InterviewTime Podcast
Season 1
InterviewTime -05- Justin Horn - $GME part II Cohen's Cone Koan
InterviewTime -04- Justin Horn- $GME
InterviewTime -03- Bob Lyren- No Direction Home
InterviewTime -02- Ted Feighan- Monster Rally
by Michael Baron
At 11:57 AM on Wednesday, February 24th, six days after the House Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing on the GameStop trade, activist GameStop investor, Ryan Cohen, tweeted a cryptic photo of a McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream cone with a frog emoji. The stock price jumped from $44.70 to $91.71 a share, and $30 Million worth of trades happened in the final hour of the market that day. On Thursday the 25th, the stock soared to a daily high of $183 a share and 145 million shares were exchanged on the heaviest day of trading since January, 26th. Within 24 hours of Cohen’s tweet, GameStop had gained roughly $4.4 billion in value. Philosopher, Justin Horn, returns to discuss the evolution of the GameStop Trade, the fall-out from the congressional hearings, the real meaning of Cohen’s ice cream cone, and how social media, and newfound accessibility for retail investors, is creating a disruptive era of volatility and opportunity in the stock market. DISCLAIMER: The following program is an interview and discussion whose sole purpose was to better understand, from a cultural perspective, an unprecedented, and what may prove to be, historic situation, as it was unfolding. Neither the producer, nor the host, nor the guest, are financial services professionals. Nothing in this episode should be interpreted as investment advice. No investment decisions should be made from listening to the content of this program. Listeners should always practice their own careful due diligence research before making any investment decision. LINKS Ryan Cohen's Tweet https://twitter.com/ryancohen/status/1364650709669601289 r/GME https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/ r/wallstreetbets https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ GME Interactive Stock Chart w/ MACD Indicator https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/chart/ VIDEO House Committee on Financial Services- Full GameStop Hearings https://youtu.be/D7N4S_FKMq4 CNBC Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) - TA Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU8gIjWDPbg Binance Academy READ 06/20/2013 Wired Magazine: Richard Dawkins on the Internet's Hijacking of the Word "Meme" By Olivia Solon https://www.wired.co.uk/article/richard-dawkins-memes 01/28/21 The New Yorker: The GameStop Saga is Dangerous and All Too Familiar By John Cassidy https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-gamestop-saga-is-dangerous-and-all-too-familiar 02/18/21 WSJ: Lawmakers Home In on Role Top Executives Played in GameStop Frenzy By Juliet Chung https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/gamestop-stock-hearing-keith-gill-reddit-robinhood CREDITS Guest: Justin Horn Producer/ Host: Mike Baron Music: Olle Kö Recorded at Studio42 | Los Angeles
On December, 3Oth 2020, the stock price of fading video game retailer GameStop, was valued at $18.84 a share. By January, 28th 2021, fueled by amateur investors leveraging social media, and commission-free trades via the addictive, game-like investment app RobinHood, the stock price had risen 1700%, to an all-time high of $483 a share, briefly making the company, once popular with millennials for selling used video game cartridges in shopping malls, more valuable than Delta Airlines, and leveling tens of billions of dollars of losses to several high profile Wall Street Hedge Funds. My guest Justin Horn, an academic philosopher, became an early investor in GameStop after following the compelling research posted on a bawdy retail investment subreddit called Wall Street Bets, by a user named deepfuckingvalue, who had bet his entire $53,000 life savings, that the Hedge Funds had exposed themselves to a short squeeze, by short-selling roughly 140% of its shares. In this episode, Horn and I examine the underlying thesis of the GameStop trade, discuss its narrative, political, and historical dimensions, and explore the potentially fatal consequences of our society’s relationship with risk. DISCLAIMER: The following program is an interview and discussion whose sole purpose was to better understand, from a cultural perspective, an unprecedented, and what may prove to be, historic situation, as it was unfolding. Neither the producer, nor the host, nor the guest, are financial services professionals. Nothing in this episode should be interpreted as investment advice. No investment decisions should be made from listening to the content of this program. Listeners should always practice their own careful due diligence research before making any investment decision. LINKS r/wallstreetbets https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ wallstreetbets Congressional Hearings Megathread https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbe... READ 02/11/21 Wall Street Journal: GameStop Mania Is Focus of Federal Probes Into Possible Manipulation by Dave Michaels https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop... 02/18/21 Reuters Explainer: How were more than 100% of GameStop's shares shorted? by John McCrank https://www.reuters.com/article/retai... VIDEO YouTube Channel: Roaring Kitty (deepfuckingvalue) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pa... The Big Short SQUEEZE from $5 to $50? Could GameStop stock (GME) explode higher?? Value investing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alntJ... YouTube Channel: New Money Robinhood CEO GRILLED by Elon Musk Over Gamestop Controversy (Full ClubHouse Interview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aicDI... CREDITS Producer/ Host: Mike Baron Guest: Justin Horn Music: Olle Kö Recorded at Studio42 | Los Angeles CONTACT Email: mike@interviewtimepodcast.com IG: @interview_time_podcast Twitter: @_InterviewTime_
On January, 1st 2007, Bob Lyren, arrived in Manila on what was supposed to be a month-long vacation to visit friends. He stayed in Asia for the next 13 years, living and working for extended periods of time in the Philippines, Thailand, and most recently, Japan. In March of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, he was forced to return to his hometown in Ohio. However, instead of spending the lockdown isolated and indoors, Lyren decided to take an open-ended, solo motorcycle trip across the United States, documenting his journey in a moto vlog called “No Direction Home”. In this episode, Lyren and I discuss his adventures traveling and living as an expatriate in Asia. How engaging with, and assimilating into, foreign cultures has enriched his experiences living abroad, and how going out on the road, and into the unknown, is helping him find his way back home. LINKS No Direction Home https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVG... WATCH Easy Rider Directed by Dennis Hopper https://www.criterion.com/films/27528... No Direction Home (Documentary) Directed by Martin Scorsese https://www.netflix.com/title/70177496 https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast... The Fog of War Directed by Errol Morris http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow.html Lost in Translation Directed by Sofia Coppola https://www.lost-in-translation.com/ READ Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6449... CREDITS Producer/ Host: Mike Baron Guest: Bob Lyren Music: Olle Kö Recorded at Studio42 | Los Angeles CONTACT email: mike@interviewtimepodcast.com I G: @interview_time_podcast Twitter: @_InterviewTime_
Monster Rally is the creative ecosystem of Cleveland-based artist, designer, and producer Ted Feighan. Feighan scours thrift shops, estate sales, and used vinyl bins, for long-forgotten exotica, tropicalia, and obscure 60s South Asian pop records, re-contextualizing them into richly sampled instrumental hip hop albums, all of which are adorned with handmade collages of verdant jungle flora and fauna. Feighan creates a total sensory experience transporting the listener to a lush, tropical fantasy world filled with adventure, mystery, and playful jungle creatures. In this episode, Feighan and I discuss his latest release, Castaways, Vol 1, his creative life, and how by discovering the long-lost world of exotica, he found artistic freedom. LINKS Ted Feighan: https://monsterrally.co/ Valley Cruise Press: https://valleycruisepress.com/ LISTEN Monster Rally https://open.spotify.com/artist/3DtnSKmpjFGUzZcccWfG43 https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/music Forbidden Island by Martin Denny https://open.spotify.com/album/3t2Q1tgN2qDDnBdNd69dLQ Ritual of the Savage by Les Baxter https://open.spotify.com/album/6wdbjnAeQkRDwPzlM6HC3S Driver's Side Impact https://open.spotify.com/artist/0EJOU9fcMqXs6PCH6bprJl VIDEOS Monster Rally- Orchids (Official Video) Album: Return to Paradise https://youtu.be/dEORleb8Rxo Monster Rally- Full Performance (Live at KCPR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj_Il2FM6lI READ 2/18/11 RVA Magazine: Everybody Loves the Crackle of the Vinyl: A conversation with Monster Rally By Marilyn Drew Necci https://rvamag.com/music/everybody-loves-the-crackle-of-the-vinyl-a-conversation-with-monster-rally.html 8/16/2019 L.A. Weekly: “Art Pick: Overgrown at Subliminal Projects” By Shana Nys Dambrot https://www.laweekly.com/art-pick-ove... Monster Rally by Charles Addams https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... CREDITS Producer/ Host: Mike Baron Guest: Ted Feighan Music: InterviewTime Logo Tone by Olle Kö INTRO: "Philodendron Fields" by Monster Rally Album: Adventures on the Floating Island OUTRO: "Misty Sunset" by Monster Rally Album: Mystery Cove Recorded at Studio42 | Los Angeles CONTACT mike@interviewtimepodcast.com IG: @interview_time_podcast
LOOK HERE: https://www.instagram.com/regressiona... The elegantly composed, often darkly funny, photos of faded suburbia, aggressively overgrown landscaping, shattered infrastructure, and haunted strip malls, featured on Long Beach-based photographer Michael Wells' Instagram account, Regressionary Movements, feel as if they were taken in our civilization's not too distant future. Wells, trained as an architect, and is interested in the different, and strangely original ways people utilize, repurpose, and adapt the spaces, and landscapes around them. In this episode, Wells and I discuss his creative evolution as a photographer, the meaning of Regressionary Movements, and his important work examining the weaponization of the Sonoran desert along the Arizona/ Mexico Border . LINKS regressionarymovements https://www.instagram.com/regressiona... Michael Wells Website https://www.mwellsphoto.com Undocumented Migration Project https://www.undocumentedmigrationproj... https://linktr.ee/undocumentedmigrati... Hostile Terrain 94 https://www.undocumentedmigrationproj... The Land of Open Graves by Jason De Leon https://www.jasonpatrickdeleon.com/la... Righteous Dopefiend- By Philippe Bourgois + Jeff Schonberg https://www.ucpress.edu/book/97805202... City of Quartz by Mike Davis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of... The Grand Tour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_T... Abitare Magazine https://www.abitare.it/en/ Domus https://www.domusweb.it/en.html Textfield Magazine https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog... CREDITS Producer/ Host: Mike Baron Guest: Michael Wells Music: Olle Kö Recorded at Studio42 | Los Angeles CONTACT email: mike@interviewtimepodcast.com IG: @interview_time_podcast Twitter: @_InterviewTime_ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFfhqNPmmg33d2rndwz9bg