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
It s like, i m sorry. you already have a certainamount. you can t buy more. and all of asudden you see a doom. and i m just like,what the fuck? - we re seeing reportsthat robinhood is restricting purchasesof some of these stocks, including gamestop andamc. chris garcia:i wake up that morning, right? one of my buddies hits me up,and he goes, hey, man. you can t buy.i m like, what do you meanyou can t buy? he goes, go on to robinhood. - kelly, robinhoodstopped trading. robinhood stopped trading.you need to sell. you need to take profits. reporter:robinhood and other online brokerages blocked usersfrom buying shares of gamestop and other shortedstocks. - that morning, i woke up tolike minus $10,000 or $15,000. and i was like, yeah, this isthe toughest hit i ve ever had. reporter: these sitessuddenly allowed users only to sell their positions,not to get new ones. reporter:robinhood put out a statement, quote, in lightof recent volatility, we are restrictingtransactions for certain securit
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. it s like, i m sorry. you already have a certainamount. you can t buy more. and all of asudden you see a doom. and i m just like,what the fuck? - we re seeing reportsthat robinhood is restricting purchasesof some of these stocks, including gamestop andamc. chris garcia:i wake up that morning, right? one of my buddies hits me up,and he goes, hey, man. you can t buy.i m like, what do you meanyou can t buy? he goes, go on to robinhood. - kelly, robinhoodstopped trading.
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. it s like, i m sorry. you already have a certainamount. you can t buy more. and all of asudden you see a doom. and i m just like,what the fuck? - we re seeing reportsthat robinhood is restricting purchasesof some of these stocks, including gamestop andamc. chris garcia:i wake up that morning, right? one of my buddies hits me up,and he goes, hey, man. you can t buy.i m like, what do you meanyou can t buy? he goes, go on to robinhood. - kelly, robinhoodstopped trading. robinhood stopped trading.you need to sell.