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Heard Tell Twice on Sunday reviews the week that was in turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking to our knowledgeable guest.This Week:Our guest today is the returning Benjamin Ayanian who joins us for a in depth and grown folk talk about guns, the 2nd Amendment, gun control, legislation, policy and cultural debate thereof. Benjamin talks mass shootings, discusses his writing on "good guy with a gun" and whether or not that is a scalable solution, the lessons we should be learning from headline making events, and how reactionary policy aimed at the news cycle almost always misses the core problems and issues. Benjamin and Andrew also have a frank discussion about how the news media online debate over firearms is overly influenced by the extremes of each side, how gun control advocates need to square their message with police failures to protect, distrust in government, and surging ownership numbers and contrast those to how the "ammo sexual" stereotypes and memes and aggresive gun owner behavior online isn't helping 2A advocates make their case, and how the vast spectrum of folks in the middle get lost in the debate.Our guest today is Finesse Moreno-Rivera, an accomplished criminologist, research analyst, policy advisor, criminal justice data expert. Finesse is breaking down how the war on drugs sees the most casualties among the black and other minorities, destroys communities, and creats an irresistable business model for law enforcement. Finesse walks use through the history of the War on Drugs from Nixon and the cocain and heroin of the 70s to Biden and his schedule I fentanyl policy extensions of today. Finesse has several solutions that should be taken up by both communities and government, talks about how hard it is to get folks to even discuss issues of addiction and drug abuse, how the War on Drugs relates to the opioid crisis, and how a public health crisis must have a public health solution, not just a punative one.Our guest today is Christopher Barnard who joins us to talk about the global energy crisis from Ukraine to the EU to right here in America. Christopher has been writing and discusses how the worldwide anti-nuclear and green movements paved the way for the current energy crisis, and how even some of the most environmentally conscious countries are taking a second look at nuclear power to solve the problem. Also, since Christopher grew up in Europe then moved to the US, and our host did the opposite, we talk about how the similarities and differences between the US and EU affect policy on a practical level that is sometimes overlooked. Plus we ask Christopher the most important question - with the almost always controversial answer - you can ever ask someone who lived in Belgium. Our guest today is Flavia Nunez who joins us to help turn down the noise on the student loans debates over forgiveness, repayment, how the entire system of student financing really works. Flavia brings the focus back to the human aspect of an issue that has become all slogans and buzzwords, explaining from first-hand experience the pressure that is put on first time college students to take financial aid, and how that pressure is not only ramping up but an intregal part of the higher education business model. Flavia also breaksdown how the student loan issue is different for undergrad, graduate, and post-g