How Sports-Talk Radio Makes You a Better Investor (Part 1 of 2)

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 6 April 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

March brought us the Madness of college basketball, and April, opening day for Major League Baseball. In this two-part series, David describes his love of sports and cross-overs between that and investing. You can become a better investor by outthinking sports-talk analysts with their clichés and threadbare thinking.

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:07.0	And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:12.0	I'm David Gardner.
0:12.8	Thanks for joining me.
0:13.7	Here we are starting April.
0:16.1	And this is the first podcast I'm doing the week.
0:18.8	It's actually airing for the last few weeks
0:21.3	because it was spring break for the Gardner family the last few weeks and I was away skiing in Utah
0:26.8	One of my teenagers broke his leg but besides that it was a great trip and really overall it was a great trip. And really overall it was a great trip.
0:33.4	No regrets.
0:34.7	We're in a convalescing time now back at the Gardner household.
0:38.2	But in the meantime, I was happy to see this week.
0:40.7	Clearly somebody was listening to this podcast as I went over three painstaking
0:45.1	weeks of risk ratings and focusing on two companies and one of them was Virgin America
0:50.6	and I don't know was the CEO of Alaska Airlines or maybe the CEO of Jeff Lu.
0:55.0	Somebody was listening to that podcast as we showcase Virgin America.
0:59.0	You may have noticed this Tuesday the stock was up 40% in one day. Now do I personally own Virgin
1:05.6	America? I'm sorry to say I don't. I think I have 205 stocks under
1:10.0	active recommendation through our Motley full services. I do not own them all. I
1:13.9	wish I could. I especially wish I had owned Virgin America this week, but I do like to
1:17.8	think that there's at least one member of this podcast, one regular
1:21.5	listener who did actually buy shares of Virgin America
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