Heads up before we get started, there is some swearing in today's episode.

Also, this is a fast-moving news story where numbers are changing quickly.

Well, tell me a little bit about yourself, I guess, as much as you're comfortable telling me.

Sure. I'm a software engineer in the Southwest.

This guy, we're going to call him Jason. He's a 36-year-old dad.

Jason is not his real name, but we agreed to give him a pseudonym because we're talking

about a subreddit he's on called Wall Street Betts, a subreddit that is at the center

of the chaotic last few days in the stock market. And he didn't really want his employer

to know about all of this. I asked him what he thought the first time he went on Wall Street

bets. My impression was that these guys are absolute duffices and it's hilarious.

It's difficult to describe without swearing because they swear about themselves so much.

It's okay. It's a podcast. You can swear.

Wall Street Betts is like a lot of Reddit in that there are a bunch of people with screen names like Dr. Blunt or my mom looks at this.

But these people are there to talk about investing, mostly day trading.

Okay. Well, lately this deep fucking value guy has been posting really in-depth due diligence.

Like, this guy clearly knows what he's doing, but also he's called deep fucking value.

Like, you get the weirdest dichotomy on there where there's it's incredibly childish and immature

and you think, well, this is, this might be a really vile place, but then everybody's posting

their losses and is very, you know, upbeat about it.

What Jason's saying is, it's a community.

And this community helped push the stock for GameStop, the video game chain you might remember from the mall, which hasn't even been doing that well.

They helped push that stock up more than 600% in two weeks.

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