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Bridget Bodnar

Senior Producer

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Bridget is the director of podcasts at Marketplace. She's also the host and co-creator of “Million Bazillion,” Marketplace's award-winning podcast for kids about money.

Bridget has worked at Marketplace since 2011 when she started as an intern. Since then, she's worked across multiple shows and podcasts, including for several years on the flagship evening broadcast of “Marketplace.” She was the senior producer of “Million Bazillion” and “Make Me Smart.”

Bridget is originally from Michigan but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters. They have a lot of cats.

Episodes by Bridget (58)

Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 8

Why is there so much gold at Fort Knox?

May 28, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 7

What does money have to do with climate change?

May 21, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 6

How does the economy work? (and other important money questions)

May 14, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1158

What grocery aisle gossip can tell us about the economy

May 10, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 5

What is bankruptcy?

May 7, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 4

Why does it feel so good to spend money?

Apr 30, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 3

How do people pay for college?

Apr 23, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 2

What are unions?

Apr 16, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6 | Episode 1

How are cars made?

Apr 9, 2024
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Million Bazillion | Season 6

"Million Bazillion" is back April 9!

Apr 2, 2024
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Latest Stories (236)

Corner Office

Don't call National Geographic 'stodgy'

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 27, 2016
National Geographic Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg talks about why this is the best time for visual storytelling.
Alex Wong/Getty Images
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How to get to space without NASA

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 22, 2016
Julian Guthrie's new book, "How to Make a Spaceship" details the founding of the XPRIZE.
Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images
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The guy who helps Chinese investors make it in Hollywood

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 21, 2016
Dominic Ng is the CEO of East West Bank and the surprising go-between for Chinese investors in the U.S.
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Doing farm to table in the 1800s (before it was cool)

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 20, 2016
Paul Freedman on his new book, "Ten Restaurants That Changed America."
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Cutting the cord of Big Cable

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 16, 2016
A TV writer for the Hollywood Reporter canceled his subscription.
 
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Clinton’s economic policy adviser on trade and paid Wall Street speeches

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 15, 2016
Jacob Leibenluft is an economic policy adviser to Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at a rally at John Marshall High School on August 17, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.   
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Why your package of bacon hides its glorious fat

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 14, 2016
The front of your package of super market bacon is a lie.
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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HP waves goodbye to its software side in $8.8 billion deal

by Molly Wood and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 8, 2016
Why does a little-known British company think its worth that much?
Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlitt Packard Enterprise, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. HPE will sell the software portion of its business to Micro Focus in a deal worth $8.8 billion.
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Apple does away with the headphone jack

by Molly Wood and Bridget Bodnar
Sep 7, 2016
Get your dongles ready.
Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller announces AirPods during a launch event on September 7, 2016 in San Francisco, California. 
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Disappearing Jobs

Before Instagram, there were daguerreotypes

by Bridget Bodnar
Aug 31, 2016
A daguerreotypist explains the art and technology behind an early form of photography.
A daguerreotype of Jack Be Little Squash.
Jerry Spagnoli/Heirloom Harvest
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