We live in the future!
We are officially living in the future, a vast Coronavirus pandemic erasing the entire past in just a few short weeks. When humanity emerges from its quarantine cocoon, things will be much different. 1 in 7 people won’t have jobs, professional basketball players will complete a shortened season in empty arenas, professional surfing will likely write off the 2020 tour and point toward 2021.
But does a tour make sense even then? Will sponsors be lining up to underwrite events that generate tens of thousands of views? Will co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff still have the money/desire to toss tens of millions after tens of millions holding onto some hope even after social distancing’s premier game couldn’t get ‘er done when it mattered?
Hmmmm.
And maybe professional surfing looks like a YouTube channel featuring fun, sun and parenting tips exactly like Jack Freestone and Alana Blanchard’s Happy Waves.
Oh it may sound like I’m fun making but I always sound like I’m fun making.
No.
Jack Freestone is handsome and winning. Alana Blanchard is beautiful and spirited. They both surf very fine, form an extremely cute family unit, speak YouTube fluently and generate more clicks and “engagement” in a month than Erik Logan’s World Surf League does all year even though Erik Logan is Oprah Winfrey’s prodigy and a Storyteller in Chief.
Hmmmm.
So?
Will the World Surf League transition to an agency representing “talent” and help “currate” surf-esque “shows” while rolling the tour back to “key events” that can hold much “ancillary content?”
David Lee Scales and I discuss this, Bill Gates and how much I go to bed, each night, hating myself. We broke quarantine to meet in San Clemente, in person, so this is back to being our best show yet.
When reached for comment World Surf League CEO Erik Logan said, “We are equally as aggressive in the development off-platform space as we are for the on-platform and even social space that you’re seeing. That is an area that obviously most people don’t see, and you only see the fruits of that development when deals are struck and when shows are announced, but the work is continuing at a very accelerated rate.”
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Dear Chad.
I listened to the episode and have one criticism regarding your take on growing cannabis.
You don’t know shit and it shows. Best to keep your mouth on things you understand.
If I had to make a list of blokes I’d want to be…in a lockdown…jack would be a chance of making the top ten
That Sean Mendez would be my number 1, dirty bastard, I bet he’s hoping for months of this
DR or Chas–can you follow up with an official request?
GOAT–you going to pen and submit a “GOAT’S List of Top-10 Pipe/Backdoor Surfers of All Time” and your reasons for such rankings?
Break on through to the other side.
Don’t worry Chas, you’re not alone. I too go to bed hating you every night.
It’s too bad Coronavirus doesn’t only kill people who use marketing jargon like “platform:” and “space.”
Oh well.
Maybe the Chem Trails will do it.
Or Agenda 21.
Say hi to JOB for me.
And Jebus said, “Dad, fuck all of them who would take profit for their own benefit to the detriment of locals.”
The big fella looked down and said,”Cunts be cunty, son.Try not to get too bent out of shape. But yea – take action as you see fit.”
They give you waves at backdoor?
Or you just take em?
I’m so pissed off with my neighbours.
I should call the cops!
They are obviously getting ready for a huge party.
And I wasn’t invited!!:)
I follow Anna, of course she’s cute but her surfing/ family life is something I’d hope to achieve with my partner one day in the future.
She’s very relatable too and surfs better than me (:
I want to get in the water as much anyone but about your comment regarding the percent of people infected; we have not done enough testing to know what percentage of people that are actually infected. That said…
love the show, the story about the grom was great, keep it up. There is definitely a middle ground between where we are with surf restrictions and where we need to be, to be safe. Yew!
Hahahaha – Any tour isn’t gonna happen anytime soon.
I love watching Jamie surfing pipe.
The rest of his act – meh ….
Imnsho
Edit: and fuck him for blowing up surf breaks. Fuck I get real shitty about that.
Clown – except at pipe.
sounds like kiff
Kiff is the single greatest word. My entire childhood was kiff.
Yomar is kiff
sorry, jokes, just had to do that now 😉
I surfed yesterday but got sent in by the police. Apparently they were called in by a nice local spectator at 630am. Escaped the fine of course.
Where?
Did you identify the spectator for retribution later on? Fuck these cunts. A few days/months in jail is nothing. Break their fucking faces.
As a youngster in 1979 I came home one afternoon a bit ‘blurry’.
My old man asked if I’d been “smoking rope”. To this day I’m not sure if he said it cos it rhymes with ‘dope’ or cos as he was an old sailor he knew that ropes were made of hemp.
A few years later he found my plant hidden behind the compost heap…
They should make a non stink strain.
It’s a bit of a pain
Cruel bastards those islamists!!
The thing I like about Dave is he’s not trying to be cool.
Agree.
As far as I’m concerned he deserves all that comes to him.
Very smart, and very prepared.
I’ll take his balls out of my mouth now..
Yeah enjoyable tripping is only for certain types.
And even for them on the come up can be terrifying.
I found slow dosing the mushrooms to be the best tactic
That way you avoid the frightening and abrupt crossover into the other dimension.
Chas and dave I fear would never make it back.
The crossover is often frightening but always fantastic. Mash em into a sanga with peanut butter, slam them down and set your watch for half an hour. Then see through time.
Yeah
I liked my way better
Wash em down with water and try not to throw up