This podcast is intended for a mature audience.

Listener discretion is advised. Entertainment. If you're into classic 90s action movies where the good guys infiltrate a subculture

to catch the bad guys, then you probably know the cult favorite, point break.

Kianna Reeves plays Johnny, a rookie FBI agent who goes undercover inside the West Coast surfing scene to capture a gang of violent armed bank robbers.

This is where he meets his nemesis, Bodie, a charismatic surfer played by the late Patrick Swayze.

Bodie leads the gang and teaches Johnny about the exhilarating adrenaline rush of chasing

not only the ultimate wave, but the ultimate high, which he says can be found by, of all things,

robbing banks. As the young FBI agent continues to gather intelligence about how the gang

operates, he becomes conflicted as a genuine

friendship with Bodhi develops. He also discovers a kind of spiritual awakening found within the

world of extreme sports. This inner turmoil threatens to compromise his undercover assignment,

resulting in an action-packed and poetic finale.

The absurd concept of a gang of surfers committing violent robberies worked and made

point break a hit at the box office.

But what most people don't know is that the Hollywood blockbuster is not entirely a work of pure fiction.

You see, the character of Bodie is actually based on real-life surfing champion, Jack Murphy.

25 years before Point Break hit the big screen, he orchestrated one of the largest robberies in U.S. history.

My name is Eric Crosby.

Welcome to True. Jack Ronald Murphy was born on May 26, 1937, in Oceanside, California.

Jack was the only child to his parents Jack Sr. and Ruth.

While still a child, the family moved to New Mexico in the 1940s, before eventually

returning to California. Back at the ocean, Jack took up surfing and seemed to be a natural.

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