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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 5.

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

So just to recap the path to a big box shelf, there are like 5,000 new board games every year.

How often do you have like somebody who is not in the industry, like say a podcast host, pitching the retailers on an item?

And they show up.

Okay.

Anyway, all of that, that is why getting into big box is a very serious business.

And apparently we have to wait so long to hear anything about how our pitch meeting went.

And then, nearly five months after I'd been in LA pitching the buyers, Alan from Exploding Kittens got in touch and said.

We have to meet.

Uh we have so much stuff to talk about.

moly.

Both retailers.

I have no memory of anything that happened in that room.

So yay.

I wish I had confetti.

careful.

This is so exciting.

After the break, a whole new clock starts ticking.

One month after learning the great big box news, Kenny and I were both summoned to Exploding Kittens headquarters.

All

Showing 141–160 of 426 · page 8 of 22