Some people like fantasy stories, like them so much that as a culture we're spending,

oh I don't know, have already paid about $1.4 billion at the box office worldwide this year

to see a fantasy story made in support of a motel toy named Barbie.

We all can think of a favorite bedtime story Harold in the Purple Crayon or where the wild things are. It's often said

of us human beings that we are a storytelling race, the call of the story, the

prehistoric campfire where stories were acted out.

Huge industries today have been built up just around celebrity stories.

Or how about sports, the news scores, results, the stories, we remember from our own athletic

exploits, however scanty they may be, in my case, stories, stories, stock

stories.

Yep, every stock tells a story.

As investors, we get to know our company's mission, maybe know their marketing tagline.

That's a story, by the way. We follow the share price. We experience highs and

lows sometimes dizzying highs or cavernous lows sometimes both. Our experiences investors gives us the long view,

the foolish view, capital F, equates us

with great prosperity creating stories,

especially look across a portfolio, Look up and down your brokerage statement, and I bet you see stories.

Well, for the eighth time in this podcast's history, this week we focus on telling stories. Now we're a stock market

podcast so these are stock stories. Visiting me around the campfire this

week are five talented motley fool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell.

Five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer.

Only on this week's rule breaker investing.

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