"It will always float to the top of the bowl."
In this episode of Dirty Water, number forty, we find Steve “Longtom” Shearer in terrific form.
Shearer, who wears out his brain thinking, takes the listener back onto the WSL tour, remembers an “epic” Pipe contest and the absurdity of a world title contender, suddenly fat, who didn’t want to be there.
As Shearer wrote at the time,
“It was hard to watch Filipe Toledo in the first heat of the round of 32, for example, without feeling a real sense of pity.
“Seven waves ridden in 40 minutes, nothing close to clean make. Pip got boofed in the head by the lip, Pip out ran the toob– once, twice, three times, Pip went straight to the beach. There was talk in the booth all day about spiritual connections and the mental health benefits of the ocean and here was a guy, clearly unprepared on every level, melting down in front of our eyes. It was actually a relief when it was done.
“Where too for Pip? Isn’t there some sort of God who can help him?”
Today, Shearer describes Pip’s surfing as “performative non-makes… he isn’t even making progress. He’s going backwards.”
Chas Smith, who shares with Shearer his guts and flexibility of thought, calls in briefly from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and casts a wicked eye over Mikey Wright’s front-page heroics during a recent Hawaiian rescue.
The episode concludes with a vivid account of goat castration and Shearer’s subsequent epiphany regarding testosterone.
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Speaking of..
anyone seen/heard of Pip/Pop?
Also asking for BFF
Nick Dee I’ve been chastised a bit on here for posting links to other surf sites — pretty easy to find clips of JJF, Conner Coffin, Zeke, Jack Robbo and others from round NYear. Only when people surf Sunset do they click on what a good wave it is.
Ok a challenge sell it to me , why do we need professional surfing,
You cunts are mad, Sunset would have been off the hook. Didn’t you see what they did to it free-surfing last week? That place is having a season.
Oh and why did they plan Pipe/Sunset/Santa Cruz? To keep it all in the US. Making a bloc of events in the same basic national region, so the pros didn’t have to jump from nation to nation, undergoing constant quarantines in the process.
Too bad Covid unmakes every plan you can make.
mythopetic?
https://www.tandfonline.com…
lots of this shit around bondi and ballina byron tbh
chas wtf ru doing? everyone has jumped ship from stab comments and looking for a place to go, and i come here and find jack shit..you could be pulling mad traffic and dollars from this exodus…give us some better content.. please..
If we can tolerate Bex we can surely accept Pip.
You know Charles, I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I suspect that you aren’t quite the Man of The People you claim to represent.
hahahaha DYING
Well Jackson Hole was always considered (well it used to be!) a “skiers mountain” – not your Aspen. So CB, Chas is hanging on by a thread!
Maybe Longtoms onto something; perhaps castration could be the ultimate anti depressive?
Everything else is like having sex with a rubber on.
Derek..I don’t see show #39 anywhere. Something happen to it?
Thanks
that’s the one with WPS. unfortunately nothing left after PC editing.
I’m dumb. What’s WPS?
wiggoly’s paddling style. I shortened it cos I its hard to spell wiggoly.
Thanks
I’ll listen to it later
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… An interesting chat!
Just saw this on a billboard near my work this morning – has Italo got a new sponsor?
Away on holidays with shitty internet, but looking forward to this. #partypete
So dumb yet so informative.
This was pretty funny well done, a little miffed that you didn’t delve more into Wank Club though.
It’s a story DR is working on as we speak for sure right? He could set up interviews with the chief architects of wank club and get their thoughts on the Coffee content etc.
I can only imagine their secret handshake.
Sticky. Worth avoiding.
And Steve looking positively titillated at Derek’s action
Way to throw Tyler under the bus, but she deserved it – she commented on Instagram “lucky it wasn’t Leo 😂” under the footage – footage of her not doing anything! But having watched the clip again it doesn’t look like she was laughing at any stage!
That hat again
Borsalino?
You can bring darts and a lighter out in the surf with you if you chuck them in a glad bag. There is nothing nicer than lighting a ciggie in the line up on a slow day.
It’s a good way to make a set come too.
Or a bus if it was running late. Spark a Winnie blue and watch it roll up. Two puffs, stomp and on the bus! Worked every single time in my poor student days.
The ex smoker in me loves this ingenuity. I never even thought of glad bags, but fully would have. Dart in the line up seems pretty awesome. I used to smoke on chairlifts if I was on my own. So the snow wins that one for me.
Sampoerna kretek
No way can you have Indo durries mid surf haha, they destroy you!
And spliffs. I met a Scottish fella once who swore by blazing skunk spliffs in chilled Scottish line ups. Not sure If this helped his surfing though, based on the strength of his weed.