May 2026 Mailbag: Divvy-Pops, Jellybeans & the Kids of Kopachuk

**David Gardner** (0:00)
What does a giant Nvidia dividend increase have to do with a spiffy pop? Is GameStop secretly trying to become something the world has never seen before? What's the best lesson to learn from Warren Buffett after all these years? And could a middle school teacher in Gig Harbor, Washington, quietly be helping create the next generation of Rule Breaker investors?
Oh, and did I really guess twice the number of jelly beans in a jar because I used the wrong geometry formula? It's a delightfully motley set of questions, stories and reflections sparked by your notes throughout the month of May. It's now the last Wednesday of the month, so it's time for your mailbag, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:47)
It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool co-founder, David Gardner.

**David Gardner** (0:55)
Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. Let's look back over the month that was for this podcast. We kicked it off on May 6th with 10 years later, five winners in a thinking world. It was the first podcast I did this month joined by my longtime sidekick, Tim Byers from the Motley Fool. We went back exactly 10 years to the week to revisit five stocks I'd picked in May of 2016 and score what actually happened over a full decade. More than just the scorecard though, I explored why certain companies won and lost, what changed, what didn't, why a 10-year holding period remains to me anyway. It's a beautiful and under-appreciated timeframe to score yourself with your investing. Though I will say I do prefer it when we beat the market with my samplers and this one did not. Then came May 13th, second Wednesday of the month. What have you learned from David Gardner, Volume 7, my annual birthday tradition on this podcast? Once again, you all sent in thoughtful notes sharing what's stuck with you over the years. Everything from dips, wait for dips, and doing nothing during volatility to optimism, resilience, and the joy of investing itself. Many voices wait in, thank you so much, including a juggling surgical oncologist, a foolish leprechaun, and sure yes, a Scotsman, all making appearances. I want to thank you again, each of you, who took the time to write in. Thank you so much, it was a very happy birthday, full on. And then last week, well, I went a little crazy. May 20th, 60 thoughts as I turn 60 20 thoughts about investing, 20 business, 20 about life. Somehow packed a podcast that was, what was exactly 60 minutes, except the podcast ad tipped us over to 61 minutes. We ranged from spiffy pops and the ship of fools to optionality, divergence and convergence, Steve Jobs, Shakespeare, optimism, self-actualization, and why what wins in investing tends to win in business and in life too. And just as I did with my Rule Breaker Investing book in the fall of last year when it came out, well, I tried to do the same thing with last week's podcast, and that is in sports terms to leave it all out there on the field. So my hope is twofold. First of all, I hope you enjoyed last week's podcast. And second, I hope it might be worthy of a re-listen at some point, maybe a month from now or a year or a decade. And that was the month that was for this podcast. All right. And as we are one to do, we're gonna do a few TwitterX hot takes before our six mailbag items this particular week. Again, to follow us on TwitterX, we're at RBI Podcast. I'm at David G Fool. If you'd like to follow me, you can subscribe to this podcast and give us a like or a follow any time you're feeling it, whether you're using Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, etc.
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