Rule Breaker Investing: Old, New, Borrowed & Blue, Vol. 10

In this podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner brings back a few life hacks, peeves, and perks from past episodes; introduces a new financial holiday -- National Share Day -- imagining a country where every American becomes an owner; borrows a passage from his book to explore how AI may (or may not) fit into Rule Breaker investing; and closes with a blue reflection on the rise and fall of Bed Bath & Beyond -- and asks, was this the very first stock The Motley Fool ever shorted? To catch full episodes of all The Motley Fool's free podcasts, check out our podcast center . When you're ready to invest, check out this top 10 list of stocks to buy . A full transcript is below. This podcast was recorded on Dec. 10, 2025. David Gardner: 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 want to 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. While I won't be providing this on this podcast, you're also supposed to have a silver sixpence in your shoe. Now, if you want to locate a dime or a quarter and slip it into your shoe for this week's podcast, I think you might have even better luck. Anyway, as the winter here in the northern hemisphere begins to crank itself up, I'm cranking back up this recurring episodic series for Rule Breaker Investing. Once again, our tenth volume. We're going to talk about life hacks. I still swear by and a brand new holiday idea for America. We'll borrow an answer to the question. Won't artificial intelligence do all our investing for us and take a look through a blue lens at a fallen star stock, a beam stock, no less, that was actually the first short in Motley Fool history? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing. Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. If you are a gamer, I sure hope you were with me last week. My once-a-year Games podcast this time, Volume 7, was really fun to do, and as I went through more than a dozen games for that podcast, I was thinking about all the games I didn't get to speak to. For example, splendor. I was just looking at my game shelves, seeing the game splendor. Today, I was thinking about Splendor, a fast, elegant strategy game. You're collecting colorful gemstone tokens. You use them to buy cards that, well, each card you purchase makes it easier to buy better cards later, so you're growing an economic engine that grows stronger...

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