AIN'T THAT SWELL

AIN'T THAT SWELL episodes:

• 04.18.2024

  Core Lords: Simon Williams

  Simon Williams is a former professional cricket player turned Mindset and Performance Coach, who has worked with a range of high profile athletes across various disciplines, including surfing, the National Rugby League, cricket, Olympians, Winter Olympians, dancers, and artists. You can...

  
• 04.15.2024

  ATS LIVE IN TORQUAY WITH STEPH GILMORE: ON STAGE AT LAST! Also Featuring Occy and Pickles to round out the all-time panel!

  Billabong X Occumentary 25th Anniversary Presents... ATS Live from Torquay with Molly Picklum, Occ Snow and Steph "Femme Goat" Gilmore! One of the all-time great live eps as the Queen, the Queen-to-be and the King of the Bowl trade yarns...

  
• 04.13.2024

  Goat's Last Hurrah, Sickening Shippies Detonatations, Saint Mick of Penrith and Smivvy's Guide to Better Living!

  Billabong X 25 Year Anniversary of the Occumentary Presents... A classic ATS regular episode featuring Slater's Last Swing at Margies, a gargantuan fuck off swell at Shippies, Dane Reynolds' has a surf shop, Caity Simmers favourite band, and Smivvy's Tibetan...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Core Lords: Dustin Barca

  Today we’re joined by the former Kauaian hoodlum, turned hard man, turned community folk hero, Dustin Barca.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 04.05.2024

  Blitzed: FULL MURICA TAKEDOWN! Caity, Cole, Grif and More Demo the field at Bells

  Billabong X Jack McCoy 25th Anniversary Tour of the Occumentary Presents... Blitzed Bells Wrap - the Full American Demo Job as Rookie Cole Houshmand, Buzzer Beater Caity Simmers, The Colapinto Bros and all the rest of the 2 percenters rinse...

  
• 04.03.2024

  ATS LIVE from Surf for Sanity ft. 2005 World Champ and Hall of Famer, Chelsea Hedges, Techno Viking, Blake Johnston, and Sporting Excellence Shaman, Simon Williams.

  Live from the Surf for Sanity Charity event in Cabarita, featuring 2005 World Champ and Hall of Famer, Chelsea Hedges, Techno Viking, Blake Johnston, and Sporting Excellence Shaman, Simon Williams.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 03.28.2024

  Core Lords: Brett Burcher (Part Two)

  Brett Burcher is a former professional surfer, big wave surfer, trained breathwork pracitioner, and disability support worker working with an athlete who competed at the Adaptive Surfing World Tour event held in Byron last week.  He will also be heading our...

  
• 03.26.2024

  System Failure: Seismic Blasting w/ Rasta + Drew McPherson from Surfrider

  As protests and paddle outs once again sweep the country in opposition to seismic blasting by oil and gas companies on the sea floor, we dive deep inside the issue with Drew McPherson from Surfrider and special guest host, Dave...

  
• 03.21.2024

  Occ & McCoy! 25 years Occumentary Special with the DeNiro and Scorsese of Surf Cinema!

  Billabong Presents... An ATS special episode celebrating 25 years since the release of The Occumentary – Jack McCoy's comeback bio masterpiece on the one and only Raging Bull Mark Occhilupo! Marinate in one of surfing's all time great collaborative partnerships...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Blitzed Portugal Take Down: Goggles-pinto and Jojo Defay Slay Half Decent/Semi Rank Porch

  BILLABONG & ATS LIVE AT TORQUAY HOTEL MARCH 24 PRESENTS... Blitzed: Full Portuguese Wrap Up including the Return of Cyborg Medina, Heeeeeyeeeeewing is cruising, Vortex Shaman Mega Oop, Women's Tour Warhorses Kick the Filly's to the Kerb and Griffin Goggles-pinto...

  
• 03.13.2024

  System Failure: West Australian Forest Alliance w/ Dave Rastovich

  Welcome to System Failure featuring special guest host, Dave Rastovich. This week we go inside the West Australian Forest Alliance with Campaign Director, Jess Beckerling.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 03.11.2024

  Blitzed: Burleigh Reigns Supreme in an Australian Boardriders Battle for the Ages ft. Bottz + Stace Galbraith

  Wow! Are you keeeeeeding me?! The Australian Boardriders Battle was an extravaganza of club surfing culture and high performance shralping. From bricklayers to former world champs, up and coming prodigies to washed up degenerates - it had it all. We...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Dispatch from the XXL Fiji Mega Swell with Soli Bailey & Lazzla Enever

  Up – the financial revolution that's got young Aussie's backs presents... LORD OF THE WEEK featuring Cloudbreak Cone Charging Heathens Soli Bailey & Laura Enever still dripping water from their nose holes direct from the check-in counter at Nadi Airport,...

  
• 03.02.2024

  Blitzed: Smiv & Deadly Suck Sunset Right Off, Get Pumped for Portugal!

  Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: The Sunset Pro Aussie clean sweep conny wrap with Vortex and Pickle humping the fuck out of the joint! And a quick look at Porch and who needs to pull their fingers out of their...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Core Lords: Dr Cliff Kapono

  Cliff Kapono is an Indigenous Hawaiian Pro Surfer, Scientist, Hawaiian language speaker, and cultural ambassador.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 02.27.2024

  It's an Irukandjis Olympics Sting Bath with Bede "The Moose" Durbidge direct from the ISA Games in Puerto Rico

  Ocean & Earth Presents... A Blitzed Olympics qualification update with Pipeline Master and Irukandjis super coach Bede "The Moose" Durbidge who is on the ground at the ISA Games in Puerto Rico right now with the Vortex Shaman, Heeeeyeeeewing, T-Dub,...

  
• 02.22.2024

  Blitzed Special Ep! MOLLY PICKLUM – Pipe and Sunset Slayer Direct From Da Islands Brah!!!

  Up... The Financial Revolution that's Got Young Aussie's Backs Presents... Lord of the Week with SUNSET, PIPE & HAWAIIAN KWEEEEEN MOLLY THE PICKLES PICKLUM!!!! Download the ‘Up’ app and sign up in minutes. Use code 'UTFS' for $10 on signup (do...

  
• 02.20.2024

  Core Lords: Jed Smith (Part Two)

  I sit down for a chat with Shannon Farrugia from the Terrible Happy Talks Podcast. Find his amazing archive of skaters, surfers, MMA Fighters and thought leaders here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 02.17.2024

  Core Lords: Ricky Basnett

  Ricky Basnett is a South African former World Tour surfer, artist, tattoo artist, photographer, truth seeker, truth teller, meditation enthusiast, and alcoholic in recovery. Follow Ricky on instagram, here.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 02.14.2024

  Blitzed: Pipes For the Fucken Girls as Pip Walks Out! ATS Pipe Pro Wrap Live from Da Islands!

  Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: The Pipe Pro Wrap Up with Smivvy Live in the Haleiwa Maccas Carpark!  Featuring... The day that changed women's surfing forever! Mondo cones with Pickles, Simmers and Betty Lou! Glitch Chambers with Barron Mamia! Orb Wranging...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Core Lords: Matty Hannon

  Matty Hannon is a surfer and filmmaker behind the all-time, soon-to-be released surf-travel epic, Road To Patagonia, which charts his journey from the jungles of the Mentawai islands to Alaska and onto Patagonia by motorbike and horseback.   See omnystudio.com/listener...

  
• 02.02.2024

  GSNT: Ice Blue Eyes...Layne Beachley Knows Her Name by Matt George

  Today's episode of the Greatest Stories Never Told will be read by the award winning surf journalist and author of In Deep: The Collected Surf Writings, Matt George.  Purchase the book here... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 01.29.2024

  Mouth Dags & Shroom Hell Unleashed! Smiv and Deadly Tee Off on Riss & Steph, Motel Hell, Soup Bowls, and the Illigimate Son of Fabio Gouveia and Lenny Kravitz!

  Billabong Presents... Smiv and Deadly drain four litres of nubile nip milk and go full lactose intolerant on all the hmaaaaadness of the surf world over the past few weeks, including: Riss & Steph calling it quits, the sackings of...

  
• 01.27.2024

  GSNT: Doomsday Diaries by Palestinian-American writer, Sarah Aziza

  Sarah Aziza is a Palestinian-American writer whose family remains trapped in Gaza. This is her account of the events leading up to and following the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel.  Sarah is a previous guest on ATS. You can hear...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Blitzed: Total Pipe Pro and 24 Woz Season Preview + Breaking News on Steph Gilmore's Retirement

  Ocean & Earth Presents... Blitzed: Full Pipe Pro and 24 Woz Season Preview complete with breaking news on the retirement of X8 World Champ Steph Gilmore and a chat with Liam O'Brien. Hmaaaad spray of pure tour nerdism right between...

  
• 01.22.2024

  Core Lords: Rusty Miller and Tricia Shantz

  Rusty Miller, born in 1943, is a surfing and cultural treasure from Encinitas, California, and Byron Bay. Book a surf lesson with the man himself, right here.  Rusty's partner Tricia Shantz is a world class writer, historian, and former town planner. She...

  
• 01.19.2024

  World Record Queen Laura Enever Lights Up the Usher Cup President's Dinner

  ushercup.com World Club Challenge Jan19-21 at Snapper Rocks Presents... ATS Live from the Usher Cup President's Dinner with special guests 78 World Champ Wayne"Rabbit" Bartholomew and Guinness World Record Queen Laura "Lazzla" Enever. Be sure to catch all the action...

  
• 01.15.2024

  King Stingray's Roy Kellaway joins ATS to talk Yolngu Surf Rock, Cooking Waves in Arnhem Land and the new Billies Collab

  Billabong X King Stingray Collab Collection Presents... Ain't That Swell with Roy Kellaway, one of the founding members of Arnhem Land Aussie Rock icons King Stingray. Get the lowdown on how the band emerged from the direct lineage of Yothu...

  
• 01.12.2024

  GET YOUR CORN ON! Smiv and Deadly Ring in the First Ep of 2024!!

  Presented by Billabong X King Stingray Collection... Gurney out that holiday season detritus and get ready for a whole new year of ATS starting RIGHT NOW! This ep: Burleigh Single Fin goes the full peach, Backdoor Shootout cracks skulls, Jack...

  
• 01.07.2024

  BEST of ATS! Sayonara Big O! Owen Wright’s Retirement Party LIVE from Torquay w/ Mason Ho, Parko, and Occy

  Brought to you by Billabong and Better Beer…We celebrate the remarkable career of one of the best to ever do it, Owen Wright, alongside Hawaii’s Mason Ho, the 2012 World Champ, Joel Parkinson and 1999 World Champ, Mark Occhilupo.  ...

  
• 01.04.2024

  BEST of ATS! GOAT ON FIRE!!! Kelly Slater and Seth Moniz Live at Beer Farm Margaret River

  When the Goat comes to Ain't That Swell Live you know you're in for a magic night of pure surf yarn glory! Highlights including: The Greatest Sporting Victory of All-Time at this year's Billabong Pipe Pro, The True Story behind...

  
• 01.04.2024

  BEST of ATS! Coolie Kids Reunion! Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, and Dean Morrison LIVE from the Cooly Hotel

  Hold onto your corn holes Swellians! Smivvy and Deadly have outdone themselves yet again, bringing together a panel of Australian surfing legends more steeped in sweet sweet oceanic glory than a bagful of puckered calamaris. Thats right, Mick Fanning ("He's that...

  
• 01.01.2024

  BEST of ATS! Da Goat & Raging Bull Spectacular in Torquay! Kelly and Occy Join The Swellians

  THE GOAT & THE RAGING BULL SPECTACULAR IN TORQUAY! Featuring Kelly Slater, Mark Occhilupo and an actual re-enactment of that time Harry Styles and the Goat nailed a stuntman tequila shot in Brazil! Starring Binns & Wet Lettuce as our...

  
• 12.31.2023

  BEST of ATS! Core Lords: Joshe Faulkner

  Joshe Faulkner fought his way out of the slums of South Africa to become the two-time national surf champion. His remarkable story of survival, stoicism, and resilience is not to be missed.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.29.2023

  BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Kohl Christensen

  Kohl Christensen is a Hawaiian heavy-water specialist and Patagonia Ambassador.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.27.2023

  BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Dane Gudauskas

  Dane 'Gudang' Gudauskas is a professional freesurfer, big wave maniac and style master. Along with his two brothers, Pat and Tanner, he also fronts the Positive Vibe Warrior Foundation.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.25.2023

  BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Martin Daly

  Martin Daly is an ex-salvage diver, surfer, adventurer, and sea captain famous for, among other things, pioneering the Mentawais.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.24.2023

  BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Sterling Spencer

  Sterling Spencer is a former professional surfer from Pensacola, Florida, who suffered a series of serious brain injuries during his career. We spoke with Spencer ahead of the release of a feature documentary, by Stab Magazine, called Are You Serious, which...

  
• 12.21.2023

  BEST of 2023! Core Lords: Wayne Cleveland

  Presented by Ocean and Earth...Smivvy catches up with underground Sydney South Side Icon Wayne Cleveland, who helped pioneer slab surfing throughout the 90s and early 2000s scoring plenty of magazine covers and spreads in the process. Then at the height...

  
• 12.18.2023

  Core Lords: Nick Colbey

  Nick Colbey is an ultra-talented surfer, filmmaker and musician, born and bred in Byron Bay. His latest album, Journeyman, is available wherever you get your music.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.15.2023

  Blitzed: Vans Pipe Masters Kebab with the Lot! Ft. Hazza "30 Point Cone" Bryant

  Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... A Blitzed Vans Pipe Masters Kebab with the Lot featuring 30 Point Cone Pig Harry Bryant live on the blower from Waikiki. Relive the cone fest before Christmas! Download the ‘Up’ app and sign up...

  
• 12.12.2023

  Rando Conversations... Shooting Surf with Artisan, Lens Kween and Senior Woz Photog Cait Miers

  Ocean & Earth Board Covers Presents... Rando Conversations with Artisan, Publisher, Lens Kween, Senior Woz Photog and Core Lord Cait Miers. Cait grew up on the Mornington Peninch and now travels the world shooting A List surf stars on tour,...

  
• 12.07.2023

  Core Lords: Ray Collins

  Ray Collins was raised by a single mother in the Bulli public housing estate before becoming an award-winning surf photographer, waterman, and artist.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 12.05.2023

  OYSTERS & CAMEL MILK - Smiv and Deadly Are Back!

  Billabong Presents... After a month off the tools grinding the Q through South East Asia, Deadly returns to join Smivvy on a wild jaunt through all the best and worst of surfing over the past month including: Bierke's new brain...

  
• 12.03.2023

  System Failure: How to Give Power to the Peaceful w/ Palestinian Refugee, Subhi Awad

  Subhi Awad is a Palestinian refugee who was born in a refugee camp in Lebanon before emigrating to the United Kingdom and finally Australia, where he lives today. He is a human rights advocate and activist.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

  
• 11.30.2023

  Core Lords: Justen 'Jughead' Allport

  Jughead is a big wave surfer and pioneering slab shaman from the NSW Central Coast. He works full-time as a Fireman, a job he has held throughout his career.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 11.27.2023

  System Failure: War-in-the-Middle-East GOATspiracy Special w/ Lucy Small

  Bin Laden’s post 9/11 letter to America, White House Security Chief’s bizarre Islamophobic rants caught on camera, Charlie Kirk’s theory that the Israeli Defence apparatus deliberately let Hamas ransack the communities home to peace-loving Israeli activists, and Da Goat, Kelly...

  
• 11.24.2023

  LORD of the Week: Kelly 'The Nord Lord' Nordstrom

  Welcome to Ain't That Swell's Lord of the Week: Kelly 'The Nord Lord' Nordstrom. A 26 year old chippie slash core lord, cone fiend, hellman from Tasmania, he recently paddled a filthy death trap at massive Pedra Branca, 50km off...

  
• 11.23.2023

  Arts Review: Why Brian Jonestown Massacre are the Epitome of the American Sickness

  Smivvy turns out to see Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Northern in Byron Bay and cops one of the worst gigs of all-time. This is his review.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  
• 11.21.2023

  Blitzed: Dakoda Walters on Winning the Taiwan WQS 5000 and Starring in Epohke's New Blockbuster, Vacuum

  Yamba's rangey, super-grom, Dakoda Walters, has the world at his feet. Will he chase a World Tour birth or a freesurfing career - or both? Ain't That Swell is proudly supported by, Healthy Hammered Kombucha, Smart Leash Co, and Swell CBD Oil. ...