Welcome in to episode 43 of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined as always by Josh Hendrickson,

chair of economics at the University of Mississippi,

otherwise known as Ole Miss.

It's been almost a month, Josh, since we've been together.

I think it was June the 11th was the last, yeah, June the 11th.

Back then, that was the day that the Thunder were about to play, about to play game three.

I don't know if you heard Oklahoma City Thunder won the NBA World Championship,

so just in case you needed to know. So if you heard Oklahoma City Thunder won the NBA World Championship.

Just in case you needed to know.

So if you have questions for Josh, you can ask them to me on Twitter.

I've got my tweet thing up.

You can also ask here in the stream as well. So we'll talk about a few things. And then you guys have some things you want to ask. We'll get to it. Yeah, we're going to talk big, beautiful bill. That's definitely on the list. I'm not sure if it's one or two on the list. I'll tell you, we'll start with this. We'll start with the Cubs. Someone asked already in the in the streams jack wants to know cubs are the cubs world series contenders um as we sit here on july the night

as we uh watch the dodgers try to salvage a game in milwaukee what are your thoughts on the on the cubs

i think they are probably a starter and a late inning reliever away from being World Series contenders.

I think they need to add a third basement also.

I like Shaw. I would not trust Shaw in a play baseman also. I like Shaw.

I would not trust Shaw in a playoff game and a key at bat.

I'm talking about Matt Shaw, the Cup's third basement.

I would not, if there's a package that they could do with Arizona that includes a Eugenio-Swarres, I would say that would be a game changer for them because it would add another bat

to the lineup.

But I think any time that you are complaining about a guy who's probably like your

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