What are the implants butchie has in his head? -- User: 71.178.169.205 3 July 2007
- Good question... HBO.com's summary of "His Visit: Day Two Continued" says: "The two of them sit on the half-pipe, and Butchie recounts the searing pain that boiled around two steel implants in his head – a remnant of "aerials" he wore on the circuit to mock old-school surfers." That's the best I know. -- Danny (talk) 18:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
- The implants aren't called aerials. Aerials are a type of surfing maneuver that old-school surfers looked down on. Here's what was said on the ramp:
- Doc: "That's, uh, not the first place you'd think of for implants."
- Butchie: "A sort of a fuck you, who gives a fuck, you know?"
- Doc: "Uh huh."
- Butchie: "Thirty-five fucking old-schoolers write to a magazine, 'Butchie Yost and his fucking aerials, stink finger to the entire fucking sport.' Well good, douchebags. If I'm such a bad guy, deal with these." (points to head) -- User:24.18.96.129 17 July 2007
- The official HBO summary says that the implants are "a remnant of 'aerials' that he wore on the circuit to mock old-school surfers."
- My understanding of that is that he was doing a lot of aerials, which the old-school surfers didn't like -- so he had "aerials" (like what people used to call "deely-boppers") actually implanted into his head. It was a way of showing off how attached he was to doing the aerial maneuvers.
- Nah, I'm fairly certain whoever wrote that HBO summary just got it wrong. Aerials aren't something you wear on your head. -- User:76.28.167.25 18 July 2007
- The correct answer, too many years later: the implants were screw-in devil horns that he wore when surfing as Butchie 'the Beast', you can see them in the poster of him in his hotel room, His aerials were a move that upset the old school surfers, and his response to them was well if you think I'm a bad guy I'll show you a bad guy, and got the devil horn implants.