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Hi, I'm Richard Ortega.

I've been a member for three years.

My occupation is an actor in Hollywood.

Voiceover actor.

I did a lot of reading.

I did some Motley fool, mainly reading.

I didn't speak to anybody in particular, and sort of struggle along to really get a handle on a very big subject.

Great.

I've developed a wonderful connection with Justin Lam and Brandon Gittles.

And I sometimes think it's really interesting because we are literally three different generations.

One is 26, brand is 26.

Justin is somewhere in his 40s, and I'm now 63 nearly.

And, it's been very beneficial to me and I think to them, I hope, but making sure that my mindset and how I think about things doesn't get too old or too young or too whatever.

And we, have a text thread along with, Justin's bot that we've had for probably going on six months now.

And it's very fun.

And we debate stocks.

Life one of them through a of, unemployment and, say, you're a great guy, you're fantastic.

So it's been very supportive and I've learned a lot from them.

Yeah.

certainly our sessions are always really wonderful.

I think it's when people.

Well, one moment when one member reached out to me and asked me for help with something that maybe they weren't as familiar with as I was, and that was very gratifying.

It felt like I was doing some good for somebody else kind of a service.

And I've received, certainly received a lot of information from other people furthering what I do and how I invest and how I think about things.

So, yes, that moment when somebody reached out and said, look, I'm doing this, it's not working.

What is your experience with this?

And that really, was very touching, quite honestly, I have this community, I've made some great friends.

and it's funny, after three years of seeing people in boxes, I joke around.

It's like, you all have torsos.

This is fantastic.

And, certainly this weekend meeting for the first time, it felt like I know these people, strangely enough, and I'd never actually met them.

And this has been, really, I think this is a wonderful community.

alright, last question.

Just do it.

I brought somebody in last month and he took me out to lunch, three days ago to thank me for bringing him into the community.

And he's learned so much already.

He's using now.

He left his advisor, actually his financial advisor.

And from what he's learned from our community, from Justin's wonderful work, he is now doing his own investing and saving 1%.

And he said this community is worth it.

This is what he told me.

It's so worth what I've learned already and I've only been doing it for a month.

So again, helping each other and furthering each other's goals and just the revelation.

There's so many smart people in here, so many good people.

Well, my name is Gio McDonald and, I've been a member for.

I think I'm going to go two years Well, I actually started with the monthly Fools but then it was more like a.

It was up to you pretty much.

And, I think once I found out that you guys were doing this, and I'm not so sure how I did, I'm not so sure if it was because.

yeah, you guys had.

You guys have a stock simplifier online.

And I think after that I started getting curious as to what you guys were doing and then that's kind of how I got involved.

A moment of being part of the community or being part of a stock investing mentor that, that it was memorable.

I think what you guys have built is it provides us with an arena where we can actually go in and, and be players and, and experience and test things for ourselves and find out things that we couldn't have done otherwise.

I will encourage them to join, without a doubt.

Yeah.

I will tell them.

Join.

Just join.