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On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest Benjamin Ayanian joins to discuss the continuing fall out over the Florida law that has caused so much controversy, what is and isn't in the text, and the sequence of events that lead to yet another outcry and crisis over schools. We talk about how the legislation once again raises issues of who has say over classrooms and curriculum, and the broken par...

Your Heard Tell for Friday, April 22th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida legislature taking aim at Disney as the feud between the governor and the House of Mouse moves from rhetoric to regulation, but beneath the buzzwords and headlines is retaliatory regulation the proper role of government, what would removing...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Piers Morgan doing a good, old fashioned work - that's a pro wrestling term for manipulating a situation into appearing to be a conflict where there isn't - with the PR for his Donald Trump interview and getting attention on his new show. IMF and World Bank both are warning...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute has been researching and writing about the missing male demographic from the workforce. Specifically, non-college educated white men are showing as a trend in missing from the workforce, and increasingly on social assistance. Brent digs into the why, what the data says, and what the social and cultural facto...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, April 20th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the "MAGA caucus" of congress consisting of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, and Madison Cawthorn seeing their fundraising numbers dip, but three of the four might be all but untouchable in the coming elections, our friend Eric Garcia reports the fourth is...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest Cassandra Shand returns to Heard Tell to talk about the goings on in Pakistan, as this always important country forces out former leader Imran Khan and Shahbaz Sharif takes power. Cassandra explains all the various entanglements with other countries from Pakistan's long-running conflict with India, ties to Russia, and China's growing influence and i...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, April 19th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Alex Jones and his Infowars companies declaring bankruptcy, but we'll follow the money to get to what is really going on as one of the worst purveyors of bad media scrambles to keep his misbegotten millions. Guest Cassandra Shand returns to Heard Tell to talk about the goings on i...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is Georgia Gilholy from Young Voices UK who joins Heard Tell to discuss India, a vital nation to geopolitics and one very much stuck in the middle of moving forces. With ties to America, military and infrastructure reliance on Russia, constant tension with Pakistan, and increasing business ties to China, the world's largest democracy is also at the cros...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, April 18th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on a ranking from the Washington Post of potential 2024 Democratic Presidential contenders, which is a great list as long as you forget everything we know about how 2020 went...and, by the way, President Joe Biden is going to be the 2024 Democratic candidate running as an incumbent unless...

This week on Twice on Sunday: Law professor Jane Bambauer on the Fourth Amendment, geofencing, search & seizure in the digital age and data collection by law enforcement Historian Eric Medlin on the way to use/not use history and historians in discerning current events and breaking news Writer Avi Woolf details the history of the GOP and the refutes the contention by some current pundits that...

Heard Tell for Friday, April 15th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on President Biden's approval polling woes as the younger the polled voter gets the worse his numbers look. Additionally, the president's numbers among key demographics like Hispanic and Black Americans are way down along with dissatisfied Independents, we discuss what it means for the...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Brooke Medina returns to Heard Tell to talk the people and politics of North Carolina, specifically new polling about the US Senate race and the GOP primary field. Brooke details the surprising numbers of Trump-endorsed Ted Budd, and what might happen in the next 40 days before voters go to the polls. Also, we talk the overall electoral environment where it is...

Heard Tell for Thursday, April 14th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on on two elected officials who did very bad things and got caught, but now their party has to adjust to how to handle them, a process that the politics of should be secondary. Plus, a shocking story of two individuals who faked their way past the Secrete Service to get as far next to the Fi...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Avi Woolf has been writing in Ordinary Times about the contention that the populist, isolation swing in the GOP in the Trump era was a return to a long-standing way of thinking, but Avi goes further and deeper, walking us through the history, ideology, and policies of the GOP since the 1920s and explaining what has, and hasn't, changed in the Republican par...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, April 13th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on who is responsible for what is said, done, and trends on social media, and how the current debates over social media usage is really just a remix on how to regulate human behavior we've been having since there were more than two humans. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to pay the...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest today for a Good Talks is historian Eric Medlin, who returns to Heard Tell to talk about his recent writing about the proper role of history and historians in the public discourse, and how the public intellectual pursuits can be both a productive place for historians but also one fraught with getting beyond their scope of expertise. Eric uses the war in Ukraine...

Heard Tell for Tuesday, April 12th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Sweden and Finland moving to join NATO by the summer, and how Vladimir Putin's invasion and war crimes in Ukraine is having the opposite affect on the primary organization aligned against him than he intended. In domestic politics, we go to Missouri, and the Show Me States disgraced fo...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law at the University of Arizona and a Young Voices contributor discusses the Fourth Amendment and the new spin on warrants and searches in "geofencing" crowds and groups of people. We discuss the very old legal issues that new technology is challenging and redefining, and Jane breaks down a specific case of the courts ruling...

Heard Tell for Monday, April 11th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on stories about how the January 6th committee is "split" on what to do, so we apply our rules about there being no such thing as a leak, discuss the concerns over their referrals/findings getting "politicized" and what are/are not reasonable expectations with the electoral clo...

Twice on Sunday is the review of the week that was on Heard Tell by revisiting the five conversations we had with our guests during the week of 04-08 April, 2022. PA for NetChoice Kir Nuthi on internet and regulation Historian Sarah Stook on First Ladies of the United States WV Delegate Danielle Walker on CRT and "colorblind" society Commentator Lindsay Keiser on gas fueling Putin & Am...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Stephen Kent joins us, and we talk about the philosophy and cultural impact of Star Wars, which he details in his excellent book " How The Force Can Fix The World: Lessons on Life, Liberty, and Happiness from A Galaxy Far, Far, Away." We talk about how things as wide ranging as the Stoics to the Samurai formed the ideas behind Star Wars mythology, and h...

Heard Tell for Friday, April 8th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on President Trump telling the Washington Post that he would really like to talk to the person in charge on January 6th and ask them why they didn't do more to stop it...to which we will help the former president out about with who the buck for that day stops. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wi...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Lindsay Keiser of Young Voices joins us to talk natural gas, which is the heart of the matter to much that is going on in Ukraine. Lindsay talks about how Gazprom is the lynchpin to not only fueling the Russian economy but is the source of power & money for Putin and the oligarchs, and how they were manipulating gas prices and supply to Europe before the Uk...

Heard Tell for Thursday, April 7th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the White House announcing more sanctions on Russia and individuals in the wake of war crimes in Ukraine, but is Putin really "completely ostracized" from the global economy as the Biden Administration is insisting? We once again check in on the US Senate primary in the state of Oh...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on some of the toughest, loudest, most controversial issues of our day with West Virginia Delegate Danielle Walker (D-51, Monongalia). We turn down the noise - and our priors and preconceptions - and have a grown folk talk about the trending issues like CRT and education legislation, the opi...