Ain't That Swell

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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=XHvtIcaD194See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dude, where's my Brainzo? Ronnie is back with another (albeit belated) surf trivia special this time focussed on all things Californication bro! Get ya mind corn heated up and rip in duderinos!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Billabong and Better Beer Presents... TRUE GRIT Live from the Indy Hotel at Scar Brah! Starring Swellian favourite Creed McTaggart, Boog Ninja Slab Lord Chris White and Paul The Anteater Paterson! A night of celebrating those who seek the most mutant orbs on Australia's wildest coast be they prone or erect!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.