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 starts going up from it starts going $40, $50,$60, $70. it goes up to like $180that day. i m sitting therewatching the ticker, and i m like,i need to do this now. i need tosell out, because i was in other stuff.and i was like, i need to sell for a lossand get back in right now. and ifucking do it. and i m holding 2,000 sharesagain of gamestop. i m not selling it for lessthan what i think it s worth, and whati think it s worth is way more than what they wantto pay for it. so i m holding fora million dollars a share. i m holding for the moass,the squeeze. nobody knowswhat it can go to. this has neverhappened before, and it probably will neverhappen again. it could come now. it could come infive years from now. it s turned into along-term investment for me. [explosion] i m hoping this is the biggesttransfer of wealth
he fucking doubled downon his position. and i m like, jen.i m going back in. [music playing] (singing) 1, 2. 1, 2. 0, 2.1, open. 3. matt kelly:it was the end of february. i just told my jobi m leaving. we re goingand we re moving the texas. we re buyinga new house. and it shoots back up. so literally, the same day,like 20 minutes before it starts going up from it starts going $40, $50,$60, $70. it goes up to like $180that day. i m sitting therewatching the ticker, and i m like,i need to do this now. i need tosell out, because i was in other stuff.and i was like, i need to sell for a lossand get back in right now. and ifucking do it. and i m holding 2,000 sharesagain of gamestop. i m not selling it for lessthan what i think it s worth,
and i m like, jen.i m going back in. [music playing] (singing) 1, 2. 1, 2. 0, 2.1, open. 3. matt kelly:it was the end of february. i just told my jobi m leaving. we re goingand we re moving the texas. we re buyinga new house. and it shoots back up. so literally, the same day,like 20 minutes before it starts going up from it starts going $40, $50,$60, $70. it goes up to like $180that day. i m sitting therewatching the ticker, and i m like,i need to do this now. i need tosell out, because i was in other stuff.and i was like, i need to sell for a lossand get back in right now. and ifucking do it. and i m holding 2,000 sharesagain of gamestop. i m not selling it for lessthan what i think it s worth,