The Grit! is a weekly show co-hosted by David Lee Scales and Chas Smith discussing the most scintillating headlines from the surf world and BeachGrit.com. Part of the Surf Splendor Network.
The Grit! with Chas Smith podcast is a refreshing and entertaining addition to the world of surf media. Hosted by David Scales and Chas Smith, this podcast offers honest and humorous conversations about current events in surfing and the surf industry. As an avid podcast listener, I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite podcasts to listen to.
One of the best aspects of The Grit! is the relentless honesty that Scales and Smith bring to their discussions. They don't shy away from expressing their true opinions and perspectives, which makes for refreshing content in a world where surf media can often feel filtered or sanitized. Additionally, their comedic banter and wit keep the episodes entertaining from start to finish. It's like listening to two friends having a genuine conversation about surfing, which is both relatable and enjoyable.
Another standout aspect of The Grit! is its ability to meander through topics just like real conversations do. Scales and Smith don't stick strictly to surf news or surface-level discussions; they take the time to delve deeper into subjects, allowing for more meaningful conversations. This gives the podcast a unique edge compared to other surf media outlets that simply regurgitate headlines or focus on sensationalism.
While there are many positive aspects of The Grit!, it should be noted that some listeners may find certain moments forced or lacking in depth. Occasionally, the hosts veer into Gerry Springer-like moments or engage in debates that seem contrived rather than organic. These moments detract from the overall flow of the podcast and can be seen as unnecessary filler content.
In conclusion, The Grit! with Chas Smith podcast is a must-listen for any surf enthusiast looking for an honest, humorous, and insightful take on current events in surfing and the surf industry. While it may have its occasional missteps, overall, this podcast offers a refreshing perspective on surf culture that keeps listeners entertained and engaged throughout each episode. Give it a listen and prepare to be entertained by the witty banter and genuine conversations between Scales and Smith.
In today's show David ventures into the beach enclave of Virginia Beach to peek behind the curtain of the next great American wave pool, Chas politically correct's his queer VANS, Ethan Ewing breaks the golden rule of dating a younger woman, Dylan Graves reminds all of us to stay off the sofa, and the boys explain why people on airplanes are returning to decency. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David watch Lowers live, bask in the checkered glow of Lance Collins, regret their late appreciation of The Beach Boys, advise when to stop buying underwear for your kids, and Sam George finally confronts Chas face-to-face. Plus Barrel Of Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show gawk as the biggest financial loss in recent surf brand history, reveal the sum Mayhem seeks from Gaga, shudder at Tom Lowe's near fatal wipeout, and explain why you should always push your partner's boundaries but never push them into waves. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas discover that Jordy's Tour career is older than his competitor's girlfriend, explain why you should never paddle back out for another, advise how to transition from heartbreak to mad love, and wince as a favorite pro takes a bone breaking wipeout. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode Chas and David explain where to go when your peak converges with another's, discover that poor spelling reveals you may be “light-brained”, marvel at the sanitation power of the pee-pee touch, and find themselves flummoxed by the power of blowing a kiss. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas discuss the ethics of adult pro surfers dating high-schoolers, the dangers of crying “cyber bully”, an entirely new species of VAL, why you should “woman up”, and the slippery slope of watching fight videos on Instagram. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David give the haziest suggestions for how to win Mother's Day before celebrating the sanitation of ELO's Poo Poo touch, a nostalgic throwback party at Burleigh, determine whether gold chain's help you shred, and admit that they want a peek inside your bathroom medicine cabinet. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas identify the precise perfect sized birth canal, pinpoint the problem with surf Vlogs, discover the orgy that birthed colonized Australia, and explain why you should be wary of anyone who wears a crown of flowers. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas catch a wink from a secret admirer, competitive surfing hits a historic flashpoint on the Bowl, surfer seek retreat back into their mother's womb, and why it's okay to take your wife's surname but you shouldn't do it. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David realize why it's Always Sunny In Surfing, celebrate Sam George, embrace the art of a perfectly timed exit, decide to finally support the disenfranchised, and explain why you should never recline your seat on an airplane. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas celebrate surfing's outlaw DNA, make a case for going straight, Kelly's kid finally picks his own name, locals begin to resent their status, and we learn why dodging the barrel might be the ultimate Barrel. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David returns from El Salvador to share a blueprint for how to thrive in a lineup of COVID VALs, Filipe represents a totem for society's victim mentality, Chas laments the shifting of local enforcer turned playground bully, and we discover the moment Kelly altered a lifelong health practice to collect a paycheck. Plus Barrel or Nah? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's action packed show, the WSL loses another marquee surfer to mental health distress, Mayhem sues Lada Gaga and opens a closet of skeletons, the boys then identify the cause of your awful surfing, get baited out to lascivious deviants, and learn why you should never trust someone with a urinal in their home. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David identify a new celebrity + surfer doppelgänger, celebrate the reprobates, explain why the WSL is now begging for Johns, and outline how a maligned child's game is the way to revitalize our youth and perspective on equality. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show one former CT event winner outs himself as an Andrew Tate acolyte, a former 5x event winner comes out of retirement, the boys learn why you should never meet your pro surf heroes, vow to never again play grab-ass, and deem the great surf mag publication of all time. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David explain why your step-off barrel is masturbatory, how to lose priority on the next set, why nobody wants surfboard “tech”, how the fairer sex is less fair than we were led to believe, and why breakfast in bed will ruin your relationship. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David exclaim “No barrel for you!”, mock manchilds defending their spot, warn against the consequences of pumping too hard, advise how to handle witnessing a friend rollerblading, and finally dissolve an age-old toilet seat ritual. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David identify the fulcrum that will make or break Natural Selection surf, reveal that Soli Bailey could have been a major league catcher, explain why wielding a chainsaw is your path to success, and confirm the hidden joys of finding your Eskimo Brother. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David witness the indignity of a surf superhero being relegated into wave pool submission, shudder at the recent round of Pipe maimings, have AI recommend their next surfboard, and reveal Olympic surfings next venue. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's Valentine's themed show, Chas and David recount Hollywood x Surfing's greatest power couples, bid farewell to 59% of Surfival League, give you the perfect VDay gift recs, and cement Five S's that will lead you to finding the love of your life. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David discovers the finest way to ingest the Pipe Pro, Chas uncovers the WSL's secret backmasking, Filipe finally conquers Pipeline, and the boys get to the very center of an important matter of the heart. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode one lucky (albeit cowardly) listener learns a valuable life lesson from the world's greatest big wave rider, JJF sweeps the knee of the already fledgling WSL, Chas designs the ultimate Hollywood vehicle for Sterling Spencer, and David pines for surfing aristocracy of yore. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Fast Eddie uses Da Hui's pulpit to smite the white man, we officially kiss goodbye surfing's greatest would-be rivalry, museums of memorabilia get vanquished by fire, and we get to the dirty bottom of the Chinese wax job. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David welcome the world's prettiest man into the surf community, warn against the dangers of being a P.U.B.E., outline core tenets to attain Duke status for today's surfing youth, and Chas explains how to ensure your child spends their future in therapy. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas explain why your kid will never a pro surfer if you aren't one, warn against the dangers of Mister Softee, gawk at the largest wave ever surfed, mathematically conclude the appropriate number of surf photos you're allowed to post on Instagram, and explain why surf culture is the utopia that inspired Japanese society. Plus Barrel or Nah? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show, traditional masculinity returns, the prestigious Edward Invitational reasserts surfing's core values, then David and Chas crack the code for the perfect nap, plot how to steal wine back from a holiday party, and resolve to take all life advice from Matthew McConaughey in 2025. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas celebrate a Christmas miracle in the form of a walrus, uncover the secret to winning a Pipe Master's title, warn parents against the dangers of surf coaching, and advocate for the return of the dapper grandpa. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David's inspiration behind their persona's is revealed, Filipe inadvertently reveals his mental health to ESPN, Hawaiian enforcers shoot themselves in own feet, and they identify the precise reason VANS won't pay to live stream the Pipe Masters. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas identify the single most important surf fan of all-time and anoint their sainthood, the then pivot into a True Crime podcast, reveal the most unlikely rags to riches surf story, dispense garbage financial advice, and give a single tip to mint a solid gold marriage. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David advise best methods to milk the clock and stick it to the main, explain why finding a surf nemesis is your fastest route to ripping, navigate the trickiness of a prone take-off, and caution against offering to coach a youth sports team. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas takes back what was rightfully his (from Ashton and from ChatGPT), David identifies a potential new WSL owner, Italo goes under the knife, Drouyn tries to get under the covers, and the boys determine the precise number of possessions needed to unlock happiness. Enjoy! Find Noble Rot on Apple Podcasts Find Noble Rot on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show, medium wave surfer Mark Zuckerberg protests too much love for Queen P, Curren spots a podcaster in the wild, Slater KO's Samuel Jackson & Vin Diesel, and David and Chas rank the least sexy instruments to play whilst naked. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David celebrate Leonardo Dicaprio's birthday with a guide how to avoid the indignities of self-celebration, being sung to at a restaurant, perpetually dating 25 year olds, and explain why Martha Stewart might be the ultimate catch. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David advise on what to do if you catch your girlfriend tracking your sexual performance, how to shame a pack of unruly teen boys, why you should never snake a dude with cauliflowered ears, and Drummer Dave calls in from beyond the veil. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas tamps down the election fervor with a reminder that amusement can, and should, be found in all of life's pursuits and charts a course to thrive through any political fallout via art, food, and indulgence. Learn how herein! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas's favorite trans surfer teases an OnlyFans page, surfing youngest champ gets silenced by the WSL, ELO spritzes Poo-Pourri over his own grave, someone rips themselves a new B-hole, and a listener reveal why you should sleep with your new surfboard. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's episode of Noble Rot is brought to you by Laird Hamilton! How to hold your breath for 5 minutes, the virtue of a chaste life, how dogs can sniff out wife beaters, and why there is no such thing as an excuse. Chas and David ascend to alpha male status in todays episode. Behold! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode Joel Tudor details his time at P.Diddy's parties and Chas explains the phenomena of going soft with age while Flick twists an ovary thanks to a thorough jackhammering, Raimana learns why the caged bird sings, and the boys pinpoint the exact age when sharing a room on a surf trip become inappropriate. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show, while our Presidential candidates “work the fry”, Chas and David reflect back on their first jobs, chart how menial jobs led to careers, and identify the moment where youthful enthusiasm to earn shifted to a lifetime of resentful ire. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas discover the one surfer who attended a Diddler White Party, feel shame as Prince Harry's surpasses their surf ability, defend Abu Dhabi's anti-Tyler Wright's stance, attempt to appreciate the surf boardslide, and explain when it's appropriate for your ladyfriend to give up shotgun for your quiver. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's mega-episode finds Chas and David at the world-famous Boardroom Show. Smith hunkered down in a Weekend Van interviewing a who's who of surfers, shapers, mathematicians, dear listeners, hall-of-famers and doctors while David worked the floor. The conversations are fun, loose and come from every corner of the surf world even though Noble Rot is decidedly anti-surf talk. Rules, however, were made to be broken. Enjoy! Interview subjects include Karen Howard and Devon Howard, Mike Kijewski, John Money, Shea Somma, Dr. Bill Rosenblatt, Alex Hemmingway, Darryl Evora, Ryan Convertini, and Mike May. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David speculate which surfers may be fingered in a Freak Off, find bros attempting to go viral at Hurricane Milton, the WSL reveals their '25 season and which familiar faces will return to the CT, and the boys ponder the consequence of a silent retreat. Plus Barrel or Nah? Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas and David plot a course of fandom and anti-fandom for food they would tattoo on their temple's, teams for which they would bleed, clothing brands they would shill to their friends, and they relive the adolescent heartbreak that calloused their heart's so. Plus Heroes and Zeros! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas discover the correct name for a “flip-flop”, plumb the depths of Richie Collins, learn how to never poo in front of Tom Curren, explain why you should never keep a board on ice, get re-traumatized by the decorative soap from their childhood. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas lays the gauntlet and David attempts to navigate the horrifying modern world of potential democracy collapse, a Third World War, invasion of the tax man, and being forced to work until old age. Halloween ain't' nearly as frightening. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show, the return of ol' pals Ashton G and DJ Lunakye, Ben Gravvy rises as the hero “we” need, “honesty” finds it's integrity questioned, hubris trumps experience in Big Wave surfing, Chas explains what your choice of emoji says about your gender orientation. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode Devon Howard joins Chas and David to discuss the fine but definitive line of gilding Lillies. From Cybertrucks (Deplorians) to Freak Offs, to commenting on PornHub, how, where, and when is it appropriate to go all in? Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode Chas and David design the most sophisticated surf report of modern times, identify the moment where surf fashion jumped the shark, celebrate the generosity of the surf enclave, and explain the dangers of renewing your wedding vows. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show Chas sets a course, with guidance from one Circe Wallace, to blueprint the ideal modern man. How to: eat phallic food in public, embrace one's femininity, the allure of the bad boy, and why trauma harnesses the DNA for the ultimate modern man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's show David and Chas bask in the pleasure of being sprayed in the face, identify precisely why surf culture has become so foppish, take notes from the moment Raygun broke dancing, and caution why you should always trust your gut. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In light of James Earl Jones' passing and amidst the era of Insta model fame, where hast the art of speaking gone? How to fake an accent, learn a language, seduce a lover, and earn 17 million dollars, all herein. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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