422 - Chris Shiflett of The Foo Fighters
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Chris Shiflett joins us to discuss whether music can be objectively bad, why you ought never foist your preferences on your children, how surf videos of the early 90s led to his role with The Foo Fighters, and how family life has kept him grounded amidst the centrifuge of rock star vice.
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| 0:00.0 | John John Florence's new film Gravity is playing this week, Friday, August 5th, at their |
| 0:08.0 | headquarters in Newport Beach, California. John premiered this on the North Shore, I think it was about |
| 0:13.6 | two weeks ago, and it will be available online eventually. But if you are anywhere within |
| 0:19.2 | driving distance of Newport Beach, do not miss the |
| 0:22.7 | opportunity. It's a 20-minute short film chronicling one of the best North Shore winters in |
| 0:28.3 | recent memory. Pat O'Connell showed me a little snippet of it last month, and it's as mind-blowing |
| 0:34.3 | as any of John's stuff when it first hits the internet. |
| 0:39.0 | I shouldn't say first. |
| 0:41.8 | It continues to be mind-blowing in perpetuity. |
| 0:46.6 | But the YMAIA footage in gravity is absolutely insane. |
| 0:52.5 | And Friday is actually also the opening of their Florence Marine X store at their headquarter location. |
| 0:56.2 | So lots to celebrate. Go to Florencemarinex.com for details or just to snag some gear if you aren't anywhere near |
| 1:02.4 | Newport Beach. And I will also, of course, let you know when gravity becomes widely available. |
| 1:09.7 | All right. Thanks and enjoy. |
| 1:11.6 | And waterways travel.com for anyone who wants to save time and money, which of course is everybody, |
| 1:20.6 | why wouldn't you rely on experts in their given field? Rely on people who are passionate about their work. Waterways came into existence because Sean Murphy was passionate about surf exploration. |
| 1:33.3 | And he's been able to share that passion with others in ways that have multiplied exponentially |
| 1:38.3 | since 1994 so that now you and I can benefit from all of that R&D. So, I mean, going on surf trips and |
| 1:46.6 | scoring probably doesn't sound like hard work, but he wasn't always scoring. Sometimes he was |
| 1:51.5 | getting skunked, and all of that resulted in knowledge that Sean and his staff now make |
| 1:57.1 | available to you and I. So visit waterways travelvel.com and they'll tell you when to go |
| 2:04.4 | and what to bring, make sure that you're comfy and well fed, whatever level of luxury that you |
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