Beautiful.
Our very own Steve “Longtom” Shearer is a goat rancher of some note but has likely never considered the cathartic power of the creatures he maintains as fully as Dan McGregor, who lives on California’s central coast.
There, McGregor has his goat ranch but, unlike Longtom, he teaches his to surf and uses that power to mend an extremely broken nation.
Recently, McGregor and friends took a tour from their hometown of Pismo Beach all the way down to San Clemente with one of their surfing goats named Pismo. Having arrived, a group of at least five grown men paddled Pismo out on a SUPsquatch, spun and paddled the Capra into knee high closeouts.
The event was covered by much media.
“We are just trying to bring hope and healing to people’s hearts through surfing,” McGregor told The Los Angeles Times.
Those who voted for Donald J. Trump and those who voted for Joseph R. Biden could be seen on the beach, watching, feeling a profound sense of closeness.
Back to Longtom, though, I think his goats may be used to heal the now-gaping rift between Lennox Head and the World Surf League. I think WSL CEO Erik “ELo” Logan would enjoy participating and could show off his SUP skills while bringing hope and healing.
Very cool.
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the USA is just a clusterfuck of idiots isn’t it. what a depressing state of affairs.
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When your last name is Shearer, are you obligated to go into the business of shearing animals?
wonder if Goat surfing is a legitimate career path.
Just create a gambling platform. Bang! Done!
This will be the greatest episode of JOB has ever created!!!
FUN FAKT! ❗
The tem ‘GOAAT’ originally came from a Industrial Age prank of Thomas Edison wherebyforsooth he was fond of annoying Central American freshwater aquatic kinda-lizardy species using the new-fangled telegram system. Using coarse language and innuendo about their ability to grow back limbs, he would drive them to such paroxysms of rage, that they gradually became extremely rare and now only existing in tiny pockets of the remnant Mexico City Aztecan canal system, mostly subsisting on shoe polishing and stealing from tourists.
It stands for Getting Ornery Axolotls Apoplectic (from a) Terminal.
Kelly Slaters once used this to great effect during a flat spell on the North Shore of Oh-Ah-hoo-ha (The Capitals of The Hawaii’s) and successfully annoyed a salamander in New Hampshire using a makeshift telegraph set up on Marconi’s land (home to many dead-type bodies buried by local criminals), thus earning him the title of A ‘GOAT!’!’!”
Can’t sneak that Marconis reference past me CB. What a fun little left when the trades weren’t blowing. Woe to any non-locals who used to try and venture down Marconi Rd. The sand was perfect for late night burials. Now the old runway is gone and it’s been subdivided up for development.
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Bummer huh?
Easy in and out, that one. Ha.
Thursday is goat curry day at the latin supermarket by my house, can’t wait!
Latin curry?
Lots of Indian migration to the Caribbean and South America.
And Fiji and South Africa and Malaysia and all U.S. tech hubs. Those south Asians brought their curry everywhere!!! But my favorite mishmash is the Afro Caribbean/ Indian mashup. Nothing like dipping your roti into a nice goat curry.
The Jamaican restaurants near me do curry goat on Friday.
Wasn’t there a surf movie in the 80s with a funny skit with a dude that was a window washer but had a pet goat that slept in his living room? Then he ditched work to surf?
Help me out here peeps, I’m not making this up!
Mad Wax
R.C.J. was the goat owning window washer who got the magical wax-making instruction book as payment for washing a shops windows.
When him and his mates (Sanga, Ellis, Goblin) rubbed the wax on their boards and said where they wanted to surf they were magically transported there.
Kong stole some wax.
Then the goat ate the book.
The goats name was Victoria…
Yes! My missing brain cells thank you.
I’d take a goat in the lineup over some of the newer “learners” on Wavestorms in a heartbeat over here in Jersey…
I would take the goat in the lineup over anyone from New Jersey.
smart move
It’s a bit harsh to call Ben Gravy a “learner” isn’t it?
I just hope that goat
Gave written consent or else
PETA will make waves
Well they typically eat the goat in a post surf feed, so they might frown upon that.
At least the food walks itself down the beach… nothing worse than carrying a full esky across the hot sand…
The goat was asking for it by the way it blinked it’s eyes and turned it’s head demurely.
Does this mean Ke11y is no longer surfing’s goat?
I was sure this was gonna be another Kelly Slater story. Pleasantly surprised
It’s early days
Definitely fucks his goats.
There’s only room for one goat at woozl, Chas.
I thought da goat Tom Brady was a Trump supporter?
He is, bless his soul. He also told his teammates early on in the season that if any dumb fucker took a knee, he’d leave the field.
Tom Brady also has a fellow “teammate” living in his house. Which leads me to believe he is a cuckold.
Longtom’s goats are currently too busy healing their butchered nutsacks to focus on world peace!