Welcome to another edition of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined as always by the head of the economics department at the University of Mississippi when Dr. Josh Hendrickson.

It's a special edition of the show.

I say that.

We moved it up a week.

We haven't really talked about next week.

We're getting closer to Christmas, obviously.

Next week there's a chance.

I'm going to have some Ole Miss football obligations.

So it makes sense for us to knock this one out.

Plus, there were some things we wanted to talk about.

So, Josh, welcome into the show.

Thanks.

Ready to talk about all the excitement.

There's always stuff happening in our world.

We're going to start with something happening in your world because you, you got a little,

hey, welcome to my world, I should say, you know, where if you talk into a microphone

for any length of time in things that are recorded and then distributed to the out into the

ether, it's par for the course, it comes with the territory that you're occasionally going to be and then distributed to the out into the ether.

It's par for the course.

It comes with the territory that you're occasionally going to be maligned,

questioned, sometimes attacked, whatever the case may be.

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