Mailbag, incl: Give me a reason for optimism! April 5, 2026

**SPEAKER_2** (0:07)
This is the Motley Fool Money Mailbag.

**Scott** (0:10)
Welcome to Motley Fool Money. Yes, it is our special Sunday morning Mailbag edition. And I say is in a positive sense, in a presumptive sense, because as we said on Friday, we hadn't heard what happened on Thursday lunchtime and Donald Trump's announcement or any response to that. So we hope we're all still here. If we are, then thank you for listening to our very special Sunday morning Mailbag edition, which is despite all of the macroeconomic and geopolitical goings on, still special because it's Sunday, because it's the Mailbag, because I'm joined by this man, Andrew Ram Page, and because, well, less special, but notable, daylight savings. Finished, mate.

**Andrew Ram Page** (0:46)
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, the good thing is it's an extra hour of sleep in the eye. Like there's a lot of, I can't do the math.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:51)
There's a lot of hours in a year.

**Andrew Ram Page** (0:54)
I bet I'm not a morning person.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:57)
And that one, like, yes, I love daylight savings, but I do love that extra hour.

**Andrew Ram Page** (1:03)
Can I tell you once, this is probably 20 years ago, there was some stupid finance conference, otherwise things I used to hate going to, but had to go to. And it was on a Sunday. It was, you know, is at the Darling Harbor Pavilion or something like that. And it was the day that the clocks changed.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:23)
And I rocked up.
Like an hour early. And I'm not forget, 20 years later, I still think it was like, oh, I could have slipped in.

**Andrew Ram Page** (1:30)
And so there, you know, anyway, I'm just saying there's a silver lining. And, you know, at least we're not in Queensland, where they don't conform to rationality.

**Scott** (1:41)
Well, the good thing for Queenslanders though, is the curtains don't fade like ours do.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:44)
Sorry, it's too easy.

**Scott** (1:46)
The curtains don't fade like ours, so there's that.

**Andrew Ram Page** (1:48)
That's true. The cows have got a better sense of things.

**Scott** (1:50)
Cows are happier, cows are happier.
One of those kids wouldn't understand things now, is like we had to actually change the clock manually, kids. Like the alarm clock was like, you might change the clock before you went to bed, so you woke up at the right time, and then you just wake up from your phone and your watch were already spot on. What's the issue?

**Andrew Ram Page** (2:05)
It's also that time of the year where my car clock becomes correct again.

**Scott** (2:13)
That is the, yeah, and the microwave clock and the oven clocks are going to be fixed at my place. There's a couple of things.

**Andrew Ram Page** (2:17)
Yes.

**Scott** (2:18)
Doing some attention is just a lot fewer than used to be the case.

**Andrew Ram Page** (2:20)
Well, you just don't change them and then you write for six months of the year and then you're off by an hour.

**Scott** (2:24)
You've got to remember that exactly. Which one? Which one is it?
My beautiful wife and I have a conversation, relatively recently, what time is it really? Say, what's really, no time. This time. Yeah, right. But what does it mean? What you mean before does, after does, I don't know. It's like, oh, anyway.

**Andrew Ram Page** (2:39)
It's all relative, man. Einstein told us that.

**Scott** (2:41)
The only good thing, well, not the only good thing. One good thing about not having a toddler around the house anymore is they adjust their body clocks a lot easier when they're older than when they were younger. Because there was always that idea of like, you know, they have to go to bed earlier, wake up later. And that two or three days worth of trying to get them on a new sleep schedule was always a thing.

**Andrew Ram Page** (2:57)
I do not miss that. As much as the teenage years are a barrel of monkeys, I do not miss that.

**Scott** (3:04)
I don't think it's better. I'm just saying it's different.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:06)
Yes, yes.

**Scott** (3:07)
All right. Hey, speaking of teenage years, this is a cool question. This one comes from Leo.
Hi, I'm Leo, and I'm 12 I might be the first person to message you who hasn't listened to the podcast yet. My dad and brother listen regularly. So I thought I would ask a question. That is awesome, Leo. Look, hopefully dad and your brother will play this episode because otherwise we've wasted each other's time, but I'm sure they will. So I love it. And Leo, thanks for caring. Thanks for writing in. And hey, dad and brother, thanks for hooking Leo in to hopefully what will be a lifetime of investing from here. Leo says, I was just wondering how I should invest. Should I put money in a company that might go up because I have a new product coming out and then sell it? Or is that wrong? I have a friend who is telling me to do that with Samsung because they're releasing a new phone. But what's the best way to invest in a quick money or long term money? At the moment, I'm investing in iShares S&P 500 ETF and Apple. Thanks from Leo. Leo, you're a gem, mate. Well done and good start. The iShares ETF will look after you beautifully. Hopefully, Apple will as well. And a really good question. Ram, should we be trying to pick product releases and try and make some money that way given these mates telling them to do it?