AIN'T THAT SWELL

Brought to you by Up! The bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Macario De Souza is one of the most successful artists and filmmakers Australia has produced. He grew up in Maroubra Housing Commission as the son of immigrants before making the highest grossing documentary in Australian history (Bra Boys), partying with Paris Hilton, hanging with RZA from the Wu Tang Clan, and serving as the understudy to Russel Crowe. In between he was on hand to watch his group of friends from Maroubra scale the heights of professional rugby league and surfing. Today he is a mentor to local youth and continues to make films, documentaries, music film clips, and more. 

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Ollie O'Flaherty is an Irish pro surfer, slab specialist and surf coach who recently pioneered a brand new Irish mega slab located on top of a mythological sunken city.

You can watch the documentary featuring Ollie here.

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Patagonia's Roaring Journals (Get one here) Presents... Notes from the End of the World! 29 Gold Cone Piece Award Winning Surf Journo Sean Doherty Editor of Roaring Journals & Surfing World Magazine joins us to discuss the passing of surf culture titans Larry Bertlemann and Graham Sid Cassidy, as well as deep dives the hottest new fad in surfing... chucking your life in a boat and disappearing over the horizon!

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WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence and domestic abuse.

Jed and Vaughan address the reports from surf media regarding Championship Tour surfer Al Cleland Jr and three other men in the alleged sexual assault of a 17-year-old Australian girl after the Tahiti Pro.

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Sun Bum Vampires Surf Noosa 31st World Premiere Presents... (Get tix here) Mason Ho's Caveheart II! They say comedies don't win Oscars, but with Caveheart II Mason Ho, Sheldon Paishon and Rory Pringle might be packing their tuxedos and heading to the Academy for their work on Caveheart II, a heaving dry rock slabfest with more stoner shenanigans and gut busting laughs that Cheech and Chong's Still Smoking!

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Brought to you by Bonsoy!Brazil saw a 6000 QS and a Challenger Series event shake up of the Changaz ratings with big Alastair Reginato placing runner up to Kainalo in Brazil. Sierra Kerr clinches CT qualification in Portugal in an event taken out by Brisa Hennesy. In the men's, Crosby Colapinto takes victory, Joel Vaughan second, with 5 Aussies making the quarterfinals. 

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Crossing the tideline Special Part 3: Tiger Sharks... Friend or foe?

The word “shark” is often used to describe a broad range of species, but that can overlook some significant differences. 

Great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks have different biology, behaviours, movements, diets and population dynamics and those differences matter when we’re talking about how they interact with people and the environments they share.

These three species have been highlighted because they are the species most commonly associated with serious interactions with humans in areas where sharks and people overlap. 

Understanding why that may be, and what makes each species different, is part of understanding the broader picture.

For this series of three episodes, we’re taking a closer look at each of these 3 species individually. 

Each episode is essentially a 101 on the species in focus, covering biology and behaviour, population, growth and recovery, shark encounters and attacks, mitigation, what comes next, and some of the bigger questions surrounding each species.

This is the Bull shark episode and the second episode in this little mini series. The Great white ep is already in the library and the tiger shark ep will drop in the coming weeks. 

The aim is to build a better understanding of the individual species, rather than grouping everything together under the word “shark”. It then becomes easier to understand the differences between species and add a bit more context to the information, research and conversations that surround them.

All 3 episodes are recorded with Dr Paul Butcher, a Principal Research Scientist with NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Fisheries), based in Coffs Harbour. Paul is a leading marine researcher who has spent years working across shark research and management in NSW, including the NSW Government’s Shark Management Strategy, shark tagging programs, SMART drumlines and research into post-release fish survival.

If you have any pressing questions from any of the following eps, please comment or DM through as Paul has generously offered to do an ep dedicated to audience questions once the 3 eps have been aired. 

These eps were recorded during August and September, 2026. 

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Sun Bum, the official cun care of the Swellians Presents... A Chat with Jaleesa Vincent and Luka Luka Raubenheimer about their new film Vampires Surf: A cult classic in the making starring Jelly Bean, Caity Simmers and Frankie Harrer as blood sucking creatures of the night determined to score the sickest waves imaginable! 5 stars!

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Jon Pyzel is a Hawaiian Master Craftsman most famous for being Johnny John Floz Floz's lifelong shaper, but behind making the formula one surfboards that have done some of the most sublime surfing on this planet, there is also dedication to delivering designs that allow everysurfer to elevate their performance for maximum enjoyment. A must listen!

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Burch is Back with a Crossing the Tideline three-part Spesh on Shark Species. This is part 2 focussing on Bulls.

The word “shark” is often used to describe a broad range of species, but that can overlook some significant differences. 

Great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks have different biology, behaviours, movements, diets and population dynamics and those differences matter when we’re talking about how they interact with people and the environments they share.

These three species have been highlighted because they are the species most commonly associated with serious interactions with humans in areas where sharks and people overlap. 

Understanding why that may be, and what makes each species different, is part of understanding the broader picture.

For this series of three episodes, we’re taking a closer look at each of these 3 species individually. 

Each episode is essentially a 101 on the species in focus, covering biology and behaviour, population, growth and recovery, shark encounters and attacks, mitigation, what comes next, and some of the bigger questions surrounding each species.

This is the Bull shark episode and the second episode in this little mini series. The Great white ep is already in the library and the tiger shark ep will drop in the coming weeks. 

The aim is to build a better understanding of the individual species, rather than grouping everything together under the word “shark”. It then becomes easier to understand the differences between species and add a bit more context to the information, research and conversations that surround them.

All 3 episodes are recorded with Dr Paul Butcher, a Principal Research Scientist with NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Fisheries), based in Coffs Harbour. Paul is a leading marine researcher who has spent years working across shark research and management in NSW, including the NSW Government’s Shark Management Strategy, shark tagging programs, SMART drumlines and research into post-release fish survival.

If you have any pressing questions from any of the following eps, please comment or DM through as Paul has generously offered to do an ep dedicated to audience questions once the 3 eps have been aired. – Burch

These eps were recorded during August and September, 2026. 

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Billabong’s AI Collection (Get it here!) Presents…ATS with Smiv & Deadly deep diving the most topical events on the surfing Gulf Stream including: Smivvy’s chooks versus the world, Goat’s Premeditated madness at Chopes, the best surfers Rugby League has to offer, Fiji Celluloid Gold, and Mick Fanning’s contribution to surfing’s most sacred screeds!

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Hawaiian, Mark Healy, is considered one of the greatest tube riders, big wave surfers and all round watermen of his generation. He grew up in a violent and contested period of North Shore, Oahu surfing history and made a name for himself charging maxing Pipeline, Cloudbreak, Waimea, Mavericks and elsewhere. 

He has won Wave of the Winter, come 3rd at the 2023, Eddie Aikau Invitational, and won a Spearfishing World Cup in Mexico in 2008. 

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Sun Bum the official Sun Care of the Swellians Presents... Rando Conversations with Surfing Super League CEO Chris Mater who gives us an update on the recent Foxtel TV rights deal, how the franchises are coming along and when we can expect to see team colours, logos and athletes!

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Max Desantis' debut documentary is a cutting-edge, multimedia, visual masterpiece rooted in Balinese culture and mythology, that captures the cosmic battle between capitalist greed, neo-colonial foreigner kooks, and local surfing culture. 

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Billabong’s A.I. Collection Presents…Comic Apricots live from Kirra Surf where Bong launched the new A.I. Collection and a few old friends shared yarns of the great man before a couple of spliff smokers in the dunny nearly shut the whole deal down!

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Burch is Back with a three part Crossing the Tideline special on Whites, Bulla and Tiger Sharks

The word “shark” is often used to describe a broad range of species, but that can overlook some significant differences. Great whites, bull sharks and tiger sharks have different biology, behaviours, movements, diets and population dynamics. Those differences matter when we’re talking about how they interact with people and the environments they share.
These three species have been highlighted because they are the species most commonly associated with serious interactions with humans in areas where sharks and people overlap. Understanding why that is, and what makes each species different, is part of understanding the broader picture.
For this series of three episodes, we’re taking a closer look at each of these 3 species individually. Each episode is essentially a 101, covering biology and behaviour, population, growth and recovery, shark encounters and attacks, mitigation, what comes next, and some of the bigger questions surrounding each species.
This is the great white ep and the first of the 3. The next 2 eps in the mini series, featuring Bull Sharks and Tiger sharks, will drop in the coming weeks. 
The aim is to build a better understanding of the individual species, rather than grouping everything together under the word “shark”. It then becomes easier to understand the differences between species and add a bit more context to the information, research and conversations that surround them.
The episodes are recorded with Dr Paul Butcher, a Principal Research Scientist with NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Fisheries), based in Coffs Harbour. Paul is a leading marine researcher who has spent years working across shark research and management in NSW, including the NSW Government’s Shark Management Strategy, shark tagging programs, SMART drumlines and research into post-release fish survival.
Also, if you have any pressing questions from any of the following eps, please comment or DM through as Paul has generously offered to do an ep dedicated to audience questions once the 3 eps have been aired. 

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For decades, surfboard designer and shaper Greg Webber has questioned the basic theories of surfboard design: the impact of water flow, how curves and bottom contours work together, and ultimately, how we can build a board that allows a surfer to move more efficiently through water and on a wave.

Some of his ideas have been controversial, some misunderstood, and some well ahead of their time. But Greg has never been afraid to ask why a surfboard works, and that curiosity has taken him down some pretty fascinating rabbit holes.

So today, we’re going to get into design, hydrodynamics, experimentation, and the evolution of the surfboard as he knows it. We may even challenge a few long-standing theories along the way.

Greg and I worked together for about a decade during the early part of my professional surfing career, and I credit him with teaching me some of the key fundamentals of surfboard design.

And I am really proud to have him on the Volume Podcast today. – Richie Lovett

Check out Riklove’s Volume designs here: https://www.volumeshapes.com/

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That’s Got Young Aussies Backs…Talon Clemow is back with his second feature length documentary (Thundercloud 2012), Stern Fever, which shines a light on the iconic Shipsterns Bluff like you’ve never seen before. From the folk heroes who first dared to roll the dice out there (and later fell out), to the efforts to keep it secret, Rastas unbelievable first surf out there, Kieren Perrows eternal effort on a 12 foot mutant, teenage Laurie Towner putting AI on show, and much more. 

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood's Pacific Ale...Marginal conditions at Trestles favoured the lightweights and left the lead-foots stuck in the mud in the mens (bar hundy kegger Col Houshmand). In the Women's Erin Brooks is on another planet right now. Gabby Bryan also announced her return to the yellow leaders jersey with a solid showing.  

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Stone & Wood Presents…Blitzed. Pure. Tour. Nerdism. An update from the swill bucket t6hat is the Lowers line-up as The Cut Looms and the Heavy Hitters in the World Title Race get bent over! In the women’s a generational baton change battle looms as Aunty Riss and Brooks Brah get ready to tear each others heads off!

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The Volume Podcast with Richie Lovett. All things surfboards with the former CT legend and WSL Commentator turned World Class Shaper. Riklove will host weekly chats with master craftsman to share the design elements, ideas and folklore behind the world's most magic surfboards, as well as share with you dear Swellian the secrets to getting the best possible plank under your feet enriching your own surfing journey. Let's rip in!

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Pipe Specialist, Chopes Thunder Egg Pilot and Hmmmmad Pasifiki House DJ, Makana Pang, joins Smivvy on the mic at the Rip Curl Cup Padang. 

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The galactic tube pig and ATS Hall-of-Famer, Mason Ho, joins Smivvy on the mic at the Rip Curl Cup Padang. 

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The Fijian Freakshow himself, James Kusitino, joins Smivvy on the mic during the Rip Curl Cup Padang for a wide-ranging interview about his radical yet short surfing journey - from village kid to the toast of world surfing in four short years! 

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood Pacific Ale...There are competitive formats coming out the razoo right now with Stab 100 providing one helluva spectacle this week and the Trestles World Tour event serving up one of the most appetising prospects this year. Smivvy and Deadly unpack it all, and more! 

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Billabong’s Big Time Candy Collection Presents…ATS Reg Ep featuring best friends and room mates Deadly and Medina’s Fiji pissing comp, the Former Masterpiece Defect starring Cous Cous Kusitino, Goat gets put to pasture by Jack Freestone, Bali Dharma Goes to War, and what are the conflicting theories on saving or expelling Chi being championed by Laird Hamilton and Shane Dorian?!!!

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Denny Novikar Nasution is a Sumatran-born, Bali-based punk and hardcore musician, and visual artist. 

Find his work here. 

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ATS Live from Bali General Supply's (BGS) Spiritual Home in Kutapresents an Indonesian Surf Culture Extravaganza ft. Indo's first world champ, Bronson Meydi, Padang Cup's teenage champs, Weston Hirst and Jasmin Studer, WQS and Padma lord, Ketut Agus, Desert Point's Absolute Finest, Usman Trioko, Bingin Hindu underground ripper, Kopral, and Indo's Julian Assange and maxed out philanthropist LORD, Piter Panjaitan. 

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A Cloudbreak contest for the ages won by the monolithic San Clemente goofy foot, Col Houshmand, over Medina, despite the Brazilian dropping a freakish perfect ten in the final.

Erin Brooks wins the final on a walk through after Izzy Nichols is unable to surf due to injury. 

We recap all the action from the event including the untold injury toll that besieged the tour over the course of a seriously consequential Pacific leg.

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Stone & Wood Presents… Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism.The penultimate day of competition at the Fiji Pro saw a total Nuke Peach Pacific Armageddon with 10 point rides, laceration carnage and send merchants deluxe. Boss Hog and Deadly break down the days action before Deadly sits down with Tahitian Lord of the Cone and Olympic Gold Medalist Kauli Vaast and Portuguese Send Kween Yolanda Hopkins. Hmaaaaad!

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Ketut Menda was the first ever Indonesian professional surfer. He travelled to compete in Australia, Hawaii and elsewhere and is a pioneer of surfing in his homeland. Today, he is a devoted father, grandfather and Balinese Hindu. 

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Matt Ellks is a former pro surfer turned novelist from Bondi Beach, Australia. He is a historian of Southside Surfing and part of the greatest generation of surfers to come out of Bondi - one that included, Chris Brock, Joe Engel, Pauline Menczer, Cheyne Horan, Richard Cram, Bill Powers, among others.

He is the author of four books, which you can find here. 

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Stone & Wood Presents... Tavi TV Radio Fiji Pro gets demo'd by the four biggest arse cheeks in pro surfing Connor O'Leary and Kauli Vaast. Tour Rookie and best bloke alive Oscar Berry plonks into the Tavi Man Soup Jacuzzi with Deadly to discuss today's action as well as his year so far: with a special guest cameo from Italian Superstar Leonardo Fioravanti!

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Stone & Wood Presents... Tavi TV Radio featuring Erin Brooks exclusive chat with Rinsed Corn literally moments after exiting the most chambered off glitch cone in women's surfing history! Strider Raspberry Wasilewski and Jake the Snake Paterson also Chirp in on a wild day 1 of the Fiji Pro at fucking cooking Cloudbreak!

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Stone & Wood Presents… Blitzed: Tavi TV Radio Day 3.The swell is about to kick and all signs point to the Fiji Pro pumping for the next three days straight! We check in with surfing’s high performance avant guardian Jimmicane Wilson for his thoughts on who will win and why, and catch up with Aussie Spirit animal Nathan Big Hedge for a look inside camp Straya. Fucken oath let’s go!

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Christ Mater reveals the details of the just announced Surfing Super League - an 8 week team franchise competition season (starting in 2028) that hopes to bring surfing alongside AFL, Rugby League and the Big Bash League as a prime time sporting super series!

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Stone & Wood Presents... Blitzed Tavi TV Radio Dispatch Day 1 featuring World Champ Molly Picklum, Wildcard from the Shire Jarvis Earle, and World No.23 True Grit Tex Robbo who joined us on arrival day to discuss the year so far, trusting in your process, what's up with the Aussie men on the Chang and who's sharing bedrooms on the heart shaped Fijian Island. 

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LE-BA Boardriders and Lennox Alive Initiative Presents… Storm Riders Live - a night celebrating the 1981 Hoole McCoy Classic with the stars of the film live at the Lennox Head Cultural Centre

lennoxalive.com features 10 events until June 2027.  The second Saturday of each month.  Free Shuttle Service from Ballina to Lennox Head, and wide range of events at the Cultural Centre with satellite activations at downtown business venues featuring local community organisations from dance, comedy, music, surf, skate, indigenous culture.  LeBa was an awesome turnout for the inaugural launch of Lennox Alive. Find out more on the social tag above!

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Piter Panjaitan is a Bataknese surfer and philanthropist from Sumatra. He runs an orphanage in Bali and has risen to prominence speaking truth to power and defending Indonesian people and the environment from exploitation. 

You can follow him here and his orphanage and philanthropic projects here. 

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That's Got Young Aussie's Backs...Chas Smith is an ex-war correspondent writer and surf journalist from Oregon, California.

He has worked for Stab Magazine, Vice and many others, and now edits, Beach Grit. He has written three books, Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, Cocaine and Surfing, and Reports From Hell. 

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Stone & Wood Presents… Blitzed: Pure. Tour. Nerdism. Hawaiian Seth Moniz and Canadian Erin Brooks have taken out a classic Tahiti Pro Event with supreme tube riding masterclass. 2015 Chopes Champ Owen Wright joins Deadly just after the final hooter to break it down

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Stone & Wood Presents - Kelly Slater has caused heads to explode with NEAR PERFECTION on a day when men became Gods and Goats became Cone Aliens from Other Realms! Special Guest analysis with Chopes Bandit and Chang Lord Lennox Smith!

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Brough to you by Stone and Wood Pacific Ales...The Tahiti Pro is underway in some of the most mutant conditions ever seen for an event with tube specialists and slab heathens finally getting the chance to flex in surfing's ultimate arena: CONES OF MORTAL CONEQUENCE! 

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Billabong Presents… Two hours of Power with Smiv and Deadly taking on the biggest stories ins surf including… The GOAT astonishingly wiped from the history books on the eve of his Teahupoo comp comeback, our Chang Lords forced to share beds on tour but who’s keeping who safe from the boogie man? Is it Italo’s line-up etiquette or pasta binging that makes him the tour’s most hated man? Sharknado continues to churn AND can St Mick of Penrith save Australian Surfing from it’s worst start to a year ever?

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Stone & Wood Presents... Blitzed with Olympic Hero and Hard Charging Former Chopes Champion Owen Wright who sat down with Deadly for an up close look at the next Woz CT stop in Tahiti, our Aussie hopefuls, and who might come along and steal our fucken thunder! 

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Stab Premium Presents...Woz Commentator, Gold Cone Piece Award Winner, and Renowned Twitcher Paul Evans takes us behind the scenes of his new four-part Stab Podcast Docu-series HOSSEGOR BEACH COCAINE - the true story of the time kilo bags of rack washed up on France's most famous surf break. First ep available on Stab Premium Friday 7th of April!

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ATS X POW POW SNOW SHOW with Reggae Elliss! Get your fix of fresh mountain news and topical surf banter with a couple of petrified old SW Editors chewing the fat!

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Bonsoy Isotonic Hydration Presents... Blitzed from the US Open!Led by Sierra Kerr and Isla Huppatz, the Australian women salvaged pride for the nation with a one-two finish.

In the men's, Jed and Vaughan, discuss a dismal showing and  the shock of not a single Australian flag in the top ten of the Men's Challenger Series ratings. Is it too early to sound the alarm?

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Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Daniel Brown, better known as the mad slab heathen with the hmmmadest mullet this continent has ever produced, reveals the drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness that sent him to a rehabilitation clinic at 24 years old. 

Thirteen years of sobriety and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings later, he's killing it with his coffee and cafe franchise (Lords Supply), raising a happy family, and man-handling the most mutant cones you can paddle. One of the great spiritual warriors and vortex shamans. Don't miss this one! 

Connect with Daniel Brown, here. 

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Bonsoy Isotonic Hydration Presents... Blitzed from the US Open! A nightmare day that saw our Aussie men get humped from day break to sun down in one of the worst Chang routs in recent memory. One man who survived the days carnage was Shellharbour's Lennix 'The Beagle' Smith. He takes us inside Camp Oz for the breakdown. 

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Bonsoy Isotonics Presents...Westen Hirst, Lakey Peak's latest prodigy, on being the youngest winner in the history of the Rip Curl Cup Padang, what it's gonna take to defend his title, growing up with Bronson Meydi at Lakey Peak, and doing it for his late, great father, Troy Hirst. 

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Billabong Presents… Smiv and Deadly reflect on the once great Waves Magazine revealing the former Editors who shivved it in the neck in a story straight outta Greek Mythology. PLUS: An exclusive first look at the Sacred Fanning Scriptures - a parchment so biblical Christopher Nolan might use it as his next major film project! Shane Dorian gets absolutely demo’d into shallow Indo reef! Bali locals have had a gutful of pissed touro gronks! And the great Indo Conefest is about to fire up!

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Bonsoy Isotonics Presents...Bonsoy Blitzed with High Flying Chang Lord Dane Henry! Layed up with a busted pin after an air gorn wrong at Lowers Dane-o gives us the run down on how long he'll be out, his highlights from Ballito and how he sees the upcoming Chang at Huntington Beach playing out!

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Ray Jah45 aka Ray Nolan is a Maori reggae singer, selecta, surfer, skater, father, occasional MMA fighter and tradesmen from the Waikato region, in New Zealand, who now resides in Cronulla, South of Sydney.

You can find him hereand his band, Sub-Tribe here. 

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Billabong Presents… ALL OUT WAR as Smivvy deflects a blindside attack from Surf Cam website Swellnet with one of the great counter punch knockouts of our time! Video evidence of Crocs spotted in Macaronis line-up gets pundits screaming CONESPIRACY! Goat tees off on Brazilian Big Wave Icon Maya Gabeira! Tim Bonython’s problematic corn gets gold pass! And so much more!

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Bonsoy Blitzed Presents... Pure. Quewey. Nerdism. The opening Challenger Series event of the year was held in Ballito Durban. In the men's CT pedigree shone through with big Col Houshmand taking the win. In the women's Teresa Bonvalot took out an all Portugese final over Francisca Veselko.  There was also plenty to like from the Australians' performance. 

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Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Two time Bodyboarding World Champ, Andre Botha, joins us for part two of his insane career retrospective. We talk the science of Skeleton Bay, early Indo jaunts, 90s and 2000s Aussie punk bodyboarding muses, South African violence, and Durban drainers.

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2012 World Champ and Pipe Master Joel Parkinson weighs in on the penultimate day of competition at the first Chang of the year in Ballito as Aussies get obliterated save for Cronulla Shire weapon Jarvis Earle. Can he go all the way?

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Patagonia Presents… Rando Conversations with SW Editor and 29 Gold Cone Piece Award winning surf journalist Seano Doherty who takes us through the latest cover-to-cover shark edition of the mag and what he learned while making of it.

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Violet Coco and Brad Homewood join System Failure to talk about Violet's experiences aboard the Palestinian Peace Flotilla before it was intercepted by Israeli Defence Forces on its way to Gaza. And how she faired in Israeli detention while Israeli politician, Ben Gvir, made his now infamous appearance among the captives. 

Brad, who is married to Violet, explains what it was like to be present for the infamous attack by Neo-Nazis on the Indigenous Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne. 

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ATS X POW POW REGGAE - The Snow Report is in and cold white shit is starting to fall from the heavens! Plus: An update from the first Chang of the year in South Africa and Reggae's top 3 Rando facts about Tracks Magazine in the 1980s.

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ATS Live from the Australian Surf Industry Honours Nightwhere the late great Shane Stedman was acknowledged for his contribution to the surf industry. We kick things off with a catch up with his son, former top 10 CT surfer Luke Stedman, then roll into a fantastic tribute featuring Gold Cone Piece Winners, World Champions, Titans of the Industry, Bells Winners and Shane himself. See ya in the next life Shane-o old mate! Love ya!

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Billabong’s Merge Presents… An ATS Mini Ep covering the news of the day including Goat’s Return to the CT at Chopes, the Chopes Trials winners who could easily destroy the current World No.1s, the Aussie Changaz Campaign kicks off in Ballito, and Bali puts an import tax on giant puffy camel toes!

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Bonsoy Blitzed Presents... Pure. Quewey. Nerdism. Shining a light on the events and up-and-coming superstars doing it for Australia on the Chang and the Q! Today we speak with Kobie Clements, the orb-threading, kerrupt flipping Long Reef wild unit who just won the first Q of the year in Shiheung South Korea. Very hmaaaaaad!

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Ben Berry is a health and wellness coach who has worked with Wim Hof and is currently studying Paul Chek's protocols and philosophy. He rose to prominence during the catastrophic flooding that struck the Northern Rivers in 2022.

Connect with Benny and his wellness clubs and initiatives here.

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Billabong Presents…Cosmic Apricots live from the Occy Grom Comp. Featuring Kelly Slater & Deadly in the commentary booth to discuss his upcoming wildcard on the CT, Beyond Blazing Boards, getting chaired up the beach and more… plus little warrior Taylor Bartlett takes out an emotional Under 12 boys final dedicating the win to his Dad, the late great Nathan Bartlett. Surfing rules!

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Billabong Presents The Occy Grom Comp & Merge Live Now!

It’s an ATS classic brought to you from the swamps of Mordor (aka Smivvy’s joint) where the lads cut loose on all the shiz that’s been dripping from the might surfing seacock’s Jap-eye for the past two weeks. Slurp it up!

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ATS X POW POW REGGAE SCOOP! Cloud 9 to become 13th Stop on 2026 World Tour

Plus: we break down the diabolical sitcho in the Oz Snow fields Plus Reggae gives us the top 5 surf journos he ever worked with as Editor of Tracks, Deep and Surfing World. 

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This episode is brought to you by Up! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Andre Botha is one of the galactic wave riders of all-time. The 3x Bodyboarding World Champ is described by Jordy Smith as "The Guy," and has ridden a handful of the heaviest waves of all-time. He is a passionate artist, style master, and truth seeker.  

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Yago Dora dominates in Brazil and wins at Saquarema but the big news was Italian Leo Fioravanti becoming the first Italian in history to lead the World Tour ratings after consecutive finals. Can he win a world title? In the women's Sawyer Lindblad claimed her first World Tour win and teen prodigy, Tya Zebrowski, broke through for her first final.

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Brought to you by Up! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Tom Lowe is a professional big wave surfer from Cornwall, England, who now resides in New Zealand. 

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Pow Pow Reggae is back! The ATS X REGGAE ELLISS Snow show deep dives the infamous Robbie Page Tracks Cover Scandal, the horrendous start to the Aussie Snow Season, Cooper Woods best on ground performance at the MF Charity Golf Day, plus which gigs and events to keep an eye on during this year's Aussie winter! Yeeeeeew!

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ATS Live from Taylor Steele’s epic Sessions Surf Festival at Burleighwhere Smiv and Deadly sit down for a night of face melting surf celluloid artistry from some of the best filmmakers on the planet! Special Guests Liam O'Brien and Dane Henry also join the panel!

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NIO KO BOKK (This Belongs To All of Us) is a short film that follows the story of two impoverished Senegalese surfers, Pape and Seydi, as they weigh up whether to risk a perilous boat trip across the Atlantic to Europe or stay and eke out a living off surfing in their homeland on the Dakar Peninsula of Senegal.  

Watch the film here: https://youtu.be/i9YCttTLVo4?is=_LYDLG-XGedrIAfa

And the GoFundMe for the boys’ surf school is here: 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-pape-fode-seydis-surf-school-in-dakar

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We discuss the unprecedented polling results of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, revisit Smivvy's journey to the heart of Pauline Hanson country for News Limited back in 2018, his cameo on ABC's Q and A Housing Special, the rise of Right Wing Populism globally and what role, if any, immigration plays.

Co-host Fred Pawle is a former journalist for the Daily Telegraph, The Australian, Sky News, Stab Magazine and Australia's Surfing Life, among others.  

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood..Italian Leo Fioravanti breaks a ten year winning drought by beating a courageous Italo Ferreira surfing through the pain barrier. And Carissa Moore continues her remarkable come back with back to back World Tour wins. 

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Huge News Swellians! The Inaugural Swellness Summit is back…smaller and more profound than ever. We’re collaborating with the Grounded Permaculture crew and Sacred Hearts Winter Solstice Festival this coming weekend - June 19th to 21st - at the sublime Natural Bridge space in the native forest just west of the Gold Coast. 

Swellians are invited to come Hof, Meditate, move, dance, learn and power up at the festival.

SPECIAL DISCOUNT TICKETS HERE.

Follow Sacred Hearts here and the Grounded Permaculture crew here. 

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In this final episode of Crossing the Tideline podcast on the Ain't That Swell Platform Brett Burcher sits down with Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, who has spent a lifetime surfing, diving and fighting for Australians and the natural environment we all share, to talk about how sharks are considered in Parliament and what to do about them.. 

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Billabong Presents… A Smiv & Deadly 3 hour spesh that deep dives…

– Rail Vs Chop Hops as Aussie Surf Fans Revolt

– The Brazilian Dominance of the Woz

– Australia’s World Title Contenders in all-sorts

– Surf Rage in Byron as the Man-Buns go turbo nuclear

– The mortal global cone-off deluxe

– What’s going on with the Shaman’s Socials

– Medina’s Effortless Cool

– Jed’s Very Very Angry

– Endless Swellian Questions answered

And more more more! Indulge.

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Brought to you by Up Bank! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Shyama Buttonshaw is a leading Australian surfer-shaper from Bells Beach, Australia, specialising in diverse, futuristic equipment and performance in conditions ranging from one foot to ten plus. 

Find his website, here. 

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Get ya snow on Swellians with Pow Pow Reggae- where we chat with Reggae Elliss about all things Aussie Snow. This ep features Olympic heroes Valentino Guseli, Jakara Anthony and Cooper Woods. More gold medals that Smivvy has Gold Cone Pieces!

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Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Oliver Percovich is a skater from Melbourne, Australia, who founded Skateistan, a hugely successful not-for-profit that started in Kabul, Afghanistan, before spreading throughout the Middle East and all over the world.

Follow Skateistan and contribute to their cause by visiting their website. 

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For this episode Burch takes audience with author, scientist, big wave surfer and powerhouse creative Easkey Britton. The two discuss how our relationship to water can shape our behaviours and actions, how it informs us, how it affects us and how it shapes our lives. It’s not at all a dense scientific shark chat, in fact it barely mentions sharks, but it's worth looking deeper into the shared space where humans and sharks find each other.

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Volcom, Raglan Surf Emporium, Raglan Roast and Sun Bum Presents...ATS Live from the Raglan Club starring Connor O'Learyzy Brah, Luke "Raglan Surf Report" Cederman, Al Cleland Jr, Daniel Kereopa and local wildcard Billy Stairmand in one of the great sendfests in New Zealand Pro Surfing History! Chuuuuuuur cuzzzzy!

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood....Jed and Vaughan discuss the New Zealand Pro. 

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Moments after his breakthrough runner-up at Raglan, Morgz answers the call from The Swellians to talk about his mind melting backside attack at Raglan, where the final with Italo was won and lost, whether Aussie rail surfing can actually win a world title given how much the judges love Brazilian aerials, and much more. 

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This episode of Swellness was recorded live at the recent Power Up held at the state of the art B3 Wellness Facility in Brunswick Heads. Today’s guest is Kathryn Nelson, aka the Plastic Free Mermaid.

Through over a decade of research practice in the field, she has become an expert on plastics and how they are literally killing us and our children. 

Kathryn studied microplastics alongside a researcher at Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society in Santa Barbara, California. She traveled to the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre to collect rubbish and study the impact of microplastics on marine life and plankton. She is author of the book "I Quit Plastics," as well as an avid surfer, diver, sailor, and loving mother.

Find her on Instagram here or listen to her podcast here.   

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Brought to you by UP! The Bank That's Got Young Aussies' Backs...Beyrick De Vries is a South African professional surfer from Durban who battled cocaine and alcohol addiction before getting clean in the 12 Step Recovery Program and qualifying for this year’s Challenger Series, aged 33. 

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Stone & Wood Presents... ATS LIVE at the COOLY HOTEL with X3 Gold Coast Pro Champs Julian Wilson, Owen Wright and Matt Wilko talking Brazilian Storm, Olympics, the MF Shark Incident, the Greatest Sporting Comeback ever seen and whole lot More... Special Guest Appearances from Hughie Vaughan & Lungi Slabb

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ATS Live at Raglan Club this Wednesday May 13 Presents...

Brett Burcher's Crossing the Tideline Epsiode 4:Charlie Huveneers is a researcher and lecturer at Flinders University who has worked extensively in the field of shark deterrents for 20 years. Burch catches up with Charlie to discuss, amongst other things, the complexities of the shark population debate and how shark deterrents are studied and tested.

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood...WOW! It does not get better than that. The Gold Coast Pro provided the high water mark of modern professional surfing this week with unprecedented crowds flocking to Snapper to witness the outermost limits of high performance surfing. At the end of the day, two Australian point break masters reigned supreme, Stephanie 'Da GOAT' Gilmore and Ethan YEEEEEEWING

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Brought to you by ATS LIVE, the Artificial Intelligence Tour, Gold Coast Show, April 30th. 

Jono Salfield is the co-founder of the underground Australian surf heavyweights, Afends, and Tubby is their first and longest serving team rider. 

Tickets to our Show at the Cooly Hotel on the Gold Coast April 30, here. 

Tickets to our Power Up on May 3rd in Brunswick Heads here. 

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood...George Pittar puts on a heroic underdog performance to scalp every Brazilian world champ left on tour and claim his maiden WCT victory. We hear from the North Steyne Boardriders legend after his momentous victory. 

And 14 year World Tour veteran, Lakey Peterson, aged 31 years young, claims victory and reminds the women the so-called 'old guard' is here to stay. 

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This ep Burch chats with surfer, diver, marine biologist and conservationist Brinkley Davies.Brinkley shares her perspectives and stories as a surfer raised in South Aus. From the lax protocols in place during her junior surfing days, through shark behaviour, environmental change, the deeper effects of shark encounters on surfing communities, mental health, and the desperate need for better risk awareness, communication, and practical safety measures – it’s a fascinating walk through creature, habitat and humans and the middle ground we all share.

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Stone & Wood Presents Ain't That Swell Live from the River Hotel in Margaret River featuring World's No.1 & 5 Miguel and Samuel Pupo, 90s Core Aussie Grit Merchants Turned Surfing Super Brains Jake Paterson and Richie Lovett and hard charging wild units Paul Antman Paterson and Ryan "Hard Balls" Hardy. Enjoy!

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood...Chaotic conditions for Round 3 of the Margaret River Pro see the Brazilians dominate again. Three Australians remain in the men's draw, including George Pittar who pulled off another dramatic win over Leo Fioravanti. 

In the women's Molly Picklum put on a dominant display as did Bells Champ, Gabriela Bryan on the other side of the draw. 

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Proudly brought to you by Stone and Wood...Tempers flare on a huge day at Margaret River between world champ Yago Dora and local lord, Jacob Chippo Wilcox. Elsewhere, Australia finds its feet in the long period Indian Ocean energy, Steph Gilmore bows out early again, and we preview salivating round three match ups. 

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Brought to you by Stone and Wood...Miguel Pupo rounds out one of the great performances by the Brazilian Storm to win Bells on a day that saw one of the most freakish finishes to a heat on record courtesy of the Yago Dora and Gabriel Medina semi final.

In the women's, Gabby Bryan displayed peerless power to defeat Molly Picklum in the final and claim the Yellow Leader's Jersey. 

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Time travel a decade back in time and step inside the iconic farm shack rented by Ellis Ericson and Beau Foster in the Byron Bay hinterland with its cast of cosmic characters and degenerates. Hipster or authentic? You be the judge. 

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