"Backward-looking scientifically dubious nonsense."
One week ago surfers near and far thrilled at the release of David Litt’s new book It’s Only Drowning. In it, the former Obama speech writer who who describes himself as “a high-functioning, high-anxiety person who experienced situational depression during the coronavirus pandemic” had a feeling of overwhelming dread, difficulty getting out of bed and found himself endlessly doomscrolling in these modern fractious days of our lives.
His brother-in-law, on the other hand, “a guitar player, a motorcycle enthusiast and a daredevil surfer.”
Litt was impressed by brother-in-law’s handling of the post-pandemic world, moving through it all seemingly unbothered, but also not really paying attention to news etc., mostly listening to Joe Rogan.
“Joe Rogan-loving” brother-in-law quickly becoming shorthand, in reviews of the book and in the book itself, for non-progressives.
Do you, yourself, listen to Rogan’s very popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience? Do you find it filled with backward-looking scientifically dubious nonsense?
In case you need memory jogged, here is the world’s greatest surfer Kelly Slater appearing on the program six years ago. The 11-time world surfing champion is very hungry for Rogan’s approval, even dressing like the former Fear Factor host.
And here’s Shane Dorian with Rogan from nine years ago. Rogan, in this episode, appears to be needing Dorian’s attention.
Back to the issue at hand, though. Which current surfers on tour would you describe as “Joe Rogan-loving?”
Discuss.
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Welcome to world of Mr roboto
No… No it’s not why..? because Gays would rather suck a Dick than eat a bowl of soup.
Now what we need is for ICE to start rounding up all the Rosas, Marias, etc. They the one’s that produce the anchor babies. Send her back! Birthright citizenship ending soon so that’s good
Exactly
100% true that most people from the US don’t think about anything at all.
I’m thinking of a number…..
Between 1 and 10..?
Yes.
I know it’s a hard concept for Seppos to grasp but many people take an interest and have an opinion on world affairs.
I didn’t realise we needed your personal indifference as a global benchmark. Must be tough, not voting, not living there, but still managing to lecture BG about not caring enough.
some of us have business’s in the USA or have indirect interests , such as blanks/Glass/resin that we buy off the USA…some of us have been coming to the USA for 50+ years…the USA has been trying to expand it’s globalization policy’s since the 2nd WW…….now suddenly the USA has completely changed it’s p[policy’s of so called Amrica ist and more national policy……leaving the rest of us to now create new business models with less reliance on the USA as it’s currently very unstable…….so don’t worry about us non merrycans…..like the rest of the world, new opportunities and alliances …..a new world order without the USA, leading!
and don’t forget that Obama, deported more illegals than Trump…..without having to create all the aggro/angst….so the question is …is the USA now a safer country to live in , and is the USA ‘s current Global reputation now one of …..???
The Dem press and the Dem mayors, governors didnt make a fuss.thats how Obama did it.
Yeah, it’s not like the US ever got stuck into any other country’s affairs. Just live and let live…
I prefer “Pinch my Salt”
… You know Da rules.
Cole H luvin!!
I just watched the condensed version of the final heat.
Cole absolutely shredding what looked like a fun day at any California beach break.
The winner of the heat though has to be Saladbar for saying : “That’s a HUGE wave!“…
no better maneuver done.
whilst watching the heat, was thinking someone should start a betting platform for claims.
prior to every heat, based on the participants we should be able to place bets on cliams that will be used in the heat.
muscle flex (upward (Cole) and downward with grunt (Tyler)), hang up the phone, call me, gang finger signs, finger snaps, chest pounding, basketball shot, tall standing staring at judges, jazz hands, baby cradling, salute, double handed 10 fingers……..
The anger of the woke supremicists is obvsly very motivating for Cole!!
There is a difference between being woke and a woman hating cunt.
Xox
But theres no difference between being woke and a man hating twat
So hard to be a man these days. Can’t own slaves or treat women as chattels, but at least we can still shoot guns and flex our bigotry online.
Fag ☝️
True story.
Can’t own slaves or treat women as chattels
sure you can….just live in the Middle East, or China, or India, or Africa, or Mexico, or……..well, a lot of the world.
Or the USA. Read the ProPublica article about the Farmworker visas and the guy that just got sentenced to 30 years. https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/
(Don’t worry, the present administration has suspended enforcement of the previous admin’s worker’s protections until many more abuses have been committed.)
Correct.
You mean a feminist….?
….and a cunt loving woman
as opposed to white supremacists ??
rub belly in circular motion…
I like the wetsuit arm tug myself
I’m Down… Call Vegas
Rogan podcast = Idiocracy 2.0.
yep. his 20 million subscribers with 6.1 billion views are just idiots……and you….are here commenting on that bastion of intellect; Beach Grit
Good point for sure. Respect what you’re saying in reference to my first comment… If possibe, I’d give what you said above both a thumbs up and thumbs down (I tried… wouldn’t work, so I gave you the thumbs up)…
The way I look at it – not saying I am right and you are wrong…
is there is no story ever reported here; no comment ever made here from a wide variety of opinion holders – some of which bring far, far more than surfing here (perfectly fine with me, would not want it any other way in the BG comments section, or I’d commit blasphemy and go to Inertia comments); no societal views presented here by Chas or Derek, or anyone else who gets a bylline here that has had any influence on crucial life choices (in the U.S.) like voting for a candidate for public, deciding whether or not vaccinate my children or myself, my views on science, etc… There are folks we all know ( in the U.S.) that allowed Rogan podcast episodes to fully form important life decisions based on folks who would never get a platform from a responsible objective journalist. In my humble opinion, that is problematic hence my comparision of the podcast (not the individual himself) to the movie Idiocracy.
Love my BG… love Chas and Derek… especially love ALL BG commenters no matter if I agree with them or not (becoming the only reason to follow the CT more and more)… but none of this here is shaping my decisions on important life tasks… including riding or not riding a midlength too much at 51…
Like eating good and taking care of yourself? Not buying into all the lies we were told about covid? Having 3 hour conversations with interesting people? Heck he just had Bernie Sanders on for the second time. Somebody should lock Mr. Rogan up!
certainly a good episode with an intelligent, well-intentioned human once in a while… cannot deny that…
lucky Rogan was there, otherwise there would have been no-one intelligent or well-intentioned in that conversation.
in the great words of someone…..if y0u dont’ like it, truncates it off. If people have decide that Mr. Rogan’s show has provided them information or a country post of view to the venerated ”responsible objective journalist”……Oh, oops, wait…..I just vomited.
anyway, just had a mint. where was I? oh yeah. My personal belief is I would rather have more information than less…..from a variety of sources and make decision for myself. take the covid BS. I decided nit to get c-vaccinated and not allow my family to get vaccinated, based on conversation with multiple medical care professionals, and the advice a friend of mine who is former CIA.
Now to your second point: the fact that you have not read anything in Beach Grit that has not influenced your life decisions, says it all.
almost all my life decisions/tasks are based on the journalism and comments in Beach Grit and that’s why I am at least 1% smarter than you.
Crocs, like Crocs…
6x vaxxed ☝️
From a few years ago… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
A classic from the KVF vault!
Joe Groan-again
If we’re talkin’ “daredevil surfers” I’d say Matt McGillivray.
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Did the live thread break its metatarsals?
Question- Would you rather be seated between Joe Turpel and Chris Cote on a flight or have to listen to the Slater/Dorian podcasts back to back with no break?
The 1st 2 then storm the cockpit and take it all down
Definitely A… but dam these are shit choices!
Brutal choices… but for my own self-respect afterward… I’ll sit with Turps and Cote.
Turpel/Cote. Cote actually has a good wit about him and can be fantastically snarky sarcastic.
be fun to tag team (beat up on) Turpel with a 5 hour flight of snark.
Cote is cool, but I can’t believe no one’s got Turpel drunk and recorded him doing some unmentionable act to someone or something. Only a matter of time. He’s got that look.
Well, of he sticks to these ideals I’m a Joe Rogan lovin surfer:
“Bro, these ICE raids are fucking nuts, man… I don’t think if the Trump administration, if they’re running and they said, ‘We’re going to go to Home Depot and we’re going to arrest all the people at Home Depot. We’re going to go to construction sites and we’re going to just like tackle people at construction sites,’ I don’t think anybody would have signed up for that.
If you’re going to Home Depot and arresting people who are just trying to work, you’re not on our team. We don’t want you on our team.”
Too bad.
We voted for this. Mass deportation is what we want. As it turns out, the Hispanic population by and large approves of Trump’s actions. Legal immigrants don’t want to compete with cheap illegal labor either
People voted for lower prices. Fail.
People voted for a peacetime president. 2 wars in 6 months without Congressional approval. Fail.
People voted for an end to the war in Ukraine on day one. Fail.
People voted for getting criminals out of our country. Fail.
Year to date 65% of people taken into custody had no criminal convictions.
Over 93% of these book-ins were never convicted of any violent offenses.
In early June 2025, ICE was arresting approximately 453 non-criminals per day in the interior of the US, a significant increase.
Nearly half (47%) of those currently detained by ICE lack a criminal record, and fewer than 30% have been convicted of crimes.
They are arresting people for being brown. I don’t care if you voted for that or not, it’s still a racist policy.
But here’s a case I’m sure you are just tickled pink about Otto just because of the kind of person that you have proven yourself to be.
Deportation of a purple heart recipient. And I’m not even going to get into the beating of the the father of three Marines.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/national/2025-06-24/purple-heart-army-veteran-self-deports-after-nearly-50-years-in-the-u-s?hl=en-US
That’s what you voted for Otto.
I’m sure you got a full-on fucking hardon when daddy dumpy pants
said that our senator “looked like an illegal.”
The Holocaust started as mass deportations.
Blue States will not be allowed to artificially inflate their population numbers in order to gain Congressional seats.
And Trump has the authority to do a strike like Iran. He doesn’t need Congressional approval.
I see you ignored the inconvenience stats. I see you ignored the part where the purple heart recipient got deported. Thank you for your fucking service now fuck off.
Authoritarian fascism is authoritarian Fascism and you can make excuses for them all you want it doesn’t change it.
It’s funny watching the whole “”Those that would trade liberty for security deserve neither.” crew
Cheering on the Gestapo rounding up veterans, mothers, and children.
But then again maga is built on hypocrisy. For years that it was a Constitutional Republic until that Constitution hampered what the orange dictator wanted to do to enrich himself. I’m sure you don’t think he needs approval for anything.
Never seen a war a Republicunt president doesn’t want to get into. He couldn’t wait to get back. Promised to pull us out of Afghanistan and was too much of a weakling to do it.
He hated it so much he even cried about it for 4 years saying that we should have never left.
When is the last time YOU committed a Federal criminal offense?
If you’re like me, never.
Every single illegal committed a Federal criminal offense. Every single one.
Your stats are toast.
“never”?
Nope
Place your right hand on your Trump Bible and swear that answer under oath.
Do you own a Bible?
I do. ESV version.
Good.
I like the King James Bible. He was to he first King to have the Bible translated into old English so even peasants would have access to the Scripture, as most did not speak Latin
I knew you were going to go there.
I also have my Masonic Bible
That’s a given.
More an earned
Some folks just lean more towards cults.
Didn’t inhale actually.
ever smoked pot?
Had a bud of chronic. Was hanging out with some Mexicans who wanted to smoke pot. Told them “I have weed, any of you have papers?” They all scattered
You’re just spreading lies now. I’m sorry if you’re unwilling to admit it but you are fuking lying
Purple heart didnt get deported, he left on his own, got $1000 bucks and will be back legally.
He was fucking deported no matter what fukin dumbass lies you want to tell and maybe you should concentrate on your own politics as your kanga Maga gets gets obliterated for its fascist views.
We are fuked here unless we get a make aus great again style leader.
Great job POTUS
I’m pretty sure I figured this out.
The government just fines the employers of illegal immigrants.
Pure profit, no costly deportation investigations, court dates and no transposition out of the country.
And the government dodges the perception racism or picking on poor folks.
And it’s “tuff on crime”, which is a slam dunk!
You gotta love this Otto.
There’s no racism involved. No one can successfully wrap enforcement of law as racist. That’s why enforcement of immigration law has never been successfully challenged as unConstitutional under Equal Protection.
The only poor being victimized here are those here legally whom are unable to improve their station in life due to depressed wages as a result of rampant illegal immigration.
If anything, DHS and CBP should be doing more deportations.
You didn’t address my ground breaking idea!
You only responded to my secondary reference to the “perception” of racism and class warfare. I didn’t assert this as a truth but a perception.
Let’s get back on topic. Fine the employers and watch the money flow in. We are talking about about a win/win here Otto.
Already happening
https://www.wsj.com/business/meatpacking-american-workers-immigration-d6bdd47a
Damn, I was so close to success.
https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1939353170498441516
Man, this chicks feed is a bummer. Maybe unfollow for metal health reasons?
I don’t do X/Twitter. Anytime I post these they’re just grabbed from an article, usually for on Twitchy, which uses X/Twitter as a launchpad for their snarky articles.
I obviously love snarky but with political stuff it seems different but maybe it’s because it’s divided my family. Even if I agree with it, it’s a rough to enjoy these days
Sorry that politics has divided your family. It sucks when anything divides family. My rule is never let the kids see you fight with family. Accomplish that and the lesson learned will be that politics don’t really matter in the long run.
They are arresting people for being Brown Otto. You have to play dumb to the stats I showed you to say that they are not being racist. They are fucking racist. You can’t explain away the commander-in-chief saying that Padilla looked like an illegal and still pretend that he isn’t a fuking racist.
Padilla said he just happened to come across the press conference. He lied. He lied like an illegal lies about where they are where they are. Padilla then rushed the podium, acting like an illegal hopped up on bs claims of stolen land. He didn’t properly identify himself, nor have his Congressional pin on. Just there to make a spectacle.
He was dealt with cause he was acting like an asshole, not cause he’s brown
It was when he was being handcuffed that he looked like an illegal
Raysist!! Here’s a tip for you: it doesn’t work anymore and we can don’t care.
ah the USA currently has one of it’s lowest unemployment rates….so which people are unable to improve their station in life…because of low immigrant wages??
So the good news is farmers will now have to pay 3-4 times wages for fruit picking/farm work…if they can find them……and your cost of living goes up as no-one wants menial underpaid work except…..illegal immigrants !
Wages go up. Affordable housing can be found. Fact is we don’t want the illegal immigrants that Biden let in. None of them. They all need to get the fuck out
Changes coming soon on the “employer penalty” side of things, and the institution of a new migrant workers progarm. very soon.
Seems like sticking it to the employers a little would be better for everyone. Unless we need the immigrants and this further fucks our economy?
I’ve long advocated for employers being penalized that hire illegal workers.
there is a new program soon to be introduced in which citizens of other countries will be able to apply for employment in the U.S. through a data base that connects U.S. employers and migrant workers. employers would be responsible for travel (ingress and egress), housing and medical care expenses.
From my understanding if person fills out employee application and presents proper identification. The employer can’t question if that person is illegal or not..? Have a friend whom employs at least 15 hispanic women in his warehouse. I know for a fact he has been stressed about losing that manpower. He probably knows most are not legal but plays the card “its illegal for me to question their citizenship if they provide proper identification..” This dude is making real money!
Yeah Americans want illegals getting cash paying day jobs while their knocked up wife and kids gets WIC and a free lunch, health care ETC… No we don’t.
let me ‘splain, Lucy.
Why were ICE arresting violent criminals in public places?
well, It is very unlikely that a criminal waiting on the job line in a Home Depot parking lot is going to be armed. It is also unlikely that they will be armed at a construction site, place of employment or at their child’s school.
whereas, if you go to a home to arrest a known & violent felon, it is likely that they are armed, can shelter and take hostages….so the situation would be much less safe for ICE, the criminal, their family, and the community in general.
Also, the element of surprise as well as plenty of witnesses being present for the arrest, is in ICE’s favor.
Aw cute the little christofascist thinks he knows something.
Element of surprise with it on the news. Fkn hilarious. And that’s just the dumbest point in your fash-splaing little propaganda piece lifted staight out of imaredpillfacist.com
Look I know math is hard for you maga dummies, but when 93% of the people that you take into custody have no violent convictions against them and you are arresting them at Home Depot with your face covered and no uniform and no identifying badges it’s because you’re a fuking coward and part of the Gestapo.
It’s also more fabricated lies that they are just doing this at Home Depots. They are blowing doors off of houses and ripping mothers away from their children. Deporting purple heart medal recipients.
Run along little man and play Führer fluffer somewhere else. Maybe you can find some weak minded individuals to sing praise to fascism.
“when 93% of the people that you take into custody have no violent convictions against them and you are arresting them at Home Depot with your face covered and no uniform and no identifying badges it’s because you’re a fuking coward and part of the Gestapo.”
uhhh, I’m not an IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT officer
However, I did mention there are many other places, beside Home Depot for ICE to ENFORCE IMMIGRATION laws.
You see what I did there? ICE is a law enforcement agency, whose actual Duty and Purpose is to ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS on ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
so, if you don’t want to get arrested and detained by ICE, don’t come here illegally….and if you are here illegally and want to avoid being arrested, don’t hang out with convicted felons and a group of other illegal immigrants.
you kind of getting the picture, Dorothy?
Pretty simple.
Fuck you’re a stupid cunt. Look I know counting and numbers are hard and you are obviously fukin illiterate but but those squiggly lines that I posted account for American citizens and non-criminals that are being rounded up by the Gestapo.
They all must go. Maybe you go as well. God bless
Typical fukin fascist.
I can I’m amazed you can type with Putin’s dick down your throat.
problem is Obama deported more than Trump without all the aggressive rhetoric with ICE/Marines etc…remember when Obama was known as ,” the Deporter in Chief?”
That’s because he did have every district Fed judge blocking every deportation like Trump. But with Supreme Court smackdown on Saturday that all changes.
People should mag dump in those ICE pigs. I can’t wait to see it.
Besides illegally entering and working which other laws do you consider optional?
Who cares? The worst thing about this internet age is everybody having such strong opinions on everything. Sickening. Best thing to ever happen to the divide and conquer industry.
The Tower 9 Syndrome
They can take our lives, but they’ll never take our Tower 9!!!!!!!!
What is that?
Buncha Larrys!