Welcome into another edition 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.

The show presented to you by Twisted Tea.

We'll talk to you about Twisted Tea in just a minute, but first, Josh, welcome in.

It's a crazy day.

So a lot to talk about.

Yeah,

there's a lot to get to.

The last time you were here,

campus was just about to kind of get going,

starting to come to life.

I would suspect that now it is fully alive here in week number one at Ole Miss.

Fully alive.

Yeah, the kids the kids know there's no test anytime soon my they have freedom it's party time I have an 8 a.m. class and it's seniors

that are in there and one of the seniors walked in five minutes late.

And he said, I just want to fast forward to like two weeks from now

when all these people stop showing up to their 8 a.m. classes so I can get here on time.

All right.

So I got a lot I want to get to i know one's going to be surprised who knows me

you know me pretty well you probably know where i'm going right off the bat um there were rumblings

on different outlets last week about mask mandates coming back about this COVID variant BCS 2,

3, 1 or some, I don't know, whatever, it doesn't matter.

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