The New Podcast Every East Coast Surfer Needs to Hear

The East Coast longboard scene has always been a little mysto, filled with more folk heroes than international household names, and a network of underground cats from Canadian Atlantic to Puerto Rico, and especially vibrant logging communities in NYC and Florida.

With East Coast Special, Moose Huerta has taken on a project that finally treats East Coast longboarding’s cultural lineage with the curiosity and reverence it deserves.

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More than a podcast, the show’s first season plays like a living oral history: an archival preservation effort disguised as sharp, funny, deeply human conversations with the surfers who shaped, and were shaped by, the Atlantic coastline.

Huerta, a longtime New York–via–Florida surfer with a creative director’s instincts and a documentarian’s eye, approaches each episode with a palpable sense of purpose: He isn’t mining nostalgia. He’s building a historical record. 

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Over the course of the season, he sits down with East Coast icons—figures who came of age in the beach breaks of Jersey, the points of Rhode Island, the piers and jetty sandbars of Florida, surfers whose names don’t always fill headlines but whose influence has rippled outward: underground stylists, board-building obsessives, quiet innovators, and cultural glue.

What emerges is a portrait of a surf culture that has had to fight—geographically, meteorologically, and spiritually—for every inch of recognition.

On the East Coast, longboarding isn’t just a discipline; it’s survival. With inconsistent swell, frigid winters, and hurricane-season unpredictability, riding bigger boards isn’t a lifestyle aesthetic, it’s the logical choice for anyone who wants maximum glide on minimal canvas..

Huerta uses that foundation to ask questions few surf media projects ever bother with: Who taught you how to read a lineup? What did your crew look like at age 15? Who did you see first noseride? Who did you emulate, and who are you paying homage to, every time you cross-step? What pieces of longboard culture—music, language, attitude—are baked into your surfing?

And In a sport that rarely documents its lineage until it’s nearly gone, these answers matter.

Throughout the season, Huerta’s guests reflect on their early inspirations—older siblings, neighborhood legends, VHS tapes, backyard board builders—and the modern surfers who keep them stoked today. The show connects the dots between eras and regions, mapping a lineage from the pioneers of the ’60s through the underground local geniuses of the ’90s to the modern stylists who continue to push East Coast longboarding into its newest chapter.

But the secret strength of The East Coast Special lies in its tone. Huerta isn’t trying to sound like a media brand. He sounds like someone who knows and loves these people, and understands that this culture survives only when its memory is cared for. The podcast is warm, unpretentious, funny, and anchored in a belief that even those that might surf the same two sandbars for decades, and become pillars of their communities, are just as deserving of documentation as the sport’s global celebrities.

In wrapping its first season, The East Coast Special has already become essential listening for anyone who cares about surf history, regional identity, or the subtle, nuanced craft of longboarding. For the East Coast surf community, it’s more than content—it’s preservation. For the rest of the surf world, it’s a reminder that some of the richest stories in surfing have been right under our noses, waiting for someone like Moose Huerta to pick up the phone and press record.

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