My brother-in-law spoke truth when at a recent family barbecue he pointed out that seemingly

every conversation these days seemingly somehow ends up getting back to COVID. He was getting tired of it.

It just has such a strong gravitational attraction. We can't get away from it. It reminds me of Godwin's law, which I've mentioned before in this podcast.

Maybe you know it, the old internet law that states quote

as an online discussion grows longer the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or

Hitler approaches one."

Well, these days, as any discussion grows longer,

the chances that it'll arrive back at COVID approaches one.

You could call it my brother-in-law's law. So just as my brother-in-law

challenges all of us to consider specifically not mentioning COVID in a given

conversation or a period of hours or a day if you like try it just as that challenge is issued here I am with this

week's entire podcast focused on influenza and to a lesser but inevitable extent COVID.

It's authors in August and my guest this week is the splendid Dr. Jeremy Brown

who will be talking about his book, Influenza,

the 100-year hunt to cure the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

And that talk about what happened 100 years ago

would be interesting enough on its own, fascinating full of lessons but of course it seems even more

pertinent in light of what we are all living through in 2020. So, 1918, 2019, right here now, Jeremy Brown influenza only on this

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

Welcome back to this week's Rule Breaker Investing. I have a real treat in store for you.

We'll get to that very shortly. As I mentioned at the top, Influenza, the 100-year hunt to cure the

1918 Spanish flu pandemic with author

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