Old, New, Borrowed & Blue, Vol. 11

**David Gardner** (0:00)
Every once in a blue moon, or a new moon, or an old moon, or a borrowed moon, I cue up a hodgepodge of points that I wanna share. They're not really related to each other, they're a hodgepodge, but I force them to fit into this mold. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. You probably know the expression, don't you? It's what brides traditionally are supposed to wear on their wedding day for good luck. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. And while I won't be providing this on this podcast, you're also supposed to have a silver sixpence in your shoe. Of course, if you wanna locate a dime or a quarter and slip it in your shoe for this week's podcast, I won't stop you. It might even give you better luck. But anyway, as September begins to close out, our summer here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to crank back up this episodic series, Old, New, Borrowed and Blue. We're gonna talk about a world series lesson for investors and a new home for an old investing truth. We're gonna talk about your most improbable life and the surprisingly rule-breakery Blueberry.
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:18)
It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder, David Gardner.

**David Gardner** (1:27)
Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. And I'm gonna welcome myself back to the United States of America, because for the last 10 days or so, I've been traveling in London, in the UK, and then in Dublin, in Ireland. And I had so much fun with friends, new and old. Speaking of something old, something new, at Investicon, the Dublin-based one-day investor conference for, I would say for capital F, foolish investors. People like me, I hope you too, people playing the long game, people who believe picking stocks is a worthy discipline. You can do better than the averages and sharing information with each other as to where the world's headed and what might be a good stock pick. So Investicon was so much fun. I want to thank in particular Emmett Savage. I was honored to have him as my interviewer. As we spent 45 minutes together in front of the audience, there was a fun panel. The entire event was exquisite from start to finish. It was at an old pub in Dublin and I just, I loved it. So thank you again to the Investicon crew, to My Wall Street, which is the company behind Investicon. Thank you for the invitation. And if you're a college football fan, you might know that I went to the University of North Carolina and they played a football game in Dublin. A couple of days later, so I hung around to watch that and wow, my team actually won for once. So this was a delightful time, 10 days in August spent in the UK and Ireland. And yeah, I'm just back now. I think I got like three hours of sleep last night, because yeah, I'm not awesome at adjusting my hours when I take planes over and back long distances. Maybe you are. And if you have a tip, by the way, for me, our mailbag is rbi at fool.com. That's the Rule Breaker Investing mailbag. There are five Wednesdays here in September, and the fifth Wednesday will be your mailbag. So if you find yourself moved by anything we talk about, old, new, borrowed, blue this episode, if you have a tip on better ways to handle long distance flights, I mean, it wasn't a big problem for me, but I find I never really can get a sound night's sleep. The first couple of nights in either direction, rbi at fool.com. I just mentioned September. Yeah, five Wednesdays, one of them will be the Market Cap game show. So I'm certainly excited about the Market Cap game show, as I always am in a few weeks. Welcome two more challengers to next year's Final Four. I also want to mention next week's podcast. We'll be looking back 10 years later at five low-risk stocks for the year ahead. So one of those, let's see how stock picks 10 years ago did. As of next week, I'll have the updated numbers, stories and lessons as always. One thing I love about Rule Breaker Investing is, I think we're playing like the only game out there. I'm not sure of any other podcasts that are reviewing live picks made on that podcast 10 years later. In fact, if you know of one, I'd love to meet them. We should have them on this podcast, rbi at fool.com. All right, old, new, borrowed and blue. And we're going to start, of course, with old. I recently came across this essay, something that I'd shared with Motley Fool Stock Advisor members 17 years ago. And it read like yesterday. And I just thought, it makes such a good point. It's a timeless point, one that could be made in any given year. So I'm warming this one back out of cold storage as I bring you the opener to the April 2009 issue of Motley Fool Stock Advisor. And I wrote the following on baseball's opening day of 2008 The Philadelphia Phillies opened at home before a sellout crowd, gave up five runs in the ninth inning, and lost 11 to 6 The next game, again before their home fans, they couldn't muster a single run, and they lost one to nothing. Those two losses were to none other than the Washington Nationals, the single worst team as it turned out in Major League Baseball that year.