Insider Exchange

About Insider Exchange

Welcome to Insider Exchange — your space for straight-talking conversations about markets, investing, and the stories behind the numbers. Useful Updates: rapid-fire conversations covering the biggest global and local headlines — in 60 seconds or less. Deep Dive: a closer look at the sectors, stocks, and trends defining tomorrow’s investment opportunities — from emerging industries to timeless market themes. Make-It-Make-Sense: decoding the complex, the bizarre, and the unexpected — connecting headlines to the real-world forces that move money and markets. Unfiltered Opinion: where we speak candidly. Hosted by Jimmy Moyaha and Simon Brown. Catch us every week, or listen anytime on your favorite podcast platform.

Publisher

Thuto Media

Category

business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Jul 2024

Latest episode

14 May 2026

Latest episodes

93 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 May 2026

   [Audio Pod] Degrees, Debt & The Education Reality Check

   This week on Insider Exchange, Jimmy Moyaha talks Mother’s Day gifting while Simon Brown reveals the ultimate loophole for couples: coffee shops. Empty, peaceful, no queues — while everyone else battles packed restaurants and breakfast-in-bed logistics. The guys also quote comedian Ali Siddiq, who argues Father’s Day ranks somewhere below Arbor Day in importance. In Useful Updates, we unpack the collapse of the African Bank deal, tensions between the Governor and the US, failed BRT systems, SAPA’s concerns around chicken imports, DisChem’s new Health Hub concept, growing estate disputes through CSOS, South Africa’s top business school rankings, updates to the PVoC programme, and LIV Golf losing PIF support. In the Deep Dive, we ask a difficult question: is the true cost of education still worth it? Beyond tuition fees, we unpack hidden costs, debt burdens, opportunity costs, and whether the traditional “degree = success” formula still holds in today’s economy. In Make-It-Make-Sense, we follow the money through food trailer impoundments, a TikTok warehouse raid, and claims that Eskom may be making life harder for EV adoption. We close with an Unfiltered Opinion on wrestling speed dating in Brooklyn, New York — a concept so chaotic that Simon can barely process it, while Jimmy struggles to understand how wrestling became a first-date activity.

2. 

   6 May 2026

   [Audio Pod] Can Anyone Run an Airline, and Trump Gold Cards Sold

   This week on Insider Exchange, we’re back after a run of public holidays and travel. Jimmy returns from China’s auto show with gifts in hand — including a pair of “Macron glasses” for Simon, who chose the beach over the trip. Balance. In Useful Updates, we unpack Spirit Airlines shutting down, the UAE exiting OPEC, renewed rate hike pressure, evolving crypto regulation, the rise of spam marketers, Beyers’ liquidation, updates to the PVoC programme, and the Bank of Japan buying $35bn worth of yen. In the Deep Dive, we ask a deceptively simple question: can anyone run an airline? We break down the real costs, operational complexity, thin margins, and whether the airline business is actually profitable — or just looks glamorous from the outside. In Make-It-Make-Sense, we look at Trump’s gold cards and how many have actually been sold, petrol prices in Iran, and what it really costs to attend the Met Gala. We close with an Unfiltered Opinion as Simon takes aim at Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton after Miami — a performance he clearly feels fell well short of expectations.

3. 

   2 Apr 2026

   [Audio Pod] Why Companies Rebrand, and How Much Cash Is Too Much

   This week on Insider Exchange, we kick off with the new national soccer kit and we’re all in. The boys love it, the country seems to love it, and we make a serious case for the away kit becoming the home kit. Also, Standard Bank… if you’re listening, we wouldn’t say no to a couple of jerseys. In Useful Updates, we unpack talk of US technical insolvency, the World Cup countdown ramping up, Switzerland’s shifting stance on neutrality, Fourways Mall’s turnaround story, Trump’s latest moves involving Saudi Arabia, major banks hedging private credit exposure, Mantashe’s assurances on supply, and Lesotho pushing for more in water negotiations. In the Deep Dive, we explore what really goes into a rebrand — from legacy institutions to modern challengers. Why companies do it, what it costs, what can go wrong, and what it takes to actually pull one off successfully. In Make-It-Make-Sense, we follow the money through R11M in ATM deposits, an R18M money counter, and a Kit Kat heist involving 400,000 bars. We close with an Unfiltered Opinion on fuel stockpiling limits in South Africa and what the 200-litre rule actually says about risk, regulation, and preparedness.

Who has been a guest on Insider Exchange

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Nafisa Akabor
• Precious Mhlandhla
• Shaun Dendere

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

336,468

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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