Where did money come from?
Million Bazillion
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For our very first episode, we’re traveling back thousands of years to learn about all the ways people got what they needed from each other before money was invented: bartering with whatever they had, making pacts with close friends and eventually inventing coins and other forms of money! Plus we’ll ask some random kids not-so-random questions, and Kristen Bell designs her own money.
By the way, we want to keep answering your questions about money! Send your questions and your money designs to Marketplace.org/million.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the first ever episode of Million |
| 0:06.6 | Basilian where we help dollars make more sense. For kids and the adults in |
| 0:11.4 | their lives, I'm Jed And I'm Bridget and together we're all |
| 0:15.6 | going to figure out how this thing money really works because yeah it can get |
| 0:20.4 | kind of confusing, kind of awkward, kind of scary, but don't worry, we're going to have fun. |
| 0:26.0 | And kids, you're in charge, because we're answering your questions. |
| 0:31.0 | You can send them to us at our website marketplace.org |
| 0:34.4 | slash million. |
| 0:35.9 | Speaking of questions, we're going to answer this one today. |
| 0:38.9 | When we flip a coin, why do we call it heads or tails? |
| 0:42.0 | There are no tails. Unless, you know, we never see the President's bodies. |
| 0:48.0 | Did they have tails? |
| 0:51.0 | No, Jeff. of Tails? No Jed, we're not answering your questions. We're answering Benny's |
| 0:58.3 | question. Oh, right. Benny from Irvine, California. |
| 1:03.0 | His question is much better for the first episode. |
| 1:05.7 | Check it out. |
| 1:07.1 | I would like to know who invented money and win. |
| 1:10.1 | Such a great question, because money didn't always exist. |
| 1:15.0 | So how did that even work? |
| 1:17.0 | Like how did people back then get stuff they wanted? |
| 1:20.0 | Coming up next, we're going back thousands of years to find out the answer. |
| 1:25.0 | And now it's time for asking random kids, not so random questions. |
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