The GOAT and the kid.
Joy, today, throughout surf-dom as the very first known images of surf great Kelly Slater’s and bikini maven Kalani Miller’s baby son have been publicly revealed. Slater announced the birth of the boy some few months back on the Barton Lynch podcast, telling his host, “We got a little boy and my friends think we’re playing a game with him, because we haven’t said the name. Because we actually, we don’t actually don’t call him anything. We gave him a name for his birth certificate, but, as of now, we don’t have a name to call him. So, we’re kind of just, like, letting him figure out what his personality is.”
Well, apparently the fella’s personality is harmony with the natural order as his name is Tao.
In any case, the gorgeous family went on a New Zealand vacation, Slater sharing a carousel of honey-colored photos of the family enjoying golf, sunsets and good living. The greatest athlete to ever live penned:
It’s been a real pleasure visiting NZ for the past few years to golf with my friend Ric Kayne (and find a few waves on the side with @te_tino_manuao supercaddy). His golf courses @taraitigolfclub and @tearailinks are beyond spectacular. It was an even better treat bringing the whole family for a vacation this year. I got a funny feeling we’ll be spending more time there in the years to come. Thanks for hosting us and making us feel at home. Cant wait to get back every time I leave.
Cryptic, that funny feeling. Maybe a permanent move to the Land of the Long White Cloud?
Back to young Tao, though. Do you image he will follow in daddy’s turtle moon-inspired footsteps and become a professional surfer or do golf instead?
Fun choices.
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‘We gave him a name for his birth certificate’ What name?
First time fatherhood, incredible, Kelly!
Cheers, Namaste and Bravo to Tao, Kalani and Kelly.
The hair swirl is anti clockwise…
he’s gunna be a handful.
It’s because they’re in Southern hemisphere.
timmy~
lassie~
puerto ricans qualify?
Bizarrely he is Rick Beato’s latest guest!
Did not expect to see KS on RBs show.
til the juisce rans dwom my legg…
picked up a bowling bowl laterly? guiness in kegger and coors on tap
For real. He brought up some topics and countries that I’ve never heard him mention before, which makes sense considering who the interviewer was.
Kelly haters would truly dislike this interview. Stay away.
The kids name is Tao? That’s perfectly! Because that’s is all his girl has ever wanted from him.
TAO (take an oath)
Latin American cupid dot com
the chicks in Colombia are hotter.
Only the hot ones are hot
Well you don’t visit for the ugly ones
Yeah but you arrive and its mostly bushies like in aus. Then the cabbie gets you sorted
In other great sporting news, big congratulations to Alex Ovechkin for scoring his 895th goal in 1,487 games, beating The Great One Gretsky’s 894 goals in 1,487 games. Broke what many thought the unbreakable
business friend invited me to my first&last hockey game. Forum? Watched Gretz score his 100th playoff goal. Early nineties. Making CNN headlines for his past support of DJT. Oh, the nerve of those people; taking shots at the greatest and…they missed the net..by a Telsa mile~now DeLorean? he was coke guy. Both of ’em Taos..of their time.
missed you brother….never a cross word in your puzzles. Always fun to pass the time….hope you are well
you need a big Bailey ladder and chain saw and helicopter and trucks and diggers and a compliance director?
Maybe it’s time practitioners of goat yoga return them to the barn, because chainsaw yoga is going to be the latest craze.
go to Mexico, don’t speak great Spanish, walk around in public a foot taller than everyone else with blue eyes and blonde hair. can’t fail. good luck they are a handful
What will be the Dao of Tao?
Since a baby goat is called a “kid”, I reckon Kelly is getting mighty used to just calling him Kid…. forever
This you?
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Why do you argue against a better America for your children? These geo political moves are for the benefit of your children. Stop acting like temporary discomfort for you should be unbearable for the brighter future your children will experience as a result of what Trump is doing. He’s doing the right thing. Suck it up buttercup
You’re so programmed, my man. It’s kind of scary. Hopefully 1/2 the forest near your cabin doesn’t get logged…
Really?
why does the Federal Government own 620 Million acres, 92% of which is located in 12 western States?
fact is, while you sit and ramble on and whine till callouses form on your keyboard typing fingers, Trump is finally course correcting this Nation in a direction that more properly resembles the Republic of States it is.
so increase the cost of living, increase inflation, increase debt…decrease GDP, decrease investment…and trash made in the USA to foreign country’s who once bought goods from the USa…..Tesla here we come!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……
For real, the MAGA movement is feeling more and more like the Jonestown situation where they are true believers to the bitter end.
Dow futures down another 1,200 this afternoon.
Wldnt a real socialist be happy about it?
Center left buddy
So moderatly happy then
Science says otherwise. Much, much dire.
How long did you think “new all-time highs in the Dow” was gonna last before the market made a correction move?
Global elitists can kick and scream all they want. It’s a recalibration for Blackrock and other like sorts.
Better the USA than China. This recalibration was voted for.
NASDAQ in bear market territory and the others not far behind. Failure with the Middle East peace agreement, failure with the Russian cease fire. Etc
I thought you were against Corporate America. Have you recalibrated?
Im not against corporate America, but they shouldn’t be getting tax breaks that will increase the national dept when they’re making record profits and worker wages have stagnated for years.
The government debt is not your debt. It’s a spending problem. It’s also a spending problem for companies to rely on illegal labor. Regulations are also a spending problem, for everyone. It’s not the making money that’s the problem, it’s the spending money, from macro to micro.
edit: fast-food worker is not a career.
and China….the big big winner….
Did you go to any of those boomerpalooza style protests?
si’ the redwoods…’75. don’t look up~or the end of us?
Nope. Was at work.
Same
off my chest. small Bs. Once doth protested in C4’s neck of the woods but further north…students rallied against PacRedWood and Butterfly was in the tree, Paul Black Elk, son of senior. local yocals~
haven’t had the energy to protest since. crime don’t pay~
but. we drank ’em all under the table~
I heart spotted owls. There are some nesting pairs that live above my neighborhood.
To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their cousins. (NPR july 2024)
I read about that. I can hear multiple different kinds of owls making their calls at night including barred owls. There were two little screech owls that lived on an oak tree on my property.
been in current house for 20+ years. there have always been owl(s) and great to hear them screeching…hopefully he/she keeps finding a mate(s). Ever seen The Big Year birdwatching movie? Spotting 700 + birds of a variety of feathers. Hell I’ve seen more than dat in my neighborhood!!! Apparently Big Bird is going down w/ NPR…?
Haven’t seen it I’ll look it up. There’s a place in the Marin Headlands right next to the Golden Gate Bridge called hawk hill because every fall you can hike up there and see all the hawks migrating south that get funneled into one point of land where they have to circle in the updrafts and then shoot across the water to the San Francisco side.
Public television only gets one percent of their funding from the government so I think big bird will be ok.
as I keep saying,,,now we are seeing the result of Tariffs/lack of respect to respective sovereign country’s…….everything that get made in the USA will be a lot more expensive and of lesser quality….and in 3 -5 years maybe there will be new factories…..so meantime life gets a shitload more expensive and made in the USA will be “Stay Away “
Sorry Otto. It’s impossible to reconcile the ‘think of the children idea’ coming from someone (him, not you) who is a narcissistic egomaniac only cares about himself and his close circle.
I’ve seen a similar ‘much needed shock therapy’ theory in practice before – austerity measures, in europe – it crippled the economy and furthered inequalities. It didn’t work out well for the future of my children.
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Just told my Mexican girlfriend Kelly named his baby Tao and her response was “toalla?!” She thought I said towel. Don’t forget to bring a towel I guess is the lesson here.
Kids going to be a self help guru obviously. Thats where all the chicks are at anyway.
and Jack’s son is named Zen, so there’s clearly a trend of pro surfers naming their kids after self-help books.
the question is, who is gonna up the ante and name their kid “The Four-Hour Workweek”?
I like turtles
Down there scoping a plot for his Doomsday bunker…
Gone for a week and the surf world seems to have had the most news it has had in a very long time.
What is the status of the Gaga saga? And are we still talking about Andrew Tate and those dumbass meatheads from San Clemente?
And for the record, Kelly should’ve just named this kid Kelly Jr.
Wouldn’t it be Robert Jr.?
How could I forget! I stand corrected, Bob Jr it is. That would definitely make it easier on the kid compared to Kelly Jr. But then again nothing will be easy for that kid when your pops is Kelly and he starts commenting on your social media posts and being the ultimate narcissist that he is.
Bob Jr. is a much cooler name and the kid has more hair than his dad so there’s that…
Tao Mayhem Slater