Want an incentive to get off the couch? Out of your
cube? Come live the JOB way!
Did you know that Jamie O’Brien, the flame-haired star
of the world’s heaviest wave (Pipeline, if you had to
ask), used to have the nickname “The Little Fat
Sausage”?
And that his pants used to wear out in the middle because his
little pink legs would rub together?
“I wasn’t obese, just chunky,” Jamie once told me.
Orange skin. Red hair. It isn’t a recipe for popularity but as
King of the Pipe Jamie says, “I have been accused of being a
bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the
stereotype. The red hair suits my personality.”
In this episode of Jamie’s fortnightly-ish vlog,
you might get struck with a little of that ol deja vu. Watch Jamie
and pals get smashed at Sandy Beach, acid drops in Waikiki and so
on Yeah you seen it, but unless your heart is stone you’ll get
swept up in his wet animal scent.
“People respond to the underlying message which is, let’s do
stupid stuff! Let’s surf and have fun!” says Jamie. “Everyone
embraces it. I have five-year-old kids coming up to me. I have
people older than me coming up to me to talk about Who Is Job. I do
what I do and I surf and my friends may not be the best surfers
abut we have the best time. I just love it. Every day I wake up and
think, this is so fucking rad, man. I just think of the
stupidest things to do and get shacked.”
I think, watch.
