Welcome into episode 35 of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready.

That is Josh Hendrickson, of course, the chair of economics at the University of Mississippi.

It is Wednesday, January the 22nd.

I was out walking.

I pulled up.

I walked up to my driveway. I'm like,

who's that? And I recognized it was a car had the Ole Miss tag thing on the back. And I was like,

I was trying to think of which of Carson's friends that might be. And then I realized, oh gosh,

it's Wednesday at 3.30. We are doing this week. I had spent all day thinking we weren't doing

this week. So my bad. thinking we weren't doing this week so my bad

welcome in good to be here uh i don't really know what there is to talk about um not snow and

um your thoughts on monday um what sticks out two days later from inauguration day?

The golden age of America has begun.

I mean, that was actually like a perfect way to start his speech.

Because I think the way that the media covers Donald Trump is like he, like he's really dark.

Right.

Like every time he gives a speech, they're always like, oh, it's a very, very dark speech from Donald Trump.

And there are people that are scared.

Well, and this is the thing, though, is that, like, if you actually listen to his speech,

um, not just on Monday, but pretty much like most of his speeches, um, they're not dark. They're actually very positive. Like he speaks about, um, you know, a vision of the future, a vision of

America. Um, optimism about, you know,

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