Welcome into episode 50 of the Josh Hendrickson show.

I'm Neil McCready, joined by Josh Hendrickson, chair of economics, the University of Mississippi, otherwise known as Ole Miss.

It's been, it was pre- Thanksgiving the last time we got together.

We've been busy. You've got together. We've been busy.

You've been busy. I've been busy. How you doing? Fortunately, nothing has really happened since then. No, it's been pretty quiet. There's a thread on the board today where a guy goes, is it a Christmas vacation, basically? And I'm like, wait, what? And you think, I literally was thinking to myself, like, when was the last time? It took a day.

Just a complete day.

And I think it was like,

I think it was Maine. The open date in early October was the last time that I had a full like day of where nothing happened at all. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying. And it was like, wait, well, why would you, it's just Wednesday.

And I think what it is, is you've, if, if you were following the Lane Kiff in epic,

it was so nonstop that now that things have slowed a little, it feels like nothing's happening at all.

And it's like, no, we, because I had to think to myself, we, we've been writing, haven't we?

And like today, you know, we, we broke a story about the, um, the football schedule for 2026. And

I did a mailbag and we had stuff and, but it's just people are, I get it. It slows down. And when it slows down, you're like, oh, there's nothing going on. What are they doing? Are they just, are they just on a cruise? What's going on? I get it. I completely understand. What were your thoughts on? I'll go here. I'm curious.

You and I've really never, we have not talked about this.

I think you're the only person on earth that I have not talked about this with.

As it unfolded, what were your thoughts on the Lane Kiffin, Epic?

The reason you haven't talked to me about this is I deliberately try not to talk to you about this because I know that everybody else is trying to talk to you about it.

And so I don't, yeah.

I have a few, I have a few thoughts.

Lane hasn't texted me yet, so we'll see.

I can send you his number.

I can say it and I'll send it to him.

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