Welcome into episode 37 of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined as you might expect by Josh Hendrickson, chair of economics at the University of Mississippi here on this Wednesday, February the 26th.

Josh, how are you?

Doing well.

It's been three weeks since we last talked.

It'll be, it might be three weeks before we go again.

So a lot to get to, a lot of things have happened.

Most importantly, Jake Tappers come out with the book.

I'm excited. I'm excited.

I'm excited.

Finally, Jake Tapper feels like he's sourced to write about the end of the Biden administration

and the great original lie of the former president,

not exactly being with all of his faculties while he was in the White House.

It's an interesting juxtaposition to his stance less than a year ago

and didn't feel confident writing this book.

And he was pretty emphatic that the,

uh, the former vice president and then current president was sharper than ever before.

Mm-hmm.

It's an interesting, you know, things happen.

Things change.

I tell people all the time, things are fluid.

What is true on Monday is not necessarily true on Tuesday.

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