#421 Mavericks Pioneer - Grant Washburn (Repost)

This is a reposted episode that I recorded back in 2021, and the reason I'm reposting it is because I'm writing a story for Patagonia.

Um, they have a new magazine called the roaring journals, which you can get, I believe that most of their outlets and they asked me to write a story on big wave surfing and, and lo and behold, I've had a podcast for like a million years where I've interviewed a lot of the best big wave surfers in the world.

So I've had a chance just recently to go back through a lot of my earlier episodes and, uh, yeah, gain perspective for this new story that I'm writing.

And Grant Washburn is one of the best storytellers in the big wave game.

I mean, this dude is...

It was such a fun podcast to listen back to.

And I figured I should repost it.

But yeah, The Roaring Journals is pretty cool.

And you can go check it out.

This article will probably be out in a A couple other things that I've been doing writing-wise is the most recent Surfer's Journal that's on stands now with the cover of Tosh Tudor in a big barrel at Shopu has a long-form article that I wrote on Puerto Escondido.

I was very happy with it.

It was my first time writing for the Surfer's Journal, which was an honor.

They're like the New Yorker of surfing and one of the last remaining surf magazines.

So it's competitive to be a writer in there, and I felt very good about having that article come out.

So next time you're in a Whole Foods or a surf shop or something like that, pick up a surfer's journal and check out the article that I wrote, which is called The Lightning That Brings the Rain.

And it's about the rise, fall, and rebirth of Puerto Escondido.

I will leave a link to that in the show notes below, as well as one final one.

I've been doing a lot of writing these days on Adventure Journal.

Everyone wants to call themselves a journal.

Isn't that crazy that we have the Roaring Journal, the Surfer's Journal, and the Adventure Journal where I wrote a story about this surf trip I took up to Canada.

It's been fun.

As much as everyone says that print is dead and you should just go start your own online blog, I don't believe it.

I think that there is a great wisdom to...

Selling your writing to legacy media outlets in print form.

I think that readers consume writing more thoroughly when it's in print.