Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:01] Speaker B: Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:02] Speaker C: Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Barrel Surf podcast. Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:07] Speaker D: Barrel Surf podcast.
[00:00:09] Speaker A: Yeehaw.
[00:00:21] Speaker C: Right, legends, it is summertime, it is the end of the year and you are listening to barrel surf podcast Namu here in the Shedquarters. And it is an absolutely delightful day. We've got the golden God the Sandman across from us. We've got all the posters in the Shedquarters, and we've also got to my right t bone. Hello mates.
[00:00:42] Speaker D: It's been a while since I sat in the shed quarters. Been a lot of profile interviews. I think I sat in here last time with Pete Djokovich as he.
[00:00:49] Speaker A: Yeah, Pete Jovik.
[00:00:51] Speaker D: It's been too long between drinks between the three of us. Let me just say I've got a resolution for 24. More triple action.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: More triples, more triples, more triples. Yeah, and triple ipas as well at the same time. That's the monkey.
[00:01:05] Speaker C: I'm planning on a whole bunch of onesums next year.
[00:01:09] Speaker A: Just Namu, just bashing it out by himself.
[00:01:12] Speaker C: You know what a onesome is?
[00:01:13] Speaker D: Namu loves to bash it out, mate.
[00:01:15] Speaker C: Love bashing out a podcast. And to my left as Kennedy the plumber to the stars. How are you, buddy?
[00:01:23] Speaker D: Yes, good.
[00:01:23] Speaker A: Good to be back in the shed. Lots of memorabilia on the wall. I'm looking at some of the things we've acquired just this year. None other than Ethan Ewing's Margaret River Rashi up there.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: Do you mean Ethan Ewing?
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Which we got him to sign very graciously. Gave us that one after bowing.
[00:01:41] Speaker D: Try slip that one on. Add to you when you're getting a bit fucking jizzed up in the.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, it depends how horny I get for New Year's Eve, I guess. But yeah, could come on and mate. We got the barreled Surf podcast, limited edition. Covid can't live in the ocean, but Aloha Ken model hanging up there. That's signed by one John Florence JJ ab. That one came from this year as well. So we've had a few additions to the Shedquarters this year. Spruce it up. But yeah, summer's here.
[00:02:11] Speaker C: Lovely, lovely.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: We all just had a surf together. We made a little point of going. We had a Christmas drink down at Caves house hotel the other night and.
[00:02:20] Speaker C: Dinner and surf podcast, Christmas drink, Christmas.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Catch up like everyone who works and plays together.
[00:02:26] Speaker D: Can I just say something? I fucking was the last one standing.
I copper hiding all year long, Frank. By you, Mr. Kennedy saying I'm fucking have a mid strength and piss off. Yep. Well, I was the last man standing at our Christmas party.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: You were indeed.
[00:02:42] Speaker D: Like that one.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: Yep. Fair play. No, I was clapped out.
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Of that time six days. At least once a year I pulled.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: That off, to be fair. We left at about quarter to seven.
Wasn't like you were getting kicked out by the bouncers at midnight, but still wins a win, is it?
[00:03:01] Speaker C: A total past seven? Tastes of chocolates.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Good. And then we decided to have a team surf together today because we don't do that often, because I surf early and t bone surfs late, and Namu.
[00:03:15] Speaker D: Hardly surfs at all on mid morning. Mate, I gotta wait for the coffee shops to open.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Yeah, to wash off that mid strength hangover.
[00:03:23] Speaker D: So tell me, old Namu was a bit serious, taking two boards down the beach.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: Yeah, we went down for a bit.
[00:03:29] Speaker D: Of a game face on.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: I know. I think he had something to prove. I mean, we don't surf together often and he really rode into our cages, didn't he? It was 1ft onshore, sunny and beautiful.
[00:03:39] Speaker C: A couple of one and a half. Two footers.
[00:03:40] Speaker A: A couple of two. And, you know, the summer crowds had abated because the sea breeze had come in, but the water was lovely and the sun was shining and we just. Yeah, we thought we'd just get a little team surf in before we sit in the shed, just to get the juices flowing. And Namu just pulled out two boards on him, waxed them both up and walked down. And he threw us right off our game, didn't he?
[00:04:01] Speaker D: Did. It was like the Daytona 500 driving down to the beach. It was the fastest I've ever been in the car.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: The sand was hot. Yeah. The car drives frothing. Yeah, he was pretty keen. He loves those two foot left handers. The best. He heard that it was slide on shore and two foot, and he just went goddamn quick. He was actually running. Let's get there. I saw him jog when he got out of the car. He jogged to the lookout spot. He had a spring in his step, so it was on from the start.
[00:04:29] Speaker C: Well, to be fair, it's the first I've had since the last yelling up board riders event a few weeks back, so I was pretty keen.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Story.
[00:04:36] Speaker D: Now you want to spit that story out?
[00:04:39] Speaker C: Well, all will. No worries.
[00:04:42] Speaker D: You are my Steve Irwin, by the way, of this story.
[00:04:45] Speaker C: Tell us.
[00:04:46] Speaker D: Juice us up a bit.
[00:04:47] Speaker C: It was a late start for myself, as it usually is, and I thought, no, I'll go in the last comp because I've only been in one or two this year. So I went down there expecting due to the entries that were in, that it was going to be a straight final for the over 45s. Got. Had to do a couple of things and I said to the crew, look, I'm going to be late, but I'll be there for the heat. Started walking down from the stairs there and I sort of heard some stuff on the loudspeaker and going, I just heard namu blah blah blah. And then I saw Mickey motor running up the beach with a singlet in his rash in his hand. I thought, oh, fuck, I know what this means. It means that the heat's on and I've missed it. So he runs up, he goes, come on, mate, get in there, get in there. You got twelve minutes left of the heat and they sized run semis before the finals. So twelve minutes remaining. Not being the fittest bloke in the world, it took me another probably three or four minutes to run down to the beachfront, make the 100 meters dash.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Across a couple of stretches.
[00:05:39] Speaker C: And I was out there and yeah, Julie cooped my first wave and I think I had three minutes left and the set came through needing 3.85 or something. And yeah, did two or three really wobbly turns to the beach on my last wave. And yeah, thought that's probably the score. And I claimed it like Felipe Toledo.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Did you claim it?
[00:05:58] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:06:01] Speaker C: Jokingly claimed it. Not serious. I did the full basketball shot and all the rest of it.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Classic.
[00:06:07] Speaker C: You got the score and into the final. So there you go.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: So who was in that heat?
[00:06:11] Speaker D: There was Maddie scorer. Who else was in that?
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Yeah, three man heat. So once again, I have said this to miserations.
[00:06:22] Speaker D: To Maddie scorer.
[00:06:23] Speaker C: Yeah, he was bit dark just to paint a picture.
[00:06:26] Speaker A: Before that. You hadn't surfed before that for about four.
[00:06:31] Speaker C: No, no, that's not right. The last surf I had was in the single fin.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: Yes. So basically you've got injuries and this, that and the other. And you might have lost a bit of froth, which I think he's back now, to be honest.
[00:06:45] Speaker D: Becoming like a mystical fucking.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Yeah. And I like it. He waited for all this time to go for his first surf. Picked a howling onshore two foot.
[00:06:56] Speaker D: That was hard work.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: Yelling up board Rose. He thought, this is it. I'm making my comeback today. I'm in.
[00:07:01] Speaker D: And he went straight to the final.
[00:07:04] Speaker C: Well, interesting technique. I progressed to the final.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Maybe it's a mind game thing, like the two boards today and running down the beach late on an onshore day. I think maybe that's part of the repetition.
[00:07:14] Speaker D: Maddie, scorer, absolutely rattled.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Yeah, once again, sorry, Maddie, these things happen in a grade competition.
And then I came last in the.
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Final, but that's all right.
[00:07:26] Speaker D: That's right. You got a prize, mate.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: I got a prize. Got a prize pack won by the legendary Mickey Motor himself.
[00:07:31] Speaker D: Yeah, Mickey Motor.
[00:07:33] Speaker C: Mick Drumota, you are a fucking legend. Legend, mate. He's good, man.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Well, there was a couple of waves around leading into the Christmas break.
[00:07:43] Speaker C: You always have been stuffing your stockings full, I believe.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we tried. I had a bit of a Christmas wind up and a birthday on a Friday night and I was like, oh, mate. And I was like, nut I'm going to abstain because I just thought, nut there's good waves tomorrow. I can't do. Can't. The last day of really good swell was the day after the live Yahoo podcast event and I was severely dusty after that one and paddled out with Sammy Morrow into champagne drunk. Mate, we were, we were smashing forester shampers and all sorts and we were incredibly hungover and paddling out in quite solid waves the next day. And even though we got a few, you just don't enjoy it the same when you're hungover. I don't. Anyway, hard work, it's hard work. You don't surf for as long as you should.
All your little small decisions and judgments and things like that are just that little bit off. And I was pretty hung, my head was swimming and I just thought, mate.
[00:08:44] Speaker D: Well, you had 50 double ipas, that's it. It was a bloody good night.
[00:08:50] Speaker C: And about 17 champagne, sorry, sparkling wine.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: And I had a whole bunch of medicinal with mouse afterwards. Yeah, I had a sore back at the end of the podcast and I had to vape some medicinal cannabis, which is prescribed by my doctor.
[00:09:03] Speaker C: It's all legal, people, don't worry.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: And my back felt better, but my head felt worse the next day.
[00:09:08] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:09:09] Speaker A: Anyway, I thought, two weeks later, another swell on a Saturday again and all these things on a Friday night. And my social calendar, it's pretty light on, to be fair, most of the year, but the mayor of Margaret river.
And then it was like it was a work Christmas do and Tony's birthday, and then there was this old school band, the cosmic psychos, the Aussie pub rock we're playing down at Dunsborough. And I was going to that. Yeah, I went, how was it? Mate, it was great.
[00:09:41] Speaker C: The cosmic psychos, yeah.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: But I managed to have like two mid strengths go to all the three affairs. Get home at 1030.
And I'm glad I did because I woke up the next morning and the surf was really good. And I went south to a certain reef break and I met a fella in the car park. This is a fledgen shout out here, a man by the name of Tom the pom. He's the pom, yeah, he's a big lad. And I met him in the car park and he gave us a heads up and said, listens to the potty and enjoys it and all the rest of it. I said, thanks for tuning in.
And I hadn't checked the swell. I was just in the car park suiting up and I'm like, mate, I'm going out. Anyway. I was reaching for the six eight and I said, how big is it out there? And he goes, oh, it's got a bit on it. It's bigger than the boy says. And I'm like, oh, beauty, might take my bigger board. Just so happened while I was chatting to Tom the pom noticed a nick in my leg rope and I said.
[00:10:42] Speaker C: Hey, Tom the pom, what do you.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: Reckon about this, mate? And he said, nut, that's a thumbs down. You need to swap that out because there's a bit of heat on it out there, don't do it. So I swapped it out, went out, had a fantastic surf for about 4 hours. Beautiful four to six foot waves. Quite solid.
[00:11:01] Speaker C: Your usual?
[00:11:03] Speaker A: No, one of my semi usuals down the coast a bit. Okay. It's a deep water wave, it's a bombie. And it was like four to six foot, really nice and good strong periods. Well, surf for about three and a half, 4 hours. Luke Gerson and Tony Saffer, we had a great session, a bunch of other people, really nice waves. And then what do you know, watching Luki drop into a beautiful six footer right in front of me. I'm wearing it straight on the head and the leggy snaps. Not the leggy with the nick in it.
[00:11:34] Speaker C: I swapped it out off one of my other boards, the palm. What have you done?
[00:11:39] Speaker A: What have you done to me?
[00:11:40] Speaker C: What have you done, Matt?
[00:11:41] Speaker A: I should have just used the one that would have snapped anyway. And now I'm two leg ropes down. So I thought that was pretty comical that I somehow spoke, because I don't always check your leg ropes. Like if it's really big surf, I'll check my leggy, give it a bit of a once over. Yeah, but it wasn't that. It was like a 2.2 meters day and I thought it was pretty comical that I'd gone to that effort of swapping the leggy and then still come up fucking empty handed. But anyway, Luki saved my board and didn't ding it up. And I went out and I got one more and wrote it in and it was a great day. So, yeah, it's been a few.
[00:12:17] Speaker C: Luki and sapphire. What about you, t bone? You've just come in on the flight from up north at work and you've just set yourself into pig mode, haven't you? Just been surfing every day.
[00:12:28] Speaker D: Heaps of fun little ways. I don't mind this time of year, apart from the full drive enthusiasts that.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: Clog up the track.
[00:12:36] Speaker D: But it's been fun lots of little ways. Nemo, been riding the twinny, sort of getting. No, it's been fun, mate.
[00:12:43] Speaker C: There he is.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: I rattled him there, didn't.
[00:12:45] Speaker C: I'm just going to come straight out.
[00:12:47] Speaker A: Of the fucking socket. So path of least resistance for t bone. Always straight off the mines, straight into a little session of two koalas because.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: Path of least resistance, well, there is a fair amount of resistance on that track.
Anyway, well, you guys have been getting wet. I got wet today and. Yeah, merry Christmas and happy New Year to all our listeners out there. Thanks for a good year. We are obviously speaking to our mums because that's the only crew that listened to the Christmas.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Even had a few waves around here.
[00:13:19] Speaker D: Christmas Day. Christmas Day was so fun.
[00:13:22] Speaker A: I saw mavericks was about 37 foot on Christmas Day.
[00:13:27] Speaker D: Tower bull.
[00:13:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: And not that many crew around because it was Christmas.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe anchors 30 foot. Yeah, that's it.
[00:13:34] Speaker C: But I think the next day, Boxing Day, everyone heard about it and it was fucking jammed.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Pretty serious swells hitting in there at the.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: What's going on? Is it El Nino or El Nina.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Or one of them?
[00:13:45] Speaker D: It's El Nino one's the opposite. It's El Nina.
[00:13:48] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:49] Speaker D: Yeah, it's actually not going to be no cyclones this year. That's what El Nina is. It's a lot drier.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: Boys on the rigs. We fucking spewing our saw clones.
[00:13:56] Speaker D: Well, it'd be more Queensland people, I think, could be a bit upset. But mind you, they did get a little cyclone before, but apparently the El Nina season is a lot drier than.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: Less cyclones for the east coast of Australia generally.
[00:14:09] Speaker D: Yeah, a lot drier apparently.
Less chance of cyclone activity, mate.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: So what about Hawai?
[00:14:16] Speaker C: Everyone's there.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Everyone's there. We'd love to. Well, Jack, Robbo's not there. I've noticed he's had a baby. Yeah.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: Congratulations to the Robinsons.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it looks like all his. What they named a baby pipeline.
I don't know, actually.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: Sunset Robinson name?
[00:14:30] Speaker A: Adam. Adam Robinson. Oh, now he was Robertson, the guy from Vico, I think. But yeah, that'd be good, wouldn't it?
[00:14:38] Speaker C: Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:14:40] Speaker C: Well done. She's the new.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: But it looks like. I would have thought he'd be in WA. But it looks like from know family photos he's posted on NC. It looks like east coast vegetation to me.
[00:14:51] Speaker C: Well, I think when you've spent a bit of time in Hawaii and you're in that sort of situation where family is obviously the key, you're probably going to spend some time at home.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: I think he's not at home as such. I feel like he's on the east coast.
[00:15:04] Speaker C: Well, he's a global citizen, mate. He lives on the east coast these days, doesn't he?
[00:15:08] Speaker A: Pretty sure does, mate. Speaking of, Jack Robbo in Hawaii, noticed he got an invite to the Eddie this year for the first time.
[00:15:15] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: He's on the list.
[00:15:16] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: So that's pretty cool.
[00:15:18] Speaker C: Have you seen much footage of him surfing?
[00:15:20] Speaker A: I don't know if I've ever seen him surf Wamir, but I'm sure he could do it very easily and very comfortable. But certainly maybe not. Maybe one hand. Yeah, definitely one hand.
So that'd be pretty cool to see if it ran, which it could do, I guess, because it's, as T Bone told us earlier, it's one of those l something or other seasons.
[00:15:44] Speaker C: It's an l season.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: It's an l season. It's an toro el questro.
So that'd be pretty awesome to see Jack Rubbo and that on the same thing on the Eddie. I was a bit bummed that Russell Buick did not get an invite.
[00:16:01] Speaker D: That's bizarre.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: It is bizarre.
[00:16:03] Speaker D: I feel like russ do much time in.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I think he.
[00:16:07] Speaker D: He charges everywhere else.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: He's charging everywhere and he's known for his charge. His dad did crazy charging in Hawaii. Kirk Beerke. What a name. What a Kirk berserk.
[00:16:19] Speaker D: I heard Stokes.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a good name, too, isn't it?
Because I heard a story about on another potty recently about Kirk Birki and the year that the Eddie Ren and Brock Little took that really famous airdrop where he, he broke his ribs or whatever. And then, you know, the photo, Brock little air dropping down a 46 footer at Wymeer. And it's just iconic, apparently. That same swell, Kirk Birky was just paddling an outer reef with him and his mate with like no jet skis, obviously, because it was like 87 or something. No flotation, no nothing, man. Just boardies and a big set of balls and a big board and his mate and just no fanfare, nothing, mate. No photogs, you think? Well, that's one of the biggest Eddie swells ever.
[00:17:13] Speaker D: That's crazy.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: And there's Kirk Burke just out there just with a board and a leggy. That's crazy stuff, man. Don't you reckon?
[00:17:21] Speaker D: You know what's crazy? Shout out to the sisters of the podcast. Felicity Palmate and Laura Ennever. They went and surfed that outer reef during one of the biggest swells of the Eddie. Now how crazy is.
[00:17:34] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, Laura Enaver got the world record, Guinness World Record that way.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: Controversial.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: And yeah, there's some controversy there.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: I mean, she definitely paddled into it. There's no controversy about that, is there?
[00:17:46] Speaker C: Yeah, she made the drop.
[00:17:47] Speaker D: Made the drop.
[00:17:48] Speaker C: I think Justine depont or whatever was fucking bullshit. This is bullshit. She didn't ride the weed out.
[00:17:55] Speaker D: Is that why she's got a bit of an eye injury? Did Justine give her an elbow?
[00:17:59] Speaker C: Who knows, mate? That's you saying that. That's not me, but yeah. Remember, if you haven't listened to our flick palm tear episode, it's a ripper. Have a listen. And flick was talking about. She was actually in the lip of that one that Laura Ennevert took off. Actually, they're out there together and yeah. Good luck to those charges in the Eddie. Hope it comes off, surely with the amount of swell coming in and at.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: This time of year, I just really look forward to seeing on whatever website it might be. It's usually surfline, but Surfline's changed a lot in the last year. But it used to be surfline. Used to. Every pipe swell would have really good coverage of it, like still shots, videos, stories written up. And always really looked forward to it because it's Hawaii, it's the epicenter of surfing and it's small waves over here. And you sort of live vicariously through what's going on in Hawaii and get all excited about watching all this stuff.
[00:18:56] Speaker D: It was probably the most watched contest, viral big wave. That big wave contest, people just crazy.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: I feel like there's been a few swells over there, but we haven't seen that much of it media wise.
[00:19:13] Speaker C: There's been a whole heap of footage about New Jersey.
Yeah, those fucking macking beach heavy, heavy, heavy just an update on the El Nino. El Nino situation we're actually in. El Nino. El Nino.
[00:19:29] Speaker D: Did I say El Nino?
[00:19:30] Speaker C: You might have done, but we are El Nino. And yeah. So warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific while El Nino events are reversed with sustained cooling of these areas. And hey, while we're on that, did you guys know what the season is at the moment for the indigenous calendar? It's Birac, which is the dry and hot summertime.
[00:19:54] Speaker D: So just remind me how many seasons in the seasons.
[00:19:59] Speaker C: So the next season coming is Bunnaru which is second summer. And yeah, we're on the subject. Shout out and acknowledgement of country to our traditional owners of the land that we currently meeting on. So yeah, we've got a few amazing friends in the area so yeah, good on them and thanks for looking after land over the millennia.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Yeah. So just to recap quickly on that Eddie invite thing, I really thought it was quite strange that Russell Burke didn't get an invite because he's.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: It's a weird one, isn't it?
[00:20:32] Speaker A: He's sort of in that realm now of Nate Florence and almost not many other people in that realm. And the type of waves that he's packing and how he's going about it.
[00:20:42] Speaker D: Well Jack's a weird one.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: I thought it's just because he does so well in Hawaii and he's got a big know so they're throwing it at and like it's warranted. Like he could easily win that thing I'm sure just through his skill alone. But it seems tailor made for someone like Birki who's put out this incredible edit just recently, which I'm sure we'll talk about.
And it seems to be his sole focus in life is to pack waves like that. And then you got the heritage of his dad as well doing all those crazy know I just sort of. Yeah. May also on the Eddie list, I noticed my good friend Mr. Greg long from California has been bumped down alternate list.
[00:21:23] Speaker C: Has he? Yeah, we're formal about as a winner. She just get an invite in perpetuity.
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Yeah. Former winner of the Eddie, former big wave world champion. And he goes about his business very quietly. Greg. He's not one that's really pushing his endeavors out onto social platforms and whatnot. That's sort of his style. So I guess that probably has an effect at the end of the day that he's not putting out edits and stuff like that and staying fresh and everything.
[00:21:55] Speaker D: Look at last year's winner ads. The lifeguard.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. What was his last name Coolhand Luke? Coolhand.
[00:22:01] Speaker D: Coolhand Luke. Just come from nowhere. How good was that?
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Yeah, that was cool.
[00:22:05] Speaker C: Yeah, Luke Shepherd's.
[00:22:06] Speaker D: He's a pretty underground fellow.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: So just a couple of interesting invitees this year. So obviously we've spoken to Matt Bromley, the Cape Town Charger, a couple of times on the podcast, and he's got the invite. So dream come true for Matt.
[00:22:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:22:24] Speaker C: Congratulations, Brom dog.
[00:22:25] Speaker D: That's how gnarly was his injury that he sustained at Porto.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: He's had some. Lots of crazy injuries this year, hasn't he?
[00:22:33] Speaker D: That's a gnarly head injury.
[00:22:34] Speaker A: Ribs and stuff as well.
[00:22:36] Speaker C: Guys are an absolute.
[00:22:38] Speaker A: See, he's really projecting himself onto the world platform of, this is my intentions. Look at what I'm doing. This is my goal in life.
As opposed to Greg, who's not doing that at all. Really.
[00:22:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: But I feel like Greg is pretty satisfied.
[00:22:56] Speaker C: Bit older. I mean, he's older. He was pretty underground, wasn't he?
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, he's won the Eddie, he's won Mavericks, maybe died at Cortez bank and got revived on the back of a boat. And I feel like he's probably just gone. You know what? I don't really care. Take it or leave it. I'm pretty happy with my done.
[00:23:12] Speaker D: Yeah, he's probably just happy for some new people to come in.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: He's pretty humble, dude. He's got a really cool role with Patagonia where they basically just say, just go around being Greg long and doing Greg long things and travel around the world because he's a really good public speaker and he's really big on water safety and rescue and all that sort of stuff. So he just cruises around and just be a good dude, really, and a Hell charger. So I guess he probably doesn't care. But me personally, I was just a bit upset t bone, because he's my mate and I. Fair enough. I wanted to cheer him on. He's probably not upset at all. It's just me here. How old is he?
[00:23:50] Speaker C: BFF Craig longmate. How old is he?
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Oh, jeez. How old? They weren't that much younger than me. Yeah, they're probably like 40.
[00:23:56] Speaker C: 40? Yeah. Looks good for 40. He's a good looking man.
I'm not gay, but $20 is $20.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: I'm not gay, but an Eddie Champs. An Eddie champ.
[00:24:06] Speaker C: What are you going to say?
[00:24:07] Speaker D: Is RCJ for sure.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: Tommy Carroll is not, though, anymore.
[00:24:12] Speaker C: Yeah, some of the alternates which might. May you scratch your head a bit. Ian Walsh, obviously.
[00:24:19] Speaker D: Alternative.
[00:24:22] Speaker C: Alternate. Alternate.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: It's hard to get in, man.
[00:24:26] Speaker C: That guy is an absolute maniac. Charges jaws like nobody's business.
[00:24:30] Speaker A: Absolutely. No doubt. Number two in the Jaws lineup, Billy Kemper.
[00:24:34] Speaker C: Jamie O'Brien. Alternate.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Alternate. Yep.
[00:24:38] Speaker C: CoA Smith is also an alternate. Capono. I think he's the wine history. Yeah.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: How's that guy from Australia, Ben Wilkinson. Gets an invite every year. Do you even know what he looks like?
Apparently.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: Ben Wilkinson. There he is. He's an invite invitee.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: Yeah, mate, he's on the main list every year. I can't even remember really seeing him catch waves. I was speaking to taco about it and goes, mate, the guy's been there for 30 years, just packing big waves. And I'm like, but same deal.
If you saw a photo of him, you wouldn't know who it is. I can't really remember even seeing him catch waves, but he must have a lot of street cred over there.
[00:25:22] Speaker D: So what is the criteria for the Eddie select these surface? If Ian Walsh is an alternate, you've.
[00:25:27] Speaker A: Seen those red wheelbarrows that you get at Bunnings.
[00:25:29] Speaker C: Yeah. You just fill that full of cash and take it down to the AI.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: No, I was going to say fill it with your testicles. If you're not walking around with your testicles in one of them, you're basically not allowed in.
[00:25:39] Speaker D: Like, what I'm hearing, Ian Walsh is one of the alternates. I mean, Jesus.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Because he used one of the electric scooters to use his test, he could carry testicles and it broke the law.
[00:25:50] Speaker C: I'd say it's a mix between just your ymer sort of pedigree. Big wave pedigree. Someone like Jack Robbo obviously likes big waves and they probably thought it'd be good to have him in there because, I mean, a lot of people are going to watch Jack Robbo in it.
[00:26:04] Speaker D: Well, here's the question.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Same thing. Why you want to watch Kelly Slater.
[00:26:07] Speaker C: In the is Kelly.
[00:26:09] Speaker A: Wasn't he on it last year? And he gave it up.
[00:26:11] Speaker D: He gave it up, mate. He gave it up.
[00:26:13] Speaker C: Yeah. He's an invitee this year.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: Oh, he's on the main list again.
[00:26:16] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: I'm surprised they did that after he gave it up last year.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: Some of the women invite minor Jones Wong. She's an alternate as well. So there you go. A couple of crew I don't really know there. I hope it runs. It's got to run. Surely in a chance.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Moana Jones Wong winning the van's pipe masters. Pretty epic display of women surfing. I feel like in all honesty it was only her and Molly Picklam. Yes, love our Molly from Australia, friend of the podcast. Mate, she was packing some serious pig dog pits.
[00:26:54] Speaker C: She is a very good backhand.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: She is, isn't she? And quite fearless, was charging half, took some beatings and it was like, mate, it was a two horse race, it was the pot goofy specialist who lives there, grows up there, it's on her forehand. It was really hers for the taking. And then Molly through sheer courage and know young girl from the east coast beach breaks of Australia packing pigs.
[00:27:24] Speaker C: Molly last year though, didn't she?
[00:27:26] Speaker A: Yeah, or the year before or something. She has one.
[00:27:28] Speaker D: Pretty determined, isn't she? You'd have to put it in your fantasy for pipe this year or next year I should say.
[00:27:33] Speaker C: When you speak to her, she's so humble and yeah, no worries, what's going on? Sort of thing. But then she's got that white line favor, hits the water and just turns into a monster. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what she does in 2024.
[00:27:48] Speaker D: Now flicking over to the men's, I mean you would have seen Harry Bryant's tube. Yeah, that was special tube of the contest.
[00:27:54] Speaker C: Unreal.
[00:27:54] Speaker D: Yeah, I love seeing someone riding a decent sized board too. Not these little six ones and six.
[00:27:59] Speaker C: Two s. Some of you hear the story of that. It was just a guy he met at the park.
[00:28:03] Speaker D: Yeah, it was epic.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's a good old big board, that guy. Gravel, that shaper is apparently really good mates. I've seen him over here a couple of times.
[00:28:15] Speaker C: I know that name. Was that who was.
[00:28:16] Speaker D: Yeah, south Ozzy.
[00:28:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I've seen him down at the local store here a few times over. He's really good, mate. Steve Barrett, apparently old Steve o who came back and did an interview with us many moons ago, but they were mates from somewhere back in the day, surfing and yeah, it was pretty cool to hear. Yeah. A guy out in the middle of the absolute south australian desert has just shaped a board that. I wonder how many hits he got. If he's even got a device to get hits on.
[00:28:45] Speaker C: Well, he doesn't use.
Still using tablets. When I mean tablets, I mean stone tablets, not iPads.
[00:28:55] Speaker D: It might have been like the time when John was writing the ghost model.
Everyone just wanted a ghost. Yeah, maybe it could have been the same with the gravel.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Could have been gravel.
[00:29:04] Speaker C: Yeah, the gravel. He's got a gravely voice too. You ought to watch out for the gravel.
[00:29:08] Speaker D: But how was John I think Toddy.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: Should start writing for gravel or at least start selling them in the gravely.
[00:29:15] Speaker D: Voice they sell every other board under the sun.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: So there you go.
[00:29:19] Speaker C: Yeah, there you go. If you need a board, hit up Sam and toddy at the board store.
All right, I just interrupted there, but I thought let's do a little transition museum.
[00:29:30] Speaker A: So what, what are we transitioning to?
[00:29:32] Speaker C: We're transitioning into 2023 in review.
[00:29:38] Speaker D: We're gonna bust the move.
[00:29:40] Speaker A: I see.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: But Tbane, what were we saying?
[00:29:45] Speaker D: I'm like a Nemo around the fishbowl. I've already forgotten.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Yeah. We're talking 2023. Yeah, but 23 2023.
[00:29:53] Speaker C: All right, so what we're going to do here is go through our top male surfers for the year.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: It's tough.
[00:29:59] Speaker C: Our top female surface for the year. Best comp moment of the year. We're going to do the editor of the year, Clive Palmer of the year.
[00:30:08] Speaker D: And Clive Palmer of the year, the.
[00:30:10] Speaker C: Steve Irwin salute of 2023.
Tban, are you ready to go with your surfers, mate?
[00:30:18] Speaker D: Oh, jeez. It's surfer of the year.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: Well, top three, two, one. Yeah. Three, two, one.
[00:30:25] Speaker D: Well, I'm going Ethan Ewing, for starters. I mean, he had a pretty good start to the year. He won bells.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: He was really consistent.
[00:30:33] Speaker D: I think he made the semis in JBay. Obviously had that pretty decent injury in chopu, then came back, know, just fell just short of winning the world title.
[00:30:44] Speaker A: Just short.
[00:30:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:30:46] Speaker D: But Ethan Ewing, I'm looking forward to seeing him come back next year because I think last year he's learned a lot. He's sharpened up his game a bit more and I reckon he's going to pack on a few. Looks like he's packed on a few more kegs.
So some of the turns he's going to be doing is going to be fucking the best in the business.
[00:31:06] Speaker C: So is he your 12312 and three?
[00:31:09] Speaker D: Yeah. No, he is. He is my one, two, three.
I thought my second one, I thought Connor O'Leary showed glimpses of brilliance. He's backhand surfing out at JBay. Just blew me away.
[00:31:24] Speaker C: How good he was, wasn't it?
[00:31:25] Speaker D: He surfed really good at Marg's. He can ride a really thick, gnarly tube. Connor O'Leary is a bit of a dark horse.
A couple of heats didn't go his way, but he's still qualified. But I reckon he's improved shit ton over last year and I think next year is going to be another big one for him.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Anything.
[00:31:48] Speaker C: Does he have an air game? Or does he need an air game?
[00:31:50] Speaker D: I don't think if you look at the tour waves, you don't really need an air game unless you want to.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Win a world problem.
[00:32:00] Speaker D: I mean, it ends up in trestles. That is the problem.
[00:32:03] Speaker C: We'll talk about that later.
[00:32:04] Speaker D: Yeah, and my last one adds to it Namu. Do I want to keep it an Aussie flavor or do I want to?
[00:32:13] Speaker C: You can have whoever you want, mate.
[00:32:14] Speaker D: Oh, it is hard, but I'd have to go Griffin Cola Pinto only because I'm a natural foot and I love stylish natural footers.
[00:32:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Be interesting to see how his brother goes on there next year.
[00:32:26] Speaker D: Oh, he'll be good, he'll be good.
[00:32:27] Speaker C: They'll be doing all sorts of meditation and new age. Yeah, probably some mushies. Who knows?
Therapeutic mushrooms like Turkey's tails and all that sort of stuff.
[00:32:38] Speaker A: Well, I'm pretty sure that it's legal over there in California as well in.
[00:32:42] Speaker C: Terms of turkey tails. Certainly is.
[00:32:43] Speaker D: So there's one other surfer I didn't add, I didn't name.
[00:32:46] Speaker C: Yeah, give us a wild card, man.
[00:32:47] Speaker D: Well, I was saving the other one for Azzie. A wild card for this year. I was bummed for Jacko Baker, actually, because Jacko looked really good. He did just come short, had a few tough heats and even the Challenger series. He just lost in the most shittiest conditions that Brazil could ever talk about.
[00:33:10] Speaker C: That in a bit.
[00:33:10] Speaker D: I'd like to think Jacob will grind it out again and see if he can make a return to the CT.
[00:33:16] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a real shame because he seems like he's a much loved character. He's certainly the time that we spent with him in the shedquarters. He was a fucking legend. Yeah. Come on, Jacko.
Keep up the momentum, mate. Keep going.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: You know what would be a good fit for Jacko Baker? Sharkeye's mungrill wetsuit range, wouldn't it? Jack O'Baker in the new mungrel suit.
[00:33:39] Speaker D: Fuck, I've just forgotten. Fucking an all time person. Sorry, mate. Jacob Wilcox. I'm going to have four here. Jacob Wilcox.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: No, that's pretty sure. That's five for you now.
[00:33:48] Speaker C: That's right.
[00:33:49] Speaker A: It is hard though.
[00:33:50] Speaker D: He had a great year too.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Understand, mate?
[00:33:52] Speaker C: Well, let's just say minimum three as many as you want, really?
[00:33:55] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:33:55] Speaker C: What do you got, Adsy? Well, strap yourselves in people. Take a while.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I know it's hard. It's hard. I mean, I would probably have to say Nathan Florence as my number one I mean, T Bone was very tour orientated. Nathan Florence, slab tour. Give it to us. Namu Nate Florence. And this is the slab tour to you by the barrel surf podcast.
[00:34:16] Speaker D: Sick.
[00:34:16] Speaker C: It's just editing on the fly.
[00:34:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just amazing what he's doing and it's the sort of shit that gets you excited to watch. It's what I want to see. As much as I love the comp and the idea of an Aussie winning a world title half the time, more than half the time this year, the waves are just fucking terrible and you just don't want to see it. But then you see someone at the absolute top of their game, like nay Florence.
[00:34:41] Speaker D: You got recognized at the big wave awards.
[00:34:44] Speaker A: Yeah, like the ride of the year.
It was right of the year. I mean, he could have probably had the top two with the mullig and both of them were probably in Ireland, which is strange.
[00:34:54] Speaker D: That tube, he got two on that, right?
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Yeah, the Aileen's tube and then the Mulligmore tube. I mean. Yeah, just the stuff he's doing. It's fucking so interesting to watch. So I'd have to probably give it to him, obviously. Ethan Ewing, I really loved watching. And that comeback story of him breaking his back and then almost winning when he won bells, 40 years after his mum won bells, that was pretty fucking iconic as well. So didn't have the best year, but he still made the top five.
[00:35:30] Speaker D: He won pipe and he won chop.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: Who has. Yeah, that's, you know, always love to watch Jack. I just feel that he had an injury, though. He got injured, sidelined with injury. So mates, other surfers that I really enjoyed this year would have to be the Russell Burke edit, which has only just come out. Yeah, mate. I'd have to say Nathan Florence was a pretty clear winner for me, to be honest, as best surf of the year.
[00:35:54] Speaker C: Braymance there on the bitumen down at Mario.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: Yeah, he gave us a good interview as a good dude and he had theories as well. Remember his theories about the reef, how certain reefs react and your injuries? And I just thought, mate, this guy's just on such a level of heavy waves, it's pretty cool.
[00:36:12] Speaker D: Do you reckon his brother's going to follow that path?
[00:36:15] Speaker A: I reckon.
[00:36:17] Speaker C: Good question. I was speaking to someone that was saying that John John is super competitive guy, so whether or not he just goes, fuck it, I've won two world titles, the Eddie Pipe and all the rest of it, and just goes, that's enough. He might just want to go, you know what I want to see if I can win the title at trestles.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: I reckon he's going to do a slatey year where he's going to surf pipe, sunset and then anywhere. That's shit. He's just going to go, fuck it. But he joined.
[00:36:42] Speaker D: He's also got his eye on the Olympics, too.
[00:36:44] Speaker C: Well, that's what Chris is doing. Chris Samoa. She's doing the two comps, then she's off.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:50] Speaker C: Why'd you do it again?
[00:36:52] Speaker D: Yeah, do you reckon?
[00:36:53] Speaker C: The best there for all year.
[00:36:54] Speaker D: Is that because of trestle's memory?
[00:36:56] Speaker A: 100%.
[00:36:57] Speaker C: 100%.
[00:36:58] Speaker D: Two years she's lost the title because she.
[00:37:01] Speaker A: And the year she won, she almost lost.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: Yeah. One fall from Tatiana, it would have been three.
[00:37:06] Speaker A: One namu. Late minute. Fucking three minutes to go. Three turns to the beach. Could have stitched you up.
[00:37:13] Speaker C: There you go. So you got Nate Florence. One, two.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: And I got Nate Florence, Ethan Ewing and Jacob Wilcox, actually.
[00:37:23] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Jacob Wilcox, the three of us.
Wilcox, just for determination.
[00:37:30] Speaker A: Determination and grit.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: After years of hard work, he's been on the.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: And put out sick edits as well.
[00:37:35] Speaker C: 17 years. And the thing that really has impressed me with Chippo this year is he seems like he's gone to another level again with his aerial game and all the rest of it. We all know how good he is in big waves and his calf game and all the rest of it, but seems to have added another dimension to his surfing.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: A bit of a random one that.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: See him now on the tour.
[00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah, provide him.
[00:37:56] Speaker D: Do yourself a favor, watch into the dust.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:00] Speaker D: It's about five minutes long, action packed. Edit.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Jacob will call.
[00:38:05] Speaker C: I think he's at home at the moment, so try to get him on.
[00:38:08] Speaker D: That's a good idea.
[00:38:09] Speaker A: You'd have to give a bit of a tip of the cap to that Cole Hooshman dude as well.
[00:38:13] Speaker C: Fuck, yeah.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: Because far out.
It was only one person who smashed Jacob on the qs and it was.
[00:38:19] Speaker C: That dude qualified in two.
[00:38:23] Speaker D: Yeah, I reckon Chip has got him, though, boys. I'm not being biased here. I reckon Chipper's got him.
[00:38:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I reckon too. Of course I do in all aspects.
[00:38:30] Speaker C: I don't care.
[00:38:31] Speaker D: Backhand, forehand, tube riding. I think Cole's going to. Yeah, we'll see how we go.
[00:38:37] Speaker A: I think he was just a bit of a force of nature, Cole who schmound in all those sort of scrappy beach breaks and that. Better reckon when it comes to, like, big pipe and stuff like that. Yeah, Chippo's got him for sure. Yeah, payback time, son.
[00:38:49] Speaker C: Went pretty well at pretty solid narrowbang.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: But anyway, no, you can get fucked.
Don't tell him I said that. He looks pretty big.
T Bone said that. T Bone knows BJJ. We'll send him down there.
[00:39:05] Speaker C: I also had Ethan Ewing in my top three and my wild card. We mentioned him before.
Just seems to be the guy. One of the guys like Mason Ho is just having the best fun. Got that barrel at pipeline on his gravel. Harry Bryant is my wild card surfer for the year. He just shows up and blows up.
[00:39:26] Speaker D: It's pretty impressive, isn't it?
[00:39:28] Speaker C: It seems like he's just the nicest guy and everyone loves him in Hawaii. He's on the Vance team, obviously. So going your hands up, Bryant. Carry on with what you're doing. You're obviously doing it well and having a great time doing it. Love to see that.
[00:39:39] Speaker D: I have some gonads about you taking off on a fucking huge pipe wave.
[00:39:43] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I think he's certainly got.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: The Bunnings wheelbarrow, the metal one, not the plastic one.
[00:39:49] Speaker D: You know, I love about surfing. You don't need to be a physical specimen. He's just probably a 70 kilo, little lightweight, but just got the skills and the gonads to absolutely get the tube of the contest. Maybe even tube of the.
[00:40:02] Speaker A: He's probably as sinewy as beef jerky, though. He'd be all ribbon dick. Like, he'd be sinewy.
[00:40:09] Speaker C: All right, let's move on to the ladies.
[00:40:11] Speaker B: Manuel.
[00:40:12] Speaker D: And you're listening to barrel surf podcast.
[00:40:14] Speaker C: I just butchered that. All right, top three female surfers, T Bone.
[00:40:18] Speaker D: Oh, mine's easy. I'm sticking with the big wave girls.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: Are you?
[00:40:24] Speaker D: Yeah. Felicity Palmater, even though that she hasn't competed much, but I know she's got such passion for big waves and we've had her on the podcast and I think she's doing a tremendous job on the WSL commentary.
She's just a great all round person and I'm looking forward to seeing her at the Eddie with her good mate Laura. Just stoked to see a couple of Aussie girls just going hard.
So impressive to see, like, unbelievable.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: So. No, that's impressive.
[00:40:59] Speaker D: Yeah, it is.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: I'm down with you. And it's pretty cool because. Yeah, I mean, like, Laura Ember, it's like, it's not much to her. No, Felicity is quite muscly. She works pretty hard. You look at Flick and you're just like, fuck. Not flick. Laura and Laura.
[00:41:14] Speaker D: And another one, Namu helped me here, has he?
[00:41:16] Speaker A: Oh, Sally, Sally.
[00:41:18] Speaker D: I can't believe Sally's won the challenger national treasure. Now she's back on the CT. She gonna finally do some damage on CT. Is she gonna win a world title?
[00:41:28] Speaker A: I don't know, man, because I think it was. I agree with you. It's quite an achievement that she got.
[00:41:33] Speaker D: Back because personally she won the challenger.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I didn't think she was going to make it back. I don't think she'll win the world title.
[00:41:38] Speaker D: But if she gets knocked off again.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: Surely she's not going to win a world.
[00:41:41] Speaker C: She'll make the cut, no problem. I guarantee it. Almost guarantee it. You got Namu's guarantee here that Sally fits giving.
[00:41:48] Speaker D: If we see her Margaret river this year or next year, I should say. We'll have to ask her.
[00:41:53] Speaker A: And, mate, I've probably told this before. She signed one of my surfboards, put a love heart in it and some kisses and hugs. So I've got a soft spot for Sally. Yeah.
[00:42:02] Speaker C: Sound like everyone loves Sally. Everyone loves Sally. National treasure.
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:42:06] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm calling top five for Sally next year. She's going to make trezzles.
[00:42:10] Speaker A: Really?
[00:42:11] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:42:11] Speaker A: Wow. Okay.
[00:42:12] Speaker C: Guarantee.
[00:42:13] Speaker D: Jesus.
[00:42:14] Speaker A: See?
[00:42:14] Speaker D: Fair enough.
[00:42:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: What about the goat?
[00:42:17] Speaker D: The goat queen surf.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: She could do anything she wants.
[00:42:20] Speaker D: She is the best.
[00:42:22] Speaker C: Has she got the motivation?
[00:42:23] Speaker D: Best surfer of all time.
[00:42:24] Speaker C: Yeah, she got the motivation to do it. Well.
[00:42:26] Speaker D: Eight world tie. Eight or 9818? She'll go again.
[00:42:31] Speaker C: Well, she's definitely going again. But whether or not she's got the fire in the belly, as they say, to commit to going through that whole thing again, who knows what an achievement.
[00:42:41] Speaker D: I mean, can you see anyone else surpassing Steph?
[00:42:46] Speaker C: Well, we know Chris is not going to do it because she's only doing the first two comps, and then she's pulling the pin. Thanks, trestles. So what about you, Adsi?
[00:42:53] Speaker A: Who are your top female surfers? I would have to say Molly Picklam for her pig dogs that we're talking about before and just the way she goes about it, Moanna James Wong for catching pipe waves at proper pipe know, and so did Molly. But the first couple of years they've had the chicks at pipe, it was sort of like, oh, yeah, they're out there on the small blah, blah. You know, she's out there catching legit pipe waves and looking super stylish when she does it. Let's see. Yeah. So they were definitely a couple of my favorites. Sierra Kerr, for the trajectory that she's still on, I think during the middle of the year, she was at Chopu getting some pretty hell waves.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: Will she be a ct surfer or.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: She just do the sort of 100% for sure? Okay, well, mate, put it at Margie's.
She was out surfing the box with her dad and every time there was a teeth on, they were sitting in the corner of the vip, up on the elevated scaffolding area. And they weren't, like, canoodling with other people. They were watching every heat and I could. Just taking notes, mate.
[00:44:05] Speaker D: So do you reckon she'll follow in her dad's footsteps?
[00:44:07] Speaker A: She's going to do better, mate. They were sitting there and analyzing every heat and they were really focused on. And this was just at the Maggie's and what I observed from a distance and I was like, wow, they're out there charging the box and then they're coming in and just fully analyzing everyone's wave choice. And I could just see her dad was just breaking things down. So I think, world champion for sure.
[00:44:29] Speaker C: Could she suffer parental fatigue, which seems to be something that some of the surfers do when they've got their mum or dad. I think so. Following them around?
[00:44:37] Speaker D: I think so, yeah. There'd be a lot of pressure on her.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: What about know some good looking italian pro surfer? Just Walters in splits up. That little party of Josh and Sierra Kerr. Next minute she's listening to him all the time because they're in love.
[00:44:55] Speaker D: Who's that?
[00:44:56] Speaker A: Who knows?
[00:44:57] Speaker D: I thought you're going to say Leo Furovante.
[00:44:59] Speaker A: Could do. He's a good looking.
[00:45:01] Speaker C: How old is fucking cradle snatcher, though? Could be a she. Could be they or them. Could be anyone, really.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: It could be Nam.
[00:45:07] Speaker C: How old is Sierra Kett?
[00:45:09] Speaker D: She's probably 17, I would say.
[00:45:10] Speaker C: Yeah, 17.
[00:45:11] Speaker A: So, next couple of years, there could be some love interests. Might separate the father daughter relationship a little. I mean, it happens to boys and girls.
[00:45:21] Speaker C: Doesn't it happen to Gabriel Medina?
[00:45:23] Speaker D: Exactly.
[00:45:25] Speaker C: The old heath hoed his mum and dad after he got married and then got divorced pretty quickly.
[00:45:29] Speaker D: Look at Katie Simmers. It was the first year on tour. Made the top five.
[00:45:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a pretty good effort, wasn't it?
[00:45:33] Speaker D: I think she's going to just get better and better.
[00:45:36] Speaker C: Right, so my three female servers of the year are Molly Picklam, because I think Sky's limit for her, she seems to be.
All of the girls seem to be charging hard. She seems to have that. Remember that calf she did last year.
[00:45:49] Speaker D: At John John S?
[00:45:52] Speaker C: Yeah, she's got the barrel riding skills. She's pretty grounded. By the sounds of things. And, yeah, we'll see what happens with her. I've also got Sierra Kerr in my list, too. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does in the future. I didn't really know that she was going to be a c two.
[00:46:05] Speaker D: Is she on the challenger next year?
[00:46:06] Speaker A: I was just about to say she's not even on the challenger yet.
[00:46:09] Speaker D: She's doing the QS regional events at the moment.
[00:46:12] Speaker A: Maybe just pick a little. Not sure she'll have a full tilt this year. Surely now's the time.
[00:46:18] Speaker D: Well, she has to do.
[00:46:19] Speaker A: She was at the bands, pipe masters.
[00:46:21] Speaker D: Has she qualified for the challenger, though? Because she has to do the regionals to get qualification the challenger, so not sure do that.
[00:46:28] Speaker C: And the other surfer I have in there is Chris Amore. Because I think that it's just a fucking travesty that she got to where she did.
[00:46:35] Speaker D: She'd be pretty dark when she. Hey, just. Just on another female. She's one of our favorite girls on the women on barrel surf podcast, BMac.
[00:46:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:46:44] Speaker D: Obviously had that win in Durban and then she was looking pretty good, had a bit of confidence. She went over to Brazil and the waves were Carcass usual, and unfortunately didn't make the ct. What's the intel ads? Is BMAC going to make another go for the challenger?
[00:47:00] Speaker A: I do have some personal intel on that one. I had a surf with her a few weeks ago at a local spot with a car park in front of it. Waves are pretty good. And she was there with a fella. A fella surfs pretty good as well. Pretty sure it's Ethan Ewing.
[00:47:13] Speaker C: Ethan Ewing is dobby.
[00:47:16] Speaker D: Mention the babies.
[00:47:19] Speaker A: And they were both out there and they surf pretty good.
And, you know, caught in the inside, probably after falling off a wave or something, I'd imagine. Only to turn around and see BMAC this. Absolutely 12:00 on the backhand.
And it was just. Mate, it was just great to see. I had a bird's eye view of. No, what's it, a moles eye view, maybe because I wasn't above, I was definitely underneath. And, mate, it was just clinical. Crispy backhand, Rio.
[00:47:49] Speaker D: So she on, mate?
[00:47:50] Speaker A: Is she on for the challenger? She's on.
[00:47:52] Speaker D: And I said, wildcat for the most.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: I said, what's the go? You're throwing your hat in a ring. And then typical McCauley styles. Oh, yeah, probably no worries. Yeah, no, it's all good. Just fully cruising, ripping the absolute lid off it. But the read between the lines was, fucking oath. I'm having another go.
[00:48:09] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Bmac. Yeah. So she'll be having a crack for sure.
[00:48:12] Speaker D: And just shout out to DMAC, I hope he's recovering. I saw an insta that DMAc had maybe a stack on his bike.
[00:48:20] Speaker A: I'm not sure exactly what.
[00:48:21] Speaker C: Locally had a big stack on his bike, apparently. On his bike, I think.
[00:48:25] Speaker D: Yeah. So hopefully DMAC's fully recovered and be out at lefties in no time.
[00:48:31] Speaker C: I did see him at the shops the other day and he did look pretty mobile. So, DMAC.
[00:48:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:37] Speaker C: Cool legend.
[00:48:38] Speaker A: So, mate, who's world champ in the girls next year?
[00:48:43] Speaker D: Oh, we're going to go there.
[00:48:44] Speaker A: Let's go there.
[00:48:45] Speaker C: We are going to do a preview, but let's just say it now. Let's do it.
[00:48:49] Speaker D: He put me on the go first, as he. Since you asked the question, Molly Picklam, that's a pretty good bet.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: Straight up. She's going to pack pits all year, she's going to come in hot and she's just going to get the job done.
[00:49:03] Speaker C: I'm going Molly Picklam and Katie Simmons in the final and I can't separate them. Yeah.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: Right.
[00:49:08] Speaker C: I think it's going to be new generation t bone.
[00:49:11] Speaker A: All right, T Bone's pulling up stats. He's got straight to the phone to make. We're going to have Carolupo back to back, back to back.
[00:49:20] Speaker D: Get swinging top to bottom on those.
[00:49:23] Speaker C: I reckon there'll be some judging fatigue on Carolupo's backhand surfing. That's just my opinion.
[00:49:28] Speaker D: Judging fatigue, now that's pulling out some.
[00:49:31] Speaker C: Yeah. You know, it's technical.
[00:49:33] Speaker A: Well, that's what happened.
[00:49:35] Speaker C: Carolupo executed to perfection in finals when she needed someone. Took the chocolate. So good on her. I'm just saying, I don't think she'll be doing it again.
[00:49:43] Speaker D: We'll see.
[00:49:44] Speaker C: We will absolutely see. All right, so let's talk about the competition of the year. CT challenger.
[00:49:53] Speaker A: Fucking pretty hard, whatever it might be.
[00:49:55] Speaker D: This year now, because, as you know, the fucking CT was pretty dismal all year. And I must say, the two days that I spent at the vip in the Margaret river event was, I think, the best.
[00:50:07] Speaker C: Some of the finest days you've had.
[00:50:08] Speaker D: The finest days that we've ever seen on a CT tour. I mean, what comes close to that is probably the round 16 of JBay. It's always been pretty memorable to me.
[00:50:18] Speaker C: But here's one for you. Who won the Maggie's comp? Men and women.
[00:50:22] Speaker A: Well, it's pretty.
[00:50:24] Speaker D: Gabriel won the men's.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:50:26] Speaker C: And who won? The women's.
[00:50:28] Speaker D: This is our home.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: The only reason I remember Gabby was because it disgusted me. It upset me so much.
[00:50:34] Speaker C: People listening to us for this information. We just don't have it. No, actually, they don't listen to us for that information.
[00:50:41] Speaker A: They know better than that to rely on us for information like that.
[00:50:44] Speaker D: Sorry, it was Carissa Moore. It was Gabby Medina and Chris and Moore.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Was it riss?
[00:50:49] Speaker D: Yeah, it was beat. Gabby beat Griffin in the final and Riz beat Tyler. I thought, yeah, it was a really low scoring affair, but wris beat Tyler.
[00:51:01] Speaker C: Remember Tyler? Sorry, Chris. I got that little wave underneath Tyler's priority and got like, as shacked as you've ever seen on that little Insider.
[00:51:10] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:51:11] Speaker C: That was the defining moment of that final. Do you remember correctly?
[00:51:16] Speaker A: They had a good day at pipe, didn't they, in the comp? Nah. Shit, was it?
[00:51:19] Speaker D: Yeah, shit. I mean, you look at the heat.
[00:51:22] Speaker A: Because Robbo won and it was almost more gums.
The heat's more of an achievement because we all expected him to win in good waves, but he won.
[00:51:33] Speaker D: It was super low. I mean, Sunset was probably better than pipeline.
[00:51:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. So, yeah, it was that one day at JBay and Margie's was really the only good waves. And that one wave at Portugal of Cal Robos and the rest were shit.
[00:51:45] Speaker D: When you got an escue, one of his sold.
[00:51:49] Speaker C: It was on eBay, apparently.
[00:51:50] Speaker D: Well, they're about $1,500.
[00:51:52] Speaker A: Okay, mate, just for the record, you've.
[00:51:55] Speaker D: Got a swash, mate, you pulled your.
[00:51:57] Speaker A: Well, we've got the couch, so I'm.
[00:51:59] Speaker D: Just trying to utilize your legs spread, laying back on you.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: One for the old ladies podcast, mate.
[00:52:09] Speaker C: Well, we're aligned to the left on.
[00:52:11] Speaker A: The topic of Cal robo.
I needed a new ladder. Went down to Bunnings. There was a big selection of ladders.
[00:52:20] Speaker D: There is, isn't there?
[00:52:21] Speaker A: Yeah. And I was like, mate, there's no way in the world I'm not buying a Bailey's ladder. Fucking I. If they're backing Cal Robo and surfing in general, then they're getting my money. And Bailey's, they're an expensive ladder, but you get what you pay for in a ladder.
[00:52:37] Speaker D: Good quality.
[00:52:37] Speaker A: Got a fucking sick ladder.
[00:52:39] Speaker D: I actually own a bailey's ladder as well.
[00:52:41] Speaker A: I got this special one, does all sorts of funky stuff, wedges in the corners and up against. It's a flip top as well. And it's more erect than Namu when he sees a two foot left hander in a competition with a local board rider.
[00:52:58] Speaker C: Do you know the thing with Bailey's ladders, though? Is that good on him? Good ladder and all the rest of it. But it's not like a ladder that you buy again and again, is it? You have a Bailey's ladder and that's it.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: That's it.
[00:53:09] Speaker C: You're not repurchasing one?
[00:53:11] Speaker A: Well, that's the idea.
[00:53:12] Speaker D: Well, it depends if it's needed for your job.
[00:53:16] Speaker A: Unless you need a variation of ladders, which sometimes you do. You're a little steppy. You're a big extension.
[00:53:22] Speaker C: I've got two Bally's ladders I've had since I was about 18.
[00:53:25] Speaker D: I got an idea. We should take down a couple of Bailey's ladders at the mugs comp next year. Yeah.
[00:53:31] Speaker A: Get Cal Robert to sign my Bailey's ladder.
[00:53:33] Speaker D: Fucking there you go.
[00:53:33] Speaker A: That's a great idea.
[00:53:34] Speaker D: There you go.
[00:53:35] Speaker A: And then we can just perch ourselves up top there. Get a better view than everyone.
[00:53:38] Speaker D: Maybe we could sneak into the vip.
[00:53:40] Speaker A: Area of our ladder. Let's each bring a ladder and then we'll get a bit of form board and we'll tech screw them into the top of ladders, create our own little vip little area up there.
[00:53:51] Speaker D: Well, do you reckon Bailey's is still sponsoring the wazle for next year?
[00:53:54] Speaker A: Don't know, but they definitely did this year. Were they sponsoring Wazle or just Cal Robo, you reckon?
[00:53:59] Speaker C: No, they're definitely sponsoring. Sponsoring the Cal Robo.
[00:54:03] Speaker A: They just realized he was the man.
[00:54:04] Speaker C: For the job numerous times when Kaipo was up and down ladders and talking about the benefits of a Bailey's ladder.
[00:54:11] Speaker D: Okay, Kaipo know about a fucking Bailey?
[00:54:13] Speaker C: He's never been up a ladder in his life anyway. No, you're going, right, Kaipo? I think it's funny. It's actually really funny the way that he does those little promos. So excited about the ladder or the Yeti cooler or whatever it is.
[00:54:27] Speaker D: Just give me an idea, though. Best commentator for 2020.
[00:54:31] Speaker C: Oh, that was on the list as well? Yeah. Was it? T bone hit it.
[00:54:35] Speaker D: I can hit me on the spot again. Well, that's easy. You know rabbit Bugs basalmy, 1978 world champion. Love the old school take on professional surfing. Easy.
[00:54:45] Speaker C: I enjoyed bugs's commentary as well. That was good. What about you?
[00:54:50] Speaker A: Adds Kennedy, I'd have to say flick Palmateer in the women's bringing a bit of fresh female froth.
[00:54:57] Speaker C: She did a really good job.
[00:54:58] Speaker A: Yep, she did a really good job. She knows her stuff and I'm biased. So up the west, Aussies.
[00:55:06] Speaker D: So who needs to go? Who needs to go?
[00:55:08] Speaker A: Nami.
[00:55:09] Speaker C: Well, I'm about to tell you who my favorite one is and it's going to go a little bit like this.
[00:55:14] Speaker D: How you going, folks?
[00:55:15] Speaker C: This is Ronnie Blakey.
[00:55:16] Speaker D: You're listening to the barrel surf podcast, the one and only, the sound of the west. Yeeha.
[00:55:22] Speaker A: You can't beat Ronnie Blakey.
[00:55:24] Speaker C: He's just velvet tonsils.
[00:55:27] Speaker A: Velvet tonsils? Yeah, he's golden tongue.
[00:55:30] Speaker C: He's got a very, very nice voice for that sort of thing.
[00:55:33] Speaker A: And he knows his stuff.
[00:55:34] Speaker C: Very, very experienced.
[00:55:35] Speaker A: And he's got, like when you listen.
[00:55:38] Speaker D: To Ronnie Blakey, so analytical and he knows how to explain what he's watching in the water and then you got Strider. Sure, Strider is a nice bloke, but fucking strider just waffles so much.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: Shit. Yeah. Comes from a place of pure froth, though. I've got no issues with Strider. I like strider excitement.
He packs twelve foot pipe pit. I know he does.
[00:56:04] Speaker D: Comes out of his gobad.
[00:56:06] Speaker A: Well, look, I'm not one to criticize someone for waffling too much, am I, mate? It's not like I can say that on.
[00:56:12] Speaker D: And I love the strides, but I think I enjoy the more analytical take on surfing, not just the stoke and the seagulls and the dolphins going through the water and I'm sitting on the back of a Jake ski getting my little noggin fucking red roar.
[00:56:31] Speaker A: What about if you could bring any commentator back? Is there someone. That's Bruce McEvaney, mate. If you could get a commentator back in there, who would it be?
[00:56:44] Speaker D: Easy ads. Martin Potter.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: Yep. He copped a lot of flak. Fucking love the pots. I had no issues with the pots either.
[00:56:51] Speaker D: Maybe a bit biased towards Kelly, but he loved pots.
[00:56:55] Speaker A: Fair enough. Yeah.
People hated him. I couldn't really work out why.
[00:57:00] Speaker D: And I've got one more ads.
[00:57:01] Speaker A: Barton lynch. Well, that was my one. Obviously we all want Barton lynch, but I think he's transcended to another universe.
[00:57:07] Speaker C: He's on another plane.
[00:57:09] Speaker A: He is. He's vibrating on a whole nother level in the best way possible. He's just living the dream. But Sean Dodia was really good.
[00:57:19] Speaker D: Yeah, it probably never happened.
[00:57:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I'd like to see Barton back in there and, yeah, maybe a bit more Kelly in there because who knows what he's doing. It looks like whether he's competing or not, he just doesn't want to leave the pro surfing scene. So just get him on the mic.
[00:57:35] Speaker C: Is he going to be the CEO of the Wazle or what?
[00:57:37] Speaker A: He should be. He could do it. He could do that as well as compete. Easy.
[00:57:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:57:43] Speaker C: It seems like he's got the business brain to be able to do it. So get on there. We were talking about comps of the year. Did you have one comp of the year?
[00:57:52] Speaker D: Pretty hard.
[00:57:52] Speaker A: It was pretty crap. Yeah, it had to be Marky's, mate, really.
We're obviously a bit biased, but as far as start to finish goes, it just had the best surfing potential. Everyone overlooks it because they reckon it's a b grade wave. And technically it is compared to your jbays and pipes and all this stuff. But, mate, at least it's fucking delivering decent.
[00:58:17] Speaker C: Serves up a lot of variety too. I mean, that didn't surf the box, obviously, but the main bracket had all sorts of different conditions during the competition, so. Yeah, that's a pretty good call. I also enjoyed Tahiti, which know. Good to see Jack Robbie take the chocolates there at the end of that, gabby.
[00:58:40] Speaker A: Just hopefully the El Nino year somehow leans towards the wazzle flavor this time around and we just get. They need just imagine just like big pipe, big sunset bombing marks. Bombing bells.
[00:58:56] Speaker D: Yeah, big time.
[00:58:57] Speaker A: It'd be good, wouldn't it? Awesome.
[00:58:59] Speaker C: It would be. We talked about comedy. What about your favorite moments of the year? Can be anything surfing related or it can be anything really. Whatever. What do you reckon? It's a big call to just put on you. You know, we've been researching and talking about this for a little while. No, we haven't. We talked about in the way to the surf today.
I'll give you my moment. While you guys think about it, was Jack Robbo's last minute heroics at Tahiti to take the win over Gabriel Medina.
[00:59:28] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:59:29] Speaker C: It looked like he was done and dusted and then he just went barrel time. Pig, dog, pig, dog, pig. Yep, there's the win. Cop that. Yeah.
[00:59:38] Speaker A: Yep. That's pretty good, mate. Probably highlights would have to be probably Chippo getting.
[00:59:46] Speaker C: Chippo making it.
[00:59:47] Speaker A: Chippo making it. Which wasn't really like a one moment thing.
It was more of a cluster of moments.
[00:59:54] Speaker C: He qualified pretty early in the end, didn't he?
[00:59:56] Speaker A: Did, yeah. So that was probably a bit of a highlight for me then. I would say the other highlight for me was a seven day swell bender that I went on in May.
[01:00:08] Speaker C: There you go.
[01:00:09] Speaker A: In the southwest of west Australia.
[01:00:10] Speaker C: You certainly did get into the piggy's trough that week, didn't yeah, that was.
[01:00:15] Speaker A: Definitely a highlight for me.
Surfed every day, sometimes twice a day for seven days. And just those classic autumn conditions that the southwest is known for. And, yeah, got some really nice barrels and lots of really fun waves. So, yeah, I was hoping there was going to be more weeks than that, but there was definitely one week that was pretty sensational.
[01:00:35] Speaker D: I think that's when I went to Bali, actually. Was it pretty tapped crumbus for a week?
[01:00:40] Speaker A: Yeah, and then I'd say probably a couple of little sessions I had up north as well were a bit of a highlight for me. On a personal level. They were pretty fun. One of them was with Namu at an outer reef. That was pretty enjoyable on a really balmy afternoon in the school holidays. So that was some sort of highlight as far as my surfing world.
[01:00:59] Speaker C: Clearly, that was my highlight. That was one of the funnest surfs I've had in a long time.
[01:01:05] Speaker A: And then just the aftermath of, like, hanging on a super low tidal flat as the sun goes down on a scorching northwest afternoon in the middle of winter with cold beers and hanging out with a couple of our mates who listen to the podcast.
[01:01:20] Speaker C: That was epic.
[01:01:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that was pretty cool. And our mate two pack, who just is the full.
Not the Albie Mangles, not the Steve Irwin, definitely not the Clive brother Jurass. The MacGyver. Sorry, he's the MacGyver. Biggest MacGyver ever. Yeah, he'll just.
[01:01:41] Speaker C: You guys are. MacGyver's together. You're like Mac and Guyver.
[01:01:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely more of a MacGyver than me. He's pretty on it. He'll build anything out of anything. Right. When you need it, it doesn't matter what's going on. Everything is a little exciting challenge for him and next minute you're back on.
[01:01:58] Speaker C: The road, give him some Christmas bibles, a couple of pop sticks and a couple of screws and all of a sudden you got a car.
[01:02:03] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. What about you, T Boone? Highlights for the year.
[01:02:07] Speaker D: Like I said before, I love watching Ethan Ewing Surf and I think winning that Bell's beach classic was probably the best event.
[01:02:15] Speaker A: Best win.
[01:02:15] Speaker D: Beat R Kell on the final. That was so good to watch. And obviously had that backstory with his mum and that bomb.
[01:02:22] Speaker C: A winner of the event as well.
[01:02:24] Speaker A: I think one of my low lights from the year could be your highlights. Started out as a highlight where we were all excited for you. Just kept on posting us photos of perfect Karamas day after day. But then after about the fifth day, me and Namu cracked the shits and it became our low light as it continued to be your highlight. That was a pretty good week for you, wasn't it, mate? Looked like it was just pumping for fucking seven days straight.
[01:02:44] Speaker D: You know what's a highlight? Adds he coming out of fucking Covid.
[01:02:47] Speaker C: It's just nice to cold now to.
[01:02:49] Speaker D: Be able to not have those restrictions and travel when you want and where you want. And it's just like the spicy cough. So that's been a highlight. And yeah, Crumbus was fucking awesome and can't wait to do more travel.
[01:03:03] Speaker C: How were the crowds up there?
[01:03:04] Speaker D: It was pretty minimal, actually.
[01:03:06] Speaker C: Really?
[01:03:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:03:06] Speaker D: Yeah, I think they all had Covid.
[01:03:08] Speaker C: I was surprised even when you were there.
Everyone got the spicy Casper Karamas.
[01:03:15] Speaker D: Yeah, there you go.
[01:03:21] Speaker C: I'll tell you what, summer's upon us and the cheeky monkey beers are going down beautifully. What do you boys reckon?
[01:03:29] Speaker A: Mate, I'm on the hard ginger beer right now. It's a ripper. Gotta love a bit of ginger beer in summer for those hot afternoons. And they're stiff and they taste real good, mate. You can get 10% off if you go into vass in the industrial area. Tell them barreled surf podcast sent you and you'll get 10% off takeaway sales. Get it in you.
[01:03:49] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:03:50] Speaker C: Cheeky monkey.
[01:03:50] Speaker A: G'day, everybody. It's bugs here and you're listening to barreled Surf podcast. I like to drink forester wines. They taste fucking good. They're made on Wildwood Road. It's one of the best places in the world, southwest of Western Australia. And if you go online, type in barreled to the coupon in the sales department, you get 25% off. It is a really good deal. Type in barreled and save yourself some hell money. Get some hell wine.
[01:04:22] Speaker C: How's your back going these days, hatzy? What about you, t bone?
[01:04:25] Speaker A: T bone's mate, he's in that good a nick. He just doesn't even need to go to the physio. He's an absolute weapon. But for the rest of us down south physio, go see Trev. He's an absolute surfing specialist. He's been doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things in the world of surfing, traveling all around the globe. Because everyone knows you can't froth harder than Trevor frothens. Brown at down South Physio, he's on.
[01:04:47] Speaker C: The wazzle, he's on the tools back at Dunsborough. So get down to down South Physio. I don't know about you guys. But I've been absolutely stoked with my Sharkeyes wetsuit. Best in the business.
[01:04:58] Speaker A: Yeah. They're pretty sick. So comfy. And they're bringing out a new range. It's a more affordable range. I believe it's going to be direct to consumer online. It's called the Mungrill range.
[01:05:07] Speaker C: Oh, the Mungrill, yeah.
[01:05:09] Speaker A: Which could be good in summer when you just want to really cover up from the sun a bit and not be too hot. So check out Sharkeye's wetsuits. They're killer.
[01:05:22] Speaker C: You've been watching any films, mate?
[01:05:24] Speaker D: I have, actually. I've been indulging. When I got back from work after a surf, I've been hitting the couch. So we talked about it before I watched into the dust and I think Jacob released that maybe six months ago.
Tom Jennings.
[01:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:05:42] Speaker C: Tom Jenno.
[01:05:43] Speaker D: Fuck. It was such an action packed. I love action packed, real time surfing. It had airs. He actually did a 720. It was the opening of the first 30 seconds of the clip. He did a 720 on his backhand.
[01:05:55] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He's aerial.
[01:05:59] Speaker D: He can do as good as anyone. Yeah, like anyone.
[01:06:03] Speaker C: He almost doesn't like a gymnast. He sort of tucks as good as Gabriel Medina.
[01:06:09] Speaker D: Just on edits. We went to the board store and we watched Jerome Forest. His edit was insane, too.
What else was shown?
[01:06:21] Speaker A: We watched Jerome Forest, local lad, president of the maggie's board rider, which was.
[01:06:26] Speaker C: Six minutes a little while back.
[01:06:28] Speaker D: Yeah, it was action packed.
[01:06:29] Speaker A: And it was action packed. Big slow mo tubes. All the good stuff. Really nice photography. Tom Jenno probably had his hand in as well. Russell, berserky, mate. That thing was special.
I've watched it a couple of times since, mate, that was just. What is it called?
[01:06:49] Speaker D: Outer edge of leisure soundtrack was interesting.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: It was just drums.
[01:06:54] Speaker D: Just drums and symbols.
[01:06:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it was cool.
[01:06:57] Speaker D: It's quite eerie.
[01:06:58] Speaker A: Mate, I've just got outer edge of leisure. 14 minutes. Holy shit. Ten out of ten. They're my tasting notes right there.
[01:07:07] Speaker C: Mate, it's just ten out of ten. Straight out of the back, Frazzi.
[01:07:11] Speaker A: Yeah, straight up.
There's so many edits. There's so much stuff out there these days combined with little instiglips and that. It's pretty hard to actually watch it all when you're a busy dude and you got a full time job and you got a family and you're surfing. I just don't have time to watch all these edits coming out. So when you sit down and make an effort and go, mate, I'm going to watch this one. This one does not disappoint.
[01:07:34] Speaker D: Like, he generates so much speed in the tube, doesn't he?
[01:07:36] Speaker A: Oh, man, comes big boards that Aileen's.
[01:07:41] Speaker D: Wave, the last wave of the actual.
[01:07:45] Speaker A: Clip, that whole session makes one of the best sessions ever. The commitment that he's putting into not only the actual wave and the drop, but to actually just go. He's obviously going there. It's a bit of a hotspot at the moment. Aliens with Nathan, Florence and this guy going there, man, it's cold and it doesn't look easy to get to. And it's big boards and it's the place to go if you want a sick clip that's going to blow heads these days. It's almost like, mate, you need a bit of Eileen.
[01:08:15] Speaker D: Not everyone could make those drops. Those drops look Mulligmore, isn't.
[01:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Well, Mullig's the big extra big left, whereas Aileen's is big. Not quite the same big, but more perfect. Every now and then they get a foam in. Doesn't seem to be all of them, and then they just backdoor this huge tube. And that last one, he didn't quite make it out, but, man, it spoke three times while he was in there.
[01:08:39] Speaker D: Would you give it to him? Because he sort of came out the doggy door.
[01:08:42] Speaker A: He sort of got blasted out.
And then, obviously, the genetics of his dad and the stories that we're talking about before makes a good boy. There was only two waves of. I'm pretty sure it was a bombie in south Oz somewhere that they like these really clean bombies. And that was big. It was that 15 foot and they were bowly. And just the way he rides them on those big boards. And the shippies at the start, all the crazy slow mo stuff and the drumming soundtrack was all that was needed because it was such a visual feast.
[01:09:16] Speaker D: It was.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: You didn't really need more music. I didn't find. I don't know.
[01:09:21] Speaker D: Fucking throw him in the Eddie.
[01:09:23] Speaker A: Well, that was the next mate. Look at that right there. No Eddie invite, but it's truly what I want to see in a surf clip. It's the best big wave surfers in the world, testing them to their absolute limits. That's what I want to see. I find that riveting and engaging and there's no way I'm walking out on that fucking.
You come out by the time it finishes at the end, you sort of almost got to have a deep breath. He's in very rare company. Russell Burke, I reckon the way he knives big boards into such big barrels and, mate, he's an underground hellman, hero.
[01:09:59] Speaker D: Of the highest order.
[01:10:00] Speaker A: And, mate, obviously the photography was pretty tough.
[01:10:03] Speaker D: I think he's pretty well recognized internationally.
[01:10:05] Speaker C: I don't know how underground he is.
[01:10:07] Speaker A: He's underground enough not to get an invite to the Eddie, but you know.
[01:10:11] Speaker D: What'S a good little edit? It's about 14 minutes long is wondering by Liam O'Brien.
[01:10:15] Speaker A: Oh yeah, that was good. We watched that. Didn't we watch that? Me and Nami watched it.
[01:10:19] Speaker D: It's got some great.
He's still a bit underrated, I think, lobby O'Brien.
[01:10:25] Speaker A: But.
[01:10:27] Speaker D: I really enjoyed it. A little bit different to Russell Berkeley wasn't as hardcore and gnarly, but he was packing some.
[01:10:34] Speaker A: I think it was Portugal.
[01:10:35] Speaker D: He was just taking off some heavy little sucky little pits and obviously his rail game is super impressive. Know, elite level.
[01:10:43] Speaker C: It'd be interesting to see how he goes on the tour this year. Having that full year of experience now after missing out with his injury a couple of years back or whatever. So it could be a bit of a wild card, I reckon, on the tour because he's pretty smart guy and knows how to make the strategy and stuff work for him. So he's got the surfing, obviously. So it happens.
[01:11:05] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:11:05] Speaker C: Good on your lobby.
[01:11:06] Speaker D: Good on your lobby. There's been heaps of edits and obviously YouTube clips out there. I mean, Nathan Florence, I think he takes surprise for the best YouTube clips week in, week out. J-A-B is good, but bit corporate.
[01:11:20] Speaker C: It's aimed for younger co too.
[01:11:22] Speaker D: Yeah, true.
[01:11:23] Speaker C: What's up, everyone?
[01:11:24] Speaker A: This is Connor Coffin. You're listening to barreled surf podcast.
[01:11:27] Speaker C: All right, so we are on to the next section of the podcast. It is the 2023 Clive Palmer cup winner. Adzzy, I know that you're always on the positive side of things.
[01:11:39] Speaker A: I got some clives.
[01:11:42] Speaker D: What's the criteria, Nemi? We're actually going to talk about the best clive of the year or have new clives.
[01:11:48] Speaker A: I can't remember all the shit we dribbled on here over the. So.
[01:11:51] Speaker C: No, we can't do that. We just got to go with our clive. Like the biggest Clive of the year shit.
[01:11:56] Speaker A: I think one that's popped up pretty recently would have to be sharks in South Australia.
[01:12:00] Speaker C: Yeah, that's those sharks.
[01:12:02] Speaker A: They're major Palmers.
Three fatalities there this year alone. Last one a 15 year old boy. That's just. Mate. Fucking breaks my heart. To see some photos of a frothing, young, salty head grom little shredder all fucking teethy grin, surfing. And to think that freaking shark nailed him makes me upset. Whatever.
[01:12:26] Speaker D: It's tragic.
[01:12:27] Speaker A: It's tragic, man. Yeah, we all know it is part of the game. I just feel like what needs to happen, it's an imbalance.
[01:12:36] Speaker C: They just need to let the fishes do their job.
[01:12:39] Speaker A: Let them do their job and catch sharks again, just like they used to. The Oceans were healthy before and they're still healthy now. It's a fucking big ocean out there.
[01:12:46] Speaker C: They were healthier before.
[01:12:47] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. And yeah, there's an imbalance because there's so much fishing going on and all the rest of it. But then they protect this species.
[01:12:58] Speaker D: That's the problem.
[01:13:00] Speaker A: I don't know. So, yeah, sharks are my quiet. Just made me pretty upset seeing photos of that young dude.
[01:13:06] Speaker D: Very upsetting. I mean, you summed it up, Nami. You can't feel sorry for a human life. A young human life's been taken here.
[01:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, this is what it is.
[01:13:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Fuck you, sharp t bone.
[01:13:16] Speaker D: Have you got one more of a Steve Irwin? Namu.
[01:13:19] Speaker C: Right, we'll do Steve's in a second, but nothing.
[01:13:22] Speaker D: Probably Clive. Top of my head.
[01:13:24] Speaker A: Namu.
[01:13:24] Speaker D: All the full drive enthusiasts that decided to use our local trackers hate his track as a testing ground for their.
[01:13:33] Speaker A: Maxi track, jacked up fucking Range Rovers, and Pajero.
[01:13:37] Speaker D: Not Pajeros. I drive Pajero. But you see, these four wheel drive enthusiasts and the cars are just. They're built to fucking drive over the Grand Canyon and they think they're killing it, but all they're doing is getting in the way. We're trying to get to the beach, get in, get out.
This is not a fucking full drive track. Go somewhere else and be more. It's not even hardcore. This is soft porn.
[01:14:01] Speaker C: Fucking full drive.
[01:14:03] Speaker A: Eleven minutes flat with his tires at 45 psi and two wheel drive.
I'm pretty sure he was riding the podcast agenda while he was hooning down the track.
[01:14:17] Speaker C: Hey, Siri, podcast agenda.
[01:14:19] Speaker D: We got a full drive.
[01:14:21] Speaker A: It's tried to do it too.
[01:14:22] Speaker C: This is a tongue in cheek one. So at the board riders presentations a couple of weeks back, crew's trying to sell a whole bunch of raffle tickets. There was a beautiful new board up for the first prize.
[01:14:34] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, bought tickets for that.
[01:14:36] Speaker C: So a beautiful board. One of our club stalwarts was thinking, we haven't sold enough tickets. So he's gone up into the.
Up into the beer garden.
Should I say it was selling tickets up in the beer garden or should I just keep it?
[01:14:52] Speaker A: Well, yeah, because all he was trying to do is raise money for the club.
[01:14:54] Speaker C: That's exactly what he's doing. He's up there selling tickets to the general public.
[01:14:58] Speaker D: Because I spent hundreds.
[01:15:00] Speaker C: Yeah, I think a lot of people did.
[01:15:02] Speaker D: And some Joe Blow won it.
[01:15:03] Speaker C: I was MC the day and I was announcing the other raffle prizes.
[01:15:07] Speaker A: And who won the board, though? Not the general public.
[01:15:09] Speaker D: I thought were going to say some punter from fucking.
[01:15:11] Speaker C: I'm going to come back to this with my Steve Irwin. Stay tuned.
[01:15:14] Speaker A: All right.
[01:15:15] Speaker C: Stay tuned. And I've also just got to have a mention to the W. Sal for trestles. It's a fucking. Everyone fucking hates it. Why are you not Randy? Why are you not giving your target audience what they want?
[01:15:26] Speaker A: Horrible.
[01:15:27] Speaker C: It's to the point, so stupid. We've all got clients now.
[01:15:30] Speaker D: Fuck it.
[01:15:31] Speaker C: We're not making any money already, so why not just do it? Do it what people want, mate, I'm.
[01:15:35] Speaker A: One of the biggest pro surfing fans you're going to get.
[01:15:38] Speaker C: Everyone is but this.
[01:15:39] Speaker A: And I'm to the point now where I'm like, I don't even know if it's worth following because it's going to get to the fucking end and be at trestles for fucking three years. And Toledo is probably going to fucking.
[01:15:47] Speaker D: CSI for fuck CSI, CSRI CEO.
[01:15:54] Speaker A: Because no one wants to put their hand up. Because if they're any sort of decent surfer, they'll be like, I'm not putting my name on this shit. Fucking finals at tresses again. It's just so disheartening that it's like.
[01:16:04] Speaker D: It'S a fucking b grade tennis tour, mate.
[01:16:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. It's just hard.
[01:16:08] Speaker C: I don't want to be a Ben. He had a riot back then.
[01:16:12] Speaker D: Fucking had a riot way back.
[01:16:13] Speaker A: It's just really upsetting as a fan to know that it's going to come to trestles.
[01:16:17] Speaker D: Maybe Clive Palmer should be the CEO of the wazzle.
[01:16:20] Speaker C: It might as well be. It wouldn't be running worse.
[01:16:21] Speaker D: Pump a bit more money into it.
[01:16:23] Speaker C: Well, it sounds like money's not the problem.
[01:16:25] Speaker A: I could also nominate myself just quickly for a little Clive. For the other day, being in a southern reef break surf spot. And it was very busy Christmas eve. Very busy. And when you're walking down the hallway and you do that thing where you step one way and the other person's someone coming the other way and you do that step step. I sort of did that with a local fella down there by the name of Cole from Margie's. And mate, he paddled one way and I was riding the wave and there was a couple other people on the inside and I sort of zigged and I zagged and he zigged and zagged and next minute I'm like, fuck, I'm about to run this guy straight over him. So I just dove fully straight, I just had to dive over him so there was no weight on the surfboard. And he half duck dived and I dove over the back and he said, sorry, and I said, mate, I'm sorry, I should have cut down that way, but there was a dude there and he's like, I thought you'd gone this way. I'm like, mate, it's all good as long as you're okay.
He was a local of the spot, so apologies, Cole. Glad you came up. Okay. It was a pretty busy day of slalom people there, so these things happen. But it turns out he also manages one of the vineyards where they sell their grapes to Forester wine.
[01:17:34] Speaker C: There you go.
[01:17:35] Speaker A: Because he said he listens to the podcast, I'm not sure which vineyard it was.
So good job, Cole. Keep up the good work of surfing, reef breaks and pumping out grapes for Forester.
[01:17:45] Speaker C: Yeah, so there you go. As he's just nominating himself and I don't know who you guys think should get the Clive Palmer cup for 2023, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to give it to the wazzle for the whole trestles debacle.
[01:17:56] Speaker A: Fair enough.
[01:17:57] Speaker C: All right.
[01:17:58] Speaker D: Crikey.
[01:18:00] Speaker C: All right, so the 2023 Steve Irwin salutes nominees are. T bone.
[01:18:08] Speaker D: Well, that's easy. Our sponsors, cheeky monkey beer Forester estate. Thanks for keeping us lubricated, hydrated all year round. You're the best in the business. Beers, wine, cheeky monkey, Forester state. We appreciate all the love you give.
[01:18:27] Speaker C: Us Sharkeye's weddies and Sharkeye's weddies down south.
Thank you so much, you guys. You guys are freaking legends looking after us.
[01:18:37] Speaker D: They're the biggest Steve Irwins.
[01:18:39] Speaker C: We've been on board with Cheeky Monkey for a bit now and also, and those guys are absolutely amazing. Riley and Brent and Brendan over at Cheeky monkey. Thank you, guys. Hope you have a fantastic 2024 on.
[01:18:55] Speaker A: A similar ilk there. I'd say all our listeners, oh yeah, had a lot of listeners lately, just give a casual thumbs up to say, mate, you guys keep it up because it's pretty easy to be self conscious and go, well, we just come in here, drink piss, talk shit, and there's a good chance that everybody hates us for dribling crap. So it's nice to hear that people coming up and just saying, mate, I really loved that episode with Damon Easto. I really loved who we have.
We had wade from Margie's just the other day, didn't know him, bumped in the car park. Seemed like a good dude. Tell me that his favorite episode so far is an Ollie Henry episode. So really, it's just nice to hear different names and people, different perspectives. Kimmy Carr out in the surf today, this afternoon. Local Shredder is always out in the lineup and she said that Barry Young was her favorite that she's ever listened to.
[01:19:50] Speaker C: Good on you, Kimmy. Joined the board riders in 2024.
[01:19:53] Speaker A: Another one, Andy the pommy, who I met down at the same car park, he just hit us up and just said, mate, I was just listening to you on the way down here at six this morning.
[01:20:01] Speaker C: There you go.
[01:20:02] Speaker A: Because it was halfway through the Andrew Sheridan episode with his wipeout, and I'm loving it.
[01:20:06] Speaker C: Good episode.
I really enjoyed that one, mate.
[01:20:10] Speaker A: I would say out of all the things that keep us going in here, it'd be the compliments that we get to just go, man, people are really enjoying it and that puts a bit of spring in your step and go, fucking cool. I'm going to do another one because I enjoy doing really. I enjoy getting people in here and hearing their stories. And when other people say that they're enjoying the stories too, it says good vibes all around. Thanks to the listeners. Yeah.
[01:20:34] Speaker D: Here.
[01:20:35] Speaker C: Never really thought that anyone would listen to this at all. It's gone to that place where people are. So thanks for listening and hope you're enjoying it. So we're certainly enjoying bringing it. Fucking. One of the great pleasures of our lives, I reckon we all enjoy it. It's fucking sick.
[01:20:49] Speaker A: Sick fun.
[01:20:50] Speaker C: T bone. I've done yours, haven't you?
[01:20:52] Speaker D: Yeah, did my.
[01:20:53] Speaker A: But you've got one.
[01:20:54] Speaker C: You've got to have one. Yeah, I've got one. So I'm going to carry on with this story about the raffle tickets. Jeff north selling raffle tickets up in the beer garden at coves to random people. The winner of the surfboard. Just as a raffle was being announced, we saw these sort of three or four blokes come down from the beer garden, these three or four big blokes, and they're obviously.
We got a raffle ticket we might as well see who's won. And sure enough, it was one of those blokes that came down from the beer garden, wins the surfboard, never surfed a day in his life.
Absolutely fucking chuffed. He was so stoked. This guy was like, yeah, fucking.
I'm so stoked. I've never won anything in my life. And he was super pumped. So whoever the fuck that dude is.
[01:21:45] Speaker D: Has he taken up surfing, you reckon?
[01:21:46] Speaker C: No, he's probably sold it.
Congratulations, that guy, because that was something really similar to. That reaction was amazing.
[01:21:53] Speaker A: Yeah, go on, mate. It was already one of my Steve Irwin salutes. I'd like to give it to Luke from soggy bones. Soggy bones being the local skate shop here in Dunsborough. Soggy bones, mate, he's an absolute legend. Shares nothing but good vibes. He's always down there doing skate lessons with the kids. He obviously rips. He put on this thing called Santa's sleigh. It was like a little skating, a skate party, Christmas party down at, know, music and little comps and giveaways and stuff like that. Yeah, it was really sick. Same as Namu's story there. He had a raffle, right? And there was four prizes in the raffle. Like, first prize was this epic skating with, like. I don't know much about skating, but all the best trucks, best wheels, best bearings, best deck, all this stuff. And then the next one was, like, a retro board and all this, mate, I had my cousin, who, much like the fella in Namu story, 110 kilos of non skateboarding prowess, and he was in town to visit me for Christmas, over from Sydney, bought the raffle tickets.
[01:22:52] Speaker D: Oh, really?
[01:22:53] Speaker A: What do you know? First prize.
[01:22:55] Speaker D: There you go.
[01:22:55] Speaker A: It happens to be my non skating blow in cousin has just won first prize.
[01:23:02] Speaker D: What did he do with it?
[01:23:03] Speaker A: Mate, he's stoked. He's just claimed it.
[01:23:05] Speaker D: He's taken it with him back to Sydney.
[01:23:07] Speaker A: No, he's never skate, mate. He took it. But I sort of knew that both my kids are skating, and I sort of thought, well, mate, who knows what he'll do with it? But he'll probably give it to us, for. It was like Christmas in two days or something. I was thinking, it's coming home with me. But anyway, I hadn't worked that out yet because we're in the excitement of this big skate crowd and all these kids, and that pulls out second prize. Guess who wins it? My cousin wins second prize as well. Two in a row. I see Luke's heart to sink. The owner of soggy bones, because he's like, put all this stuff. Who is this dude? And he wants, obviously, some local kids to win it to get the froth. Keep the froth going. And my big cousin is not in the best physical shape and definitely is not a skateboarder.
[01:23:51] Speaker D: You're Kennedy.
[01:23:52] Speaker A: He's a Kennedy.
And he's won second prize. And I was just like, oh, man.
And I was like, oh, I really like the second board. It was retro and it had like a hell spray. And I was like, whoa.
[01:24:04] Speaker D: He gave it to you, didn't he?
[01:24:05] Speaker B: No.
[01:24:05] Speaker A: Well, mate, Luke's just like, oh, he saw his heart sink and he's like, look, I don't know how you want to play this, mate, because he knew that he'd never seen the dude before.
But you've just won first and second prize. It's up to you. You don't have to. Is there any chance you want to just throw this board back into the raffle? My cousin's just like, yeah, I don't need a chucker. Back in the raffle, you would have been devoed.
[01:24:28] Speaker D: Yeah.
[01:24:28] Speaker A: But the rest of the crowd was like, yeah, it was the right thing to do.
There were two buck tickets and he'd just taken out first and second. So he threw that one back in the ring and some local dude won it. And then he turned around and gave me the other board and said, give it to your kid whenever you want. So, mate, Clive Palmer to me, mate.
[01:24:47] Speaker D: John Dunn Palmer or Steve Irwin?
[01:24:50] Speaker A: What did I say?
[01:24:51] Speaker D: Clive Palmer.
[01:24:52] Speaker A: Yeah, no, Steve. Steve. Clive for not taking them both and giving them both to me. Steve for giving them both away.
[01:24:58] Speaker D: I thought he was going to be the Steve because he gave you a second prize.
[01:25:02] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he was the Steve because he still gave me the first. And he's also the Steve because he gave second prize back to the.
[01:25:09] Speaker C: What a legend.
[01:25:10] Speaker A: That was pretty cool.
[01:25:11] Speaker C: It's amazing.
[01:25:12] Speaker A: Have you got a second, Steve? I've got a third one. That's pretty funny.
[01:25:16] Speaker C: I do have a quick one. Good friend of the podcast, Jake the Snake Patterson, recently had his first ever hole in one in golf. We all know what a golf fro free is, and just to get one hole in one is a pretty big achievement. So that was about two months ago. Since then, he's had two more.
[01:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:25:35] Speaker D: Fucking hell.
[01:25:36] Speaker A: Three hole in ones.
[01:25:37] Speaker C: Three hole in ones.
[01:25:38] Speaker D: He's hot. Running hot.
[01:25:39] Speaker C: So I think he maybe better join the legends tour, it's called. And yeah, stop selling sunscreen. Anyway, that's one of my ones.
[01:25:48] Speaker A: But it's not that quick. I'll try to make it quick.
[01:25:52] Speaker C: It's got to. Have to be because we've got to get in.
[01:25:55] Speaker D: I'll go for a quick piss.
[01:25:56] Speaker A: Oh, you know, you need to hear this one because it relates to your clive.
[01:25:58] Speaker D: Oh, really?
[01:26:01] Speaker A: Doing some work for me, mate. Andrew Macca McNish, a frother of the CBaca.
[01:26:06] Speaker D: Football player.
[01:26:07] Speaker A: Yep. Eagles. Premiership player.
Eagles, yeah, he won a premier with the Eagles. Yeah. Okay. With Wusher.
[01:26:15] Speaker D: Does he surf?
[01:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah, he surfs. Yeah, he's keen. Yeah, he's a bit injured from his hard days on the footy field, but he still loves to surf, mate, he's got this awesome property that I do a bit of work at and he does like, a legit BnB where it's a fucking cool house he's got. It's like a castle. And he actually rents out rooms where it's a proper. It's not Airbnb, it's proper b and b where they're living in it. Crew come in. Anyway, he has this japanese couple turn up one afternoon to stay in his house and insert japanese accent here. And this guy's like, frothing to surf. And he asks Macca, where shall surf? And Macca's like, well, mate, it's sort of 430 in the afternoon. You're probably best off just going down and yelling at main break because it's the closest. Getting a surf in and then waiting tomorrow. So anyway, guy turns back up at like 09:00 that night and his Mrs worried about where a dude's gone. He's like, oh, I looked at the thing and it said lefties. Lefties. So I went to lefties. So he's done the late last. He's just rolled in a town from. Probably flew in from Sydney, drove down from Perth and just drove straight to squeeze one in. So Maca's like, oh, this guy's pretty keen. Anyway, it was real small. The next day, fella wakes up, he's like, oh, where should I go over the breakfast table? Maca's like, mate, it's really small.
Go up to the moon, which is like a b grade wave, but at least it picks up lots of swell right up near the cape. So anyway, mate, the guy's gone for freaking like half the day. His miss is starting to get worried. Then they get a phone call from him and turns out he's in a two.
Turns out he's in a two wheel electric hire car, right? So he's in like a Tesla or something like that. It's two wheel drive. It's a sedan. He's looked at his app again. It's told him that two koalas is going to be good. Your same four wheel drive track, t bones claiming, is not really a four wheel drive track. Well, it is if you have a two wheel electric vehicle, t bone. It's a pretty serious four wheel drive, apparently.
[01:28:13] Speaker C: Levels, levels.
[01:28:15] Speaker A: Apparently. He got all the way down, he came the same end as us, got all the way down to the bombie, which is like 90% of the way, and just bottomed out completely with no clearance.
[01:28:25] Speaker D: Tesla, was it?
[01:28:26] Speaker A: Oh, mate, it was literally. I don't know, probably it was one.
[01:28:29] Speaker C: Of those Mitsubishi ev either.
[01:28:34] Speaker A: So he's just bogged to the hilt. Rings Macca. Macca's like, I'll come down. So he goes down in his old hilux, gets down there, has a look at him, just goes, that's fucked, mate, I can't get you out of here. You are so deep in the system.
[01:28:46] Speaker C: He got some insurance.
[01:28:47] Speaker A: Well, that's the thing, yeah, and a couple people tried to get him out, but it was like, mate, he was that deep in, it was just like dragging a piece of metal along the track. So Mac is like, mate, there's no one can tell you out. You need to ring your insurance company. So he's ring the insurance company. He's trying to do broken English. So Mac has had to grab the phone and they're like, okay, so, yeah, we can arrange a tow. What road are you on? And Mac is like, yeah, you don't understand, we're not on a road. And she's like, what do you mean you're not on a road? You're not supposed to leave the road. He's like, well, I know that he had no choice.
[01:29:30] Speaker C: Mate, you can't keep the cat in the bag.
[01:29:32] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like, what, 8 km down a drivetrack in the middle of nowhere?
And she's like, well, you have to be on some road. Like you're in a two wheel tiny little. And he's like, yeah, but this guy's just gone gung ho and has winged it down this massive hills.
I don't know who got him out. He left and the insurance company had to call in like a tractor or something, helicopter and got him out. I sort of nominate for just being that keen, like, he's just so keen, so keen. He's just like Suzuki Tesla.
[01:30:13] Speaker C: This gentleman of japanese descent.
[01:30:16] Speaker A: You only got to get like 200 meters down that track before you realize. Yeah, I probably shouldn't take this car down. It's not. A Tesla track persisted for another 8 km.
He's a legend. He's probably just bashed the shit out of the underbody. There's rocks as well as soft sand and all to try to get a clean two footer at Pukawa.
[01:30:36] Speaker D: That's funny.
[01:30:37] Speaker A: It is pretty classic. And then, yeah, he came home and, yeah, it was business as usual. I don't know if his car was operational. They might have taken it. So I probably confiscated it off him. I don't know what happened. But.
[01:30:50] Speaker D: When he gets back to.
[01:30:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it was pretty cool, so I liked it.
[01:30:56] Speaker D: Did you get a name? What was his name?
[01:30:58] Speaker A: Suzuki.
[01:31:00] Speaker C: Yeah, that's Suzuki. Yamaha. All right. So what a wonderful way to finish off 2023 with an amazing story from Adsi about the little gentleman from Japan that never gave up.
[01:31:15] Speaker A: Never gave up.
[01:31:16] Speaker C: I ain't giving up on this shit. Moral story, koalas. And that's it. Tban last words, mate, it's been a pleasure.
[01:31:23] Speaker D: It's like in therapy. Coming to the shed quarters and. Yeah, looking forward to next year. Happy New Year, folks. Ads.
[01:31:30] Speaker A: Yep, same deal. Thanks, boys. I feel like we work pretty well together these days. We don't always get together for a three way, but.
Where are you going?
[01:31:42] Speaker D: It's just good.
[01:31:44] Speaker A: Sometimes T Bone will randomly record Jim banks driving around in the middle of Cuda in a car, or Namu will grab somewhere. Somewhere. Or I'll grab someone and come in the shed or a car park. Tail and man, it's just having fun, what we're doing, and really grateful to all the listeners who tune in.
[01:32:00] Speaker C: Yeah, tell your friends about it if you're enjoying it. Yeah, we're stoked to bring it to you each fortnight or so. And thank you so much for listening. It has been barrel podcast with T Bone.
[01:32:10] Speaker D: It's going to be fucking huge.
[01:32:11] Speaker C: The gaps 2024.
[01:32:14] Speaker A: We got some good guests lined up.
[01:32:16] Speaker D: Big three ways, too.
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Then suddenly it occurs to me there's no here's.
We'll be cruising through the burger as you find the chickle.
And if we wind up leaving back, we'll stay out late. You drink and drive.
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