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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 terminology and language of economics that is vit...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, July the 26th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting the information we need on the continuing online bluster and roar of folks fearing, wanting, or advocating for a civil war in America, we'll bring up the learned opinions on two experts on American Civil War to bring perspective to the rhetoric, and also provide a historical means to test to judge what motiv...

Our guest today from Young Voices UK is Lettice Bromovsky. We take a deep dive and review of UK Conservative Party leadership contest, and get into the background, credentials, and prospects of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss as they contend to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Lettice walks us through how the leadership contest is structured, the last days of Boris that brought it about...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, July the 25th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on the famous Teddy Roosevelt "Man in the Arean" soundbite, but we delve into how the entirety of the "Citizen in a Republic" speech has not only a much deeper meaning, but some very timely comments on what does, and doesn't, keep a country going when it c...

Your Heard Tell Twice on Sunday recapping the week that was in turning down the noise of the noise cycle. With the release of the Texas legislatures intial report on the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, TX, we turn down the noise and read from the report verbatim, with limited commentary, so we have the information on what really happened.  Our friend, frequent guest, attorney, and Ordin...

On this Best of Heard Tell, we go back to the very first video Heard Tell we ever did, and one of the most remarkable stories and interviews you will ever hear.  From November of 2021: So you might have Heard Tell that some recent comments by Dennis Prager stating that “During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of the people with AIDS...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, the 21st of July 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need by taking an episode to once again focus on mental health, both our own and how the issue is portrayed in culture and media. We replay a conversations we had for the Heard Tell Podcast with Clinical psychologist, writer, author, and podcaster Dr. Kathryn Gordon . Dr. Gordon returns...

Our guest today is the returning Luis Mendez, our movie reviewer and cinephile friend who has thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel's overall plan or lack thereof, award season contenders, and whether the summer box office is back or not. Luis also talks about streaming vs theaters and the ever-evolving business model of mass entertainment through film, shows, and more. ------------------...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, the 21st of July 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the habit of some on social media to invoke the wily ways of the devil on anything and everything that is going on in culture and politics, but how much of what is going wrong i s satanic, demonic, or evil and how much of it is just humans behaving badly cause they want to? We&#...

Our guest today is our friend, frequent guest, attorney, and Ordinary Times Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Burt Likko returns for an in-depth, grown folk talk about what is and isn't a right under the law, constitutional rights, how the American system of rights came about from the Declaration of Independence to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, to today's court battles and headlines. Burt...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, July the 20th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need as we take a deep dive into our rights, constitutional and otherwise. Our friend, frequent guest, attorney, and Ordinary Times Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Burt Likko returns for an in-depth, grown folk talk about what is and isn't a right under the law, constitutional rights, how the Ame...

Our guest today is Jeff Luse of Young Voices and C3 Solutions, who joins us to talk energy, gas prices, and policy. Jeff helps us cut through the rhetoric of what is, and isn't, causing the higher gas prices, what is/isn't effective policy to alleviate the pain at the pump, and who is/isn't to blame. Also, Jeff talks wider issues and solutions for climate, energy, and environmental cha...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, July the 18th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the campaign silly seaons for 2024 breaking out during the current summer doldrums of the 2022 midterm elections. Protests are bringing a crackdown in Cuba as the people push back against rolling blackouts, failing health care, and a lifetime of frustration at the ruling dictatorship. Ou...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, July 18th, 2022 is a special edition. With the release of the Texas legislatures intial report on the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, TX, we turn down the noise and read from the report verbatim, with limited commentary, so we have the information on what really happened.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircl...

This week on Heard Tell: Twice On Sunday Heard Tell favorite, and Ordinary Times contributor Jericho Hill who joins us to talk about the economy in very practical, real life ways. Jericho talks about the weird, unusal, and seemingly contradictory economic numbers and headlines, what is causing them, and what it all means. Plus, we get into some really practical economic application based of a hiri...

Our guest today is Jakob Puckett who returns to talk energy policy, gas prices, and the plan - or lack there of - to ease increasing concerns the public has about the current crisis. Jakob discusses how the Biden Administration, like the Trump Administration before it, is seeking to use the Defense Production Act and executive orders to try and mitigate costs, but explains how that is not only a b...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 14th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on how lagging military recruitment tells us much about society, culture, and especially mistrust in the US Government. The headlines and hospitals are filling up with news of the BA5 COVID varient ,we turn to our friend Dr. Michael Siegel to seperate practical concern and precaution w...

Our guest today is writer & historian Sarah Stook who returns to Heard Tell to conclude her series on the First Ladies of the United States. We talk through the modern era of women of the White House from Jackie Kennedy to current occupent Dr. Jill Biden, and the history, stories, and personalities of the first ladies in between. Sarah also talks about how the role has evolved over the year, m...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 14th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the release of video from the Robb Elementary massacre that shows the police response to the shootings, and the 77 minutes of heavily armed officers waiting and doing nothing while children & their teachers screamed and died mere feet away, and how authorities are still trying t...

Our guest today is returning favorite James Czerniawski is back to once again hash out the ongoing Elon Musk v Twitter saga we've been covering - not to mention news and social media has been obsessing over - since April. James breaks down not only the tech side, but how a unique part of the legal system now has control of what happens next, where Twitter goes from here, and what we should hav...

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, July the 13th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on some data and reporting that the American public is tuning out the headlines and trending issues as news consumption plummets , we'll discuss the particulars and the why. While on the topic of news consumption, Reuters has some worldwide data out about how news is covered and c...

Our guest today is Elise Amez-Droz who brings her experience with health care policy to talk about the looming insolvency of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, the funding mechanism for Medicare Part A, and how the date of that failure keeps moving closure with current events. Elise explains what got us to this point, why no one seems willing to talk about or do anything to avert the crisis, and w...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, July the 12th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the latest in Sri Lanka where no food, no fuel, and little hope has the population rising up, the failed leadership on the run , and world powers fighting over who gets to intervene . A piece on how freedom of the press and freedom of religion is the keey to social stability and avoi...

Our guest today is economist, Heard Tell favorite, and Ordinary Times contributor Jericho Hill who joins us to talk about the economy in very practical, real life ways. Jericho talks about the weird, unusal, and seemingly contradictory economic numbers and headlines, what is causing them, and what it all means. Plus, we get into some really practical economic application based of a hiring advertis...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, July the 11th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the Biden Adminstration catching flack from their own side for the White House's reaction, or lack thereof, to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade. The president issued an executive order on Friday regarding abortion, but that isn't quelling complaints of not having a s...