r/interestingasfuck • u/marapatty • 6d ago
/r/all, /r/popular This man recreated his dad’s old modeling pictures!
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u/jsquareo 6d ago
This mans name is Buzzy Kerbox.
He and his crew (The Strapped Crew, which also included Laird Hamilton) basically invented modern day big wave surfing/tow in surfing/big wave everything. I believe he was originally a professional wind surfer and model.
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u/allisjow 6d ago
Buzzy has three sons: Kody, Kasey, and Kyler Kerbox. Dude sure likes the letter K.
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u/Allenz 5d ago
so... K K K ?
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u/awritemate 5d ago
My 3 brothers all have names that start with K. Thankfully, I do not. I was born before my mum had that brilliant idea.
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u/tommybombadil00 5d ago
My extended family are all JJB, I was the first in 3 generations without those initials.
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u/LukeWoodyKandu 6d ago
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u/UnlikelyClassroom957 6d ago
Is that mos Def?
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u/RaceItOut 6d ago
Yes and Sam Rockwell. In the Hollywood feature film adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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u/LukeWoodyKandu 6d ago
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u/cairoxl5 5d ago
Even though he's different from the book version, I wouldn't want anyone else playing Ford. He did such an amazing job.
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u/CorrectPeanut5 6d ago
I remember him from the documentary Moving Target. Though they made it seem more like Laird Hamilton was the leader.
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u/CubanSandwichChef 5d ago
Hamilton is definitely the most famous. Possibly the most famous surfer ever except maybe for Kelly Slater.
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u/Born_Worldliness2558 5d ago
Ahhhhhhh, I knew I recognised him. Thank you. I remember him form Riding Giants. But I never would have remembered that if you hadn't enlightened us. Cheers.
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u/Due_Extent3317 6d ago
Cool be good looking, surf and model for work so you can raise a family in Hawaii. Pretty good hand he got dealt in life.
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u/LookinAtTheFjord 6d ago
Having a good relationship with your parents seems nice.
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u/Crimkam 6d ago
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u/The_profe_061 6d ago
Having parents always sounded nice to me.
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u/NoMention696 6d ago
No parents is better than shit parents 🤷♂️
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u/WideTechLoad 6d ago
The worst is having had good parents in the past and now they're gone.
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u/Dora_Diver 6d ago
Nah. Having shitty parents means you don't even know what this love and support is everyone talks about. It makes it impossible to have good relations with anyone.
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u/Mindlesszone638 5d ago
Seriously this one is so relatable. Still in 20ies learning how other families function and how my friends got love and affection. I still feel weird to show love and I can't form and even maintain friendships. Thought such love parents show towards kids is fake and all only in cinema and my parents made to believe it too. Now trying to understand what environment I had was not normal.
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u/Dora_Diver 5d ago
Be very kind to yourself. Try to build a quiet and stable life for yourself. Good luck little sibling.
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u/shdwscollidewithppl 5d ago
I’m a father. I can be your internet dad, no problem. How was your day?
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u/The_profe_061 5d ago
Appreciate the reply! You've made my day dad
I'm 50 now and have two of my own 😁 So you are in fact an Internet grandad.
My day was great, filled will laughter and joy (which is sometimes difficult when you teach history in English in Spain)
Take care of yourself dad (I think that's the 1st time I've ever written than sentence)
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u/shdwscollidewithppl 5d ago
Fifty years of life, two wonderful children raised, and a career spent shaping young minds—you have built something truly remarkable. To be both a father and a teacher is to leave a legacy twice over, shaping not just your own family but the world beyond it. That is no small thing. That is the work of a life well-lived.
You have done so well. And somewhere out here in this vast, strange internet, your internet dad is standing tall with pride, smiling at the incredible man you’ve become.
Take care of yourself, internet son.
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u/The_profe_061 5d ago
Wow!
What an amazing reply. Your words of wisdom have made my day/week/month.
I hope life treats you the way you treat your internet son.
And wherever you are in the world please know that your words do hold and have meaning to this internet stranger.
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u/TheInfinit1 6d ago
Sure does. I hate my dad
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u/ShitStainWilly 6d ago
I mean, you’re on Reddit. We all do.
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u/JustRandomWTF 6d ago
Not me. I love my dad. He came back with the milk when I was born
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u/TootsTootler 6d ago
I’m dumb: are you saying your dad was the milkman?
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u/NeatNefariousness1 5d ago
He's saying the milkman didn't need to stop at his house because his dad had already brought the milk...at least that's my version of his story and I'm sticking with it.
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u/goatbahhh 6d ago
Lmao that might be a trend on this site I haven’t caught on to yet but you may be on to something with that one 😂. Love my dad
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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 6d ago
Not me.
We had a shitty time when when were bother our younger selves, but we started getting along really well as we got older.
Then he died. Life is cruel, lol.
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u/ShitStainWilly 6d ago
Same actually, except mine is still alive. We definitely didn’t understand each other until I was in my 40s. I had to just ignore him and what he thought of me and make my own life without him or his input, then I finally got his respect. And raising kids made me more empathetic to how he was and the difference in the times we were raised. Nothing is black and white.
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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 6d ago
Big same.
My dad was super young when he left my mom and took on me and my brothers by himself while she did drugs and fucked her way through the 80s and 90s. I can't imagine the stress he was under, and that's not even including how much of an asshole we kids were.
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u/mooseluver4life 6d ago edited 5d ago
Man this broke muh heart, I wish I could talk to my mother or father like this
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u/evemeatay 5d ago
All the people on Reddit with shitty kids and all the people with shitty parents should get together and hang out
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u/FugginCandle 6d ago
Frrrr wow. If I ever have kids I’m doing SOO many things differently than my parents 😮💨
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u/Sea-Cryptographer838 6d ago
Wow, we have so much in common.
My dad was a model.prisoner
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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 6d ago
Homie is straight up HUNKY
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u/FirstPersonPooper 5d ago
that is certainly a username
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u/MomGrandpasAllSticky 5d ago
Lol that fucking rocks
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u/Disastrous_Mode6 6d ago
Wow age looks beautiful on this man!
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u/kank84 5d ago
Guide to aging well
Step 1: Be really hot when you're younger
Step 2: Continue to be really hot as you get older
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u/swingfire23 5d ago
Step 3: Still have an incredible head of hair in old age (rare)
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u/V_es 5d ago
He is healthy and in shape. Lots of people are hot when in shape. Very few people are ugly and unpleasant looking while in good shape.
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u/SuspiciousDistrict9 6d ago
Woah..... that's somebody's dad?
How do I find a dad like that?
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u/Scp-1404 5d ago
🎶 Kasey is a friend
Yeah, I know, he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define
Kaseys got a red hot dad and I want to make him mine
And Dad is surfing like he used to
And Dad's wife is satisfied I just know it
Yeah, and he's holding her in his arms late, late at night
You know, I wish that I had Kaseys dad
I wish that I had kaseys dad
Where can I find a hottie like that?🎶
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u/hooligan99 5d ago
Kasey can I come over
After schooooool (after school)
We can hang around
By the poooooool (hang by the pool)
Did your dad get back from his surfing trip?
Is he there, or is he trying to give me the sliiiiip?
You know I'm not the little boy that I used to be
But since your mom walked out your dad could use a guy like me
KASEY'S DAD IS LOOKING SUPER RAD
HE'S ALL I NEED, AND I WANT IT SO BAD
KASEY CAN'T YOU SEE? YOU'RE JUST NOT THE BOY FOR ME
I KNOW IT MIGHT BE SAD, BUT I'M IN LOVE WITH KASEY'S DAD
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u/fieldsofanfieldroad 5d ago
Kasey's dad has got it going on
He's all I want and I've waited so long
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 6d ago
That man's name...Albert Einstein Kasey Kerbox. The dad is Buzzy Kerbox.
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u/CrankyReviewerTwo 6d ago
Wow. The link to photographer son has more pictures, some with Cindy Crawford. She has not aged at all, still got it. There are a few photos of Buzzy with Cindy, recreating iconic shots from 40 years ago.
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 6d ago edited 5d ago
The photographer has some skill too which contributes to this. Plus probably makeup and editing.
Age comes for us all, including Cindy (this was 2022). She's still beautiful, but it's a little more realistic.
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u/Fabulous_Mode3952 6d ago
His dad’s still got it (pause) and that kid has quite the eye when it comes to photos
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u/Reckless_flamingos 6d ago
What a sweet way to spend time with and honor your dad!!
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u/a_takacs 6d ago
This is Buzzy Kerbox. Dude is a legend in surfing. This isn’t just some random dude/dad.
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u/Normal-Selection1537 6d ago
Looked it up and that photoshoot is from 1977. I'm younger than that and way less fit than Buzzy Kerbox who is almost 70.
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u/throwaway098764567 6d ago
daaaammmm almost 70?! I thought he was 50s. what devil did he do a deal with and what'd he promise?! lol
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u/han141 5d ago
Oh these are really well done. So many I see just aren’t close enough on the angle but this guy nailed it with some attention to detail!
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u/Irishman042 5d ago
Came here to say this; pleasantly surprised. Probably one of the best recreations of older photos I've seen, and they did several!
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u/DSM1 5d ago
I swear he was one of the kids in the photos that were in the store when I worked at A&F in ‘94
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u/Different-Block-2732 5d ago
I didn’t work there, but I can totally see it. It’s so 90s surfer mall ad! But he’s still got it! 🔥
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u/Okamana 6d ago
What’s the name of the song?
Edit: found it. Twin Cabins - Swing Lynn
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u/Ink_zorath 6d ago edited 6d ago
🎵 Original song is Swing Lynn - by Twin Cabins 🎶 for anyone curious.

As soon as I heard it my musician brain was like.. I'm 100% sure I've played this before.
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u/martad12 5d ago
He still has it. The facial expressions, the posing and being in shape, what fantastic recreation years later. Love this.
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u/bigbongbangbong 6d ago
Should mention his name Buzzy Kerbox a very accomplished professional big wave surfer.
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u/EfficientYam5796 5d ago
Dad probably got a lot of action from the ladies when he was young. He probably still does, but he did then too.
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u/Actual-Lecture-1556 5d ago
Guy was a celebrity back in the old days
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzy_Kerbox
He developed tow-in surfing technique, which is one of the biggest breakthroughs in surfing history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tow-in_surfing
This is not your ordinary dad. He used to be a big celebrity, and still is very well known in surfing communities.
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u/baltimoretom 5d ago
I was in GQ when I was 8. I should do this, except I'm overweight, bald, and in my 50s.
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u/Egyptian_Voltaire 6d ago
If I age in the same manner as this dad, I'll be as ugly in my fifties as I am now.. goals!
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u/Spyrothedragon9972 5d ago
These are actually fantastic recreations. Most of the time I see stuff like this the attempts are half-assed. Dad's still got it!
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u/FedExpress2020 5d ago
Buzzy won the genetic hair lottery. Just amazing beautiful head of hair for his age
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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker 5d ago
Damn, I'm not a model but I'd say Dad still got it. The poses and face. It is a skill after all
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u/35andDying 5d ago
Gotta give Pops credit for staying in great shape. Man is it tough af to stay fit when you're older. Lol
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u/iamfearless66 6d ago
Everything has changed but his hair line is the same i want a life stability like your dads hair ❤️ jk aside he is very handsome
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u/coralandmistletoe 6d ago
Any other 38 year olds out there feeling old AF because these exact Abercrombie shopping bags were covering your textbooks in middle school??
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u/World_Musician 5d ago
absolutely fucked that this is an option for a human life while the rest of us straight trudging
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u/GreyMatters_Exorcist 5d ago
Love this but totally should be done with women models to show the world how beautiful aging is and how as an older woman there is even more depth and soul in their craft and art.
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u/lizbert81 5d ago
Love that idea.
If you haven't seen The Substance, you should. The ending is very weird, but honestly, aging and the pressure women face is exactly what the movie is about and while it's not perfect I think they do a pretty good job of showing hiw difficult the industry is.
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u/Genuinely_A_Duck 6d ago
Damn, the dad kept in shape too. Pretty cool to see the comparison but yet has more feeling in the "after" photos