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Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

7. Misdirection

Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

Western Sound and Pushkin Industries

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

From nothing, a surf industry is born. There are magazines. And gear. And competitions. Everyone is hustling…. Including Miki. He introduces a new board called Da Cat, complete with an outrageous ad campaign. He also has a new girlfriend, a surfer named Linda Cuy, who has the makings of a full-on accomplice.

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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

It was the 1960s.

0:37.9

The surf media was just getting started, and Mickey Dora was its darling.

0:43.8

Although the phrase was not extent at the time, I think bad ass would do it.

0:48.6

Yeah, not to be fucked with.

0:50.2

The reigning king is at work.

0:52.4

I mean, he was acknowledged to be the best there was.

0:56.8

This is Drew Campion.

0:58.3

He started surfing in Malibu in the early 60s.

1:01.4

He wrote for Surfor Magazine and later became the editor.

1:05.4

So it was a conservative publication, and I'd been living over the hill up from Malibu

1:12.0

and in the San Fernando Valley and had been introduced to LSD and marijuana.

1:19.9

I had tasted enough of each of them to have a bit of a wrinkle in my perception of the

1:24.8

world.

1:26.2

And so I brought that wrinkle to surfor, I think, and people seemed to respond to it.

1:34.0

Right after he got hired, Drew got a plum assignment to interview Mickey Dora.

1:41.0

It was the fall of 1969.

1:43.7

Mickey had made his reputation as an enigmatic misanthrope, a trickster.

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