Jul 23, 2026 · 50 min · 10 segments
Randy, the local surfing legend is in a one-man battle with the blaze at Sunset Point. Plus, the blizzard of the century traps four men on top of a Tennessee bald, frozen and hungry, but with a song…
Roger RittingGuest
Randy WrightGuest
Glynn WashingtonHost
Jesse Dukes
Andrew MacDonaldGuestAnna SussmanJohn Fecile
Mario TriguerosGuest
[birds chirping] I, I hang out with sharks in my little 10-foot plastic kayak, and so I'm used to, like, a little bit of a danger, you know, situation, and I've surfed, you know, some of the biggest surf LA throws at you, you know, over the last 50 years.
If you've surfed at Sunset Point more than once or twice, you know Randy Wright.
He's got this long, white beard, tattoos, one of a mermaid on his right arm.
Randy lives in his truck, a red Dodge Dakota that doesn't run, in the parking lot of Gladstone's, which is this little seafood restaurant by the beach.
You might catch him handing out wetsuits and loaner boards to newcomers, or feeding his one-eyed pet seagull, Andy, or scanning the horizon with a telephoto lens looking for sharks.
I look for great white sharks to jump out of the water here, and I photograph them.
Or maybe watering the gardens he's planted, succulents and flowers, around his truck, by the Gladstone's restaurant, by the businesses across the street.
And, uh, everybody, uh, loves Randall because, you know, I do good around here.
[birds chirping] I, I hang out with sharks in my little 10-foot plastic kayak, and so I'm used to, like, a little bit of a danger, you know, situation, and I've surfed, you know, some of the biggest surf LA throws at you, you know, over the last 50 years.
If you've surfed at Sunset Point more than once or twice, you know Randy Wright.
He's got this long, white beard, tattoos, one of a mermaid on his right arm.
Randy lives in his truck, a red Dodge Dakota that doesn't run, in the parking lot of Gladstone's, which is this little seafood restaurant by the beach.
You might catch him handing out wetsuits and loaner boards to newcomers, or feeding his one-eyed pet seagull, Andy, or scanning the horizon with a telephoto lens looking for sharks.
I look for great white sharks to jump out of the water here, and I photograph them.
Or maybe watering the gardens he's planted, succulents and flowers, around his truck, by the Gladstone's restaurant, by the businesses across the street.
And, uh, everybody, uh, loves Randall because, you know, I do good around here.
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