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#LANCASTER REPORT: SLOWER. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ. Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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 #LANCASTER REPORT: SLOWER. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety1,
887 CLINTON COUNTY

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0:00.0

Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden! Love that porcelain paven and all that fencing.

0:05.4

I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Jusen.

0:07.9

A mini-digger! No wonder she was so smug at Zumba! Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that.

0:14.2

For materials, tool higher, timber and paving. Don't waste time. Duason's got the lot.

0:19.0

Like Teralis, porcelain paving from only 22 pounds per square metre.

0:22.4

Love it.

0:23.1

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

0:26.0

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

0:28.0

And the Evanses.

0:29.2

And the Bertels.

0:30.1

This is CBSI and the world.

0:32.2

I'm John Batchford.

0:33.3

Lancaster County, the best county in the Keystone State, and Jim McTag, formerly Washington

0:38.2

editor at Barron's, now a novelist in Lancaster County, his drive home from Valparaiso, Indiana

0:44.5

to Lancaster in these last days to measure the American economy and to get home. Jim, I understand

0:51.0

you left Valparaiso with a pocketful of gummy bears.

0:54.3

Why?

0:55.9

Well, right next to Valparaiso is a town in Merrillville, and there's a gummy bear factory there that employs 550 people.

1:06.1

It's a huge facility.

1:07.4

I learned that they sell 300,000 pounds of gummy bears every day.

1:16.9

It's an impressive site.

1:18.1

And when you go on the internet, the founder, Scott Albany's was a bricklayer, and

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