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Ethan Ewing & Dane Reynolds Discuss The Best Surfboard On The Planet | StabMic Ep. 17

“I’d still rather watch Occy or Bobby surf J-Bay than some of the tour surfers.”

cinema // Jun 7, 2026
Words by Jack O'Neill Paterson
Reading Time: < 1 minute

Round up a dozen of the world’s best shapers. Lock them in their respective sheds and ask them to solve the same problem twelve different ways. Gather whatever they create, paint the rails blue and ship them off to Sumbawa. 

Acquire Ethan Ewing. Clear his schedule, handle him with care. Ship him to Sumbawa too.

Point a few cameras at him, put him in warm water, let him loose. Set the Smooth Gorilla free. 

Make a film about it. Actually, make a TV series. Market him as a man inconvenienced by language itself. Send along Taj Burrow to help translate. Let him surf too.

Then crack the whole thing open. Let the kid talk. Show that we’re all bags of meat with galaxies inside, even the quiet ones.

Ask him to pick a favourite board. Don’t discourage him from choosing outside the aristocracy. Not one of the big dogs, in his words. Let him repeat it, too. How cool, he says, for an underling to win.

Follow his travel schedule, hold premieres in its wake. Let the people gather in dark rooms and watch.

Then, finally, sit Ethan Ewing and Dane Reynolds down and ask them to talk about all of the above, and a whole lot more. 

This is episode 17 of StabMic. Enjoy.

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