30 separate times about every 10 weeks on this podcast over six years I picked five stocks.

I chose a theme that made sense to me at the time sometimes sublime sometimes silly

and then I thought to myself,

one of the five best recommendations I can come up with

for stocks that fit my theme,

aiming to beat the market.

Of course, always to beat the market, the S&P 500, otherwise why are we bothering?

And then one year later we review the picks, what was the theme again and how the stocks done and also versus the market and more important for our

learning why to our way of thinking have the stocks done what they've done so a

one-year review and then another year passes the two-year

review and then yep we never forget we hope you wouldn't also we score

everything transparently and accountability because we're fools you should expect that of us then the three year

review which is often the most telling first because three years have passed since I picked the five stocks.

So we really can be smarter about what has happened and why, and what we can learn.

Smarter, and if I've done my job well then will also be happier and richer as well.

Second, that three-year review is telling because most of the time we end the game right there.

Oh, we'll keep holding those stocks, mind you, and you should too if you own them, but

if I kept reviewing all 30 of my samplers in years four, five, six, etc.

Well, we wouldn't have time to do much else on this podcast.

So 30 separate times, I have picked five stocks,

what I've always called my five stock samplers, and we're going to review three of those

samplers today. Five stocks for America, five stocks that pass the snap test, and five stocks for the 2018 World Cup. Review them we will

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