We Shouldn't Be Friends
Episodes
WHEN SURFING MAKES PEOPLE CRY: PAM BURRIDGE
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever been sacked from a job you love? Even better — ever thought you might be sacked, and had to hang around for days in the office corridor waiting...
THE CHANGAS: SHOW IT OR BLOW IT
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While we’re on the subject…competition! In case you haven’t tried it, Hannah’s recently gone there on your behalf, and she’s rapidly finding...
THE OLYMPICS: GOTTA BE IN IT TO WIN IT
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the past four days, we’ve seen a classic, vaguely farcical, perhaps even hilarious story play out at the very top end of organised competitive su...
THE CARNAGE, PART ONE: PRO SURFING’S INSANELY AWKWARD BEGINNINGS
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
2026 is pro surfing’s 50th anniversary, and it’s been fifty years of epic carnage. 28,000 surfers. Over a billion dollars of investment. You can l...
RAGLAN SURF REPORT: THE FUNNIEST MAN IN THE GAME
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not secret to anyone who’s tried it: comedy is HARD. And given the number of people who’ve tried it and failed, comedy based on surfing is ...
THE BRAND MACHINE: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SURF INDUSTRY?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The gossip mills began churning about a year ago. Liberty Brands, the retail curator arm of US private equity play Authentic Brands — which owns mos...
THE BULL SHARKS OF JANUARY: WHAT JUST HAPPENED, AND WHY?
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Four attacks. Numerous in-water sightings. A whole coastline of surfers wondering — who’s next? It’s safe to say this has not been the January a...
CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY, WITH BOB McTAVISH
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Longevity.” It’s a word more and more surfers are throwing around as an aspiration. Well how about eternal youth? At 82, Bonza Bob McTavish has...
“BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT”: MARK HEALEY AND THE MYSTERY OF OAHU’S NORTH SHORE
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When winter comes to the north shore of Oahu, every swell is shrouded in myth. The Pipeline! Sunset! Waimea Bay! The outer reef spots that nobody ever...
THE ACTUAL WORLD CHAMPION: YAGO DORA’S VERY GRACEFUL LIFE
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently the World Surf League has been dropping world champ comebacks like they’re on sale. Carissa, Stephanie, John, Gabriel! That’s 19 world ti...
THE EVOLVING GOAT: KELLY SLATER ON LIFE BEYOND TITLES
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a sporting truism: once you’re a world champ, you’re forever a world champ. But that’s not all you are, and in this classic extended-play...
ONE OF A KIND: KEALA KENNELLY’S LIFE AHEAD OF THE CURVE
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She challenged every surfing stereotype. Beat Andy and Bruce in their local Kauai juniors, charged Pipeline before it was for the fucken girls, towed ...
THE NEW BABY: WHY SURFING WORLD IS THE MAG FOR US
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surf magazines look like fun, but if you end up with one as your very own baby, it’ll kill ya. The beloved Sean Doherty has been dying on the altar ...
“WE’D JUST WEAR OUR WETSUITS ALL DAY”: PICKLES AND THE KIDS
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to be 22 years old and coming home a world champion? On the way back from a very happy arvo with Molly Picklum and the absolutely sto...
FINAL FIVES: FROM THE ISLAND, WITH KELLY SLATER AND JON ROSEMAN
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our special Finals series, Nick and Hannah are joined direct from Tavarua by two people who know the place inside out — literally. Re...
FINAL FIVES: FROM THE COUCH, WITH TOM CARROLL
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re abject pro surfing fans over here, and when something like what’s about to happen in Fiji comes along, there’s no way we’re letting it j...
WRITING SURFING INTO LIFE, WITH ERIN HORTLE
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Surf-lit is a wobbly field at the best of times, mostly because the writer tries to turn surfing into something it sorta isn’t. Something kooky your...
VAUGHAN BLAKEY, THE MAN WITH 16 GEARS
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Presenting yourself in public is not as easy as it seems. When you’re simultaneously presenting as a manic super-frother, a cool headed CT analyst, ...
IS SURFING REALLY JUST PORN?
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first week of August was fantastic wherever you looked. Indonesia, Tahiti, south shore Hawaii, and the whole east coast of Australia — where was...
DID ANYONE MAKE YOU A KILLER WETSUIT?
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The Big Sea” is one of the surf culture’s films of the year. It’s won awards, most recently at the Noosa Film Festival, for its harrowing por...
GRAND FINALES
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Hannah and Nick go super-nerd on the WSL CT’s big-hitting Teahupo’o event. This is the last straight up CT of 2025, and nothing i...
SHAUN TOMSON CAN’T WATCH JORDY SMITH
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a difficult situation, for sure. You’re the only world professional surfing champ from your country in HISTORY, and a kid 30 years your junio...
MR AND THE SURF TRIP JINX
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We asked the great Mark Richards to join us because it suddenly struck us: here’s someone who won four world titles in a row with no coaching, no di...
HOW TO FIND YOUR PLACE
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Special Live Podcast from Seas The Day“Hey mate, I’m a 66 year old woman and I’m struggling! And you’re taking my wave!” Here’s how the ...
LAST RIDE WITH UNCLE CLYDE
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the great surfing lives recently came to an end with the passing of Hawaii’s Clyde Aikau. On the eve of his memorial paddle-out ceremony at W...
SURFING COWGIRLS UNITE!
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seas The Day is the world’s warmest surf festival. Which is weird since it happens on winter solstice weekend. It should be freezing! But it won’t...
CHALLENGING TIMES
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Of the world’s many pro surfing tragics, few are as tragic as your unlikely hosts. Maybe that’s why we’re so tweaked by the WSL’s much-surfed ...
WAY BEYOND CROWDS
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learning about each other in the surf is the basis of our wacky friendship. It’s why this poddy even exists! But conversations about the lineup ofte...
REVELATIONS FROM PRO-WORLD
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 10 days at Burleigh Heads, Nick and Hannah stagger back home with their heads full of WSL gossip. But what’s actually happening at the sport’...
Your Town - Coolangatta
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode, we head north to the land of right-hand pointbreaks, the southern Gold Coast, and ask four fantastic guests to explain f...
Swell of the Century/Decade/Year
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a huge easterly gale forms off New Zealand and points shotgun-like at the whole NSW coast, Nick talks it up like a wildman while Hannah gets read...
We’ll Never Be Pros!
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professional surfing has been around for almost 50 years! It’s like Nick and Hannah’s middle sibling. Here we explore one of surfing’s most divi...
Cyclomania
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Complete with jet-ski and little brother Tom, Hannah and Nick hurtle northward to meet the mighty Tropical Cyclone Alfred head-on, and end up with min...
In the middle of things
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah and Nick met-cute through of all things, surf media! Here we invite our very first guest, the legendary surf journo Sean Doherty, to help us un...
How did we get here?
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This wacky friendship didn’t just fall out of the sky. Hannah and Nick take a look at surfing’s past, at the times when they could have been frien...