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It was a book about Garrett McNamara, the big wave surfer. McNamara's mother had been a hippie, but she had put him in a cult where they renounced all their possessions, had to wear bed sheets, and beg for things. McNamara and his brother had to wear bed sheets, they had to beg for everything and couldn't buy anything.
He learned about his child. It's bonkers.
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It was a book about Garrett McNamara, the big wave surfer. McNamara's mother had been a hippie, but she had put him in a cult where they renounced all their possessions, had to wear bed sheets, and beg for things. McNamara and his brother had to wear bed sheets, they had to beg for everything and couldn't buy anything.
He learned about his child. It's bonkers.
At one point, his mother was this hippie but she put him in this cult.
A lot of cults.
A lot of cults, but the most memorable.
He was in many cults?
Many cults, but the one they had to renounce all their possessions.
He and his brother had to wear bed sheets.
They just walked around.
They had to beg for everything.
They couldn't buy anything.
And it was just so humiliating to be walking the streets in Berkeley in these outfits begging for things.
That's amazing.
These back stories are like what get them to do these things.
Yeah, it's incredible.
Hey Sean, have you seen 100-foot wave by the way?
No.
You have to watch this.
And it's by that guy, Garrett McNamara.
I definitely told you about it.
And watching what these big wave surfers do, not just Garrett, but all those guys, when I see those guys, when they're like, man, there's a storm coming to Portugal, to Nazareg.
We got to get there.
We've got 48 hours.
We need to get there because there's a fucking crazy storm.
And I need to get on a surfboard and have a dude tow me in behind a ski-doo so I can get on the storm waves.
I'm looking for the closest restaurant that's got a happy hour.
I want to make sure.
What do they have on draft?
I'm looking for the next Harry Potter movie.
Yeah, man.
Crazy.
But yeah, that's insane.
Episode: "Paul Thomas Anderson"
It was mentioned that Paul Thomas Anderson had a copy of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail script as a book when he was younger, and used it as a guide for formatting when he started writing.
I had the script for Holy Grail.
Oh money Python Monty Python Monty Python
It was published as a little book and and I loved that movie so much.
This is like probably 878 or 79 whenever by the way, they're both like Monty Python.
No the actual Holy Grail you We're helping Tracy, okay