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The Good day. This is the making of the John Batson Show. I am in Connecticut in New England,

and I welcome my colleague Jim McTagg, former Washington editor of Barron's magazine, now a novelist

in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,

the best county in the Keystone State.

And we welcome our longtime colleague in France, Simon Constable, who is in the south of France

at a farming village known as Albi, a medieval farming village, as all of France seems to be these days,

especially in the South.

And Simon is in position to comment on what the price of oil, the Strait of Ormuse, the crisis

of the Iran War, means for the European farmers, reminding everyone that the farmers of France

are extremely influential in national elections, especially

the pending elections of the national rally headed by Marine Le Pen, because the farm country

is the basis for change if there is to be one in Paris.

And the farm company, the country is very sensitive to the price of diesel oil.

Simon, before we begin, the John Batchez show, I'm glad you're in Albi.

Remind me that building behind you or the buildings around you.

Are they medieval or are they rebuilt modern versions?

Good day to you, Simon.

Good day to you, John.

Good day to you all.

These look like they've been recently remorted, pointed, as they say, in the UK.

So the bricks behind me look old but the pointing

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