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Jen Poyant was winning at New York Public Radio. She was Executive Producer of WNYC Studios and launched the hit shows "2 Dope Queens" and "Note to Self". After the institution fell into its own #MeToo scandal and mismanagement the simmering burn to work for herself only became hotter. So like all good start-up founders, Jen and "Note To Self" host Manoush Zomorodi met at Le Pain Quotidian and plotted the launch of their company Stable Genius Productions. They received a grant made of cryptocurrency and quickly entered the universe of Blockchain and there was no turning back. Jen and Manoush's podcast Zig Zag documents this journey. Season 2 launches October 11th. We talk to Jen about what she's learned since the leap and how her need to surf was part of the deal when launching this new endeavor.
Music Credits:
OKAM:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/OKAM/Alpha_-_The_Confliction/03_okam_-_stay
Skoz:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Skoz/No_Futur/04_-_Skoz_-_Sympho_Nick
Lobo Lobo:
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/My_FAVORITE_SWEET_HOME_TRACKS/Lobo_Loco_-_08_-_Springtime -
Professional shapers and backyard tinkerers took over Rockaway Beach Surf Club last weekend for the 5th Edition of the experimental water craft symposium: It Doesn't Not Work. Swell Season spoke with several designers one on one, including Johnny Borbone and Grace Moon. Tyler and Ben also moderated a panel discussion with Chris Clark of Shapers Studios, Dan O'hara of Solid Surf, and Ron Shine of Board Porn TV. Pressing questions like: Do shapers charge enough? The Wave Pool effect, and Asymmetrical design.
Music Credits:
Prids: The Problem
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September 14th-16th Rockaway Beach Surf Club will host the "It Doesn't Not Work" design symposium. In its 5th year, IDNW hosts professional shapers and tinkerers alike to share their most boundary breaking and bizarre water craft creations. We preview the event with forward looking shaper Kyle Black and show organizer and hosts J Scott and Lois Klossner. We also look back to this day 17 years ago when Hurricane Erin pumped surf while the city was under attack.
Music Credit: Boss Bass
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Boss_Bass/Love_For_Everyone_Everywhere/13_-_Boss_Bass_-_State_of_Guanabara -
Co-Host Tyler does the tough duty of broadcasting live from a dance party and film screening at Low Tide Bar at Rockaway Beach, Queens. Guests include Rockaway Beach Bakery owner Tracey Obolsky, Tyler's E.S.A arch-nemesis Peter Egan, local legend Shane Murphy and lifeguard and poke bowl slinger Greg. Also, the stars of the Irish Surf film "Green Means Go" and Long Beach NY's big wave commanders Will Skudin and TJ Gumiela bring us into the slabbing depths of the Emerald Isle.
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Big Wave Surfer Leah Dawson and Big Wave Surfer Attorney Becky Mendoza visited the north coast of the Dominican Republic with a team of other female wave stars who make up the Changing Tides Foundation. The team worked with a group of local girls who attend the Mariposa Foundation, an organization which aims to end generational poverty by educating and empowering young women. The first thing the girls learn to do is swim and some even surf. Leah Dawson made the film "Sameseas" about the trip in which she and her crew surfed 10 foot swell upon arrival, immediately demonstrating to the young students that women also belong in the lineup. We talk about there experience with Mariposa Foundation and how surf and environmental education are pathways to leadership for these kids. "Sameseas" will be featured in 2018 NY Women's Surf Film Festival which launches July 27th at Rockaway Beach Surf Club and August 3rd at Montauk Beach House. Davina Grincevicius founder and organizer of the festival joins us to preview the films and what's evolved six years in.
Music credit: Boss Bass
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Boss_Bass/Love_For_Everyone_Everywhere/13_-_Boss_Bass_-_State_of_Guanabara -
Scientist and surfer Tyler Cyronack of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Ca shares the magic behind the Smartfin: a Future fin loaded with sensors that record water temperature and GPS data. Tyler studies the chemistry of coral reef environments and he looks forward to fellow surfers capturing - while getting shacked - all that hyper-localized data that traditional instruments and techs could not step up to. Smartfin is still in Beta so you'll have to just listen to our show and wait to get your hands on one. https://www.surfrider.org/programs/smartfin
Also on the show, Tyler, the co-host, gives his rant on why Stand Up Paddle boarders should do their thing away from the crowds.
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Mösco came to NYC in the late 90s as a skater and graffiti artist. Sand in teeth from Zicatela he sought a new home to surf, so he looked at the subway map and saw that the A train went to the beach. Mösco has been making the commute to Rockaway ever since. We talk about his life's pursuit to make the beach cleaner and safer with his work with Surfrider Foundation and his public art. We also discuss the challenges of communicating environmental problems even to those most affected; and why he loves the neighborhood of Arverne so much. Mösco's exhibition of paintings entitled "De Noche" / "At Night" will be at Head Hi this weekend.
www.headhi.net/
Music Credit: Skoz
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Skoz/No_Futur/04_-_Skoz_-_Sympho_Nick -
Alex Valich is the host of the Bodega Boarder Crew, a podcast that mixes old school hip hop with modern day surf culture. It’s a fun listen if you ever get a chance to listen to it. Born and bred on the streets of Brooklyn, this 30 something creative director made the move to the west coast some years ago and picked up surfing. As he delved more and more into the culture, he noticed that diversity was missing from the lineups and in the industry. So he decided to start the Bodega Boarder Crew podcast to help highlight the lack of diversity, while blending in his enjoyment of hip hop and urban culture. His episodes are packed with classic tracks and great conversations with some of some of surfing’s greatest counterculture figures. We had the great opportunity to sit down with Alex at the infamous Speedy Romeo’s in Fort Greene to discuss his beginnings and his thoughts on the current state of surfing.
Music: Public Enemy
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There are 253 miles of shoreline in Connecticut and only seven of them are free and open to the public. Andrew Kahrl Associate Professor of history and African American Studies at University of Virginia brings us the story of Ned Coll who mobilized a multi-decade battle against town residency requirements and other segregating mechanisms along the Connecticut coast which make a day at the beach expensive, impractical or simply illegal. Our conversation delves into the core of public and private rights to the water.
Music credit: Ryan Andersen
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Co-host Tyler Breuer nerds out with Nick (last name withheld), the founder of the Instagram account @surfads, which both honors and "takes the piss" out of the bleach tipped, neon glory of 1980's and '90s magazine advertising. The conversation covers how social media has changed how stoke and rad is sold to us and why the 90s surf culture remains so potent in popular imagination.
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The non-profit A Walk On Water brings individuals with disabilities to the beach with their families for a day of surf, fun and celebration. Volunteer staff share the joy and healing power of surf and sea with athletes of all ages who may have never believed it possible to glide through the ocean. Garden State winter barrel hero Sam Hammer talks about the obstacle leveling nationwide program in advance of Hammer Surf and AWOW's June 9th event in Spring Lake, NJ. Corey Sanese of Corey's Wave in Montauk, the school which brought A Walk on Water to the East Coast shares the impact of a day at beach for new athletes as well as their family.
awalkonwater.org/
hammersurfschool.com/
www.coreyswave.com/about
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Right on top of Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial start to beach season, the NYC Parks Department drops the news that due to extreme erosion it is closing indefinitely the beach between 89th St and 102nd in Rockaway. We speak with Local's Surf School co-owner Mike Reinhardt about the pace of erosion he's seen first-hand and how the closure might affect other businesses on the boardwalk. Our feature interview is of Danny Collins: former fossil fuel worker brings us into what he learned fixing nat. gas infrastructure in Texas and how that informs his understanding of the proposed Williams pipeline to run underneath Raritan and Lower New York Bays.
Music credits: SRO
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sro/~/I_Miss_Summer -
Teton Gravity Research's latest film, Andy Irons: Kissed by God, is bold in ways you might not expect for a documentary featuring the famously fearless three time world surf champion who died in 2010 at age 32. The documentary goes to a challenging space that many of the bravest in the extreme sports will not go - an open discussion of mental illness and opioid addiction with of its own. Todd Jones, the film's co-director and co-founder of TGR brings us into the three year journey of making the film and how the access and honesty the Irons family provided became a process of healing in itself. Andy Irons: Kissed by God will be in theaters nationwide on May 31st only. Find a theater near you: https://www.tetongravity.com/films/andy-irons-kissed-by-god/tour
Closing music credit:
Johnny Hawaii
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Mavs, Nazare, Jaws. If it is huge and scary Will Skudin has surfed it. He's one of the elite on the WSL Big Wave World Tour. Will's performance and confidence out in the water is supported by his partner on land, Jenny Hanono. The couple join us in the studio to talk about a relationship around the world, on the water and how balance makes the difference with an extreme sports athlete.
Music credits:
Benjamin Banger
http://smarturl.it/hjfi20
Zombie Dandies
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Zombie_Dandies/Lo-Fi_Heroes/The_Zombie_Dandies_-_Lo-Fi_Heroes_-_05_Electric_Girlfriend -
Victor Lucia studied fishing culture in college and realized that the NYC fishing community was deep but disconnected. In response he launched Brooklyn Fishing Club in order to connect city anglers and help them get on top of fish. The club, now in the hundreds, has evolved into a take no prisoners crew who patrol the most unexpected fishing ground, like the East River and a lake in Central Park. We’ll talk about why the surf community and the fishing community have common cause here in New York City.
For live shows listen in on Tuesday Nights at 8PM on KPISS.FM
Music credits:
Ryan Little
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On a balmy May Tuesday at Union Pool in Brooklyn, the 2nd annual Clif Bar Cold Shot Challenge awarded cash and prizes to the best photography taken from land, air and sea this winter. The contest started in freezing and dark January and ran through a procession of record size and conditions of blizzards, named winter storms, and Nor' Easters that pounded the the East Coast the first four months of 2018. All of these storms were tackled by core winter chargers and documenting them were hundreds of photographers from the Outer Banks to Maine. NYSEA Collective invited all to submit their nastiest and most beautiful to be posted online and judged by the public and professionals.
Guests: Will Skudin, Ryan Mack, Mike Nelson, Michael Weinstein, Josiah Ryan, Davina Grincevicius, Tredd Smith, Ty Smith
Winners of the Climber Cold Shot Challenge:
Air Division - Pat Nolan,
Land Division - Evan Conway,
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On April 26th residents of Rockaway and New Jersey, city surfers, and others gathered at a Best Western in Brooklyn to voice their opinions on a proposed natural gas pipeline that would extend from Pennsylvania, through New Jersey and under the Raritan and New York Bays. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approval authority of pipelines and invited the public to speak to the agency, the Army Corp of Engineers and a contractor about the proposed Williams Company project. Co-host Ben Pomeroy spoke with a few of the attendees on why they showed up to speak out. We reached out to Williams Company via email for comment and did not hear back by deadline. (recorded on the fly, sorry about p-pops).
Music credit: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Audiobinger/~/Random_Thoughts -
Jeremy "Dingo" Dean literally grew up in the jungles of Peru. Born the the 2nd son of missionaries, Jeremy Dean recounts his upbringing, the culture shock of moving back to the US and has always had an outsider vantage point, which reflects in his art work. We sit down with Jeremy to discuss, his art, race, redlining, religion, and the state of the New York Surf Scene. We go deep in this episode. Sit back and listen to some knowledge being dropped by our guest this week.
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We know Johnny Knapp can shred a sandbar. We learned on the show what deep grasp the Brookhaven native has on Long Island shaper geneology and lore. The renaissance man brings us into the finer points of glide in the Bonzer shape, lessons in the "kiddy pool" of whitewash while surfing with dad as a kid, and taking the Bellport arts collective Auto-Body to the Bronx.
Music credits: Ryan Little; Johnny Knapp
Intro sound credit: Atlanta Arts Today -
In October 2015 a natural gas compression plant in Gibson, Louisiana exploded killing 4 and badly hurting 2. Houma-Thibodaux senior staff writer John DeSantis broke the story. We spoke on the phone about what happened at the Williams Company owned facility, which is currently applying to expand nat. gas capacity under NY Bay, the role of subcontractors, and why all this matter to us who surf in the waters NY/NJ Bight.
https://www.houmatimes.com/news/year-later-at-williams-feds-blast-company-for-deadly-explosion/article_97c8262a-85a0-11e6-9e8d-9bfe4c321c6b.html - Montre plus
