Hey, just a quick note for anyone interested. Waterways travel has some availability on

Tava Rua for Thanksgiving week. It is November 23rd through the 30th. Families generally have

these yearly trips, and so it's usually booked during the holidays, but there is currently

a rare availability, again, on Tava Rua. If you are interested in swooping into that

spot, reach out directly to waterwaystravel.com. November is arguably the most underrated

month in the South Pacific, less crowded, and you kind of get the tail end of the southern

ocean action with lots of mid-sized swells in the six to 10-foot range.

November typically has slack winds, which means it's glassy all day oftentimes.

So if you're interested in Tavaura, Thanksgiving Week, and I think that they have some

availability in December as well, now is your chance. Seize the day through waterways travel.com.

We are back with the follow-up chat with Dick Metz.

If you are new to the show, welcome, but at a bare minimum, just go back and listen to last week's episode before this one.

It is impossible for me to recap and provide any semblance of a fair introduction to

Metz's life and work. But just as a reminder of where we left off last week, Metz had opened

multiple hobby stores prior to the induction of computers for retail. And so he was running into

a bottleneck for managing inventory, cash, et cetera.

So that is where we're going to pick up today.

But before we do, we owe a quick acknowledgement to our partners, Real Water Sports,

Veyer Watches, Surf Rider Foundation, and Florence Marine X.

Real Water Sports is your one-stop shop for any water sport needs and anything you need for

a day on the water too.

They've got Yeti containers and coolers, beach towels, board bags, helmets, wetsuits.

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