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Grab Matters PodcastDerek Cook | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 107Derek Cook just might be the king of the wrap, as he has just about as many clips with a wrap handle as anyone else. We chat with this west coast legend about his favorite grab (obviously), the delta, switch methods, the difference of California culture and Florida culture, getting into wrapped tricks, his favorite Randall memories, boot hacks, and what its like to still keep riding as you get older. Hear all this and much more in Episode 107 of the Grab Matters podcast with Derek Cook. Follow Derek: https://www.instagram.com/cookslooks/Orlando Mobile W...
2026-01-202h 22
bECOMING MAGICTHE MARY FIELD with Maryn SpanglerMaryn Spangler returns to the show!Why?For an adventure in the Mary field. What?An energy field of Mary. Mary who? Mary. How?When?Just listen when you’re ready, my friend. -Episode art: Etruscan sculpture (pre-Christian). Branch from the stump of Jesse.
2025-12-261h 20
Grab Matters PodcastGrab Matters x Bonifay Banter Christmas Special Part 1!Join us for Part 1 of this two-part Grab Matters x Bonifay Banter Christmas Special! We are catching up with Parks, Shane, and Erik about what they’ve been up to lately over a few glasses of Florida’s finest egg nog. Trivia, the Japan wakeboard scene, road tours, fantasy football, double or nothing, the La Familia movie, 2026 predictions, and the boys favorite Randall and Bob memories. Hear all that and much more in Part 1 of this Christmas Special. Part 2 will drop on the Bonifay Banters channels, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss it!F...
2025-12-231h 56
bECOMING MAGICSTRUGGLE BUS SEASON with Lisa Del AlbaIt's Struggle Bus Season, aka Advent, The Most Won— Difficult Time of the Year.Drawing on Anthroposophy, Lisa Del Alba helps us cut through the Christmas clamor to enter a darker and deeper reality that is connected with why human souls choose to come to planet earth in the first place. Special thanks to Melissa Ramer for the episode art! And special thanks to said art for inspiring the episode title. Take a moment with it, I suggest. It has some things to say.WORKS CITEDThe Depression Su...
2025-12-121h 06
bECOMING MAGICTripping Like a Sovereign Kid with MARYN SPANGLERPsychedelics are one way to trip, but there are other ways too. Imagination is a portal, I'm a tellin' ya, boo. What are these other worlds beyond the gates of imagination? Who inhabits them? Are they dangerous to visit? These questions are a bit of the ground we traverse on this episode.Maryn Spangler runs an online school for spiritual education and exploration called The Lorian Association, and her Substack is Love Walks Here.Music this episode by, the one and only, Patrick Matey.
2025-11-281h 06
bECOMING MAGICA Person is a Window and a World and a HorrorThis episode is about people. Why the hell are they so scary and so interesting at the same damn time?Expect a very special guest by the name of Lydia! And another surprise guest further in.Also! We'll have Emily Dickinson, Ibn Arabi, and Jean-Paul Sartre chiming in. Thanks for listening.-A person is a windowWith insufficient veil—A dark and yawning openingWhere tattered curtains blow,-Or where celestial beamsOf brightness run in...
2025-11-141h 03
bECOMING MAGICBECOMING MAGIC with Spring ChengWe all feel stuck at times, am I right? I was just experiencing this a bit ago, matter of fact.I know there’s something different, something more, something new. It’s utterly unique. It’s beautiful and, and wonderful! It’s out there ahead of me in the future somewhere. Much more than that I cannot say. I don’t have the deets on it.What I do have is what I have. My current identity. My habits. Me. What I always do in this situation that I’m stuck in. Plus distraction. Many invitations...
2025-10-311h 00
bECOMING MAGICA Crude Meditation on Inner LevitationIntroducing half of The Radio's new name! And what's underneath it. And above it!A big thank you to Sol Nights for allowing me use of their song Keep Comin' Back.Special Announcement: Come one, come all, to a video call on Sunday, October 19 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern for all listeners of this podcast. More info at the end of the episode. Or, if you missed it this time, sign up here to get invited to the next one.Oh, one thing yet before you go. Take with you this...-
2025-10-1744 min
bECOMING MAGICThe Highway Around the Fish!Hello everyone! You are invited to a video call meetup, for all listeners of The Radio, on October 19 at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern. Let's get to know each other!Now, this episode. This episode is about how and where to find the hiding magic in the modern world. And this episode let me tell ya...We've got Islamic mystics that'll take you out of your mind. We've got a Hans Christian Anderson story sublime. We got highways to drive. We got rivers to swim. We got mountain paths, baby, come on in.
2025-09-201h 34
bECOMING MAGICRiver and Wind: An Introduction to ImaginationHello, my friends, and welcome to The Radio, where we explore how to live creative and connected. This episode is a journey into the wild, weird, and wonderful. The Imagination. You have one. I have one. The what are they for? That's what we begin to explore. Well, just begin to get a feel for. No real clear answers just yet, alright. Learn from it. Not about it. That's the idea here. So it will take some time. Take a personal approach. Experimentation. Teach a man to imaginate. Teach ourselves. Like...
2025-07-291h 04
Grab Matters PodcastDanny Harf | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 90Danny Harf was the first rider to ever land a 1260, won the X Games 3 times in a row (4 total), invented the Blind Pete, won ROTY, and racked up countless other accolades over his 2 decade career in wakeboarding. We talk with Danny about the years with the stacked Hyperlite team of the early 2000’s, riding with Randall Harris, the switch to Ronix, 6 figure contracts, creating the One board, landing the 1080 and 1260, and switching from an athlete but remaining in the industry. Hear all that and much more in Episode 90 of the Grab Matters Podcast!Harmony Fund: https://givesendgo.co...
2025-07-152h 08
Grab Matters PodcastPatrick Wieland | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 89From directing and producing Lipsmack to becoming a YouTuber and day trader, we are sitting down with a very outspoken guest today Patrick Wieland. Growing up in Florida Patrick was initially hooked on wakeskating and everything it had to offer, quickly picking up a camera after dogging on how all of the current videos looked. After getting an in with the industry, Patrick worked his way around, filming with some of wakeboardings best riders, making friends, and enemies, along the way. Being an internet troll, Nike, working at Alliance, shooting at the Projects, Shredtown, Lipsmack, Mugshots...
2025-07-082h 07
bECOMING MAGICA Priest in the Wild with JULIA POLTERJulia Polter is a priest of The Christian Community, a movement for religious renewal. We discuss nighttime anxiety, death, learning how to love, and the meaning of life.-Episode Art:Night Thoughts Or, The Complaint and the Consolation, engraving by William Blake, 1797Rage, the Flower Thrower, Banksy mural in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, 2003
2025-07-0255 min
bECOMING MAGICINTO THE WILD with Mark Gingerichthis is just a picturethis a first few steps is allthis a kid blowing bubblesdown at Boulevard Parkcome find outthis a this a this athere are worlds inside some bubblesbigger inside than on outthat's the wild for yaweirderwilderquieterit gets deeper in you go
2025-06-111h 05
Grab Matters PodcastSean Kilgus | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 83Have you ever spent tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours on a film, only for it not to be met with the reaction you thought it would have been? Today we chat with Sean Kilgus, the producer of countless wakeboard films, including The Butter Effect, Defy, and Prime. We are talking with him about how he got into film making, how much a high production value movie costs to make, how he navigated his career, some good Randall Harris stories, and ultimately why he decided to step away from filmmaking. Hear all that and much more in...
2025-05-272h 41
2025-04-3039 min
bECOMING MAGICCHANGING with Hannah and Lydia(Here comes the upbeat music.) Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-change-ahging! Hannah emerges from her desert retreat to visit Lydia and I in our rainforest home. (And it melts downward in solemn tones.) It's not easy to be alive. What do we do with our suffering?(Then oh chimes brighten in a smart, spring breeze.) What do YOU think and feel and know about these things?—The Kendrick Lamar song I quote at the beginning, and slightly misquote at the end, is “tv off”. Also, pleased to tha...
2025-03-2752 min
bECOMING MAGICThe Treasury Within the Unified Field of Heaven ConsciousnessOnce upon a time there was a field.In that field was a meadow. In that meadow played a lamb.In that field there bloomed a forest. In that forest a tiger burned. In that field there grew a city. In that city everyone who ever lived, lived.The sky of that field was the floor of the entire universe.Up there in that sky Bob Dylan put his ear to the ground and listened for a song. Up there in that sky David Lynch daydreamed peacefully while Physicists...
2025-03-1343 min
2025-01-3132 minbECOMING MAGICHorses ForcesA little trot down to visit a "dead" horse on memory lane. A bit of a gallop through a new imagination. A short halt inside the Book of Revelation. And a few conversations (three special guests!) I hope it all adds up to connect with something inside you, the Rider in your heart.
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2025 is here.
It's a brand new year.
We need a horse for this frontier.
We're gonna need a horse for this frontier, baby!
2025-01-151h 06
Grab Matters PodcastShop Talk #8 | Parks Bonifay, Shane Bonifay, and Erik RuckParks Bonifay, Shane Bonifay, and Erik Ruck reunite for the Pointless Posse Christmas Special! Complete with 2 bottles of egg nog, the boys reminisce on some of their favorite stories from the Pointless days, as well as chat about the present and future of wakeboarding. The Mt. Rushmore of style, PWT/LAO Predictions, New X Star, Pointless vs. La Familia, ROTY, Wakestock Canada stories, Sketchy rails, and plenty of egg nog. Hear all that and much more in the 8th installment of Shop Talk, the Pointless Christmas Special, this is one you're not going to want to miss!...
2024-12-242h 46bECOMING MAGICThe Art of Becoming ArtHow is creativity connected to self-development? Put another way, what can making art teach us about becoming art? In this episode, I share a bit of my journey that "began" with stepping through the portal of creativity.
By the end, I approach very tender territory. I hope that you can hang in there with me and that you will take courage to walk the path of becoming that is yours alone.
As always, thank you for listening.
2024-12-0530 minbECOMING MAGICThe Meaning of Water, Pt. 2 with Robyn ElizabethI talk with Writer and Creative, Robyn Elizabeth, about a simple daily practice that's been helping her to be attentive to life, discover more of who she is, overcome fear, and have hope for the future. And I tell a story.
Here is the article Robyn and I discuss, and portal to her Substack.
The song Run To The River was recorded on June 7, 2023. It owes some of its tune and lyrics to Santa Clara, by The National.
2024-11-241h 05bECOMING MAGICTHE MEANING OF WATER with Sister RockiIf something is important it will come back around. So... What's been coming back around to ya lately, huh?
Or has this podcast been helping you think anything new? I'd love to hear from you, talk with you, have you on the show, let's go! Email is theradioshow@gmx.com.
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The song in this one is a cover of Thread by Now, Now.
Thank you for listening.
2024-10-1830 minbECOMING MAGICfallen baby bible fallHappy Fall everybody! This episode is kinda like a Pumpkin Spice Latte concocted by a witch. It's a strange brew. I made it for you.
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Tune at the end lifted from Thread by Now, Now.
2024-10-0939 minbECOMING MAGICDOWN THE WELL with Spring Cheng"Would you like more tea?"
I heard the voice alright, I even answered, "Yes."
Spring and I were in the kitchen. We'd just finished recording. But I was miles underground.
I was standing kinda d a z e d l y looking around; walking one way, then another. Strangely, happily buried.
"Wow, we went deep," Spring said with a little laugh.
That's it! I thought.
"Yes!" I said. "I feel like I fell down a deep hole, and I'm just coming up for air."
I'm...
2024-10-0152 min2024-09-2535 minbECOMING MAGICSmoking CigarettesHey everyone! A heart exercise experiment and a song! (I had so much fun with the song!)Thank you for listening.
2024-08-2407 min
bECOMING MAGICGod Is Sunshine; I Am FlowerCome, take a walk with me, talk about the Trump assassination. Come, have a drink with me, how do we face our fears? Come, listen to songs with me, help me thank the faithful departed.
Silver Civic - Charlotte Cornfield
When You're Gone - The Cranberries
Just Breathe - Willie Nelson
2024-07-2543 min
Grab Matters PodcastKevco | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 56Kevin Michael, mostly known as “Kevco”, has been in and around the wakeboard and waterski industry for decades, helping shape the sports we know today. From working at Wakeboarding Mag during the peak years of wakeboarding, to lobbying on the steps of capitol hill, Kevco has put countless hours into turning wakeboarding and waterskiing into legitimate and respected sports. With those years helping run one of wakeboardings biggest publications comes with countless stories of shenanigans and unrivaled times celebrating some of the sports greatest icons and their achievements. Boardstock ‘96, skiboarders vs. wakeboarders, Alliance vs. Wakeboarding Mag, lobbying at congress, Randal...
2024-06-252h 432024-06-0927 minbECOMING MAGICThat Summer I Was Heartbroken...That summer I was heartbroken
I was walking through the night
You were fractured shattered light
I was wonderin askin why
Signs were falling from the sky
Lying underneath the stars
You were dreaming in my arms
You were dreamin in my arms
(You were dreaming in my heart!)
Occult force tore us apart...
That summer we were heartbroken
2024-05-3132 min
Grab Matters PodcastDean Smith | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 53Dean Smith is a former professional wakeboarder from Australia, and has been known for being on a short list of riders who truly go "big". Dean got a later start than most when getting into wakeboarding, and never truly grew up with a consistent coach, rather just riding with friends and occasionally heading to ride at Black Diamond. After a somewhat surprising win at the Asian X-Games, Dean's career started to takeoff. Crashing a car and boat in one year, getting cut by his boat sponsor, P.E.D's, beef with Phil Soven, video parts, the future of contests...
2024-05-283h 15bECOMING MAGICBIG HEART ENERGY BABYMy mom, my sister Karina, my bbg Lydia, and my friend Mark help me get a feel for the heart!
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Grab Matters PodcastTrever Maur | The Grab Matters Podcast - Episode 50From stranded in an airport in Mexico for three days to being named the Marketing and Team Manager for Hyperlite, Trever Maur has seen just about everything in wakeboarding. Growing up riding on the west coast, an area notorious for producing stylish and talented wakeboarders, Trever is no exception. From learning grabs with Mike Schwenne to filming Randall Harris for quite possibly the last footage we will see of him, we walk through Trever's extensive journey within the industry. Wallriding a ship, jet skiing, going pro in a unique way, Al Sur, Dog Dayz, Scumline, crashing a hot air...
2024-05-073h 22
My Favorite QuestionsEpisode 14 with NotaNota is so easy to love and talk to. She is a good friend to everyone around her. She also is a really crazy mountian biker and I want to be as adventurous as her. I feel so blessed to have her as my coworker. Enjoy!
Randall Thane's podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0jgmW3rukO8pfIBhATNven?si=b79f84d8709b4391
2024-04-0318 min
Sisters Surviving Motherhood10: Our Favorite Books
In this episode, Jennifer and Wendy are talking all things books. Hear all about their favorite reads, both fiction and non-fiction as well as which popular books just didn’t hit the spot. Be sure to check them both out on Goodreads to see a full reading history and what books they both can’t wait to read in the future.
Favorite Fiction
The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet
Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty
The Transall Saga – Gary Paulsen - 1998
Favorite Non...
2024-02-081h 05
The Millennial Leadership Show54 | Achieving A High Performance Mindset to Achieve Your Dreams with Thane Marcus RinglerThane Marcus Ringler is a former pro golfer turned writer, speaker, collaborator, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, CA. After competing for nearly 4-years as a professional, he transitioned out of the world of golf into his new pursuit.In his current work, Thane is coming alongside freelancers, business owners, and fellow entrepreneurs and helping them by taking the professional athlete’s mindset to everyday people in everyday life. He is passionate about speaking to the journey from the journey, and wants to empower this generation to take ownership of their lives and never settle for less th...
2018-12-1937 min
Inside Out w/ Turner and SethEpisode 42 - John Bell and Denny WalleySeth and Rob update the listeners on the coming wTnS Live event at City Winery on September 19th. Then Turner explains who Denny Walley is and describes his own efforts to procure this interview backstage at Hampton70. Denny talks about his Colonel memories, including the fact that while he was in a band called The Detours, he was at one point in the same room with Colonel Bruce Hampton, but the two would not meet until many years later. Denny talks about going to a desert high school with Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and James "Motorhead" Sherwood, and how Motor...
2017-09-131h 55
Inside Out w/ Turner and SethEpisode 36 - Randall BramblettRob and Seth sit down with Randall Bramblett in his own house and after first discussing his two most recent brilliant releases "Juke Joint at the Edge of the World" and "Devil Music," they go back to the 70s and move through his fascinating career. We learn how working with Tommy Talton and the band Cowboy led to him meeting and ultimately touring with Gregg Allman. He speaks of his days with the "jazz arm" of the Allman Brothers Band community, Sea Level. Bramblett also speaks of working with Levon Helm, and meeting and touring with Steve Winwood. His success...
2017-07-012h 07