We've never made anything like Stab in the Dark X with Kelly Slater. Mikey and Buck break down episode 1, alongside some 2026 predictions, a golf v surf turf war and a quick trip to Ukraine.

Breaking: Episode 1 of Stab in the Dark with Kelly Slater premieres this Tuesday.

This. Tuesday.

And yes, it's as good as the teaser implies.

We also missed a lot over the holidays. Shall we recap?

The last Drop of 2025 is a heavy one.

A reigning world champ parts with his headline sponsor. The WSL calls off the day of the event at Pipe. Stab gets in a bidding war with a major surf brand (and loses, then wins). And Stab Surfer of the Year gets a facelift.

Where does localism end and insanity begin? Particularly in the Canary Islands, where a crazed, scooter-riding, rock-wielding man just went full Joe Namath on a visiting surfer.

Buck and Mikey break this down along with an exclusive Kolohe Andino interview, Nate Florence's Austrian torture chamber, Mikey Feb's broken board theory, the world's best artificial wave and some exciting news from Hawaii.

Sorry we're late, tech difficulties!

And if you missed last week's ep, that's probably our fault as well. Something happened where it didn't upload to Apple pods until yesterday, so now we've got two eps in two days which I guess is better than nothing. Maybe?

I'd say it won't happen again, but it probably will, so thanks as always for coming along for the ride with us.

For now

Depends who you ask. If it's Mikey C or Buck, well, the answers still vary.

This week the boys break down 14 more titles returning to the CT, a new ep of EAST, and a couple real thinkers:

1. Is Chat GPT ruining surf culture?

2. Who has the right to protect a wave?

It's a heady ep, one that might come up in your next (therapy) session. But in the end, it's only surfing. Don't think too hard.

At 33, Carissa Moore will be the first mom to return to the CT since the mid-2000s. Mikey and Buck discuss her legacy and chances of winning another world title against today's new class of champions.

Also, the boys get wrapped up in a wavepool imbroglio that took Billy Wilson 4 months to investigate. Our apologies to anyone named Nick.

Snapt5 dropped exclusively on Stab Premium this week, along with a note from Sam McIntosh about what we've been up to and where Stab is heading in the next six months.

In the same week, Joel Tudor took on a major airline (and won), Jaleesa Vincent wrote an explicit rap song about her Pussy (surfboard), and a world junior champ put his life savings into a luxury sunglass brand.

Just when you thought surfing was gonna be just fine, Paul Evans joins the pod to excoriate children and tell us when, precisely, our little hobby went tits up.

Buy Veia boardbags (with wheels) if you, unlike Paul, prefer convenience to chaos.

What really happened at the GB Cup this week?

Mikey and Buck do their own research and reveal the truth behind the headlines. We also ride shotgun with Mick Fanning, drive deep into the Atacama Desert, and find ourselves face-to-face with surfing's most digitally-inept superhuman.

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One man's miracle is another man's marketing ploy.

It was kind of a dark week in surfing, from fake pregnancy announcements to brain tumors to death, but at least we have a little EAST sugar to help it all go down.

Mikey and Buck break it all down and give away a new Veia leash to one lucky listener (who we hope is not an incel).