Nathan Fletcher: Live and Direct
Nathan Fletcher: Live and Direct
SEASON ONE:
EPISODE ONE | KELLY SLATER
EPISODE TWO | MASON HO
Produced by Nathan Fletcher and Nalu Films
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The only thing that rivals Mason Ho’s erratic creativity on a surfboard is his erratic creativity while spinning a yarn. Exhibit A: his strategy for optimizing enjoyment during surfing, which you can watch here.
The part of his brain responsible for turning thoughts to words seems to function with a natural lubricant, as if he’s constantly opening his eyes to a world completely different from the one a moment before.
Mason is the latest guest on Nate Fletcher’s new YouTube podcast series, Live and Direct. In this episode, the two scions of surfing royalty engage in some sizzling exchanges about their distinguished daddies.
SURFER
Leave it to Nate Fletcher to pull of the best and most wide-ranging interview with Kelly Slater since he retired from full-time competitive surfing.
In this new and interactive podcast, called "Live and Direct," Fletcher gets Slater on the horn via Facetime, and the pair chat about a variety of topics, from "retiring from the world tour, becoming a new father, corked-out airs vs. straight airs, new-wave creating ideas, humble beginnings, future plans, artificial reefs, free energy, aliens, ancient civilizations, and more."
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Nate Fletcher has a new YouTube channel, and it’s off to a smouldering start. In the very first episode of the video podcast series, Live and Direct, Nate gets his old friend Kelly Slater on the hotline.
Throughout the video, Nate narrates against a backdrop of a Kelly Slater montage, giving us both oral and visual tributes to Kelly’s many magnificent lives.
The art direction is, somehow, completely disorientating and utterly charming. Nate’s bobbing head reminds us that Kelly Slater is all things. He is Hollywood, he can furiously strum an acoustic guitar whilst harmonising with Eddie Vedder, and he is the only person on earth to have landed a frontside double-spin.
THE INTERIA
Nathan Fletcher and Kelly Slater have known each other for a long, long time. They’re both of the same generation, but occupy very different sides of the surfing coin. They recently sat down together for a chat, and it was a chat that lasted a while, to say the least. The episode of Fletcher’s new video podcast you see here is just one part of five.
In episode one, Nathan Fletcher: Live and Direct, Slater and Fletcher covered a lot of ground
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“I was in debt at 22 years old, winning felt like life and death for me at the time,” says Kelly Slater, as he remembers not being able to pay for his two week tenancy at Mark Foos Hawaiian homestead.
The quote is pulled from a typically articulate Kelly memory, crystallized in the amber of a story dripping with nostalgia for surfing’s bygone era — and it’s just one of the many gems found in the third of Nate Fletcher’s four part interview with the GOAT.
The interview, done in the groundbreaking low-budget high-authenticity format of FaceTime + Greenscreen + Apple Voice Memo is a terrific display of Slades storytelling abilities, and lays the groundwork for what promises to be a continuation of engaging installments from Mr. Fletcher.