It's Thursday, May 26th. Welcome to Mark Ford. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio once again today from Motley

Full Funds, Bill Barker. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.

This probably requires a little bit of setup and two bits of setup.

And the first setup I'll share is that from time to time we have listeners stop by full global headquarters here in Alexandria, Virginia,

and by the way you're welcome to stop by anytime, just drop us a note, market foolery at fool.com.

Happy to have you come by for the Nickel Tour.

And love to meet people who listen,

love to learn about where you listen,

how you listen, all that sort of thing.

And from time to time I will get questions and I would say that probably the question I've been

asked the most often by listeners is how do you come up with the stories that you're going to talk about.

How do you decide what stories you're going to talk about?

And my answer is roughly the same, which is,

well, when it's earning season, it's easy

because we're just taking, we're choosing from among a lot of different

companies that are picking earnings. When it's not earning season we have to be a

little bit creative and that gets to my next bit of setup, which is we have a Facebook group, Motley Fool Podcasts, if you're on the Facebook and want to join, just check it out. You can just search Motley Full Podcasts. And it's me and it's all the different members of the different

Motley Fool Podcast, Allison, Southwick, Robert Brokamp from Answers, all the People from Industry Focus, etc.

And last night this comment was posted from one of our long time listeners, Andy Sorensen

of Redwood Falls, Minnesota. Andy wrote in the podcast group, I for one would not be

opposed to putting Chris and Bill in the studio with no news stories and see what happens.

Well, for better or for worse, we decided to just go with that for today's episode because, you know what, there's, there is some news, but it's also coming up on Memorial Day weekend.

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