Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

A few months back, Planet Money got a little economic bat signal from our friends over at the podcast Hyperfixed.

Hyperfixed is hosted by one of my longtime favorite radio heads, Alex Goldman.

He was previously one of the hosts of Reply All.

And for each episode, Hyperfixed takes on listener problems, big and small, and sets out to solve them.

Love that question.

Yeah, that's a bigger, scarier one.

But thank you for looking into it.

I think Jed's question is a question that I have had personally and that I think a lot of us have.

It's like exactly in this...

delectable sweet spot or savory, I guess, in this case of like something in the world that is all around us all the time.

And so it just felt like one of those things that is like a tiny question and it's kind of funny because it's so small, but it actually touches on like the fabric of cities and just the things we walk around and are surrounded by every day.

So I am eager to get out there and hit the streets and figure out what's going on.

Yes.

Let me do this one.

Let me ride.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money.

I'm Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi.

And I'm Alex Goldman.

I think we've all had those moments of looking around the world and all of a sudden you'll be surrounded by three Starbucks on a given street or a handful of McDonald's lining the halls of an airport terminal.

Sort of feels like you're watching the ebb and flow of some titanic corporate battle you can just barely see.