Tales from the Cobblestones

Music to groove to.  1. Son of Slide-Slave 2. Post Mortem-Cameo 3. 10 West-Dam Funk 4.  I've seen that face before-Grace Jones 5. Slow down, Love-Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 6. Tom Cat-Muddy Waters 7. Everybody needs love-Syl Johnson 8. Love is a hurting thing-Gloria Anne Taylor 9. All that you give-Cinematic Orchestra (ft.Fontelle Bass) 10. You going' miss your candyman-Terry Callier 11. Everything is fine-Jean Grae x Quelle Chris (Ft.Nick Offerman) 12. One Beer-MF DOOM 13. Curls-Mad Villian                                  

Erin "WORM " Ashley is a Longboard Surfer living in Costa Mesa. Worm is Famous for lots of talents, but it's her noserider long boarding skill that can leave you mesmerized. It's Her big smile and personality that make her an unforgettable character in surf. Erin on a wave is a pure joy to watch, but she has other skills too. She's a ripping saxophone player, a Baker, an avid reader... the list goes on and on. We caught up with WORM to see what she has been up to and talk a little surf. I hope you enjoy my conversation with the always delightful, Ms. Erin Ashley  AKA... "WORM"!   Music 1: Coffin Nails-MF DOOM 2: Resonance-HOME 3: Such Small Hand-La Dispute 4: It's Raining-Irma Thomas 5: Inside Out-SPOON

Today's guest is the talented Joachim Cooder. Joachim comes from a musical family. Growing up in LA, his father would compose music for all sorts of LA artist and score many Hollywood films. Joachim was surrounded By art, music and Rhythm. He would gravitate to the drums and an African instrument called the "MBIRA" an instrument you play with your thumbs. Joachim's life has always been about music. Now stepping into the forefront with his whole new style and approach, the classic blending of the old with the new. His new album is called "Over That Road I'm Bound" An album inspired by an American folk icon named "Uncle Dave Macon" a Voadeville superstar.  Joachims album is a delight with guest appearances by his Artist/singer wife, Juliette Commagere and his slick banjo playing father. Inspired by his daughters love for the old time music...Joachim and his family blend the perfect mix for morning time chillness with a side of introspection. Put the album on and let the good vibes roll. Thanks to my friend Hans

Some tunes.... 1. First Run - Cian Nugent 2. La Nueva Ola - Phil Manzanera 3. Decide - Lifetones 4. Dickie's Theme - Golden Gunn 5. Brighter! - Cass McCombs 6. Melody in high feedback tones - Cavern of Anti-Matter 7. Gun Medal Grey - The Budos Band 8. 48th/8th - Lanterna 9. I told you - Acetone 10. Prison song - D. Charles Speer & Jack Rose 11. Speen/Lucy in the sky with diamonds - William Shatner                

Inspired?   1 The Funkees-303 2 Bacao Rythum & Steel Band-Love like this 3 HiM-Slow Slow Slow 4 The Mastersounds-One note brown 5 Kaytranada-Weight off 6 Dam Funk-Can U read me 7 Allan Wachs-Mountain Roads 8 Lonelady-Bunkerpop 9 Dave Douglas-November 10 Mark McGuire-Around the Neighborhood 11 Studio-Life's a Beach 12 Get what you give-New Radicals                

Here are some tunes.... some old, some new...always groovy. Listen to these tunes if you're doing art or riding your E-Bike or driving your smart car or anything else your inspired to do. Enjoy.           Playlist: 1 Kid Charlemagne-Steely Dan 2 Any major dude will tell you-Steely Dan 3 Don't swallow the cap-The National 4 Dont change-INXS 5 BL Movement-Bkacklites 6 Grazing in the grass-Hugh Masekela 7 Losing it-FISHER 8  The Pink Panther Theme-Henry Mancini 9 Lean on me-Bill Withers 10 Once upon a time-The Messthetics 11 Ti-De-KOKOROKO 12 Shangri-La-EOB 13 The Look-Metronomy 14 Fickle Sun (III) Im set free-Brian Eno 

Today is a special episode.....On this show we honor the life and legacy of Mr. BEN AIPA. An innovative Surfer from Hawaii who was a  Pro Surfer/Shaper/Athlete/Coach/Mentor.....the list goes on. He was a star surfer who happened onto the Surf scene by chance after a football injury sidelined his pro career. Ben was a big guy who dominated on the scene. He was a smart guy that pushed the sport. He invented the Swallowtail design and the "Sting" Surfboard, credited with advancing and progressing the sport because of its wide nose for paddle power and speed with a tucked in tail for agility and performance in the pocket. Ben was a savvy business man and started AIPA Surfboards with his "Sting" design under the hottest feet of the days modern ripper. Ben found himself in California and meeting with the guys from Infinity Surfboards where he met Steve Boehne and Terry Senate. Ben would teach these two young shapers and guide them and help them develop masterful techniques all the while hustling his brand, AIPA Sur

Todays guest is Jedaum Smith...AKA..Jed Smith AKA...SMIIIIVVVY! Yes! The two time, golden cone piece award winner for award winning surf Journalism. Yes! The Punch Drunk Pikey, The Sultan of Psilocybin, The Maestro of Micro...Dosing, The Bogan from Bondi (world Famous). The Corn dragging core lord of the highest order, the Gaff wearing ,goofy footer bohemian Surf Journalist turned political and environmental Radicalist. The Wim Hoff breathing, Himalayan Hash smoking, panel van driving Monk. Yup, I'm talking about @Jedaum_smith the corest of the core lords over there in Australia. Jed has been a surf journalist for a long time now. These days he's back at STAB magazine were it all started for him as a bright eyed 20 year old lad with a busted nose. Jed has been blessed with major influences at a young age...getting his first surfboard from family friend, Simon Jones of Morning of the Earth Surfboards. Jed grew up tuff, surrounded by psycho, Rugby playing mad man. He would eventually shift his talents into the

A Music mix for your pleasure. 1. Once upon a time-The Messthetics 2. Drop-Gala Drop 3. Ti-De-KOKOROKO 4. Time in Joy-Field Music 5. Don't let get you down-Wajatta 6. On Track- Tame Impala 7. The Look-Metronomy 8. Nude-Radiohead 9. Live with the Moon-Chayns 10. Shangri-La-EOB 11. Abusey Junction-KOKOROKO 12. Sailing Stones-Pram 13. Opposite Middle-Ryley Walker 14. Secret-Landing 15. Nite and Day-Meshell Ndegeocello 16. Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forrest-The Babe Rainbow 17. ShaSha-Cave 18. BL Movement-Blacklites 19. Fickle Sun (III) I'm set free-Brian Eno                                      

Todays guest is the comedic genius of Mr. Jonathan Wayne Freeman. Jon is a surfer, a father, a husband, an ambulance driver and mid-length world tour team rider. If you know Jon, you know, if not ...your lucky. You get to take a deep dive into his sea of content. His Instagram is filled with little silly videos to make you laugh and even think. Years ago Jon started using his phone to express his creativity and now he has 60K on Instagram and over 300,000 views on tik-tok....not that numbers should validate or reflect ones creativity, but "Jon Wayne Freeman" as a brand, is experiencing exponential growth. These days he's busy with sponsors and lots of up and coming projects, plus an exclusive drop.....Jon tells us about his "New" Podcast and more. We check in with Jon as he's parked down at San-O giving us a real time surf report. Here is my conversation with the Mid-Length rider of the year and the Ultra Core Surfer himself...   Mr Jonathan Wayne Freeman          

2021 MIXTAPE 1: Buy it - Soccer96 (Featuring Alabaster Deplume) 2: I was gunna fight fascism - Soccer96 (Alabaster Deplume) 3: Hard on everyone - Kathleen Edwards 4: Devil and the Sea - St. John Green 5: Green Onions - Booker T and the MG'S 6: Broken Blood - Tommy Guerrero 7: Come along buddy - Joachim Cooder 8: Ordinary Pleasure - Toro Y Moi 9: Fist and Fury - Tommy Guerrero 10: Talking Backwards - Real Estate 11: Barre - Songhoy Blues 12: And the Folklore continues - Tommy Guerrero 13: Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen 14: Freelance - Toro Y Moi 15: Waiting Room - Fugazi 16: Dissonance - Strange Motel 17: Corner of my Sky- Kelly Lee Owens (featuring John Cale)                      

Today’s guest is Dana Brown. Dana is a film maker born and raised in Dana Point, California. The eldest son of legend, Bruce Brown from "The Endless Summer" surf movie Dynasty. Yes!... that Bruce Brown. The Endless Summer is hands-down the greatest surf movie ever made. It's the quintessential entry-level surf movie. The top movie in every surfers collection. The endless summer movies introduced to the world to Robert August and Mike Henson and the idea of surf travel to follow the surf and the sun. A movie that showed every side of surfing, A tool for people to see and learn some of surfings many nuances and document the rich characters in the surfing world. Dana grew up with the legendary Bruce Brown as a father, so naturally he drifted into the film world. Dana‘s father got him a camera at a young age and he quickly began making little movies. He would eventually go to film school. Then Dana‘s father came out of retirement to film "The Endless Summer 2. Bruce Brown would employ his eldest son to help him e

Today’s guest is Laguna Beach's is very own Hans Hagen. Hans is a ex-pro surfer,Model and world traveler and is also the executive director of the Mauli Ola Foundation that takes at risk kids dealing with degenerative diseases and takes them surfing. Hans isn’t just from Laguna, he was born, bred and even incubated into Laguna Beach surf folklore. Hans Hagen, even the name is synonymous with Laguna Beach... just like names like Jeff Booth, Mike Parsons Chris Mouro, Sli Dawg and Frogger...the list goes on and on, Hans is Laguna Beach. When I was growing up in Laguna in the 90s, Hans would come and go from town and return with tails of surf safari adventure. Hans was a bit of a legendary figure with a mystique, mysterious a lore… Surfing with power and grace, as German as they get… With a jaw line reminiscent of that of Andy Irons. Hans is Laguna Beach’s spiritual child of Surf. Opting out of the competitive career to chase wild ocean discovery funded by a side hustle modeling career. Hans grew up in surfings

Today’s guest is Todd Richards. Todd is a professional snowboarder turned action sports broadcaster. A transplant from Massachusetts that now resides in Encinitas California. Todd grew up skateboarding and transitions into a stellar professional snowboard career. Todd had a long successful career until a shoulder injury Sidelined to him. Todd started spending a lot of time in the booth.… As a guest commentator. Then officially transitioned into full-time action sports commentator for NBC, the Olympics, Red Bull, Stab Mag, WSL… And more. He is also 1/2 of the dynamic duo known as the Monday MASS with Chris Coté and Todd Richards.… A weekly podcast where they break down the weeks freshest stories in the action sports world. Surf news, Skate news, Snowboard news and the crowd favorite, Nerd news Monday MASS is also part of the YEW Network. Todd is the man, easy to talk to you and down to earth. check out my conversation with the cool cat himself, the smooth sultry sounds of Mr. Todd Richards.   Enjoy!     Mus

Today’s guest is Keanu Asing. Keanu is a professional surfer born and raised on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Keanu grew up surfing and has a fighting spirit, growing up in a household influenced by martial arts. He comes from a Fighting family, so battling was was all too familiar to him as a child. At a young age Keanu started doing surf contests with the local kids. Kids like Carissa Moore and John John Florence. Eventually these contests begin to evolve and so did Keanu's surfing. He showed much promise at a young age, gaining sponsorship and support to send him around the globe to compete more. After a super successful junior career Keanu eventually found himself on the main stage, the championship tour of surfing. There he was competing with the worlds best, going around the world on the dream tour, the best surfers in the best waves. Keanu was living his childhood dream, traveling the world, a professional surfer, representing the people of the island state of Hawaii. With all the crazy ups and downs, K

Today's guest is Donald Brink. Today’s guest is Donald Brink. Donny is a surfboard shaper in San Clemente, originally from South Africa. Donny has made a name for himself in the surfboard market specializing in Asymmetrical design. Donald is a true artist in every way, he is a deep thinker, an analyst, a nerd in the details of discovery. Donny is many things... a painter, a drummer, a journey man, A carpenter, he works well with his hands. He makes surfboards and some of the most highly evolved and absolutely gorgeous designs and aesthetic shapes pleasing to look at. Which is exactly why his customers keep coming back with froth and stoke.   Donald Brink has been on the surf scene for a long time now… He is also an ambassador for Vissla. Catch him in the shaping shack from an old converted mobile home down at Salt Creek Beach for their annual cosmic creek surf event. Donny's work speaks for itself. I had discovered Donald Brink years ago through his podcast “Swell with my Soul”, an in-depth listen to Do

Today’s guest is Mr. Brian Bent. You know who Brian is… That throwback… Hot rod… Cool daddy in the black and white stripes with the hat… Cruising down the line in his throwback surf craft known as the kook box. Yeah you’ve seen him driving around town in one of his classic hot Rod cars looking like a modern-day Herman Munster… Cruising around… Yeah you’ve seen him. Brian is from another time but his stoke for life is real, he is a creative genius… He never stops creating… Never stops innovating… He just keeps getting better. Brian is an incredibly talented dude who can do just about anything good… Whether it’s painting… Surfing… Skating… Or whistling… Brian can do it… The list of his accomplishments goes on and on. We cruised over to Brian’s house in lovely San Juan Capistrano… I pulled the VW bus onto his grass that was surrounded by his four incredibly stylish old classic car collection. Brian and I chatted it up about surf, surfing magazine, music and life… We took a deep dive into Brian’s band the “Bent

Today’s guest is Alex Valich from the Bodega Boarder Crew. Alex is a traditional single fin long boarder who is a transplant from Brooklyn New York that now resides in beautiful San Juan Capistrano with his wife and daughter. Alex is a true artist in every way, growing up skating the streets of New York. At a young age he got exposed to all the things the city had to offer. These days Alex has a lot going on, he has a podcast… A surf team… He is involved with all sorts of media projects and he’s surrounded by lots of Surf. Surfing Doheny and San Onofre on the regular with his talented friends like Erin“Worm”Ashley. Alex has a podcast called Bodega Boarder Crew Podcast. I highly recommend this groovy surf centric podcast which is also brought to you by the YEW network. On the Bodega Boarder Crew podcast… Alex goes deep and plays deep cuts of musical magic from B Side selections from many genres and styles. He mixes it all together with cool informative information and always amazing guests from the logging co

Todays guest is Dave Boehne from Infinity Surfboards in Dana Point California. Dave and his brother Dan grew up in the surfboard industry with salt in their veins and foam dust in their hair. Their dad, Steve Boehne started infinity surfboards in 1970. Since then they have crafted more than 50,000 surfboards and have transitioned with the trends into being one of the top choices in stand up paddle board and now coasting into the future with infinity foil surf craft. Their father, Steve was a master waterman and craftsman teaching his sons the valued lessons of the ocean and the sacred craft of shaping the surfboard. These days Infinity is on the rise again being on the cutting edge of surf craft progression, providing the every man with multiple surf options. Infinity is pushing the limits in high-performance surfing… Like Albee Layers double Alley oop on an Infinity Surfboard. Infinity Surfboards are bringing back the older models from the 70s and 80s and refining them with today’s technology… Like the Pocke

Todays guest is Tyler Breuer. Tyler is a Surfer from New York. He frequents the shores of Rock Away Beach and now recides in Brooklyn. Tyler is a certified Surf Nerd.. being able to refference even the up most obscure surf history. Growing up in and around surfing he has a high froth level and salt pumps through his veins....battling the cold and shitty conditions of New York's fickle coastline. Tyler has a great Surf Podcast Called "Swell Season" A Show that focuses on the surf scene in New York. Tyler has just announced a great partnership with surf media heavy weights Matt Warshaw and David Lee Scales. A new Podcast called "Sunday Joint" Based off of Matt Warshaw's Weekly news Letter he sends out on Sunday to all his subscribers of the website EOS (Encyclopedia of Surfing) In this new show...Tyler and his brother (Jamie) break down different topics from the "Sunday Joint News Letter" in an NPR Surf talk kind of way. With Matts rich content,Tyler and Jamies banter, and David Lee Scales Surf Splender Product