Welcome into episode 44 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, otherwise known as Ole Miss.

It is Wednesday, July the 16th.

I'll give you the weather outside.

There are not enough clouds, and it is 407 degrees something.

Celsius, Fahrenheit, maybe both.

It is absolutely on fire outside.

You can't walk outside more than 10 seconds.

I went running this morning, literally. I don't say than 10 seconds. I went running this morning.

Literally.

I don't say this to brag.

I went running this morning at six.

I didn't get going until 6.40 something.

I just ran my standard little five and a half mile run.

It took me to basically noon to stop sweating.

And I'm still completely dehydrated.

I've drank 4,000 things of

water. I've had Propel, PowerA. Zero. Popsicles. It's absurd outside. So welcome into the show.

I'm glad you were able to make it up the driveway without having a heat stroke.

No, it's that time of year.

I,

when I moved here,

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