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Knock, knock. Okay, Ryan, who's there? Abbott. Abbott who? Abbott time for a new season of Million Bazillion. Ah, you got me. That is good. Yeah, and we've been working hard to answer the questions that our listeners and their families have about money. This is going to be a great season, Bridget. We're answering even more money questions. Hi.
Hi, Bridget and Ryan. I wanted to know. I was wondering. I'm a fan of your show, but I have a question. How do airlines determine the price of a ticket? How do people decide how much people should get paid in sports? How do you become a CEO? Where did the penny get its name? Why does organic food cost more than regular food? What is a lottery and how does it work? Thank you. Bye.
These are some tough but also really good ones. And that means that this season, we're going to learn all kinds of important things together about money. Like, how much debt is too much debt? How do ATMs work? What are tariffs? How do sports teams decide how much to pay their players? Because it turns out, if you have a star player, everyone wants to pay you more. This season, we'll form our own professional foosball team. Everyone!
Everyone laughed when they assembled this team, but now Million Bazillion is crushing it at foosball. The Bazillion's ticket sales are through the roof. We'll meet a talking cat. Yeah, my name is not Oddball. It's Oddsball. There's nothing odd about me. We start our own organic farm. We even play the lottery. And the final winning number is...
We're Bridget and Ryan, and we host Million Bazillion, the show from Marketplace that answers the questions that kids and their families have about money. All that and more coming up on this season of Million Bazillion from Marketplace. We help dollars make more sense. Season 8 is coming to all your favorite podcast apps Tuesday, June 3rd. Brand new episodes will be right here waiting for you. You won't want to miss it.
Okay, so Ryan, what do we do until then? Uh, ready for another knock-knock joke? Yeah. Okay, I got one. Knock-knock. Who's there? Snow. Snow who? Snow time to waste. It's time for a new season of Million Bazillion. Gotta run. Bye! Hey, Million Bazillionaires. Bridget here. I want to take a minute to talk to you about public media. You may have heard that public media is facing federal budget cuts.
But what you might not know is that Million Bazillion is actually part of the public media ecosystem. If you want to protect your favorite public media podcast like this one, visit AmericanPublicMedia.org slash action to learn how you can help. Thank you.