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
crazy.i was telling my friends who ve been investedin a long time. like look, this is i can barely explain it. i sound like i m some qanoninsane person. i m like, yeah,there s this guy, ryan cohen, who s like doing thisand that. and the shorting, i don t evenknow if that means, but that s what is happening.and they re like, dude, you know. i go to my wife and i m like, hey, i really think this couldgo up to like 50 bucks or so. it s at like $13 now. i thinkthat s like a given. i think that will happenfor sure. i mean, maybe even $100.that would be insane. i think i m just going to put a halfof everything in it. she s like, why don t youjust go all in? i was like,what are you talking about? she s like, well, if you feelthis way, go all in, right? -you really do only live once. you only have one shot. so like you might as well dosomething fucking crazy and memorable, because if it s crazyand memorable, people remember that shit. because if you do stuff,the boring, bullshit,
announced today that it willclose up to 200 stores by the end of the year. - that s pretty sad.- like, it could go bankrupt. that was alwayskind of the bear case. matt kelly: my hunches keptgetting confirmed, a little bit at a time. most of my friends i wastelling about it thought i was crazy.i was telling my friends who ve been investedin a long time. like look, this is i can barely explain it. i sound like i m some qanoninsane person. i m like, yeah,there s this guy, ryan cohen, who s like doing thisand that. and the shorting, i don t evenknow if that means, but that s what is happening.and they re like, dude, you know. i go to my wife and i m like, hey, i really think this couldgo up to like 50 bucks or so. it s at like $13 now. i thinkthat s like a given. i think that will happenfor sure. i mean, maybe even $100.that would be insane. i think i m just going to put a halfof everything in it. she s like, why don t youjust go all in?