Erica Barris

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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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Planet Money · Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

I have a pitch though.

I I like talked myself through it a few times.

I was sitting on the airplane, like kind of mumbling to myself, being like, and the thing you gotta know is our devoted audio.

I was just like, Yeah, I got this.

I got this.

I have I have arm movements that are gonna happen.

So um

Okay.

All right.

And I'm Erica Barris.

And today on the show, we are going inside the secret room that could make or break our Planet Money game.

We get a once-in-a-lifetime front row seat for the Shark Tank Way that essentially all the store shelves get filled.

Walmart and Kroger and Costco and Home Depot and Target are still huge parts of our economy and our lives.

But seriously, big box is still this hugely important corner of American life that we just haven't had the chance to understand.

Okay, so

I am here.

Yeah, I arrived extra, extra, extra early at the exploding kittens headquarters near West Hollywood.

Hey Thor.

Nice to meet you here.

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