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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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Bridget and Ryan hit rewind and break out an old-school cassette tape to answer your money questions. You wanted to know: how ATMs work, why the penny’s called the penny and how airlines set ticket prices? So we’re on the case to bring you the answers with an analog twist!
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Million Bazillion, where today, Bridget and Ryan are answering brilliant listener questions. |
0:08.0 | But before we get started, this episode of Million Bazillion is brought to you by Greenlight, the debit card and money app for kids and teens. |
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0:32.3 | Ah, look, Bridget, here's my old Memorex Polyproto Synclapetronulator. This puppy was state of the art back in the day. |
0:42.6 | Ew, Ryan, there's like an inch of dust on all this stuff. |
0:46.4 | How long has this equipment been sitting in your attic? |
0:49.7 | I guess it's been a while. |
0:51.2 | I probably had frosted tips the last time I recorded anything with this |
0:54.2 | old quantum wave matrix 300. Does this stuff even work anymore? Maybe we should just go back to the |
0:59.8 | studio. We have so many questions to answer today, and I think that most of our listeners listen |
1:03.7 | digitally through a podcast app or a smart speaker, you know? Nonsense. Retro is cool now, Bridget. I read an article about it in Hi-Fi magazine, all about how kids these days are into old school technology, like vinyl records and cassette tapes. |
1:19.9 | Wow, really? Cassette tapes. You mean like the small, plastic rectangular cases with the two little spools of magnetic tape inside and we like make mix tapes with them, that cassette tape. |
1:28.8 | The real deal, Bridget. |
1:30.4 | Kids these days crave an authentic experience that isn't just zeros and ones inside their |
1:35.6 | phones. |
1:36.3 | Enough with the digital. |
1:37.7 | We're going to make the first ever analog episode of Million Bazillion. |
1:42.7 | It'll be a hit with Gen Y or Alpha or... |
1:45.8 | I can't keep track of all the generations. |
1:47.8 | Okay, if the kids are really into retro stuff these days, |
1:50.5 | I guess it won't hurt to give it a try. |
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