Welcome into another edition of the Josh Hendrickson show. I'm Neil McCready, joined as always by the chair of economics at Ole Miss, Dr. Josh Hendrickson.

It is, we have to timestamp this one. It is Friday, July the 12th, 335 p.m. Central Daylight Time recording on a Friday instead of a Wednesday

this week because I was out of town on Wednesday. So we're doing it on Friday, which is

turned out to be fortuitous, Josh, I think, because we got to see the big do or die press

conference with the big boy press conference. The big boy press conference the big boy press conference with

president Biden yesterday at the i guess the nato hearing thing is still going on but yesterday

was a big nato day he introduced president zalinski of ukraine as president putin a little bit different there of Ukraine as President Putin.

A little bit different there.

He caught himself or the audience caught him and he corrected himself, but the damage was done.

And then during the big boy press conference, he talked about Vice President Trump in the present tense.

Donald Trump, to my knowledge, has never been the vice president.

In fairness, though, when Joe Biden was a kid, I think, you know, when you finish second place in the presidential race, you became vice president.

Yes.

All right.

So we've not been together since the debate.

We were going to do a show, I think, the day of the debate. And we're like, no, you know what? It's going to be such old news. And God, were we ever right?

We'll just start here with just your overall thoughts on where where we are here again the afternoon of July the 12th

where where where's this story going where we are literally watching history unfold in front of us probably

what are what are your thoughts okay so first of all i think the we got to start with the debate

we have to start with how this possibly happened because we went from this world where

you had all these journalists you know looking seriously at the camera taking their glasses off

and being like,

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