It's Thursday, May 8th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from

Motley Fool UK making his debut on Market Foolery. Mark Rogers. Thanks for being here.

Well, thanks so much for having me on, Chris. So just like Scott Phillips yesterday, he was in

town for Fulipaosa, our annual meeting, as are you coming over from London yeah and but just like

Scott Phillips you were at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting that's right yeah which

which will get it one one housekeeping note this podcast may go up a little early this may go up on Wednesday if that is the case if you're getting us off of iTunes or Stitcher and this goes up on Wednesday. It's because we're not here.

Come Thursday, we're all heading off to Foollepoolosa, our annual meeting, all 300 plus

or so members of the Motley Fool staff our two-day annual meeting but let's get back to

Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting it was your first time going yeah I've wanted to go

to this meeting for just about as long as I've been investing so you know for years you know just about as long as I've been investing. So, you know, for years, you know, just about any

young investor or new investor in the UK, just like in the US, loves to read, Warren Buffett's annual

shareholder letters. And so, as you can imagine having been doing that for

about 13 years now it's just so great to go over there and and to see all the

places and all the things that have been reading about for so long.

It's really great to get over there.

But you do realize that most annual meetings are just boring as hell.

Oh, absolutely.

I feel like the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in some ways does a disservice to other companies

just because it is such a spectacle and other companies, you know, for anyone, if that's their

first annual meeting they go to and then they go to any other company's annual meeting

It's they're just setting themselves up for a total let down it's funny because

Boch is my largest holding but I have another holding which is about similar in size and it's the complete opposite it's a tiny family run company and the annual meeting is literally just the members of the family set up in their living room it is it

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