Why there are roving rotisserie chicken mobs
The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, we tackle questions from our dear listeners on whether AI interviewers are biased, what the heck M2 money supply is, and what’s up with the frenzied mobs fighting for rotisserie chickens at the grocery store.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Darym Woods. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Whalen Wong. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Adrian Ma. |
| 0:17.2 | And we're here today to discuss rotissory chickens. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, finally. |
| 0:24.5 | I love a rotisserie chicken, |
| 0:30.5 | but we're actually here to tackle your listener questions. So today, we're looking at what the heck the M2 money supply is, how AI chatbots affect blind or low vision people, and whether |
| 0:37.4 | rotissory chickens are actually more |
| 0:39.8 | difficult to buy. Oh, so we are talking about rotissary chickens. Our first listener question comes |
| 0:46.2 | from Hayas Simkin. And I am from Haifa Israel. I just listened to your episode on getting interviewed with a chatbot. |
| 0:56.5 | I've heard repeatedly that 70% of blind people worldwide who are capable of working |
| 1:04.5 | don't get hired because of the stigma. |
| 1:07.3 | Would a chatbot help to eliminate this bias? Okay, when we did our episode on |
| 1:13.8 | these chatbot interviews, I remember the takeaway being surprisingly positive that AI job |
| 1:19.5 | interviews led to better hiring outcomes. People felt less discriminated against, although we did not |
| 1:25.6 | talk explicitly about blind candidates. |
| 1:28.9 | That's right. So we took this question to our original source for that episode, Brian Jabbarian. |
| 1:34.6 | As a reminder, Brian is a fellow at the University of Chicago School of Business. And he says he |
| 1:41.2 | hasn't specifically researched how blind candidates do in AI interviews, |
| 1:45.5 | but it is possible that a blind candidate might face less discrimination if the AI interview is voice only. |
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