Ep: 80 The Economy Sucks… So Why Is the Beach Full?

The Sense and Senseless Podcast · Oct 5, 2026 · 58m · transcript

Bryan and Jason start with a simple question from a midweek beach trip: if the economy is so bad, why are the beaches, restaurants, and parking lots still full? They look at spending that hasn’t stopped, gas and grocery prices that still hurt, a personal saving rate near 4 percent, and credit-card balances at $1.26 trillion. Then they get into the split nobody puts in the headline — the top 20 percent doing most of the spending while everyone else treads water. Bryan talks about taking 50 years to learn that relaxing isn’t a weakness, why a back-seat reminder light shouldn’t have to exist…