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
and we d havelike over $2 million. $1 million doesn t seemenough for me anymore, right? the psychological impactthat this amount of money has, you see moneyin a different way. so i hold. i set my limit sellon all my accounts to $800. wednesday nightis the first night i went to sleep inlike fucking weeks. i don t think much is going to happenon thursday. fucking i was wrong. [music playing] woman: so i m at the gym,naturally all my stories. and this is beforethe 9:30 market opens. this is a thursday. and my portfolio is set. it s cute.so i m looking at it, and every single numberis popping, popping, popping. and isee gamestop hit i think it was like $467,$497, something like that. i m going in there. i m like, oh, maybe i llbuy one more amc.
and the original guys probablysold and made a lot of money. what was so scary to me, thebulk of the people that are participating in thisrevolution aren t investors. they re along for the ride and they relistening to their friend. in all likelihood,it will end ugly. matt kelly:i talked with my wife about like there s a reallystrong feeling that this can goto $1,000 a share. this whole thing, we can go to $1,000 a share and we d havelike over $2 million. $1 million doesn t seemenough for me anymore, right? the psychological impactthat this amount of money has, you see moneyin a different way. so i hold. i set my limit sellon all my accounts to $800. wednesday nightis the first night i went to sleep inlike fucking weeks. i don t think much is going to happenon thursday. fucking i was wrong. [music playing]
what was so scary to me, thebulk of the people that are participating in thisrevolution aren t investors. they re along for the ride and they relistening to their friend. in all likelihood,it will end ugly. matt kelly:i talked with my wife about like there s a reallystrong feeling that this can goto $1,000 a share. this whole thing, we can go to $1,000 a share and we d havelike over $2 million. $1 million doesn t seemenough for me anymore, right? the psychological impactthat this amount of money has, you see moneyin a different way. so i hold. i set my limit sellon all my accounts to $800. wednesday nightis the first night i went to sleep inlike fucking weeks. i don t think much is going to happenon thursday. fucking i was wrong. [music playing]