"It’s still honestly surreal."
The Rumble at the Ranch, now one week in the rearview, reintroduced professional surfing to an entertainment starved public and… to be honest I have not read or heard one good thing about it. Mocking Kelly Slater’s Green Kingdom, its monotony, its “unnecessary irresponsibility,” has become too easy and so I’m always on the lookout for a voice to force me to see it in a different light.
Always on the lookout even to this very day, but while we are discussing voices, the “modern voice of surfing” Joe Turpel gave such a warm interview to his local Hawaiian television station khon2.
Do you forget that Turpel is Hawaiian? I certainly do and/or never realized in the first place but there he was discussing his personal history…
I was taking a summer school class at Punahou and the teacher was Pal Eldredge and he made us do a sports report of our favorite team. I was playing baseball at the time and I did a full Dodgers breakdown of their last game and Mr. Eldredge said ‘hey, you might wanna take this VHS tape back to your parents and show them what you did today,’ and I was like ‘what do you mean?’ He’s like ‘maybe you should do this in your life.’ That was the first time I was like ‘oh my gosh, maybe I want to be a broadcaster.’
His feelings at the dawn of Covid…
We had like a heat to go and we realized this might be maybe the last heat of the year (Carissa’s victory). At the time it seemed surreal. It just felt like ‘wait, is this going to be a couple of weeks or is Snapper (Rocks) gonna be back on?’ Then eventually it led to further down, the full cancelation of 2020.
But most importantly, his being called “The Modern Voice of Surfing…”
It’s still honestly surreal. I have a hard time saying that myself because it feels too big,” he said. “For me, I’m still this kid that loves to surf so to be able to even think that is incredible. I almost don’t spend too much time thinking about it because it feels too big. I’m just enjoying it all. It’s definitely an honor to hear something like that.
If your eyes aren’t moist then you are not human.
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have a nice trip’n stay, waves a plenty on ya way, soak down some maracuya ‘ritas in my name fam…
tks, hope you n family all nice & safe…
Joes teeth are white… His double Shakas are real.. He prefers takeaway to eating out.. He listens and is interested in what one says..
He is a friendly warm human..
you know this doesn’t make any sense with current thumb ain’t it…
someday Goat I’ll tell you some Barry and Bobby Titcomb stories
St Louis brah. The mokes of Ka Lae Pohaku
El Morro ?
I would like to see Joe move on ….. and be replaced by my dream duo , Torquay’s Cahill Bell-Warren , teamed up with The Joker from Lennox Head , James “ Typan “ Woods screaming Wow ! Bangla fuckin’ desh !
Cahills gotta have a nickname.
His oldies smoked him.
Expressway ……X for short !
Crusaders won the comp.
There was supposed to be Crusaders Blues last weekend but – covid in Akl. So they canned it
Shrug – was a great comp tho.
No wuckers. All good !
And as far as the buggery is concerned – fuck the Crusaders !
Hahahahar. That’ll get Negs going …
Careful cuntee !
I’m Kiwi cuz.
But yea – I know.
I got the tissues out but that was a challenging cry wank.
Try a little Foo Fighters mood music mate..
foo fighters is my crysterbation go-to.
My eyes are as moist as Ben Shapiro’s wife’s snatch.
Comment of the week. Who are you? Don’t worry I’ll never tell.
It’s funny, I might like Joe if he would just shut up.
Joe will end up hosting Jeopardy.
‘World of Sport for $1000 please Joe’
‘Ok a subject close to my heart… Who killed Professional Surfing?’
your final question has been answering since pro surfing’s inception.
the wind finally blew the house of cards down.
How funny is that? Fucking high school promoted as if it’s the only school in the state.
It’s better than looking at Joe….
Barack went. After getting in trouble with the “Choom” gang.
I like Joe, does that ruin my grumpy local credibility?
I love him just not his voice. Or mouth.
Well i just love him, i think it because he’s the exact opposite of me, I’m a cunt
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned hat Joe is married to the former wife of Sion Milosky? That’s got to give him a little extra cred with the boy’s over there.
Worked for Pat T at Rvca, smokin Andy s old blunt .. just had to throw his Brother some sponno $ to smooth it over haha
People move on. Can’t blame her.
Pretty fukn boss move but ya gotta admit..
I slept with the hooker that last saw Chris Farley alive.
Am I a boss?
Yes. Yes it does. I mean you are. A boss.
If ya gotta ask..
I’m gonna start using that one.
Well done.