It's forty-two minutes long!

Yeah, forty-two minutes. Before you jerk down the window and throw the damn computing machine out the window, I would suggest, at the very least, a cursory viewing of this feature.

Ben Gravy, who is thirty years old and crowned with a hairline that looks grafted from brave Russell Bierke, is a film school grad turned surf vlogger. A couple of years ago, Ben figured if he could film and cut and deposit one surf clip on YouTube every day he’d get a little traction among the two hundred thousand or so surf fans around the world. So far he’s got 43,000 subscribers on his channel and a total of nine million views over a thousand-ish clips.

Good numbers, yes, and reflective, I think, of an enthusiasm and every-man appeal. Innocent. Frank. Kind. Ben can surf but he ain’t a true pro nymphet. A second-rate but determined player.

This forty-two minute film is typical of Ben’s approach. He’s been jaw-boning Kelly for a year or so about getting into his pool.

Finally, Kelly relents.

Ben’s journey unfolds in slow-motion. The drive to Lemoore. The hotel. Looking at an email from Kelly. The gates opening. His first wave. (Does he wear a nose clip to prevent brain-eating amoebas? Discuss.). Ben’s inquisitive GoPro examines every damn detail of the Ranch and hunts novelty waves in the overflow channel and the inside shorebreak.

“Three years ago, I was twenty six years old, washed-up, barely surfed, blown-out knee with a doctor telling me I might never surf again,” Ben says. “I changed my life, I changed my mindset and today I came to the Kelly Slater wavepool and I surfed with Kelly Slater. Anything is possible. If you chase your dreams, if you put positivity and goodness into the universe, it’ll come back to you. I’m living proof.”

"Is there enough people on earth to watch shit movies? My time is precious," says Shane.

The American comedian turned MMA aficionado and now podcast renaissance man, Joe Rogan, sure do like his surfer boys. A couple of weeks ago he bantered and bunted with Kelly Slater.

A couple of months prior to that it was Shane Dorian and, today, Shane is back, to talk about the new Momentum movie, deer hunting and the difficulty of explaining his profession at barbecues (“Oh you’re paid to surf?).

At one point Joe tells Shane, “You should be able to sue the fuck out of those people!”

Joe says cunt a lot too.

“Can you do a little more cunty?”

If we lived in the eighteenth century Joe would’ve made a very good pamphleteer.

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