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 39: Clue (A Murder In Three Parts!)
Trigger Warning: While things stay pretty silly, we do talk about suicide and self-harm. Listen at your own discretion.
This week, to make a long story very short (too late!), we talk ab…
Episode 38: Dungeons & Dragons
Nope, it’s not a tool for satanic recruitment. But if your characters aren’t careful, you could plunge the whole world of your game into a crippling economic nightmare. Also, we talk abo…
EPISODE 37: Monopoly
That’s right, Monopoly! The board game that has very little to do with actual monopolies, and very MUCH to do with why you don’t speak to your Aunt Tabitha anymore.
Episode 36: Harry Potter, Part Deux
Our Harry Potter expert-in-residence, AJ is here again, but this time to talk about the thing he really knows a ton about- Harry Potter! (Duh!) In FACT, he knows so much about good ole H…
Episode 35: The Incredibles
(No spoilers for the new one! When we recorded this one, we hadn’t seen it yet!)
Joined for the first time by a fabulous guest, our good buddy AJ, we talk again about private islands an…
Episode 34: Iron Man
Seems like all we need to make the world great is a little bit of compassion and love, and also Arc Reactor technology. This week, we discuss just how drastically Tony Stark’s invention …
Episode 33: American Gods
A best-selling novel, and now a TV show (with mixed reviews, if you ask Liz and Damon), American Gods is the story of Shadow Moon, a newly released convict being thrown headfirst into th…
Episode 32: The Parent Trap
In this episode, we discuss custody battles, how much Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson’s characters might have been worth, and how totally and completely immoral it is to just be like…
Episode 31: Ocean’s 8
Obvs no spoilers, friends, since this film wasn’t even in theaters yet at the time of this recording. We don’t know much about what happens, but we DO know there’s a big ole necklace inv…
Episode 30: Jurassic Park
In our possibly highest-rated epsiode ever, we talk park passes and coupons and how to score a good deal going to what’s basically Dinosaur Murder Island!
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Episode 29: Captain America
It’s tough devoting your life to your country, doubly so when you’ve gotten frozen in the Arctic after being injected with super soldier serum and doing your best to save the world from …
Episode 27: There Will Be Blood
Hello, We’re Make-Believe Money, and this is our son and partner, Daniel. He’s here to tell you about oil prices, and how the oil boom was perhaps not quite as impressive as you might gu…
Episode 26: Ready Player One (Part 2!)
No Spoilers! You can safely listen to this episode without anything being ruined for you. Except maybe the idea of investing in cryptocurrency. That might get a little ruined for you. Th…
Episode 25: The Legend of Zelda
Imagine if you will, working and scraping and saving all your money, every hard-earned rupee of it, and saving it in earthenware jars that your grandfather made, kept safe in your home, …
Episode 24: Settlers of Catan
Get ready to get hella nerdy up in here, friends. We’re talking board games, the kind that Megan won’t let Dan have more of until they have more space. Not your grandma’s board games, ei…
Episode 23: Rampage
What would YOU do if a giant set of monsters with disturbingly ordinary names ransacked your town? What if a bunch of superheroes busted your apartment with their mighty powers, in servi…
Episode 22: Ready Player One (No Spoilers!)
Two roads diverged in a digital wood, and Damon and Liz decided we’d talk about Bitcoin another time. This time: microtransactions and how the world would run if we all lived in Oasis. I…
Episode 21: Lord of the Rings
Hey guys, did you know that Liz doesn’t know what ponies are? Neither did she until this episode! But we don’t just talk about that- we discuss leasing horses, looking gift horses in the …
Episode 20: How I Met Your Mother
Credit card debt can be a real bummer, friends. Especially if your partner has a TON of it, and you don’t find out until you go to apply for a mortgage. Listen as we talk about credit ca…