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Surf Splendor

576 - John Philbin

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In today's show actor John Philbin recounts his life as an escape artist, shares dangers of achieving one's life goals, the false paradigm of self-confidence, why he is not a good actor, how to reform a bitter and angry disposition, and why he doesn't trust anyone who isn't a hypocrite. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

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0:11.9

I drank it last night. I drink it almost every night and my experience has been that I get more restorative sleep without any groginess in the morning.

0:19.8

That's it. Among the nutrients,

0:22.2

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0:28.9

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0:35.6

So all natural ingredients blended into a chocolatey powder that I mix

0:41.1

with about six ounces of water, drink it before I go to bed. I actually do it cold, but you can do

0:46.2

it hot as well. I enjoy the drink. It's actually become kind of an enjoyable nightly ritual,

0:51.7

and then I enjoy a calm, deep sleep, and I wake up feeling totally

0:55.6

restored. So I encourage you, learn more, research all the ingredients and the formulations

1:00.1

at drinkag1.com slash surf, and then click over to the AGZ tab along the top of the page to enjoy

1:09.3

foundational restoration.

1:11.6

That's drinkag1.com slash surf.

1:14.6

Click over to AGZ at the top and enjoy. Born April 27th, 1960 in Carmel, California, and he started surfing at age 12 in 1972.

1:48.0

John Philbin would go on to serve as perhaps the most indelible prototype of a surfer,

1:54.7

for me anyways, in my most impressionable years.

1:58.6

It was through his role as Turtle in the 1987 film North Shore

2:03.8

that I would watch on repeat in my adolescence, that I learned surf lingo, I learned how to style

2:11.2

your hair into the shape of a wave, where to sit in the lineup, and more importantly, where not

2:16.8

to sit when the wave breaks here.

2:20.1

He had already starred in Children of the Corn and the Return of the Living Dead,

2:24.8

but North Shore really became a defining role for Philbin, for his career,

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