WEBVTT - Season 3 Updates + Alphabet Boys

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. Hey everyone, it's Dana Goodyear, coming into your feed

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<v Speaker 1>with some exciting updates to share with you. Here's the

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<v Speaker 1>first update. It's a big one. Lost Hills is coming

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<v Speaker 1>back this summer with a brand new season. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>story that's taking us deep into the dark heart of

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<v Speaker 1>Malibu in a totally different way than previous seasons. I

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<v Speaker 1>have a short teaser for you in a few minutes.

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<v Speaker 1>Stick around Update number two. This is about Lost Hills

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<v Speaker 1>season one. Anthony Rowta, the alleged canyon shooter who's charged

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<v Speaker 1>with murdering Tristan Boudet, is finally, after more than four years,

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<v Speaker 1>going to trial. In case you don't remember, Tristan Boudett

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<v Speaker 1>was the father who was shot in the head while

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<v Speaker 1>camping with his young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park

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<v Speaker 1>in twenty eighteen. Route is accused of killing him, along

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<v Speaker 1>with ten more counts of attempted murder and a handful

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<v Speaker 1>of lesser crimes. Rata was charged in January twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 1>and now his trial is scheduled to begin this spring.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to bring you more updates as the trial

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<v Speaker 1>gets underway. And here's one more thing. A recommendation for

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<v Speaker 1>a very good new podcast. It's called Alphabet Boys. Alphabet

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<v Speaker 1>Boys is a riveting new show that takes you deep

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<v Speaker 1>undercover with the alphabet agencies CIA, FBI, at f d, EA,

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<v Speaker 1>et cetera. You essentially ride along with agents and informants

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<v Speaker 1>via secret recordings and leaked documents. And what you find

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<v Speaker 1>is that for every James Bond slash Jason Bourne, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a very heavy dose of Reno nine one one. It's

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<v Speaker 1>a great show. Season one of Alphabet Boys is called Trojan.

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<v Speaker 1>Hearse You'll hear why. In the first episode, it tells

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<v Speaker 1>the story of a man named Mickey Windecker, who the

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<v Speaker 1>FBI hired to infiltrate the Black Lives Matter movement during

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<v Speaker 1>the summer of twenty twenty. It's a wild story. You're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna love it. Here's a short excerpt from Alphabet Boys,

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<v Speaker 1>and then stick around after words for that teaser for

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<v Speaker 1>Lost Hill season three. All right, okay, It is August

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<v Speaker 1>August twenty eight, twenty twenty Apart from only four o

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<v Speaker 1>two pm. A Special Agent Scott Dlphroom with a Special

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<v Speaker 1>Agent Byron Mitchell chs for Meat with Zebidias Hall. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>You can hear this shot I put in my front pocket, right, Yeah, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I got it. It's late afternoon on a warm day

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<v Speaker 1>in Denver, Colorado. It's drizzling outside, and Michael Adam Windecker

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<v Speaker 1>the Second, or Mickey as he prefers, is sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>the backseat of an FBI car. Two federal agents are

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<v Speaker 1>with him, and one of them, FBI Special Agent Scott Dolshroom,

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<v Speaker 1>has just handed Mickey a small hidden camera. Mickey turns

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<v Speaker 1>the camera to his face, shooting from an unflattering angle

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<v Speaker 1>below his chin. You can see Mickey's thin red mustache

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<v Speaker 1>and scraggly goatee that's turning gray. He's propped his large

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<v Speaker 1>sunglasses on his forehead, and he's looking straight down into

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<v Speaker 1>the tiny camera lens. Mickey is not ready for us

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<v Speaker 1>close up video. Look good, ye all right. The FBI

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<v Speaker 1>agents tell him to remember his instructions, which were given

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<v Speaker 1>to him before the camera started recording. Yep, I got it,

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad. Mickey then walks to his car,

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<v Speaker 1>the Silver Hearse, and places the FBI's camera on the

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<v Speaker 1>pass in your seat. Mickey looks down toward the camera

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<v Speaker 1>and addresses the FBI agents who are watching the live

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<v Speaker 1>feed remotely. I got a song for you, guys. Mickey

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<v Speaker 1>has good reason to feel patriotic in this moment. The

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<v Speaker 1>FBI has signed him up as an informant, or in

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI's term of art, a confidential human source, and

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey's getting paid thousands of dollars every few weeks cash

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<v Speaker 1>and Mickey, he's got a very specific assignment from his

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<v Speaker 1>employers at the FBI, go after his new friend, the

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<v Speaker 1>young black activist zeb Hal, and find a way to

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<v Speaker 1>bring federal charges against him. As the song ends, Mickey

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<v Speaker 1>again looks down toward the FBI camera America. I'm Trevor Aaronson.

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<v Speaker 1>This is alphabet voice. So to come right out and

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<v Speaker 1>say it, Mickey Windecker wasn't a badass ANTIFA warrior after all,

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<v Speaker 1>as activists like zeb Hall had thought. He was an informant,

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<v Speaker 1>a snitch working for the FBI, which seems to go

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<v Speaker 1>against everything Mickey claims to be right. Remember his little

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<v Speaker 1>life rule. I have an old biker saying which is

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<v Speaker 1>called fuck the three piece, the politicians, the press, and

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<v Speaker 1>the police. It's just the way it is. Fuck the

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<v Speaker 1>three peas. Yeah, turns out that's bullshit. Fuck the two peas.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe because this Mickey guy, he's in bed with the police,

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<v Speaker 1>and the cops are not only helping him, they're paying him. Today,

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI has more than fifteen thousand registered informants, and

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<v Speaker 1>in the summer of twenty twenty, Mickey is one of them.

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<v Speaker 1>That conversation you heard in the last episode when Mickey

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<v Speaker 1>and Zeb we're talking about training at Zeb's apartment, Mickey,

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<v Speaker 1>on his own initiative, had secretly recorded the whole thing

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<v Speaker 1>and delivered it to the FBI, apparently in the hopes

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<v Speaker 1>of getting hired on as an informant. I need your

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<v Speaker 1>help in doing this, but also need alone find Well,

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<v Speaker 1>here's the day do you have and that's where from

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<v Speaker 1>a route to is you have to decide where what

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<v Speaker 1>you're going to do? You know, I can't see her

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<v Speaker 1>tell you, Oh yeah, you should totally like blow up

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<v Speaker 1>rich neighborhoods to shoot the white people and burn the

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<v Speaker 1>federal courthouse. This recording ended up being Mickey's audition tape

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<v Speaker 1>for the FBI. The official explanation for how Mickey Windecker

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<v Speaker 1>became an informant can be found in FBI reports. Internal

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<v Speaker 1>investigation reports focused on racial justice demonstrators in Denver. These

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<v Speaker 1>reports aren't public, and the FBI didn't intend to have

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<v Speaker 1>them out there. Maybe not. Ever, they were provided to me,

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<v Speaker 1>along with Mickey's undercover recordings, by someone who was deeply

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<v Speaker 1>concerned about the FBI surveillance an infiltration of black activist groups.

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<v Speaker 1>According to the FBI's reports, Mickey had returned to Denver

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<v Speaker 1>after being a volunteer fighter with the Peshmerga, the Kurdish

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<v Speaker 1>military force in Iraq that was fighting the Islamic State

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<v Speaker 1>or ISIS. Mickey told the FBI, and I'm quoting here

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<v Speaker 1>from the report, that he found a sense of purpose

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<v Speaker 1>and honor there and made an oath to always fight

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<v Speaker 1>against threats, both foreign and domestic. War with ISIS Kurdish

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<v Speaker 1>troops in a frontline battle with an enemy that took

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<v Speaker 1>their land. Mickey was among dozens of Americans who volunteered

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<v Speaker 1>to fight for the Peshmurga. With them, dozen Americans veterans

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<v Speaker 1>of the war in Iraq, back his volunteers. Once back

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<v Speaker 1>in Denver, Mickey started participating in the protests following George

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<v Speaker 1>Floyd's death, and he saw what was, in his view,

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<v Speaker 1>a new domestic threat. Mickey said he witnessed protesters damaging

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<v Speaker 1>property and threatening violence. So Mickey started providing information to

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<v Speaker 1>police in the Denver area. Local police there then introduced

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<v Speaker 1>him to the FBI as part of something known as

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<v Speaker 1>the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a partnership between

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<v Speaker 1>local cops and the FBI. Every major metropolitan region of

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<v Speaker 1>the United States has a Joint Terrorism Task Force or JTTF.

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey's motivation for being an informant was and again I'm

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<v Speaker 1>quoting from an internal FBI report, to fight terrorists, and

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey believed that quote people who participate in violent civil

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<v Speaker 1>unrest are terrorists. So Mickey, the Big Bad isis Hunter

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<v Speaker 1>just back from Iraq, now has a new target, racial

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<v Speaker 1>justice protesters, whom he considers terrorists. But for him, there

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<v Speaker 1>appears to be an even deeper psychological impulse. Mickey saw

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<v Speaker 1>himself as an anti hero, someone who operates in the

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<v Speaker 1>gray areas of the law, delivering his own brand of justice.

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<v Speaker 1>Mickey wore a chain around his neck, and hanging from

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<v Speaker 1>that chain was a medallion of the logo for the Punisher,

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<v Speaker 1>a vigilante from the Marvel Comics universe who fights crime

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<v Speaker 1>with an obscene level of violence. He literally thought he

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<v Speaker 1>was the punisher. Anything you see, the Punisher was on it.

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<v Speaker 1>And he would always wear the punisher necklace even when

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<v Speaker 1>he took a shower or a bath. Never came off,

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<v Speaker 1>just like a big kid in the worsh way, in

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<v Speaker 1>the worst way awful. This is Trojan Hearse Season one

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<v Speaker 1>of Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys is a fantastic news show

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<v Speaker 1>for my production partner, Western Sound. It really is one

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<v Speaker 1>of the funniest, wildest, also scariest shows you'll ever hear

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<v Speaker 1>again It's Alphabet Boys. Just search up Alphabet Boys click

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<v Speaker 1>on the red cover art with the gray FBI Hearse Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>and now Lost Hills season three. Malibu is the birthplace

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<v Speaker 1>of California's surf culture and there's one man who ruled

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<v Speaker 1>the beach, one man who struck fear into the other

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<v Speaker 1>surfers and wanted to fuck the world in the way

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<v Speaker 1>only he knew how. We're laying on the beach and

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<v Speaker 1>everybody was attention was to the water and there seemed

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<v Speaker 1>to be somebody performing out there. He was pushing all

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<v Speaker 1>the boys off their boards, jumping on their board and riding.

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<v Speaker 1>In the end, he was king of Malibu at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't really a surfing but he was amazing. He

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<v Speaker 1>was a god in the water, there was no doubt

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<v Speaker 1>about it, and he had the attention of absolutely everybody

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<v Speaker 1>on the beach. You know, his big thing to put

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<v Speaker 1>on his board was FTW. In those days, FGW mant

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<v Speaker 1>fucked the world, question authority. Those are the lessons he

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<v Speaker 1>kept trying to teach me. You know, trust No. One.

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<v Speaker 1>Season three of Lostells, The Dark Prince, It's coming this summer.