As we head into the dog days of August, we got something a little different planned.

Montefull money starts now.

I'm Chris Hill and let me start with some context.

It's late August and in years past with our daily market fuller podcast, we would have

what we like to call a short week, which was code for, hey, we're taking a couple of days

off and there's a chance you might be too because it's late August.

Now we are not taking any time off this week.

Instead we are in the final days of preparation for our investing conference next week in

Washington, DC.

It is all hands on deck time for many of the people that you hear on this show including

and especially yours truly.

So today and tomorrow, instead of hitting the headlines, we're bringing you conversations

with two of our senior analysts.

And rather than drilling down on a specific investing topic, we're talking about their

origin stories as investors, how they got started, mistakes they made along the way,

and how they think about investing.

We're going to hit the stock market news later in the week.

Next Monday and Tuesday, we're going to be recording episodes from our conference in

DC.

So right now, here's my conversation with Motley Fool, senior analyst Jason Moser about

the influence of his parents on his investing life, the company that he admires most, and

when it all started for him.

...