The Founders' Podcast

The vast majority of the episode is personal chat about newborns, bourbon taxonomy, drug legalization tangents, and Runescape nostalgia. The macroeconomics content that does appear is textbook supply-and-demand and money-printing-causes-inflation, delivered at an introductory level with heavy hedging and no novel claims a B2B operator wouldn't already know.

“For those at home, that might have been a little like maybe a little less interesting than it was for me.”

“People tend to think of inflation as rising prices, but really what causes rising prices is an increase in the money supply.”

The economic framing is entirely recycled libertarian/Austrian talking points - gold standard, Federal Reserve as villain, debt-based monetary system as conspiracy - with no fresh angle or first-principles challenge. The Runescape inflation analogy is the most creative moment and is attributed to an article the host read.

“This is conspiratorial but like the next layer to this is that we have a debt based monetary system.”

“I would probably get like slapped around by like a real economist”

There is no guest; two co-founders of a leather goods brand talk to each other about macroeconomics. One holds a lapsed CPA licence but explicitly disclaims expertise throughout, and neither has any operational or practitioner credibility in finance, economics, or policy.

“I'm no expert on crypto.”

“I would probably get like slapped around by like a real economist that knew their stuff.”

A handful of concrete figures appear - 8.5% CPI, 51% corn content for bourbon, a worked real-estate refi example with dollar amounts - but most claims are hedged with 'I think,' 'I'm not sure,' or 'I've lost track,' and the headline topic of the Mattress Firm money-laundering theory is never actually explained.

“Eight and a half... it's high, it's really high.”

“You buy a property for $1 million and your loan is, let's say you put 20% down. So you paid 200K and your loan is 800K.”

The format is two co-hosts riffing with no guest to probe or challenge; questions are basic clarification requests ('What is a recession?', 'What's Scotch?') and answers receive near-constant affirmative filler without any follow-up pressure or productive disagreement.

“What do you think I want to hear?”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”