Financial Horror Stories Vol. 2, Scary Scams

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The spooky season is upon us, and it doesn't stop with the ghosts and ghouls at your doorstep! The world is full of scary stories, but if you take heed of Robert Brokamp's warnings, you just might survive the financial apocalypse.

(07:13) Switcheroo with the Vampire
(13:41) The Trade is Coming from within the House
(17:51) Dial "M" for my Money is All Gone
(25:09) The Ex-IRS-ist
(33:09) Invasion of the Money-Snatchers
(40:34) The Queen of Soul Speaks from the Grave...and the Couch
(48:02) 3 Scary Stats

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Robert Brokamp
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	There's that memorable opening scene from Twilight Zone, The Movie.
0:05.2	Two guys telling each other scary stories.
0:08.2	Do you remember it?
0:09.2	My producer friend Rick reminded me that one of those two was Dan Acroyd and check it.
0:14.4	The other was Albert Brooks driving down a rainy highway at night.
0:18.4	Hey, hey man, you want to hear something scary?
0:21.3	And he tells his buddy in the car a scary story or makes a scary. And he tells his buddy in the car, a scary story or makes a scary observation.
0:25.8	Then this buddy thinks about it for a moment, rain, rain, rain, going down the highway and
0:30.3	church back, yeah, that was scary, but you want to hear something scarier?
0:34.4	And it eventually gets to a point where they say, you want to, you want to hear something
0:38.9	really scary and he pulls the car over and I won't give away the ending although seeing it as a kid the year was
0:47.1	1983 I guess I was 17
0:49.4	That's the last time I've seen that movie. I did find that indeed I did find that
0:54.3	ending to that scene was really scary well I'm not Albert Brooks and I don't have
0:59.9	Dan Acroy this week but it is the scary month of the year, which means in what is becoming
1:05.7	a rule breaker investing tradition, I have the Motley Fool's expert Robert Brokeamp to tell some really scary stories.
1:15.0	And we're a money podcast, so as you might expect,
1:18.0	what scares us are financial horror stories.
1:26.0	Financial horror stories, volume two, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:32.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.
1:40.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:44.0	You know, that's normally, we say that's the sound of rules being broken, except this particular
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