Retcon on Season One (+ Executive Orderpalooza)

Optimist Economy

Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi

Public Policy, Economics, Government, Economy

4.9 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Optimist Economy got its start almost exactly one year ago with a phone call that began, "Hear me out…" Thirty-two episodes later we ask, “What have we done?” Mostly we conditioned ourselves to keep our eye on the ball – the better U.S. economy and future that are possible – through a lot of very bad news days. In the background, we both moved. Kathryn kept a lot of pregnancy symptoms hidden. We incorporated a nonprofit. And somehow, we managed to drop a new episode every Tuesday. Thanks to all our listeners for being our spiritual sponsors on this journey.

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0:00.0	I was talking to someone who's a journalist.
0:02.3	This is not good, by the way.
0:04.6	I'm really professional.
0:06.0	I was talking to some outlet about something.
0:09.7	Anyway, they recorded me.
0:11.0	It was all on the record, so I hope I sounded okay.
0:18.3	Sorry.
0:20.1	I don't even remember what I was going to say.
0:22.4	That victory, we're done for the season.
0:24.5	Cut it right there.
0:26.9	I got Robin to do a spit take.
0:29.6	Oh, okay.
0:36.3	Hello and welcome to Optimist Economy. I'm Catherine.
0:39.1	I'm Robin.
0:40.1	On this show, we believe the U.S. economy can be better, and we talk about how to get there, one problem and solution at a time.
0:53.1	Except not this week. Except not this week.
0:54.3	Except not this week.
0:55.7	We aren't talking about a problem or a solution unless it's a problem with the show
1:00.1	because this is our last show of the season.
1:03.4	And when we started this, we kicked off with an introductory episode of who we are, what we were doing,
1:13.3	how I tricked Robin into doing this with me,
1:19.6	at what point she lost free will and said yes. And now we want to end the season with,
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