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Speaker 1: Once upon a time, in the long lost Golden era,

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Speaker 1: Malibu had one undisputed king.

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Speaker 2: We're laying on the beach and attention was to the water,

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Speaker 2: and there seemed to be somebody performing out there, and

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Speaker 2: of course that was Mickey Dora. He was king of

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Speaker 2: Malibu at the time.

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Speaker 1: Mickey Dora a legend in the surf world. To some,

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Speaker 1: he was the greatest surfer that ever lived.

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Speaker 3: Mickey Dora was the best surfer and bad boy at Malibu,

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Speaker 3: a sort of iconic anti establishment starlike surf character who

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Speaker 3: had this most elegant grace writing the waves at Malibu.

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Speaker 1: His style was unmatched, and so was his aggression.

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Speaker 3: If someone was in his way, they could get shoved

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Speaker 3: off the wave or run over or whatever might happen.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: His big thing to put on his board was FGW,

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Speaker 2: and in those days, FGW man fucked the world, question authority,

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Speaker 2: trust no one.

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Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties, surfing was going mainstream. The beach

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Speaker 1: Boys were on the billboard charts, Beach party movies were

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Speaker 1: in the theaters. But Mickey wasn't like the clean cut

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Speaker 1: California kids in the movies and the songs. He was

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Speaker 1: an outlaw, a criminal, a con man for nearly a decade,

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Speaker 1: he led the FBI on a hunt around the globe.

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Speaker 1: While back in Malibu, his legend grew.

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Speaker 2: He said, criminals break the laws.

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Speaker 1: I live outside the law.

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Speaker 2: It was a Swiss bank, and yeah, they found four

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in the bank.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows exactly where it came from. They were all

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Speaker 1: sorts of theories.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect

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Speaker 4: the dots around this.

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Speaker 2: And I fell in love the Manye me walked out

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Speaker 2: of the water until I realized he was a scoundrel

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Speaker 2: at a road and was chaining me in to being accomplice.

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Speaker 4: So now we've got like a rich kid putting swastikas

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Speaker 4: on his board and being a jerk to outsiders because

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Speaker 4: they don't know how to surf, spewing all this vile stuff.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to get in big trouble for saying all this.

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Speaker 3: He was narcissistic, but also incredibly intelligent and also i'd

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Speaker 3: say a little bit sociopathic.

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Speaker 1: There's something rotten at the heart of surf culture, and

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Speaker 1: it all goes back to Mickey Dora and what he

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Speaker 1: did in Malibu. I'm Dana. Goodyear coming soon from Western

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Speaker 3: Summer, oh gets darker and darker and darker until I

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Speaker 3: just want to sort of turn away from it.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to know about it anymore.

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