Well, here we are at the end of August and at the end of our eighth year of authors in August.

What a delight it was to spend time with authors like Arthur Brooks and Sam Horn and friends like Chris Hill.

Thank you for your notes, which I'll share back about our authors in August this month.

And a listener recently dropped sports betting and picked up investing. Same competitive

fire, totally different game. If you were starting fresh with your first $1,000 today,

would you go rule breaker like ETFs or take your first swing at individual stocks.

We'll also pop the hood on how to actually track a portfolio against the S&P 500 dividends

allocations.

And also, how do you allocate portfolios for a rule breaker only on this week's rulebreaker

investing?

It's the rule breaker investing podcast with Motley full co-founder, David Gardner.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. Happy end of August. Happy near end of summer. We're about to get

started with our monthly mailbag at the end of every month,

the final Wednesday of every month, for dozens of months in a row now. We have done a mailbag.

You get to write in RBI at fool.com is our email address. You can also tweet us at RBI

podcast on TwitterX. We read every piece of mail that comes in. We filter

in the best and craft a mailbag for you. It's maybe my favorite episode to do every month,

because we get to talk together. We get to share. And sure enough, that's exactly what's happening

once again this week. Before we get started, a few bookkeeping notes. First, I'd like to point out

that with my own book, Rule Breaker Investing, coming out in a few weeks, I find myself doing a fair

number of external interviews these days, weeks, and in the months to come. And I'll occasionally

call them out here, because if you're not sick after hearing me speak for, I don't know,

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