Speaker 1: Once upon a time, in the long lost Golden era,
Speaker 1: Malibu had one undisputed king.
Speaker 2: We're laying on the beach and attention was to the water,
Speaker 2: and there seemed to be somebody performing out there, and
Speaker 2: of course that was Mickey Dora. He was king of
Speaker 2: Malibu at the time.
Speaker 1: Mickey Dora a legend in the surf world. To some,
Speaker 1: he was the greatest surfer that ever lived.
Speaker 3: Mickey Dora was the best surfer and bad boy at Malibu,
Speaker 3: a sort of iconic anti establishment starlike surf character who
Speaker 3: had this most elegant grace writing the waves at Malibu.
Speaker 1: His style was unmatched, and so was his aggression.
Speaker 3: If someone was in his way, they could get shoved
Speaker 3: off the wave or run over or whatever might happen.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: His big thing to put on his board was FGW,
Speaker 2: and in those days, FGW man fucked the world, question authority,
Speaker 2: trust no one.
Speaker 1: In the nineteen sixties, surfing was going mainstream. The beach
Speaker 1: Boys were on the billboard charts, Beach party movies were
Speaker 1: in the theaters. But Mickey wasn't like the clean cut
Speaker 1: California kids in the movies and the songs. He was
Speaker 1: an outlaw, a criminal, a con man for nearly a decade,
Speaker 1: he led the FBI on a hunt around the globe.
Speaker 1: While back in Malibu, his legend grew.
Speaker 2: He said, criminals break the laws.
Speaker 1: I live outside the law.
Speaker 2: It was a Swiss bank, and yeah, they found four
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows exactly where it came from. They were all
Speaker 1: sorts of theories.
Speaker 4: You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to connect
Speaker 4: the dots around this.
Speaker 2: And I fell in love the Manye me walked out
Speaker 2: of the water until I realized he was a scoundrel
Speaker 2: at a road and was chaining me in to being accomplice.
Speaker 4: So now we've got like a rich kid putting swastikas
Speaker 4: on his board and being a jerk to outsiders because
Speaker 4: they don't know how to surf, spewing all this vile stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get in big trouble for saying all this.
Speaker 3: He was narcissistic, but also incredibly intelligent and also i'd
Speaker 3: say a little bit sociopathic.
Speaker 1: There's something rotten at the heart of surf culture, and
Speaker 1: it all goes back to Mickey Dora and what he
Speaker 1: did in Malibu. I'm Dana. Goodyear coming soon from Western
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