11. Writing on the Wall

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After prison, Miki is a changed man . . . kind of. He knows better than to break the law again. So he finds other ways to make money. He gets Quiksilver, the surf apparel company, to put him on the payroll. And with the help of a couple of celebrity surfers, Kelly Slater and Chris Malloy, Miki tries to get back on top.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:07.0	Hey Lost Hills listeners, it's Dana.
0:12.4	I wanted to let you know that you can hear the entire new season of Lost Hills ad-free,
0:17.4	along with other great binge listens by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber.
0:22.0	Find Pushkin Plus on the Lost Hills Show page in Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm-plus.
0:30.0	Mickey was highly intelligent, well read, and he didn't give a fuck, and he saw that
0:44.9	what the future was going to bring.
0:46.9	It's a surfing.
0:48.7	And so he acted accordingly, and he wouldn't capitulate.
0:53.6	This is Chris Maloy.
0:55.3	He's a documentary filmmaker who moved to Hawaii to be a professional big wave surfer
0:59.7	in the 90s.
1:01.4	Chris is a big fan of Mickey Dora.
1:04.7	He was like, you know what, I can get paid to surf, but he said, I'm going to take credit
1:10.2	cards and checks and go around the world and surf waves that nobody knows about.
1:17.7	And he said, God damn it.
1:19.3	He goes, if they gave you this plastic card and you could just go get stuff for free,
1:25.0	what the fuck would you do?
1:29.4	I'm visiting Chris at his sprawling ranch on California's Central Coast, where he and
1:34.4	his wife are raising three kids on 100 acres.
1:38.3	He's part of that Kelly Slater generation of surfers who grew up on Mickey Dora lore.
1:45.0	Mickey's status as an iconoclast spoke to them.
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