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 can put my mic down for two seconds.

And the moment he walks me into their big open floor office space, you can tell everyone is heads down preparing for this hugely important meeting.

Thor and I walk past the team huddled over a new dice game that's top secret.

lightning dice.

There's a small team doing last second experimenting with a new plastic material that sort of explodes in this fun, surprising way.

So then I just sort of pop it down.

All right.

Yeah, the office is full of people putting the final touches on game prototypes.

Ours is one of thirteen prototype games that Exploding Kittens is planning to pitch to the representatives from

But

Suffice it to say, Exploding Kittens was taking this company's visit very seriously.

And Thor and I jump onto an emergency pitch prep call.

How's everyone

Yeah, no, I'm good.

Okay.

I do have a lot of notes.

Should I be nervous?

Um oh

Yeah, big box companies have small armies of buyers in charge of finding and buying the things for their sections of the store.

This whole song and dance is part of something called line review.

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