Welcome into episode 33 of the Josh Hendrickson show here on MPW Digital.

I'm Neil McCready joined, as you might expect by Josh Hendrickson, chair of economics at the University of Mississippi.

It's finals week.

I know it's your favorite week of the year, Josh.

So happy finals week to you. It's always a blast. the year, Josh. So happy finals week to you.

It's always a blast. It's been a minute. Been a minute since we were together. So we'll get to some stuff.

We'll get to the transition stuff. I know we both are probably interested. I'm interested

to get your thoughts on this Luigi Manjone story. Is what I saying? Is it right? There's a lot there. I'm just curious to get your thoughts on this Luigi Manjone story is what I say is the name right?

There's a lot there. I'm just curious to get your thoughts on some stuff. First, our, our Cubs, I don't know if you're, are you following winter meetings? I mean a little bit, but I'm trying

not to get excited about anything. They're trying to...

There are at least reports that they might be trying to make an actual move

that could potentially make the baseball team better at baseball

in a division that's just begging to be one.

That doesn't sound like them.

Yeah, I'm a little concerned.

I mean, they might trade for Kyle Tucker,

who's an actually really good baseball player in the prime of his career.

Now, he only has one year left in his contract.

So, I mean, I'm not going to fall in love and order my Tucker jersey,

but something there

well i think we've kind of reached the point where this is what the cubs are going to have to do

because they have this model right that tells them what they should pay for people and then everybody

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