From the pool to the ocean, Scott Smith’s journey has been anything but ordinary. A former water polo player turned filmmaker, Scott built his career behind the lens with Body Glove and PADI, where his natural eye for action and storytelling translated seamlessly into surf cinematography and editing. His work has taken him around the globe. Scott’s close friendship and collaboration with the late Greg Browning—Momentum Generation standout, filmmaker, and creator of the beloved Drive Thru series—was central to the making of A Marble in the Jar. Enjoy this chat with Scott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carrying the Florida flag, filmmaker and photographer Paul Prewitt captured unforgettable East Coast surf footage from 1985 to 1988—from West Palm Beach to New Hampshire and beyond—mesmerizing audiences with A+ setups and raw talent in Atlantic Crossing. After a successful career in film and television, Paul is now turning his focus to documenting the rich history of surf filmmaking and photography. In this episode, we explore pivotal moments from his creative journey, the evolution of surf media, and his latest passion project. It’s a conversation filled with insight, inspiration, and a deep love for surf culture and storytelling. Tune in and enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lakey Peterson is a professional surfer from Santa Barbara, California, known for her progressive aerial maneuvers and athletic approach to surfing. She began surfing at a young age and quickly rose through the ranks, winning multiple NSSA titles and becoming a force on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour. Beyond her competitive achievements, Lakey is also an advocate for environmental causes and children's cancer research, and she's a team rider for 805 Beer, recently releasing a documentary about her journey called Making Waves.  Enjoy our chat with Lakey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Yelland's Birth of the Endless Summer starring Dick Metz is a masterpiece. Cataloguing the inimitable journeyman's anecdotes, love affairs, and risky passages across the globe in the late fifties and beyond, Richard puts his documentary chops on display along with priceless photos and interviews with key players in what played a massive role in Bruce Brown's denouement in The Endless Summer. Listen in to how Richard found his way into the project and others. You can find said masterpiece on all major digital platforms. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The birth of Wave Tools became an instant curiosity when Robert Helphand and Tony Gentile interviewed Lance Collins for a different project back in 2018. That interview ignited a documentary project seven years in the making called Shaping the Future. Robert and Tony detailed the engineering and design of new shapes and techniques, and brought to cinematic life the loud, aggressive logos and surfing, all heavily photographed on Echo Beach in Newport, CA. Enjoy our chat with these two top quality craftsmen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For those of you who didn't get to listen to Ben Whyte and Ali Mancuso on Episode 68 - Breaking Waves Sailing, don't fret, you can always go back and listen first, but it's not necessary. They have a wonderful story to tell here about crossing the pacific as rookies on a 41' sailboat named Kiana. Through an unexpected dry dock on a reef and a month long sabbatical near Tavarua, as well as some empty anchorages in paradise, you'll capture a moment of pure stoke with them. But experience it all through their storytelling on Breaking Waves Sailing on YouTube. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A writer first, Dan developed a love for surfing in the cold San Francisco water and turned heavily towards his move to Florida in his latest work On a Rising Swell, a memoir slash collection of his best work with surfing as a central character. Take the time to read this fantastic rendering from the mind of one of surfing's best new contributors. Our chat covers his stories and inspiration as well as his humble, positive, and soulful voice. Enjoy and check out his new book here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam George, surfer, writer, and filmmaker, has entertained readers and audiences with his gift of storytelling for years. The stories take many forms and many new threads come alive in his new work Child of Storms - A Surfing Memoir (In Progress), available at diangelopublications.com. In addition to this writer's life, he's also made one of the best documentary films about surfing that no one has seen. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2010, and now, he's sharing it with us at the Florida Surf Film Festival on June 13-14, 2025. Enjoy Sam's gift for storytelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greg Geiselman, an immigrant from the Bahamas, dropped out of a full-ride swimming scholarship as a result of a full-blown case of the surfing disease. Nothing would get in his way. He possesses the gift of absolute discipline and focus. From swimming at a world-class level to months-long Mexico runs, to shaping blanks and running the first East Coast shaping machine, he created Orion Surfboards, one of the most successful local brands to endure generations of surfers' demand. Sons Eric and Evan have put dad's sleds on full display. Enjoy Greg's compelling story. Frank Gilday joins as guest host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kohl Christensen figured out a way to chase waves and make a living, much like many of us do, only the waves he chases are about 6 times larger than the biggest wave we've ever encountered. Immediately, we think of his 2019 skull-shattering wipeout at Pipeline, and next, about the organization he co-founded with friends to help people in exactly that kind of situation. BWRAG (Big Wave Risk Assessment Group) trains and equips us to help those in need in the water and on the beach before the professionals arrive. Enjoy Kohl's enjoyable journey in this chat with Kevin and John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime New Smyrna Beach surfer, Jim Morris, joins us for a conversation about growing up brined and seasoned in Florida waters.  He evolved into an aficionado of surfboard shaping and shapers and put his surf-to-live attitude in first position.  Everything afterward fell right into place, leaving us with a few quality stories to meander through on this podcast.  Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For Floridians, stepping up in critical, big waves is expected given the groundwork laid by Cory Lopez, among others. The hard yard gains came from Pete Lopez white-knuckling to Sebastian every weekend from the west coast of Florida, punching through orange grove shore pound and six-hour round-trip runs. Big or small, kegging or not, Cory defined grit and guts along side Andy Irons, battling Kelly and others in a critical time of professional surfing. All the while, he has maintained a stellar reputation as charger, dad, and brand ambassador for O’Neill. We are proud to call him a Floridian. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitch Varnes fused his passion for surfing and work ethic to make a career in public affairs with NASA and a career in surf journalism and athlete management.  Aside from managing CJ and Damien Hobgood and Lisa Anderson’s career for a time, he’s been creating and managing distance running and triathlons.  Check in here with Mitch for a couple Puerto Rico surf stories…. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob Machado's career momentum strayed from some of his peers and led him off tour and toward brand ambassadorships with some incredible people and companies who make sure we will find him in the surf regularly and hopefully on screen. We've been lucky enough to share quite a few great movies with Rob's effortless style, good humor, and memorable waves. We're so lucky to have the opportunity to hear some surf stories from the man himself. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For over 30 years, Emmy award winning photojournalist Bob Campi has been documenting news and entertainment from places like Afghanistan Iraq, The Middle East and The Oscars. During the COVID, crisis he set out to Hawaii to create a meaningful, lasting documentary about iconic shaper Dick Brewer, a larger than life personality who for 5 decades put his craft and engineering skills to use by changing the way waves were ridden not once, not twice, but three times.  Dick's profound innovations, gifted hands and keen eye gave surfers the tools they needed to ride more challenging waves deeper, more critically, and with more enjoyment. Bob Campi's vision has succeeded, with his newly release film The Shape of Things - The Dick Brewer Story. He joins us to explain a little bit about how this wonderful project came together. Surf Stories is presented by Surfing's Evolution and Preservation Foundation, the Endless Summer license plate in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Mecl, CEO and Executive Producer at Bruce Brown Films, discusses his early motivation to work with Bruce and his family to ensure Bruce's work is disseminated to the world in perpetuity at little to no cost. Alex shares the details behind what it takes to run and connect all the right people and ideas to keep the enduring the stories rolling on camera and off, including working with Surfing's Evolution and Preservation Foundation in Florida, which provides drivers the option of choosing an Endless Summer license plate to support dozens of organizations in Florida. Enjoy the stoke from Alex... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thoreau said something like, "My friends have come unsought." Sometimes, when luck is on your side, a nice person will come into your life, and it just fits, and you want that energy around you like sunshine and good waves. Each time you have a conversation, surf, or round of golf with Bruce Reynolds @surfinista, you'll feel some of this good fortune. His story and visual art share a sense of what it is to be a Floridian surfer who has returned from adventures in Mexico, Fiji, New Zealand, California, and more; he is a content and settled soul in Cocoa Beach, producing new work on the regular. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the skinny brine of Mosquito Lagoon to north beach’s relief at Ponce Inlet, Evan Geiselman has almost completed his back-to-the-sea, full-reptilian transformation. Fish-hunter, professional surfer, and... golfer? Yes, a damn fine golfer. The miracle at Pipeline rebirth-ed our very own stoked slayer of dragons back to life -- revitalized, refocused, and performing surface attacks and aerial artistry on our beloved stages, New Smyrna Beach. Enjoy this beachside chat with the one and only, Evan Geiselman.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Long-time shaper and Floridian, Randy Richenberg, joins us for a chat finally. A true technician in the practical nuances of fins, channel bottom, and other designs, Randy has put to use years of experience in the water, New Smyrna Beach's side of Ponce Inlet especially. He rides shortboards to this day to refine the biomimicry used on his proprietary fin designs, taken from marine life's evolutionary advantages. Listen in to Big R's rap with Kevin and John. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2012 during a Spring Break in Costa Rica, the Lundequam family checked a surf spot and opted for a zip line tour while the tide changed. Halfway across the canyon, the guide appeared to drop a hoodie, and then back on platform two, Brett and Anne Marie heard the echo of gut-wrenching screams. Thirteen year-old, Matt, had become detached and disappeared deep into the rainforest. Listen in on this paradisiacal vacation turned nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices