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“Artistic People Smoke Pot, Insecure People Drink And Do Cocaine”

The Drop returns with 2x World Champion and one of surfing’s most polarizing opinionated Elder Statesmen, Joel Tudor!

stabfm // Mar 27, 2019
Words by stab
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Welcome back to The Drop, Stab‘s semi-irregular audible offering. 

For this one-off episode, Stab’s Editor in Chief, Ashton Goggans sits down with one of the most opinionated and influential surfers of the last twenty-five years, Joel Tudor.

After running through a class at Studio 540, the jiu-jitsu studio Joel is heavily invested in, Joel sat down at his North County San Diego residence of over two decades and discuss many a matter near and dear to his heart: jiu-jitsu, Pipeline, and his early days on the North Shore; the small army of icons and legends of the sport who took him under wing at a young age; cannabis, cocaine, creativity and the “jock mentality”; skateboarding, longboarding, the secrets to longevity, and much, much more.

While we won’t write checks our ass can’t cash, there’s a good chance you’ll be hearing more from The Drop very soon. 

This episode of The Drop is brought to you by our friends at Ecosciences, purveyors of the very finest of hemp extracts. Ecosciences makes full spectrum capsules and tinctures, sourced from a small, organic hemp farm in the Netherlands, using whole-plant extracts and the a supercritical CO2 extraction process, fractured coconut oil and with naturally occuring vitamin E, Omega-3 & Omega-6 Fatty Acids, chlorophyll, plant sterols, terpenes and other essential natural nutrients.

 Music: 

“Son of Neckbone,” The Beastie Boys. From “The In Side From Way Out.” 1995. From J. Brother’s 1995 film, Adrift. 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BfJiY9kzmuo

 

And… Here’s a smattering of Joel from the deep web: 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0sSm9qeWS84

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IX1EgNoRK8A

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UCN7IEUbc0I

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9xs02NR3D5E


 

 

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