It's the new old fashioned way.
It has become holiday tradition, in homes all over this world, to pop a Yule log in the fire, craft a fine copper pot of bubbling warm apple cider, gather the family, sit very near the Christmas tree, or menorah, and read passages, aloud, from the award-nominated Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell.
The book, first released in 2013, was a sensation and documented a magical few week stretch in December on Oahu’s North Shore. All the classic seasonal characters are there, from Fast Eddie Rothman to Jamie O’Brien, current Pipe Master John John Florence to Graham Stapelberg. Each evoking that sense of wonderment and cheer.
Previously, the title had only been available in hardback, paperback and digital forms but, as of today, it is officially an audio book with author Chas Smith reading each word himself.
Come marvel at his renditions of pidgin, eastern Australian, western Australian and South African accents. Be amazed by his pronunciation of French and Hawaiian words.
Your holiday tradition will be remade as it will feel that Chas Smith is in your home, near your Christmas tree or menorah, drinking up all your delicious cider, reading those favorite passages with his iconic nasally drawl.
A new old fashioned way.
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Songbird! Find your voice grating at times Chas, thank fuck you are a funny cunt.
I got this for xmas
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I’ve still got books from last Christmas that I’ve not managed to start.
(Cue Pink Floyd’s Time)
fuck Schellenberger and eco-modernism.
Too bad maybe 2 other commenters will get this and why you have this position.
Since I’ve read the first two, and they are excellent (particularly Shellenburger), I’ll be taking a look at the rest. Thx
I’m on the mojitos Chas. Does it pair well with white rum?
Pairs best I think!
Joan Jett?
Respect!!
I’ll pay 10x for a version read by Ashton or Rory.
That would be so so good.
You going to dirty water interview any of them b4 they fold and have to find new jobs and are no longer surf adjacent and thus not fodder for the podcast?
Should of had Fast Eddie narrate it.
This race to the bottom is really heating up!
If we are already at the bottom, does this mean we’ve all already won?! Stoked
I’ll listen to it later. (You snooze, you lose PP).
Some of my fondest memories of the holidays were sharing a house with five skaters and was nicknamed the pit. Somebody broke into the high school cafeteria and brought everything to our house . We decorated the stolen Christmas tree with stolen tap ramen noodle cups
So will this (be) like the podcasts where Chas is constantly interrupting himself to make bizarre, inflammatory comments?
Any chance of a re-release with Morgan Freeman reading it ?
Alternatively, I was thinking Fran Drescher could really capture the work’s spirit.
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thanks
Ok. Thank you
Peewee Herman as Fast Eddie kinda be surreal..
my ears are already booked out. I will be busy listening to my family express their varying levels of disappointment in me since last christmas and learning all the ways I should have done things. its become tradition for us.
It’s the most wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeaar – not.
The old “airing of the grievances”
Festivus for the rest of us!
Will Stab be offering this behind their new paywall?
Hearing you deliver the infamous Eguene Jew line in a drunken aussie cent will be magnifique. How many times did he say it to you btw. It’s been a few years and I can’t recall, once, twice, thrice?
I think it was four and I butcher Mick. I make him sound like some odd Brit.
haha freshen yaah drink guvvnaa?
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Maaate!