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Your Heard Tell Twice on Sunday covers everything from the 4th of July, to Elong Musk and Twitter falling out, again, to UK Politics, fatherhood, criminal justice reform, and more as we review the week that was in turning down the noise of the news cycle. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this Heard Tell: Special Edition we review our own coverage of the Elon Musk Twitter saga from the first announcement back in April to the Friday night news dump that Musk was pulling out of the deal. Since this story is going to continue in court and in news & social media, we look back on what we said, what we got right and got wrong, and what it all means. Included is two great conversat...

Our guest today is journalist Courtney Hessler of the Hearld-Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia who has been covering the opioid trials there. Courtney will explain the legal rulings that came down this week, background on the opioid crisis in Huntington, and the legal, political, and cultural issues surrounding it. Also, Courtney helps to put a human face on the issue of addiction that too oft...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 7th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on shocking news out of Japan as former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is gunned down in public during a campaign speech. We discuss supply chain challenges and shortages, working of a Houston Chronicle piece about which products are getting scarce on the shelves and why. Our guest today is...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 7th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resigning. We take the opportunity to review how we've been covering his tumultuous tenure at No. 10, and let you decided what we got right, what we got wrong, and where do we go from here. We will do so by running back three grea...

Our guest today is financial analyst, political commentator and co-founder of Conservatives Against Racism Albie Amankona who joins us from the UK to walk us through the political mess that is swirling around PM Boris Johnson. Albie will explain the recent string of resignations, what got us to this point, what might be coming next, and what it means for a UK under pressure with a rising cost of l...

Your Heard Tell show for Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need by working through a real-world example of how big term and headlines like inflation, cost of living, and fuel prices using the legendary street taco scene in Los Angeles. Over in the UK, we have quickly developing events as PM Boris Johnson once again appears to be on the...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guuest today is attorney and executive director of the Pegasus Institute Joshua Crawford who returns to Heard Tell. Joshua talks about his recent writing about fatherhood and the importance of dads in not only childhood development but of society as a whole, the statistics of what happens without fathers, and some things that can stand in the gap and improve the...

Your Heard Tell show for Tuesdayy, July 5th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on what the big picture implication is of members of the January 6th committee publicly feuding with the Department of Justice , we'll get into how the posturing for the end game tells us a lot about where the committee is presently at. We go overseas where the latest e...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest today, for the second Independence Day in a row, is our friend Ben Harris from the UK. We talk the special relationship between once rivals and now friend on this July 4th, how our two countries histories intertwine, and how our cultures are affecting each others today. We'll also talk the differences in our political systems, some current events and po...

Your Heard Tell show for Monday, July the 4th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on this Independence Day in America. We take some perspective on what the 4th of July means, and use the words of Revolutionary War hero who you should know about to bring perspective on celebrating our freedoms, and how we got them. Also, the long anticipated food shorta...

Your Heard Tell Twice on Sunday show covering all the great discussions from the week that was in turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need. This episode: Alys Watson Brown returns to Heard Tell. We talk UK politics, how neither PM Boris Johnson or opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer have been covering themselves or their parties in glory, but the present statu...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is journalist Eric Garcia talks about the recent goings on in congress, how the US Senate really works behind the scenes, and who the players are that get things done. We talk about Eric's recent interview and feature piece on US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) on how he went from IBM executive to influential member of the Senate. We talk the recent gun legi...

Your Heard Tell show for Thursday, June 30th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need with not one but two great interviews today.  First journalist Eric Garcia talks about the recent goings on in congress, how the US Senate really works behind the scenes, and who the players are that get things done. We talk about Eric's recent interview and feature pi...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is the retuning Travis Nix of Young Voices, who joins to talk about his recent writing in the Wall Street Journal on the latest version of "tax the rich" schemes, this time through regulation at the Treasury Department by the Obama Administration. Travis also explains why good tax policy is foundational to effective government, how we are a long way...

Your Heard Tell show for Thursday, June 30th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on remembering a true American legend as Woody Williams, the last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II has passed away. In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. ascends to power , we'll talk about how a disinformation campaign that downplayed the crimes o...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is from Young Voice UK, as our friend Alys Watson Brown returns to Heard Tell. We talk UK politics, how neither PM Boris Johnson or opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer have been covering themselves or their parties in glory, but the present status quo may go for a while. Also, the rising economic issues in the UK as with much of the world such as inflation a...

Your Heard Tell show for Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on how the combined elected and police bureaucracy in Uvalde is stonewalling, delaying, distracting, and just plain doing "CYA" to any attempted by reporters to get to the truth of what happened during the massacre at Robb Elementary and the policy response to it,...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest today is Heard Tell regular Joe Szymanski of Elections Daily who joins to breakdown recent primary elections, look ahead to the general, and take stock of what we have and haven't learned in a busy and contentious midterm election season. In addition to the numbers and results, we also talk about the problem of some truly unfit for office candidates in Miss...

Your Heard Tell show for Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on how the old saying of "with freedom comes responsibility" doesn't work with a society that doesn't want any responsibility for their freedoms. With the Supreme Court in the headlines and dominating the discourse, we take a Twitter thread from our friend E...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest today is journalist Molly McCluskey, who returns to Heard Tell to talk about her excellent work with Diplomatica Global Media, which meets the crossing of politics, architecture, intrigue, and human interest stories at the Embassies and diplomatic properties here in America. Molly explains some of the history and background, and talks about two stories that exe...

Your Heard Tell show for Monday, June 27th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on the fallout from Friday's Dodds Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade . We skip the sweeping claims and buzzword rhetoric to work through the status of the states , which ones have what restrictions, what's coming next, and how this is just the beginning o...

On this edition of Heard Tell Twice on Sunday some of the Best of Heard Tell: Economics featuring economists Drs Jeremy Horpedahl and Jericho Hill, and economist from Young Voices Australia Xin Yuan Quek. We also have the Best of Heard Tell: Law and legal issues with Attorneys Em Carpenter and Burt Likko. Plus, some excerpts from our grown folks discussions on culture and politics ft Daniel Di Mar...

On this edition of Best of Heard Tell we reply three conversations with exceptional economic minds in Drs Jeremy Horpedahl and Jericho Hill , and from Australia Xin Yuan Quek, join us to talk the economy, monetary policy, and issues effecting everything from your pocket book to your government. They cover everything from inflation and cost of living, gas prices, policy, immigration, what generates...

On Heard Tell for this Wednesday, June 22st, we have an all legal edition of the best of Heard Tell. Attorneys, frequent guests, and friends of the program Em Carpenter and Burt Likko help to explain such recent legal headlines as SCOTUS rulings such as Shinn vs Ramirez and the pending Dodds abortion ruling, debate over the LSATs and what they do and don't do, law school, public defenders, leg...