Stonktime: r/WallStreetBets And GameStop
Endless Thread
WBUR
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🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The subreddit r/WallStreetBets has been at the center of a national story this week involving GameStop and a couple of angry hedge funds. To help us understand what’s happening, we call up Planet Money co-host Robert Smith. Then, we speak to Redditor u/Hungry_Freaks-Daddy who hopped on board the GameStop train earlier this week and says he has nothing to lose.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston |
| 0:12.0 | Amory. |
| 0:13.0 | Open. |
| 0:14.0 | We're supposed to be off. |
| 0:16.0 | We're supposed to be on break. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, well working ahead. |
| 0:19.0 | I mean we're not just like... |
| 0:21.0 | Right, no, we're not just like eating chicken tenders. |
| 0:24.0 | We're supposed to be on break and break from publishing. |
| 0:29.0 | Right. |
| 0:30.0 | But then this incredible... |
| 0:33.0 | I say incredible at... |
| 0:35.0 | Probably like in the true meaning of the term. |
| 0:38.0 | Like, how is this happening? |
| 0:41.0 | Story falls into... |
| 0:44.0 | Falls before us. |
| 0:45.0 | And we can't... |
| 0:47.0 | We can't turn it down. |
| 0:48.0 | We can't look away. |
| 0:50.0 | So we had to do... |
| 0:51.0 | Amory, I know you know what I'm about to say. |
| 0:53.0 | We had to do... |
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