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

We're having fun this week on Rule Breaker Investing.

This is an extra.

Yep, this is an extended interview with Rob Davio, the designer of Pandemic Legacy

season one, which I mentioned is one of my five favorite board games that make you a better

investor. This week, Rob has one of my five favorite board games that make you a better investor this week

Rob has graciously consented to talk a little bit more about well why not himself

right hi Rob hello so I going to try not to be redundant with what we talked about on the podcast earlier

this week, but let's feel free to go back over any familiar territory as is necessary.

But Rob, I think since we're all superheroes at heart

and we all have origin stories, Rob, I want to kind of start there.

Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in a waterfall main in the 70ss and 80s so like Stephen King country.

Wow. Really cool. It did influence me a lot. I read a lot of Stephen King as a kid and

it gave me the idea of like just sort of amazing ideas and stories like a

lot of the short story stuff. At what point did games enter your life?

Played a lot of board games as a kid but it was the very traditional Parker

brother, Milton Bradley Games which are not bad

gave me a good grounding but 1981 I went off to summer camp and was allowed to bring

five comic books because it was overnight camp and was my first time away from home and then when I got there some people were playing d and d so in sort of this two week period I was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons and like comic books pretty much my life changed from those two weeks to where I am now.

This is a little bit weird because it's very very similar but at Summer Camp in the 1980s

mine was in New Hampshire, we brought Dungeons and Dragons to camp.

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