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The Greatest Stories Never Told: On The Campaign Trail with Dustin Barca Nov 23, 2021

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It’s been a checkered run that’s delivered former World Tour surfer Dustin Barca from Kauaiian street fighter to politics. More checkered than any politician you’re likely to find. The difference is he doesn’t hide from it. Nor is he ashamed of it. Jed Smith follows the Kauaiian hardman, turned World Tour surfer, turned MMA star, turned environmental crusader and would-be mayor, on his latest fight.

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A Lotus In The Redfern Sludge: Core Lords ft. Albe Falzon, MOTE GOAT, Tracks Magazine Founder, Film Maker, Wise Man, and Morning of the Earth Director Nov 15, 2021

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They don’t come any more iconic than Albe Falzon. Born and raised in a tenement in Redfern, deep in the industrial heart of Southside Sydney, he went on to have arguably the single biggest impact on Australian surfing culture through his seminal surfing and counterculture classic, Morning of the Earth, as well as Tracks Magazine, which he founded with John Witzig and David Elphick.

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Come Mr Occy Man Tally Big Banana! Nov 08, 2021

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Join Smiv, Deadly and Mark "The Raging Bull" Occhilupo for the very last show of the ATS Up in Smoke Tour live from the home of the Big Banana, Coffs Harbour. Find out who bit a chunk out of Occy's board during his first session at Sunset Beach, why he and Munga didn't go for earlies during the iconic Pump! Reunion Island Sessions and the sorcery behind Cheyne Horan's failed World Title bids. It's a typical shit show but ya wouldn't have it any other way! Garn geddit India!

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Mini-Episode! Relive Pete Mel's Award-Winning Mavericks Mondo-Cone Nov 04, 2021

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The Red Bull x WSL Big Wave Award winners are in and our man, Pete 'Condor' Mel, has taken out the Ride of the Year gong for his Mavericks Mondo Cone of Mortal Conequence. We thought it worthy of re-living. Here's his spine-tingling blow-by-blow account of a wave many have called the greatest ever ridden at Mavericks.

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The Grit Between the Cheeks of Australian Surfing! Koby Swindles SAS, TVC on Grumpy Old Wankers, and another Mad Albanian Sticks It To The Man Oct 31, 2021

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More grit than you could fill a Gina Rinehart neck-flap with in this Ain’t That Swell celebration of Australian surfing character. ‘Whacko’ Jacko Baker, ‘Geddit’ India Robinson, and Connor ‘O’Learyzy Bra’ O’Leary grit their cheeks and give it a full blown crack in the European Leg of the Challenger Series. No shore break is too gritty to rinse corn for these fearless warriors. Sack up and have a crack, Straya! Get behind these fearless sand gropers as they fill their stomachs with fire, their minds with glory and their cheeks with grit on the Challenger Series.
Koby Abberton does all pikies proud with his ingenious bamboozling of a bunch of Imperialist Pommy Jarheads on the SAS soap opera. A Mad Albanian Longboarder rips the boot in to inequality cue Fanning and FemGoat pile on! Smivvy’s Do’s and Don’ts of ripping rompahs, RIP Scum Valley’s Finest, Dean Cook, and so much more on this stoinker of a blowout that’ll have your tinnitus ringing for weeks. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmad.

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The Scum Valley Schimozzle ft. '93 World Champ Pauline Menczer, Style Master, Brad Gerlach, and OG-ITN Party Boy, Rod Kerr Oct 26, 2021

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Join us live at the Bondi Bowling Club for an old fashioned schimozzle featuring a paralytic (and heavily redacted) Rod 'Kerrbox' Kerr, the charismatic journeyman and former world number two, Brad Gerlach, and the unflappable, iconic, iridescent '93 World Champ, Pauline 'Naughty Pauls' Menczer. Stick around for the impromptu freestyle from the mouth of a man who'd only seconds earlier eaten a cob of corn he'd sodomised himself with. If that's not a classic gag, we don't know what is.

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The Greatest Stories Never Told: J Bay on ACID! Oct 19, 2021

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What not to do the night before one of the most historic days in professional surfing: take four times the recommended dosage of hardcore trance grade LSD and head to the last night of a three day trance festival titled "Conscious Convergence" held in a commune called "Wacky Woods."

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Raw Core Division LIVE from Cream Surf Shop ft. Pipe Master Robbie Page and The Greatest Indigenous Surfer You’ve Never Heard of Eddie Moran (In Loving Memory of John Shimooka) Oct 11, 2021

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We’re going off the deep end Swellians and who better to take us into the underworld of demons, drug addiction, jail cells, and redemption stories than Ain’t That Swell’s very own CORE SHAMAN, former Pipe Master and world number six, Robbie Page. A veteran of the Bellambi housing commission and a survivor of more horse shit than you can poke a pitchfork at, Paigey takes us on a spellbinding journey through Tour life, drugs, depression and redemption. He’s got his old mate, the Dunghutti Demon Destroyer and fellow Bellambi House product, Eddie Moran along for the ride. Eddie might also be the greatest Indigenous surfer you’ve never heard of…every bit as good as Paigey in his prime, Eddie was to chase the tour with his mate until he found out it was illegal as a First Australian to get a passport.
All of which is a precursor to our unofficial eulogy for the great hi-fi Hawaiian exponent turned Scum Valley’s Finest himself, John Shimooka. Rest In Peace, John. Much love to you and your family. Much love to the Swellians. Take care of yourselves and each other. Hmad.

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Apocalypse Then, “Surfy Fags”, & The Untold Story Behind "FUCK THE WOZ!” Pack Your Nose Bag, It's ATS Live on the Cenny Coast! Oct 02, 2021

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It was a stacked house back in April for a wild old night of ATS Live in the Cenny Coast Ice Rink. With a panel featuring all-star freesurfing icons Dion Agius, Creed McTaggart and Craig Anderson it’ a bummer that most of this ep had to be cut at the risk of endless defamation and litigation suits. Still it's worth trawling for nuggets like an 11-year-old Dion witnessing Dylan Longbottom get coned off his dial at the first recorded Apocalypse session, Iggy Pop’s opening line to all the surfers who attended his Billabong Pipe House gig, and the incredible story of what happened in the days following Noa Deane’s famous “Fuck the WSL” line at the Surfer Poll in Hawaii. It’s a glorious shit show and you’d expect nothing less from the NSW Core Coast heathens.

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Aussie World Champ Heroes, Fanning, Menczer, Lynch , Break Down What Went Wrong for the Boxing Kangaroos at Trestles Sep 22, 2021

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Five world titles worth of knowledge break down the WSL grand final fantazmo fandango at Trestles, in the form of three time world champ, Michael 'Mick' 'Micktory' 'Eugene' 'White Lightning' 'Liquid Lightning' Fanning, Pauline 'Naughty Pauls' Menczer, and Barton 'Cosmo' Lynch.

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