Listen: Surfing hall-of-farmer Barton Lynch talks anarchy, his brutal rivalry and friendship with Martin Potter and the hostility of the pro tour: “It wasn’t a loving organism at all. I was drowning, I was dying in there!”
One in a million…
Listen: Big-wave surfer Wayne Cleveland on how to buy, smuggle, cut and wholesale large quantities of Mexican cocaine: “At one stage, I sat down and I had $2.5 million in front of me. It took forever to count.”
"Wayne Cleveland's house is awash with cash."
Listen: BeachGrit reels under recent accusation. “Your audience is made up largely of middle-aged white male nihilists!”
Ja, we believe in nothing.
Listen: “We must fight tooth and nail against expert opinions lest the technocracy bring us all down!”
Surfing.
Listen: Movie director Michael Oblowitz on surf fights, being a celibate bisexual and his yet-to-be-released Sunny Garcia documentary: “I have a very clear view of the last days of Sunny’s life and what happened…”
“Sunny was one of the loveliest people I ever met. And when he wasn’t, I steered clear of him…”
Listen: “Well, you got trouble, my friends, right here in surf city. Trouble with a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘P’ and that stands for porn!”
A musical on the horizon?
Listen: Longtom and Chas Smith on stalkers, empty political gestures and the conjoining of the Great White shark to modern culture wars: “The Great white shark as an avenging spirit for deeply misanthropic thinking that regards humans as a cancer on the planet.”
And, what if you hate Bad Grandpa Biden but love Kammy Haz? Where does that leave a man?
Listen: Superstar TED-talk photographer Chris Burkard on buying Icelandic citizenship, the ghost of Brigham Young and dying of hypothermia on an Arctic Beach: “I saw a seagull circling above me…and I was thinking, cool, this is how I’m going to die.”
A life lived rich and beautiful.
Listen: “Who would actually win a professional surfing world title between peak emotional, physical, mental Andy Irons vs. peak Kelly Slater?”
We solve this, we solve everything.
Watch: “What if someone on the beach filmed the worst wave you ever surfed and it went viral on social media?”
Live from David Lee Scale's pied-à-terre.
Listen: Big-wave storyteller Mark Mathews on the intellectual dark web, kicking opiates and the extravagance of evil, “There’s darkness in you and if you don’t manage your life and frame it with meaning, you can become bitter… very fast.”
Crippled innumerable times, told he'd never walk again, now a keynote speaker of considerable note…
Listen: “Kelly Slater as guru, Erik Logan as pie-eyed number two, and how to fix the World Surf League by turning it into a cult!”
Genius.
