How Long Can the American Economy Hold? — with Kai Ryssdal

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

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Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Scott speaks with Kai Ryssdal, the host and senior editor of the public media program Marketplace, the nation’s most listened-to show on business and the economy. They discuss the state of the U.S. economy amid Trump’s tariffs, a government shutdown, and political dysfunction. They discuss the risk of stagflation, the growing divide between the top 10% and everyone else, and why America’s economic strength still depends on the health of its democratic institutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Episode 368.
0:05.4	368 is the area code serving Alberta, Canada.
0:07.7	In 1968, doctors performed the first heart transplant surgery in the U.S.
0:13.7	True story.
0:14.4	My partner recently had surgery, and ever since this had absolutely no interest in sex.
0:20.7	The surgery? Cataracts.
0:25.8	Go! Go! Go!
0:31.5	Welcome to the 368th episode of the Prop G-Pod.
0:38.7	Speaking of cataracts, I'm going to put on my glasses.
0:40.8	I've always had outstanding vision in one of the many ways I'm resisting aging other than
0:46.5	any D treatments, vitamin A, vitamin D, testosterone, a lower facelift, halo surgeries,
0:53.2	Botox fillers, a pico laser, and fractal laser. Other than that, it's all
0:58.2	genetics, folks. You know what? It's not easy being a four. It's not easy. Do you think it's easy
1:02.7	being mediocre looking? I think it's super easy to be fucking ugly. Like, I could be ugly so easily. I
1:08.6	just lean into the ugly. I'm ready. And then when I was younger,
1:12.1	it was super easy to be good looking, see above younger. It's being mediocre looking that's difficult
1:16.7	because you're trying to like stay out of the ugly, but you don't have the blessings of being good
1:21.0	looking. It's very difficult for us mediocre looking people. Anyways, I am wearing glasses for the first time, and I have amazing vision. My father used to
1:31.5	take me golfing with him, not to play golf with him, because that would cost $12 at North Ranch Country Club
1:37.1	just outside of Westlake, where I would visit him every other weekend, but I would walk around
1:42.3	the course with him and was happy to do it because my dad was scarce.
1:45.4	He was like a luxury brand, so I wanted to hang out with him.
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