Zeke Gets Hired and Fired By The WSL in Less Than a Week

Jacob Szekely, a student of surf history?

Real ones know that before Paul Fisher twisted knobs at Coachella, he had skills on both a surfboard and a microphone — both occasionally dick-shaped. When he wasn’t punching lips on phallic designs, Fisher was harassing Slater from the HB Pier and getting the word on the sand around the US Open of Surfing, all punctured by his trademark hyena cackle.

Over the past few years, Zeke has aimed to replicate Fisher’s unorthodox approach to his own unofficial comp reports. He’s done them semi under-the-radar, with backstage credentials passed over the fence by friends. Things changed on the Gold Coast, however, when the WSL offered to pay him to cover the Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro. A move toward bipartisan collaboration. Or at least a shared mutual interest in raising the profile of professional surfing.

So Zeke chopped it up with just about everyone, from fans on the streets to CT regulars like Robbo, Leo, Italo, Griffin, Connor, Filipe, Jordy, and Yago to Aussie freesurfers Lungi Slabb and Milla Coco Brown. Even Kelly Slater gives OTC a fair shake and philosophizes on the potential of larger artificial waves. 

It’s not a total shock to learn the WSL wasn’t thrilled with the result. The covered topics ranged from the validity of pool airs, Sydney Sweeney or Megan Fox, who posts about their significant other the most, and which tour surfer has the highest body count. Not everyone was especially forthcoming, but some were. According to Zeke, it was an honest attempt to show some personality that isn’t displayed on the glass. 

“It was nice to get paid and get all-access passes, but I’ll do it however I have to do it,” Zeke told Stab. “I just want to keep making funny videos. I want to make it light-hearted at these world tour events. All these guys, they’re my homies. I want to show how funny, cool and entertaining they can be on camera.”

Zeke explained that WSL told him his content was inappropriate, threatened to pull his press pass, declined his collab request and told him to remove his Instagram edit of his interviews. So onto his YouTube it went. Not the best start to his corporate-ladder-climbing campaign, but at least Zeke has OnlyFans to fall back on.

Oh yeah, and Stab High Virginia Beach presented by Monster (airing next week, May 15-16 EST).