My rule is that I can say anything I want on the air -- for example, one of the seven dirty words -- one time. And then the FCC and my employer will agree that it's time for me do to something else. Today might be the day.
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Question that may be too big for the show but I'm curious about: What *is* "The Full Faith and Credit of the United States?" (additionally: how is it destroyed? how is it built?)
apr 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t know if today should be that day, Kai, but I do love that we both have similar philosophies about, “Oh, I can do this. I can do this *exactly once.*” I appreciate you.
apr 9, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, I’m listening for sure today then!!
apr 9, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
But just what word to choose? All seven have their own nuance…
apr 9, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
🫡
apr 9, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
ah, the old “you can do anything you want on your last day” gambit
apr 9, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Please don't. We need honest people doing these jobs. If you're gone who knows if we'll get accurate information.
apr 9, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I tune in for the bleeps!
apr 9, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Somebody gotta say it
apr 9, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Text I sent to friends five hours ago: "Going back to Trump’s first term, I’ve wondered who would be the first news anchor to go full Peter Finch. Now, I’m kinda thinking it might be Kai Rysdall."
apr 9, 2025, 5:35 pm • 7 0 • view
In aviation, I always felt we should have a “free pass” day for cursing during pilot/ATC comms, say, the first day of every month. Just get it all out there. Just extend it to all media. Everyone gets to blow off some steam, and parents have a reason to turn off the radio/TV if tiny ears are around
apr 15, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Marketplace after dark!
apr 9, 2025, 5:16 pm • 12 0 • view
You could try, "Son of a ... rhymes with witch."
apr 15, 2025, 12:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Whoa. I’ve heard Mr. Ryssdal lose his composure exactly one time – while interviewing Meg Whitman. This afternoon may be historic Marketplace commentary.
apr 9, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Definitely do it before all the local affiliates lose their funding and their broadcast licenses.
apr 15, 2025, 11:52 am • 2 0 • view
Hey Kai, Nicolle Wallace does that every now and then, and she’s still here- maybe you should ask her what’s her secret?
apr 9, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Perfect promo for pledge week! “Will he or won’t he? With your support of $50 or more you could hear Kai Ryssdal drop one of the dirty 7 on air!” 😉
apr 9, 2025, 5:51 pm • 4 0 • view
I honestly don't get how you've held back this long.
apr 9, 2025, 5:04 pm • 7 0 • view
I was just saying today that I appreciate you and @kimberlyadams.bsky.social not hiding that you are appalled by all of this. Some do facts, no opinion; Some do opinion, no facts. MMS gives us the best of both worlds.
apr 9, 2025, 5:54 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm Kai Ryssdal, and this… is Motherfuckin' Marketplace. [cheerful voiceover]: Marketplace is sponsored by Shit, Piss, C*nt, Fuck, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits. If you have accounting needs, SPCFCM&T has solutions.
apr 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 34 0 • view
Please…..this is the NPR we need!
apr 9, 2025, 5:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Kai: [flips table] AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA.
apr 9, 2025, 5:33 pm • 36 1 • view
I always tell my apprentices that they can do whatever they want- on their last day on the job
apr 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I was telling my wife the other day that the ridiculousness of Trump's view of economics might 'break' you, I guess I wasn't completely off-base.
apr 15, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
Having recently followed you here, but listened to you on the radio for years I am constantly double-taking myself to confirm that you are the same person. Going to have to get some popcorn ready by 2:30 today.
apr 9, 2025, 5:16 pm • 3 0 • view
You could always let it fly on Make Me Smart. You know that audience is here for it.
apr 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 10 0 • view
Get that E, @kairyssdal.bsky.social ! Get. That. E.
apr 9, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Make my decade…Kai is going to go full classical Marxist critique and say that Money isn’t real.
apr 9, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Let’s fucking hear it Kai.
apr 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 8 0 • view
in my own world, i continue to have trade deficits with Trader Joes and other stores I frequent. Why don't they buy things from me????
apr 15, 2025, 10:07 am • 1 0 • view
Arrested Development had a monologue that was supposed to be a bunch of dirty words. They didn't actually write the script for all of the dirty words and instead just relied on the beep sound and blurring the mouth. That could work.
apr 9, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
“President Cunt”
apr 9, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Seven dirty word, yeah!
apr 9, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Did someone microwave fish in the office?
apr 9, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Consider all seven, rather than just one, if you're going to go out in style
apr 9, 2025, 6:11 pm • 2 0 • view
youtu.be/_HNJ93HCxUA?...
apr 10, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
We'll go to bat for you, not that it will help. Your eyeballs must be spinning.
apr 9, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m ready for some.
apr 9, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I wanna know how many cabinet members were buying up stocks this morning?
apr 9, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
We support your choices
apr 9, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Let’s do the fuckin’ numbers.
apr 9, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
1957 Chevy Bel Air, best selling car of the ‘50s, symbol of post WWII US manufacturing strength and growth of the Union supported middle class… iPhone screw replacement set, symbol of our soon to come manufacturing boom under the Trump Bessent Lutnick tariffs.
apr 9, 2025, 5:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Don't go Kai! But if you do, do it with that same smile in your voice when you say "this is Marketplace". I'll be there to hear it.
apr 9, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I will gladly pitch in for the GoFundMe to pay your FCC fine. Lick and load, Kai!
apr 9, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, lock and load, rather. My typo might get you in a different sort of trouble with HR
apr 9, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 0 • view
“Economists Have Doubts” makes me want to unload the profanity cannon on the Times. They are lying by understatement.
apr 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 17 0 • view
Headlines used to have sting! They sold papers!
apr 15, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
One would think one of those words could be included as an adjective describing those who gain from anticipatory dips & spikes. There are a plethora of specific words for that kind of behavior, legal & otherwise.
apr 9, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Judging by what my partner just said about a certain post on truth(not) social, I would not be surprised. As you have said (I'm paraphrasing) Dumbest. Way. To. Run. An. Economy. Ever.
apr 9, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
You don’t have to say any particular word. We can hear it in your voice and that is enough.
apr 9, 2025, 5:28 pm • 14 0 • view
Hopefully the podcast comes out uncut.
apr 9, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Heh, heh.
apr 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
My rule is once you realize you have burned the bridge, make sure you finish the job… I mean the damage is done.🤷🏼♂️
apr 9, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Love you Kai - and your commitment to truth. Not sure it's the right time to have less folks like you in the business.
apr 9, 2025, 7:17 pm • 3 0 • view
I am rooting for you! These are hard times.
apr 9, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve been saying I need some new swear words to deal with this time in history. The current ones just ain’t working for me.
apr 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
[Kai] ...[deep breath]...BELGIUM. [Car crashes, FCC complaints, and boycott threats ensue]
apr 9, 2025, 5:15 pm • 5 0 • view
Make it count. Go full on Aristocrats.
apr 9, 2025, 5:11 pm • 5 0 • view
I really loved the market music today! Just let the trumpets do the explatives.
apr 10, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 0 • view
In a situation this dire, swearing seems appropriate to the moment.
apr 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
30 minutes where 27 of them are just bleeps might help people get it
apr 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Sure fire way of me doubly my support to APM and Marketplace.
apr 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps, and I'm just schvitzing here, perhaps the President has neither any particular expertise in the economy nor any desire to gain any - and is motivated by hubris, selfishness, and a desire to "win" (however that word is defined in his head at any given point in time).
apr 9, 2025, 5:04 pm • 4 0 • view
you might get a pass if things keep going this way.
apr 9, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
“There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.”
apr 15, 2025, 11:54 am • 1 0 • view
Time to remind them all you were in the Navy, Kai.
apr 9, 2025, 5:01 pm • 221 2 • view
In this current context I would encourage you both to swear more and would write letters to NPR if they fired either one of you. Swearing is acceptable communication on this. This is not even intelligent crazy
apr 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh Peter, my kid loves your show. Listened to one show. I'm going to try to get it on demand. (podcasts??? For an coming roadtrip
apr 9, 2025, 5:10 pm • 6 0 • view
Hi! Delighted your kid likes us. Archives of Wait Wait are available for free in any podcast app or via waitwait.npr.org
apr 15, 2025, 11:48 am • 28 2 • view
Yup. Got them downloaded. Will be listening to the show and ... music from the Simpsons and There might Be Giants on trip to NH this week. #familytrip.
apr 15, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Our second child, a teenager at the time, introduced us to podcasts by downloading your shows to listen to on the way to Grandma’s house in northern NJ. Must have been a dozen years ago.
apr 15, 2025, 1:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I grew up in Northern New Jersey. Holidays of my youth meant traveling to Warwick New York for family events. Didn't have podcasts then.
apr 15, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
We all heard @kairyssdal.bsky.social's beeped moment on yesterday's Make Me Smart podcast. The FCC doesn't care (and it wasn't one of Carlin's 7) but I'm sure that's his process to get it out of his system. :)
apr 9, 2025, 5:09 pm • 7 0 • view
Hooyah, brother!
apr 9, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as you say it with your signature smiling voice.
apr 9, 2025, 5:11 pm • 7 0 • view
The good news is that once you say one of the seven, you might as well just say the others.
apr 15, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
You two should do a fundraiser for a political cause, selling raffle tickets to have beers with Kai Ryssdal and Peter Sagal. I would spend the mortgage money.
apr 15, 2025, 11:54 am • 8 0 • view
lol
apr 9, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if DJT's thrill/ego stroke is work pissing off the entire rest of the planet and watching his fellow citizens' wealth diminish. He is a sorry piece of trash. Let's hope a Big Mac gets him soon.
apr 9, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not the FCC is regulating anything anyways? Oh wait, they'll definitely go after the "liberal" media.
apr 9, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view