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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In the bitchen’ summer of 1956, a 15 year-old girl named Kathy Kohner shows up in Malibu and asks the guys to teach her how to surf. They call her Gidget. Soon, her father writes a book based on her diaries. The book becomes a movie, and a TV show, and a cultural juggernaut. And Miki, one of Kathy’s new surfer pals, is furious.
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0:00.0 | Hello, hello everyone, gather around. |
0:03.5 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
0:05.1 | If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession |
0:10.0 | with American higher education. |
0:12.0 | How it's broken, how it can be fixed. |
0:15.2 | Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again. |
0:19.2 | And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry. |
0:23.6 | And the other gives me hope. |
0:27.7 | Listen to Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:31.4 | And you can always get our shows early and at-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. |
0:47.5 | Pushkin. |
0:48.5 | Hey, Lost Hills listeners, it's Dana. |
0:54.0 | I wanted to let you know that you can hear the entire new season of Lost Hills ad-free, |
0:59.0 | along with other great binge listens by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber. |
1:03.5 | Find Pushkin Plus on the Lost Hills Show page in Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm-plus. |
1:23.5 | I'm at Duke's restaurant in Malibu. |
1:26.4 | It's perched on the rocks right above the ocean. |
1:30.0 | Outfront is a giant statue of legendary Hawaiian surfer and swimmer Duke Kahana Moku, who helped |
1:36.2 | introduce surfing to California in the early part of the 20th century. |
1:41.4 | This is where Gidget, the real Gidget, works. |
1:44.9 | Hey, we're here to interview Kathy. |
1:49.8 | Kathy Conor? |
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