hotel room
and tried to isolate myself.
Wait, what do you mean "isolate"?
I closed the windows,
I unplugged everything in the room...
the telephone, TV, clock, radio, everything.
I didn't want to take the chance
of running into someone I knew...
or seeing something on the news
that might....
If we're dealing with causality,
and I don't even know for sure.
-I just....
-What?
-Took myself out of the equation.
-Err on the side of caution.
Yes.
Then what did you do all day?
-I just sat there. I had some books, but....
-What? Were you nervous?
Yeah.
It's mind-numbing, all the second-guessing.
"Evacipate."
At 3:30 p.m.,
I stopped by Williams Medical Supply.
Picked up a Class E oxygen tank and mask.
I called my mutual fund company and asked
which stock in their mid-cap fund...
had the greatest percentage gain that day.
The idea was just to get enough information
for one good trade.
Can we just download chart data
and trade on each movement?
But if we do that, I want to use the library
in Russellfield, use their computers.
So, I got to the storage room at about 3:15
and cut off the power to the box.
It cycled down to a tolerable level
at about 3:19.
The trick is to get in
after it reaches a comfortable level...
but before it shuts off completely.
There's a window there.
So, does it hurt?
Yeah, it does a little.
It's not bad if you wait for the right time.
It's like a small static shock.
-Once you're in, you're fine, though.
-What?
I know you've done it,
and I can only assume that you don't have...
cancer or male impotence.
But what is your opinion
on how safe this thing is?
I can imagine no way
in which this thing would be...
considered anywhere remotely close to safe.
All I know is I spent six hours in there
and I'm still alive.
You still want to do it?
I set the alarm on my stopwatch
for six hours.
I regulated the O2 tank,
took some Dramamine, and tried to sleep.
Did you?
-What?
-Did you sleep?
Not at first. I've never
considered myself claustrophobic...
but I started sweating and I couldn't find
the right flow rate on the tank...
and I was breathing differently than I was
when I was testing it on the outside.
Eventually, I settled down, and...
I don't know, maybe it was the Dramamine
kicking in, but I remember this moment...
in the dark
with the reverberation of the machine.
It was maybe the most content
I've ever been.
I woke up on my own without the alarm...
and waited for the machine to cool down.
Cool down from my perspective.
It got to a point where it sounded safe
to get out...
but the stopwatch still showed
a couple minutes...
so I trusted the math and waited.
That's not a static shock, Abe.
Okay, please stop it.
You got out too soon.
You have to wait for the stopwatch
so that you know the gain is low enough.
So, we're back here?
Yeah, we're here.
It's 8:50, Tuesday morning.
All right. Give me a few minutes.
From there it was easy.
The bulk of the work was done.
I just left everything the way I found it.
I left the machine alone...
and didn't turn it off,
and just cleared out of there.
So your double would find everything
the same later that day and get in the box?
Right, but also, I or my double or someone
was in the box coming backwards.
So who knows what that would've done
if I'd turned the machine off.
Definitely. So, they're one-time use only.
So then, at that moment, since my double
was on the way to the hotel in my car...
I had to take a taxi home. But when we go,
we'll be able to use your truck.
-You have a margin account, right?
-Yeah. I do now. What are we buying?
Good. Today, before 12:30, we'll buy
as many shares as we can of RGWU.
They'll say their earnings that quarter
are three and a half times consensus...
and the stock will nearly double
in afternoon trading.
-What do they do?
-What do you mean?
What does this company do?
Do they make things or--
I don't know.
All that matters is