It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Let's talk about the price of eggs.

Not so much that bringing down the price of eggs was a main reason swing voters went for Donald Trump, and it's not happening.

Rather, why the price of eggs in our area seems so crazily variable and the availability seems so crazily variable and how to find eggs and how to find deals on eggs.

Some people are even buying eggs like some people

buy cigarettes, Lucy's, one egg at a time, not a dozen, or half a dozen in a carton. And there's

one story we're going to talk about where even breaking a carton in half so you get six,

which I thought was really common, was controversial at least one place. And with us for this

is Dionne Circy, New York Times

reporter, who writes about how power and money shaped New York for better or worse, our article

published yesterday, is called for Savvy New Yorkers. It's all about cheap eggs and where to find

them. Thanks for coming on, Dion. Welcome to WNYC. Thank you for having me, Brian.

And listeners, tell us your stories.

What have you done recently to find affordable eggs or to find any eggs?

Anyone buying or selling Lucy's want to call in?

Anyone thinking of this in terms of power and privilege, which is kind of Dion's beat?

212-433. WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92, call or text.

So your article opens with one Brooklyn neighbor asking another if they have any extra

eggs.

What was the context of that exchange?

Well, I started thinking about the price of eggs really back in the

summer when it became part of the presidential campaign. I was helping out our politics

desk talking about that. And then when bird flu started, you know, really hitting other

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