Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's the Motley Fool Money

radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week's Senior Endless Andy Cross and Ron

Gross. Good to see you. It was always gentleman. Hey Chris.

You doing Chris. We've got the latest earnings from Wall Street. We've got the latest

vaccine news from Johnson and Johnson and as always we've got a couple of stocks on our

radar. But we begin with America's hottest news soap opera as GameStop turns. This week

an escalating drama on Wall Street became front page news across America and around the

world. GameStop is by most measures a challenged bricks and mortar retailer that sells video

games. Because of that it is one of the most heavily shorted stocks in the market. But

retail investors led by a Reddit community called Wall Street Betts has been steadily

buying shares of GameStop, pushing up the price and forcing short sellers to run for

the exits. This week shares of GameStop are up more than 400 percent year to date so

far. Shares up nearly 2000 percent. Ron, I'll start with you. There are so many angles

to this story. We have hedge funds on one side. We have retail investors on the other.

We have Robin Hood somewhere in the middle. As an experienced investor, what do you think

as you watch all of this play out? Oh boy. This is this is different. A few thoughts

here. So I love the sharing of information and how social media has changed that

game. No problem with that. I love that individual investors, especially young individual investors,

are becoming more interested in the stock market. Wonderful. I don't think all hedge funds

are the devil. I think shorting does provide some benefits such as liquidity and the ability

to hedge your portfolio. But importantly, I don't think what the Wall Street Betts folks

...