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If you\u2019ve never heard of Laird Hamilton, one might feel compelled to give you the ice-bucket-challenge awakening to clear your brain fog. In his half-plus century on our big, blue, mostly-water planet, Hamilton, 53, has thrived in it as a surfer, innovator, athlete, author, inventor, stuntman, model, producer, TV host, fitness and nutrition guru, coffee connoisseur, husband, father, and adrenalin junkie. If nothing else, he\u2019s known as the surfer to catch the \u201cheaviest wave\u201d, the \u201cMillennium Wave\u201d \u2014 Jurassic Peak, in Tahiti\u2019s Teahupo\u2019o (pronuonced \u201ccho-po\u201d) \u2014 on August 17, 2000, which is featured in the surf documentary Riding Giants and captured in a front-page picture of Surfer Magazine, February 2001, with the caption, \u201coh my god...\u201d Laird goes DEEP on what it means to catch some of the biggest waves in the world in this episode. You will be enthralled.