It's Tuesday, August 12th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Phil and for the second time in somewhere around 700 episodes, I am alone in the studio.

So I should warn our dozens of lists. I am alone in the studio.

So I should warn our dozens of listeners and our tens of viewers on YouTube that, well certainly

for the people who are watching on YouTube, this is going to be the least visually interesting episode of market

foolery ever, not that we necessarily pull out a lot of whiz-bang graphics and effects

and that sort of thing. But I should warn you, this is just going to be me talking for a few minutes.

So by all means, feel free to skip this episode because I promise that tomorrow we will be back

to talking about stocks.

But I wanted to spend just a couple of minutes today talking about Robin Williams.

And I will be

not be

and I will bring this around to investing I promise but I was by now you've no doubt heard the news

that Robin Williams dead at the age of 63 from an apparent suicide on the very real possibility that you're listening somewhere

in the world and you're unfamiliar with Robin Williams. He was an incredibly talented entertainer and I'll get to that in a moment as well.

But I was I was texting last night with a work

stuff and then we sort of both got the work stuff and then we sort of both got the

news at the same time and then he was saying, he texted me, well, okay, there's my perspective check.

And it really was, it really was just one of those stories that sort of, for me anyway, just rocked me when I heard it.

So much has already been written about Robin Williams and there have been pieces on television, etc.

The phrase that I saw that I thought perfectly summed up Robin Williams was that he was an impossible

talent and if you are was that he was an impossible talent.

And if you are old enough and you have enough

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