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Our guest today is a Heard Tell favorite, historian Sarah Stook is back talking about her latest presidential history article at Elections-Daily.com about dead presidents. Eight of them, to be exact, who all died in office of either assassination or illness. Sarah brings new light and perspective on history you do know, like the assassinations of Lincoln and JFK, the incredible true stories you mi...

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 the reaction to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and the reaction to it. We'll dig into what we do and don't, what that does and doesn't mean, and why neither "We got him this ti...

On This Best Of Heard Tell: Guest Roy Mathews returns to Heard Tell to talk about Kazakhstan, and how the ancient crossroads between the East and the West once again finds themselves between world powers. Roy explains the situation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev from publicly confronting Putin, to internal questions about legitimacy, and what his background and motivations are in trying to pos...

Our guest today is once again economist Dr. Stephen Popick (Jericho Hill) who returns to talk the big words causing big consternation in our news media like inflation, recesssion, cost of living, and more. Stephen also will go through some of the economic headlines from various news sources and tell us what is noise, what is fact, what we need to pay attention to, and what economic numbers and ter...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 9th, 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 yet another high profile media figure, this time Malcom Gladwell , opining on working from home, and getting plenty of pushback. We'll talk the pros, cons, hypocrisy, and changing times of...

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...

Your Heard Tell forMonday, August the 8th, 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 sad spectacle of "Vote-a-rama" in the US Senate as the Inflation Reduction Act passes through reconciliation . We'll talk about the whole mess from Build Back Better, to Build Bac...

Our guest today is Heard Tell regular Dr Michael Siegel, who joins to talk about anti-semitism past, in current headlines, and from his own lived experience. Michael talks about the difference between previous generations, his father's experiences, and things that have happened in his own lifetime to give perspective and a human face to what hate can drive people to do. Also, Michael helps dis...

What is really going on beyond the recent headliens involving Alzheimer’s Disease research and misconduct? Heard Tell viewers asked for this story to be covered, and we reached out to Dr Ryan Townely, a clinician and Alzheimer’s disease researcher who participates in clinical research trials and educates medical students, neurology residents, and fellows. Dr Townley will explain the controversies,...

Your Heard Tell for Friday, August the 5th, 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 beyond the recent headliens involving Alzheimer’s Disease research and misconduct. Heard Tell viewers asked for this story to be covered, and we reached out to Dr Ryan Townely , a clinician and Alzhe...

Our guest today is Heard Tell regular and Elections Daily's own Joe Szymanski who returns to break down the primary action from Tuesday night. Arizona, Washington, Missouri, Kansas, and Michigan all went to the poll and Joe helps sort out what the surprises were, what happened as expected, and what the matchups for the November general election mean. Joe also breaks down the big name races, an...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, August the 4th, 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 taking Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan and what the news media coverage and China's reaction to the trip really tell us about who is provoking who, and when a "show of strenght" is masking concerns...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, August the 3st, 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 going deeper and getting to the real story of former Vice President Mike Pence. Journalist and author of "Piety & Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House" Tom LoBianco joins Heard Tell to explain that to und...

Our guest today is the returning Gabriella Hoffman of Young Voices and the District of Conservation podcast. We talk the aftermath of the gun legislation that passed congress, the new press for another assault weapons ban, and 2nd Amendment issues both in response to the headlines and as part of an election year cycle. Gabriella also breaks down some of the legal wrangling over gun control, such a...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 2st, 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 talking through some economic numbers showing that folks are increasing their grocery buying at discount dollar stores while cutting back on larger chains and traditional grocers, we'll talk about the real life impact of folks sc...

Our guest today is Heard Tell regular Dr Michael Siegel, who joins to talk about anti-semitism past, in current headlines, and from his own lived experience. Michael talks about the difference between previous generations, his father's experiences, and things that have happened in his own lifetime to give perspective and a human face to what hate can drive people to do. Also, Michael helps dis...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, August the 1st, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in starting with a piece by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal that bemoans the emptying of offices and changes that remote work might bring, but we'll discuss other changes like generational shifts, technology, and lessons learned...

Twice on Sunday for the last week in July, 2022: Our guest today is the returning Alexander Salter, an economist and research fellow at Texas Tech and Young Voices contributor. With headlines full of economic news and a White House trying to define what a recession is/isn't while also explaining inflation, cost of living, and other issues, Alexander helps us turn down the noise and get to the...

Our guest today is Nolan Gray, author of the book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It joins to explain beyond just the internet arguments how zoning and planning affect not just our cities and communities, but also the cultural and political debates we have about everything from property rights, to taxes, to quality of life. Nolan breaks down the nomenclature of w...

Our guest joining us on Heard Tell guest Cassandra Shand returns to the program to talk about the current crisis in Cuba, from the fuel and food shortages that are plaguing most of the world, to the healthcare system collapse and crackdown on protests that are becoming all too familiar again. Cassandra also talks about the newest wave of the very old problem of migrants and exiles fleeing Cuba and...

Your Heard Tell for Friday, July the 29th, 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 parsing out the uproar over the Pact Act procedural vote in the US Senate that stopped VA funding and burn pit legislation from going forward. We'll talk about the funding and financial bloat added to the bill, whether or not that...

Guest Roy Mathews returns to Heard Tell to talk about Kazakhstan, and how the ancient crossroads between the East and the West once again finds themselves between world powers. Roy explains the situation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev from publicly confronting Putin, to internal questions about legitimacy, and what his background and motivations are in trying to position his country in a shift...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, July the 28th, 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 revisiting an old trope with new data and the benefit of hindsight. "Millennials are lazy" went from meme to accepted common knowledge but new data, and the rise of the generation behind them, is shedding new light show that...

Our guest today is freelance journalist and head of the Happy Warrior substack and podcast Peter Pischke. Peter joins to talk about two platforms that have tremendous influence in American culture and media: Reddit and YouTube. Peter details from writing he has done how the case of popular Youtuber Act Man is an example of the good, the bad, and the ugly of content moderation on one of the worlds...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, July the 27th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting the information we need on calls to boycott Hulu after the Disney-owned streaming service started turning down political ads for the 2022 midterms. We'll get past the headlines and explain how this has more to do with a business deal in 2024 than politics in 2022, and how the 2020 election shaped the decis...