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Let's SCREW the Stock Market! - WAN Show January 29, 2021

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Sign up with Privacy and enter to win a Alienware r15 R2 laptop at https://lmg.gg/bcI4H Get 25% off Malwarebytes Premium if you sign up for 2 years at https://geni.us/malwarebytes Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes to save you money at different online checkouts, try it now at https://www.joinhoney.com/linus Check out Carpool Critics, our new movie podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt-oJR5teQIjOAxCmIQvcgA Timestamps (Courtesy of MattDog_222) 0:00 Intro 0:14 Topic preview 1:59 Intro 2:35 Short summary/preview of review bombing 3:17 Introduction to Gamestop (GME) stock current events  3:52 Shorting a stock: definition/explanation  6:27 Short Explanation ( Part 2 )  8:12 What WallStreetBets is doing + Elon Musk's opinion  9:48 Original intention behind shorting  11:12 Gamestop + Robinhood + Redistribution of wealth  12:08 Some people had success + The main "winners"  13:10 WallStreetBets' Role model  14:53 Hedgefunds also charged interest, amongst other things  15:25 Linus's stock promise introduction/announcement   17:15 Ivan's story   18:26 Linus starts to get worried (To the moon)  19:33 Other "Meme stocks" + "Short squeezing"  20:32 AMC in particular  21:30 Linus's promise: Cost update (+Luke laughing)  22:11 Linus doesn't do many investments  23:50 How does Linus acquire GME? + Luke's prediction  24:45 Estimates of 5 Billion lost from short-sellers  25:05 Robinhood restricted GME + Class Action Lawsuit + Reviewbombing  27:07 Other meme-crap (Dogecoin)  27:27 Robinhood possibly selling some peoples shares + disclaimer  28:23 Elon added Bitcoin to his Twitter bio  29:15 Twitch/Floatplane chats suggests promise cap (50k)  30:08 Google removing negative Robinhood review  31:38 Luke's computer lag issues (story) 33:05 Sponsors  33:13 Honey  34:08 (Not a sponsor) - Activism investing  35:46 Malwarebytes Premium  36:40 Privacy + Alienware giveaway 37:42 Calling Yvonne (the wife)  39:01 The cost reveal (50k)  41:01 Yvonne's counter-argument  42:25 Intel has more returning talent (Sunil Shenoy + more)  43:02 Linus's Apple Watch Heart-Rate  45:02 Sunil's previous work at Intel + Other names  46:13 Pat Gensinger's quote 46:35 Apple Q1 record revenue ($150 Billion) 48:37 Alleged NVIDIA 3080TI 20GB leak 49:51 "Please stop sending money" - Linus 50:12 i9 11900kf leaked screenshots 51:40 Linus trying to plan when to buy GME stocks 52:10 LTT Still Hiring 53:04 More stock talk + various comments on it 55:34 LMG is NOT going public 56:46 LTT Store reminder 58:04 Conclusion 58:40 Outro 1 59:04 Outro 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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