How do you tell real from counterfeit money?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The paper money that we use in the United States is printed by the Department of the Treasury. But if money is printed…well, then why couldn’t someone print hundreds of dollars for themselves? How do you know if the crisp five dollar bill in your hand is the real deal or a fake-a-rooni? We asked money expert and Million Bazillion co-host Bridget Bodnar to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:06.0 | Moment of Um, |
| 0:09.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Pholognius for the Super villain Social Club. It's the most exclusive group of evil doers in the world and I need to be a member. |
| 0:37.0 | But I don't know if my extracurricular activities are impressive enough. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, Thalma Gritzki is a member. |
| 0:48.0 | The villain's solely responsible for stealing millions of rubber duckies, |
| 0:52.8 | creating the bath time bubble of 2012. |
| 0:55.8 | The price of rubber duckies skyrocketed, |
| 0:59.4 | and Thelma was able to sell people their own rubber duckies back for 10 times the price. |
| 1:07.0 | What a legend! |
| 1:08.0 | And I might meet Maurice Le Fonte, the malicious mime. |
| 1:14.7 | He once took over the town of Peoria, Illinois for four whole days |
| 1:19.2 | just by convincing everyone there |
| 1:21.9 | that they were trapped in invisible glass boxes. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, what have I got to show for my career? |
| 1:28.0 | A couple of measly oil paintings that I histed from a museum? |
| 1:32.0 | You'd think that'd be impressive, but it was the Great American Alligator Museum in New Orleans. |
| 1:37.0 | So it's just paintings of alligators. I got to do something big. |
| 1:41.0 | Maybe I'll steal a famous statue or a bunch of money or wait I could |
| 1:47.1 | just make a bunch of money. I have a super fancy printer. Why can't I just print a bunch of money? Who would know the difference? |
| 1:57.2 | And how? |
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