Mariel Segarra
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207 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 5d ago
Mariel Segarra’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm Alex Mayossi.
Yes, many of you will recognize Alex's voice from some classic Planet Money episodes or his name because he wrote the Planet Money book.
Or maybe you're a listener to Alex's new food and economics show.
It's called Gastronomics.
It is there that Alex laid out this theory that I kind of love.
Alex, you call it the Domino's Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything.
We're talking banking, car repair, tax prep, waiting for an Uber.
Your theory is it all started with the pizza tracker.
So today on the show, we're going to drill down on this theory, hear how the pizza tracker was made, how it spread, how it's been manipulated, and what it tells us about human nature.
Also, we hit the streets
Got a hidden mic right here.
We're about to go do investigative journalism.
We're back.
It's Planet Money.
We're tracing the history of the Domino's pizza tracker and how it's changed consumer culture.
Where we left off, it's the mid-2000s.
And Domino's knew they had this problem where people hated waiting for pizza.
not like
David says once Domino's learned about the emotional pizza rollercoaster, lots of people at the company had a sense that they should build something like a pizza tracker.
But they also knew that corporate would never go for it because it would be really time consuming to build something that would track literally every pizza at every single Domino's.
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