Michael. Peter. How familiar are you with meme stocks? Not super familiar, but I do know that if you want to get rich

It's very obvious that you should start with the place you also go to to buy a used copy of Banjo, Kazooie

We purposefully refused to commit to any particular subject matter for our bonus episodes, but I think we've largely stayed to this point

within the framework of like media critique and this is the first episode where the primary justification is that I just want to talk about this

I've been in a Reddit rabbit hole on this for two years on my own. I'm so excited. I'm losing my mind and now I have a platform and I'm just gonna dump it all on you and our listeners

The only reason I'm doing this is because this opens the door for me to eventually do an episode about Eurovision

I'm glad we made it

So this is basically the story of how a widely publicized breakout in the stock of the video game retailer GameStop in January 2021

grew into a full blown cult predicated around an elaborate conspiracy theory

I love this shit

So did you follow the original sort of GameStop stock run up in 2021?

All of this financial stuff I treat like sports people clearly care a lot about it, but like I don't get it

So it was one of those stories that I just looked at and was like no

I'm just not going to investigate what's actually going on here

My understanding was it was like there were some subreddits and it was like some dumbasses who were basically shorting the stock of GameStop

I guess

Yeah, that is the basics

I am going to start from the beginning here which is a little bit before

The events that sort of enter the media spotlight in 2019 a man named Keith Gill a financial analyst

Under the social media handles roaring kitty and deep fucking value

Started to publicize

On investing forums and on his youtube channel

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