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: 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
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. 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: 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 capi
the motherof all short squeezes. - good evening, newly-mintedreddit millionaires. i m sure all of youare watching this from the marble bathtubson your hovercraft. - i didn t think i was oneto get swept up by the greed and the ego,but i was. anyone who can stomach $10 million swings in theirportfolio is sort of crazy. - has everybody been followingthis crazy gamestop - gamestop. - gamestop is a storeat a mall. it s between the claire sand the orange julius. kirsten: my parents hadcalled me and asked me if i was in gamestopand how this was affecting me. and i was like, yeah, i m making a shitton of money this week. that s what s happeningwith gamestop. i had made so much money, i told my dad,let s go to florida. - i m seeing $200,000,$300,000 in my roth ira, $300,000in my td ameritrade account.
- gamestop. - gamestop is a storeat a mall. it s between the claire sand the orange julius. kirsten: my parents hadcalled me and asked me if i was in gamestopand how this was affecting me. and i was like, yeah, i m making a shitton of money this week. that s what s happeningwith gamestop. i had made so much money, i told my dad,let s go to florida. - i m seeing $200,000,$300,000 in my roth ira, $300,000in my td ameritrade account. like ok, we re taking this money and buying cryptoand buying you i started investingin wine and stuff. [laughs] - you know, you re messingwith your boys. hey, man, what color ferrariswe getting? like da, da, da.because i m like,i m not selling this. i m like, i want$15,000 a share. - surprise. [laughs] gamestop s up about 5x from when i uploadedthose videos over the summer,
it did hit $420. ladies and gentlemen, themagic $420 has been achieved. it has been achieved.congratulations. you were here. when oh, $420.69.take a screenshot. take a screenshot. [music playing] sir jackalot:the esteemed $420. people were saying $1,000is not a dream anymore. $1,000 is not a meme. it s been likethis fairy tale, this myth. the motherof all short squeezes. - good evening, newly-mintedreddit millionaires. i m sure all of youare watching this from the marble bathtubson your hovercraft. - i didn t think i was oneto get swept up by the greed and the ego,but i was. anyone who can stomach $10 million swings in theirportfolio is sort of crazy. - has everybody been followingthis crazy gamestop