Erica Barris
speaker
426 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 21 Aug
Erica Barris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But you also sent us more than a thousand amazing ideas for what mythical creatures we should include in this game.
And here is a sampling of what successfully we convinced Exploding Kittens to include in the actual game.
When you buy the game and look at the cards, you will see that Exploding Kittens included a little symbol on those cards so you can see which ones came from you.
By the way, you can get our game and lots of other merch at the NPR shop at shopnpr.org.
This is Planet Money from NPR.
Yeah, she's understating it a little bit.
Actually, when we were talking to her, the only time she seemed kind of bored was when she was listing her accomplishments.
Alicia knows long, grueling workouts.
She's learned dozens of defensive schemes and offensive plays.
She's used to practicing, preparing, strategizing.
But this was a totally different kind of endurance challenge.
And...
Look, it's normal for players to be involved in collective bargaining.
When union workers sign a new contract with their employers, some of the actual workers have to be part of the negotiations.
So Alicia was going to be one of the players negotiating over things like parental leave, 401k matching, housing stipends, and most importantly, paychecks.
All Alicia and the other negotiators had to do was get the league to agree.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Erica Barris.
And it came right down to the buzzer.
Today on the show, we go courtside to one of the most important union negotiations in professional sports history and learn what it's like to be a rookie doing high stakes bargaining.
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