Talking Tariffs With Neil Blumenthal

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Society & Culture, Arts, Food

4.8 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dave and Chris start off with some musings about artichokes and theorize about the potential untold Chinese influence on Italian cuisine. They then have an informative conversation with Warby Parker cofounder and co-CEO Neil Blumenthal about the current U.S. tariffs. Dave and Chris finish with an MOIF concerning the tariffs' potential effects on food in America, Parmesan Reggiano, and more. Hosts: Dave Chang and Chris Ying Guest: Neil Blumenthal Video/Audio Producer: Felipe Guilhermino Majordomo Media Producers: Kelsey Rearden and David Meyer Editor: Stefano Sanchez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Um, hello, hello, David here.
0:02.8	Uh, we got a great show.
0:03.8	We have my good friend, Neil Blumenthal.
0:05.4	He's been on a guest once, twice, twice.
0:09.0	Two times, I believe.
0:10.1	He has the founder, co-founder of Warby Parker.
0:13.3	The glasses that I can now say that I'm a model on.
0:16.7	Yeah, that's right.
0:17.6	You know why?
0:18.2	Because they make glasses now for big fat heads with flat faces and no cheekbones, aka 75% of all Asian men faces.
0:28.9	And guess what? Sometimes it's still not big enough for my head. But it's damn close.
0:37.8	And we're going to do some musings.
0:40.8	We're just going to opine on a few things, one of which that our producers and
0:44.8	Christopher Ying don't even know about.
0:46.8	A couple hot takes.
0:47.7	Maybe we only get time to talk about one.
0:50.0	But I think we're missing an ingredient, a way of eating a very popular dish in this world.
0:57.9	Something that I feel Neil might know a little bit about since he's on a board of a company that a lot of people buy food from.
1:05.9	And then we're going to get into a classic moif where I'm sure we'll piss some people off.
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