March 2025 Mailbag: Chalkboard Wisdom and Our Favorite Words

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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March 2025 Mailbag: Chalkboard Wisdom and Our Favorite Words
March Madness isn’t just for basketball—it’s taken over Rule Breaker Investing too! In this month’s mailbag, David Gardner fields your questions and reflections with trademark Foolishness. Should you use forced rankings to evaluate your portfolio? Can AI help guide investment decisions? Is Elon good or evil? Why does following the simplest of instructions matter so profoundly? And what’s the one company name David’s been hilariously mispronouncing? Answers, insights, and even a lesson or two about telematics await—so jump in, it’s Mailbag Madness!

Host: David Gardner
Producer: Heather Horton

Companies Mentioned:
AXON, BRK-B, KO, ONON, PEP, PGR, SBUX, TSLA

Resources:
• Preorder David’s upcoming book, Rule Breaker Investing, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major retailers.
• Sign up for The Motley Fool’s free daily newsletter, Breakfast News, at www.fool.com/breakfastnews

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0:00.0	All right. It's that time of the month for Rule Breaker investing. It is your mailbag. The final Wednesday of every month. A delight. Thank you for stuffing the mailbag with fun this particular month. Speaking of fun, that was the theme of March. It is every year for this podcast, at least for the last couple, as we've filled up March with market cap game shows,
0:22.2	specifically our world championships.
0:24.8	Congratulations to our new world champion, Emily Flippin, who acquitted herself well,
0:30.3	taking on Andy Cross, our chief investment officer last week, but even the previous two weeks.
0:35.1	So much fun, the final four.
0:36.7	I hope you played along with us. I hope you scored some points, too. So much fun, the final four. I hope you played along
0:37.7	with us. I hope you scored some points to. So that was the real focus of March. Usually
0:43.7	at the start of Mailbag, I like to review the different episodes we've done. Usually we
0:47.6	have a motley array of them, but this time it's just pure madness.
0:53.4	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:01.0	So let's move on then to some hot takes from Twitter to kick off this week's podcast,
1:06.0	Pro Shop Guy, MF.
1:07.0	That's Mike McMahon at Pro Shop Guy, MF1 on Twitter X. Mike, you wrote a biased poll ran during the
1:14.0	Monday morning show with the Motley Fool's morning show. Viewers are rooting for Emily Flippen to
1:19.2	dethrone reigning champ Andy Cross in the March Madness Market Cap game on the Rule
1:24.9	Breaker investing podcast. And Mike, you showed a poll, you said admittedly biased.
1:29.4	I wasn't watching the Motley Fool Morning Show at the time, but it sounds as if there
1:33.3	was a plug for Emily.
1:34.5	And most people were cheering her on.
1:36.1	I realize we often do cheer on the underdog.
1:38.6	She was taking on our present world champion.
1:41.4	So thanks for referencing that.
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