Daring and aristocratic…
There’ll be no bad things said, no sarcasm aimed, at Kai Lenny, the daring twenty-seven-year-old multi-discipline surfer with sea-spray eyes shaped like pecans, skin the colour of buttered cocoa and lips as red as if he’d just applied a fresh coat of pomegranate lipstick.
His legend grows each day.
The first windsurfer to cross mighty Lake Michigan.
A world record time for the Molokai-Oahu paddle race.
Winner of the WSL’s XXL biggest wave award and the overall performance award.
Youngest surfer ever to be inducted into the surfing hall of fame.
Like WSL owner, the billionaire non-surfer Dirk Ziff, a former Waterman of the Year.
In February 2020, he dropped jaws worldwide with vision of a chop-hop-to-monster-drop on a thirty-footer at Nazaré.
Over the course of ninety minutes, we hear exciting stories about foiling with a trillionaire, Twiggy Baker fighting off a shark at Jaws and big-wavers threatening to beat hell out of each other in heats, t-boning a twelve-foot tiger shark fishermen called God on his windsurfer when he was thirteen and so on.
The episode ends with Kai accepting an invite to the first contest of snowboarder Travis Rice’s Natural Selection tour at Jackson Hole.
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He seems like a normal surfer (albeit a highly talented one) just playing the game so he can earn a living out of surfing, so he doesn’t have to do a normal shitty day job. I admire his achievements in this admirable quest, of surfing and not working. Well played Kai
I forget Chas’ wife is a hot shit agent for the likes of Travis Rice.
I presume she moonlights as a literary agent too.
I came away from this with a fonder impression of both Kai Lenny and the podcast.
Interesting episode and allowing the guest to speak an improvement.
JJF securing Simple ads for cheap and Kai knows Zucks friendship is worth millions. Just got get past the cum taste. #Laird is so proud
Will give this a spin on night shift. Interested that all the mainstream surf types actually like this site enough to get down. It’s very good.
Yo Charles! Back on the durries mate?
Manscape sucks. Youtube is full if videos explain why it sucks. There are better razors on the market.
Haven’t listened yet and am sure he’s a good bloke, but anyone who sucks Zuck shouldn’t be on BG without some major heavy heckling.
Zuckerberg can suck a turd…
Bless his little cotton socks.
He’s surely a physically talented specimen, but what he now needs to round off his character is a decade of depraved debauchery and intermittent gut-wrenching sorrow.
He’s far too squeaky clean for this world, a hero we neither need or want, yet.
He also said ‘unrational’. Inexcusable.
It might be unexcusable but that’s unrelevant to the unresponsibilty of Chas to unterrupt him in a unregular fashion unrespective of how unrascible this may appear.
Ha!
Also, yes why the fuck didn’t Chas interrupt him? Most unlike him and out of character. He’s losing his way. This probably deserves an article in itself.
How would they present him in the Olympics.. what would be the feature that would make America love him, when he secures a bronze?
Well he’s good looking and presents as fairly non-threatening. Perhaps a future in a ‘boy band’?
ha. i thought they always presented folks that had overcome awful hardships with their sponsors dropping them because of injury or lack of interest or industry difficulties… oh wait..
Clearly a passionate man about the foil, but does big wave surfing also train you to not draw breath during conversation? Long form content with a lot of length. Wonder how long it takes him to eat his taco bell?
The problem with these long form interviews is that you have to go beyond the conceived ideas you have about a person and actually acknowledge that they are more than the 10 seconds of thought you have put in thus far.
Well, fuck that !
My biases ain’t going anywhere, Lem !
You’re fooling around on the slippery slope of what looks like could be empathy.
I dunno the first bit of the interview kinda solidified it for me.
“Zuck is just misunderstood”
Nah Kai, he might be cool to you but he’s a greedy pig who made billions by selling all of us out to the highest bidder.
Agreed. This is the only part I thought was bullshit. Chas was saying they are being pressured to ask the hard questions. How about “were you and John John paid to go foiling with zuck?” I presume this is a yes. And “why accept money from zuck after the land dispute he has engaged in with the native Hawaiians on Kauai?” Then go on to open up the ugliness of that land dispute and allow Kai to try to defend the billionaire over the lowly natives. Anyways, kai has more dementions that I thought but I still don’t like him much.
*dimensions or dementia?
Thank you for this
That’s what I mean. If I met him I’d probably take the cool million he offered to be his friend.
Fuckin a I would too. But I’d still talk shit about him to the boys on BG
I have a feeling Bex is Kai, and Kai is Bex. Think about it, ever seen both of them at the same time? It’s like Bruce Wayne and Batman. Or Clark Kent and Superman. Or Zach Weisberg and Ashton Goggins.
I just finished his 10 part series of foil vlogs, cannot wait to dive into the podcast.
[Squeal] Kai Lenny ! [Squeal]
Ahh fuck, I forgot I had auto-squeal enabled.
Yea – I’ll be skipping this one fellas.
But it’s the best one yet.
Can’t sucker me in with that, Chas !
I’m in a Kai Lenny free zone here.
I agree – 23 episodes in and you finally let the subject talk without cutting him off mid sentence – allowed him to expand a lot more and unearth some gems for further discussion.
I thought this podcast was meant to be Chas giggling and interrupting people with retarded remarks?
Me too.
Isn’t that every episode
Damn it. I’ll cop my failure on the ear and make sure to do love better tomorrow.
My grade 5 girlfriend’s name was Kai. She’s a lezbo now and nowhere near as pretty as KL.
…what Party Pete said…
I’ll upvote this later.