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[WAVE CRASHING]

YOUNG BRUCE: ...and already
they'd been into some good waves.

They'd be into some more
good waves the next morning,

but they couldn't help but...

[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

DANA: He was a
barefoot adventurer.

An icon in surfing

and motorcycling.

Married the love of this life,

and together,
they helped create dreams...

for millions.

He was one of a kind...

but friends, too many.

He was a straight shooter
and a rough neck poet.

His name was Bruce Brown.

To some, a legend...

But for me,

he was simply...

Dad.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

MAN 1: Your dad's kind
of an institution. He's, uh...

you know,
created lifetime memories.

Not only for people your age and mine,
but,

harking back to the days of old.

MAN 2: At one time,
there was just basically these guys

that were trying to
make some money,

you know, being surfers.

INTERVIEWER: Bruce,
how do you feel about this question?

I think a lot of impression
people have gotten about surfers

that isn't really true is
from Hollywood movies

which are based,
like most Hollywood movies on,

not on fact, but on fabrication.

MAN 3: Nobody was doing documentaries
like that. I mean, Bruce really

opened up the door for

a flood of filmmakers
to copy what he did.

MAN 4: I don't think seriously I'll
be doing today what I'm doing today

without seeing that movie.

I mean, I love motorcycles,
but I really got my head into it

and saw so many different genres,
and...

You know, it showed the heart
and soul of motorcycle racers.

MAN 5: The big story
about all of them is

that they were the foundation
of the sport of surfing

that's grown into this gigantic

mega-million
dollar industry now.

[PEOPLE CHEERING]

MAN 6: I think that whole crew,
it's...

I don't think you'll
ever see a group of

men like that again.

You know, they fished,
they dove, they surfed,

they rode motorcycles,
they built things, they designed things,

they changed sports.

They, you know, they did a lot

to that action sports
industry that we grew up with,

and now, you know, I'm sure a lot of
the young kids don't even recognize

what those guys did.

MAN 7: It's just...

Just an amazing group of people. I mean,
just...

No egos,
just let's have a good time.

I feel like it was just
a group of people

that were trying to get the
most out of life, you know.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

DANA: My dad and his friends
are called pioneers of a lifestyle.

A word he truly hated.

He was about life,
and not about legend.

INTERVIEWER: So,
how... How does that happen?

How do you become...

Like,
how does somebody turn into some legend?

Just get old.

You get old enough,
you may become a legend.

DANA: Despite downplaying it,
Dad's impact on pop culture is undeniable.

Just theEndless Summer image
alone seems to be everywhere.

It's a towel rack.

DANA: His movies still sell,

and the world over,
his work is renowned.

BRUCE: Or something like
that.. I think it's a towel rack.

It's a little bit embarrassing,
I'd say.

WOMAN: Why embarrassing?

I don't know,
you know, it's just...

embarrassing.

WOMAN: I feel like
you should be proud.

Well, you know... I'm, you know,
grateful of course, but,

I think I get too much credit.

- MAN: I agree. - [LAUGHS]

No, totally kidding.

It's funny,
'cause when you're a kid,

you know,
your parents are like...

furniture. They
came with the house.

I feel like your dad grew
up but never grew up.

There was like
this 12-year-old kid

stuck in a... in a 70-year-old man,
like...

He's always amazed me, because

all of a sudden, you know,
we couldn't even...

I couldn't even get
a date or anything,

and he shows up with
this beautiful woman,

that ended up foolishly marrying him,
and that's your mother.

[LAUGHTER]

If Bruce was the loud mouth,
obnoxious, rambunctious,

you know, full of everything,
knew it all,

your mom was just chilling. Goes,
"Yeah, yeah, he's full of it."

She was just super chill.

I told her one day. I said, "Pat,
you really screwed my life over."

She said, "Why,
what's wrong?" I said, "Well,

"you've become a role
model for every girl I meet,

"and none of them come
up to your standards."

GRUBBY: And I'm going,
"How did he pull this one off?

"He's just a broke
little nothing screw up."

[LAUGHTER]

That's what I am still
wondering 40 years.

That was... How'd
he do this anyway?

He's always... He's
always been that way.

DANA: Dad's wife, my mom,

Patricia Lee Hunter Brown,
passed away in 2006.

Dad was alone in their house.

His three kids visited a lot,

as did the eight grandkids,

and friends, and on occasion,

a film crew.

Of my wife and I...

this is one of my favorite pictures.
Makes me look tall, that's why.

Anyway,
it's one of my favorite photos.

I didn't wanna show it too much,
or I'll start crying.

[SNIFFLES]

[SHUTTERS OPENING]

This is a,
uh... It's actually a '93

Subaru Impreza.

My wife and I,
we rallied I think for...

Um...

You know,
probably five years, and...

they put your blood type
on there in case you get hurt.

So they know what you are.

The first rally we ran,
my wife wasn't a motorsports person at all.

So I talked her into doing the co-driver,
and

I couldn't tell, you know,
if she was liking it or not.

When it's over with,
I went, "Oh...

"Do you wanna do
this again?" She goes,

"Well,
first I have to go get a sport bra."

[LAUGHTER]

And most people trailer
their race cars to the rally,

and we just drove it on
the street. [CHUCKLES]

My wife,
who was a great navigator,

she'd always, you know...

You run these
stages and she'd go,

"Don't forget,
we gotta drive this car home."

It's got those big giant lights,

'cause some of those
days are at night.

And... But...

And then, after she passed away,
I was just like nah.

Didn't wanna do it anymore.

DANA: After Mom passed,
Dad didn't leave his ranch much.

So my brother,
sister and I decided to take him on a trip,

and I'd make a
film of the odyssey.

He reluctantly agreed,
as long as he could bring his dog, Rusty.

Rusty's a good dog,
he's just a little...

off.

[RUSTY BARKING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

So we piled into the motorhome,

my brother Wade,
consummate craftsman and musician,

sister Nancy, cowgirl,
mama bear, and force of nature.

Cameraman extraordinaire
Steve Matzinger,

Dad's grandson,
camera assistant John Tipich,

first time sound man,
producer Chris Husband

and over qualified driver,
Syd Cole.

Off we went, as Dad said,
to visit his heroes.

The trip began in February 2012,

Dad was 75.

[CAMERA REEL ROLLING]

Bruce Brown was
born in Oakland in 1937,

moved to Long Beach,
California in 1945.

Soon after the move,
he borrowed a neighbor's paddle board

and caught his first wave.

Ran into the house,
"Mom! Mom! You won't believe what I did!"

My mom was kinda,
"Eh..." you know, "Big deal."

Dad was hooked and spent his high
school years trying to surf all the time.

He made friends up and
down the California coast,

with a small but enthusiastic
group of young surfers.

Who shared his same passion.

Many of these friendships
would shape surfing

and be bonds that
would last forever.

At the top of that
list was Hobie Alter.

Hobie wasn't just one
of Dad's oldest friends,

but at one time
he was an in-law.

Married to my mom's sister,
Nancy.

He was Uncle Hobie.

Hobie's kids were
literally cousins to us,

good friends.

His youngest son Jeff,
and my brother Wade are best friends.

Despite Hobie
having terminal cancer,

he welcomed us and
the cameras to reminisce.

Well... as I was saying,

we're travelling around with the
family and meeting all my heroes,

and you're top of the list.

Hobie was that
fantastic combination of

athlete businessman...

and, you know,
future seer if you want to go that far.

He really knew where
this was gonna end up.

He'd just get something on his mind and,
you know, wanted to take it...

It wasn't about money. It
wasn't like taking it to sell it.

It was more about taking it to build it,
then we'll see if it sells.

Whatever he's get into,
he would like just...

He'd go,

"Oh,
there's gotta be a better way to do that."

Hobie always found a better way,

from making his surfboards to pioneering
the foam blank with Gordan "Grubby" Clark.

It was that foam that
revolutionized the surf industry.

At the time when they did it,
everybody thought, "What a joke!

"That stuff's never gonna work."

HOBIE: We were starting
to make foam boards.

At that time it was just magic
that you could have a board

- that's resin wood, it was hard...
- BRUCE: Yeah. Right.

YOUNG BRUCE: Surfing has
gone though a radical change.

It's a far cry from the
solid red wood planks

to the modern lightweight polyurethane
foam and fiber glass surfboard of today.

DANA: Hobie not only
revolutionized surfing,

he also championed the
new sport of skateboarding.

YOUNG BRUCE: Famous
surfboard manufacturer Hobie Alter

designed the Hobie skateboard
and organized a team to demonstrate.

Actually what he used to say a lot was,
"Lookie here."

And when he said, "Lookie here," you
knew that something was going on in there.

You know,
that he's gonna make something better,

or invent something,
or do something.

DANA: And boy,
did he invent stuff.

He made catamarans,
sailboats, powerboats,

fishing floats,
radio controlled gliders,

and a 60 foot luxury catamaran.

I guess you sit out there with
nothing to do and you start thinking,

"I can make one better than that,"
and...

So I wanted to
make a model of it.

So I made a model, and that
would get it out of my system, and I...

kinda liked the model and thought
maybe would really like a real one.

So two and a half years later,
and

a couple of bucks, um...

here we are.

BRUCE: None of us were
worth shit at building stuff,

so we'd always go to Hobie's,
you know, and he'd go,

"Oh,
here. Let me do this and that."

DANA: Hobie often
fixed Dad's toys,

and together, they played a lot.

Surfing, going out to the
desert to race motorcycles,

trips to Baja,
often with their families together.

Hobie Alter was one of a kind.

JEFF: He was a...

A really...

good, caring guy that

wasn't really in any
kind of controversy.

The friends that were around him
were kind of into what he was building,

so a lot of his whole life was about,
sort of,

what was going on there,
and the friends kind of were

part of his creations
in many cases.

You invented so many things,
so I'm wondering

now,
going through all this cancer treatment,

have you invented
any medical things?

- No. [LAUGHS] - No? Oh, Jesus.

- You're slipping.
- I don't wanna get into that stuff.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]

[INDISTINCT
CONVERSATION CONTINUES]

DANA: Our visit was
a few short hours,

and when these two lions
in winter said goodbye,

it would be the last time.

- Okay, Jeffery. - WOMAN: Okay.

Safe trip home.

I hope so.

WOMAN: You guys
might hit some traffic.

[WOMAN ANNOUNCING OVER PA]

DANA: Our trip with Dad
wasn't just in the motorhome.

We also took him by jet
to the Hawaiian Islands.

For Dad,
Hawaii was a special place.

He'd been there countless times.

The first time was in 1956,
after graduating high school.

You see, he forged a plan to get
to the islands by joining the Navy.

All he had to do was sign
up to the Submarine Corps,

go to Connecticut,
finish first in his class at Sub School,

and then he'd get to pick
the port he was stationed.

Incredibly, he did just that.

When the Admiral presented him with the
option to serve on the first US Nuclear Sub,

Dad turned it down for a sub in
Dry Dock in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

This was his dream.

He served two years,

much of it on a sub
spending months at sea.

But he also spent
months in Hawaii,

surfing and on the beach
with his 8mm camera.

After two years,
he came back to San Clemente, California,

and got an offer
to do a surf film.

Dale Vulzi, surf shop owner,
put up the money.

He went back to Hawaii,
and it was there,

filming his first movie,
he would reconnect with my mother,

who was going to the
University of Hawaii.

They'd meet,
and it became a love story for the ages.

Their first date was
in December of 1958.

They got married
in June of 1959,

and by December of 1959,
they had a child...

me.

I remember sitting in their room,
they were both on the couch,

smooching and watching TV,

and I'm in there watching TV with them,
you know...

It was just like
a family affair.

I mean,
from... from what I got to see,

they had the perfect
partnership and relationship,

'cause Bruce always knew
everything was gonna be okay at home.

DANA: Dad was 22 and
had a family to support,

so he threw himself
into filmmaking.

YOUNG BRUCE: The dream for most Californian
surfers was go to the islands to surf.

North Shore of the island of
Oahu was the ultimate place.

DANA: Every year,
he would film for four months,

edit for four months, and then
show the finished film for four months.

Then start all over again.

Surf Crazy, Barefoot Adventure,

Surfing Hollow Days,

Water-Logged.

PAT: That was pretty
adventurous. I mean,

people were living in
vans and vacant lots.

It was a frontier like
for California surfers.

DANA: They were surfers
and lived pretty barebones,

but Dad had a wife and a kid,

so making a living
was important,

and it would turn out,
a family affair.

And by the way,
that's how they work, Bruce and Pat.

Pat would run the projector,
Bruce would narrate.

YOUNG BRUCE: These waves
have a tremendous amount of power.

When you get wiped out and
held under the white water,

you sometimes stay down,
two... three weeks.

Now understand, he's in the dark,
up there on stage,

narrating this movie, live.

No script...

It's pure entertainment.

It was Kailua, in 1962,

and it was the most
incredible thing I'd ever seen.

Bruce was funny.

What I was seeing was larger than life,
all over the place.

YOUNG BRUCE: When it's big at sunset,
you see surfers paddling madly

for the horizon,
trying to get over the advancing wave.

Forty pound boards tossed
around like match sticks.

Ricky Grigg body surfing Waimea.

Joey Cabell...

This is Bruce Brown,
thank you for watching.

I hope you enjoyed my film.

JACK: I didn't want
the evening to end.

I was mesmerized by the sky.

And as I went home that night,

I couldn't help but think,

what an incredible
experience I'd had.

And I figured out later,
many years later,

what it was and that was... Here
was someone who was actually,

really,
really in love with what he was doing.

But he enjoyed more than anything,
of sharing the stoke of surfing.

Early on, usually, you know...

five or six or more guys,

rent a home.

Back then,
almost nothing was in advance.

Half the houses were vacant.

So you just go knock
on the door and go,

"This place for rent? Oh,
that one down there."

Fifty bucks, sixty bucks.

MAN: So that's what you do
when you first got off the plane?

- You'd come out here, and knock on doors...
- Yeah.

Yep. Stop by a goodwill,

and get, you know, mattress,

and pots and pans and stuff.

And then, you know,
buy a $50 car

and head out here.

But you know,
you could come over here with $100 and

stay for a month.

And then,
the North Shore was like paradise.

[PLEASANT MUSIC PLAYING]

DANA: Today,
the North Shore has become

the epicenter of
the surfing world.

Its famous stretch of coastline
known as the Seven Mile Miracle,

is home to some of the
best waves on the planet.

Professional surfers
from across the globe

come here every winter,
to prove their worth

amongst these world class waves.

BRUCE: Yeah,
back in the late '50s, early '60s,

this was like a ghost town.

Last time I was here,
was '92 or something.

And it's even changed
a lot since then.

I mean,
who would have thought you'd have to

have a hard time
find a parking place

on Kamehameha Highway
on the North Shore.

[LAUGHING]

It's amazing.

DANA: One thing that
hasn't changed is the waves.

Many of these breaks have the same
names they had when Dad was here.

In fact, he named a few.

North Shore resident and old friend,
Mike Slattery,

took us to one of those breaks,
Velzyland.

YOUNG BRUCE: Once
the weather cleared up,

a couple of surfers
got together,

heading out toward Velzyland,
a place they discovered earlier.

Here's friendly
surfer Kemp Aaberg,

friendly surfer Dewey Weber.

Think they've got a
signed-on agreement

that some competition
between the two is in order.

So that view that
you're talking about,

it's kind of where the...

Right about where the people are
standing on the beach just down here...

BRUCE: And Dewey Weber takes
off on the first wave at Velzyland.

Uh, well, it was like nobody
surfed this place before.

So, you know,
we got pictures of it...

You know,
on a movie like in '58 or something.

And, you know,
I just named it Velzyland because

Velzy sponsored my first movie.

And for some reason,
Velzyland stuck.

And Pipeline, so.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

DANA: That's right.
Dad named Pipeline.

Pipeline,
and no matter where you go in the world,

that is the event.

That's the one that you want to
come to. That's where you want to be.

DANA: This is the Super Bowl.

This is the wave that
launched a million dreams.

[UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]

BRUCE: There's hardly
any waves that go on a route.

- I think I saw two...
- [ALL LAUGHING]

...in three days.

DANA: Dad was
there at the beginning.

In the winter of 1961,
he filmed Phil Edwards,

ride a wave
considered unrideable.

DANA: You guys
must have looked at it.

BRUCE: Oh,
yeah. Looked at it all the time.

You know, 'cause like,
you could die.

[WAVES THUNDERING]

DANA: Now you take a long look
before you think about going out

and riding a wave
that looked like that,

anywhere.

Take into consideration
what was on the bottom,

and that it had never
been done before.

Took a lot of nerve
and lot of skill.

Phil decided to paddle out and take
a closer look at one of these waves.

He paddled out, turned around,

and took off on the first
wave that came through.

Watch this phenomenal ride. Phil
Edwards gets the Pipeline in Hawaii.

[POP MUSIC PLAYING]

BRUCE: [CLEARS THROAT] Phil went out,
caught one wave,

came in, said, "That's enough."

[all laughing]

Like what often
happens with a new spot,

when one person tries it,
other surfers will go out and also try it.

Dave Willingham paddled out
the Pipeline later in the afternoon...

Mike Hynson from
La Jolla taking off,

couldn't believe his eyes on
this wave when he looked down.

Not long after, yeah,
whole bunch of guys come in

and going over the falls.

And they were caught in a horrible wave,
like you can imagine.

Nobody got hurt. It was kinda like,
"Oh, okay, well..."

DANA: And for generations,
they followed,

coming to test
themselves at Pipeline.

Some on boards,
others, with cameras.

Like Don King,
arguably the most sought-after

and successful water
cinematographer in the world,

who worked with Dad early in his
career on The Endless Summer 2.

Yeah, just seeing you again
is kind of reminding me of

when we were filming
Endless Summer,

and at the time, you know,

you were a legend to me,
because when I was growing up,

your films were on
the big screen then.

As a family,
we we'd go to the drive-in theater.

We watched The Endless Summer,
and we watched On Any Sunday,

and those films made
a big impression on me.

And I just loved
watching those films.

I didn't know at that pointthat
I wanted to be a filmmaker,

but the way you showed it
made it really fun and interesting.

I wanna say thank you
for all the inspiration,

and for the great
opportunity that you gave me

at such a pivotal time for me,

and, you know,
you really helped my career,

and helped make my
whole life a better thing.

- Well, thank you. - Yeah, yeah.

- You're very, very kind.
- [ALL LAUGHING]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]

DANA: Dad had many
friends from many walks of life.

And everyone
came by for a visit.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

[LAUGHING]

- [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
- [PEOPLE LAUGHING]

DANA: Mark Martinson
is a surf legend.

One of the best of the '60s,
and in the '70s,

he worked on Dad's
sword fishing boat,

slept in Wade and I's bedroom,
right between the beds.

We called him Shrimpenstein
Brown our long-lost older brother

[MO LAUGHING]

I got this guy laughing finally.
I've been trying all evening.

DANA: Mo Angel is the widow
of surf legend Jose Angel,

who drowned in 1976.

Dad and Jose had been
friends since his days in the Navy.

Still, when Mo and Dad get together,
they act like teenagers.

There you go. Now
we'll start all over.

[ALL LAUGHING]

These family legacies continue.

Jose's son Johnny Angel
is a North Shore life guard.

A true water man
and a truly funny man.

Long board legend Joel Tudor
also came by to share a few laughs.

Joel brought his friend
and prodigy Harrison Roach.

Harrison is barely in his 20's,
but a huge fan of Dad's.

[ALL LAUGHING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

DANA: One more. One more. Here we go. One,
two, three.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

DANA: In Hawaii, we stayed in
one place and people came to us.

Our trip on the West Coast,
we travelled to them.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

Over 1,000 miles
in the motorhome.

With Wade, Nancy...

Fine dining.

Smoke breaks every
15 miles. And Rusty.

Shedding, peeing, and humping.

DANA: Next road trip,
the dog's staying home.

We were visiting friends.

Some,
Dad had known for over half a century.

Like Gordon Grubby Clark.

BRUCE: Hey,
old fart. GRUBBY: Hey.

God,
you look just like I remember you.

Come here.

No. You're trying to
steal... Trying to scare me.

I'm staying with my people.

[LAUGHTER]

DANA: Gordon "Grubby" Clark,
the Henry Ford of surfing.

Grubby invented the foam that
all surfboards are made from.

Grubby is a true titan in surfing,
but very private,

and often portrayed in the
media as a barefoot robber baron.

[DANA SPEAKING]

Everything.

That's a good answer.

Can we go to a another
line of questioning?

[GRUBBY LAUGHING]

He has this public image that...

really isn't anything
like the real person.

Very few people know that,
but...

We go along with
the public image

- to encourage it as much as possible.
- [ALL LAUGHING]

But there's a real sweet, warm,

real person under it all.

Like, Grubby would donate a bunch
of money to different surfing things,

but he never let them
say where it came from.

'Cause, you know,
so everybody would say,

"God, Grubby is really a bad guy

"and never putting
anything back in the sport."

Which wasn't true.

But he would not... He
wouldn't defend himself.

He'd just makes some comment,
you know, some rash comment.

[BLUES MUSIC PLAYING]

But he can also drive you nuts.

You know, I mean?

GRUBBY: Here he is.

The old man with the bad teeth.

[WADE LAUGHING]

BRUCE: Bad teeth?

Hey, my man. How are you?

Good to see you.

[SPEAKING]

Yeah.

[ALL LAUGHING]

What are you doing here?

How did they get you...
How did they get you out?

Huh?

WOMAN: How's it going?

BRUCE: Good.
WOMAN: Nice to see you.

Uh-Oh! Hey, Hey, Hey.

Oh, God!

Your dog just
pissed on my couch.

It's okay.

I'm gonna give
you a paper towel.

You can go clean
it up right away.

I was trying to get
him to wee-wee earlier.

Right there. My couch. My couch,
go clean it up.

- Where is it?
- GRUBBY: Right in the corner of the couch.

- Where?
- GRUBBY: Your dog reflects its master.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Right here. Right in
that corner. Right there.

- Right there. - Oh!

No, no, no, no. Come on.

Can you believe that?

Already you've done
something wrong.

[ALL LAUGHING]

- WOMAN: Absolutely not.
- [DOG BARKING]

DANA: Beyond being old friends,

we'd been neighbors of
Grubby in the early '60s.

How long you been living here?

Little over a year. Did
you see the picture?

- BRUCE: What picture?
- Come here.

I saved this on my wall
just to show it to you.

You can see how nice I was
looking and how shitty you were.

[ALL LAUGHING]

- There's how I lived. That was my house.
- No, that...

Bullshit. That's it. Look,
right there, look at there.

- Oh, that there? Yeah.
- Yeah, see, there it is.

- Didn't look like that when you lived there at all.
- Yes, it did.

- Bullshit.
- Even better, it was new.

- No.
- Yes, it did. This room was all just exactly like how it is.

There was all gym socks...

No, that's how it looked,
and that's how it looks now.

No, no. No, not even is.

Look how much they're
selling it for. $10.10 million.

That's not it. That's
not it. That's not even it.

- That's not even your house.
- That is. Right there.

- No!
- That's the upstairs bedroom.

It was just like
a one little thing.

No, there was an upstairs,
and we slept up here and down here.

- You can't remember.
- [DOG WHIMPERING]

Gosh, damn it. That's terrible
when you can't remem...

No, they remodeled the thing.

It's terrible when
you're old like this.

- That is it. - That is it.

DANA: It's too small.
That is too small.

Oh, you can read still? Oh, that's
good. You haven't lost it completely.

DANA: Grubby,
when you lived there, was the floor...

there was like slat in the
floor so the carpet or the...

- No, no, no, no.
- What do you mean "no"?

You'd come and sleep in our
house with the window broke...

Below that window...

Scared the carp out of me.

Remember the time I
vanished? Was shaking so bad.

DANA: Grubby and Dad have
always had this relationship.

An odd couple.

Dating back to before either one of
them was a filmmaker, or a board maker,

back when Dad was a lifeguard
in San Clemente, California.

BRUCE: I was lifeguard
in San Clemente,

and Wayne Schafer
and I were on duty.

We were then the
only two lifeguards.

And we had a truck.

And we get a call. There's,
you know, an emergency drowning

in Poche.

So we jump in the truck.

You know, we both jump in the
passenger side... [LAUGHING]

Anyway, I end up driving.

Get half through the pier
and the sand gets in my eye

and I crush the fender
of the truck into the pier.

We turn the sirens on,
hauling ass down to Poche

you know, to save the poor soul.

We get there,
and it's Grubby with a stopwatch going,

"God! The poor guy would have
drowned if there wasn't anybody here."

I mean... [LAUGHING]

- I was timing you.
- [PEOPLE LAUGHING]

Filing a full grounding report?

No way, we protected you.

You never even thanked me. So,
thank me now.

[PEOPLE LAUGHING]

Statute of limitations is over,
screw you.

[PEOPLE LAUGHING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

WADE: That's beautiful.
Is he grinding away?

[MAN 1 SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[MEN LAUGHING]

WADE: Did you see that
shot? DANA: What the...

- Rusty! Rusty! Rusty!
- [MEN LAUGHING]

- WADE: Jesus Christ!
- [MEN CONTINUE LAUGHING]

DANA: Did you watch all
that? [IMITATES DOG BARK]

GRUBBY: We got
big things for you to do.

BRUCE: What? GRUBBY: I said,
we got big things for you to do.

Are you ready? Can you
walk? Can you still walk?

Walking's not my favorite thing.

DANA: Despite Grubby trying to scare us,
we were happy not to walk.

His ranch is over
80 square miles.

It's a funny story,
how Gordon got this place.

He was on a trip in Oregon
with surfing legend Gerry Lopez.

When they came across
a ranch in foreclosure,

and Grubby made what
he thought was a token offer.

A month later he calls me up,
we're back in Hawaii.

He goes,
"We gotta go back there." I go, "Why?"

He goes "Because
they accepted my bid,

"I haven't even seen the place."

So, we came over,
and here we are.

BRUCE: We're all so proud of him,
'cause when he first bought the place,

you know, I'm sure he thought, "I'll
get somebody to run it or sell it, or...

But then when he got into it...

Like all these guys,
they get in something,

and then they
really get deep into it.

BRUCE: He started calling
me asking cattle advice.

[LAUGHS] So, you know...

So, you know he's in trouble. He
had no experience with that at all.

And now he's like last year's
"Cattleman of the Year" in Oregon.

You know, and they use
motorcycles to round up cattle and...

You know, stuff like that.

You know, look at what he's
done to this place. It's amazing.

You know, for a... Like a dumb shit
from Laguna Beach... [CHUCKLES]

Here's the shepherd's crooks.

WADE: Everything has a reason.

Get a picture of Grandpa
smokingunder the no smoking sign.

GRUBBY: Under the no smoking sign. Yeah,
yeah. Like fucking Castro.

WADE: I hope no one who's
around here is a real rancher or farmer

ever sees this movie because...

You guys are really lost.

[ALL LAUGHING]

BRUCE: We shouldn't
be proud of you?

WADE: No.[CLEARS THROAT]
I'm... I'm ahead of you but...

But there's an awful lot of
people way ahead of me.

BRUCE: Well, of course.

WADE: So...

This whole ranch is
a Bruce Brown ranch.

I mean,
he... He's the one that did it all.

One day, he said, uh...

"Hey,
I'm gonna have a preview of my new movie."

And I think in my whole life, that was
the biggest shock that I've ever had.

We went over to
his house next door.

And he was narrating it,
it's before he had a sound track.

And it was still 16 and he
played The Endless Summer.

And my God...
It just... It was...

Where did this come
from? What planet?

And... And I mean...

It was the most amazing
thing I've ever seen in my life.

This guy that was, in my judgement,
just screwing around.

And he comes up with this thing.

BRUCE: I'll never forget
the very first showing...

Endless Summer ended
our premiere showing,

and it was dead silent. And I'm going,
"Oh, no.

"They hate it!" You know,
after all this work.

And then all suddenlythey
started clapping... "Whew!"

The first year,
we sold out every single showing.

Every... Santa Monica Civic,
understand this,

holds 3,500 people.

I book it for seven nights.

Sold out every single night.

I was out there with a
megaphoneon the last show saying,

"We're holding over
for one more day."

I was on the... Calling
the radio stations...

DANA: The Endless
Summer pushed surfing

to another level of popularity,
and cultural significance.

Surfing was hip.
Grubby benefited,

Hobie benefited,
the whole surf industry benefited.

And countless started to surf
and chase their perfect wave.

As I came in,
they're almost in tears.

"'Cause this movie
changed my life."

Changed my life, I mean, I've been so
impacted so beautifully by this movie.

GRUBBY: It was an incredible
introduction of surfing to the world.

I still think he's a screw up,
I don't know where it came from.

Sometimes, I thought your mother did it,
I don't know.

I don't know... It's impossible
that he could have done it.

[BRUCE LAUGHS]

DANA: ButThe Endless Summer
was not an overnight success.

Dad toured the film for
two years narrating live

hoping to get
mainstream distribution.

After those two years,
he got a bank loan for $50,000,

and sent Paul Allen to Wichita,
Kansas, in the middle of winter.

PAUL ALLEN: The day I opened...

One of the worst snowstorms hit Wichita,
Kansas.

We got about a foot
of snow on the ground,

icicles hanging off this marquee
that says The Endless Summer,

and I see people lined
up around the block,

stomping in the snow,
kinda keeping warm, you know?

And filled it up. Filled it up.

Holy mackerel. I ended up
holding it over for another week.

The theatre owners
were blown away.

Well, of course, that was it.

Finally,
the establishment came calling.

DANA: And in 1966,

Dad's five-year Odyssey
was an overnight sensation.

But Dad was done with surfing
as a subject matter for his movies,

and he turned his
attention elsewhere.

BRUCE: People kept bugging me,
"What are you going to do next?"

I'm a surfer.

If I make as much money as I say,
why would I do anything?

Anyway so.

I think I was in Japan, and...

they have those little Honda step throughs,
50cc things.

And when I got home, you know,
I brought one of those...

when they first imported them

I started, you know,
puttin' around and...

put my wife in the back and
we go up the hills and stuff and...

I go, you know,
"This is kind of, this is fun."

Before On Any Sunday

everything else was, uh...

choppers and bike
gangs and stuff like that.

And that's really...

the only thing the public had

to gage motorcycles
on was that lifestyle.

Then I got to know
some of the people.

And it was so much different than what,
you know,

the public perception
of the people were.

So, I thought, you know,
it might be really fun to

do a movie about motorcycling.

DANA: To make a
movie you need funding

and the person
my father thought of

was motorcycle and film legend,
Steve McQueen.

BRUCE: I knew Steve
was a motorcycle guy.

So I went up to a solo production,
and met with Steve,

and said, "Hey,
here's what I want to do" and he goes,

"Oh, cool,
that'd be great." You know?

"What do you want me to do?" I go,
"well, pay for it."

And he goes, "Hey man,"
he says, you know,

"I'm in movies,
I don't finance movies."

You know, "Well,
you can't be in my movie then, can you?"

And he started
laughing. He said,

"I'll call you tomorrow."
He called me up and said,

"Let's go for it."

[MOTORCYCLE REVVING]

YOUNG BRUCE: Four million
people ride motorcycles in the US.

They come in all shapes,
sizes and ages.

To some people a
motorcycle is work...

...for a way to get to work.

Or a way to get away from it all
to the solitude of the open country.

A motorcycle is whatever
you want to make it.

Turn it on,
you can give yourself a real thrill.

You know,
we just shot a ton of film.

You know,
without knowing exactly,

you know,
where it's gonna end up.

We started to take, like,
a point of view, like,

the moto cross is the
young gameplay guys,

and flat trackers
are the professionals,

and the Malcolm
Smiths are the Sunday

you know, Sportsman riders

and trials guys are
the violin players

and desert racers are the... You know,
nobody's watching,

One hand clapping.

You know, that kind of film.

You know,
I had certain things I wanted to do,

but you sort of have
to see what develops.

YOUNG BRUCE: A group of
businessmen during their rush hour,

a young man with a garment bag
over his shoulder is Mert Lawwill,

29 years old, 5'6", 143 pounds.

[BELL DINGING]

He's not a banker or an
accountant or a salesman.

But he is a professional
man like the rest.

His profession,
motorcycle racer.

MERT: Everybody asked me earlier
on if I want to be a part of the filming

I was like, "Sure,
okay." I mean, I didn't know

what it's gonna be at all.

Yeah, but then you find out he
was gonna pay for the motel room

- and that was great.
- Yeah, that was swell.

- He that was wonderful,
and gas.-Yeah.

"God," he said,
"this is really cool."

And he said he was
really funny and fun.

MERT: Well, I was so naive that I
didn't have any clue of who he was

until he actually
started doing the filming.

I didn't know that he's
done any other surf films

because I had tunnel vision,

I was only looking at my stuff,
motor racing.

BRUCE: Mert makes his living in
one of the most dangerous sports

in which man participates.

CHAD McQUEEN: My dad
had us racing very young,

at nine years old,
and I remember

having to ride with
a sprained ankle.

[MIMICS GRUNTING AND PANTING]

And fucking Mert, Malcolm,

these guys were, you know,
broken tibias and shit, you know?

Man,
they were the elite of their sport.

YOUNG BRUCE: Their skill on the race
track has earned them the right to carry

the American
Motorcycle Association

number one professional plate.

BRUCE: Since Mert
was number one.

I thought, well, that's probably

a good story, you know?

You're either gonna
be number one again

or not be number one.

So, there's probably a story
there one way or the other, so.

When we first
took off with Mert,

I mean,
he didn't know me from Adam.

I didn't know what the
hell those guys were doing.

- And, uh...
- We had quite a trip.

MERT: You know,
we spent so much time together on the road,

uh, during the filming
that we just became friends

and Bruce is... I mean,
he's easy to be a friend with, I mean.

His personality as such,
and he's always funny.

So, we really get along well.

DANA: Mert is more than a
legendary motorcycle racer.

He's also a renowned
inventor and designer

of motorcycles, mountain bikes

and mechanical
appendages for amputees.

- Hey, June! - Hi, sweetie.

How are you my dear?

- I'm good as can be expected.
- Expecting that.

DANA: Mert and June were
among my parents' closest friends

and we'd spend every
Thanksgiving together.

MERT: We used to rent a motorhome
and go down there for Thanksgiving

and we really had a great
time. We loved it down there.

All the kids, you know,

relatives, and all of you kept
growing and getting mates, children

and got bigger and bigger,

and finally Pat and I looked
at each other and said,

"There's 50 people here.

"It's getting kind a
big for the two of us."

But it was fun. It was
great fun and everybody...

My kids' Finest thing is when
Bruce stood up in front of 50 people,

mother-in-laws, every age

and mooned the whole crowd.

My kids think that's the
greatest thing that ever happened

so far in their lives.

TIM LAWWILL: There was
probably 20 people at that big long

Thanksgiving
table at your house,

and it came time
to say the blessing,

and he stood up on his chair

- turned around, and he yippy yayed everybody.
- [MAN LAUGHS]

And if anybody else did that,

they'd never get away with it.

And for some reason,
it was really smooth.

It was like,
it kind of really is hard to start eating,

but, I mean, with that memory

but he pulled it off.

And no one else could
everat all... I'll ever forget that.

No one else could've done
that and got away with it.

[DANA SPEAKING]

JUNE: [GASPS] No kidding.

[DANA SPEAKING]

[ALL LAUGHING]

Head to the table,
nuts hanging down.

I almost fainted.

I looked over at Pat. She's just,
like, she's so immune.

So, anything Bruce ever did,
she didn't blink.

Heh, hmm.

Well, Pat was so special to us.

You know,
just kind of like a second mom.

I mean, we all fit in. Kind
of like we're all family.

Not mom. She was like a sister.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

- Uh...
- We were in the same age.

You know, we had kids and...

Yeah, it was...

- It was hard on us.
- It was a hard time.

Yeah,
we're not doing good yet. [CHUCKLES]

But it's just been
forty something years.

It sounded real.

And it's been mostly good.

[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

BRUCE: What's funny
about the motorcycle crowd,

I mean,

almost everybody that, you know,
I ran across making the movie...

Now, you know,
they've become lifelong friends.

I mean, it's amazing.

You know, and they're such
humble people in a lot of ways.

DANA: I think that's
why On Any Sunday

transcends all
these generations.

I don't think anybody's trying
to look at something that's retro.

I think, it's just,
the spirit of it hasn't changed.

CHAD: You know, uh,

my dad didn't like a lot of
people but something attracted...

There was something...

...about your dad and my dad

that was on a similar wavelength,
you know?

And it wasn't just motorcycles,
you know?

STEVE: Every time I start
thinking the world is all bad

then I start seeing
some people out there

having a good time with motorcycles
that makes me take another look.

BRUCE: I remember,
riding the other races years ago.

I haven't ridden
one in a long time.

It's the same. But...

It's a little box canyon and
everybody's jammed up,

and you're running
into somebody,

knock them over and they go,

you know,
"I'm really sorry." "Are you having fun?"

- [CHUCKLES] - You go,
"Yeah, sorry."

"Ah, don't worry about it."

You know,
that's typical motorsports people.

And even more with
the motorcycle folks.

DANA: The motorcycle community
brought Dad many lifelong friendships.

And when it came
to those friends,

it didn't matter how
much time had gone by.

He knew he'd always be
greeted with a kind word

and a gentle welcome.

[MAN SPEAKING LOUDLY]

The last time I talked to somebody,
they said,

- "In a couple of days he'll be dead."
- [LAUGHS]

Well,
that's why we're doing this.

Oh, this is the goodwill church?

DAN: This is for
insurance purposes.

This is the "Be
with the hero" tour.

And you're a hero. You're
in the wrong fucking place.

You're not...

DANA: Kenny Roberts
is unquestionably

the greatest motorcycle
racer of the 20th century.

Kenny was the A.M.A.
Grand National Champion

on the dirt track three times.

Then he went to Europe

where he became the first American
to win a Moto GP Championship.

And then followed
that up with two more.

I'm surprised you're
here actually. I'm really...

- WOMAN: Really? - Yeah.

You say I was...

I tried to get so far away
no one would find me

but he found me.

[ALL CHUCKLING]

DANA: His nickname
is "The King".

And if anybody
earned that nickname,

it's Kenny Roberts.

- WOMAN: It's not working.
- That's what I'm talking about.

[ALL LAUGHING]

DANA: After Kenny
retired from racing

he became a team owner
on the Moto GP circuit,

guiding six more
world champions.

The last was his son,
Kenny Roberts Jr.

His youngest son, Kurtis,
was also a Superbike champion.

It's safe to say the
Roberts have quite the DNA.

TROY LEE: He took it to a
whole 'nother level. He brought...

You know,
he was the heavy hitter

that went to Europe and pulled it
off and beat the best in the world.

He was able to do it
on all different levels

from dirt to pavement. I mean,
he is my idol.

DANA: For my dad and Kenny,

their friendship wasn't a
matter of mutual admiration

or what they had accomplished

it was a much deeper connection.

Right away we
sort of hit it off.

And from then on it was,

every time we were
together we were in trouble

of some sort.

I don't know, you know,
I admire the guy

you know,
for all the accomplishments and...

He's good at everything he does.

DANA: You guys have a
similar sense of humor, too.

Yeah, very similar. [CHUCKLES]

I guess that's why we
got to like each other.

Every time I hit a hole,

my head would fly out the T-top

and my foot would get off the gas. So,
it would go... [IMITATES ENGINE WHINE]

And I'd land on the seat again,
[IMITATES ENGINE REVVING]

And then you'd see it.

My head would come up
again and gas would go off...

JOHN TIPICH: The way
that I'd describe them is,

you know, they're just like...

They're, like,
so tough on the outside.

But then once you
crack that little surface

they're just mushy.

And, you know,
they have the most,

uh, I hate... You know,
such a...

stereotypical, like,
macho guy attitude.

And then, you know,
you scratch that tiny little rough surface

and you just get, like,
a little fluffy teddy bear underneath.

Like a burnt
marshmallow or something.

KENNY: Well, you go through your life,
I think as much as

you know,
it's just hard to find through your life

buds that have
everything that...

That have everything
that Bruce has.

BRUCE: And, you know...

When Dad was sick,
he'd call about once a week

and checking in, you know.

See how he was doing.

KENNY: Bruce you need to
do something with your dog.

[CHUCKLES] I don't
know what to do.

That dog is fucked up.

[ALL LAUGHING]

And it's just like you.

That dog is so you.

DANA: In a person's life you have
some friends that you keep in touch with

that you see all the time.

But some you knew
very well long ago,

yet they'll always
still be your friends.

That would describe
my dad and Jack O'Neill.

- Hey! - Hey!

- BRUCE: Hey! - Hey!

Wow!

BRUCE: You're in your jammies.

Looks like everybody's here.

- Pretty good. - Huh?

Pretty good.

- You're still up, right?
- It's been a long time.

- No shit. - [CHUCKLES]

- No jelly bean.
- Come on. Come on in.

DANA: Jack and Dad has been
friends for over half a century,

yet they don't see
each other much.

But they're still like little
kids when they're together.

And sometimes they even
own the same kind of toys.

[SPEAKING]

- Right. - To shoot that.

Yeah.

DANA: A potato
launcher is a cannon

that shoots potato
sized objects.

I've got one I put lemons in.

Oh, you put lemons?

God, it shoots it like
half a mile. It's too big.

And what do you
make the barrel out of?

PAT O'NEILL: He's still
a kid. WOMAN: Yeah.

He's got more projects
going than anybody I know.

And I get sucked
into all of them.

- You do? - [BOTH CHUCKLING]

- We all do. - We all do.

- But it's interesting.
- But... yeah.

He's gonna make
this one out of copper.

- Oh, yeah.
- That PVC goes, boom!

CATHI O'NEILL: I think
they're very humble people.

And they come from a time

when they really worked
hard for what they have.

They followed their passion,
is what they did.

Where now people get
a little more locked up

having to follow

the focus of, you know,
where others think they should be.

I don't think Jack and
Bruce ever had that.

DANA: Jack O'Neill has
never followed others.

Among his passions had been surfer,
sailor,

sand sailor,
trampoline aficionado,

hot air balloonist,

super suit pioneer,

house designer
and business tycoon.

But it all started as
a surf shop owner

who, on one occasion helped
his buddy show his surf fellows.

JACK: I remember we
took Barefoot Adventure...

Okay, yeah, I remember.

Took 'em downtown
with your posters

withBarefoot...

And we went to
the stock exchange.

We're handing 'em out there.

"Can we have people

"show up for a coast
to see the surf movie?"

That worked out well,
Bruce, I appreciate your...

...giving me that opportunity.

I was selling suits on the side.

Selling what?

- Selling wetsuits on the side.
- Yeah.

DANA: Jack O'Neill's name is
synonymous with the wetsuit.

He invented the neoprene wetsuit

which revolutionized surfing

allowing surfers to ride
waves anywhere in the world.

The O'Neill brand has grown
into one of the most respected

and profitable in
the world of surfing.

Jack would ultimately turn the
day-to-day running of his company

over to his children.

And focus his attention
to conservational efforts

like the Sea Odyssey.

A 65-foot catamaran,
and organization

and educate the youth about
the ocean and its conservation.

The Sea Odyssey is
Jack's biggest passion.

The O'Neill Sea
Odyssey is just something

that is so important to
him over anything else now.

[JACK SPEAKING]

[BOTH LAUGHING]

CATHI: Jack always says, "I never knew
that this company would become what it is."

And I think, Bruce, you know,
they get a focus and they stick with it.

PAT: Well,
we both think outside the box.

They're definitely their
own breed of people.

I think it's probably
the same mold.

They don't listen to anybody but
themselves and do exactly what they want.

- I'm sure you know that as well.
- Oh, yeah.

- You know when I think...
- [DRUM BEATING]

He likes to play the drums.
It's really good for him.

[ALL LAUGHING]

DANA: Jack O'Neill and Dad

are unique individuals.

They blaze their own trails.

These trails their
families followed.

Pat runs O'Neills Sport

and my father somehow
got me into filmmaking.

My dad retired from
filmmaking afterOn Any Sunday.

He went sword fishing,

he collected old cars,

did the occasional
TV commentary,

surfed and rode his toys.

I was 29,

when he asked me to restore his
old surf films for a home video release.

That took me a year.

Then Dad unretired

to makeThe Endless Summer II.

WINGNUT WEAVER: January 16th,
1:15 in the afternoon and the phone rings,

and you hear this voice...

"This is Bruce Brown,
is Wingnut there?"

Yeah.

"Well, I was thinking about doing
a sequel toThe Endless Summer,

I wanted to know if you wanted
to be one of the two guys?"

I was literally
washing the dishes.

I'm like,
"I got to finish the dishes,

"but, you know,
I'm ready. I'm in!"

[CHUCKLES] And he's like, "No,
no, we're, like, months away."

PAT: You got to think back then,
like,

there was,
I had an answering machine

that I never checked.

And so,
the things that we used to do

is we used to call people and
pretend we were someone else.

So, when your dad first called I was,
like, "Bullshit."

Like,
"Who is this?" You know? [CHUCKLES]

I think I may have
hung up the first time.

And then your dad was like,

"Hey,
you just hung up on me." [LAUGHS]

When we showed
up for the first trip

going to Costa Rica,
it was like, I mean,

1,000 pounds of luggage.

And I was looking just going,
"Holy cow."

And that's when I finally realized,
wow, this is really happening.

You know? I looked at the tickets,
saw my name, I'm like, "That's right.

"That's right." [LAUGHS]

The main reason I did it was
because I could work with him.

And the other reason was that

Mike Hoover was gonna be
the director of photography.

So, I could, theoretically,

just sit back on my chair
like a fat man and just point.

It didn't work out that way,
but...

We had a great group of people.

PAT: Outside of, obviously,
doing the film and all that stuff,

the very best was spending
time with your dad and everyone.

WINGNUT: I mean,
it wasn't always about the waves.

I mean,
Bruce taught you to turn around

and look where you are,

and enjoy the experience
of where you are.

PAT: That's what surf trips are all about,
you know?

And so,
sitting there after a day and laughing

whether it'd be the lions
eating Wingnut's wetsuits

or, um, you know,
just whatever it was

the crazy nut young days,
you know,

every day was sort
of an adventure,

and, you know,
just laughing at the end of the day

about, you know,
"What did we do today?"

Yeah, I remember like,
you know, those guys would go,

"Hey, we're gonna go have a few
beers after we're through shooting,"

and I'd go,
"Uh-huh." I just stayed by myself

and with my little laptop'cause
I'm trying to figure out,

"Okay, tomorrow,
what can we do..." blah, blah, blah, blah.

So, that's one reason why

I haven't made that
many movies lately.

I just get burned out, you know?

I mean, if you wanna talk to me about some
other subject while I'm making a movie,

I don't wanna talk to ya.

- Like, "Leave me alone, I'm thinking."
- Yeah.

- [CHUCKLES] - Yeah.

Which is hard when
you have a low IQ.

- [LAUGHS] - To be thinking.

DANA: The Endless Summer
II was completed in 1994.

Dad immediately retired again.

No more films.

Though he helped me on mine,

always reminded
me he was retired.

He was happy.

He had Mom,

the kids were grown,
the house was to himself.

There would be eight
grandkids he could build on,

and time to spend with his
favorite person in the world,

Patricia Lee Hunter Brown.

They did everything together.

Traveled together,
gardened together,

fishing together,

even rally car race together.

I'd bump into him at the fucking
gas Chevron station in Malibu.

Your dad's driving a fucking Subaru WRX,
you know?

I said, "Bruce,
what are you doing?"

"I go rallying,
I rally this thing."

"Bruce, you're what,
70-something years old and you're going..."

"Fuck yeah, I love it."

So, I mean,
that's the way Bruce was,

I mean, you know, 70-years-old,
he's out there fucking hanging his ass out

in Subarus.

DANA: It was truly
their golden years.

Dad was experiencing
a second childhood

with his favorite sidekick,
his true love.

In 2001,
Mom got cancer and beat it.

But late in 2005, it came back.

This time,
there'd be no victory.

On February 18th,
2006, Mom passed.

The family lost its center,

and Dad lost "the"
person in his life.

Well, everybody thought it
was end of Bruce, to be honest.

I didn't think he
was gonna make it.

That first year,
I thought it was over.

He did... He had no interest

in trying to make it work.

I mean,
you just watched it drain out of him.

DANA: The aftermath of
Mom's death was tough.

We tried to get Dad
out of the house,

and slowly but surely he'd come.

But never agreeing on a trip.

Finally,
we got him to go on this one.

And, as typical family trips go,

you run into unexpected weather.

And then, enough people,
everyone kept coming by,

you know, "We're still here.

"We still need you."

And that's where that
group of friends came back

and made sure...

And he said, "Shit." [LAUGHS]

You know,
and he had to. He had to stick around.

DANA: It's been...

when Kenny talked
about Mom a little more...

When we were
talking in this kitchen,

you know,
I mentioned what you said

- about him calling.
- BRUCE: Yeah.

He kinda, in a good way,

he said, "Yeah,
we weren't so sure

"your dad was gonna make it,"
you know,

"after your mom passed."

But you know, you have.

I know. [SNIFFLES]

DANA: I mean, you know,

- it ain't easy, but you make us laugh...
- [CHUCKLES]

Yeah.

DANA: You know what I mean?

I mean, you're still...

I mean,
except for your fucking dog...

We should...

It's not the same.

DANA: No.

It was... It was
tough. [SNIFFLING]

I couldn't even sleep in the...

[SNIFFLES]

DANA: Yeah.

I couldn't even sleep in the
bedroom for like six months.

I slept down the hall.

[CHUCKLES]

Ah!

This is kinda like 60 Minutes.

[BRUCE AND DANA LAUGHING]

It's too bad there's no
Barbara Walters here...

"Get the guy crying..."

DANA: That's good.
He looks like hell.

I'm sorry.

BRUCE: I actually, no... DANA:
I was talking about Mom earlier...

- BRUCE: Sometimes I handle it better than others.
- Yeah.

♪ You're far away

♪ From me my love

♪ But just as sure

♪ As there are stars above

♪ I know, darling

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

- ♪ Long time ago
- [IMPERCEPTIBLE]

♪ I made a big mistake

♪ Why

♪ I said goodbye

♪ But, oh, my darling

♪ Ever

♪ Ever

♪ Ever since that day, babe

♪ All I

♪ All I do is cry

♪ I just wanna tell you That I

♪ I long for you

♪ Every night

♪ To kiss your lips

♪ To hold you tight

♪ I know, darling

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

♪ Just when the
moon is gonna rise

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

♪ As long as
stars Are in the sky

♪ Someday

♪ We'll be together

♪ I could love you all the time

♪ Someday...

DANA: Dad never
stopped missing Mom.

But he still loves
seeing old friends,

and meeting new ones.

In Hawaii,
he became a veritable social butterfly.

[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

WOMEN: Hi!

DANA: Dad's reclusiveness
dissolved entirely

and he was the first in the
car when we went to Makaha

to see Buffalo,
and Momi Keaulana...

at Buffalo's Longboard contest.

Their's was a friendship
that spans six decades.

You know, your father has many,
many, many friends.

And, I says, "You know what?
We don't see him very often,

but when we see him,
it's just like yesterday.

[WOMAN LAUGHS]

So,
I'd like to introduce the man himself,

please come up and join me,
Mr. Bruce Brown.

DANA: He even accepted an invitation
to speak at the Turtle Bay Hilton,

telling stories about
the good old days.

Some of my best friends go,
"That movie was a piece of crap."

- [AUDIENCE
LAUGHS] - You know...

I don't know how
to argue with them.

"It was a whole movie,
what do you expect?"

[LAUGHS]

DANA: One of our
last stops in Oahu

was at the birthplace of modern surfing,
Waikiki.

Dad wanted to say
"hi" to two old friends.

Fred Hemmings,
former Lieutenant governor of Hawaii,

and Joey Cabell,
founder of the Chart House restaurant.

The three of them had known each other
as surfers long before they had real jobs.

ANNOUNCER: [OVER SPEAKERS] You know, I have
to interrupt Jeff for a minute because...

How many of you remember

back in the '60s,

all the surfing
films? By applause.

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

I don't wanna embarrass him,

but one of my favorite films is a
film called The Endless Summer.

Please welcome to
our gathering today,

the cinematographer and creator of
some great surf films, Mr. Bruce Brown.

[ALL APPLAUDING]

Wow.

Hey, Bruce, Aloha!

I have a signed poster
ofThe Endless Summer.

Yeah...[EXCLAIMS] Terrific.

- [MEN LAUGH] -
MAN 1: Haven't tried...

[BRUCE SPEAKING]

MAN 2: Get 'em

[PEOPLE LAUGH]

[SPEAKING]

[BRUCE SPEAKING]

[SPEAKING]

[BRUCE SPEAKING]

[DANA SPEAKING]

[SPEAKING]

BRUCE: Yeah. DANA:
Yeah. [CHUCKLING]

See a little... That's
what it's called.

[SPEAKING]

Yeah, I know, right?

[JOEY SPEAKING]

BRUCE: I think so. [CHUCKLING]

[SPEAKING]

BRUCE: That's right.

[SPEAKING]

- [BRUCE SPEAKING] - Right?

[SPEAKING]

[PEOPLE LAUGH]

[SPEAKING]

[BRUCE SPEAKING]

[SPEAKING]

[BRUCE SPEAKS]

[SPEAKING]

BRUCE: I gotta say,
my number one,

uh...

surf hero of all time
is Henry Preece,

- and... - [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

You know,
when I first came here,

we'd go up to, you know, North Shore,
it was like, "God!" It was unbelievable.

You go to..., it's like 25 feet,

but it's only like four
feet to in Hawaiian.

[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Here's Henry. Big strapping
guy. And he was, you know, quite...

Unlike some of us.

YOUNG BRUCE: In the mid-50s,
when we first went to the islands,

some of the locals
weren't too friendly.

Henry Preece,
who was the unofficial mayor of Haleiwa,

befriended us and kept
us alive on the North Shore.

One of my most
vivid recollections

of Haleiwa was
seeing Henry Preece

surfing a wave
well over his head

and right in the
critical spot...

Riding it, he turns back...

Blesses the wave,

and I'm thinking,
"God, that's so cool."

YOUNG BRUCE:
I'll never forget that.

Yeah, so, he's number one. We're
gonna go see him in a couple of days.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
That's fantastic.

That's great to be able to do
that even after all these years

and have Henry Preece
to still check in with.

- Hi. - Hey.

[WOMAN LAUGHS]

[SPEAKING]

Hey, how you doing?

Good, good to see you.

Good seeing ya.

Yeah, it's been a long time,
huh, man?

[SPEAKING]

Yeah,
exactly. That's what I thought.

Five, ten? No, '92.

- You've done it. - Yeah.

Yeah, couldn't believe when I called you,
you'd go,

"Hey,
Bruce!" Like I called you every day.

Come on, sit down.

[SPEAKING]

Oh, just fucking off.

[SPEAKING]

[LAUGHS]

[BRUCE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

Dana's doing a, like a film where he's
travelling around, I'm seeing all my old heroes,

- surfing and motorcycle racing.
- Okay.

And of course,
you were at the top of the list.

[SPEAKING]

- Yeah. - [LAUGHS]

I know.

Yeah...

Yeah, I remember we'd go
to like a party or something,

and some Hawaiian
who didn't like my looks

would come over towards
me and you'd kinda go,

- and you'd... - [LAUGHS]

"Thanks, Henry, saved again."

[SPEAKING]

He saved my life.

- [ALL LAUGHING] - BRUCE: Yeah,
me too.

More than once.

[SPEAKING]

Yeah.

- So, you got the big C,
I heard?-Huh?

- You got the big C?
- What is that?

- The cancer? - Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, my...

[SPEAKING]

Still look pretty good though...

- Yeah. - ...for an old fart.

[SPEAKING]

Yeah.

Yeah, my wife,
we went through all the fucking treatments

and for five years,
you know, it kept,

"Oh, it's gone, whoops,
it came back,"

and you know,
she finally passed away, so...

[SPEAKING]

Yeah?

[SPEAKING]

Yeah?

Yeah.

So, you aren't doing any
treatments or anything, though?

Uh-huh. Huh?

No treatments or anything?

[SPEAKING]

Not any chemo or anything?

[SPEAKING]

Yeah.

[SPEAKING]

Yeah.

- We spent a lot of happy times here, huh?
- Oh, yeah.

[HENRY SPEAKING]

MAN 1: You know,
I always look at it as,

you know,
one of the biggest privileges of my life

to get to know these guys.

And,
everybody looks from the outside,

like he said, these guys were...

screw ups, you know?

But they're not.

They're really not.

MAN 2: You know,
you look at those people and, uh...

they managed to have families

and grandchildren,

and travel through life,

but, you know,
still take a moment

to laugh and share a story

and not forget about it,
make it important, make it a part.

KENNY: You know,
everything that me and your dad

has always done has
just been pleasure,

nothing... You know,
even work to us is pleasure

because, you know,
he's gonna say something

or I'm gonna say something,

and we're all
gonna start laughing.

MAN 1: I got to see

and do a lot of
really neat stuff

with him.

You know, it's...

I mean, I'll treasure all
those experiences forever.

DANA: Henry has passed,

Hobie has passed,

Jack O'Neill,

and June Lawwill have passed.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

It doesn't last forever.

But a life well lived
goes on and on.

Like a pebble
dropped in the water,

the pebble stops

long before the
ripples are done rolling.

My dad's gone now, too.

But his legacy lives on...

And so do the laughs...

[LAUGHING]

...the smiles,

and the lessons we learned,

like, "Get your ass off the couch,
and go have an adventure."

Hold your friends very close

because they provide
help through life's hardships.

We need to make the
most of our limited time here,

and most of all,

have fun,

and be good,

the best good you can.

YOUNG BRUCE: If you're
willing to take a leap of faith,

get off your butt,

who knows how many great things
are waiting in the world out there.

♪ It's off to the races

♪ And onto greener pastures

♪ Tip-toe along
through the disaster

♪ And I'm all right

♪ It's what I tell myself

♪ This whole world
keeps pushing faster

[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

This here is Bruce Brown,

he is one of the greatest

cinematographers of that era.

- What do you mean, "of that era"?
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

[LAUGHING]

I can't agree with all
this nice stuff about him.

BRUCE: Oh,
typical Gordon, you know,

he's led me down the garden
pathway too many times.

- A shithole. - [LAUGHS]

BRUCE: It's cold!

Let's go back to the
house and tell jokes.

[ALL LAUGHING]

- Tell old Grubby stories. - No.

- NANCY: Later. Later.
- This is your story right here.

[LAUGHING]

Yeah, exactly.

Some of the critics for both
Endless Summer and On Any Sunday,

the reviewers
hated my narration.

- Said it sounded like Howdy Doody.
- [LAUGHS]

And so... So,
Dana had a couple of reviews.

They said he sounded
like Kermit the Frog.

So, it's like,
we call each other on the phone,

and go, "Kermit!
Howdy Doody here!"

Yeah.

♪ Children growin' up
without rules

♪ It's easy to give up
It's easy to give in

♪ Brother,
you gotta take a stand

♪ Shine a light

♪ Wherever you can

♪ Not another robot
working for the man

♪ Shine a light

♪ Wherever you can

♪ Not another robot
working for the man ♪

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