This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brickhouse Brocamp.

How you doing, Robert?

Bro, Cam. Fine, thank you. In this week's episode, we're joined by Jeff Ostrowski. He covers

real estate and mortgages for bank rate. We're going to talk about

the state of real estate in the U.S. All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful

Answers. Alison, what's up? Well, bro, I want to share the fascinating story of Marion Stokes

and the power of investing to fuel audacious ideas. So I found out about her thanks

to History Cool Kids on Instagram. So if you're looking for a recommendation for a follow,

History Cool Kids. And they got it from Atlas Obscura, which I don't think I need to recommend to you

because I think we all know Atlas Obscure is pretty awesome. And Atlas Obscura wrote about it because of a

2019 documentary about Marion Stokes titled Recorder. So, bro, let's get into it, shall we?

Let's do it. I can't wait. Born in the late 20s, Marion Stokes had been a librarian, lifelong

activist, and local TV producer when a magical piece of technology was born,

the Betamax tape recorder. At the time, broadcast TV was considered pretty ephemeral. A broadcast

happens, it goes out into the world, and it's never really seen again. One example,

Dr. Who fans out there apparently lament the last 97 episodes of the show

that were aired in the 60s and 70s, and that were, as a matter of routine, deleted from the BBC

archive never to be seen again. Because, I mean, who wants to watch a TV episode over again? Am I

right? I mean, you've seen it once.

So enter Marion Stokes and her Betamax machine in 1975.

She began recording bits of sitcom, science documentaries, and political news coverage. And as her son explains, from the outset of the Iran hostage crisis on November 4, 1979,

she hit record and she never stopped. Like, literally.

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