Jamie O’Brien’s former fall guy Sean
“Poopies” McInerny joins Jackass, crashes into shark pen after
failed jump attempt, “Tourniquet! Tourniquet!”
By Derek Rielly
"Someone's heard yelling for medical
assistance!"
Sean “Poopies” McInerney, Jamie O’Brien’s former
crazy sidekick in the Who is JOB series, has made what
appears to be a stunning debut for Jackass, the
reality comedy TV and movie franchise created by Johnny Knoxville
and his skater pals.
In a piece for the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, and which may
feature in Jackass 4, new Jackasser Poopies “appears to
get attacked by a shark after a jump attempt. Someone’s heard
yelling for medical assistance and a tourniquet as the teaser ends”
reports TMZ.
The sequence airs on the first day of Discovery’s Shark Week
2021, July 11 at 10 PM ET/PT.
Jackass 4 hits cinemas October 22, 2021.
Poopies, from Carlsbad, California, earned his nickname as a
13-year-old after a Jackass-inspired stunt where he
evacuated his bowels at a busy intersection and was subsequently
arrested.
He moved to the North Shore a dozen years ago, rented a room
from Jamie O, got pall-y with Jamie, and quickly became the
second-biggest star of Who is JOB, before quitting and
starting his own off-shoot channel etc.
Surf quiz: How many drowning swimmers,
other surfers, have you pulled from jaws of death?
By Steve Rees
Have you ever saved a life in the water?
While
Derek plays real estate agent, real surfers are doing
things, heroic things, life-saving things.
Two days ago, surfer Ben Cross was in the water at Navarre Beach
along Florida’s panhandle when he noticed an eleven-year-old kid
floundering in the water, caught in a rip.
Cross paddled over, snatching him from certain
drowning.
“It was a typical Wednesday afternoon for Bebe Booth, taking
pictures of dolphins on the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier — but that
all changed when she spotted a young boy in her camera lens.He was really struggling,” she said. “The riptide actually took
this boy out.
Moments later, she said she saw a nearby surfer come to the
boy’s rescue.
‘If that young man didn’t make it there as fast as he did,
the young boy wouldn’t be here with us,’ Booth said.
Navarre Beach Fire Rescue Chief Danny Fureigh says what
happened was the difference between life and death for the boy, who
got caught in a rip current.
Booth says after emergency crews came and assisted the boy
back on land, the surfer left as a silent hero.
So she posted the photos she took on social media in hopes to
give him the recognition he deserves.
We wanted to make sure that his name got out,” she
said.
Her photo did just that and the nameless hero, Benjamin
Cross, was found.
This scary story ultimately had a happy ending.
Benjamin’s mother, Andrea Cross, told WEAR-TV: “He is very
grateful for all the love and support on social media the past
couple of days and will receive a certificate and a T-shirt from
the Navarre Beach Fire Department in recognition for his help with
them yesterday.”
Classic: I saved a kid’s life, and all I got was this crummy
t-shirt.
Have you ever saved a life in the water?
If so, did you want credit for it?
And a t-shirt?
I’ve never saved anyone. Disappointed somehow.
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Naughty: Australian kitesurfer arrested for
“molesting a protected animal” after ripping his wind stick around
southern right whale and her baby calf!
By Chas Smith
"Whilst the temptation to get up close and personal
is strong we must also respect the rationale and protection around
this endangered species."
An Australian kitesurfer from Old Reynella,
Australia was arrested Saturday on two counts of “molesting a
protected animal” after getting very close to a southern right
whale and her baby calf. The 32-year-old man was in Adelaide, as
were the whales, but where the wind blows, so the spirit goes.
Whales and dolphins are protected under South Australian law and
molestation carries a criminal penalty.
The molester will appear before Christies Beach Magistrates
Court on August 2, according to ABC News,
though Kiteboarding South Australia (KSA) has said he is remorseful
for his actions but also released a statement reading, “Whales are
majestic creatures and whilst the temptation to get up close and
personal is strong we must also respect the rationale and
protection around this endangered species.”
A witness on the beach snapped photos of the molester and wrote,
“Unfortunately, some wanted to get too close,” on Facebook.
Where do you rank kitesurfing amongst the wind-powered
boardsports?
I put classic windsurfing number one and by far.
I think a classic windsurfer would never molest a soul.
Do you?
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Listen: The best fins-free surfer the world
has ever known is not the great Derek Hynd but rather standup
boogie king Danny Kim!
By Chas Smith
Sliding and gliding.
The great Derek Hynd is, objectively, a legend,
our Surfads recently
writing, “(He) has worn so many hats over the last
five decades it can be hard to keep up. Competitor. Writer. Coach.
Contest director. Administrator. Free friction advocate. He is a
field of constant motion. A spinning maelstrom of progression.”
Ah free friction advocate and the best to ever slide sans
skegs?
I think the argument both could be, and has been, made.
Hynd, or more broadly finless surfing, came up on this week’s
Grit! podcast. David Lee Scales was sitting in his Orange County
home. I was sitting at a bar on mainland Mexico. And we were
discussing Jack Coleman surfing finless when I became angry with
finless surfing altogether, raging about it being an abomination
and whatnot, until recalling Danny Kim.
Do you remember Danny Kim?
The boogier who would stand up and get barreled on his BZ
wearing A.P.E.’s sponsored by Op?
Man, he was effortlessly cool.
If you could trade all your shortboard talents in and be a
serviceable standup boogier would you do it? I would and in a
second.
Lookin’ all sick.
David Lee and I also discussed many other things though I think
I called the American flag “boring” which may trigger some this
Fourth of July weekend. Oh yeah, I also said if New Jersey’s Ben
Gravy swapped places with Duke Kahanamoku and was surfing’s
ambassador then our favorite pastime would rank the same as hacky
sack today.
David Lee said it would be the same as snakeboarding.
If sensitive, don’t listen.
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Venice home of Surf Shack creator Matt
Titone, “California’s best Airnbnb”, sells within minutes of
appearing on world’s biggest surf news website!
By Derek Rielly
Who didn’t want a piece of 3904 Michael Avenue,
only a short drive from mythical Ladera Heights, black Beverly
Hills, a domesticated paradise?
Two days ago, it was revealed the Los Angeles home of
Surf Shacks creator Matt Titone had been thrown onto the
market for a little over one-and-a-half mill.
Turns out it was sold five months earlier for $1.55 mill, forty
gees less than its sticker price, and its owner, Matt Titone and
his wife Courtney, had split the city for Silver Strand in
Oxnard.
Figured I’d ask Titone about it and the shift from LA to Oxnard.
Y’sad about selling the best Airbnb in
California?
I don’t know about the best Airbnb in California, but we had fun
whoring out the back house to renters and the occasional photo
shoot as well. We definitely came away with some funny stories from
doing all that… Similar to what they say about owning a boat:
selling that house was one of the happiest days of my life.
It was real pretty, sorta joint I’d imagine living my
days out in, a little degeneracy in the hot tub, warming spent
limbs in front of fire pit and so on.
Thanks man! Yeah, it was a great place. I bought it in 2008 as a
young bachelor. It was actually a pretty sketchy foreclosure that
was barely standing up back then. All my friends thought I was
crazy to wanna buy it. My girlfriend at the time (now wife),
Courtney moved in and cried when she first saw it — not tears of
joy. There was cloth wiring throughout the house from the 1940s
(huge fire hazard), mouldy, termite infested walls, and a total
crack-den shanty shack in the back yard attached to the garage. I
even had to come over with one of my bigger/ tougher friends with
baseball bats during the escrow period to chase junkie squatters
out. It was pretty gnarly.
Long story short, it was pretty much a ten-year process to get
the place looking all fancy like the photos you see today. We just
took it one project at a time over the years as we could afford
them. Courtney was really the driving force behind every single
renovation project, she has a great eye for that stuff. Then when
my brother Sam graduated from architecture school, he convinced me
to let him redesign the garage into a guest house situation for him
to live in. So we took out a new loan and went for it. Sam even did
pretty much all the finishing work himself (with our friend Tyler
Canali and my help). That was obviously the biggest project we did
to the house and the reason it’s getting any attention at all.
The back yard was definitely my favorite part with the outdoor
shower, hot tub, fruit trees and fire pit. It was a sweet lil oasis
among the nightly police helicopters, traffic, and Venice High
School bustle just across the street.
But you sold!
You know, a lot of love went into that house over the years, but
I was extremely happy to move on. We have two young boys now and
the house was only 890 square feet with one small bathroom —
stylish, but no bathtub even. The back house was amazing, but after
my brother Sam (who designed it) moved out, we mostly just rented
it out and didn’t use it ourselves. As a family of four, we simply
out-grew the place and were not cool enough to keep up with LA
living anymore! We’d been wanting to move north ever since our
first son was born almost five years ago, so I was stoked when it
finally came time to pick up sticks last year.
And you swung north to Oxnard. Tell me the diff between
LA living and Reynolds country?
Yep, we’ve been in The Nard for over a year now. We love Ventura
County in general, it’s way more chill than LA, but still super
close if we ever want to visit. I think the biggest difference is
really access to more nature, and less people.
You see Reynolds around much?
Ha! No, not really… I’ve seen him out in the water ripping a few
times here and there though. It’s always cool to see the pros out
in the water, it makes you feel like you made the right choice
surfing the right spot at that time — then you realize how bad you
actually are at surfing when you see them. I also saw Bobby
Martinez and Tom Curren out a couple times when it was big last
winter. That was pretty special to watch those legends do their
thing in proper, pumping surf.
You been to the Silver Strand Fight Club
yet?
The first rule of Silver Strand Fight Club is you don’t talk
about Silver Strand Fight Club.
You see our tees?
Haha! No, but I want one!
I like your Surf Shacks series, very much, achingly
beautiful and so on. Do you ever want to photograph a house of
ordinariness? No artfully placed photo books, racks of brightly
coloured surfboards, gorgeous wooden decks etc but beige carpets,
department store furniture, the stink of nicotine, shattered
dreams, hopelessness?
While the books end up having more of an “aspirational” (I hate
that word) edit to them, we have covered our fair share of more
“average joe” or slightly sloppy surf bro shacks you allude to in
the series over the years. They’re definitely not all Dwell-worthy
abodes.
To me it has never been all about how nice and stylish the
actual house is, rather I have always been more focused on the
personalities featured in the series. I only focus on surfers who
do something creative for a living (or as a passion) that I am
interested in. It just so happens that these folks more often than
not have really rad, stylish homes that reflect their creative
personality — whether it’s a cheap salt box rental, their van they
live out of, or a high end coastal property.
(Titone has photographed a few beautiful shitholes in his time.
See, here, and,
here, and
here.)
But yes, I actually have wanted to feature more homes like that
— they just can’t be too ordinary. I really wanted to shoot my
friend Rick Massie’s place in Venice for the second book because I
felt like there were too many high-end homes coming together in the
final edit and we needed to balance it out with some more
“realness.” There just wasn’t enough time to get it done in the
midst of Covid lock-downs, etc. He has a full on rusty outdoor gym
in his back yard where he does ding repair and airbrushing for most
Angeleno surfers. There is always a funny scene at his place with
random folks picking up their boards and homies slamming Tecates,
talking story every afternoon. Rick is a super funny, interesting,
creative character though so he fits the series perfectly, it’s not
necessarily about what his actual home looks like (if that makes
sense?). Maybe save it for Vol. 3 someday.
And, tell me, Surf Shack you’d most wanna live in until
your dying breath?
I can’t really decide on one. For me it’s sort of a toss up
between Jeff + Kara Johnsons
A-frame in the hills of Santa Barbara, the
McKinley Bungalow in
Montauk, and the Goodwins Kauai
compound. Those are three of my favorite places and
all three are really beautiful homes that are totally my style. If
I had a ton of money, I’d wanna just buy those three homes and
rotate among them depending on the season.