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Off-Ramp for July 19, 2008
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Episode 3574
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Off-Ramp for July 19, 2008

Welcome to Doo-Dah; Doo Dah Surf - Part One; The Duke of Surfing; Doo Dah Surf - Part Two; Doo Dah Surf - Part Three; Hang Tiki; Surf Break; Time Capsule; A Nest for the Homeless

Welcome to Doo-Dah; Doo Dah Surf - Part One; The Duke of Surfing; Doo Dah Surf - Part Two; Doo Dah Surf - Part Three; Hang Tiki; Surf Break; Time Capsule; A Nest for the Homeless

The 6th Annual Doo-Dah Surf will start at the crack of dawn on Saturday. At Doo-Dah, surfers don silly costumes and hit the waves. Their goal: combat the aggro attitude that's taking over some surf spots. In the Aloha spirit, Off-Ramp brings you a very delayed, live, remote from the last year's Doo-Dah. If you can't make it to the actual event, tune in.
John gives a blow-by-blow of the costume contest and we meet a surf folk artist and Surfing Santa. Also, wanna know why surfers get aggro? Queena Kim asks Steven Kotner, the author of West of Jesus and he says the answer can be found in science.
Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968) won five Olympic gold medals for swimming and "became surfing's ambassador to the world." Is that his caddy in the suit, or Dashiell Hammett? Photo circa 1925.
Off-Ramp commentator Milton Love has some ontological questions for the creator of Sponge Bob Square Pants, and we find out what makes those ukulele plays strum.
Find out why Charles Phoenix likes business suits, meet a butterfly surfer and get the inside scoop on the judges as they hang on the bluffs just south of Gladstone's restaurant.
Tiki Tony enjoys the best of both worlds.
Doo Dah surfers take a break before the surf breaks.
These surfers at Surfrider Beach show that old habits die hard.
Listen in with John as police and fire crews clean out a homeless camp that was suspended thirty feet above a downtown LA street. Someone managed to get a sofa up there, and lived with the exhaust and the pigeons for a couple years.