What are tax returns?
Million Bazillion
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The 10th season of “Million Bazillion” is here just in time to mark Bridget and Ryan’s favorite holiday – Tax Day! There’s just one problem: Ryan hasn’t finished filing his taxes yet. With the clock ticking, Bridget steps in to help him out before midnight. Along the way, they tackle a great question from Kade: What exactly are tax returns? Will they figure everything out before time runs out?
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| 0:00.0 | Jingle, jangle, jingle, jangle, |
| 0:04.0 | gather round children young and old, |
| 0:07.0 | Vermillion-Bazillion's Holly Jolly Tax Day's |
| 0:10.0 | Season 10 premiere Spectacular, starring Bridget and Ryan, |
| 0:15.0 | with special appearances by Skimble Shanks the Cat, |
| 0:19.0 | Buttons the Calculator, Orpo, and Michael Boubley. |
| 0:29.5 | Ryan, I just picked up the tax day tree. |
| 0:33.2 | I got the most expensive one they had on the lot. |
| 0:36.8 | It's a tree, not a climbing toy, Skimble Shanks. Shoo! Well, well, is it April 15th already? Yes, it's our favorite holiday here at Million Bazillion, Tax Day. And what better way to kick off our 10th season of Million Bazillion? Wow, this podcast has been on for 10 years. No, we've been on for six years, |
| 0:55.3 | but we've done 10 seasons in that time. So usually like eight episodes of seasons, like 12 to 16 episodes a year, plus the bonus episodes. Anyway, point is, it's our 10th season, and it's Dax Day. Let's decorate the tree. It's an 8-foot Frazier fur named after TV's most beloved therapist, Fraser Crane. |
| 1:11.2 | Wait a minute. Shouldn't we take a kid question? We do that at the beginning of It's an 8-foot Frazier Fur named after TV's most beloved therapist, Fraser Crane. |
| 1:15.6 | Wait a minute. Shouldn't we take a kid question? We do that at the beginning of every episode. |
| 1:21.4 | Oh, yeah, I was so excited. I nearly forgot about that. Let me just select a question from these tapes. |
| 1:23.2 | Totally at random. |
| 1:29.3 | Hi, I'm Cade, and I'm from Michigan. I heard my parents talking about tax returns, and I wonder what they are. |
| 1:33.0 | So how do we answer this great question from Cade? |
| 1:41.1 | Well, we've talked about taxes before, season two, episode two, and we learn taxes are money we pay the government, which it then spends in a lot of different ways. |
| 1:43.9 | In fact, it needs taxes to operate. The government collects |
| 1:45.1 | lots of different types of taxes, sales tax, payroll tax, tariffs are a type of tax, but the |
| 1:50.6 | government makes its biggest chunk of revenue from income tax. Income tax is a share of your |
| 1:57.5 | earnings that you pay to the government each year. As a moneymaker myself, I am very |
| 2:02.6 | familiar with this whole process. And today, to answer Cade's question, we're going to talk |
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