vs ……..Shannon Hughes? And surely Joe vs the 89 world champ? As a side show between waves the commentators could go at it poolside. Cote vs Strider, Pete and Rosie don’t really match up or do they?
Though Pete is as tall as Rosie she may be out of his reach ?
I think Peter had another image in his mind when he formulated ‘man on man’…..not that theres anything wrong with that!
Grit sponsors about as appropriate as Jeep etc is to wozzle…
Small world met a girl in Sydney who is trying to help beachgrit attract more revenue. Few hundred a month from Aus is simply not enough…. I mean they should really be making at least $5-10k in Aus alone from ads… But they might go down the wsl path as a result.
Fair enough and tbh the web ads don’t bother me other than the damn small X on the pop up vid…
Comment was directed at the podcast sponsorship, though haven’t listened to Ep51 yet.
No one likes them 😅 I work in the industry and don’t like it but it keeps quality content like this coming to us for “free.”
Question to the audience is would you pay $1 a month for beachgrit with no ads?
Just say no to subscriptions, skip ahead button doesn’t work on your phone?
Hell yes!
Sorry to bother you again…but seeing you’re in the industry…in your opinion is it a huge deal to duplicate and run both paid & free versions of the site…so the tight-arses are not lost, and those prepared to cough up can enjoy BG in full no-ad glory?
“Curated”, the most pretentious word ever. I’ve always thought SJ to be rather pretentious and, welp, thanks to Scott Hulet for confirming! Keep spitting fire Chas! You are the reincarnation of John Waters but I think he’s still alive so I don’t know exactly how that works cosmically.
He could put on a few pounds and become the reincarnation of Divine …..
https://youtu.be/a0OHfQBnTyQ
If you really want to disrupt Freshwater Pro get extinction rebellion fired up about it. There will be 100s of thousands of picketers.
How mental would that be!?!?
ohhh…that would work.
Lenmore would burn and burn and burn
Have you seen the new mural in San Francisco? Saint Greta’s crazy eyes now gaze upon the citizens from a wall on the Native Sons* building on Mason near Union Square.
*Native Sons is a Fraternal Organization. The building has beautiful architecture with medals celebrating founders etc. of California. But now they put this shit on it:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/me…
Looks like Putin
Whoa! Is that brown face they are painting on her? Has a certain Damian the Omen feel to it.
San Francisco enlisted the help of the homeless to paint the sidewalks brown too.
We need a feature film jury vs short film jury death match this weekend. I want to see Warshaw vs Sanders and Steele v Goggans /Turpel
Juries include: Feature Films – Taylor Steele, Matt Warshaw, Keith Malloy, David Scales, Charlie “Chas” Smith, Lauren Hill, Matt Pruett, and Nathan Myers.
Short Films –Marcus Sanders, Scott Hulet, Ashton Goggans, Joe Turpel, Dayla Soul, Matthew Shaw, Mimi Munro, and Scotty Sherin.
So Chas is just gonna keep on throwing rocks?
My sacred duty.
Do you ever tire of writing the same crap about the WSL? Cause I’m tired of hearing and reading about it. I’m a huge critic of the WSL, ELo, the wall of positive noise, Freshwater Pro and the over californication of everything they produce also but I’d love to see you layout how you think the tour should look moving forward.
That’s your damned job. I’m doing mine. And ramping it the fuck up.
So “Beach Grit” has no ideas to how the WSL structure should look? If not let me put pen to paper, while you ramp up your picketing line for Lemoore
BeachGrit might but I sure don’t and get that pen to paper!
You don’t need to wallow with the WSL pigs to know their pen stinks.
No offence meant E-wing, but why the fuck should we ?
Dirk wanted the right to be able to crown a world champ. Nothing more, nothing less, that’s what he bought.
He saw some other potential to add value and plans to sell it one day prolly not realising its a basket case as far as a “sport” goes. WSL as a company is trying to add value in whatever way they can by trying to represent the whole of surfing.
It’s not Chas’ or anybodys responsibility to help a fucken billionaire make more money …
He’d throw you and me and all grumpy fuckers under a bus without blinking an eyelid.
I’m not concerned about making billionaire’s richer. I want a crown to sit atop of a surfer who has dominated in the biggest, best, consequential high performance waves in the world. I couldn’t give a fuck about Dirk, E-Lo or anyone trying to make money. But Beach Grit and its writers have a platform that most can only dream of and no one from the WSL is gonna listen if all they do is whinge and complain about the WSL. There are some smart people at Beach Grit and i know they hate every decision that is made, so i’d like to see some changes they would make to improve it.
I’d like to hear an episode where you smoke joints not drink piss.
UTFS
….your turn!
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the balls of positive noise
Porn…… in the USA ! Oooops Pawn in the USA .
uurrrggghh !
That’s reverted !
189 the clown … Where’s a Woozle cop when ya need one ?
Devolution ! Minus 540
https://youtu.be/hRguZr0xCOc
Christ, what an attention whore!
But fails to connect with his audience. No eye contact. No receptive gestures. Just gesticulating like he’s trying to fuck a gnat flying by.
At least the chrome pole is straight , upstanding and seemingly well grounded ….. than the revolver ?