Make-Believe Money
Ever wonder how much money the Ghostbusters really are making with their extermination business, or how the Wizarding World sustains its economy? Maybe you're just curious to know how much money all that salt the Stranger Things Kids steal for Eleven's sensory deprivation kiddie pool is worth. Well, great news! Make-Believe Money takes your questions about fantasy worlds SUPER seriously, and applies real-world financial implications to come to some seriously hilarious conclusions. Listen as Dan, Damon, and Liz giggle and joke their way through some absurd scenarios, and maybe learn a little bit about real-world finance in the process!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
Episode 97: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
This week, we double-check Damon’s budgeting math, and envy deeply the tenured Columbia professor in the 1950’s we all wish that we were.
Episode 96: John Wick 2
We’d give you a spoiler warning, buuuuut… let’s be real, no one’s watching John Wick movies for the plot. You’re watching it for the bonkers money system! OBVIOUSLY.
Episode 95: The Simpsons
Poor Santos L. Halper, living in a pre-internet age. It’s going to take him a really long time to figure out how badly Bart has ruined his life.
Episode 94: The Mandalorian
No spoilers! Except for when Liz makes wild, outlandish guesses about what Baby Yoda’s deal is. (She’s since seen the show all the way through.)
Episode 93: It’s a Wonderful Life!
Well, here’s what happens when cold and flu season hits your co-host and editor. Here’s a Merry Holidays episode to keep you in the holiday spirit even now in the dead grossness of winte…
Episode 92: Schitt’s Creek, Part 3
Yes, that’s right, part three. Today we discuss: Unemployment. It’s like magnets: no one knows how it really works.
Episode 91: Schitt’s Creek, Part 2
Today we dig deep into video rental stores and daytime television actor salaries to answer that age-old question: How much was the Rose family actually worth, anyway?
Episode 90: Schitt’s Creek, Part 1
That’s right, friends! Make-Believe Money has returned, although now on a new, baby-tolerant bi-weekly schedule. (Bi-weekly here meaning, “once every two weeks,” not that other me…
Make Believe MAILBAG!
Oh, HELLO, friends! We’re still on hiatus, but not for much longer! To tide you over, and to whet your appetite for more nonsense from us fools, here’s a quick lil mailbag, where we answ…
Episode 89: Animal House
Hey Friends! We’re on a bit of a late-summer break, as you maybe have noticed, but we’ll be back! In the meantime, please enjoy us getting REAL sad about the cost of college in America.
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Episode 88: Arrested Development, Part Deux
Recording issue days are behind us, folks! Here, new and improved, is our podcast! Today, we discuss the money in the banana stand.
MBM Rewind: Die Hard
Because of a technical SNAFU, we three wise guys are bringing you a fun rebroadcast: a Christmas Movie in July! Enjoy this cool-weather throwback in these hot times (assuming you’re in t…
Episode 87: The Mummy
You’re on the wrong side of the podcast! Listen to this weeks episode where Damon faithfully recounts the events of 1999’s The Mummy. Also Dan and Liz talk about money.
Episode 86: Arrested Development, Part One
I mean… It’s one banana, Michael. How much could it cost? Ten dollars?
Episode 85: Life in Pieces
This is not the show with Mandy Moore and the killer crock pot. It IS the show with some bad ideas about credit cards and teens.
P.S. Liz couldn’t figure out what that John Ritter movi…
Episode 84: The Dark Knight Rises
Everyone has a Bane impression. No one, not even Tom Hardy, has a GOOD Bane impression.
Episode 82: National Lampoon’s Vacation
Any day now, the Quaid-aissance is gonna happen. Mark our words!
Today we talk about the many crimes of Clark Griswald, if we can remember his name.
Episode 81: Emperor’s New Groove
Today, we talk about what the heck Eminent Domain is, but mostly we use it as an excuse to discuss a very delightful John Goodman film.
Episode 80: Risky Business
Today, in part Two of our Tom Cruise Double Feature, we learn that sometimes, when it comes to water damage in your dad’s fancy car, you just gotta say, “KIT.”