AIN'T THAT SWELL

Award winning journalist, Tom De Souza, is halfway through a radical surfing and motorcycle adventure across Indonesia. He phones in from Sumba to bring us up to date. 

You can watch his documentary series at Scenic Route TV. 

And read about it on Tracksmag.com. 

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Welcome to System Failure, a no-holds barred exploration of the global fuckery that defines our time.

Today we hear from a Palestinian and an Israeli about life in the Middle East in the midst of war. 

As mentioned in the show, if you'd like to reach out to Yotam and help him achieve his surfing dreams, you can find him here. UTFS! 

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Kipp Caddy is an Australian slab-specialist from the NSW South Coast, who recently suffered a near-fatal injury. Prior to that he undertook one of the great conequests with the great cone-conquerer, Nathan Florence.  

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Chris Brock is one of Australian surfing's great unsung heroes. A product of Bondi Beach, he travelled the world surfing in the 1960s and 70s, featuring in Morning of the Earth and the Inner Most Limits of Pure Fun. He lived in a nudist colony in Kauai, in the famed Angourie treehouses, sailed from California to Australia with George Greenough, and so much more.

Find the documentary about Taylor's Camp in Kauai, here.

And listen to the Celibate Rifles rendition of Kev The Head - as mentioned in the program - here.  

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First published in News.com.au back in 2016, this story features the late great, Peter Tripovich, and his attempt to walk across Australia to raise money for impoverished children in South-East Asia. 

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Billabong Presents... a good old fashioned Smiv and Deadly ATS breaking down surfing's most pressing and topical issues... including: Friend or foe: who is the new Woz head judge, Chippo and Our Sal locked in for the 24 CT, can the Goat's Foreskin save humanity and is Mason Ho surfing's John Pilger? Also; what sort of burgeois reptile would pay 18 million dollars for a prime piece of Lennox Head? Carn get into it ya mutts! UTFS

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Smivvy dips into his back catalogue with News Limited for this story about the night he almost killed a young, knife-carrying hoodlum in a street fight.  

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A breakdown of the monumental 2012 Cloudbreak swell - aka Thundercloud - with a couple of the stars from the day, Dave Wassel and Kala Alexander, with commentary from surf scribe, Lewis Samuels.  

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In episode two, we yarn with surfer and musician Alex Knost, surf-journalist Lewis Samuels, and Canadian Pro, Pete DeVries. 

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That's right, we've found the first ever season of ATS from 2011/12, buried deep in the digital archives. 

Over the coming days we'll be playing a few selections from the first season of ATS.

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