553 - Nick Carroll and Hannah Anderson
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In today's show Nick and Hannah share tales from a world where everyone surfs, redefine our perception of "core", find vitality from VALS, attempt to fill the void of women in surf media, and survey data that shows how drastically surf culture has shifted. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Pointbreakfestival.com. Festival season in Southern California is just wrapping up, but I'm already |
| 0:08.1 | eyeing June in Virginia Beach. So I want you to join me at Point Break Festival. It is on the beach at |
| 0:15.5 | Fifth Street. Music, food, drinks, two stages for two full days. Music acts include slightly stupid, stick figure, |
| 0:25.0 | 311, Iration, moon taxi, the movement, little stranger, the original whalers, and more. |
| 0:33.1 | The dates are June 21st and 22nd. I will be there for the entire weekend. Proceeds from alcohol |
| 0:39.8 | sales actually go to benefit the Virginia Legend Walk Foundation. So that's cool. I'm going to be |
| 0:46.8 | hosting casual surf meetups on both days as well. So get your tickets at pointbreakfestival.com |
| 0:53.4 | and then let me know you're coming and we'll surf in the morning and then hang out at the festival through the night. |
| 0:59.7 | Pointbreakfestival.com June 21st and 22nd in Virginia Beach. I hope to see you there. I'm I'm going to be the I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm a a way and a I'm a a and a I'm We Shouldn't Be Friends. |
| 1:33.4 | A perfect title for the new podcast, co-hosted by Nick Carroll and Hannah Anderson. |
| 1:39.5 | Nick Carroll's best known as a surf journalist, and he started his career in the late 70s writing articles |
| 1:45.2 | for various surf magazines before taking the associate editor position at Tracks in 1981. |
| 1:52.3 | He was also the Australian national titles champ in the men's division in 1979 and 81. |
| 1:58.9 | He moved to the U.S. to work as editor for Surfing magazine. In the mid-90s, |
| 2:04.8 | he's authored a number of books, including a biography entitled T.C. Tom Carroll, about his |
| 2:11.8 | younger brother. He is regarded by many as surfing's most popular and knowledgeable writers. |
| 2:19.1 | Hannah Anderson is an Australian photographer and videographer, who has a bachelor's degree |
| 2:24.4 | in journalism, and similarly to Nick got her start at Tracks Magazine and then Surfing |
| 2:30.5 | World. |
| 2:31.5 | And she spent the past three years, or the better part of the last three |
| 2:34.8 | years, traveling the world for Surfline to document the Olympics, the Eddie in Hawaii. She's spent |
| 2:41.7 | a bunch of time over at Nazare, among various other projects. And we'll actually get into the |
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