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Million Bazillion

What is inflation?

Million Bazillion

Marketplace

Kids & Family, News

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today we're resharing an episode from our archive that might feel more relevant with gas prices up. We're going to dig more into those gas prices in the new season of “Million Bazillion: (coming soon). But this is a good time to learn about something called "inflation." After traveling back in time to stock up on snacks, Bridget and Ryan get a chance to try to control runaway inflation … but their ideas don’t quite go as planned.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Million bazillionaires, long time, no see. Or here. Do we mean here?

0:06.9

Long time, no see or here. But hey, we're putting the finishing touches on our upcoming season.

0:12.5

Trailer's going to drop soon. You're going to love it.

0:14.8

Yes, but that's still a few weeks away, and there's some big news happening right now that we wanted to hop into your feet and talk to you about. So you may have noticed gas prices have gone up all of a sudden.

0:24.3

That's after the United States started a war with Iran, a country located in the Middle East,

0:29.2

where a lot of the oil we used to make gasoline is drilled.

0:32.9

We're going to talk about gas prices in the new season, but we've touched on them before in an episode we did

0:39.2

back in season three about inflation. Back then, the cost of a whole bunch of things had gone up

0:45.3

at the same time. That's right. And a lot has changed since then. Inflation did eventually get

0:49.2

under control for the most part. We'll see if that remains true moving forward. In the meantime, though, listen to this

0:55.3

episode, and maybe it'll make whatever happens next make a little more sense.

1:03.6

Hey, Ryan, what you're watching? It's one of my favorite holiday movies, the man who saved

1:09.0

Arbor Day. It may be old and scratchy and in black and white,

1:13.3

but it's a classic. Oh dear, how will we afford the Arbor Day turkey this year? It costs 75 cents.

1:20.7

We don't have that kind of money. We can't even afford 10 cents for Arbor Day yams. Perhaps your boss,

1:27.0

Mr. Spentriff, could help us. He's the richest man in town.

1:30.7

He has over a thousand dollars to his name. But Mr. Spentrift is the meanest man in town.

1:37.6

He didn't even offer to pay for my heart surgery, which cost $4.00. So what is this movie about?

1:44.7

It's mostly the characters worrying about money and saying prices out loud, but in a larger

1:50.7

sense, it's about a man who's been cruel his whole life, suddenly deciding to be a good

1:55.3

person.

1:56.2

Here, let me fast forward to my favorite part.

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