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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's the Motley Fool Money

radio show. I'm Chris Hellen joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio

Jason Moser and from Motley Fool Pro and Options Jeff Fisher. Good to see you as always

gentlemen. Hey Chris. It is our Thanksgiving special. We will give thanks for some stocks.

We will call out a few turkeys. We're going to check in with Rick Harrison, star of the

hit TV show Pond Stars as well as best selling author Dan Hease. But guys, it's our Thanksgiving

special and that means one thing and one thing will yes. It's the sound effect. People

ask how much money does it take to produce Motley Fool Money. Hey, we blew it all on

one sound effect that we play once a year. And Steve is going to make extra use of it

today. I can tell it's been a long year without that sound. It is. We save it up so that

Steve gets to use one sound effect once a year. Let's go around the table. Let's start with

a serving of humble pie. When you think about the last 12 months, a business story that

you were wrong about or a stock that you were wrong about, Jeff Fisher, have a little

humble pie. Oh, this is very humble. In January, I recommended buying call options or a bullish

position on American Airlines. I've never invested in airlines before. So it was a leap

of like not leap of faith. It was a change in thinking, thinking the industry is here to

stay profitable, finally. But by summertime, the position had lost much of its value and

we closed it. We closed it at a loss. The stock was down by 50% or so. Still looked incredibly

cheap. Here we are now a few months later. The stock is all the way back up. It's actually

higher than it used to be. And we get news last week that Warren Buffett is buying it as

well. For the same reasons, we argued back in January. So it's a very painful round

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