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,

what are the five best recommendations that I can come up with for stocks that fit that theme?

Aiming, of course, always to beat the market, the S&P 500,

otherwise, hey, why are we bothering?

Then one year later we reviewed the picks

and then another year passes, the two-year review.

Yep. Two years later we never forget we hope you wouldn't also. We score

everything transparently and accountably because we're fools. You should expect that of us.

And then the three-year review, which is going to be the most telling. Why is that?

Well, first of all, three years have passed since I picked those five stocks we really can be

Smarter about what's happened and why and what we can learn after three full years and that's the smarter part but if I've done

my job well then we'll also be happier and richer as well.

Now that three-year review is also telling because most of the time we end the game

right there. We're going to keep holding those stocks in real life, mind you, and you

should too if you own them. But if I kept reviewing all 30 of my samplers

in years four and five and six, et cetera,

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

Well, 30 separate times I've picked five stocks,

what I've also called my five stock samplers,

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