Meme Stocks or Manipulation?

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

News, Business, Business News, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0	Nicole, take his snacks, so I have no food.
0:01.8	Wait, type one?
0:03.3	They eat in here all the fucking time.
0:00.6	We don't eat in here. Oh, yeah? No food in the studio. What do you think? Oh, I just see you. Hey, it's over. They're in here every duck. And then they clear off. They're fastidious. They're fissidious. They're very neat. Feeling good. Test test.
0:01.4	Anybody need anything. I'm fit.
0:02.7	So Jeff Bezos by, Edge. They're very neat. Feeling good. Just, test. Anybody need anything.
0:18.1	I'm fit. So, Jeff Bezos buys CMBC. Good for me or great for me? Great for you. It is, right? Yeah. Why do you, walk inside? Do you think that? I don't want that. Oh. Don't you think he wouldn't? I'll get a minute. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow.
0:19.0	He was in his mouth. Joshua spit food on the table.
0:20.6	Not food, it's a man. Oh. Don't you think he wouldn't... I'll get on. Oh, wow. Wow.
0:37.5	Wow.
0:38.1	He was in his mouth.
0:39.2	Josh just spit food on the table.
0:40.8	Not food. It's immense. It's a mint that doesn't count. I feel like he would like me. If he like flipped on the channel for an hour, he'd be like, who's that guy? Keep that guy. He would love you. especially on
0:34.5	maybe he gets
0:36.0	your new jet ski
0:36.6	isn't that a genius
0:37.3	acquisition for him
0:38.4	yes
0:38.7	why I don't get it
0:39.9	it's the world's leader in business news. It's the channel is on everywhere in the world. Why should he own it? It's a message because it's a messaging platform. Because somebody should own it. And it's not exactly selling it the highest ever evaluation, right? And no cable TV news is.
1:13.8	Right. It peaked. Do you know what the price tag would be? Take your Goss.
1:16.7	Well, I think last I checked, it was a billion plus and revenue. Well, it's, it's, it's combined
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