AIN'T THAT SWELL

Conner Coffin is a former World Tour surfer and Final Five Contender from Santa Barbara, California. He remains one of the best power surfers in the world and has just embarked on a new chapter of his career as a Freesurfer.

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Ocean & Earth Presents... Core Lords: Matt Bromley is a big wave surfer, slab specialist, podcaster, public speaker, and community outreach worker from Cape Town, South Africa. 

Follow him on Instagram, here. On youtube, here. And support his work with the 9Miles Project here. 

Get your O&E Core Chron right here!

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We're joined by WSL commentator, Ronnie Blakey, to dissect all the drama from the Margaret River Pro.

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Up - the financial revolution that's got Aussies backs presents... Up Lord of the Week: Jack Robinson! Fresh off his famous humping of John John Florence in the final of the Margaret River Pro, the Vortex Shaman jumps a call to speak exclusively to the Swellian Army within an hour of the final hooter! Gather your arms Swellians... you're in Robbo's house now!

Get on the Up Swellians!!!

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Simon Williams is a former professional cricket player turned Mindset and Performance Coach, who has worked with a range of high profile athletes across various disciplines, including surfing, the National Rugby League, cricket, Olympians, Winter Olympians, dancers, and artists.

You can find out more about his programs at MAPPLIFE.COMand on Instagram here. 

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Billabong X Occumentary 25th Anniversary Presents... ATS Live from Torquay with Molly Picklum, Occ Snow and Steph "Femme Goat" Gilmore! One of the all-time great live eps as the Queen, the Queen-to-be and the King of the Bowl trade yarns to a room full of frothing Swellians and Swelliettes! UTFS!!

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OCCUMENTARY 25TH ANNIVERSARY DATES AND TICKETS BELOW

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Thursday, May 2  Byron Bay BOOK NOW

Sunday, May 5 Gold Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 8 Wollongong BOOK NOW

Thursday, May 9 Newcastle BOOK NOW

Friday, May 10 Sydney  BOOK NOW

Saturday, May 11 Central Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 15  Melbourne BOOK NOW

Friday, May 17 Lorne   BOOK NOW

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Billabong X 25 Year Anniversary of the Occumentary Presents... A classic ATS regular episode featuring Slater's Last Swing at Margies, a gargantuan fuck off swell at Shippies, Dane Reynolds' has a surf shop, Caity Simmers favourite band, and Smivvy's Tibetan Guide to Better Living! Keeeeding me?!!!

Also Up Lord of the Week is 50 year-old slab fiend Dylan Longbottom! Get on the Up program today freaks!

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Today we’re joined by the former Kauaian hoodlum, turned hard man, turned community folk hero, Dustin Barca. 

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Billabong X Jack McCoy 25th Anniversary Tour of the Occumentary Presents... Blitzed Bells Wrap - the Full American Demo Job as Rookie Cole Houshmand, Buzzer Beater Caity Simmers, The Colapinto Bros and all the rest of the 2 percenters rinse their buttholes on the red and blue rashies of all comers to shake up the rankings heading into the cut at Margies!!!

Book now for tickets to see Occumentary on the big screen for the first time!

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Wednesday, May 1 Noosa BOOK NOW

Thursday, May 2  Byron Bay BOOK NOW

Sunday, May 5 Gold Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 8 Newcastle BOOK NOW

Thursday, May 9 Wollongong BOOK NOW

Friday, May 10 Sydney  BOOK NOW

Saturday, May 11 Central Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 15  Melbourne BOOK NOW

Friday, May 17 Lorne   BOOK NOW

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Live from the Surf for Sanity Charity event in Cabarita, featuring 2005 World Champ and Hall of Famer, Chelsea Hedges, Techno Viking, Blake Johnston, and Sporting Excellence Shaman, Simon Williams. 

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Brett Burcher is a former professional surfer, big wave surfer, trained breathwork pracitioner, and disability support worker working with an athlete who competed at the Adaptive Surfing World Tour event held in Byron last week. 

He will also be heading our Inaugural Swellness Boat Trip to the Mentawais from June 8th - 19th.

Register interest at uptheswellians@gmail.com.

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As protests and paddle outs once again sweep the country in opposition to seismic blasting by oil and gas companies on the sea floor, we dive deep inside the issue with Drew McPherson from Surfrider and special guest host, Dave Rastovich. 

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Billabong Presents... An ATS special episode celebrating 25 years since the release of The Occumentary – Jack McCoy's comeback bio masterpiece on the one and only Raging Bull Mark Occhilupo! Marinate in one of surfing's all time great collaborative partnerships as Occ and McCoy personally escort you through the most legendary piece of surf cinema ever created... touring for the first time on the big screen over the next couple of months. Get ya tickets Swellians!

DATES & TICKETS HERE

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Thursday, May 2  Byron Bay BOOK NOW

Sunday, May 5 Gold Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 8 Wollongong BOOK NOW

Thursday, May 9 Newcastle BOOK NOW

Friday, May 10 Sydney  BOOK NOW

Saturday, May 11 Central Coast BOOK NOW

Wednesday, May 15  Melbourne BOOK NOW

Friday, May 17 Lorne   BOOK NOW

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BILLABONG & ATS LIVE AT TORQUAY HOTEL MARCH 24 PRESENTS... Blitzed: Full Portuguese Wrap Up including the Return of Cyborg Medina, Heeeeeyeeeeewing is cruising, Vortex Shaman Mega Oop, Women's Tour Warhorses Kick the Filly's to the Kerb and Griffin Goggles-pinto seals victory and the mustard rashy heading into Bells. 

ATS Live at Torquay Hotel with Special Guests Stephanie Gilmore, Jack Robinson and Occy! Don't miss it!

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Welcome to System Failure featuring special guest host, Dave Rastovich. This week we go inside the West Australian Forest Alliance with Campaign Director, Jess Beckerling. 

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Wow! Are you keeeeeeding me?! The Australian Boardriders Battle was an extravaganza of club surfing culture and high performance shralping. From bricklayers to former world champs, up and coming prodigies to washed up degenerates - it had it all. We relive Burleigh's famous maiden victory at their homebreak with team captain Jay Bottle Thompson and broadcast commentator, Stace Galbraith. 

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Up – the financial revolution that's got young Aussie's backs presents... LORD OF THE WEEK featuring Cloudbreak Cone Charging Heathens Soli Bailey & Laura Enever still dripping water from their nose holes direct from the check-in counter at Nadi Airport, Fiji!

Overseasy Made Easy with Up!

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Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: The Sunset Pro Aussie clean sweep conny wrap with Vortex and Pickle humping the fuck out of the joint! And a quick look at Porch and who needs to pull their fingers out of their dates to avoid getting cut fart in their nose holes. 

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Cliff Kapono is an Indigenous Hawaiian Pro Surfer, Scientist, Hawaiian language speaker, and cultural ambassador. 

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Ocean & Earth Presents... A Blitzed Olympics qualification update with Pipeline Master and Irukandjis super coach Bede "The Moose" Durbidge who is on the ground at the ISA Games in Puerto Rico right now with the Vortex Shaman, Heeeeyeeeewing, T-Dub, The Pickle, Our Sal and Morg Borg hunting out that sweet, tangy, green and gold glory! Bring the sting!

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Up... The Financial Revolution that's Got Young Aussie's Backs Presents... Lord of the Week with SUNSET, PIPE & HAWAIIAN KWEEEEEN MOLLY THE PICKLES PICKLUM!!!!

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I sit down for a chat with Shannon Farrugia from the Terrible Happy Talks Podcast.

Find his amazing archive of skaters, surfers, MMA Fighters and thought leaders here.

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Ricky Basnett is a South African former World Tour surfer, artist, tattoo artist, photographer, truth seeker, truth teller, meditation enthusiast, and alcoholic in recovery.

Follow Ricky on instagram, here. 

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Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: The Pipe Pro Wrap Up with Smivvy Live in the Haleiwa Maccas Carpark! 

Featuring...

The day that changed women's surfing forever! Mondo cones with Pickles, Simmers and Betty Lou!

Glitch Chambers with Barron Mamia! Orb Wranging with Cal Robbo, O'Learyzy Brah and JJF.

And the dreaded puckered corn smears it's stank all over Fil Toledo's duel World Championships as a lacklustre performance and withdrawal from the event sparks an intense backlash from pro surfing's fans which leads to the Brazilian's shock exit from the 2024 title race.

WOW WOW WOW!

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Matty Hannon is a surfer and filmmaker behind the all-time, soon-to-be released surf-travel epic, Road To Patagonia, which charts his journey from the jungles of the Mentawai islands to Alaska and onto Patagonia by motorbike and horseback.  

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Today's episode of the Greatest Stories Never Told will be read by the award winning surf journalist and author of In Deep: The Collected Surf Writings, Matt George. 

Purchase the book here...

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Billabong Presents... Smiv and Deadly drain four litres of nubile nip milk and go full lactose intolerant on all the hmaaaaadness of the surf world over the past few weeks, including: Riss & Steph calling it quits, the sackings of Lisa Andersen and Bethany Hamilton, the peach Prince of the Tweed, the dangers of eating shrooms growing out of your own corn and so very much more... At it!

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Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian-American writer whose family remains trapped in Gaza. This is her account of the events leading up to and following the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel. 

Sarah is a previous guest on ATS. You can hear her alongside Israeli surfer, Yotam, in System Failure, Episode One. 

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Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: Full Pipe Pro and 24 Woz Season Preview complete with breaking news on the retirement of X8 World Champ Steph Gilmore and a chat with Liam O'Brien. Hmaaaad spray of pure tour nerdism right between the hooters!

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Rusty Miller, born in 1943, is a surfing and cultural treasure from Encinitas, California, and Byron Bay. Book a surf lesson with the man himself, right here. 

Rusty's partner Tricia Shantz is a world class writer, historian, and former town planner. She is also the author of Neverland: American and Australian surfers in Byron 1960s & 1970s,  which you can buy here.  

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ushercup.com World Club Challenge Jan19-21 at Snapper Rocks Presents... ATS Live from the Usher Cup President's Dinner with special guests 78 World Champ Wayne"Rabbit" Bartholomew and Guinness World Record Queen Laura "Lazzla" Enever. Be sure to catch all the action of the world's best surf clubs ripping in at Snapper this weekend. ushercup.com

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Billabong X King Stingray Collab Collection Presents... Ain't That Swell with Roy Kellaway, one of the founding members of Arnhem Land Aussie Rock icons King Stingray. Get the lowdown on how the band emerged from the direct lineage of Yothu Yindi to create an instantly classic Aussie sound with their own unique voice, sharing story and language and taking the world by storm!

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Presented by Billabong X King Stingray Collection... Gurney out that holiday season detritus and get ready for a whole new year of ATS starting RIGHT NOW! This ep: Burleigh Single Fin goes the full peach, Backdoor Shootout cracks skulls, Jack Robinson's Cosmic Apricots, the sponsorship guillotine dismembers pro surfer heads like it's the French Revolution, plus... the best surfers, films and waves of 2023! It's good to be back Swellians. Rip in ya mongrels!

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Brought to you by Billabong and Better Beer…We celebrate the remarkable career of one of the best to ever do it, Owen Wright, alongside Hawaii’s Mason Ho, the 2012 World Champ, Joel Parkinson and 1999 World Champ, Mark Occhilupo.  

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When the Goat comes to Ain't That Swell Live you know you're in for a magic night of pure surf yarn glory! Highlights including: The Greatest Sporting Victory of All-Time at this year's Billabong Pipe Pro, The True Story behind Goat's Eddie win, why he was forced to apologise to Mick "He's that Fucken Good" Fanning and so so so much more. It's real, it's raw, it's one for the ages Swellians, rip in!. 

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Hold onto your corn holes Swellians! Smivvy and Deadly have outdone themselves yet again, bringing together a panel of Australian surfing legends more steeped in sweet sweet oceanic glory than a bagful of puckered calamaris.

Thats right, Mick Fanning ("He's that fucken good!"), the Penrith-born, Ballina-raised, Coolangatta kingpin, and winner of three time world titles ("With a hammy on a screw") joins his old mate, 2012 World Champ, Joel 'Leslie Shnorkoss' Parkinson, and Dean 'Dingo lipstick' Morrison for a full blown fizzing froth-off for the ages.

It's Iconic. It's bubonic. It's turbo supersonic karrrrrrrronic. Rip in you filthy cone fiend core lord degenerates. This ones on us.

Are. You. Keeeeeeeeding. Me?!

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THE GOAT & THE RAGING BULL SPECTACULAR IN TORQUAY! Featuring Kelly Slater, Mark Occhilupo and an actual re-enactment of that time Harry Styles and the Goat nailed a stuntman tequila shot in Brazil! Starring Binns & Wet Lettuce as our shirtless lime in the eyes heroes! Up the Swellians!

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Joshe Faulkner fought his way out of the slums of South Africa to become the two-time national surf champion. His remarkable story of survival, stoicism, and resilience is not to be missed. 

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Kohl Christensen is a Hawaiian heavy-water specialist and Patagonia Ambassador. 

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Dane 'Gudang' Gudauskas is a professional freesurfer, big wave maniac and style master. Along with his two brothers, Pat and Tanner, he also fronts the Positive Vibe Warrior Foundation. 

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Martin Daly is an ex-salvage diver, surfer, adventurer, and sea captain famous for, among other things, pioneering the Mentawais. 

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Sterling Spencer is a former professional surfer from Pensacola, Florida, who suffered a series of serious brain injuries during his career.

We spoke with Spencer ahead of the release of a feature documentary, by Stab Magazine, called Are You Serious, which charts his decline following his most recent and severe traumatic brain injury.  

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Presented by Ocean and Earth...Smivvy catches up with underground Sydney South Side Icon Wayne Cleveland, who helped pioneer slab surfing throughout the 90s and early 2000s scoring plenty of magazine covers and spreads in the process. Then at the height of his charging he was suddenly gone, locked up for 10 years in one of the most  notorious prisons in Australia. Strap ya selves in Swellians, some rip roaring yarns from a wild surfing existence coming right up! 

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Nick Colbey is an ultra-talented surfer, filmmaker and musician, born and bred in Byron Bay. His latest album, Journeyman, is available wherever you get your music. 

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Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... A Blitzed Vans Pipe Masters Kebab with the Lot featuring 30 Point Cone Pig Harry Bryant live on the blower from Waikiki. Relive the cone fest before Christmas!

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Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... Rando Conversations with Artisan, Publisher, Lens Kween, Senior Woz Photog and Core Lord Cait Miers. Cait grew up on the Mornington Peninch and now travels the world shooting A List surf stars on tour, campaigns for top brands and tripped out salty surf mess for her own stoked out pleasure. Enjoy!

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Ray Collins was raised by a single mother in the Bulli public housing estate before becoming an award-winning surf photographer, waterman, and artist. 

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Billabong Presents... After a month off the tools grinding the Q through South East Asia, Deadly returns to join Smivvy on a wild jaunt through all the best and worst of surfing over the past month including: Bierke's new brain melting clip, Laura Enever's Guiness World Record, and what it might be like to make love to Brazilian wild man Neco Padaratz. Garn get into it!

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Subhi Awad is a Palestinian refugee who was born in a refugee camp in Lebanon before emigrating to the United Kingdom and finally Australia, where he lives today. He is a human rights advocate and activist. 

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Jughead is a big wave surfer and pioneering slab shaman from the NSW Central Coast. He works full-time as a Fireman, a job he has held throughout his career. 

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Bin Laden’s post 9/11 letter to America, White House Security Chief’s bizarre Islamophobic rants caught on camera, Charlie Kirk’s theory that the Israeli Defence apparatus deliberately let Hamas ransack the communities home to peace-loving Israeli activists, and Da Goat, Kelly Slater, smells a GOATspiracy. 

With special commentary by pro longboader, Palestine/Israel traveller, and Greens media advisor, Lucy Small.

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Welcome to Ain't That Swell's Lord of the Week: Kelly 'The Nord Lord' Nordstrom. A 26 year old chippie slash core lord, cone fiend, hellman from Tasmania, he recently paddled a filthy death trap at massive Pedra Branca, 50km off the coast of Tassie - and lived to tell the tale.

Find him and his wave on Instagram, here. 

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Smivvy turns out to see Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Northern in Byron Bay and cops one of the worst gigs of all-time. This is his review. 

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Yamba's rangey, super-grom, Dakoda Walters, has the world at his feet. Will he chase a World Tour birth or a freesurfing career - or both?

Ain't That Swell is proudly supported by, Healthy Hammered Kombucha, Smart Leash Co, and Swell CBD Oil. 

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Jacob Wilcox is a revered slab shaman, from South-West Australia, now in his rookie year on the World Tour.

Find our Youtube Channel here... 

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Liam O'Brien is a World Tour surfer, astute bogan classic, and acid jazz enthusiast from Benowa, west Gold Coast, via Burleigh Heads.  

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Ahead of the premiere of 'Calypte,' we revisit our chat with surfer and adventurer Torren Martyn, recorded halfway through his nautical journey from Thailand down the length of Indonesia. 

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James ‘Taipan’ Wood is a two-time world junior champion, elite surf coach, shaper, and surfing mastermind from Lennox Head, on the NSW North Coast. 

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Mega Semadhi is literally a lord. The Balinese pro surfer and two-time winner of the Rip Curl Cup, Padang, is also a Hindu Priest (Mangku) in waiting. 

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Smivvy yaks and nearly craps his daks on a torturous semi-skunk mission to southern India. 

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Johnny Gannon is a leader in the field of strength, conditioning and wellness from Maroubra Beach, Sydney. He also served as Taj Burrow's coach and confidante for seven years on the World Tour. 

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We revisit our chat with Gerry Lopez and Stacy Peralta.

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Award winning journalist, Tom De Souza, is halfway through a radical surfing and motorcycle adventure across Indonesia. He phones in from Sumba to bring us up to date. 

You can watch his documentary series atScenic Route TV. 

And read about iton Tracksmag.com. 

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Welcome to System Failure, a no-holds barred exploration of the global fuckery that defines our time.

Today we hear from a Palestinian and an Israeli about life in the Middle East in the midst of war. 

As mentioned in the show, if you'd like to reach out to Yotam and help him achieve his surfing dreams, you can find him here. UTFS! 

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Kipp Caddy is an Australian slab-specialist from the NSW South Coast, who recently suffered a near-fatal injury. Prior to that he undertook one of the great conequests with the great cone-conquerer, Nathan Florence.  

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Chris Brock is one of Australian surfing's great unsung heroes. A product of Bondi Beach, he travelled the world surfing in the 1960s and 70s, featuring in Morning of the Earth and the Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun. He lived in a nudist colony in Kauai, in the famed Angourie treehouses, sailed from California to Australia with George Greenough, and so much more.

Find the documentary about Taylor's Camp in Kauai, here.

And listen to the Celibate Rifles rendition of Kev The Head - as mentioned in the program - here.  

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First published in News.com.au back in 2016, this story features the late great, Peter Tripovich, and his attempt to walk across Australia to raise money for impoverished children in South-East Asia. 

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Billabong Presents... a good old fashioned Smiv and Deadly ATS breaking down surfing's most pressing and topical issues... including: Friend or foe: who is the new Woz head judge, Chippo and Our Sal locked in for the 24 CT, can the Goat's Foreskin save humanity and is Mason Ho surfing's John Pilger? Also; what sort of burgeois reptile would pay 18 million dollars for a prime piece of Lennox Head? Carn get into it ya mutts! UTFS

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Smivvy dips into his back catalogue with News Limited for this story about the night he almost killed a young, knife-carrying hoodlum in a street fight.  

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A breakdown of the monumental 2012 Cloudbreak swell - aka Thundercloud - with a couple of the stars from the day, Dave Wassel and Kala Alexander, with commentary from surf scribe, Lewis Samuels.  

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In episode two, we yarn with surfer and musician Alex Knost, surf-journalist Lewis Samuels, and Canadian Pro, Pete DeVries. 

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That's right, we've found the first ever season of ATS from 2011/12, buried deep in the digital archives. 

Over the coming days we'll be playing a few selections from the first season of ATS.

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Brainzo... The world's most inconsistent weekly surf trivia show is back to test your general surf knowledge. Can you beat quiz master Ronnie Blakey at his own game or is your shred knowledge as fickle as Mundaka on a mid range swell with an incoming tide? Play on!

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In this special edition less than two weeks out from The Voice Referendum Yinjinbarndi man and Swellian CORE LORD Simon Zuvich reminds us all to approach this moment with kindness, empathy and understanding. Don't let the haters divide us. The only way forward is side-by-side with respect and love for everyone who shares this country.

If you're undecided and/or would like more information on the Voice Referendum please read and watch the following...

https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/view-the-statement/

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-voice-referendum-explained

https://www.facebook.com/kimberleylandcouncil/videos/279935371179773/?extid=CL-UNK-UNK-UNK-IOS_GK0T-GK1C&ref=sharing&mibextid=e1zS5d

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Martin Daly is an ex-salvage diver, surfer, adventurer, and sea captain famous for, among other things, pioneering the Mentawais. 

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Billabong Presents... Smiv and Deadly sitting in a tin shed on a 40 degree day, sweatin' beads and musin' on the new Woz Schedge, Riss Moore's sis having a monstro BF, Puckered Fil's rank cornhole, and one of the most conspiratorial Goat Watch rants in history! Have we all been slurpin' on the Masonic Agenda this entire time and does Kelly Slater actually have Leonardo Da Vinci's exhumed foreskin in his hip? 

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you'd like to support Port Macquarie shark attack survivor and Swellian brethren Toby Begg in his recovery you can donate here https://www.gofundme.com/f/shark-attack-rehabilitation?member=29008793&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

UTFS

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Special guest and esteemed 7000 x Gold Cone Piece Award Winning surf journalist, Matt George, dips into his bulging sack of quality feature articles to produce this absolute stonker, charting the dark past of the ATS spirit animal himself, Ozzie Wright. 

You can find Matt's new book, In-Deep: The Collected Surf Writings, here.

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We take a trip back to the nineties and to what is still one of the most feared and neglected islands in surfing. Your guide is underground Hawaiian hero, and one time Rapa Nui resident, Kohl Christensen.

Today's episode is brought to you by Swell CBD oil and Smart Leash Co 

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Brought to you by Better Beer's Arvo Ale...Kohl Christensen is a Hawaiian heavy-water specialist and Patagonia Ambassador. 

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Brought to you by Better Beer's Arvo Ale...today's episode features one of the greatest surf journalists of all-time, Matt George. Matt's unique gonzo style saw him sleeping on Kelly Slater's mum's floor to get the scoop, shacking up with Cheyne Horan in Goonengerry, living with the Hamilton family just days after Bethany had lost her arm to a shark attack and much more.

His work has now been compiled into a book called, In-Deep, which you can get by following this link.

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Ronnnie Blakey is back with a heaps spesh tribute ep to those surfers who have hoisted giant silver salad bowls into the air after becoming the champions of the world. So how well do you know these titans of the coloured rashie? Test yaself already.

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Brought to you by Better Beer...Brett Burcher is a south coast slab shaman and former elite professional freesurfer, whose career has taken him from labouring on building sites, working as a tiler, to becoming a primary school teacher, all the while amassing countless cones of mortal conEquence, many of which found their way into surfing magazines and video sections. 

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Club Rip Curl Presents... Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism. The Rippy Woz Finals Day and 2023 tour season is done and World Champs have been crowned. But did Pro surfing WOW us in the end? Or did it leave us with an acrid taste in our mouths, like walking into a toilet where someone has just done a huge shit? Smiv and Deadly break down the Big Dance: the wins, the waves and the monumental melts! 

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Club Rip Curl Presents... Blitzed The Final Word with X3 World Champion Mick Fanning. Mick reckons the comp will run in the next 24 hours and he's predicting upsets and boilovers as the top seeds get mowed by surfers coming from deep in both the men's and women's race for the crown. HUGE!!!

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Rip Curl Presents... The Blitzed All Stars! 

Featuring expert analysis from ’93 Battler Queen World Champ Naughty Pauline Menczer, X2 World No.1 Uncle Willy Wilkinson, and OG Finals Day Alumni Morgan Morgy Cibilic

The 2023 World Championship Titles could be decided this Saturday or Sunday night and we’ve put together the grittiest panel ever assembled to give you the final word on how this season ending rip-in is gonna play out. Marinate in it Swellians! This is the good oil!

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Rip Curl Presents... A Blitzed Exclusive with 5X Women's World Champ and Swellian KWEEEEEEEEEN Carissa Moore who breaks down the horror of last year's rundown by Kween Steph and how she was able to channel that pain into one of her best ever year's on tour in 2024. Can she go all the way? It's a win for the future of life on Earth if she does! 

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Brought to you by Rip Curl...we catch up with Jack Robinson to find out where his mind and body are at ahead of the WSL Final Five Showdown at Trestles. 

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Ronnie and Deadly are back after a few weeks off with a Rippy Woz Finals Trivia rip in as we close in on the big event! Test your knowledge on competitive surfing's most sought after and shiniest corn cob!

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Rip Curl Presents... Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism. Caroline Marks has had a romper of a year winning two events and putting on a backside clinic at J-Bay that'll go down in history as the greatest backside female attack ever seen on the famous point bru! But who is she? And can she and coach Luke Egan muster up a World Championship win for Florida, for mainland US, and for decent, hard working, lead-footed goofyfooters world wide? Find out within!

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Club Rip Curl Presents... Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism. Today we catch up with the 2012 and 1999 World Champions Joel "Big Les" Parkinson and Mark "Da Bull" Occhilupo to get their take on the 2023 Woz Season, the Ethan Heeeeyeeeewing spine snap and comeback, and the boys walk us through each heat, from round one to final hooter and tell us who will lift the fruit bowls on Finals day. And if anybody knows you better believe Parko's Nose. UTFS!

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Rip Curl WSL Finals Day Presents... Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism. As we begin the countdown to the crowning of two new World Surfing Champions ATS delivers the first in a week-load of conversations and insights into the campaigns of the 10 Title contenders. First up, NSW Cenny Coast Swellian Kween Molly "The Psycho Pickle" Picklum who reflects on an outstanding year and how she plans to fold her opposition like a deck chair on finals day. SQUARE UP! 

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Brought to you by Better Beer...Today’s guest stands among the greatest surfers to ever set foot on wax, in our opinion. An absolute artisan in the juice, he’s set the standard for skits cones everywhere from Off The Wall, to Shipsterns Bluff, Cloudbreak, Cape Solander and so on. 

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Brought to you by Better Beer...Mike Oblowitz is a filmmaker and documentary maker behind arguably the greatest surf documentary ever made, Sea of Darkness, which follows the drug trafficking escapades of some of surfing's biggest names in the 1970s and 80s, including Peter McCabe and Ricky Rasmussen. 

There's just one problem: almost no one has seen it because it was bought off and disappeared shortly after it premiered. 

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In episode three of the Inaugural Swellness Pilgrimage podcast, the boys overdo it on the hash, police raid our minibus, and we summit the Chanderakani pass, taking our seat at the feet of the gods. 

To register your interest in the next Swellness Pilgrimage (Oct 2nd-15th) email: uptheswellians@gmail.com

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In episode two we come face to face with one of the greatest figures of modern history, the Dalai Lama, in a monastery packed to the rafters with Tibetan monks and exiles. 

To take part in the next Swellness Pilgrimage (Oct 2nd - 15th) register interest at uptheswellians@gmail.com 

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In episode one of the Inaugural Swellness Pilgrimage Podcast, the blue collar grit merchant Kristy Smyth shares her story as the pilgrims assemble in the holy city of Dharamshala for some pre-pilgrimage Doof Hof, ice-water plunges, runny bum and the beginnings of some deeply cosmic goings-on. 

Register your interest for the next pilgrimage (Oct 2nd - 15th) at uptheswellians@gmail.com.

Lifeline: https://www.lifeline.org.au

Wim Hof Breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ

Thich Nat Hanh, Calm and Ease Meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XHvtIcaD194

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Brought to you by Rip Curl...Jack 'The Vortex Shaman' Robinson held his nerve and showed tremendous GRIT to get the job done in Tahiti in what is surely the greatest performance of the year. But what happened to Ethan Ewing? Has Filipe Toledo cast off the puckered anus hovering above his world title campaign? Can Caity Simmers capitalise on her mind-melting rookie season to win a world title? And what now of the GOAT, who narrowly came undone in one of the heats of the event, at Chopes?

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Brought to you by Better Beer...We're joined once again by the hellman of all hellman, former professional bodyboarder, Brendan Newton, to talk about getting punched in the head by stand-ups, getting chased off slabs by Bra Broys, discovering Aileens in Ireland, surfing Shippies in the early days, his long battle with mental health issues, and much more.

Brenden also has his own podcast, Grey Space. 

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Billabong Presents... The Swellians seek answers.The Prophets will oblige. Scoff ya truth and ask us a question. We will speak no lies. Topics include... More Elo speculation, more judging conespiracies, more foreskin stem cell pondering, more rebel tour seedlings, more kern gurning and more money shots fired in one minute barrels... Rip it indaya! UTFS!

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