September 2025 Mailbag: The House That Netflix Built

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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It’s a Mailbag of gratitude as the reviews are rolling in for David’s new book. A listener invests $100 for each of his daughters’ birthdays, positioning them for success in their financial futures, as another listener follows David’s advice: “Add up, don’t double down.” David also shares some Strat-o-matic memories and reminds us that the math is always against you when it comes to sports betting. Plus, listener and host swap stories on selling Netflix (years ago) to build and buy their homes… Sign up for The Motley Fool’s Breakfast News here:www.fool.com/breakfastnews Order David’s Rule Breaker Investing book here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1804091219/ Host: David Gardner Producer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	119. That's the magic number this week.
0:04.7	119. Because this is the 119th consecutive rule breaker investing monthly mailbag. That's nearly
0:13.8	10 years of unbroken exchange, the final Wednesday of every month, between you, my dear listener,
0:21.3	and me. The fool who gets to sit on the other end of every month between you, my dear listener, and me.
0:24.5	The fool who gets to sit on the other end of the exchange,
0:30.4	marveling at your stories, your questions, your challenges, your inspirations,
0:40.5	the sharing that comes my way from around the world for nine years and 11 months as of today. Thank you. And thank you is going to be a recurring theme for this particular mailbag only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
0:48.2	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
0:56.3	Well, it's not every week or month.
0:58.4	The new book comes out by me.
1:00.3	So understandably, a lot of this week's mailbag is going to be focused there.
1:04.7	I also am guessing we might have some new listeners and unusually high number of new listeners
1:09.3	this week.
1:09.9	So I should explain that sound
1:12.3	that some people love and some people don't like at the start of my podcast, the one with
1:17.6	the window breaking. Well, that's not really a window breaking. That's the sound of rules being
1:22.6	broken. That was put in place by my original producer, Rick Engdahl.
1:29.6	Yeah, July 2015.
1:39.0	And we've been publishing a fresh new weekly podcast every week since going for the Cal Ripkin streak here, never taking a week off.
1:41.6	And yeah, that's the sound of rules being broken.
1:45.2	And if you become a regular listener, I hope you'll come to love it.
1:52.1	Well, so yeah, rule breaker investing, the book came out just last week. It's been a lot of fun doing media, some of it in New York City, a lot of it just sitting at my desk at home, being on people's
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