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

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Dirty Water is a one-hour hit of fruitless discourse where opinion is everything and facts rarely matter. Hosted by best-selling authors Chas Smith and Derek Rielly.

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    • Jan 8, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 8m AVG DURATION
    • 64 EPISODES

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    The Dirty Water: The BeachGrit Podcast featuring Chas Smith and Derek Rielly is a must-listen for any surfer or fan of surf culture. This podcast brings the humor and irreverence of Beach Grit to audio form, providing entertaining interviews and engaging discussions. One particular highlight is when Longtom appears as a guest, as his insights and anecdotes are always gems that enhance the listening experience.

    One of the best aspects of this podcast is the quality of the interviews. Derek and Chas do their homework ahead of time, ensuring they ask probing questions that allow their guests to open up and share things they wouldn't normally reveal. Their easygoing banter also helps create a relaxed environment where guests feel comfortable sharing their stories. In addition, Derek's intros alone are worth tuning in for, as they often set the tone for an engaging and entertaining episode.

    However, there are a few downsides to this podcast. While the humor and irreverence can be enjoyable, it may not be everyone's cup of tea. Some listeners may prefer a more serious and focused discussion on surfing topics without as many humorous tangents. Additionally, the podcast occasionally veers into inside jokes or references that may not be readily understood by all listeners, particularly those who are new to Beach Grit or surf culture in general.

    In conclusion, The Dirty Water: The BeachGrit Podcast featuring Chas Smith and Derek Rielly is a highly entertaining surf podcast that offers great interviews and hilarious banter. It captures the essence of surf culture through its humor and irreverence while still providing insightful discussions about the sport. Despite some inside jokes and tangents that may not resonate with all listeners, this podcast is well worth tuning into for anyone looking for an enjoyable dose of surf culture.



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    WSL shill Chris Cote on the joys of toxic positivity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2024 26:09


    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!

    Malibu realtor dubbed “Angriest Man in Surfing” details wild struggle as enforcer at world's most crowded wave, “People think I'm crazy but I'm trying to regulate a crowd of f$#king idiots!”

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2022 53:18


    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.

    Peter Mel on fist fighting, his bombshell wave at Mavericks and the reckless flirtation with Methamphetamine that nearly put him behind bars, “When you're at your lowest it feels nothing can help you!”

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 44:36


    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.

    Dirty Water with existentialist Julian Wilson, “I thought I watched Bruce Irons die in front of me, I thought I watched Nathan Fletcher die in front of me, I thought I was going to die!”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2022 47:30


    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.      

    Dirty Water with eighties superstar Gary "Kong" Elkerton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 49:14


    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. 

    Dirty Water with Barton Lynch

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2022 42:29


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

    Former rookie of the year Ryan Callinan, sacrificed on altar of mid-tour cut, on the “weight of prophecy” and the pain of “fading into nothingness”!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 28:58


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

    Grajagan pioneer Peter McCabe on running kilos of Bolivian cocaine, raising hell into his sixties and being “bent over” by yoga queen Gerry Lopez!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2022 33:51


    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.

    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 33:32


    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.

    Breakthrough big-wave surfer Mason Barnes on riding a 126.5-foot wave, "When it came in it looked terrifying. I almost didn't go!"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:45


    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.

    Ronnie "Skull" Hill, the king of jetboarding, ruler of Shark Island

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2022 39:32


    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.

    Dirty Water Episode 52 with Steve Sherman

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2022 60:19


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

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    Dirty Water, episode 51, with Jon von Tesmar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2022 43:53


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

    Dirty Water, episode 50, with former world #2 Brad Gerlach

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2021 68:11


    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.

    Episode #50 Featuring David Rensin

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2021 59:47


    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.

    Episode #49 Featuring Sid Abruzzi

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 60:40


    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.

    Episode #48 Featuring Koa Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2021 50:58


    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.

    Dirty Water #47 Featuring Maurice Cole

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2021 77:17


    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.

    Dirty Water #45 Featuring Malia Ward

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2021 57:35


    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.

    Dirty Water #44 Featuring Lucy Small

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 57:30


    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.

    Dirty Water #43 - Featuring Anastasia Ashley

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2021 47:25


    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.

    Dirty Water #42 - Featuring Peter Maguire

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2021 101:13


    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.

    Dirty Water #41 - Featuring Luke Stedman

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 71:29


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

    Dirty Water #40 - Featuring Brett Simpson

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 87:00


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

    Dirty Water #40 - Featuring Steve 'Longtom' Shearer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021 63:52


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

    Dirty Water #38 - Featuring Scott Caan

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 76:31


    Dirty Water #37 - Featuring Neco Padaratz

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2020 72:57


    Dirty Water #36 - Featuring Sean Doherty

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 86:29


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

    Dirty Water #35 - Featuring Mark 'Occy' Occhilupo

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 75:16


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

    Dirty Water #34 - Featuring Ian 'Kanga' Cairns

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 78:39


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

    Dirty Water #33 - Featuring Barton Lynch

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 82:49


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

    Dirty Water #32 - Featuring Wayne Cleveland

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2020 68:30


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

    Dirty Water #31 - Featuring Michael Oblowitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 71:57


    Dirty Water #30 - The BeachGrit Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2020 73:11


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

    Dirty Water #29 - Featuring Chris Burkard

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 81:06


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

    Dirty Water #28 - Featuring Mark Mathews

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 62:48


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

    Dirty Water #27 - Featuring Peter Schroff

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2020 55:55


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

    Dirty Water #26 - Featuring Greg Webber

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2020 92:40


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

    Dirty Water #24 - Rumble at the Ranch Post Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 77:47


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

    Dirty Water #23 - Featuring Kai Lenny

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 90:15


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

    Dirty Water #22 - The BeachGrit Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2020 98:07


    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.

    Dirty Water #21 - Featuring Bobby Martinez

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 81:08


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

    Dirty Water #20 - Featuring Britt Merrick

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 89:23


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

    Dirty Water #19 - Featuring Caio Ibelli

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2020 89:38


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

    Dirty Water #18 - The BeachGrit Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2020 70:26


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

    Dirty Water #17 - Featuring Jeremy Flores

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2020 97:48


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

    Dirty Water #16 - Featuring Shane Beschen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2020 80:37


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

    Dirty Water #15 - Featuring Kolohe Andino

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 106:13


    Dirty Water #14 - Featuring Tom Lochtefeld

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 81:08


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

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