All right. Well, thank you for tuning into Rule Breaker Investing. This is an extra.

So I'm going to say it one more time. Happy birthday to us. We're celebrating four years

of the Rule Breaker Investing podcast. And I teamed up with my producers, Rick Engdall, my substitute producer this week, Heather Horton,

and we talked about it and we thought, let's run the very first podcast we ever did just as a celebration

four years later.

It's quite short as you're probably already

noticing you as a rule breaker and I have to admit I'm kind of looking forward to

hear what I'm about to say myself because I don't know what I said in our first

podcast. I know one thing I didn't talk for too long so I hope you enjoy this brief

early look at our first Rule Breaker's podcast.

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

Hi there, it's David Gardner and this is Rule Breaker investing and I wanted to spend a little time

today just talking about what it means to be a Rule Breaker. I've got three basic traits that I think

you and I share if we're rule breakers together.

This is about investing of course so that's the context that we're going to go with and the very first trade is number one that we are willing to buy a

stock. You know if you even have capital and sadly not enough Americans do but if you even

have capital congratulations and you may well have it in funds.

That's where most Americans have their capital who have capital.

They've bought mutual funds or they've checked a box on their 401k plan and in my mind that's a good enough answer for a lot of us but if you're a

rule breaker if you're going to go against the conventional wisdom then you probably

want to amp it up a little bit more and I think therefore you're going to you're

going to be willing to I hope even comfortable buying a stock directly so that's

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