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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...

Life's just not fair.the world is a harsh place and the stock market was justthe purest form of yolo. [music playing] reporter: stocks up againthis morning, 12%. short sellerscontinue to get hurt by the thread wallstreetbets and other retail-- [interposing voices] reporter: all this whiningby wall street, it's making me sick. reporter: this is populismcoming for capitalism. gamestop. matt kelly: on surface,i can be pretty scattered. in the water, though,it's calming for me, because you're seeing out ofa little hole, right, and everything is quiet.

Do you haveinvestment accounts you don't understand or pay attention to becauseyour meaningless desk job is all the excitementyou need? or are you atrader? [interposing voices] matt kelly:i loved the sentiment of wallstreetbets.i loved it. i was like,these guys are fucking nuts. [music playing] man: in a small,exceptionally unhelpful, and irreverent cornerof the internet, therein lies a battalionof nihilistic meme lords who discuss their positionsand strategies, speculate and argueover the markets moving, and provide sage advice to the humble stock trader who just so happens to stumbleupon thi...

You don't want to overreactor try to steal a ball and risk a foulin the key moments. you want to beextremely disciplined. and everything that you weretrained to do-- so i was training myself to look for this momentof euphoria. and then rightbefore after-hours, elon tweeted "gamestonk!!" reporter:the leader of this revolution? many of these small guysare pointing to elon musk. man: the god, the king,the meme master himself, elon musk has tweeted aboutgamestop and wallstreetbets. we are on his map. [launch sounds]

Total market fund," right? at this point, i had neverinvested anything, ever. - so i was spending every day just kind oflooking at numbers and seeing portfolioson the phone. and it's like,ok, so airbnb is, like, $176. under armour is $17. and i'm looking at thesethings and i'm like, well, what can istart investing in? matt kelly:i was on reddit looking atall these different things, and then i started comingacross wallstreetbets. [typing noise] - so i'm on reddit and it'slike r/wallstreetbets, like the slash. and i'm like, well,what's wallstreetbets? [music playing] man:dear viewer, do you mone...