“Low level.”
That’s how Lucas Nogueira described himself (as told to me by my online nemesis Blake Murphy). I missed this disclosure in person, but in retrospect I’m glad I didn’t have to hear it directly from the man himself, and look into his eyes as he said it. Bebe, as you know by now, had previously referred to himself, his teammates, and/or anything else that caught his fancy as “high level.”
These ups and downs, man.
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In 1971, the Beach Boys released their 17th(!) studio album, Surf’s Up.