How to pronounce “stoops” in English

You know, the way we academics like to tell this is the sort of story about the efficient market professor who is walking along with a couple of graduate students and the graduatestudents see a hundred dollar bill on the ground and one of the graduate students stoops to pick it up and the professors says, "Don't bother to pick it up. If it were really ahundred dollar bill it wouldn't be there." You know I'm not quite that extreme. I tell, I tell the graduate student, "Pick it up right