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Heads up before we get started.

There is some swearing in today's episode.

Also, this is a fast moving new 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 Bets.

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 doofuses 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 Bets 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.

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