The aftermath of the Hyundai plant raid
Make Me Smart
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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Kimberly is joined by Marlon Hyde, business and economics reporter for WABE in Atlanta, to unpack the fallout of the massive ICE raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia in which hundreds of South Korean nationals were arrested. And, we’ll get into what Atlanta small business owners are worried about these days. (Spoiler: it’s tariffs.) Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- "Immigration raid at Georgia Hyundai factory tests state’s longstanding relationship with South Korea" from WABE
- "Hyundai says it will spend $2.7 billion expanding part of the Georgia complex raided by ICE" from AP News
- "Atlanta develops human rights action plan for 2026 FIFA World Cup" from WABE
- "After another subpar summer of going to the movies, what's next?" from Marketplace
- "Finally, the era of free in-flight WiFi is near" from The Washington Post
- "Costco's New Shopping Hours Are a Sign of Tierification of US Economy" from Business Insider
"People are boycotting Disney, Hulu, and ESPN after ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air. Will it work?" from Fast Company
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:11.2 | Thank you all for joining us on this Friday, September the 19th. |
| 0:15.5 | And because it's Friday, we are going to have our weekly happy hour episode, Economics on Tap. And joining me |
| 0:22.6 | today is a special guest, W-A-B-E reporter Marlon Hyde. He covers all sorts of business and economic |
| 0:29.9 | stories in Atlanta and around Georgia. Marlon, welcome to the show. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, happy to be here. Good. So I wanted to bring Marlon on to talk about the |
| 0:41.1 | fallout of that major ice raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia. We're going to get to that. But first, |
| 0:47.1 | of course, we have to do drinks. Marlon, what did you bring? So today I brought my mom's homemade |
| 0:53.2 | reggae punch. It's kind of like the traditional fruit punch, but my mom's homemade reggae punch. |
| 0:58.8 | It's kind of like the traditional fruit punch, but my mom puts a spin on it. |
| 1:02.5 | She has like guava, pineapple, mango nectar in here. |
| 1:03.9 | And it's really good. |
| 1:05.6 | I was literally raised off this stuff. |
| 1:09.4 | And it's bottled up this way because my mom started her food business. |
| 1:11.6 | She has a food truck now and I help support it. So now she's starting to sell them, which I'm really happy for it. |
| 1:15.6 | Nice. |
| 1:16.6 | Now is the reggae punch, obviously you said you were raised on it, but did you add anything fun to it for the show? |
| 1:21.6 | Now I did not add anything fun to it. |
| 1:24.6 | It's going to be a mock tail for the day. |
| 1:26.6 | But traditionally because I'm Jamaican, |
| 1:29.1 | my family came straight from Jamaica. Sometimes you tip a little rum in there, you know, |
| 1:34.7 | have a good time, have a little party, you know, rum punch. A lot of people are familiar with that. |
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