DEEP CUTS Episode 48: How Tariffs are Affecting Small Creators

Scott Sigler Slices: SLAY

Empty Set Entertainment

Books, Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When there’s market volatility due to on-again, off-again tariffs, how does that impact Empty Set? From day-to-day operations to release schedules, tariffs can affect every step of our production timeline. We’ve already been affected! Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment I’m just happy you can’t levy tariffs on blogs! Y’all still can grab a new three-year dot-com domain using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG! Get yours and then shout all about it on your very own homepage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tariffs.
0:01.3	Tariffs.
0:02.2	We're talking about tariffs?
0:04.2	We are.
0:05.2	How rogue hostile government takeovers can impact the smallest of small businesses.
0:11.3	Tariffs?
0:12.4	I mean, listen, we're talking about tariffs.
0:14.9	Not a cost of doing business, not a tax.
0:17.2	Okay, I mean, it is a tax.
0:18.3	We're talking about tariffs, not the customer care that I go out there and die for and write every book like it's my last, not the cost of making the product, not my time. We're talking about tariffs, man. I mean, how silly is that? We're talking about tariffs?
0:34.9	We'll talk about, I guess we are talking about tariffs.
0:40.9	Right after this quick break.
0:47.6	DC high volume, Batman.
0:51.2	The Dark Nights definitive DC comic stories adapted directly for audio for the very first time.
0:59.2	Fear, I have to make them afraid.
1:02.5	He's got a motorcycle. Get after him or have you shot.
1:06.8	You mean blow up the building?
1:08.8	From this moment on, none of you are safe.
1:12.8	New episodes every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:21.9	Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's Fiction Podcast,
1:26.7	where your sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff
1:30.2	in the world of fiction and pop culture.
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