Twice on Sunday: UK Cost of Living, Eggs, Speaker Vote Fallout, CDC Pain Med Regs, Economy, John Quincy Adams, & more

On this Heard Tell: Twice on Sunday review of the week that was with:

Writer and commentator Alys Watson Brown from across the pond on how the cost-of-living crisis is combining with political turmoil to greatly affect the cultural and political outlook of the generation that was in school through Brexit, COVID, and now trying to find their way in a rapidly changing UK, plust how AI essay writing bots are threatening already damaged faith in education post-COVID, and what's next politically for the UK. aged faith in education post-COVID, and what's next politically for the UK. 

Writer and podcaster Dennis Sanders returns to talk about the Republican Party's lack of "institutional control" for the last several years lead to the chaos we now see, the leaders the GOP currently has, and what it means politically and structually for the party going forward.

Denver Post columnist Krista Kafer returns to Heard Tell to talk about the chicken and the egg; soaring egg prices that are not just about inflation, poultry and eggs as stamples of the food supply, economics and morals of poultry farming, and what consumers can control from their own grocery stores. Also, a Colorado point of view on Representative Lauren Boebert, her close election win, the lessons she should have learned from it, and if the opening of congress shows she did or did not.

Journalist and writer Peter Pischke returns to Heard Tell to discuss his USA Today piece that has been called one of the most discussed pieces they've ever had. What the CDC guidelines mean, the habit of "guidelines" becoming de facto mandates, reaction both medically and legally from doctors, and the potential to make a bad problem even worse.

Economist, Ordinary Times contributor and Heard Tell regular Stephen Popick to talk about how housing is such a fundamental - and under appreciated - building block to a good economy, and while some of our economic troubles can draw a strait line to the housing crisis, better ways to discuss economics, the economic messaging of the Biden Administration, and some ways for folks to better understand all those economic headlines.

We turn down the noise of the news cycle to discern our times by taking a lesson from the past with Garion Frankel, who explains the current congress could learn a lot from a congressman who served nearly 200 years as his "retirement" job after the presidency, John Quincy Adams, and his fights against the "gag rule" and other issues revolving around abolition and how congress works, and shouldn't work.

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