364 - The Grit! March 20, 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics in surfing, including new CT qualifiers and a petition for paternity wildcards.

In today’s show The Grit! influence finds it’s way to Tom Curren, Caio Ibelli delivers an ominous warning to new CT qualifiers, Israel joins the Tour, elitists SoCal surfers show how abandon your corporate overlords, Chas designs a plan to fix Malibu while David manifests never coveting it, and they begin a petition to get paternity wildcards for beleaguered WSL fathers-to-be. Plus Barrel or Nah?! Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Chas Smith, David Lee Scales

Topics covered

• surfing
• WSL
• paternity wildcards
• Malibu
• CT qualifiers
• SoCal surfers

Keywords

• surfing
• Tom Curren
• Caio Ibelli
• Malibu
• WSL
• paternity wildcards
• SoCal surfers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WSL

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