Kai Ryssdal

When you interact with your followers, your subscribers, right, most of whom, and we talked about this the very first time you were on Marketplace, skew younger and male, what do you hear from them?

What do they tell you about how they're feeling about this economy?

Day trading, right?

And so as you speak to them on your socials, what's in the back of your mind?

How are you thinking about it?

I should tell you, by the way, we had never seen each other until an hour and a half ago.

Is it scary out there now?

Do you think so?

In the world?

Well, in the economy.

World will be later.

Economy will be right now.

Is it scary, do you think?

AI, bubble or no bubble?

Actually, since you mentioned it, debt.

You had a piece in the New York Times a couple of three weeks ago ish about the national debt.

Why are you worried about it?

I'm going to pull this back out of the weeds in one second, but first I have to ask this.

What about the dollar and its status as a reserve currency and all of that stuff?

Okay.