Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, Adsy. So, cheeky Monkey's been on board for a fair while now and I believe they are doing a bit of a discount for our listeners.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: Yeah, mate, if you go up to the Vass Brewing facility in the industrial area there and you drop the name Barreled Surf Podcast, they said they'll do 10% off any takeaway sales and I assume 10% off over the woodwork too, but if you want to stop in there and grab some beer, yeah, 10% off. Tell them Barrel Surf podcast sent you.
[00:00:32] Speaker A: Just refresh my memory, what sort of situation have we got with Forester Estate? Long term supporters of the program, mate.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: Forrester Estate will give you 25% off if you use Barreled in the coupon section of the Internet sales department.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: That's in the checkout coupon if you're not sure what that means.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly, mate. 25% off. It's actually a pretty massive saving. It's almost wholesale apparently what the shops will be buying it for. So you get free local delivery. Margaret River Buso, Dunsro and if it's over $200, you get free delivery Australia wide.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Sounds like a happy day, mate. Get them board everyone.
[00:01:10] Speaker C: You.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: Have been ripping into the AG Ones lately. All the vitamins and minerals that you need all in one convenient sachet or convenient scoop. What about you, mate? You've been on the AG One program?
[00:01:29] Speaker B: Yeah, mate, I start each morning with a little AG One. I go a little warm lemon water in the morning.
[00:01:35] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Just to clean the liver of a few other sponsors and then ripping at the AG One and then in a breakfast and I'm out the door and on the building site ready to fucking go.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll tell you one thing I've noticed with that as well is the gut health is what I was talking about, Azzy. But yeah, get on board the AG One and get onto Athleticgreens.com Barreled. Get all your goodies, get all your bonus products there and they'll obviously know that you've come through us. So thanks for that.
I have been putting some sharkeye sticks on my boards lately, ads here. Just giving me a little sense of security, I reckon when I've got those.
[00:02:23] Speaker B: Stickers on, mate, those guys are watermen of the highest order. They were commercial AB divers down on the south coast. They know the ocean as well as anyone and if they reckon it helps, then it helps. So I put sharkeye's stickers on the bottom of my boards. That's where it all began for them. They moved in a wetsuit. Their wetsuits are awesome. We've talked about them get on them and yeah, can't hurt, man. It's got to be got to improve the ODS a little bit.
[00:02:49] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: Archives.
[00:02:50] Speaker D: Barrel surf podcast.
[00:02:51] Speaker E: Barrel surf podcast.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Barreled surf podcast.
[00:02:53] Speaker D: Barrel surf podcast. Barreled surf podcast.
[00:02:56] Speaker E: Barrel surf podcast.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: Barrel surf podcast.
[00:02:59] Speaker C: Yeehaw.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Welcome to Boutsurf Podcast. It is Friday afternoon. You've got the Bowserf Podcast crew in the headquarters. Namu. Here we've also got see my left, Mr Adam Kennedy atsy hello, mate.
[00:03:28] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:03:29] Speaker B: Good to be back in the shedquarters on a Friday afternoon. It's our natural habitat Friday afternoon, isn't it? Shed quarters?
[00:03:36] Speaker A: It is, yeah.
A couple of beers at work and I was thinking, shedquarters are calling me, I need to mind you, I was by myself in the office, so it was a bit boring. So I thought I'll get to the shedquarters, have a couple of cheeky monkeys and a couple of mid strengths, obviously, of course. And here we are and we've got.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: A brand new secondhand couch in the shedquarters. I'm feeling pretty comfy about that. Pretty happy about that.
[00:04:01] Speaker A: Hell, yeah.
[00:04:02] Speaker B: Shout out to Peter Tosh with the famous song Brand new Secondhand Car. You know that one?
[00:04:06] Speaker C: Yeah, I do. Yeah.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Fucking sick song.
[00:04:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Thanks, Lance Kennedy, for bringing that sketchy old couch.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: The old boy brought it down.
[00:04:15] Speaker A: But it's never been used before. Look at it.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: I know.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Quite clearly been used.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: No, it hasn't. No, that's the thing. It was in one of those rooms where it didn't get used and just perished anyway.
[00:04:27] Speaker A: Perished, yeah.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: There you go. It's going to copper hiding in here, that's for sure.
[00:04:31] Speaker A: Anyway, we're not a finisher podcast, are we?
[00:04:35] Speaker C: No.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Mind you, as it turns out, did have it.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: No, I won't go down that path. There is a book on the table that someone gave me called Blokes and Their Sheds.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a bit more on Trent.
[00:04:45] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe that can be our next potty. Blokes and Sheds, which I'm sure there's probably a huge calling for. Something like that, to be honest. There's already a coffee table book ready to go on our coffee table.
[00:04:55] Speaker C: Maybe.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: Way more popular than a certain podcast, probably.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: It's got to be better than the fucking finals at Trestles, doesn't it? Nami. But, mate, before we rip into it, we got a very special guest. Tried to get him in for a while. Pretty fucking stoked to have him up here. He's got a bit of a resume, the boy.
He was in the Margaret River Pro 2023 as a local wild card after winning the trials.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Mate, he is a and he was fucking ripping.
[00:05:23] Speaker D: Yeah, he had a crack.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: He's a perennial contender at the Margaret River Classic. He's the president of the Margaret River Board Riders. That's controversial. I don't know if the rest of the team, the board riders, know that he's up in yelling up.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: I believe he got his visa, did he?
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Got his border to meet Sasha North and get it stamped.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: He's got his papes in.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: Yeah. President Maggie's Board Rider all round frother made a couple of epic film clips. A recent one, a pretty good film clip. He's a perennial dropper of surf clips on Instagram. Always loves that. He's got some pretty sick clips going. And, mate, just an all round good bloke and a roof plumber. He's been up plumbing putting tins on roofs in Dunsborough Lakes all day. Welcome to the Jezza Forest.
[00:06:10] Speaker D: Thanks lads, it's good to be here, it's good to finally get here and yeah, now I'm frothing. Let's talk some surfing.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: We are here to talk surfing.
[00:06:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Thanks for joining us Jez. We've talked to you a little bit down at the comp I think. Yeah, the classic classic and also I think we had a bit of chatter after the pro was on. Yeah, it's not his first time, not.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: A BSP but we've got him literally locked in the corner. He's not going anywhere now, we've got him proper this time.
[00:06:40] Speaker A: Put some barriers around there mate. So you've made the journey up to young Art from Moat River.
[00:06:48] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: Tell us about your recent surfing experiences mate, you've obviously been surfing a bit more than us.
[00:06:53] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess since the pro I've just been doing free surfing stuff and staying busy with work and I was lucky enough to get away last week and chase that last little front we had in the west to Desert Point in Lombok and that was just a.
[00:07:16] Speaker B: Quick desert runs at the end of the season.
[00:07:19] Speaker D: Yeah, just a little late run and I was skeptical. I've never gone to Indo like late season and I sort of didn't really get away to the places that I wanted to go this year just because I've gone out on my own with my trade and stuff like that and I didn't want to piss off any builders and tried to do the right thing by them. So I've sort of just been stuck at home and then I had a little window and yeah, it was good to get on a flight again. I haven't travelled in six years I think. I haven't left Westos in six years.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Wow. To be fair, you're a filthy goofy footer who loves huge ledged out barreling left so I'm surprised you've ever left the state at all because we know you have done plenty of time up north.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Well that's one thing that Jez and I have got in common, the goofy foot, not the filthy legend or the filthy barrels.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a pretty clean cut looking rooster old Jezza, isn't he is mate?
[00:08:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:08:14] Speaker A: Considering he's been on a rooftop days looking pretty smart.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: Very smart, yeah.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: What's he putting?
[00:08:19] Speaker B: What were you doing?
[00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah, what have you been doing?
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Fuck, I'm just a dirty bus.
[00:08:23] Speaker D: I did do a quick costume change.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: Before plumbing and gas.
Plumbing and gas.
[00:08:30] Speaker B: I was just groveling in the black sand of yelling up today, digging this hole behind a fucking cactus trying to find this pipe. It was so fucked. Meanwhile about a hundred meters away nick Cage and the Hollywood fucking show down is getting all yeah, they're all in town. Oh mate, the street was just loaded like people parking everywhere and all these crew walking around with the Lanyards everywhere and the shit going on and I'm just groveling in the black sand behind a cactus against this wall, just going, what am I doing with my life?
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Isn't the town absolutely fucking fizzing about it? Is airbang around?
[00:09:05] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's probably not.
[00:09:07] Speaker D: Have you guys personally seen him yet?
[00:09:09] Speaker B: No, not yet. But, mate, it's the talk of the town right now.
The shit I've been hearing is just it's probably not happening down Maggie's way, I guess, as much no one's talking about it, but mate, they've literally closed off the shallows car park. Like they've taken that over completely.
I've lost my no, I can't hear anyway. You can still hear. There we go, mate. Yeah, they've completely overtaken this car park and it's like, mate, spring rolling in the summer, there's just people everywhere. And now there's not enough parking down there at the best of times. And now there's just a whole car park gone. So there's all these cars down the roads, up the side roads, and mate, someone was telling to me it's so not a reliable source. It was just a local mad dog surfer who I accosted in the car park to help me lift a hot water unit down the stairs because he was checking the surf. I'm like, Come give us a lift. And he was like, yeah, I heard that in his contract he's not allowed to be further than 2 meters off the shore in the water at any time.
I don't know. It's so stupid. I sort of believe it because then.
[00:10:25] Speaker A: I also Nicholas Cage dive.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: And then I heard that maybe Crystal At yelling up surf School was going to give him a couple of lessons on how to paddle or whatever.
[00:10:37] Speaker D: Probably good for him.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah, probably. But the two meter claws was a pretty it was just like it's just got to be one of so much rumors and stuff of what's actually going down.
[00:10:48] Speaker D: But I remember I did a bit of the stunt double stuff for that drift movie back.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that was a good movie.
[00:10:53] Speaker D: That was good. And then it was the same sort of thing. And I can't remember the actor that it was, but he wanted to go out and it was at the bombie, at Mark's bombie, and it was like six to eight foot, and we were in these fucking stitched up wetsuits that they were so hard to put on, but you could just tell they were going to fill up with water.
And then we were like surfing out there on single fins and it was pretty gnarly. And this actor wanted to go out there and they pulled us in. So we're on the beach watching Miles someone yeah. And fuck, he ended up in the middle of the dry docked in the middle of the Marg's Bombie on the reef, waving for help.
[00:11:38] Speaker C: No way.
[00:11:38] Speaker D: Got washed in and they put a ski on the reef and got a hole in it and because they were hiring all the jet skis from the local guys.
I can't remember whose ski it was, but, yeah, fully punched a hole in it. Really got him back to the car park and he had cuts and shit. And it was just like this full episode of like it looked like behind the scenes of fucking homing away or something.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: That's a cool insight because for those listeners that don't know, I would say probably almost all of our listeners do know. But, mate, Mugs BOMMY has been mentioned on this podcast by multiple people as by far the heaviest wave on absolutely.
[00:12:21] Speaker D: Hands down. One of the heaviest reefs, bits of reef.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:12:25] Speaker D: And then having that, I'm scared shitless of it still.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Oh, I think everyone should be.
[00:12:30] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: And then here's this actor that's going, Nah, nah.
[00:12:33] Speaker D: Well, give me a go.
[00:12:34] Speaker B: Give us a crack.
[00:12:35] Speaker D: You're like, no, mate.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: Mate.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Well, we're on that.
[00:12:38] Speaker C: Drift.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: That was a cool movie.
[00:12:40] Speaker C: Was it?
[00:12:40] Speaker A: Xavier Samuel?
[00:12:42] Speaker D: Yeah, that was it.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: That was it. You're a mad dog, Xavier.
[00:12:45] Speaker B: Yeah, good on him.
[00:12:46] Speaker D: It's almost yeah, give it a go.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: There's no two meter claws there no.
[00:12:51] Speaker D: He was all for it.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: That was the two kilometer claws. Yeah, because that's about 800 meters out to sea, that joint.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: That's called method acting, mate, which is what I was doing last weekend for the Cheeky Monkey. Spend the entire weekend in Lycra.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: That was good.
We'll get onto the cheeky monkey. That was pretty amusing. But, mate, since we're on that Drift movie, that was a pretty end. Surf movies. I like how we didn't have any agenda, but here we are. We're honor this, mate. It was a pretty good movie, Drift.
[00:13:20] Speaker D: Yeah, I reckon they put it together pretty well and they supported a bunch of the guys that got to do the stunt doubling thing. The pay was pretty good. It was like $700 a day to go surfing. To go surfing and get fed. And that was even us. Like, what was the food was like? It was actually pretty good. It was like from the Narrabar back when that was a thing because I.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Was an extra on the Drift movie set and the comp scene. And I got the back. And you know what I got?
[00:13:46] Speaker C: What?
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Monte Carlos and Warm Milo, which was pretty cool. I took it. It's like I ate about a pack of them.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: But I just stood around all day and it was like it reminded me of, like, a smokeho room in the mines when I was working FIFO back in the day. There was always little sachets of milo and, like, Monte Carlos and Scotch finger biscuits. There was endless supplies. He's like, yes. Sweet. I'm like, on the on the filming, on the movie. And I'm just like, Fucking here we go. Monte Carlos. I'm on.
[00:14:17] Speaker D: But I remember, like, Tommy Nurse was, like one of the main stunt doubles and Sean Green fucking bank. They made some good coin out of that, which was sick.
[00:14:28] Speaker B: Yeah, that's cool for them.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: Who the fuck was Tommy stunt doubling for? Because must have been the tallest actor ever.
[00:14:33] Speaker D: I know. I think it was Sam Wellington.
And then there was another guy, that Tom's.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: What, 6566? Something like that.
Well, he's taller than me and I'm pretty close to six four.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Why can't I surf like Tom?
[00:14:50] Speaker B: He's an inch shorter. He's lost his hair. How is it like sorry, Tommy, this.
[00:14:55] Speaker D: Is off the subject a little bit, but I wanted to talk about this on here. Is there's obviously OGS from every generation, but I reckon none of the grommets know how good was when I was really young. And he was fucking so good out North Point and stuff like that. And there's guys like him and his brother and Bobcat.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: Take it in.
[00:15:25] Speaker D: That's one thing that I think about a lot is and you guys would think about it for your older guys as well, that just sort of go down different avenues and stuff like that and don't even really surf that much anymore and have families.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: But there's Tommy's just fucking evaporated into the wilds of the South Coast.
[00:15:44] Speaker D: I know.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Surfing shark infested beaches by himself and letting anybody know. And he's probably just getting chewed out of his mind.
[00:15:51] Speaker D: Yeah, well, I chat to him a little bit about it, and he keeps it pretty close to his chest, but it sounds like there's some fun little zones.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: It's pretty fickle down there, though.
[00:16:00] Speaker C: Yeah, it is.
[00:16:03] Speaker D: And I'm sure all those guys that.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: Live, let's be honest, it's no surprise that Tommy Nest that you're saying Tommy Nest is one of the best surfers that you've known down there because look at his genetics, man.
[00:16:15] Speaker D: Yeah, I know. Mum and dad.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Yeah, his mum was an absolute prodigy.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Shane Gould. Yeah, well, she was a prodigy of the mate.
[00:16:25] Speaker B: She, like, won, like multiple gold medals.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: In the Olympics of Australian swimming.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: But she packed it in to go fucking didn't she, like, pack it in to pretty much move to Margie's and be a hippie with a bunch of surfers, pretty much.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: And herbal tea, when she could have.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: Gone on to, like another two or three Olympics and been the greatest Australian Olympian ever and just went, fuck that, I'm going to go roll fatties with the boys down at Maggie's.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: Pretty much Australian sports. Got a bit of a history of that, though.
She's been off the circuit for a year. I can't even think of her name. The tennis player.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: Oh, ash. Barty.
[00:17:00] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: Yeah, Ash Barty's just gone. You know what? Yeah, she probably don't need any more money.
[00:17:04] Speaker D: She like, mopped the floor, didn't she? She was such a good athlete.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:09] Speaker A: Screw you guys. I'm going home.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: Yeah, but she I mean, she had a bit of a career.
[00:17:15] Speaker D: She won everything.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: I think Tommy's mum like, bailed when she was like 19 or something. She was like 17 in the Olympics or something.
[00:17:21] Speaker A: Ashbatty did that. She bailed and then went, oh, I'm actually pretty she went and played cricket for a while, really came back, won Wimbledon, won Aussie Open, all the rest of it, and just went, I'm out of here.
[00:17:34] Speaker B: See you later.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: I think she's only 23 or something.
[00:17:36] Speaker B: She hasn't turned up in Margie's and rolled fatty's with the boys.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: Maybe she is.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: She been down there.
[00:17:43] Speaker D: Jezebel it's hard to say. It's hard to say.
[00:17:46] Speaker B: There's a lot going on in Margie's these days.
[00:17:48] Speaker D: There's a lot of vans rolling into town as everyone vacates the northwest and migrates back to Margaret River.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Vacate Italy, you mean?
No one left in Italy? They're all fucking here.
[00:18:03] Speaker D: They're all here.
[00:18:04] Speaker A: Oh, shit.
[00:18:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:05] Speaker D: What jizz get the vans and stuff?
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Not as many as you guys.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: Yeah, I reckon.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Margaret you guys cop it big.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah, because I think in the international world, it's like Margaret River is the well, even a lot of wineries that are way closer to Dunsborough will say in the Margaret River wine region.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: Region.
[00:18:28] Speaker D: Yeah, because it's world renowned, for sure.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: So you guys are copping it for sure. But there's still plenty, mate, still plenty kicking around.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: So getting back to I'm curious to see how deserts was.
[00:18:44] Speaker D: It was like a spontaneous trip. And then I was speaking to Jay Dizzle Davies, he just got back and he was like, mate, it was so good.
Just tapped out for a week. RA and then I messaged a couple of mates that go there all the and because it was a big south swell from here and I didn't know what it was like. But the reason I thought Deserts is because I've heard how fucked it's been this year for crowds. And all I've seen on social media are like, guys getting Tubed and then guys dropping in, like mid Tube. And I've heard fucking.
[00:19:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:19:19] Speaker D: And I'm like, people are like, I'm never going back there. And I literally went there seven years ago and were like, this way is fucking sick, but I'm not coming back.
[00:19:28] Speaker B: Same reason.
[00:19:29] Speaker D: It was just so too busy. The takeoff is really easy. It's super user friendly, so anyone could take off, stand there and just accept, set a line and get Tubed and get one of the best Tubes of their life.
Because I'd heard all this shit about it. I was like, I wonder if no one's going to go for this well, because everyone's so over it.
[00:19:53] Speaker B: What is it you got to buy when everyone else is not buying? Or something like that.
[00:19:57] Speaker D: And I checked the tides and it.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: Was low in the morning demand. Matt yes. Reverse psychological principles.
[00:20:03] Speaker D: And I still hadn't booked the flight. And it was the Monday and the swell was getting to deserts on the wednesday.
[00:20:09] Speaker C: No.
[00:20:09] Speaker D: The Thursday. But it was filling in the Wednesday night. And I served Borries. And it was fucking huge, like closing out. And I was like, this is swell's. One of the bigger ones this year.
My thought was like, it's definitely going to get to Indo. And I wanted to go to Nalu, but the tides this time of the year are just a bit suss. And then with the winds this time of the year as well, it could say it's going to be offshore, but the wind could come in at too early. And I was thinking it could come in as the tide gets good. So I was like, fuck it. I haven't been anywhere. Booked a ticket solo.
And then my mate Sarah told me about those little containers you can stay in at the Denver SA airport. They're like these little capsule things. They're like $30.
[00:20:56] Speaker A: Like the little Japanese.
[00:20:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:58] Speaker A: Single hotel.
[00:20:59] Speaker D: Fucking sick.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: I haven't heard about them, mate.
[00:21:01] Speaker D: Neither had I. And he's like, yeah, because I had a late flight the Tuesday night. And I was flying out to Lombok early that morning. And I didn't want to get a taxi. I hadn't been in. I literally forgot how to book my fucking ticket. I hadn't booked a ticket in that long. And I was like, how'd I do this again? Fuck what I do. And then, like booked it. And then I was like, holy shit. I didn't get travel insurance. And it was like because I used to travel so much before then, QS and all that sort of shit. And I was so used to it. And then this hadn't done it for so long. But I didn't get through customs till like fucking one in the morning. And I was so tired. And then I just checked into this little pod. And it's like a little doggy door that you get. And you get your key and it scans and you leave your boards. There's 24 hours security.
[00:21:46] Speaker B: There storage.
[00:21:48] Speaker D: And you just jump in this little cube and you're stacked up. It's like the movie The Fifth Element.
[00:21:52] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:21:53] Speaker D: And you're like, jump in this little capsule and you're just neon lights. And you're like looking around. It feels like you're about to like once you go to sleep, you're going to go off into space. And it's got all your charging ports and shit. And I just woke up the next morning and yeah, flew to Lombok. Woody picked me up. Woody is one of the local guys. And we stay there all the time.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Are they waterproof, you reckon? Like if someone pissed the capsule above you?
[00:22:20] Speaker D: Yeah, back. The one thing that I yeah, but.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: You do a piss and goes, I'm.
[00:22:26] Speaker B: Way more interested in. There was a desert point at this point in time.
[00:22:30] Speaker D: I did wake up at like two. Some guy was snoring.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: And I'm like, so they're not soundproof.
[00:22:35] Speaker D: So they're not that soundproof. And I was like, you just got unlucky with that.
[00:22:39] Speaker B: What's the ventilation in them? Like?
[00:22:41] Speaker D: They're pretty good. Like air conditioning and stuff like that?
Yeah, no, they're pretty good.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: We could get a bank of them in the shedquarters here. We ever have a big night? All right, boys, sleep. No one has to drive home tonight. We can jump in the capsules.
[00:22:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: Literally fucking in the corner over there.
[00:22:57] Speaker A: 30 of them up in the corner of that shed there, Matt. No worries.
[00:23:01] Speaker B: We've got a silent member in the shed tonight, one of my mates, who's basically just a raging beer drinking V eight driving bogan by the name of Jammo. He won't have any input. He will just sit here and he might do a bit of input.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: Make sure they got spew drains.
[00:23:19] Speaker B: Yeah, but I reckon he'd put one of those capsules to use. He does a lot of time in the shed, Jammo, so there could be a need for him.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Anyway, my car's a spew capsule.
Fucking birthday party. My young black and took them down to can't even think, where are we? And then there's seven kids in the car and one in the furthest backseat. Just fucking just power chunders in the carpeted car. What do you do two weeks ago, anyway, back to back to Jez, back to the capsules.
[00:23:56] Speaker D: I get to Lombok and I fucking Buddy picks me up and we drive.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: What color were the capsules?
Go on.
[00:24:07] Speaker D: And then I got there and it was pretty small. And I just had a surf. And then that avoid. It started filling in. And I was like, how busy is it going to be? And then Buddy's like, oh, it's not that busy yet. And I was waiting for all the Bali, like people that live in Bali just to fucking start coming in and that avoid. There was a couple, like four footers, but there was only like 15 guys in the lineup. And it was slow. And there's obviously like a couple of Brazos and Peruvians that were pretty annoying, like just not taking turns and no surf etiquette. But then got one or two that AVO. And then I was like, fuck, I hope that wasn't the swell. You just think that.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah, you always think that.
[00:24:50] Speaker D: And everyone's like, the next, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. And I just didn't see enough kick that night for me to think that it was going to be anything. And I woke up the next morning and I could hear it. But I walked out on the balcony and it was just whitewashed, four waves and just whitewashed to the horizon.
[00:25:09] Speaker C: Sick.
[00:25:09] Speaker D: And I was like my first thing, I'm like, fuck, it's too big.
It was like maybe ten foot, this set, every wave. But it was just all washed. There was no pits.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: It was just like just foam balling down the reef.
[00:25:27] Speaker D: It was just foam balling down the reef. And there was no one out. And it was like that morning indo glass with like, it's a bit wobbly and needed a bit of offy on it.
And we stood up there for like ten minutes and stuff. And then the next set come through and the first wave was clean and it crumbled. It was kind of fat all the way till it got to Buddy, like where the rock is. And then it just doubled up and tubed and spat.
But it was a short tube. But I was like, that's me, I'm out there kind of thing.
And I'm like running up the beach and there's two guys that have just paddled out. And I got out the back because Buddy was like, run right up and jump out that way. And I timed it all right and got out there and there was just two of us out there. And I'm like, where the fuck's everyone else? And then this set come and I got the second way of the set and just like, snake hit it the whole way in. And then it just doubled up and same thing like pie in the oven and just stalled and it just ran off me. And I just ended up, like traveling through this tube and just getting slammed.
And then got the next one on the head and my leggy snapped bailed and I was like, fuck. And then I'm like, how am I.
[00:26:40] Speaker C: Going to get in?
[00:26:41] Speaker D: Like freaking out. Thought I was going to get washed down to the grower because the grower is like 15 foot. And I'm like but lucky with deserts, it pulls you up the reef.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: Oh, it does it?
[00:26:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: Fuck, that's weird.
[00:26:53] Speaker D: Yeah, how weird is that?
The rip goes up the reef and so I was just like, flounding around waiting for low and then starfished over the reef. Some dude had grabbed my board and it's like 08:00 now and there's a few people on the beach, but I'm like, where the fuck is everyone?
[00:27:09] Speaker C: Sick.
[00:27:09] Speaker D: Ran up, grabbed another leggy, got back out there and the office started kicking in. And I got back out and still two guys. And I was like, what the fuck?
[00:27:19] Speaker C: Two, two.
[00:27:21] Speaker D: And then like, I got it.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: I got a foot washers. Will do that to a crowd every.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Day of the week.
I'd have been on the beach as well.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:27:29] Speaker D: And then I was like, all right, so the big ones are kind of burgers maybe. And waited for like a six footer and then got like a fun five footer and just got three pipes on one wave. And I was like, sick.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Job done, holiday.
[00:27:43] Speaker D: Yeah, holiday done.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: I'm going home. Tick the I'm going back to the pod.
[00:27:46] Speaker D: Yeah, but then it was like that.
[00:27:50] Speaker B: For 4 hours, whacking off in that pod.
[00:27:55] Speaker D: But I kid you not, 4 hours. And the most busy it got was maybe five or six guys.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: What a score.
[00:28:02] Speaker D: And. I was like I was literally sat paddling out going, I can't believe I'm at fucking Desert Point looking around, just going, and there's five guys out here and six.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: Oh, that's awesome.
[00:28:11] Speaker D: And it was sick. And you just dodge the big ones and then get the medium ones easy. It was just like surfing. Main break with the old boys.
You're ducking out to the right, ducking out to the left, not getting caught inside.
And then the tide fills in and it sort of stops. It gets smaller at deserts. Does it?
And then so I went and had lunch and fucking chilled out. And then the trades kicked in at like, two and the tide started draining. And because of the trades, it's like, clean off here. And it just started fucking pumping sick. And I was like, all right, how busy is it going to get now?
Because there was obviously people on the beach, like, watching and shit in the morning.
And you could just see people starting to scurry across the reef to get out there because it dropped a little bit. It was four to six. It was perfect size.
And the most it got was 20 guys, really? And still, like consistent and consistent.
And I was speaking to random guys, just going, I can't believe there's no one here. And they're like, this is like COVID days, almost.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: Really.
[00:29:23] Speaker D: And it was just one of those trips that was just so lucky.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: Late season and got lucky.
[00:29:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: You got to be in it to win it.
[00:29:29] Speaker D: Well, that's it. And it reminded me how fun it is to travel as well. Yeah, you can get unlucky and get scorched, but then you can score as well. And that's like what it's all about, working.
[00:29:40] Speaker B: And that was did you pay however many rupees to the local filmers to get some?
[00:29:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:29:47] Speaker D: So that was the thing. I didn't even bother about taking filmer or anything.
[00:29:51] Speaker B: No, you don't need to.
[00:29:53] Speaker D: I didn't know that. I was just going for NEAS.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: And a lot of those big spots, man, there's local guys just have saved up and bought a camera.
[00:30:02] Speaker D: A sick camera.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: And that's their living well, because they.
[00:30:05] Speaker D: Can make more money from that.
But yeah, I just wanted to do a solo trip by myself and just enjoy just go surfing. And then just happened to luck into those sessions and get some fun waves. And then they had some footage and then yeah, $100 for the footage. And it was like, no worries.
[00:30:24] Speaker A: So you got the footage?
[00:30:25] Speaker D: Yes, I got the footage. And I'll put it on that because.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: I know you dropped one of you doing a few turns. There was no eight foot triple tubers. Yeah, you're keeping that shit close to your chest.
[00:30:38] Speaker D: I put a fun pit in there, like out yesterday or the day before.
And then yeah, I'll drop the full clip next week.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: On that note, you did make a pretty sick little edit that you put in on Stab last year.
[00:30:57] Speaker D: Maybe that one was a couple of years ago. I'm sitting on one right now. Yeah.
[00:31:02] Speaker B: Are you building another one at the moment?
[00:31:04] Speaker D: Got one ready to go.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: Ready to go? Yeah, just ready to surely you're going to slip the desert ones in there, are you?
[00:31:09] Speaker D: No, I don't think so.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: They're not good enough.
[00:31:12] Speaker D: They're good enough, but that was just like that's just its own thing, I think.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: Moment in time.
[00:31:17] Speaker D: Matt, this one's.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Are we actually breaking news here?
Because we don't break news very often. We're more regurgitating. I don't know if my edit is.
[00:31:28] Speaker A: Breaking news, but look, mate, we are the West Australian news breakers. What are you talking about? Nobody else breaks West Australian surf news like us.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: Well, we've got something here. We've got a break. What do we got?
[00:31:43] Speaker D: It's the best one I've ever had or I've ever put out.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: What's it called?
[00:31:49] Speaker D: We haven't got a name yet.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:51] Speaker D: But Tom Jennings helped me. He's one of my close mates and he's very good at what he does. And over the last few years, I've got into editing, so I've just been doing it all and he's sort of like, I take it to him and then he's like, Mate, that's not good enough.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: You got to take this out.
[00:32:07] Speaker D: Take that out. If you want to be at that level, you got to put this in there. So it's good.
It really critiques everything. So you put out something really good.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: That's their what software do you use for your editing?
[00:32:22] Speaker D: Premiere pro, same as him. And I literally just got him to give me, like, a tutorial when I filmed it, and then I just fucking watched that back for six months.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: There you go.
[00:32:32] Speaker D: Otherwise I wouldn't remember. There's so many things I wish I filmed if I'm getting explained something, because I'm kind of dyslexic like that I need to watch it over and over and then I'll remember it. Yeah, but, yeah, that's coming out in the next I'll probably drop that soon.
I think it's good enough to do, like, a premiere, but I don't want to do that shit because do it, do it. Nervous and embarrassed.
[00:33:01] Speaker B: When will it be ready?
[00:33:04] Speaker D: It's ready now. We can drop it now, but I've got a bunch of stuff from this end of this year, like spring recently from some places around here that I could add to it to make it even better. So I'm thinking maybe next early next year.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: It's always the way, isn't it?
[00:33:20] Speaker D: Oh, you could just always go especially.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: Where we live recording albums, and it.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: Can be summer and ten foot swell will come through and you'll just well, we should probably put this all right.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: Anyone that's listening to this podcast, and you've got a suggestion for Jezefaris new edits name, hit us up on Instagram, get some suggestions?
[00:33:40] Speaker D: Well, it's all around home, so something around home.
[00:33:43] Speaker A: It's just like, you know, so it's.
[00:33:47] Speaker B: Good to get people maybe just name it after your business name and then just drum up a bit of business.
What's your business name?
[00:33:54] Speaker D: Jezza, mate. Forest roofing.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Forest roofing, there you go.
[00:33:58] Speaker A: It's pretty good.
[00:33:59] Speaker B: If you need a roof plumber hit up Jezza.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: You need an if you're edit.
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Yep, there you.
Well, mate, pretty frothen to hear to check it out.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: I think you should always do a bit of a premiere. It doesn't have to be a big song in advance.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Crew love it. Crew love it.
[00:34:21] Speaker B: People want shit to do.
[00:34:26] Speaker A: An event that we could maybe do a premiere in Dunsborough.
[00:34:29] Speaker B: I know, that's why I was sensed what I was I was like, when's it ready for strong I know between us it is, because if it's ready in three weeks, we got a pretty good spot going. We're going to do a bit of a live show at Yahoo surfboards in November with Zacho and Augie. Bit of a live potty.
[00:34:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:34:49] Speaker A: So if you're in the area, look out for that as well. I think it's the eigth of November.
[00:34:53] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: 05:00. The eigth of November at Yahoo Surfboards on Clark Street in Dunsborough. So if you're around is the Eigth, isn't it? Azzy?
[00:35:04] Speaker B: I feel like it's not the Eigth.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: Okay, it might be the 10th.
10th of the Eigth.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: Yeah, 10th is a Friday.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Sorry. Friday the 10 November.
[00:35:16] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:35:16] Speaker A: Yahoo surfboards clark Street Dunsborough. I think it's 05:00. We start the live potty at six. Come down for a couple of chicky monkeys and a forest strip state wine.
[00:35:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: Some pizzas from Peace. Pizza? Sounds epic.
Actually.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: Just texted Philbo right then saying, get.
[00:35:32] Speaker A: Some pizza, get a bus up from this deep south.
[00:35:37] Speaker D: I've got the rooftop, so I'm pretty mobile now.
[00:35:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: And you're doing roofs in Dunsboro all the time. Surely no one's going to know if you're actually just sleeping in the Bats on one night.
So many roof spaces around Dunsbury.
[00:35:51] Speaker D: I do, yeah, I know every nook and cranny.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: Well, mate, you definitely wouldn't want to team up with us on a live potty because your premiere will be excitement enough for one night, you know what I mean? It's worth just having that, mate.
You've been surfing a bit lately, you had a little wave this morning and you've been making the most of spring outside of your desert point session. You don't have to name names, but any little sessions of note in the last week or two around home?
[00:36:20] Speaker D: Not so much the last week or two, but I've had some pretty special sessions this spring with a few of the boys from up.
Yeah, Terry and stuff.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: Yeah, you said you had a good one with Taj, dragged him back down your neck of the woods somewhere and got some big nasty beach barrels somewhere.
[00:36:39] Speaker D: Yeah, we've been linking up a little bit and then you said you came.
[00:36:42] Speaker B: Up here last weekend to hunt a particular sandbank around our way and you thought, oh, yeah, we'll come up and I'll stay at Jay Davies house and we'll get up early and go surfing. And then it didn't really go to plan, did it, mate?
[00:36:56] Speaker D: No, it did, like, we went surfing.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: But it wasn't early.
[00:37:00] Speaker D: It wasn't early.
Well, it was early enough, I think. What time it takes you?
[00:37:05] Speaker C: Seven.
[00:37:05] Speaker B: Yeah, you were here at seven, so it wasn't bad. But you told me what time you went to bed and I was like, I don't know if that was part of your plan, I don't know if that was the right way to go.
[00:37:14] Speaker D: About it, but I hadn't seen yes.
[00:37:17] Speaker B: Please, I'll have a cheeky monkey.
[00:37:19] Speaker D: Yeah, I hadn't seen Jay and wanted to debrief on deserts and we just surfed North Point. That Arbo, because there was a spike before.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:37:26] Speaker D: And how was it? How is it? It's always the fucking way at North, Jay was there by himself, no one around, no one in the fucking car park. And he's like, there's a few waves. So I met him there and then we were frothing, there was like heaps of waves. Westwell pulse.
Everything was perfect. The wind was good, it was like four to five foot and we thought it was going to get bigger and, yeah, no one around. Vici, one of the Lord bodyboarders from around here, was paddling out with one of his mates and, yeah, we paddled out and then we all got a few waves and then it was like flies on shit. As soon as they saw a few people out, it was just like, not.
[00:38:10] Speaker B: That, mate, it's your own fucking fault. And it's Jay's own fault, because if me and Namu paddled out in the.
[00:38:17] Speaker A: Same conditions, the crowds would look terrible.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: It'D look shit, the waves wouldn't look any good. But you guys make it look good. No, it is, mate, trust me.
[00:38:26] Speaker A: Taj always did it sucked in for being a good surfer.
[00:38:29] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:38:30] Speaker A: Fucking says you're right, mate.
[00:38:31] Speaker B: It does, mate. Taj at the local beach break, his favourite one at home here in front of his house. He has been doing that for years. No one will go out because it's closing out. All of a sudden he's out there and it looks like it's the best tubes ever. So everyone goes out there, but it's not, it's still closing out, it's just he's making them.
There's a bit of that going on. It might be 50 50, let's put it that way. Yeah, you and Jay are going to make it look good and everyone's going to be like, oh, it looks fun out there.
[00:39:00] Speaker D: It was just funny, though.
Within five minutes we looked at each other and we're just like, shaking our heads, just going, fucking hell, you can't even get five minutes with it.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: Dear, dear me.
[00:39:12] Speaker B: Well, mate, let's jump into the world of world tour surfing before do that.
[00:39:20] Speaker A: Okay, before we do that. So was Jay sort of dylan a fucking high from taking out the single fin or what?
[00:39:28] Speaker D: Yeah, how cool was that? I seen that when I just got.
[00:39:31] Speaker A: Back to reception that he I don't think we've done an episode since then. We had a yelling up single fin a couple weeks a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it?
[00:39:39] Speaker D: Now I've never come up for that.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: Matt, it's invite only, mate.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: Surely the margie's president gets an invite. Are you still current president this year?
[00:39:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's probably just an ongoing perennial invite.
[00:39:54] Speaker D: Well, isn't it? There's only a couple of margie's lads that get invited each year.
[00:39:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:00] Speaker D: Did Tomo make an appearance?
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Tomo? Not this year, but he has been many years and put in a great showing many years in a row, from like early morning quarter to seven showing up and blowing up in the car park, mostly.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: And they're still there just for people listening. This is the yelling up single pin theory. It's called it's the 23rd running, I think, this year. Is that right, Etsy? 23rd?
[00:40:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:26] Speaker A: It's a legendary event in the area, invite only. And you have to ride a single fin, which is the least, I think, 20 years old.
[00:40:33] Speaker C: Right?
[00:40:33] Speaker B: Well, it's just got to be from the original era, 40 years old.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: So this year we had Jay Davies taking out the victory over Brad the Ger Gurlak. Fucking hell. What a stacked heat draw.
[00:40:49] Speaker C: It was.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: It was unbelievable.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Yeah, mate. Shout out to the ger. He put in a good performance.
[00:40:55] Speaker D: It was a great day at Bears. It looked dreamy.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he was a super nice guy, the Ger. And Adsy, I know that you're not one to toot your own horn, but you did get a special award for services to the single fin theory over the journey, mate. So congratulations on that.
[00:41:11] Speaker B: No, I won the Surfboard in a.
[00:41:13] Speaker A: No, but you got given the award for your did.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: Yes. A photo by Alfie Cater.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Yeah, but you also won the raffle.
[00:41:22] Speaker B: Yeah, but I won the raffle.
[00:41:24] Speaker D: What board did you win?
[00:41:25] Speaker B: Custom Moonshine 65 singly single flyer pintail.
[00:41:32] Speaker D: Oh, how good.
[00:41:32] Speaker C: Yeah, pretty sick.
[00:41:33] Speaker A: Check out the Barrel Surf podcast. Instagram if you want to see a photo. City is a fucking weapon.
[00:41:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it was pretty sick. It was at the pub at the know. Everyone was rowdy. They're like, all right, we're going to draw the winner of the raffle. And I was like, what? Fucking Raffle? I didn't know it was a raffle.
[00:41:49] Speaker D: Everyone that goes in it goes in the raffle.
[00:41:51] Speaker B: No, it wasn't that one.
[00:41:52] Speaker A: That used to be this was a separate raffle.
[00:41:54] Speaker B: Yeah, this was a different one.
It used to be like that. And mate, my job was always selling tickets. I was always drumming up sales. So I'm like, I haven't even heard about this one. No one told me. And they're about to draw it. I said, Is there any left? Can I buy some? And they're like, yeah, all right, hold on. So I ran up and I bought a ticket. And they must have just done the old pull it out, put it on the top of the pile, reached in and pulled the one off the top because fucking I won it. So that was so I was pretty frothing on that fucking beautiful looking board. I've been buying tickets for 23 years. Jackie Medley probably spent about three grand on tickets over 23 years.
[00:42:29] Speaker D: Rick door in the back was Rick.
[00:42:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: First time ever he made the final Titan.
[00:42:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: I do remember being very critical on the microphone of Rick Jakovic, purely due to the geographical region that he lives. Nothing personal.
[00:42:48] Speaker A: Hate to sing what you're saying in.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: My Hate about me we just have an absolute dig at anyone from south.
[00:42:54] Speaker A: Of the border and get your visas in order, mate.
[00:42:56] Speaker B: Rick Jacko was ripping and I think we were banging on about something along the lines of, like, is there anyone even surfing at the moment? I can't see anyone up at the Rico's just, like, ripping away. Yeah, no, it was really good. Really good comps, really, every year. And this year was just perfect. Three foot offshore, sunny, really hot.
[00:43:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: Everyone down the beach, good vibes.
[00:43:18] Speaker A: I had three former winners in my first round hate, which is why I lost.
[00:43:22] Speaker B: There's a handicap system these days, though, which works good because that was a long time overdue. I went three years in a row.
First heat of the day, 07:00, and boom. By 720, I'm out of the running and it's like three years in a row, mate.
[00:43:39] Speaker A: That's good, mate. Straight on the microphone.
[00:43:43] Speaker B: Well, it's just like mate, you're just like, or should I say, yeah, you're just 730. You're like trouble. There's only one man that's beaten you to that punch and that's Tomo, because he did it before he's heat.
[00:43:57] Speaker D: Yeah, literally.
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Now, Billy Gibson and Hamish came up and got in it because Billy's always got a he always brings up a hell quiver of ball for everyone.
[00:44:06] Speaker A: Hamish, gibson or Fabio?
[00:44:09] Speaker B: He was Fabio Gibson this year because the long flowing locks he does, mate.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: He was surfing incredibly well and looking incredibly good.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah, he was good looking, rooster. And, yeah, Billy was just doing what.
[00:44:23] Speaker D: He does best, doing what he does best.
[00:44:24] Speaker B: Hanging out at surf. Comps and sharing the stoker. Surfing and letting everyone ride his boards.
[00:44:29] Speaker A: And fucking ripping, too. He was getting some absolute classic stone or the other. Billy, I don't know how well he went in his hate, but after his hate, I'd saw him get some rippers over at Bubba's.
[00:44:39] Speaker B: Yeah, sorry, him roll the hell one in the car park, too. Yeah, he'd be pushing 75 and mate still surfing like a Grom legend.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: Mad respect Billy Gibson and all the crew that came up for that one and everyone that was there.
[00:44:55] Speaker C: It's a good day.
[00:44:55] Speaker B: Mad respect a local taxi driver who may or may not have been eating mushrooms and took off all his clothes and started walking around front of everyone.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Until like 2 hours to go up to the car park to get beers. I don't think Goldie.
[00:45:14] Speaker B: There was two taxi drivers there. No, it wasn't goldie.
We'll leave him nameless for this one. But he was really in the spirit of the day and it was a warm day and he just thought, well you get some people who take their understand you take your clothes off and you sort of quickly duck in and have a swim. But no, he didn't do that. He just sort of proudly strutted around and he's a man of girth.
Good for him. He's a big unit, he's a proud unit and he had absolutely no he was feeling really good at that stage of the afternoon.
[00:45:52] Speaker C: Anyway.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: Good, that sums up the day.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: That's single fin theory.
[00:45:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what let's talk about the.
[00:45:59] Speaker A: Challenger series because it has been on like a Donkey Kong. It might actually be on right now.
[00:46:05] Speaker B: Could be on right now.
It's one of the reasons we got Jezer in here. We wanted to get him in here for plenty of reasons but one of the reasons is that he is an absolute sparring partner and best friend of Jacob Chippo Wilcox, who has recently qualified mate, give us an insight into that. Jezza, what do you got? No doubt you've been talking to him.
[00:46:32] Speaker D: Yeah, I've been chat. I chat with Jacob after every event, before and after.
When he loses in his ear, just try to keep it positive. And he's got like a bunch of us friends, like a bunch of his mates that he went to school with that live in Perth now that follow him very closely and yeah, I'm just always checking in with him. I'm a little bit older. I did the QS and stuff was nowhere near as successful as him. But I know what those losses feel like sometimes. And when you get them back to back and there's people that come on to the QS and then they qualify straight away and they just breeze through it, and then there's guys that should fucking be on and do that, but then things just don't go your way. And then that was just what happened with Jacob, and his surfing wasn't letting him down. It was purely luck.
[00:47:37] Speaker B: There's such an element of luck and.
[00:47:39] Speaker D: That'S where surfing is so different to every other sport.
[00:47:42] Speaker B: With track and field there's no luck in tennis really. It's mostly skill.
[00:47:46] Speaker D: There's skill like a running race, like track and field, all that stuff. The fastest athlete wins.
Where surfing you're dealing with Mother Nature luck there's all these elements that come into play.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Kelly Slater getting a really weird bowl takeoff on that, weird judges.
[00:48:06] Speaker D: There's so many elements to it. So one of the biggest things for you as a competitive surfer, I think, is to be able to navigate those parts of competing.
How do you deal with the conditions and this and that, and then losing and then losing by such little because when you win, you're like, yes, I won. I surf that heat. Well, but then when you lose, and then if you lose by such a small margin, and then that starts happening a lot, that fucking plays on you. And you're like, what the fuck am I doing wrong? I'm doing all the right things, I'm training, I'm doing all these things, but nothing's going my way. Is this not meant to be? There's so many ways you could look at it, but Jacob just trust.
He just trusted in himself and he trusted the process and he trusted that when the time was right, everything would work out. And he so mature for his age and holds himself so well and that's hats off to Mick and Emma, the way they've raised him and stuff.
[00:49:13] Speaker B: His parents.
[00:49:14] Speaker D: That's his parents.
[00:49:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:15] Speaker D: They just like I believe he's some.
[00:49:17] Speaker B: Sort of core lord plumber his dad, isn't he?
[00:49:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:20] Speaker B: Up the fucking plumbers.
[00:49:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:22] Speaker A: How old is everyone else knows?
[00:49:24] Speaker D: Jacob's only like 25, 26.
[00:49:28] Speaker B: Everyone listening here knows who Jacob Wilcoff's, but Jammo, my bogan mate over here, has absolutely no idea who we're talking about. He's a young West Aussie from Margaret River Jammo, who's finally qualified to be in the top 32 in the world for the world tour next year. So we've got a young Margie's guy on tour and he's his best mate. Took him years, but yeah, I'm sure.
[00:49:49] Speaker D: All our listeners how long was it like? Well, it's not like he's been battling for ten years.
[00:49:55] Speaker A: It was five years or something.
[00:49:56] Speaker C: Really?
[00:49:56] Speaker B: Yeah, but it just seemed like it was three years where one heat away, that's all.
[00:50:02] Speaker D: Oh, it was three years, Kelly's, and that was the most frustrating thing to watch. And you feel for him, but to his credit, he was just like, it just wasn't meant to be. And the fact that he could have the mindset of that, he didn't get angry at the judges, he didn't get like this.
He's like, oh, I just made a couple of mistakes here and there. And to be an athlete and to be able to notice those things, I think shows how good of an athlete you are.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: Puts him in good stead for the big tour, doesn't it?
[00:50:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:50:34] Speaker A: Has he got a coach?
[00:50:36] Speaker C: Well, no.
[00:50:37] Speaker D: Like, he worked with TMAC like Tom McDonald. Tim McDonald a little bit.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: I've never heard of Tim McDonald.
[00:50:42] Speaker D: He rips. He's from the Goldie, like Strati north Stratty, like Beat and all that. And he was doing coaching and stuff. But he's sort of stepped into plumbing, has he? Yeah, he's doing a plumbing apprenticeship.
[00:50:57] Speaker A: So he's gone from being in surf industry and coaching to going nah.
[00:51:01] Speaker B: So let me get this straight. Jacob Wilcott's dad's a plumber. Now his surf coach is a plumber.
I feel like I can get in on this somehow.
His best mate is a roof plumber.
Surely there's an opening here for me. Nami.
[00:51:15] Speaker D: I reckon maybe when Chippo's done with the tour, he might be a plumber.
[00:51:19] Speaker B: Right, okay. Well, I'm sort of thinking of trying to get in on it before then.
[00:51:25] Speaker D: But Tim was like, early, few years ago. He works closely with bottle and stuff like that now because I'm ridiculously biased.
[00:51:32] Speaker B: And patriotic towards anyone from WA. So, mate, I'll be in his corner, like, you fucking know, and I'm a plumber.
[00:51:39] Speaker A: WA plumbers, mate, stick together.
[00:51:43] Speaker D: But yeah, no, it's so good. And even when he first I messaged him the other day and all I said was, I'm so fucking proud of you, because I am. And I think everyone in Margaret River that knows him and all his mates, his close mates that he went to school with, they're just so proud of him because he just didn't give up. He trusted the process and hard work paid off.
[00:52:12] Speaker C: It did, yeah.
[00:52:12] Speaker B: Because there was that interview that came out earlier this year.
I can't remember where it was, but he was just like the crux of it was I'm not phased.
I don't care that I came close. I'm just going to keep trying as hard as I possibly can.
[00:52:28] Speaker A: Do I look bothered?
[00:52:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it and he's like, I'm going to try as hard as I can because I don't want to be at a pub. At a pub.
[00:52:36] Speaker D: Yeah, I remember that quote.
[00:52:37] Speaker B: That quote. It was a fair quote to go. I don't want to be the guy at the pub when I was 35 saying I could have made it if I'd have tried for a little bit harder.
[00:52:45] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:52:48] Speaker B: That can be a financial risk to go. I'm not going to go to uni. Or in his case, obviously become a plumber, for sure, because I'm going to fucking my early 20s when people are getting degrees and trades and whatnot. I'm going to put absolutely everything on the line to be a pro surfer. So it is a little risky.
[00:53:09] Speaker D: But I think also and this is stemming back to Mick and know, with kids, these, like, I feel like they were so good with Chippo, you need to do your chores, you need to do this, you need to do that. They weren't like, oh, yeah, you're going to be a pro surfer. You just train and do this and that. It was like, no, you need to fucking work hard. And when you work hard, you appreciate what you get and stuff. And I think that's where Jacob's.
[00:53:45] Speaker C: Where.
[00:53:46] Speaker D: He'S so humble and all that stems from his upbringing and his parents, like not just giving him everything.
[00:53:54] Speaker B: Silver spooning it.
[00:53:55] Speaker D: Silver spooning it. Yeah, for sure. On his days off, Jacob would do plumbing with his dad, Woody, stuff like that.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: So he's a half a plumber already, mate. Damn, I love his kid more and.
[00:54:05] Speaker A: More as his dad goes, is that a plumber?
[00:54:08] Speaker D: He's done his pre app, you could say, for.
[00:54:12] Speaker B: Mate, you can always become a plumber.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: He seems nothing but humble and yeah.
[00:54:16] Speaker D: He holds himself very well. And I think that's one of his biggest assets.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: Fucking Jacob Chippo Wilcox.
[00:54:21] Speaker D: I'm frothing mate.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: And mate, we've all seen what he can do in big fuck off lefts in the desert up north.
[00:54:28] Speaker D: He could do that on rights and all those sorts of things.
[00:54:31] Speaker B: He's so technical on fucking tahiti and.
[00:54:34] Speaker D: Cloudbreak and fucking all the.
[00:54:39] Speaker B: Pipe fuck.
Stace Galbraith was talking on the Stab potty and he went out and just said, mate, I know this sounds outlandish, but Jacob Wilkoff could be in the top five.
[00:54:53] Speaker C: Top five.
[00:54:53] Speaker B: He goes, have a look at some of these waves, pipe tahiti and could he could actually win if they were all solid. Like, he could win all three of them. I know it sounds so crazy to say that about a rookie, but look at Jack.
[00:55:06] Speaker D: Jack did the same.
Think where Jack and Jacob come on tour, right? And other guys come on tour and they've got their assets, your Felipes and stuff like this. They're fucking amazing in six inch surf.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: Unbeatable.
[00:55:28] Speaker D: They look good in like four foot surf as well. But you know what I mean, there's guys that come from different places around the world where Jacob and Jack, they come from here. They're brought up in the raw power of West Oz. But then they're also amazing at all the aerial stuff. And I know we fucking hate it. I think I speak for everyone, but the final five at Trestles.
[00:55:55] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we fucking hate it. Stupid jammo. Even hates it.
Doesn't even know what it's about.
[00:56:00] Speaker D: But you know Jacob at know Jacob heaps of shit.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: So it's all good.
[00:56:05] Speaker D: Would be fucking gnarly Jacob at Trestles. Yeah, like backside, like crispy, crispy, crispy.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: To Caroline Martin.
[00:56:13] Speaker D: To full rope though. Yeah, finished with a full rope.
[00:56:17] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:56:17] Speaker B: Okay, I'm liking it.
[00:56:19] Speaker A: 360 airs on the inside section.
[00:56:22] Speaker D: Gabby and islow yeah, we got Jacob.
[00:56:26] Speaker B: Gabby's done. He's too busy fucking shaving his pits.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: Islow and Billabong have parted ways as well. We'll see what happens there. I know that it's all external, but just saying after it was sort of announced that Jacob had qualified the amount of mad props he got from people around the world, like big names and stuff on Instagram and all the rest of it. I know he probably doesn't give a fuck about that just being external, but must be at some level kind of satisfying hearing that sort of stuff from.
[00:57:00] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:57:00] Speaker A: Deep down he would be fucking amazing and top of the world. Yeah.
[00:57:09] Speaker D: Because that would also comes with jacob had all these opportunities and did really well with some of these, you know, and then to come.
[00:57:20] Speaker B: What's the deepest he's gone in the CT, you reckon? Quarters.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: He's made quarters a couple of times.
[00:57:26] Speaker D: But he's done it a couple of times. Bells is the last one.
[00:57:29] Speaker B: I remember that.
[00:57:32] Speaker A: I think it was Paneesh. One of those early might have even searched against Slater. How old was he then?
[00:57:40] Speaker D: I think that when he smoked Slater at Panesh. That was like, whoa.
He was fucking young then.
[00:57:48] Speaker A: He was 1516.
[00:57:49] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:57:50] Speaker D: He was like little twig. And you should see him now, him and Jack both. I remember when Jack was home last and I hugged him like, how you going? And I was like, fucking hell, you're like the Hulk now.
[00:58:02] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:58:03] Speaker D: He's so big and tight. And Jacob's the same.
[00:58:07] Speaker B: Jacob's taller, obviously. Just a little bit.
[00:58:10] Speaker D: I'm not too sure. But they're both just so, like they've filled out. And everyone knows when a good grommet and the grommet surfs really well. They're like, when he fills out, he's going to be fucking gnarly.
[00:58:22] Speaker B: Yeah, they need to fill out. Get some.
[00:58:24] Speaker A: I'll tell you what, just on that little one, I gave Jay a little congratulatory cuddle at the single fin.
I fucking hurt. Kidding.
Break my fingers. Broke 14 bones in my body. That kid is the most muscular.
[00:58:42] Speaker B: Yeah, he's a weapon.
[00:58:44] Speaker A: I can believe it.
[00:58:45] Speaker B: Doesn't even go to the gym.
[00:58:46] Speaker D: No, I know. I know.
[00:58:48] Speaker B: How good would that be?
[00:58:49] Speaker A: Sorry, Jay, I don't mean to bring up my man crush, but yeah, that.
[00:58:55] Speaker B: Wasn'T the keys in his pocket, Jay.
Anyway, what's the relationship between Jacob and jacklight?
[00:59:06] Speaker C: It's good.
[00:59:07] Speaker D: Like they live on the goldie. I wouldn't say they're best mates, but.
[00:59:11] Speaker B: It'S not like is there tension from younger comps?
[00:59:14] Speaker D: No way. I think that was stemmed from like, maybe media stuff.
[00:59:23] Speaker B: I had no idea.
[00:59:25] Speaker D: Well, there's not anything.
[00:59:27] Speaker A: I think they just sort of move in different circles.
[00:59:29] Speaker D: I think they were just different, know, like Jacob had his schoolmates and all that sort of stuff, where Jack was a little bit more know and had.
[00:59:37] Speaker B: To, like went to the school trev.
[00:59:40] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:59:40] Speaker D: And then know, had to break away from that. And then to his credit, is like such an amazing human and so humble and stuff. And just they're both on their own.
[00:59:53] Speaker B: And they'd be in each other's corner big time, though. On tour, you reckon?
[00:59:58] Speaker D: I don't know.
They would, like back each other. But I think once you're on tour, you're like, all right, I want to fucking stay here. I have my mates and stuff.
Maybe it'll grow into something. I think that's where.
[01:00:18] Speaker B: You go to the brazos.
[01:00:19] Speaker D: Because, you know, Jack jack's got really good support from Bemi and Yago and his know, that's his little what's Yago's dad's name? Leo.
[01:00:30] Speaker A: What's his name?
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Leandro. Hey, did I get it right?
[01:00:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:00:34] Speaker B: Taking me like a year and a half.
[01:00:36] Speaker C: Really?
[01:00:37] Speaker B: Finally say it wrong all the time. When you said Leo, I was like, yes, that's what I got to keep namika's. Give me shit. I don't know what I call because what I did then is like the opposite. Reverse psychology. I went to say something, I'm like, whatever I'm going to say, say the opposite. And it seemed to work.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: You got it, Leandro.
Not that hard.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: Sorry, mate.
Because Jacob's not just going to jump in with team Brazil like Robo.
[01:01:07] Speaker D: Yeah, but I think that with Jack is like with know, the whole vulcom thing and the stablemates that's Matt Bemrose, right? Yeah.
And that works for him and that's fine. They're nice and all of them are really nice.
[01:01:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:01:30] Speaker D: I actually haven't had that conversation with Jacob yet. I'll probably have that conversation when he's home about what he plans to do. I reckon Bottle will come on tour with him and hopefully Jack O'baker qualifies again.
[01:01:43] Speaker B: Maybe Jezebels can be some sort of fluffer.
[01:01:46] Speaker D: Is he?
[01:01:47] Speaker A: Mates of Gabriel.
[01:01:48] Speaker C: Who?
[01:01:48] Speaker A: Chibo Jacob Medina. I think he's on the same team, right?
[01:01:53] Speaker D: They would, for sure. But there's no way they're traveling together.
[01:01:55] Speaker B: I don't.
[01:01:58] Speaker A: Slightly different level at this stage. I'm just having a look. I know it's just started. So, as we're speaking right now, I.
[01:02:06] Speaker D: Think did Jack O'baker, he was first Heat, did he?
[01:02:09] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:02:09] Speaker A: First heat at 07:00. No, it started like two minutes ago.
[01:02:13] Speaker B: Oh, sick. Yeah, because we're all behind Jack o'baker. That's a pretty big one.
[01:02:17] Speaker A: We were hoping to get the Challenger series out of the way before we had this podcast, but didn't work out.
[01:02:23] Speaker B: Didn't work out.
[01:02:24] Speaker A: But yeah, what did work out was.
[01:02:26] Speaker B: Friday afternoon beers in the shedquarters. That's right. It's very hard. Everyone's always busy and we just thought, fuck it, we'll just come in here and talk some shit.
[01:02:32] Speaker A: Saturday as good as Friday beers.
[01:02:35] Speaker B: All we really care about is Jacob qualifying. Mind you, bronte hasn't qualified. And that stings a little.
[01:02:40] Speaker D: That stings a little bit for sure, because Bronte serves fucking, you know, she just had a year like Jacob did last year. She lost Snapper straight away. She lost narrow. Ben straight away. So there's two home events you thought she would have done really good in and then she won bolito. And it's like, all right, she's back. And then a couple of mistakes in heats and stuff like that. And there's only five, six events.
[01:03:10] Speaker B: She'll at least be with that ranking. She'll be on the Challenger series straight away next year.
[01:03:15] Speaker D: At least, I think so, yeah.
[01:03:16] Speaker B: Seven some sort of consolidation, isn't it?
[01:03:20] Speaker D: For sure.
[01:03:21] Speaker A: We talked about this fair bit. I just still reckon there should be more places open for the oh, fucking oath.
[01:03:28] Speaker D: I had this conversation with DMAC. It's five chicks like that's shit house.
Bring it up to eight if you're going to like it should be ten, but bring it up to eight at least.
[01:03:40] Speaker A: Just have 24 and tour. Eight and 16 exactly. Easy.
[01:03:45] Speaker D: So, yeah, that's definitely something.
[01:03:48] Speaker B: But is Bronte back in the west yet?
[01:03:51] Speaker D: I'm not too sure. I haven't seen her. I surf.
[01:03:54] Speaker B: I was about to say, I know where you surfed this morning. So if she's not out there, then it's fair to say she's not back in the state.
[01:04:00] Speaker D: That's it for.
[01:04:04] Speaker B: Well, mate, what else you got on the Challenger series at present?
[01:04:09] Speaker C: Anything?
[01:04:09] Speaker B: Anyone that's qualified already that you're super excited by?
[01:04:13] Speaker D: There's actually quite a few names. Like Crosby, like, he's going to be really good, I think he says. Really good in really good waves. He charges griffin's brother. He'll be really good.
[01:04:23] Speaker A: They're going to be a solid combat together.
[01:04:25] Speaker C: It's cool.
[01:04:26] Speaker D: Like there's a couple of guys like Matteus heardy that, brazo. He's been around. He was like Brazil's next prodigy and just fucking couldn't get on.
[01:04:36] Speaker A: Not quite there yet either, I think he's on. He's qualified.
[01:04:40] Speaker D: Really?
[01:04:40] Speaker A: No, I think he's just out of the Tenant Ten at the moment.
[01:04:44] Speaker D: Okay. So he needs to make another heat, I think.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: Two hats and he's in like Jack Hannah.
[01:04:48] Speaker D: He was like meant to be the next big thing out of Hawaii. He's just qualified. He's qualified. So, yeah, a couple of old faces, Freddie and stuff are already on.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: I'm glad to see there's a few new crew. Not know no offense to the Portuguese, but Frederico Maraes, he's fucking had his go at it, hasn't he?
[01:05:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:10] Speaker B: And I mean, he's a great surfer, but he's not going to be in the top five.
[01:05:15] Speaker A: No, he's just not going to be.
[01:05:17] Speaker D: I remember Yades made that quote in his movie years ago when he made that.
It was a fucking heavy quote. But mate, it was pretty much he sent it for what it was.
[01:05:29] Speaker B: Yade Nichols.
[01:05:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:05:30] Speaker B: What did he say?
[01:05:31] Speaker D: He just called it for how it was. He's like the top ten surfers on tour. They're the best surfers in the world. The other 15, they're just making up the numbers.
And I was like, he was on tour at that time.
[01:05:47] Speaker B: Remember the top ten when he made that?
[01:05:49] Speaker D: No, he wasn't.
[01:05:49] Speaker C: Yeah, good.
[01:05:50] Speaker B: That gives it more credit.
[01:05:51] Speaker D: Yeah, that's what I thought back then. When I was a kid, I was like, that's fucking gnarly. I can't believe you said that. But I think of it now and I'm like, he's kind of right. Yeah, in a sense. Top ten, everyone.
[01:06:02] Speaker B: Definitely. It's getting a bit full, that top.
[01:06:05] Speaker D: Ten, but it's gnarly.
[01:06:06] Speaker B: Like when you're looking at like if.
[01:06:08] Speaker D: You go down the list and guys.
[01:06:10] Speaker B: Getting fired, well, mate, fuck all those heroes. Let's hear a bit about your WQS campaign back in the day. What was the extent of it?
[01:06:21] Speaker D: Jezza, oh, mate. It was like maybe four or five years and it was back when there was only 6000.
It was fun.
[01:06:33] Speaker A: Who did you travel with?
[01:06:34] Speaker C: Matt?
[01:06:34] Speaker D: I got to travel with like, Garrett Parks, David Cathales, Lincoln Taylor, Matt Banting, like all those sorts of guys.
[01:06:45] Speaker B: What happened to Matt Banting?
[01:06:46] Speaker A: He was touted as chippy, I think.
[01:06:49] Speaker D: Well, he nah, concrete.
[01:06:51] Speaker B: He should have been a plumber, you see. Then he would have made the tour.
[01:06:54] Speaker D: But he got on tour but a couple times, injured himself really bad.
[01:06:59] Speaker B: It broke a leg or something.
[01:07:01] Speaker D: Oh yeah. Did an alley open, did a knee and then it was a gnarly injury and then came back or didn't get the wild card, so then had to go back to the things.
And then he got injured and injured and injured and injured and then lost sponsorship and then got promised sponsorship and didn't get it. Standard surf industry bullshit. And I think he just like, fuck.
[01:07:25] Speaker B: This in the end. Well, like we were talking about early with Jacob. I mean, it's a financial risk to roll that dice in your early 20s, obviously you had a crack and went.
[01:07:35] Speaker A: Well, Matt Bansing was he was right up there in terms of one of Australia's next big things.
[01:07:42] Speaker D: When he fell off and he was getting back on, he was dropping all those Instaclips and everyone was like, he's so gnarly. He still is so gnarly.
[01:07:50] Speaker C: But.
[01:07:53] Speaker A: Yeah, so and who was backing you at that point? Jazz? You have any backing?
[01:07:57] Speaker D: I was sort of like with insight back then and same as what I get sort of now.
It's a bit of money here and there.
[01:08:05] Speaker B: Who's sponsoring you now?
[01:08:07] Speaker D: Salty crew. So that relationship as well is like it's a building thing. So when I first got with Salty's, it was like just a flow thing and you just, you know but I said, like, when I what does the flow thing mean? Oh, it's just like product and stuff like that. But I said, is this relationship can it go somewhere? Because otherwise I don't need fucking clothes.
[01:08:34] Speaker B: You can go to the Op shop and get exactly. Look at the way I dress. I actually dress like this on the.
[01:08:38] Speaker D: Weekends and that's what I Jammo's chimed.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: In for the first time. It's true.
Work, work clothes.
[01:08:46] Speaker D: But yeah, for me, as I got older as well and stuff, I was like, if I'm going to work, I love surfing and I just love creating content and filming and watching analyzing myself.
And I'm lucky that Jenno I have one of the best filmers in the world.
[01:09:11] Speaker B: Yeah, Tom Jenno is recognized, but he.
[01:09:14] Speaker D: For years he was like, why are you fucking chasing two foot waves all around the world at the QS and you live in Marg's and we could just film and get you could drop like an amazing clip. And I was like, I just didn't think about it.
[01:09:28] Speaker C: Maybe.
[01:09:28] Speaker B: But yeah, mate, it's risky either way, isn't it?
Like we're talking about before, where that luck element? What if you got lucky one year, yeah. And you fucking qualify? All it takes is three comps in a row. Somehow you got the best wave in the set just by chance, and next minute and you did that fucking all.
[01:09:51] Speaker D: These events in a row. Yeah, you got sure.
[01:09:52] Speaker B: And then you're getting big money.
[01:09:54] Speaker D: Yeah. And there was a lot of money back then in surfing. So you could make two heats and.
[01:09:59] Speaker B: Make what year roughly are we talking? It would be like in the late 90s. You're not that old.
[01:10:05] Speaker D: No, I'm not that old.
It would be like 2016, like 2014 and stuff like that. And yeah, you could make your airfare and some if you made one heat when you had a seating around a 64.
[01:10:23] Speaker B: They didn't have pods, though. Airport pods back then. No, they didn't have airport pods. Sorry, madam, a bit horny about this.
[01:10:29] Speaker D: Yeah, bucket. Lock yourself in the room.
[01:10:35] Speaker A: When Carl Pit wins and goes to Japan.
[01:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely a Japanese thing in the WQS, but it wasn't like it is now.
[01:10:47] Speaker D: It's like pretty focused, pretty this when.
[01:10:51] Speaker B: I was regimented now, and that's where this next question was going.
Let's say, for instance, the QS in the midies was known as just an just a bender, shenanigans all over the places.
[01:11:06] Speaker D: I swear I was like because now.
[01:11:08] Speaker B: It'S very regimented with the regional COVID.
[01:11:11] Speaker D: Generation to get that side of it. So you'd rock up to an event.
[01:11:15] Speaker B: Okay, give us something that may or may not have happened on tour with names that may or may not be true on the QS, mate. Give us one or two insights.
[01:11:26] Speaker D: So there was like that one at New Key cornwell, England and Surf masters. The surfboard masters boardmasters.
[01:11:35] Speaker B: And that worked Navy. That was pretty close.
[01:11:36] Speaker A: And I spent a couple of summers.
[01:11:38] Speaker D: In Fist Roll and that was like 6000, which was like the highest rated ones.
[01:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a bit of money on the line.
[01:11:48] Speaker D: And there was a fucking music festival with it. Like when Marty bunch of young, fit, good looking Aussies and you'd lose to surf, get paid your fucking in us.
Cash in your envelope.
[01:12:02] Speaker B: Cash in the envelope.
[01:12:03] Speaker D: Yeah, it was sick.
And then you just run amok after. As soon as you lost, you're like, all right, party starts.
And you'd be like, all right, I need to pay for this, this and this. But this we're partying with.
[01:12:18] Speaker B: This is the party fund.
[01:12:19] Speaker A: Straight to the sailors. Arms in, Nikki.
[01:12:21] Speaker D: And then we'd have a week off in every event. And then that would just be like two or three days of fucking because Europe would be like it would start in UK and then we'd have a week off in Lackenau in France. Oh, no, then we'd go straight to Lackenau in France. There'd be a QS there. And the parties are just give us.
[01:12:40] Speaker B: Your best France WQS party story.
Come on.
[01:12:45] Speaker C: Fuck.
[01:12:45] Speaker D: There's a few I remember.
[01:12:48] Speaker B: You don't have to say names. And look, I'm sure you're familiar with the way we roll on Barrel Turf podcast is anything that gets said on this podcast, anything at all, may or may not be true, could just be made up for the absolute enjoyment of our listeners. Like we're known bullshitters, so feel free to say stories. Okay, well, give us what happened. And we all know that the pro surfing in France and it's had a long history of I mean, they're just getting nude on the beach. All the mean shit's going to start when crew are nude at lunchtime on the beach. Where are you going to go from there?
What do you got?
[01:13:30] Speaker A: Forest situation still happening. Was the what used to live in the forest up there in France?
[01:13:37] Speaker D: Matt? I don't recall that. I don't recall people living in the forest.
[01:13:42] Speaker B: So what do you got for us? France parties WQS, 21 years old. Bunch of young sponsors.
[01:13:48] Speaker D: So young. It was just fun. You would go to these events and then they would have these music festivals and then there'd be like Frenchies there. And then they'd put on these music festivals and we've got like WiFi at the comp. So we'd got like the I Translate thing and we'd like, meet girls and wouldn't fucking understand a thing they're saying. So we'd be like, on the I Translate, trying to be like, telling they're pretty or whatever.
And then before you know it, they're like, yeah. And then we're at these clubs and then you're like, trying to get them back to the room. So you're like, in I Translate, showing.
[01:14:25] Speaker B: Them to the screen. Yeah, come back to my place.
[01:14:28] Speaker D: Literally.
[01:14:30] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:14:30] Speaker B: Jammo is a bogan, but he speaks French for some reason. I don't know why. Anyway, you got to have your microphone in front of you.
[01:14:45] Speaker D: You try and learn a little bit of French like the one that we learned, that we got taught. I remember back then was like two E Jolie, which has been you are very beautiful.
[01:14:55] Speaker B: Yeah, nice, smooth.
[01:14:58] Speaker D: So fuck it. Every girl will I two e jolie.
[01:15:01] Speaker B: That'S all you said.
Out of the young Aussies that you were traveling with at the time, was there anyone who was a cut above the rest when it came to Nightlife.
[01:15:18] Speaker A: Swordsman Award goes to fuck.
[01:15:21] Speaker D: It was all of us zarutz in Spain. That was fucking they're just all stories. All pretty naughty stories.
[01:15:35] Speaker B: Jezza, you don't have a chick at the moment. You can tell us one, can't you?
[01:15:40] Speaker A: The thing is.
[01:15:44] Speaker D: I'll tell you one.
[01:15:45] Speaker B: Thing may or may not have happened, mate.
[01:15:51] Speaker D: We fucking everyone. So everyone would go out and do their thing and at night. And then we got to the last event. I think it was the Azoreas. And we all had these phones. And we gave our phones to Lincoln Taylor, one of our mates, and he fucking sat up one Arbo editing this thing. And we called it Rangers on Tour, because this year that I went, we were like for some reason we started calling everyone Rangers.
[01:16:19] Speaker B: Which means redhead.
[01:16:21] Speaker D: Yeah, which means redhead. And we were just walking up to everyone, like touching them on the head. Wherever we were, it was like, there's a bunch of crew. But we had all these videos and he made this thing called Rangers on Tour. And it was literally of us just like fucking in bed with chicks. Like, fuck it, wish I still had it because I would love to watch it again. And you'd have your phone down there and someone be like, talking about the night, just going on about it, and you're filming them. And it was when iPhones sort of just came out.
[01:17:02] Speaker B: No one had camera etiquette at that stage.
Now it's like everyone's aware. Yeah, no one was scared of the internet. And now everyone's aware about that.
[01:17:13] Speaker D: Back then, I remember, because I remember when I stopped and then a couple of the boys were still doing it and the young the tour or the videos?
Both, but they were still trying to qualify. And then I remember having a phone call with my mate Davey from Sydney, because he'd been on tour. And then he did one more year to try, he fell off. And then he's like, fuck, man. This younger generation, they just fucking don't party.
And I was like, what do you mean? I was like, what, after the comp? And he's like, yeah, they just fucking go home.
And I was like, that sounds boring, I know.
[01:17:49] Speaker B: Well, it definitely is. But the way it works now, it's.
[01:17:52] Speaker D: The way it works.
[01:17:53] Speaker B: You got to you got to, otherwise.
[01:17:55] Speaker D: You'Re not going to keep up.
[01:17:56] Speaker B: Because that leads me into my next question. What's, like the most busted up you ever surfed a heat in those QS days? Like, oh, just no sleep whatsoever, man.
[01:18:07] Speaker D: Mine would be in Australia just at no, no, but it was in Sydney. I'm good, thanks, but I'm okay. I remember we had the Australian Open and the Big Wave Awards were on the night after, or the night of it, and I'd lost, so I'd gone. I was staying at Davies, but then Newcastle was the next day and I went out and ran into Toddy Taylor and all the boys and like Mick Corbs and stuff. And then before you know it, we're like fucking on this bender and the sun's coming up and we went Red.
[01:18:41] Speaker B: Bull and beer all night.
[01:18:43] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:18:44] Speaker D: And then I remember going to the contest site because they had free beers and shit and fucking no sleep. No sleep. And I must have been walking around like a fucking zombie because the security has come up to me. He's like, mate, you need to go. You're getting kicked out. And I'm like, I'm in the corp.
And they're like, Nah, you're fucking out of here, budy. And they kicked me out.
[01:19:13] Speaker B: They didn't let you surf?
[01:19:15] Speaker C: No.
[01:19:15] Speaker D: Well, this is like after I'd after I'd surfed.
[01:19:19] Speaker B: So you surf?
[01:19:20] Speaker D: Yeah, I'd surf and lost and RA, but this is leading into the next day and I'd fucking got kicked out. So I'd been on like a day and a half bender and had to lift and got a lift to Newcastle for the next comp. Got there at like 10:00 at night and just was, like, dead and had to surf the next morning and got some sleep, but got up and I went I remember paddling out on my surfboard and, like, falling off and just going, Fuck.
[01:20:00] Speaker B: And how'd you go on that heat?
[01:20:01] Speaker D: I lost. Yeah, I got four.
But I feel like that's what it's.
[01:20:07] Speaker B: You know, that's what Australian surfing culture was built on, for better or worse. That's what I idolized when I was younger, that Australian mongrel surf.
[01:20:17] Speaker A: Having fun.
[01:20:17] Speaker B: Yeah, having fun.
[01:20:19] Speaker A: It's all there is just on that one. Did I ever tell you about I haven't mentioned too much. My DJing. Stories from DJ Nami. Did I ever tell you about just Jez saying he couldn't get into the comic? You got kicked out. Did I ever tell you about how I got kicked out of the Dunsborough public whilst I was DJing?
Why are you DJing?
[01:20:40] Speaker B: You were the headline act.
[01:20:41] Speaker A: I was DJing.
I was literally playing my set.
Someone knocked over my drink on the DJ table. So I went up to the bar and said, someone just knocked over my drink. Can I have another drink? I had no rider, no free drinks. I'd actually paid for that beer, yeah, whatever it was. And, yeah, the manager was there and she had some sort of beef for me. She's going, you're cut off, mate.
And I went, what the fuck? You're not giving me any drinks.
One of your punters just knocked over my drink. Give me a fucking drink. And she said, Nah, you're abusive, get out. And she called the bounce over.
[01:21:21] Speaker B: Kick me out.
[01:21:22] Speaker D: What do you do with your decks?
[01:21:24] Speaker A: Well, I eventually said, you know how in there the music stopped?
[01:21:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:21:31] Speaker A: That's because I'm not playing it.
[01:21:34] Speaker D: And he's like, oh, you better go.
[01:21:35] Speaker A: Yeah, you better get back in there. Put some jeans on, buddy. So I went back in there anyway.
[01:21:39] Speaker B: Classic.
[01:21:39] Speaker A: There you go.
[01:21:40] Speaker B: Now that's a good one, mates. One more on the QS days. We've talked about the Debaucherous days.
What was the best surf you ever had on a QS comp?
[01:21:50] Speaker A: Yeah, good question.
[01:21:52] Speaker D: The best surf we ever had on it would be lacking now in France, I reckon. We had that pumping one AVO high tide barrels, like nude river on the beach.
[01:22:02] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Breaking close to the beach.
[01:22:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Sick. Yeah.
[01:22:07] Speaker B: Right?
[01:22:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:22:07] Speaker D: I love Lacanau. That was such a fun place.
[01:22:09] Speaker C: Yeah, cool.
[01:22:10] Speaker D: And it had this central bit, which is like, where all the clubs and stuff were and food things mozzie on your arm.
[01:22:21] Speaker B: Get in.
[01:22:21] Speaker A: I'm getting fucking chomped in here. What's going on?
[01:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah, but need some gin and tonics.
[01:22:27] Speaker D: There's so many memories from that fucking mate, it feels like a lifetime ago, but there was so many fun memories.
[01:22:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's awesome.
[01:22:35] Speaker D: That's what I remember it as fun.
[01:22:37] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good.
[01:22:37] Speaker D: And that's good.
[01:22:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:22:38] Speaker A: It's a good way to be good.
[01:22:41] Speaker D: Way to experience travel is to do those things back then.
And it was more like it was easier because you were making a bit of money doing it. You could lose it early even if you had a shocker and still make a couple of grand.
[01:22:58] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:22:58] Speaker B: Which was enough to at least cut even on the exactly.
[01:23:02] Speaker A: And to be fair as well, if I'm in La Canal as a traveling surfer and there's Jez as a professional surfer, we're both trying to pick up the same yeah. We don't have to be scientists to know that the traveling surfer in myself has got less of a chance than the professional surfer of getting some results there.
[01:23:28] Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.
[01:23:30] Speaker A: It's just the way the world works, isn't it?
[01:23:32] Speaker C: It is.
[01:23:33] Speaker B: All right, so where are we going from here?
[01:23:37] Speaker A: Let's have a piss break.
[01:23:38] Speaker B: You need a piss, jezebel.
[01:23:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:23:40] Speaker D: All right.
[01:23:41] Speaker A: The bladders are relieved. We are back. Bowserf podcast. We've got Jezza Forest in the yep.
Mate, I'm not asking for confirmation. I'm just saying what's going on? Okay.
[01:23:54] Speaker B: I'm just backing you up being a cool.
[01:23:56] Speaker A: Thanks, matt, what do you got? Well, what I got is Jez Forest and I think we wanted to you were talking about asking Jez about his worst wipeout.
[01:24:07] Speaker B: Mate, it's one of my favorite questions. It always gets their hairs hackled on the back of the neck. Everyone loves a good wipeout story. And I'm sure you've had a couple of Ripper wipeouts in your time, Jezza, haven't you?
[01:24:21] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely. There's been a couple.
[01:24:26] Speaker B: We would like to have you in here for another 4 hours and just keep going because that's what we do. But we're going to have to settle for one of your best wipeouts. I've heard rumors of this wipeout, but I haven't heard the story. So, mate, fill us in. Worst wipeout?
[01:24:40] Speaker D: Worst wipeout would have been Nalu when I was 16 years old.
[01:24:45] Speaker B: Oh, that's a bit young.
[01:24:46] Speaker D: First trip up there.
[01:24:47] Speaker B: How old are you now?
[01:24:48] Speaker D: 33.
[01:24:49] Speaker C: Oh, shit.
[01:24:49] Speaker B: And it's still raining supreme.
[01:24:51] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely.
[01:24:52] Speaker B: Hands down.
[01:24:56] Speaker A: Just had your daddy turd.
[01:24:58] Speaker D: It was my first trip up there and I went up there with Russell Lord and I don't remember if you remember John Davies dog.
[01:25:08] Speaker B: Yeah.
Good surfer from Margie's.
[01:25:11] Speaker D: Yeah, rips.
He's around Jay Davies age and stuff went up with them and it was the last day of the trip. We were leaving that day and it was probably four to six foot Toomey's incinerates. And I just gotten used to getting pitted out at Toomey's and stuff and just getting a feel for it. I was loving fences. And then I started up at Senneries and it was early ish in the morning. There was a lot of guys at Toomey's. Woolly was up there in McPherson, jake Perkins and like, the Barry lads were there, Courtney and stuff. And then I got this wave. I think it was like five foot maybe. And I've taken off, pulled into that first tube at centeries and if you've surf centeries, it does this little clampy thing, right, and it sort of goes out to sea as you're coming out of the tube sometimes.
But what had happened was I was sort of like I pulled up into it and I thought I was coming out and I went a little bit high. And my back foot's I went over one of those little boils that Toomey's loves to dish out and my back foot slipped off and I sort of did the splits, but my leg stayed on my board and I just slid down the face. And I don't really remember much, but I just remember this huge cork feeling in my thigh, like right up near my hip.
And it was just this excruciating cork feeling.
[01:26:51] Speaker B: So your front foot stayed on the board?
[01:26:53] Speaker D: Stayed on the board and that's gone.
[01:26:55] Speaker B: Out to the towards the front of the wave.
[01:26:57] Speaker D: Well, yeah, I've done the splits and then slid down the face and then as the lips come over, my board is under my leg and it's just chopped my leg in half.
[01:27:09] Speaker C: Fuck.
[01:27:10] Speaker D: And I've just been cartwheeled over the fucking falls and I remember being down and my leg just hitting me in the side of the head and I was just like all I had was adrenaline, but I was so anxious about what the fuck's going on. And then I come up and it was just remember when you were a young kid and you got corked in the leg and it was that first drop, your pain just ongoing with adrenaline and anxiety and I was just like, my leg, my leg, my leg. And started screaming. And I was so lucky that there wasn't any sets behind it because I was in that close out bit between Toomey's and centeries by then.
And I remember Woolly paddled over and a few other guys paddled over.
[01:28:00] Speaker C: And.
[01:28:00] Speaker D: I was just floating and they paddled me in and they're like, trying to ask me what happened and I just fucking had no idea. I was a kid, I was trying to explain my leg. I remember, that's all I could say, my leg, my leg, my leg. And then they got me onto a wave and I was going and I remember it started hitting me and I started. Tearing up. My leg was like, flapping next to me.
[01:28:22] Speaker B: That'd be scary.
[01:28:23] Speaker D: And I was fucking so aside from.
[01:28:26] Speaker B: The pain, just the yeah, it was.
[01:28:28] Speaker D: Just scary to go, fuck, I'm going.
[01:28:30] Speaker B: To lose my leg.
[01:28:30] Speaker C: Maybe.
[01:28:31] Speaker D: Well, it was just like I just didn't know what was going on. And then I got to the keyhole and I was laying there and a few people met me. And then a bunch of guys got the wave behind me and they got a mini mound. They strapped me to that. And then it was like 15 people to lift me up that little bit that we get up.
[01:28:52] Speaker B: For people that don't know, it's about a two to three meter vertical climb up craggy, sharp limestone. There's actually a rope there. There's a rope there to help you get in climb. So getting a busted up person on a board, it's not easy.
[01:29:08] Speaker D: Yeah, and then I remember getting with 15 people.
[01:29:10] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:29:11] Speaker D: And then I remember getting to the car park and Neil Maddow neil Maddow is another one that helped me.
[01:29:15] Speaker B: Another legend plumber.
[01:29:17] Speaker D: Another legend plumber.
[01:29:18] Speaker B: It's all about the plumbers on this episode.
[01:29:20] Speaker A: Finally.
[01:29:20] Speaker B: I'm having a win here.
[01:29:22] Speaker A: Treaties get the.
[01:29:26] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:29:26] Speaker D: And I know that Neil has been there for a lot of the horrific injuries.
[01:29:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:29:31] Speaker B: He's done a lot of time in.
[01:29:32] Speaker D: The desert, but he's been there for a lot of the gnarly ones.
And then I remember laying there and then they brought a shot of morphine because they had the morphine shot down with a needle. And there was a doctor on site. I can't remember the doctor who it was. They give me the hit of morphine. I remember it didn't do a fucking thing. And I was just like, why does a ghost laying there?
It snapped my femur.
[01:30:00] Speaker B: We're getting there. We're getting there. Yeah, keep going.
[01:30:03] Speaker D: So I remember laying there, and that's where Woolly was. They were assessing me and they're like, I think he's broken his femur because it was swelling. It was, like, swelled out.
And then they've called the ambulance. So the ambulances left.
[01:30:20] Speaker B: 2 hours away down a gravel.
[01:30:21] Speaker D: Two and a half hours down the track.
[01:30:23] Speaker A: She just have one there in the car park.
[01:30:24] Speaker C: Really?
[01:30:25] Speaker B: She's just constantly yeah, pretty much.
[01:30:27] Speaker D: Well, I think they got the stretcher put in after that injury.
[01:30:31] Speaker C: Oh, did they? Yeah.
[01:30:32] Speaker D: Attached to the toilet.
[01:30:33] Speaker B: Oh, is there?
[01:30:34] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:30:34] Speaker B: I didn't notice.
[01:30:35] Speaker D: There's a stretcher behind the right.
[01:30:37] Speaker B: So you're responsible for.
[01:30:43] Speaker D: Neil.
I don't know what sort of car yeah, they called the ambulance and then Neil was like I'm chucking him in the back of the car. And he had back of the ute with two ends folded out.
[01:30:53] Speaker B: Plumbing ute.
[01:30:53] Speaker D: Plumbing ute. And then Tom Clark actually was there with us as well. And Clarkey was kind enough to sit with me in the back of the ute. But the track I'll never forget the.
[01:31:06] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:31:07] Speaker D: In the back of a ute. It's the worst place to be in a wetsuit. Well, that's what they were trying to get medivac. And it wasn't until later in the story that I get evac.
[01:31:19] Speaker B: Let's run through the story.
[01:31:20] Speaker D: But yeah, so then I remember getting halfway down the track, just like Delirious and the ambulance rocking up. And it wasn't until they rocked up and took over that they gave me the Green Whistle. And it helped with the pain a little bit. And then from there I went to Canaven Hospital.
[01:31:39] Speaker B: Fine establishment.
[01:31:43] Speaker D: Yeah, absolutely.
[01:31:45] Speaker A: And then better than the car park at Toomey's.
[01:31:47] Speaker B: Man yeah, it is.
[01:31:48] Speaker D: And so we've gotten there and they're like, oh, yeah, you're going to get a medivac. But it's not going to be for a little bit. We need to do x rays. RA and I remember having the nurse come in and she was pretty cute.
I never forget it. She had blonde hair. And then I heard that they send like, trainee nurses or whatever to remote places.
[01:32:11] Speaker A: That's the Green Whistle talking.
[01:32:12] Speaker B: Boy yeah, it's really a 60 year old, 120 kilo.
[01:32:18] Speaker D: And I'll just Google.
[01:32:19] Speaker B: Woman you're just like, nurse that I'll.
[01:32:23] Speaker D: Never forget because Russell had met us there Audi. They jumped in the car and I'll never forget it. She's like, cutting my wetsuit. And she's like, we're going to have to put a catheter in. I had no idea what a catheter, but she's like, cut my wetsuit. And she's like just touching me up.
And I'm like, this kid.
And mate, I've just fully barred up.
And I was so embarrassed. I was like, tomato.
I'm sorry. She's like, don't worry, honey.
[01:33:03] Speaker A: It literally happens all the time.
[01:33:06] Speaker D: And I was just like, fuck.
[01:33:09] Speaker B: That's the best story.
[01:33:10] Speaker D: She had to walk off and let it go down.
[01:33:13] Speaker B: No, she had to leave you alone.
[01:33:15] Speaker D: And I was just like, fuck it.
[01:33:18] Speaker B: But up in such critical condition, mate, you'd think it'd just be a shriveled little running for the hills in such a situation.
All the swelling in your legs just going, hello, cuteness. I'm changing position.
[01:33:32] Speaker D: I think if I close my eyes now, it was her touching my legs.
[01:33:37] Speaker B: That just you're 16. I mean, some chick touches your leg. Yeah, you're lucky you just didn't blow right then.
[01:33:43] Speaker D: Cover in white shit.
[01:33:46] Speaker B: So she walked off just to let it go down.
[01:33:48] Speaker D: She's like, oh, just let you be for a minute.
And I'm like, fuck.
And she gave me a towel, put the towel over top. And then it sort of like it went down and she came back and we were talking. She's like, it's all good, Jerome.
[01:34:04] Speaker A: Think of your grandmother.
[01:34:05] Speaker E: Think of your grandmother.
[01:34:07] Speaker B: I did not expect that part of the story to come up.
It's made my night.
[01:34:14] Speaker D: And then so, like, they fucked around.
[01:34:16] Speaker B: And then she walks back in and it just goes bing.
It's like, all right.
[01:34:22] Speaker D: Many vacuum out of here. I can't remember what she actually did, but she ended up fucking shoving it in there.
[01:34:33] Speaker B: Shoving it in there. Hold on.
[01:34:34] Speaker A: What the catheter.
[01:34:36] Speaker D: Catheter?
[01:34:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:34:38] Speaker B: Were you a virgin at this stage?
[01:34:40] Speaker C: Yeah, I was.
[01:34:40] Speaker B: Oh, no way.
[01:34:41] Speaker D: Yeah, I hadn't had sex yet.
And then it felt like hours and.
[01:34:51] Speaker B: Then it's a strange way to lose your virginity, literally.
Am I having sex right now?
[01:34:58] Speaker D: Why is it going inside?
[01:35:00] Speaker B: Jamming a tube down the end. Japso. Am I Willie.
[01:35:05] Speaker D: And then I was in the hospital for like a few hours and Audi and that came in. And then they're like, you're right.
And I had all my shit. I remember we'd borrowed Dad's rods and dad was like, oh, fishing rods. Yeah, all these good fishing rods. Because dad used to fish the Baron Nationals and shit up north. We're from Broome originally, all right?
And he'd won the Baron Nationals a bunch and won all these really good rods. And we took him up there and fucking I was like, you need to get the rods. That's all I was saying, really.
And then it got to the evening and they're like, Your plane's here, but we need to do a nerve block. And I was like, yeah, what's that? And he just had this doctor stop.
[01:35:48] Speaker B: You from getting erections constantly.
[01:35:50] Speaker D: He's like, they had this big needle and he just fucking pulled my groin down. He's like, we just need to dab it until we find the nerve. Might not get it straight away. And I was like and it was like, bang, miss, bang, miss. And it was like, bang. Got it. My leg just like fucking and then they did that. And then they strapped me to a stretcher again.
And then they weird me out to the aeroplane. And the doctor took me down to Perth and I remember coming to him, perth? And I was like, what's wrong with my they'd, um they'd strapped me to the stretcher kind of wrong. And there was a dimple in the stretcher and it was going into my back. And then it got to the point where we got into the hospital and they were dicking around. I'm like, you guys got to get me off this fucking stretcher. Like, it's hurting me. And they're like, no, it's fine.
[01:36:44] Speaker B: They were dicking around or you were dicking around? Sorry, I couldn't help that one.
[01:36:50] Speaker D: And then they took me off the stretcher. And then I went in for surgery and then woke up the next day and then fucking did you know by.
[01:37:00] Speaker B: Then it was broken femur? Had they told you in?
[01:37:04] Speaker D: No, I don't think they told me in Canaven. I think it was when I got down to Perth, the doctor came and he's like, mate, it was a clean break, 7 CM from your hip. It was just like, snap. Like that.
[01:37:18] Speaker A: It can be a real danger with your one artery.
[01:37:22] Speaker B: One in ten people die from a broken femur.
[01:37:24] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:37:26] Speaker D: Because your main arteries there and when it splits, it like nicks it and you bleed internally.
[01:37:32] Speaker A: I was going to say that the corrugation on the track.
[01:37:36] Speaker D: That's what I was worried about.
[01:37:37] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:37:38] Speaker D: When I was older and I thought about it and I heard about the ten people dying thing, I was like.
[01:37:42] Speaker A: Wow, probably more like three in ten on a corrugated track.
[01:37:46] Speaker B: Corrugated track. I'd definitely increase your but then the.
[01:37:50] Speaker D: Craziest thing was because I was so young and it was a clean break and they put like a steel rod up my leg and two screws.
I remember I had Nationals that year and I did it in July and Nationals was in November and it was the first time I'd made it was like under 16 or under eighteen s.
And they're like, oh, I don't know if you're going to make it. And I was like, I've got to make it. And I just fucking did all the rehab and I was back in the water in twelve weeks.
[01:38:22] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:38:23] Speaker A: Twelve weeks.
[01:38:24] Speaker D: And if I did that as an adult, there's no way you'd be in twelve weeks.
[01:38:29] Speaker B: Do you still have the metal rods and stuff in?
[01:38:31] Speaker C: No.
[01:38:32] Speaker D: So I had that in there for a year and I started getting like groin aggravation from the screws and stuff.
[01:38:37] Speaker B: From the nurse?
[01:38:38] Speaker D: Yeah.
Scarred.
And then so I got them taken out and then that was another six weeks.
You made nationals, and then I made nationals.
[01:38:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:38:51] Speaker A: Boys.
[01:38:52] Speaker B: That was a ripper story you told me. It was a good one and I've never heard it. I'm glad I got to hear the full version. That was equal parts terrifying and hilarious.
[01:39:01] Speaker D: I just went out with a bang straight away.
[01:39:04] Speaker B: That's a big one. So one of my other favorite questions is worst surf trip ever. But that could probably qualify as that. Unless you've got something that you think is more surf oriented. I mean, worse wipeout.
[01:39:19] Speaker D: There was a few that like few QS locations we went to that were fucking horrible. We went to this one in Hainan Island in China.
[01:39:29] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[01:39:30] Speaker D: And I'll never forget went we're on the plane over there. I was with like Brenna Dorington and all those guys, and we all got food poisoning on the way over there.
[01:39:41] Speaker B: Oh, really? On the plane?
[01:39:43] Speaker D: On the plane. And then we had to change, all of us spewing and shitting and fucking having to change terminals, get transport, like just corpse mode. Then sick for the whole event and then the waves sucked.
[01:40:00] Speaker B: That sounds like a pretty bad trip.
[01:40:02] Speaker A: It can get quite good in a typhoon, can't it?
[01:40:04] Speaker D: That hanging out.
[01:40:05] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:40:05] Speaker D: The last yeah, one year we got it, and the first year no, the second year, because the first year was a food poisoning. The second year we got it, it was fucking pumping. I think I'll be able to find a photo of it. It was like this.
[01:40:20] Speaker B: I remember tuning into it once and thinking it looked super fun. It was like two to 3ft and just peeling down, like full long point break.
[01:40:28] Speaker A: Long boarding world champions and stuff there too.
[01:40:31] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:40:31] Speaker B: Hell longboarding wave.
[01:40:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:40:34] Speaker B: Well, on the flip side then, Jezza, let's finish with some positivity. Best surf trip ever. Probably desert point last week, mate.
[01:40:44] Speaker D: That's pretty good.
[01:40:45] Speaker B: Best surf trip ever. Anything that springs to mind.
[01:40:51] Speaker D: Best surf trip ever.
Fucks.
Nalu is my favorite. Just multiple just multiple nalu.
[01:40:59] Speaker B: Multiple runs up there no place break your leg.
[01:41:03] Speaker D: And that's one thing that I love.
[01:41:04] Speaker A: About break your records.
[01:41:06] Speaker D: Nalu is like, after traveling for so long on the QS and getting to go to all the places in the world, tahiti, Hawaii, Japan, everywhere, mate, there's nowhere that compares to like even like Desert Point. Like Desert Point is good, but it's fun.
But it's like kitty's corner compared to fucking Nalu.
[01:41:31] Speaker B: Really?
[01:41:32] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:41:33] Speaker B: That's terrifying.
[01:41:34] Speaker A: No way. Barreled up there. Even 15 foot grower.
[01:41:37] Speaker D: Yeah, well, that would be yeah, I haven't served 15 foot grower, but it just felt like nothing else compares. And that's one thing about West Oz, and I think that's why I was so content not to leave for so long, because I'd traveled everywhere and I would love to go surf Chobes because we had a QS in Tahiti, but it was on Rangy Roa, a different island. Like in these yeah. And I didn't get to surf Chobes and we went so funny. We went to this QS in Rangy Roa back, and I couldn't even fucking backside tuberide back then. And it was a right barrel and we rocked up and it was just this flawless right tube. This is like with Ryan Callahan and that. And I went with Matt Bordock, one of the locals from Marg's, one of my best mates. And we were there. I remember looking at him and I'm like, fuck, I can't even pig dog yet.
[01:42:37] Speaker A: By the end of the week, I.
[01:42:38] Speaker C: Could.
[01:42:42] Speaker D: Lots of locations, lots of good memories.
[01:42:45] Speaker C: Yeah, sick.
[01:42:46] Speaker A: Awesome, mate.
[01:42:47] Speaker B: Real quickly, we've got our number one beer tasting aficondo in the shed. Philbo aficondo?
[01:42:54] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:42:55] Speaker A: Is that a yeah, that's the one.
[01:42:58] Speaker B: Philbo is back in the shed.
[01:43:00] Speaker A: He's an aficondo.
[01:43:02] Speaker B: He hasn't done a beer review for a long time. Philbo, come up here, mate, and tell us what you're drinking there. You need to talk in the microphone, mate.
[01:43:10] Speaker A: Hold it.
[01:43:12] Speaker B: Qualshell cheeky monkey. Hang on one SEC.
[01:43:16] Speaker C: Clock.
[01:43:16] Speaker D: Glock, glock, glob.
[01:43:18] Speaker B: It's refreshing, it's crisp. It's like angels pissing on the tongue. And there it is. Perfect. Comes in at about a 4.2. So, yeah, Philbo is happy.
[01:43:28] Speaker A: Philbo's back.
[01:43:29] Speaker B: Philbo is back.
[01:43:30] Speaker A: Yeah. So we are going to wrap this one up because part of our co hosting situation here has got some other plans tonight. But I would like to first of all. Thank gallery. PhilBone, Jemma, thanks for joining us tonight on Barrelserve podcast. But more importantly, Jerome Forest. Jezza, thanks for joining us, budy.
[01:43:53] Speaker D: Thanks for having me.
[01:43:53] Speaker A: It's been incredible. Some fucking awesome.
[01:43:56] Speaker B: It's been good. Yeah, we would have loved to, mate. We know we've got another couple of hours in you, but you're in demand. He's pulled up the photo of oh, that's firing it's tubing in that one.
[01:44:07] Speaker C: China.
[01:44:07] Speaker B: It was like China, china's tubing.
[01:44:09] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:44:10] Speaker B: Who knows? There you go, bilbo's after I knees. There you go.
[01:44:13] Speaker A: I told you it gets good.
[01:44:14] Speaker B: There you go, mate. Before we wrap up, anyone you want to give a Steve Irwin salute to double Thumbs Up chezza Jacob Wilcox. Yeah, that's a no brainer.
[01:44:25] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:44:25] Speaker A: Chippo.
[01:44:26] Speaker D: Sure.
[01:44:28] Speaker B: Anyone else? Or just chippo?
[01:44:32] Speaker D: Just chippo at the moment. I think he's fucking flying the flag for everyone.
[01:44:35] Speaker B: Yeah, cool.
[01:44:36] Speaker C: Yep.
[01:44:37] Speaker B: I'll give my Steve Irwin to Brad the you know, he rocked up to the Single Fin. He surfed like a champion, was a nice bloke, told stories on the yeah. And a certain local mad Dog taxi driver just opened his container and said, look at all my treats. Jump in chocolates and whatever else. And Gertis said yes. Sure.
[01:45:04] Speaker A: Well, it's naturally growing products, isn't it?
[01:45:06] Speaker B: Yeah, naturally growing products.
[01:45:08] Speaker C: Chocolates.
[01:45:08] Speaker B: Just natural, natural chocolates and stuff. And Gertest ripped in and paddled out for his heat and blew the lid off it. So I thought that was a good effort.
Just a good seriously, just what you want out of your special guests. We get one special guest each year at the Single Fin, and you want them to be involved in all enjoy the culture. Yeah, enjoy the culture.
[01:45:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:45:28] Speaker B: He gets my Steve Irwin.
[01:45:30] Speaker A: Oh, fuck. Yeah.
It shouldn't surprise me, but I was going, Holy shit, he's got to be late. Forty S. Fifty S. Fuck yeah. I would have thought fucking ripping 50s. Yeah, absolutely. Fucking tearing the bag. I was like, fuck.
Really?
[01:45:50] Speaker B: Surfing makes you realize when someone surfs that good when they're, like, number two in the world at some stage, it doesn't matter if they get older. When you look at them, you're like, something special is going on.
[01:46:01] Speaker D: That's like DMAT.
[01:46:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
And it's the little things, the nuances just it's not even like the big turns, like they're there, but it's these little movements that they do in between that just like it's almost like a Glitch in The Matrix where they're just like how'd they get over there.
[01:46:23] Speaker A: It's a fucking pleasure watching really good surfer surfing. Who'd you have in your hate.
[01:46:29] Speaker B: I didn't surf.
[01:46:31] Speaker C: Of course.
[01:46:32] Speaker A: Sorry, my bad. It wouldn't have mattered, but I'd TB in mine. It was pretty nice to watch him from the water in a six man heat. Just fucking absolutely rinsing everyone. Anyway. Yeah, so I wanted to give a quick shout out to Simon Zevich. Just talking about the legs.
I'm pretty sure he did his femur, too, didn't he?
[01:46:56] Speaker C: Did he?
[01:46:56] Speaker D: At?
[01:46:57] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[01:46:58] Speaker D: I thought he his tibia, but it snapped that way.
[01:47:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not sure.
[01:47:06] Speaker A: He was selling a fair bit of strife there. And he managed to do a little podcast with SMIVY while he was in his hospital bed, so good on you, Zuve. Fucking champion. We're not going to do the Clive Palmers because it's all about positivity on a Friday night.
[01:47:22] Speaker B: Unless you've really got some grievances you want to air. No, I've got one.
[01:47:27] Speaker A: All right, go on.
[01:47:28] Speaker B: Fucking magpies.
[01:47:29] Speaker A: Magpies.
[01:47:29] Speaker B: I mean, swooping the shit out of me and my kids here, that's a fair call. And no one likes Collingwood anyway, so it's a double banger, really, isn't it?
[01:47:38] Speaker A: Fuck you, magpies. This is my house, too. Yeah, you might live here, but I live here, too.
[01:47:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:47:43] Speaker A: I'm not sweeping your ass.
[01:47:44] Speaker B: No, get fucked. The tree is like, 80 meters away and they're coming hassling me kids out in the treehouse in their cubby house. I'm like, Fucking stay in your tree, motherfuckers.
[01:47:53] Speaker A: Jimmy, when you're a kid, that were the most terrifying fucking things in the whole world.
[01:47:59] Speaker B: Good reason, mate. I was reading last year or something, it's like literally one kid every year in Australia actually loses an eye to a magpie. Like, it's pretty.
Oh, there's definitely a kid a year loses a it's. They're gnarly, so fuck. Fuck magpie. It's just springtime, you know, the magpies.
[01:48:21] Speaker A: Do you know, actually, they're not the only bird that actually sweeps, either.
[01:48:27] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:48:27] Speaker B: Down at Meal Up, they've got a sign saying, Beware of swooping Cookaburras.
[01:48:31] Speaker A: I've never been seagulls cookabaras.
[01:48:34] Speaker B: I've never been swooped by a cookaburra.
[01:48:36] Speaker A: Sweep by a seagull.
[01:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, but did you have a pack of chips in your hand?
Different. That's different.
[01:48:41] Speaker A: Hot chips.
[01:48:42] Speaker B: Have you been sweet by a cookaburra?
[01:48:43] Speaker C: Never.
[01:48:44] Speaker B: Never, mate. Fucking I'm calling bullshit you're.
[01:48:47] Speaker A: Laughing at you, mate. All right, so you've been listening to Bowserf podcasts. We've got Jeze what's your.
[01:48:58] Speaker B: Leonandro.
[01:48:59] Speaker A: Leonro. We got Jeze Forrest on board. It's been an absolute pleasure, mate. Thanks for joining us. Look out for the Moat River classic coming up shortly.
[01:49:10] Speaker B: No, it's not. No, it's not on this year.
[01:49:12] Speaker C: Is it?
[01:49:12] Speaker D: On this year?
[01:49:13] Speaker B: Everyone's been a bit busy this year.
[01:49:15] Speaker A: We will edit that one out.
[01:49:18] Speaker B: We're going to let everyone look out.
[01:49:19] Speaker A: For the foam wreckers down at the River Dog.
[01:49:21] Speaker D: Yeah, that's at rabbits this year.
[01:49:25] Speaker A: Oh, rabbits, okay. Not the River Dog. All right.
How the fuck am I going?
[01:49:30] Speaker B: Pretty good.
[01:49:30] Speaker A: I'm having a ripper.
[01:49:32] Speaker B: Absolutely, yeah. Thanks, Jez, for coming back up. We've been trying to get you in for ages. And, mate, you're a bit of a man on the ground, so we would definitely like to have you back at some absolutely.
And rip into some more and yeah, hopefully we can check out your new movie sometime soon and get you back in after that. Or mate, just come in whenever you bloody want it really fucking on it.
[01:49:57] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:49:58] Speaker B: Thanks, Ezra.
[01:50:00] Speaker A: Get on, you mates. We will catch you next time.
[01:50:12] Speaker E: I heard a silver song so I cranked it up and I sang along? It was such a way out day I made up my mind you kept on raining for Third Enforcer the Sea, the Girl and the way step.
It occurs to me there's no to you.
Don't grab the girl and grab your damn, your opinion, your new ray band I'll be dressing. Always dreaming of a sea the girl and the town the way new wave then suddenly it occurs to me there's no and if we wind up leaving back we'll stay out late. You drink and dry for the girl and the waves.
New waves.
There's not a wave.
It occurs to me there's no one here's.
Gator close.
