Mr. Metz is back. You'll notice that the title of this episode says that it's part six.

Well, this ongoing conversation started all the way back in December of 2019, and we last left off with part five in June of 2022.

So that was a three-year span to record those five episodes. And it all happened just by

sitting down to have one 90-minute conversation like we do every week. I only expected that it would be

one conversation with Dick. But in that 90 minutes, I probably asked one question and his stories

were incredible.

So I realized that this series needed to go on in perpetuity.

Listeners confirmed that immediately thereafter.

So you should go back and listen to part one through five.

It starts with episode number 300.

Dick Metz just among the many things that Dick explains was his early life growing up on the sand in Laguna Beach with Shirley Temple.

He talks about how he sold his family's liquor license to fund a three-year global surf trip in 1958, which then inspired his friend Bruce Brown to make the endless summer. On that trip, he was jailed in

Bombay. He lived in a brothel in Panama, dodged bulls in Pamplona. He talks about how he was the

first employee at Clark Foam, how he became the owner of the very first surf shop and then a chain

of them. He talks about his relationship with Duke Kahanomoku, personal

relationship, and how he got the Hilton Hotel family to finance his skateboard business. So it's a

wild, wild ride. At the end of those five episodes, we only make it up to about the year 1970.

So we still have the most recent 50 years that we still need to cover

and chronicles. So that is what we are attempting to do here this week. And also, by the way,

in the years since we were doing these conversations, a documentary has been made about Dick,

and it's called Birth of the Endless Summer. It's directed by Richard Yellen, and it has an

impressive 8.7 rating on IMDB.

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