“Let’s go surfing now, everybody’s learning how, come on a safari with me” — to Tokyo in 2020.

That’s when the “sport of kings,” which originated in Hawaii, will become an official sport of the Olympic Games, which was a dream long ago of famed Hawaiian surfer, sheriff and sometimes actor Duke Kahanamoku, who was an Olympics champion himself — as a swimmer.

Through his travels, Kahanamoku helped popularize surfing worldwide, and had written in his autobiography shortly before he died in 1968 that as early as 1918 he had thought surfing should be an Olympic sport. And now it is — or will be by 2020. Let’s hope for some good waves in Japan when that happens.

Meanwhile, USA Today on Friday featured a front-page photo of a surfer carrying the Olympic torch as part of the opening ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics now underway in Rio de Janeiro.

Cowabunga!

It’s one thing to scam, but why so early?

You might have felt some righteous indignation if you were awakened recently by a robocall in the wee hours of the morning that featured a recorded voice claiming to be the Internal Revenue Service, asserting that the call was a final notice of an impending lawsuit.

“What have I done?” you might have wondered groggily. But then — on your own, or with some quick Googling — you probably realized that you had done nothing wrong, that it was simply a scam.

But a darn inconvenient one, unfortunately, since the call came from a computer in a distant time zone that cares not a whit that most Hawaii residents are still sleeping at that hour.