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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

A warehouse dash with Rent the Runway

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Apr 30, 2015
Rent the Runway combines data and fashion to create a multi-million dollar empire.
Spools of thread used for repairs at the Rent the Runway warehouse.
Tobin Low
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Corner Office

Checking in with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Apr 23, 2015
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks about the company's (somewhat unexpected) success.
An up-close look at Airbnb's wall timeline. 
Kai Ryssdal/Marketplace
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Seth Meyers is getting the hang of his new gig

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Apr 13, 2015
A year into hosting Late Night, Seth Meyers on what's next for the show.
Seth Meyers (L) in a skit imagining if Hannah Horvath (played by Lena Dunham) from the HBO show "Girls" joined the writer's room. Dunham is underneath the jacket.
NBC
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Franchising pies without losing the secret ingredient

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Mar 30, 2015
LA chain the Pie Hole wrestles with expanding while remaining authentic.
Kai Ryssdal stands at the counter of The Pie Hole in downtown Los Angeles.
Daisy Palacios/Marketplace
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The tricky business behind fake Hollywood money

by Bridget Bodnar
Mar 10, 2015
How a well-known prop maker found himself accused of counterfeiting.
There are rules prop makers must follow in duplicating money.
Joe Raedle/Newsmakers
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Quincy Jones on Clark Terry, a godfather of jazz

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Oct 2, 2014
Terry was known for integrating "The Tonight Show" Band back in 1960, and taught jazz to Miles Davis, Winton Marsalis and Quincy Jones.
Justin Kauflin and Clark Terry in "Keep on Keepin' On."
Courtesy:RADiUS-TWC
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Datebook

What do John Wayne and Dracula have in common?

by Bridget Bodnar
May 23, 2014
The Marketplace Datebook for Monday, May 26, 2014.
Marketplace
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Shelf Life

Fashion soared as the economy faltered in the 1930s

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
May 20, 2014
Clothes made the (wo)man... even during the Great Depression.
1930s fashion.
Sasha/Hulton Archive
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The story behind red M&M's

by Bridget Bodnar
May 15, 2014
They were in the bag, then they weren't, then they were again.
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American Futures

The sounds (and sights!) of Eastport

by Bridget Bodnar
Oct 25, 2013
This is a Marketplace.org Reader
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