Will Tariffs Bring Trouble to Toyland?
The Assignment with Audie Cornish
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Think back to the toy or game that defined your childhood. |
| 0:06.0 | Answers may vary, depending on when you were born. |
| 0:08.8 | It's slinky, it's slinky, but find it's the best of the toy. |
| 0:12.5 | He'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble. |
| 0:15.4 | He-eyed Joe is there. |
| 0:17.4 | Stop it. |
| 0:18.6 | Quit it. |
| 0:20.2 | Poet. |
| 0:21.6 | Transformers, more than meets the eye |
| 0:24.6 | Magic the Gathering |
| 0:26.6 | Beat your friends |
| 0:27.6 | But for Chris Cox |
| 0:28.6 | His game, the one that shaped him |
| 0:31.6 | was Dungeons and Dragons |
| 0:33.6 | It's never too late to get into a dungeon and slay a dragon |
| 0:36.6 | So maybe by the end of the interview, |
| 0:38.8 | we'll convince you to come roll some dice and make some silly voices with your friends. |
| 0:44.3 | There are plenty of people out there who, like Chris, grew up playing and aged into a hardcore |
| 0:51.2 | fandom. But unlike them, Chris is having to make tough decisions about the brand |
| 0:57.2 | he loves and leads. Just a few weeks ago, Hasbro announced layoffs, cutting about 3% of its |
| 1:04.3 | workforce as it navigates the starts and stops of the Trump tariffs. It's a lot, but he looks at it this way. |
| 1:13.4 | The company was effectively founded in 1860 by Milton Bradley. |
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