ABOUT:

My name is Sam Hetherington, sometimes known as Hetho, and more often than you would expect, confused for Pam. I grew up out in the bush in western Queensland, Australia, the furthest place away from the beach, a skatepark, an art gallery or any live music and yet here I am as one of the editors alongside the much more talented Naz and our insanely brilliant contributors. Eventually, luckily, I moved to the Gold Coast where I became spectacularly shit at surfing but rather good at stacking hangovers and reading books. My friends would describe me as a fair weather surfer, very stubborn, and also, definitely an idiot. Although a fun idiot at that I’d hope. The kind that gets into ridiculous situations from a combination of bad luck, boredom and because it’ll probably be a good story. The first article I wrote for Monster Children back in 1963 was ‘An Idiot’s Guide To The Circular Economy’ which was about sustainability and pretty on trend with the whole idiot thing. Since then I’ve written a lot about surfing, music, the environment, politics, art, sometimes skate and started filming on the Sam Cam. It is never lost on me that most of my job is spent talking, hanging and pointing a dad cam at some of the most talented humans on the planet, although I think you’d be shocked at just how much time I spend trying to find emails because I can’t fix the thread setting. Really though, all I want to do is make and write things that hopefully make people smile. And go on a date with a hot skater. And be gifted a Porche.

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