690: Garrett McNamara

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

Comedy Interviews, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Comedy

4.8 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Garrett McNamara, one of the most legendary surfers of all time, joins the DTFH!

Check out Garrett's show, 100 Foot Wave, only on HBO! Season 3 just debuted, so now is the perfect time to jump on board.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. It's me again. Your old pal, D. Trussell. I love my job. And I love my job because I get to have conversations like the one you're about to get to listen to. I don't even know how this happened necessarily. Why do I get to spend almost an hour chatting with one of the most legendary surfers of all time,
0:25.1	Garrett McNamara.
0:28.3	I'll tell you why he's plugging his show.
0:30.9	100 foot wave season three.
0:33.8	And if you haven't watched this on HBO Max, just stop the podcast and go watch.
0:38.7	You will shit your pants.
0:40.1	It's insane.
0:41.3	It's the craziest sport out there outside of pickleball.
0:45.4	It's amazing.
0:47.0	These people are, I don't know what you call them.
0:51.9	Superheroes? Titans.
0:55.1	Murfolk?
1:03.4	These waves are the kind of waves that for millennia people have looked at and never once thought, boy, I should get a board and go shooting down the side of that.
1:07.9	Like I'm the prince of the sea.
1:14.4	These people do this as a job. And what's beautiful about 100 foot wave is that it's more than just some kind of like sports dock. Like,
1:22.6	it's a spiritual exploration of connecting with the earth and what it's like to have one of the wildest
1:33.7	jobs of all time. We had a lot of great points during this conversation. And yeah, you know what?
1:42.7	I think I'm going to become a big wave surfer.
1:45.0	In fact, after this episode, I'm headed off to Jaws, which I've heard is a place where there's big waves, a big wave.
1:54.6	And, yeah, I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to use a jet ski.
2:00.0	I'm just going to paddle out there and surf that baby.
2:02.7	I'm inspired.
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