The aftermath of the Hyundai plant raid
Marketplace All-in-One
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 35 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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| 1:04.0 | Thank you all for joining us on this Friday, September the 19th. |
| 1:08.3 | And because it's Friday, we are going to have our weekly happy hour |
| 1:12.4 | episode, Economics on Tap. And joining me today is a special guest, W-A-B-E reporter Marlon Hyde. He |
| 1:20.3 | covers all sorts of business and economic stories in Atlanta and around Georgia. Marlon, welcome to |
| 1:26.7 | the show. Hey, happy to be here. Good. So I wanted to bring |
| 1:31.9 | Marlon on to talk about the fallout of that major ice raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to get to that. But first, of course, we have to do drinks. Marlon, what did you bring? |
| 1:43.3 | So today I brought my mom's homemade reggae punch. It's kind of like the traditional fruit |
| 1:49.9 | punch, but my mom puts a spin on it. She has like guava, pineapple, mango nectar in here, |
| 1:55.6 | and it's really good. I was really raised off this stuff. And it's bottled up this way because |
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