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who just got fed upwith the world, got fedup with being told go to college,get a job, make a living. you know,it is really frustrating. the boomers,they think we're lazy. you know the whole term, pull up your bootstrapsand work hard and you get the same lifethat they had? no. the world is very,very different these days. hell, the next pandemicin 2025 might wipe us all out anyways. i ain't got timeto wait for retirement. you got to will itinto existence. life's just not fair.the world is a harsh place and the stock market was justthe purest form of yolo. [music playing] reporter: stoc...

what's the story to you? - [sighs] i think the story is abouta group of idiots, a very large group of idiots, who just got fed upwith the world, got fedup with being told go to college,get a job, make a living. frankly,that's just not realistic for our generation. you know,it is really frustrating. the boomers,they think we're lazy. you know the whole term, pull up your bootstrapsand work hard and you get the same lifethat they had? no. the world is very,very different these days. hell, the next pandemicin 2025 might wipe us all out anyways. i ain't got timeto wait for retirement. yo...

I didn't know what to do. you know, iwent from working, owning a business,working 60, 70, 80 hours a weekto i can't do anything. and i thought, at the time, i had little extra moneyin the savings account. so i thought, it's justsitting there in the savings account. let me see what it can doon the market. maybe if i'm smart,pull a warren buffett move, it'll take its timebut i'll get some winners. you never know untilyou play the game, right? matt kelly:we had $1,000 to our name. we were behind on rent. my car had justgotten repossessed. i'm also working on getting my va disabilityback pay from ...

To our name. we are behind on rent, my car had just gotten repossessed. i'm also working on getting my va disability, back from 2015. literally two weeks after i did that, $100,000 shows up in my bank account. and my jaw hits the floor. i was like, this is life-saving. i'm already on reddit looking at, how do i invest a windfall? you read 50 or hundred comments, and you just take the most common one. pay off your vehicles, put the remainder of rate in vanguard, total market funds. at this point, i had never invested anything ever. >> so, i was spending every day just kind of looking at numbers...

Matt kelly:we had $1,000 to our name. we were behind on rent. my car had justgotten repossessed. i'm also working on getting my va disabilityback pay from 2015. literally, two weeksafter i did that, $100,000 shows up in my bankaccount, and my jaw hits the floor. my wife and i are like,this is life-changing. i'm already on redditlooking at, how do i invest a windfall? you know, you read 50,100 comments and you takelike the most common one-- "open a roth ira,""pay off your vehicles," "put the remainder of itin a vanguard total market fund," right? at this point, i had neverinvested anything, eve...