Stab Podcast: Kelly Slater Said “Yes”

This one’s full of unseasonal Easter eggs.

Mikey C and Sam McIntosh hardly had a chance to nod at each other while in Japan for Stab High. While Mikey was soaking up intel from our poolside judges’ panel, Sam was bending over (not backwards) to wrap up filming Stab in the Dark X with Kelly Slater on the Gold Coast.

Sam’s 12-hour stay in Japan wasn’t enough to catch up on the dailies, but the two managed to sit down and touch on what’s coming soon to our Premium audience via The Drop.

Expect the kind of SITD insight you’d love to eavesdrop on — like when you accidentally find yourself within earshot while waiting for a coffee — and some satisfying gossip to go with it.

Mikey profiles this year’s Stab High judges and reveals a soft spot for Lee Wilson, moments before getting Sam’s firsthand account of working with, observing, and waiting for Kelly Slater. According to Sam, waiting and waiting for Kelly should never be a problem. When you’re dealing with a singular human among the 110 billion who’ve walked this blue, spinning rock, that’s just what you do.

Before teasing what other surfboard projects are dropping over the next six months, we learn how shoulder paddlers may have pressured Kelly into doing tighter turns at Snapper Rocks. Could that hack work for the rest of us?

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An underlying theme to this ep: where exactly is the line between asshole and idiosyncratic? Are we too quick to judge people like Lee Wilson, Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton, Albee Layer?

The hosts chime in. So does Albee, who has deep respect for his volleyball-playing uncle but still won’t cower under his wide-casting Peahi shadow. The conversation dips into the latest episode of HSGP featuring Laird, and we get a teaser of what’s coming next in the series.

Before wrapping, they touch on the new Surf100 series and how a YouTuber’s memo is subtly steering its making.

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