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Our guest Sarah Montalbano of the Alaska Policy Forum joins us to talk about the implementation of ranked choice voting in Alaska. Sarah explains the good, the bad, and the very confusing of what has been a messy roll out, complicated by the death of long time Alaska Representative Don Young (R), a huge field, and sudden change to the new system. Plus Sarah talks about the attempted comeback of Sa...

Your Heard Tell for Friday, August the 26th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by having not one but two Good Talks today. First Sarah Montalbano of the Alaska Policy Forum joins us to talk about the implementation of ranked choice voting in Alaska . Sarah explains the good, the bad, and the very confusing of what...

On this Best of Heard Tell, you might have Heard Tell that President Biden has finally revealed his long promised student debt relief proposals. So, we review some of our recent Good Talks regarding student loans and student loan debt forgiveness, and by extension the very high cost of higher education.  From May of 2022, Attorney and Ordinary Times Senior Editor Em Carpenter gives her personal ta...

Our guest to is Charles Brandt joins to review a debate that raged for 18 months but suddenly went away when legislation started getting past; the filibuster. Charles walks us through the history of the filibuster, what it is and isn't, what it was intended to be, and what it has become over the years. We discuss why institutional rules are important, when they should be changed, and how both...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, August the 24th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting past the headlines about US Senator and NRSC Chair Rick Scott yachting in Italy while questions swirl as to the GOP prospects in the midterms, and get to who is pushing the story and why positioning for who will take the b...

Our guest today is Dr Kathryn Gordon, clinical psychologist & author of The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook who returns to Heard Tell to once again talk mental health. Dr Katie responses and explains some recent mental health related headlines and news stories, narratives anout issies and treatments, and talks about what we know now about the COVID-era's affect on us all. Dr Gordon also talks s...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 23th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by discussing the latest viral video of police violence as they arresting a suspect we'll givr the full context and the biggest giveaway from the video as to what really happened. Meanwhile, overseas in Africa the nation of Cameroo...

Our guest today is economist Danielle Zanzalari who has worked both in the corporate finance world and also at The Fed before going the academic route to teach and research economic policy. Danielle brings great perspective on the CHIPS Act, abd helps us turns down the noise on whether or not the Big Tech companies like Intel really needed the government to tilt this critical business market even...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, August the 22th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by having to explain we we need to be more careful with online and in-person violent rhetoric like we are all 5 years old, since the proiferation of calls for violence in response to politics and curent events isn't just coming from...

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. B...

So you might have heard tell of Machiavelli, or someone acting or accused of being Machiavellian in their dealings, schemings, and intentions, or the shadowy political powers of secret grand strategies to garner and wield power, or the using of evil to get what you want, or maybe as the moniker for 2Pac on his posthumous last album. Thing is, the real story of how a Renaissance-era Florentine poli...

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 reac...

Your Heard Tell for Friday, August the 19th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by discussing the case of Salma al-Shehab and why Saudi Arabia sentenced her to 34 years in prison for tweeting ; a sentence not only outragous on its face, but even more so when considering the connections between the ruling powers in...

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 financ...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, August the 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to the bottom of an internet image about the IRS that went viral online, but wasn't what it was made out to be , and how this is yet another example of smashing send without checking first not only makes you end up look...

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...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, August the 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by digging into GOP spending on senate races and seeing if the headlines about cash flow match the political realities on the ground as the midterm general election gets closer and closer. Election security remains a top issue for ma...

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...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 16th, 2022  is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with the Department of Justice now investigating the Souther Baptist Convention , and what the continued abuse story in America's largest evangelical denomination means, and how some are alrea...

Our guest today is Sean Bray, EU Policy Analyst at the Tax Foundation to talk about not only America's tax policy, but how the UK and EU's policies are all interconnected and affect each other. Sean helps us turn down the math, theory, and complexity of things like corporate taxes to explain why we should be aware and pay attention to tax policies like VAT and corporate tax rates and how t...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, August the 15th, 2022, is turning down the news cyce noise and getting to the information we need on the spectrum of reaction GOP members of the House of Representatives are having one weeek on from the Mar-a-Lago search warrants , and how some calls for tempering the rhetoric are only driving others to push harder. A CBS Morning segment that takes new data on kids toda...

Our guest today is Prathamesh Yamul, who has a piece out on how one year out from the botched US withdrawl from Afghanistan a turf war between the Taliban and ISIS-K is dictating what's going on in the war torn country. Prathamesh walks us through what has happened in Afghanistan in the year since Kabul fell, and other than the drone strike again Zawahiri when most folks in the west stopped pa...

On the Heard Tell Podcast Chris Schlak of Young Voices and USA Today gives his first person perspective on the controversial and viral moments of CPAC Dallas. From the big names like former President Donald Trump and Hungarian PM Victor Orban to the vendors and attendees, Chris helps turn down the noise of the news headlines and narratives and get to what really happened in the room. For example,...

Our guest today is Alexander Jelloian, a Young Voices contributor and of the Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity, a project of the Institute for Economic Affairs in the United Kingdom. Alexander talks Africa, and more specifically China's increasing intrests, investment, and interference in the continent. Alexander details the recent history of how the players might be new but the issu...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, August the 11th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with a review of the loudest, most trending news story of the week, the Mar-a-Lago search warrant , and seeing if our reactions on Monday match the information we have on Friday - starting with be...