I'm Chris Hill, host of the podcast Money Unplugged, and I'm here this week because it's authors in August, week number three.

And the author sitting in the guest chair is none other than David Gardner.

Of all the mistakes David has made in his professional career, letting me host his podcast may prove to be the biggest one yet.

Let's find out, shall we? 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 Rule Breaker Investing and our authors in August series, now in its eighth year.

David, thank you for the invitation and for appropriately setting expectations at the beginning of last week's episode.

When you told your listeners, I would be here hosting the show and you said, and I quote,

I just hope we don't screw it up.

And I thought, oh, that's exactly how I feel as well.

Chris, I'm so honored to have you in that chair this week.

You and I talk briefly about this.

I think in the now 11th year of hosting a weekly podcast, I've never once given away the host chair. We did co-hosts at least once.

We've done some memorable things together on this podcast. But if I were to think, who would I want to

host this podcast in my absence on any given week? I could easily imagine the host of money

unplugged. But this particular week to have you interview me about my book

is really special. Thank you. It's my pleasure. So David, typically when you are talking with

authors, you are asking questions about their origin, where they grew up, all that sort of thing.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that a fair number of people listening right now

are familiar with some of the broader strokes of your origin story of growing up in

Washington, D.C., learning about investing from your father. But specific to this new book you've

written, I would like to drill down on a specific time period because you've talked

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