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Live From China With Our Hero
Stace and Buck sit down with the man in the yellow boardshorts for a Stab High China special episode. Come find out who won the warm up sessions and get a taste for life on the ground. PS: The man in the yellow …
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Stace and Buck sit down with the man in the yellow boardshorts for a Stab High China special episode. Come find out who won the warm up sessions and get a taste for life on the ground. PS: The man in the yellow boardshorts is indeed Cory Lopez, and you can watch the Stab High live broadcast exclusively on Stab Premium.Albee Layer’s Biggest Career Regrets, Getting Sober, And The Heaviest Wave On Earth | StabMic Ep. 38
“I want to catch the best fucking wave ever ridden.” “The biggest, heaviest wave ever paddled. I want to get barrelled on it, come out, and have there be absolutely no fucking argument. That was the best wave …
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“I want to catch the best fucking wave ever ridden.” “The biggest, heaviest wave ever paddled. I want to get barrelled on it, come out, and have there be absolutely no fucking argument. That was the best wave anyone’s ever caught.” Feeling a little parched? Fancy a refreshment? Well, I’d advise against asking a professional athlete for their hot takes on any given topic. Typically, you’ll get an answer that’s done a few laps of the PR department before escaping the skull. Ask Albee Layer a question, though, and you’ll get an answer with all the nuance of a brick through a glass window. On this episode of StabMic, we get a more self-reflective Albee than we’ve seen in the past. The usual hot takes and verbal haymakers haven’t gone anywhere, but there’s another layer of maturity to the conversation. He’s conscious of how he’s been perceived in the past, doing the work on himself through therapy, and developing a clearer picture of what he wants out of surfing and life. He’s also refreshingly forthcoming about the less glamorous biz of getting there: sobriety, self-belief, self-respect and the ongoing shitfight that is learning to be content with yourself. Following the conversation with Albee, we hear from Dakota Walters, Surf100 big-cheese winner and one half of the brother duo behind Duality, Ocean & Earth’s new feature-length film. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Patagonia, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Goodles, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.The Yellow Jerseys Are Lying To You
Mikey is still trying to figure out how to tend to an infant (they don't need water and you're not supposed to give them honey), so BDPS and Holden Tourniquet recap Cloud 9, break down world title scenarios …
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Mikey is still trying to figure out how to tend to an infant (they don't need water and you're not supposed to give them honey), so BDPS and Holden Tourniquet recap Cloud 9, break down world title scenarios, and update you on all things Stab.Is The Surf Industry Having A Crisis Of Imagination? | StabMic Ep. 37 | Pat Towersey
“If you go into a surf shop blindfolded, and taste test every product, it’s all the exact same. So many of the brands have become versions of one another.” This week on StabMic: a dose of nostalgia, a trip …
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“If you go into a surf shop blindfolded, and taste test every product, it’s all the exact same. So many of the brands have become versions of one another.” This week on StabMic: a dose of nostalgia, a trip through surfing’s recent history, and a little healthy scrutiny of the modern surf industry, courtesy of Pat Towersey. A former pro surfer, longtime industry hand and now the founder and creative force behind concept brand Western Hydrodynamic Research, Pat has spent decades in the surf industry’s sausage factory. He’s got a few things to say about the meat. Sam McIntosh and Dooma are on hand to give him a decent squeeze, and find out what’s been fermenting all these years. Expect a few gentle shots at the surfing’s creative rut, its wardrobe of near-identical brands, the little shorts creeping down your shins, and the state of surf marketing. Pat somehow manages to deliver all this with the demeanour of a man who wouldn’t step on a cockroach. He’d cradle it in his hands, give it a little stroke, escort it outside and send it on its way with a kiss and a wish of good luck. Soft-spoken, affable, almost apologetic, even when offering some fairly candid thoughts on the business he’s spent much of his life in. For all the industry’s commercial contortions, there’s still something worth preserving, Pat reckons: the people, and the human connections that surfing has a habit of producing. If you ever find yourself alone, drink in hand, fire crackling, thinking fondly of the ’90s, Momentum Generation, Bruce Irons and Matt Archbold, and the time when professional surfers seemed to be carrying a few more unresolved personal matters, you’ll probably enjoy this. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Patagonia, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.Is Cloud 9 The Most High-Perf Wave On Tour?
Mikey is figuring out how to be a dad, so BDPS talks Cloud 9 with an experienced father (Stace, who packs his kids sushi for school lunch). Then he chats with Holden RVCA about all things Stab, including the …
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Mikey is figuring out how to be a dad, so BDPS talks Cloud 9 with an experienced father (Stace, who packs his kids sushi for school lunch). Then he chats with Holden RVCA about all things Stab, including the new film 'Inflation Point,' and whether or not keeping an impact vest in your car keeps you safer in the water.Menaces To The Establishment: Sierra Kerr & Erin Brooks | StabMic Ep.35
The winningest surfer in Stab High history, freshly qualified for the Championship Tour, a prodigy of two densely populated, heavily militarised territories — the United States and Snapper Rocks — opens her …
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The winningest surfer in Stab High history, freshly qualified for the Championship Tour, a prodigy of two densely populated, heavily militarised territories — the United States and Snapper Rocks — opens her laptop and calls into a studio in Ventura. Later, another prodigy, and one of only five surfers in history to win three CT events in a row, in just her second season on tour, no less, opens her laptop and does the same. Both women are 19 years old, and if the prophecy holds, could become two of the most dominant surfers the sport has ever seen, reigning over the sea with the sort of authority once wielded by the pirate queen Ching Shih. Their only credible challenger, in time, may be each other. Their names are Sierra Kerr and Erin Brooks. Last week, we summoned both to discuss their recent conquests: Sierra qualifying for the CT, Erin winning three events on the trot, for episode 35 of StabMic. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.Who Got Robbed At Supertubos?
It's not who you think... Mikey and Buck discuss the recently departed Rip Curl Pro Portugal, a new Stab film, a Stab Edit of the Year entry, WSL vs. ISA beef, the Australian storm and more.
Dave Rastovich & Dane Reynolds On The Meaninglessness Of Surfing | StabMic Ep. 35
Dave Rastovich has travelled the globe campaigning for porpoise welfare. He helped pioneer Shipsterns, appeared in some of the most impactful surf films of a generation, and managed to make surfing pay without …
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Dave Rastovich has travelled the globe campaigning for porpoise welfare. He helped pioneer Shipsterns, appeared in some of the most impactful surf films of a generation, and managed to make surfing pay without getting too involved in the business of making surfing pay. He's also managed to go uninfected by internet brain rot. Never been exposed to the psychic debris of being online. He knows nothing of the daily nonsense that occupies the rest of us, and seems to have suffered no great loss as a result. Anyway, Rasta has made it to the StabMic desk. It’s a rare sighting beyond his Northern Rivers property of abundance, this time in California to tour Sensing Home, his new film with Patagonia. Dave talks about getting stoned in Mundaka and realising he wasn’t going to pursue the tour, the parallels between surfing and sex (and why the viewing experience of both can be a little disheartening), and how surfing can be simultaneously meaningless and essential to a good life. Mostly, though, it’s two of surfing’s more fascinating specimens, Dane and Dave, both famously elusive in their own ways, in the same room talking shit for two hours. A double feature for the romantically inclined, eye candy for the surf nerd. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, Colby +, Patagonia, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.Surfer allegations update + our Portugal Picks
Everything we know (for now) about the allegations against Al Cleland Jr, and a Rip Curl Pro Portugal preview.
How A Doctor Of Physical Therapy Is Changing Surfboard Design | StabMic Ep. 34
The sun never sets in the EAST, and New York City never sleeps. A match made in insomnia, and we figured the two ought to meet. Last week, we gathered at Vans Skate Space in Brooklyn for the finale of EAST …
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The sun never sets in the EAST, and New York City never sleeps. A match made in insomnia, and we figured the two ought to meet. Last week, we gathered at Vans Skate Space in Brooklyn for the finale of EAST starring Harry Bryant, where we crowned Ashton Pickle heavyweight champion of the weird. The next day, we took the party to 90th Street, where attendees got to test drive Haz’s EAST quiver. Having made a day of the beach, we made an evening of the bar. Ashton, Harry and Dooma took the hot seat at Bungalow Bar retired for a live StabMic, with special appearances from Mikey Feb, Danny Johnson and Dugong breeder, Will Solly. Our thanks to Kona Big Wave and Vans for bringing EAST to New York, and to Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, and Vaer for making StabMic possible."I'm the best shaper in the world... it's not an ego thing"
Who said it? If you watched the EAST finale with Harry Bryant, you already know the answer. If not, have a listen here as Mikey and Buck discuss the spectacular way in which our annual alt board fiasco …
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Who said it? If you watched the EAST finale with Harry Bryant, you already know the answer. If not, have a listen here as Mikey and Buck discuss the spectacular way in which our annual alt board fiasco concluded. Genuine shock and awe thanks to the wizardry of Danny Johnson (and a bit of Haz). Also in this ep: - Does Japan have the best localism? - How many rails is too many rails? - Which surfer is owning 2026? And more.DEFECT: In Conversation | StabMic Ep. 33
In Episode #33 of StabMic, Hunter Martinez, Dane Reynolds, and Jake Kelley sit down with Dooma to talk through the making of DEFECT. We let the film run, and we let the boys talk to it. Stories of great value …
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In Episode #33 of StabMic, Hunter Martinez, Dane Reynolds, and Jake Kelley sit down with Dooma to talk through the making of DEFECT. We let the film run, and we let the boys talk to it. Stories of great value ensue: misadventures in an Indonesian corner named after the phallic appendage of one sailor-surfer, the music choices, the trips, and an additional clip of Dane running shirtless through a cemetery, narrated by Chris Hemsworth. This is DEFECT, explained by the chefs themselves. For those keeping score, we missed a week. DEFECT was meant to be Episode #32, but music licensing issues threatened to consign it to the dustbin of digital history. Happily, the threat has passed, and DEFECT shall remain on the internet for eternity. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark, Colby +, and Vaer for making StabMic possible.The Ethics Of Surf Filmmaking
What's off limits in 2026? Mikey and Buck discuss our members' response to Steko's divisive new film 'Fudo'— namely, the "crimes "of IP theft and sex appeal. Also on the docket: a Quik Fest review, an EAST Fest …
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What's off limits in 2026? Mikey and Buck discuss our members' response to Steko's divisive new film 'Fudo'— namely, the "crimes "of IP theft and sex appeal. Also on the docket: a Quik Fest review, an EAST Fest pump up (more below), a Stab High announcement, interviews with the Lowers winners, our first 2028 Olympians and more. PS: If you're in NYC, join us this Friday, Oct 2 and Saturday, Oct 3 for EAST Fest with Harry Bryant, Mikey Feb and Mason Ho. October 2 is the world premiere of Harry Bryant’s EAST finale at Vans Skate Space 198. Doors open at 6 pm. Live music to follow, and Kona Big Waves available for those 21+. October 3 is a group surf day at 90th st. in Rockaway Beach, followed by a live Stab Mic recording. Times TBD, check our IG for more info.The Day Greg Long Drowned | StabMic Ep. 32
“I look back on that moment as the single most important moment of my life.” Quite a thing to say about the day you died. On December 21, 2012, Greg Long suffered a three-wave hold-down at Cortez Bank and …
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“I look back on that moment as the single most important moment of my life.” Quite a thing to say about the day you died. On December 21, 2012, Greg Long suffered a three-wave hold-down at Cortez Bank and clinically drowned. Greg was wearing the first iteration of the flotation vest developed by Shane Dorian and Billabong. He yanked the trigger, but it didn’t inflate. He tried again. And again. Nothing. No air came. The vest was faulty. His team found him, and he was brought back from the brink. The vest emerged around 2012, as paddle surfing began pushing into territory that had previously been reserved for tow surfing. Sion Milosky’s death made the risks harder to dismiss. If the pursuit was going to continue, they needed a way out when things went bad. Greg eventually began working with Patagonia. After years of R&D, they released the first PSI vest to the public in 2017. Nobody has drowned while wearing one. Now, nearly a decade later, they’re releasing its second iteration. Alongside the new vest, Patagonia and Stab are releasing Inflation Point, coming soon to Stab Premium. Greg joins us at the desk to talk about the new film, the experience of drowning, the importance of safety, and the paradox of the PSI vest: the safer you make something, the more tempting it can become to push further. Greg says more people are paddling out underprepared, convinced they’re harder to kill than they are, with the vest as a kind of guardian angel. It was never meant to be used that way. We also hear from fellow big-wave surfer Izzi Gomez, who recently released Chrysalis, a film about her own journey with big-wave surfing and mental health. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, Devium, Yucca Fins, Roark and Vaer for making StabMic possible.Who Stole Harry's Board + A Critical Lowers Recap
When the sun sets on one lineup (Lowers), it rises in another (La Graviere). This week, Mikey and Buck discuss the last CT event before the post-season plus the non-sanctioned event that is currently taking …
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When the sun sets on one lineup (Lowers), it rises in another (La Graviere). This week, Mikey and Buck discuss the last CT event before the post-season plus the non-sanctioned event that is currently taking France by storm (Quik Fest). Also: Ageist theory from the latest EAST ep + how many hours you need to improve at surfing, according to Nate Florence.Joel Parkinson Enters The Confessional | StabMic Ep. 31
“I’m not sure if I’m allowed to tell this story… But I’m gonna do it anyway.” The best stories tend to live on the wrong side of the velvet rope, and every so often a gentleman must ignore the bouncer and let …
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“I’m not sure if I’m allowed to tell this story… But I’m gonna do it anyway.” The best stories tend to live on the wrong side of the velvet rope, and every so often a gentleman must ignore the bouncer and let the public in. Parko, being a gentleman of considerable repute, has brought several such stories with him. Bisous! Fresh off the Surf100 $100k Finale, where the public judges may have been a touch less charitable than the man deserved, Parko joins Dane and Dooma at the StabMic desk to unpack the experience of putting a jersey back on, and what he’s been doing since hanging it up for good in 2018 after almost two decades on tour. There’s an obvious bit of crossover here, too. Joel spent the entirety of Dane’s relatively brief CT career on tour, before Dane left the building and Joel eventually did the same. Between them, they’ve seen enough of the institution from the inside to have developed some opinions on how the thing is constructed. It’s a good old-fashioned trip down the rabbit hole. The contents of said hole: waking Adriano De Souza from his slumber for the traditional Namotu Skulldrag onslaught, the night before a heat, only to face Dane Reynolds in that very heat; rescuing Kelly Slater; the early days of the Cooly kids; Joel’s diagnosis of what the modern tour has lost; and a tantalising hint at a new film project in the works with Mick. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.A $100k Judging Controversy + Lowers CT Picks
Surf100 spoilers + a Lowers preview. Mikey C is joined by Buck and Stace.
Cloudy Report: Questionable 10s, Kelly Call-Outs & Late-Season Title Runs
Cloudbreak just concluded with more questions than answers... Who was actually surfing well, and who was doing the bare minimum? Who gets priority when skis are involved? And how does the Abu Dhabi news affect …
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Cloudbreak just concluded with more questions than answers... Who was actually surfing well, and who was doing the bare minimum? Who gets priority when skis are involved? And how does the Abu Dhabi news affect the world's best surfers? Stace G and Mikey C investigate.How Zeke Lau Became Surfing’s Villain | StabMic Ep. 30
Coming into this year’s Surf100 Challenger Series, Zeke Lau’s reputation preceded him. Part of the calculation in casting him was that his history of hyper-competitive, occasionally confrontational surfing …
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Coming into this year’s Surf100 Challenger Series, Zeke Lau’s reputation preceded him. Part of the calculation in casting him was that his history of hyper-competitive, occasionally confrontational surfing might make for good television. Zeke as antagonist, Zeke as disruptor, Zeke as villain. But, as anyone who’s been keeping up with the show knows, Zeke doesn’t really seem to be that guy anymore. He was also only a kid when he was on tour. Now he’s a dad, humble in defeat, generous with the other contestants, and enthusiastic about drinking beer. Josiah even wrote an essay about how much he loves him. Here, in episode 30 of StabMic, Zeke revisits both the John John incident at Bells and the Jacob Willcox incident at Margaret River, offering previously unknown context around what led to each, alongside a little insight into his upbringing and psychology that might explain why he did what he did. And looking back eight years on, does anyone even still have a problem with Zeke big-dogging John? Sport is, after all, a ritualised form of conflict. The old human appetite for competition, dominance and spectacle, with most of the blood taken out. We’ve agreed not to kill anybody these days, but the appetite hasn’t changed. Conflict creates stakes, and stakes are what make us care. Every good story needs a bastard, and Zeke, for a while, seemed happy enough to volunteer. We could certainly use one on tour now, eh? Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Vaer, Dome Dust, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.Roasted by Reynolds
A Drop of epic proportions. Harry Bryant fin discourse, a Dane vs. Joel Tudor music beef, Shane Dorian's tips on aging and an interview with the Hog? Yep, all inside.
Harry Bryant On EAST, Big-Wave Psychology & Fin-Gate | StabMic Ep. 29
Though not quite as internet-breaking as Kim Kardashian’s bare-cheeked, gravity defying Paper Magazine shoot back in 2014, nor inspiring quite the same conspiratorial energy as the great Slater-Mann affair of …
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Though not quite as internet-breaking as Kim Kardashian’s bare-cheeked, gravity defying Paper Magazine shoot back in 2014, nor inspiring quite the same conspiratorial energy as the great Slater-Mann affair of early 2026, the first episode of Harry Bryant’s EAST produced a similarly divided response. Some hot and bothered, taking a long, appreciative look at the unusual shapes, admiring the more exaggerated features; others left jostled by the jarring exhibit, muttering that they’d seen enough. Not entirely dissimilar from Kimmy, actually. Before filming, Haz was our most requested EAST pilot, and in episode one he certainly came in hot. Direct and matter-of-fact, he offered his opinions on boards with the bluntness of a mechanic telling you what’s wrong with your car. It was the kind of thing Mikey Feb was heavily criticised for in the opposite direction: being too polite with his feedback. Haz, well, he’s certainly on the other end of the spectrum, and the comments section was quick to let him know. “It doesn’t always have to be brutal, but the best boards I’ve ever had, and the best relationships I’ve had with shapers are when you provide them with honest feedback,” Haz says here. “If you just say the board goes good, then they’ve got nothing to go off.” Viewers also took issue with Harry’s refusal to ride the fins the shapers had supplied specifically for their boards. One submission came with a 2+1 setup rather than a thruster. Harry, having been handed the diminutive rear fin, chose instead to trust his own theory, replacing the dwarf with a fully grown one. The decision was particularly spicy because the board had been submitted by Tom Morat, with whom Harry has some history, including a rather uncomfortable exchange at the Palm Springs wave pool last year. To his credit, Harry addresses the whole thing here. He says he had no idea the board was Morat’s when he made the call, and insists his fin decision had nothing to do with their previous beef. He also concedes that he may have got it wrong, while making clear that he respects shapers who supply fins with their boards — a gesture, he says, that shows care and consideration for how the board is meant to be surfed. All of which, plus considerably more, makes for a rather different Harry Bryant from the one the comment section spent the past week flogging. Affable, thoughtful and refreshingly willing to interrogate his own behaviour, Haz gets his chance to make his case. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Vaer, Dome Dust, Colby +, TurtleBox, Visit Dominican Republic, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.Cloudy Picks + A Cole Houshmand Cameo Live From Tavarua
How does it feel to jump from a two-story building onto three feet of reef? We asked Cole Houshmand after a recent Cloudbreak hiding... from the sands of Tavarua Island Resort. Finally, Stace G and Mikey C dive …
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How does it feel to jump from a two-story building onto three feet of reef? We asked Cole Houshmand after a recent Cloudbreak hiding... from the sands of Tavarua Island Resort. Finally, Stace G and Mikey C dive into their Cloudbreak picks and predictions. Comp starts tomorrow!The Year Cocaine Washed Up in France | StabMic Ep. 28 | Paul Evans
“Between Christmas 2003 and New Year 2024, packages of cocaine started washing up along the beaches of Southwest France. National television news reports carried the story of the coke de la plage — the beach …
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“Between Christmas 2003 and New Year 2024, packages of cocaine started washing up along the beaches of Southwest France. National television news reports carried the story of the coke de la plage — the beach cocaine, around a month after the first local rumours of finds emerged. One TV report on France 2, 30th Jan 2004, stated one-and-a-half tonnes had been recovered along French and Spanish coasts that month. If that’s just what the authorities had found, it’s safe to assume lots, lots more had been picked up by members of the public, mostly surfers.” - Paul Evans. Our guest this week is WSL commentator, Surf Europe editor, Stab contributor, and, as of a couple of weeks ago, the creator, producer and host of a long-form narrative podcast about cocaine. It was late 2003, and Paul had recently moved to southwest France from the UK, initially seduced by the prospect of good, uncrowded waves and rumours of mystics like Tom Curren and Robbie Page having made a life there. A few months later, bundles of pure Colombian cocaine started washing up on the beach. Paul first heard about it from a hitchhiker he picked up. The man had travelled several hundred kilometres from Toulouse and seemed remarkably determined to reach the coast that day, despite the weather. It had something of the sirens about it: a gift from the sea that was difficult to resist. Only here, instead of a beautiful song and certain death, it was exceptionally pure cocaine washing up on the beach, floating around in the lineup, offering a direct challenge to your capacity for restraint. What followed was a summer of abundance, debauchery, good waves and various forms of personal ruin, eventually building to a crescendo at the Quiksilver Pro France in 2004. The waves were pumping. Bruce and Andy Irons met in the final. The afterparty that followed, you'd have to imagine, given the situation and what was essentially being handed out to all, was fairly substantial. As Paul says in the podcast: “It’s kind of cliché… everyone refers to their youth as the best times in the world, but objectively, some of those people are right.” If you’re partial to good, uncrowded waves, a cacophony of beautiful women, and happen to possess even a passing curiosity about the sensation of your mouth going numb after sampling some uncut Colombian cocaine, then you’d have a hard time arguing against this as a purple patch in the history of mankind. Humanity has definitely had worse summers and here, Paul talks about how he went about telling that story. This is the making of Hossegor Beach Cocaine, told by its creator, Paul Evans. his is the making of Hossegor Beach Cocaine, told by its creator, Paul Evans. You can listen to the episode one for free here. Episodes 2-4 will live exclusively on Stab Premium and the Stab Premium app. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Vaer, Dome Dust, SlowTide, TurtleBox, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.Cocaine Spoons & Raw Cowabunga Spirit
We could all use a little Yolanda in our lives. This week, Buck confronts Mikey C on his failed QS campaign. Then the boys chat Tahiti, EAST with Harry B, cocaine spoons, the best surf bikinis and more.
Kolohe Andino Is Sick Of Watching Surfers Eat Breakfast | StabMic Ep. 27
“Everyone’s trying to sell the core thing, so we actually went for corny.” Kolohe Andino and his brand, Steko, have a new surf film, Fudo, coming to theatres in late August, followed by a run of premieres …
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“Everyone’s trying to sell the core thing, so we actually went for corny.” Kolohe Andino and his brand, Steko, have a new surf film, Fudo, coming to theatres in late August, followed by a run of premieres before eventually landing on Stab Premium shortly thereafter. From the trailers and clips released so far, it’s clear a serious amount of effort has gone into making the thing: week-long setups for elaborate concept shoots, multiple international trips, a hired snake, and a deliberate move away from what Kolohe sees as an increasingly exhausted aesthetic — the Y2K-heavy, aggressively “core” fetishisation of surfing that has dominated the last five years or so. In its place is something Kolohe thinks surfing has lost, but which was abundant when he was coming up during the Joe G and Kai Neville era: style, artifice, mystique, and, above all, the simple biz of making surfers look cool. Fudo wears those influences openly, with the trailer borrowing liberally from the visual grammar and, in places, the actual concepts of those earlier films. Kolohe is upfront about the borrowing, seeing Fudo as a way to pump some air back into an old wheel he thinks has gone flat. Part of that, he argues, means giving surfers back a little mystique, rather than encouraging them to squeeze and share their lives into a vertical rectangle. Kolohe thinks brands have become too eager to merchandise the entirety of their surfers, and in doing so have diminished one of the things that made surfers compelling in the first place. The coolest surfers, in his mind, are the ones you can’t quite get your hands around, the ones who retain some fog around the edges, and certainly aren’t livestreaming the full record of their existence, a la Clavicular. It’s strange, then, to consider Kolohe’s progression: once-in-a-generation prodigy, pursued by every brand under the sun; top-five Championship Tour surfer who perhaps never quite satisfied the enormous expectations attached to his name; premature retiree from competitive surfing; and now brand owner, cultural critic and surfer-philanthropist, attempting to excavate the thing he fell in love with when he was a teenager. Jordy Smith joins Dooma as co-host, and the lads get into tour expectations, Kolohe putting millions of his own money into Steko, his final against Italo at D-Bah, the lingering brat reputation that followed him around the tour, his habit of putting fists through boards after losing, rookie-year Ethan Ewing thinking Kolohe was a pussy, and plenty more. Thanks to our partners at Red Bull, Vaer, Dome Dust, SlowTide, TurtleBox, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.Kelly Combos Medina, Calls Out His Arch Nemesis
Why did Kelly win that heat against Gabriel Medina? It wasn't for his thousands of fans, his young family, or even himself. It was for Ronnie Nelson. Let's drop in.
Mason Ho On Farming, Andy Irons, And The Day He Punched Kelly Slater | StabMic Ep. 26
For most non-human animals, if you think about it hard enough, you can place yourself inside their brains and assume their experience of the world based on their behaviour. We observe, infer motivation, project …
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For most non-human animals, if you think about it hard enough, you can place yourself inside their brains and assume their experience of the world based on their behaviour. We observe, infer motivation, project our own experience onto theirs, and arrive at some rough approximation of an inner life. The further down the mammalian ladder you go, the easier this can seem. A small mammal wants food, wants sex, wants to avoid being eaten. A reptile might want much the same. Strip away the elaborate machinery of human society, and it’s not really all that different from our own lives, at the end of it all. If there is something it is like to be something, something we can relate to through our own experience, then bang, you’re in the territory of consciousness. Or so said Thomas Nagel in his 1974 essay, What Is It Like to Be a Bat? The essay became one of the foundational attempts to articulate the problem of consciousness: not simply what a brain does, but what it is actually like to be the thing possessing it. It is one of the enduring problems in the philosophy of mind, and one science has yet to put entirely to bed. But it’s 2026 now, and the literature is due for an update. Surely it’s about time someone wrote the follow-up: What Is It Like to Be Mason Ho? One would imagine that, were we somehow able to peer directly into the subjective experience of Mason, to see the world, for a moment, as Mason sees it, the implications for our understanding of consciousness would be considerable. Is it like something to be Mason Ho? After watching this episode, it is difficult to say. What we can establish is that he is a gifted storyteller, and a particularly unusual one. In this episode, he touches on rubbing Andy Irons' face, punching Kelly Slater, forgetting his own age, his new passion for farming and how it has improved his surfing, being nice to judges even when he feels wronged by them, Jimi Hendrix, LSD, his dad and uncle, and much, much, much more. Saddle up. It's a long one, but to cut it down any further would be to interfere with the integrity of the anthropological record. Thanks to our partners at RedBull, Vaer, Dome Dust, SlowTide, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.Hossegor Beach Cocaine Ep 1: Y2K to Infinity
Remember when thousands of kilos of cocaine washed up on the shores of Hossegor, France, in the early 2000s, upending the entire surf community for years to come? Paul Evans does. In this Stab Premium podcast …
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Remember when thousands of kilos of cocaine washed up on the shores of Hossegor, France, in the early 2000s, upending the entire surf community for years to come? Paul Evans does. In this Stab Premium podcast series, Paul speaks with dozens of people involved in southwest France's cocaine scandal and how it affected their no-longer sleepy surf village — and pro surfing as a whole. Episode 1 is available for free above. Episodes 2-4 will be available exclusively on the Stab Premium app, dropping every Friday starting on August 14. This is Hossegor Beach Cocaine.A Wildcard May Just Win In Tahiti
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Jamie O’Brien Doesn’t Believe Pro Surfers Are Core | StabMic Ep. 25
Who is JOB, really? One of the greatest surfers of his generation, for one. At Pipe, he’s right there in the best-ever conversation, on any respectable list. In terms of pure comfort at one of the deadliest …
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Who is JOB, really? One of the greatest surfers of his generation, for one. At Pipe, he’s right there in the best-ever conversation, on any respectable list. In terms of pure comfort at one of the deadliest waves on the planet, he’s the prize mattress in the showroom. Five stars, perfect lumbar support. He toys with Pipe like the reef beneath him is a foam pit rather than a death trap, riding colourful pool toys and soft tops through a place that has humbled generations of very serious adults. Naturally, he’s now selling his own soft-top brand, Fun Days Surf. If you’re going to spend your life doing something ridiculous, you may as well own the factory. Build a business around your bad habits. The venture marks a clean break from Catch Surf, the brand he helped build. Jamie gets into the split in this episode, and he has plenty to say about how it all unfolded. “Sometimes people forget about the value you bring to the brand,” he says. “When they forget about that, it’s time to forget about them.” And though it seems perfectly ordinary now, a grown man wandering down the beach, board under one arm, phone held high in the other, live-commentating one’s own existence, it wasn’t always this way. Jamie essentially invented surf vlogging. At one of the most intimidating, tradition-bound waves in the world, no less. Imagine the abuse he copped, paddling out with a camera pointed at his own face. Then again, it helps when you’re one of the best to ever surf the place. Genius affords a certain social licence. Jamie is also a vocal advocate for saying exactly what he thinks, and he’s refreshingly punchy here. He names his greatest Pipe surfers of all time, unpacks what really happened with Catch Surf, and argues that most people claiming to be “core” are still cashing cheques from surf brands, which by his definition at least, means they’re not core at all. Thanks to our partners at RedBull, Vaer, Dome Dust, SlowTide, and Devium, for making StabMic possible.
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