It's Friday. What more do you need to know? You're in the right place folks because this is where the money is.

Welcome to the show. Like I said, it is indeed Friday. I'm Matt Kopenheffer. This is David Hanson. David Heather, our trusted producer, is out of the office today. So we've got a little bit of a special show format. It's still Friday. It's still interview day.

We've got a great interview today from Mike Olson, who works on our million dollar portfolio product.

But first, let's do some mailbags. We've got three mailbags here. Let's start off with the first one. This email is from Mark. Mark writes,

Hey guys, great show. I just bought my first stocks ever. Progressive. I did this based on

Inside Values recommendation and my own research. They had just paid their dividend and

their 10K and conference call were going to happen the next day.

Progressive is now up around 2%.

I thought their annual report looked good.

The company seems to be very good at managing risk and I like how they have a slight upper

hand over other companies

because they sell directly to the consumer allowing for a higher margin like

GEICO. I think Progressive definitely has the potential to grow over the next

few years. What do you guys think

David what do you think got to applaud him for buying the first stock right yeah

that's huge that's huge I mean regardless how that turns out that is that is that's a great way to learn by it

make sure to to record thoughts in an investing journal of some sort know why you

did it so that you can go back and look at it and evaluate in retrospect but that's a big deal so Mark

Wait where's our there we go and the inside value we had Joe Magger on a couple weeks ago

Yeah, a very trusted mind there.

We're big fans of Inside Value here.

They've got a lot of financials in that portfolio of recommendations.

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