Dirty Water: “Chubby” and “bearish” Maurice Cole talks death, the decimation of Australian surfing and the joys of being broke, “I’ve had the millions and I was a dickhead with it. Poverty is a state of mind. It keeps me hungry!”
"I got a borrowed car, no money, no assets but I own a couple of great guitars. I've never been happier."
Latinx star of The Ultimate Surfer Alejandro Moreda on WSL CEO’s wild $10,000 gamble against him, the divine joys of cock-fighting and the clever line that won him Puerto Rico’s most beautiful woman!
Fall in love with Ale all over again!
Listen: Extreme sport fans infuriated by august publication The Surfer’s Journal gracing cover with beautiful Nathan Fletcher throw away air!
Omertà life.
Dirty Water: The Ultimate Surfer’s breakout star Malia Ward on her decade-long feud with Tia Blanco, getting rich on crypto and the seven-year anniversary of putting Gabriel Medina to the sword at Lowers!
Whispered conversations, impish bursts of laughter and mysteriously indignant 'Oh's'!
Dirty Water: Surf feminist hero Lucy Small on her feud with pro surfing founder Ian Cairns, the fight for equal prizemoney and squashing the pale-skinned devil behind it all, “The apex predator of the patriarchy is white men!”
"The male is completely egocentric, trapped inside himself, incapable of empathizing or identifying with others, or love, friendship, affection of tenderness!"
Listen: And Tyler Wright shall be like Damien Hardman, forever swept away by the all-new, all-high-flying female Momentum Generation!
Giveth/Taketh
Hyper-woke surf website The Inertia posts shocking racist, agist screed: “Instead of trying to defend our little pockets of ‘localized’ surf where a few old white dudes seem to think they deserve more waves than anyone else, maybe it’s time we give in to the flush of kookery!”
First they came for the old white men...
Listen: There is only one extravaganza that can beat the wildly successful World Surf League Finals Day and that is “Ben Gravy vs. The World!”
...a celebration of the everyman and graceful aging.
Gather around, friends, and listen to the cautionary tale of how a careless surf journalist almost burned San Clemente to the ground!
Or how the World Surf League final's day at Lower Trestles was almost undone.
Filipe Toledo’s “huge scuffle” at Lower Trestles takes unforeseen twist as daddy Ricardo comes swinging in: “Impressive the amount of sh*t you talk. That’s why I, and everyone around here, blocked you.”
Poor article. Poor spirit.
Listen: Mid-length madness reaches fever pitch as Pyzel, Hayden, Firewire and more launch models of world’s hottest surfboard!
Strange days indeed.
Dirty Water returns with surfer-turned-war crimes investigator and marital arts expert Peter Maguire; talks “overwhelmed, reactive, defensive” Joe Biden and how he “stretched out” a “competitive and aggressive” Kelly Slater!
Death, drugs, surf and training MMA fighters.