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It's today explained. I'm Sean Ramos for a maybe you heard that GameStop stock had skyrocketed

something like 1700% this month. Probably you're wondering how. Wondering if the stock

market is just an elaborate lie. Definitely that's the subject of the show today. Emily

Stewart is here to explain she covers business and politics at Vox and she's going to start

with what exactly a GameStop is in case you've been shopping exclusively on Amazon your

entire life. So GameStop is a store. You've ever been to the mall you've probably seen

one. So it's a GameStore right where people buy games. So like games run games things

like that. Video games not like connect for.

Correct video games. GameStop. Fired to the players.

And so it is headquartered in Texas and there are still more than 5,000 stores. You might

not know because you probably haven't been to the mall in a while. We're dying before

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