For years and years I wrote essays and Motley Full Stock Advisor and Motley Full Rule

Breakers essays to kick off the issues.

So it would be May 2008, wow, remember 2008? And in addition to our new stock picks and

Best Buy's now that month, the mailed issue of rule breakers let off with a page one essay from me and same with the next month and the month after that for years.

Recognize any old school references, issues,

mailed issues these days,

our services are digital, we don't do paper copies anymore

and we don't do opening essays.

There's no page one anymore, they wouldn't get the clicks. But I put a lot of time into those essays and as they occurred over a long narrative arc of history 2002 to 2017, 15 years worth of them, 18 a year.

It can be both educational and amusing

to go back and see what was being said and when.

The purpose of the Motley Fool is to make the world smarter, happier, and

richer, and that's exactly what I was doing with those essays for years. So I pulled some favorites

with some timeless truths and I want to introduce or for a long time fools

reintroduce you to our rule breaker thinking over time but this isn't nostalgia

or about yesterday no I think it might be a fine way to educate, amuse and enrich you today.

Only on Rule Breaker Investing.

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing and if you like me, you're still doing some heavy breathing

after last week's podcast, which pretty much broke the bank in terms of the longest

podcast we've ever done.

That was even a topic unto itself. I'm not going to revisit that topic. I hope you enjoyed at least half, if not all, of last week's mailbag. There were some stellar stories, some great questions. I also had a lot of special guests, people that I haven't

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