Dirty Water: The BeachGrit Podcast featuring Chas Smith and Derek Rielly

If you knew Chris Cote like I know Chris Cote, you'd find the sweetest Peewee Herman-esque lover of life, gags, tumbling, surf all day, no-alcohol parties all night, and positivity wherever he can find it. Also a shill for the World Surf League, but we all gotta make a living, the truth be told. The respect is mutual, as you might imagine, with Chris Cote describing Chas Smith as the Tucker Carlson of surf media and BeachGrit as the sport's own Fox News. A heady double compliment!

Today's guest Andy Lyon is the Malibu realtor and First Point surfer of fifty years who achieved a considerable notoriety recently when he threw a rock into another man's surfboard following an entanglement, the video of the event going viral.  He lost his job, had his address published and a beat down was suggested his four year old kid Glider.  Lyon represents a vanishing era where lineups were harshly policed with a clearly defined pecking order, a limpid simplicity greased with the underlying threat of violence.  The highlight, for me, of this interview is our guest's reply to the posit that Malibu is a sissy wave for old men and girls, not sissy old men who beat up on girls.

Mel, who is fifty-three, no longer has the foaming jaws of a meth addict. Today he is the sort of man who loves his children with a passion, his parents with respect, his wife with generosity and his friends with loyalty. He wears slightly too big flannel shirts and pants with stone washing applied at the factory. On January 8 last year, Pete rode a thirty-foot tube at Mavs. “Everyone on earth should see this ride,” said Kelly Slater. In this interview, Pete talks about how he stuck his lance into that monster thirty-foot wave at Maverick's neck, how he was lucky to avoid jail during his meth years and the mysterious beauty of BeachGrit's below-the-line commentators.

This episode of Dirty Water hits a high-water mark as Ben Mondy peels layers from "the best surfer in his generation never to win a world title" Julian Wilson. Many revelations, including Julian's arrest as a teen, the day he stared death in the face, not just his own, but Bruce Irons', Nathan Fletcher's and Maya Gaberia's, how he was forced to become the family breadwinner at fifteen after his mama got hit with breast cancer and why he wanted to beat hell out of a fellow competitor. Essential.      

Today's guest on Dirty Water brought a brutal, but beautiful, savagery to professional surfing.  His fav tee featured a skull and the slogan Kill Em All God Will Sort Em Out and he was the star of the Quiksilver ad If You Can't Rock and Roll Don't Fucken Come.  He's a three-time runner up to the world title, two of ‘em in excruciatingly controversial circumstances, although he evened the ledger a little later in his career by winning three Masters world titles. He was the King of Sunset, a Pipeline Master and had the extraordinary ability to gain fifteen pounds for added ballast during the Hawaiian season, then shred thirty prior to hitting the small wave events.  But as my old friend Rob Bain told me recently, as the legend fades, and  real life starts to stare back at you it's a challenge to navigate the autumn years in peaceful contentment. 

Join the Dirty Water fellas as they talk the latest with former pro-surfer, Baron Lynch!

In this episode of Dirty Water, Newcastle surfer Ryan Callinan talks about the mid-tour cut, and his opinion will surprise – he digs it!

A thrill, this episode, to feature the Australian goofyfooter and shaper Peter McCabe, one of the pioneers of surfing in Indonesia, including G-Land with his yoga queen pal Gez Lopez. McCabe also talks about the drug-running episode, moving a keg of pure Bolivian ether-washed coke that led to his imprisonment on a Pacific Island for a year and a half, that featured in the still never-released documentary Sea of Darkness.

The last time we saw Adam “Vaughan Dead” Blakey, director of hit surf film, one half of the long-running Ain't That Swell podcast and frontman of the Goons of Doom, he was at last year's Newcastle contest squawking ecstatically, as if he wanted to seize Ryan Callinan in his arms and pull him down between his thighs.    When his hind legs aren't quivering and he's easing his crimson dingus out, Vaughan is a man who straddles better than anybody the the fine line between positive noise and toxic slime.    He loves the BeachGrit commentariat, says “It's the funniest place ever, the amount of energy and fucking brains going into so much tear down… it might be the number place in the world for that style of comedy.” Loves it but he don't engage. "I don't feel smart enough to properly articulate myself in that way… I'm terrified to try and defend myself. When you love everything you open yourself to be torn down by some really smart people.” A startlingly original and hard-boiled lover of surfing. Essential.

One month ago, a little-known surfer from North Carolina shattered the 100-foot wave barrier at Portugal's Nazaré. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mason Hyce Barnes (@masonhycebarnes) In this episode of Dirty Water, Mason reveals to BeachGrit's Ben Mondy what it's like to be dragged into a wave that would be measured at 126.5 feet.

If you were in Sydney at the end of March, y'would've thrown yourself into the dreamiest of four-to-six-foot barrels, pretty wedges wiped smooth by an all-day north-west wind.  Day of the year at most places, one of the best days ever at my local etc. At Cronulla, home to some of the city's finest reefs including but not limited to Voodoo and Shark Island, spectators were thrilled when local legend Ronnie “Skull” Hill fired up his homemade jet-board at the Island, scooping up waves from outside and deep on the reef, before riding to glory.  Following a post on the Instagram account @sufads, however, the figurative knives came out from surfers apparently jealous of Skull's innovative and effective approach to wave-riding.  After wathcing this i think im now done with surfing forever.” “Tbh you have to give the man credit, he has been a pest at shark island for years however on Sunday during a bodyboard comp managed to run through the lineup for about 30 mins. Every single person there told him to fuck off and he just kept doing laps kinda finding it funny hahahahahahaha.” “Is this guy trolling? Looks like hes really trying to piss off the lids??” “…this warrants violence.” Are you pro or anti-jet-board? I'm in the former camp though fear I may be in the minority. This interview took place at Island Inflatables at Menai, just west of Cronulla, where Ronnie has a workshop and where one may examine his miraculous surf-craft.

The Dirty Water Dudes are back to have Steve Sherman on the mic!

The Gents are back in the New Year to sit down with Kite Surfer, Jon von Tesmar. Enjoy!

Today's guest is the son of a Hungarian Olympian who later became a stuntman, and who became famous, in 1971, for jumping out of a hot air balloon and into a three-foot thick foam pad. Our guest retired from the tour at twenty five to pursue the “the artistic side of surfing”. He was one of the first surfers to ride Cortes Bank, one hundred miles out to sea, and and, in 2005, won sixty-eight thousand dollars by riding a sixty-eight foot wave at Todos Santos. He is even lovelier now than when he was at his professional surfing peak in the eighties and nineties. He wears fiery little hats in bottle green, spectacles that shave years off his biological age and his lean body betrays a carnal fluency. Today's guest, Brad Gerlach.

Dirty Water #50 with David Rensin, the celebrated author of Miki Dora biography, All For a Few Perfect Waves. Rensin transcribed one million words in the pursuit of the truth, relatively speaking, of Miki Dora, surfing's great Voodoo god, for his book All For a Few Perfect Waves. Dora was style in the water, suits out of it, convertibles, Hollywood and movie stars. He was also a thief, a scammer and an impossible loner who travelled the world chasing adventure and empty waves, his only real friend a King Charles spaniel called Scooter Boy.Rensin has been a surfer since the sixties and is an author whose skills make me dizzy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dirty Water, episode forty nine, and today's guest is described by BeachGrit writer Steve Rees, as the “most famous surf shop owner in the world” and “Part animal―Part machine―Part idiot.”While other surf shop owners obsequiously lick the boots of the clothing majors, for this is where the cash is, he sticks to his Buell wetsuits and custom boards. If you don't know where his little surf shop is in Newport, Rhode Island, well, good luck finding it. He don't have a website. He is seventy years old, still rides a six-one and he is a skilled persuader for he knows how to worm his way into a tired heart. Today's guest, Mr Sid Abruzzi. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The guys are back again with another top surfer in Koa Smith. Enjoy this episode with one of the cast members of ABC's Ultimate Surfer!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Another great show, another great guest for the Dirty Water Duo. Enjoy, as another great from the surfing world, Maurice Cole, drops in to chat with the fellas!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The guys are joined once again for another awesome show. This time with breakout star of ABC's The Ultimate Surfer, Malia Ward. Enjoy the show!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The fellas are joined for another awesome episode by guest Lucy Small. On this one they discuss the fight for equal prize money amongst men and women, with the female surfing champ. Thanks for coming on Lucy, and enjoy all!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join the gents for another great episode with professional surfer Anastasia Ashley!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

After a 6th month hiatus, Dirty Water makes it's triumphant return. They're joined by Peter Maguire, who's a surfer, turned war crimes investigator and author. A lot to unpack on this great episode. Enjoy the show.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Derek and Chas talk with former CT #10, BJJ purple belt and fashion entrepreneur Luke Stedman

Derek and Chas talk with US Olympic Surf Coach and former CT surfer, Brett Simpson.

Derek Rielly and Chas Smith rap whimsical with BeachGrit's tour correspondent Steve 'Longtom' Shearer.

Derek and Chas talk with actor, Scott Caan

Derek and Chas talk with Brazilian professional surfer Neco Padaratz

Derek and Chas speak with surf journalist, author and activist Sean Doherty

Derek and Chas speak with former world champion and surfing icon, Mark 'Occy' Occhilupo

Derek and Chas speak with big wave surfer and the man many call the founder of professional surfing Ian 'Kanga' Cairns

Derek speaks with 1988 World Champion, Australian Sporting Hall of Fame member, and founder of BL's Blast Off - Barton Lynch.

Derek talks with big wave surfer and convicted drug smuggler, Wayne Cleveland

Derek and Chas speak with film maker Michael Oblowitz

Derek, Chas and Steve 'Longtom' Shearer regather to discuss the current state of the union

Derek and Chas talk with world-renowned photographer and film maker Chris Burkard

Derek and Chas chat with legendary big wave surfer and motivational speaker, Mark Mathews

Derek and Chas chat with surfboard shaper, provocateur, and world-famous sissy boy Peter Schroff

Derek and Chas talk with renowned shaper, wave pool innovator and intellectual Greg Webber

Derek, Chas and Longtom talk the Rumble at the Ranch, Pat Curren's current situation, US politics and more.

Derek and Chas talk with former Waterman of the Year and big wave surfer, Kai Lenny

Derek, Chas and Longtom get together to talk all things... This weeks episode features Kelly Slater trolls, the WSL's Rumble at the Ranch, Great White Sharks, Chas' new book Reports From Hell and more.

Derek and Chas talk with former world number five and fan favourite, Bobby Martinez.

Derek and Chas talk with famed surfboard shaper Britt Merrick of Channel Islands Surfboards.

Derek and Chas talk with Brazilian professional surfer and perennial underdog, Caio Ibelli.

Derek and Chas are joined by Steve 'Longtom' Shearer for a BeachGrit in-house discussion on the current state of surf and more

Derek talks with 2 x Pipe Master and 14 year World-Tour veteran, Jeremy Flores.

Derek and Chas talk with former professional surfer and current coach and businessman, Shane Beschen.

Derek and Chas talk to professional surfer, Kolohe Andino

Derek and Chas are joined by the granddaddy of wave pools, Tom Lochtefeld