April 14, 2025· 39 min

What an American Stove Maker Wants You to Know About US Manufacturing

Sam D'Amico

Orality

Model

80%

Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,528 words)

M:29%

HostTracy Alloway(4,260 words)

M:28%

GuestSam D'Amico(0 words)

M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic37%

very, basically, amazing

Engagement67%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, right

Repetition100%

like (275x), it's (67x), yeah (50x)

Parallelism95%

And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And we've had a lot of anecdot..., So we've already mentioned at ...

Sound Patterns54%

43 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases8%

you know what, i mean, the thing is

Literate Indicators

Hedging10%

could, quite, might

Passive Voice5%

were asked, is complicated, be prepared

Abstract Nouns20%

investment, business, production

Subordination8%

because, while, unless

Sentence Length38%

Avg: 14.4 words/sentence

Word Complexity49%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers0%

Impersonal Style33%

535 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

specifically, actually, basically

Description

One of the ironies of the tariffs is that, while ostensibly the goal is to reshore US manufacturing, it's actually been US makers of physical goods themselves that have warned about the damage that trade barriers can cause. Or, to put it another way, if we really want to see more domestic US production in order to decouple from China, then perhaps there are other levers to pull besides the tariffs. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Sam D'Amico, the founder and CEO of California-based Impulse Labs, which makes an amazing induction oven. We talk about what the tariffs mean for his business, and the various things, including capital markets and NIMBYism, that really stand as impediments to building out mass US production of goods. Read more: The High-Tech Stove That’s Also a Home Battery Everything You Need to Know About the Basis Trade Spooking Markets Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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