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The Meme Stock Cult [TEASER]

If Books Could Kill

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Introduction

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. We purposefully refuse 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 media critique. The only reason I'm doing this is because this opens the door for me to eventually do an episode about Eurovision. It's just putting my mind and now I have a platform and I'm just going to dump it all on you and your listeners. Michael. Peter: How familiar are you with meme stocks? Not super familiar, but

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