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On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Sarah Stook returns with another great history review, this time First :Ladies of the United States. The wives, and sometimes children or others in their place, who made the White House work and often had profound effects on the history and direction of our country. Some names you know about, but others you might not have in a wonderful look at her multi-part s...

Heard Tell for Tuesday, April 5th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on President Biden calling out Vladimir Putin's "war crimes" after the reveal of Bucha and other places in Ukraine. We talk about the importance of using such plain, direct language and what comes next as the international community consider sanctions and removing Russia from UN co...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Kir Nuthi joins us to talk about the dangers of overregulating the internet. We get into how bad regulation kills innovation, examples in the EU and UK compared to the United States, and whether terms like "antitrust" are accurately applied, let alone the right tool for the government to use. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...

Heard Tell for Friday, April 1st, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the horrific images coming out of Bucha, Ukraine, and the war crimes and utter evil Vladimir Putin is doing in order to try and break the Ukrainian's will to fight and spirt. With the drama of recent legislation in Florida as a catalyst, call from the right for a boycott of Disney hare a...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Roy Mathews of Young Voices joins to talk nuclear energy, the environment, and how technology has changed greatly when it comes to nuclear power but pre-conceptions and fears over nuclear power have not. Roy also talks about the history of nuclear power, what the future could be, and how current events are driving even some of nuclear's staunches critics in...

Heard Tell for Friday, April 1st, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the decline of college & university enrollments, and how academia might be taking the wrong lessons from the decline and the post-COVID era where student's views and educational priorities have changed. We review a great theory/analogy that helps explain how news media/social media w...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Jack Salmon bring his economic knowledge and insight to talk about inflation, fiscal policy, and how the current crisis has plenty to blame to go around as to its origins, but those origins all start with bad policy. Plus we talk to Jack about congress has failed its responsibilities, the Fed has let the country down, and address the main issue of the flood of...

Heard Tell for Thursday, March 31th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Rep. Madison Cawthorn finally finding something that offends congressional Republicans enough to take action on - themselves being accused and embarrassed. We go to Germany, and dissect a panel of Putin/Russia experts discussion what information the Russian people still have access too, a...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Corey Walking of Young Voices joins us to talk through some of the pressing issues of the day, including the Democratic Parties current situation with slim majorities in an election year, President Biden's approval numbers and policies, how America is consuming news media now, and whether we have learned anything about how things like news coverage of the s...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, March 30th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on how Vladimir Putin's war crimes in Ukraine are also going to kill folks worldwide as the world's supply chain of grain is interrupted, and we have a list of countries most dependent and thus most at risk of famine. President Biden's quotable quotes from his overseas trip cont...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Luis Mendez, our cinephile and movie expert, joins us to turn down the noise on the continued fallout from the Academy Awards and the Will Smith/Chris Rock slapped heard round the world. Luis helps us with the background and sequence of events that lead to the most talked about Oscars moment in a long time, what it means for Will Smith, and how the Academy reac...

Heard Tell for Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the people and the price of Russians who are protesting, demonstrating, and pushing back against Vladimir Putin and his war of aggression against Ukraine. Meanwhile domestically, we try to give some advice to our congress critters who want to hold hearings about why Gettr, Parler, and Trut...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Burt Likko joins us to have a grown folk talk about free speech, and our lawyer friend explains the legal definition of "free speech" before delving into the culture aspects. Burt also discussed the common misusage of "yelling fire in a crowed theater" and how tech companies no matter how powerful they get still are not the government. Advertisi...

Heard Tell for Monday, March 28th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on President Biden's trip to Europe, speech in Poland, and reaction of the media, common folks, and the White House comms shop. We skip the caterwauling about the president's "inarticulate" statements that sent staffers scrambling, the supports who declared his address to be th...

Heard Tell's Twice on Sunday reviews parts of five interviews from the week that was. Iowa Caucuses Past, Present, & Future; Chuck Grassley; & Iowa Politics w/ John Deeth Energy Policy, Environmental Issues, Carbon, and Redefining/Reclaiming Terms w/guest Kelsey Grant Education, Economics of Learning, Glenn Younkin, & Cost That Are More Than Fiscal w/ Lillian Tara Ketanji Jackson B...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Xin Yuan Qeuk from Young Voices joins us from Australia to talk why poverty isn't going to be wiped out by writing a check, how generating wealth works, economic policies of free societies vs dictatorships, and China from the perspective of a fallen Hong Kong and a Singapore that is trying to find a neutral ground. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...

Heard Tell for Friday, March 25th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on trouble in Trump world as the former president rescinds his endorsement of Mo Brooks, who promptly started talking out of school about the 45th presidents scheming to remain so despite the election results, January 6th and - according to Mo - Brooks telling him there was no legal path to be...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Em Carpenter returns to Heard Tell to help us get beyond the posing, grandstanding, and caterwauling of the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings. Em uses her experience as an attorney to discuss how parts of Judge Jackson's resume would translate to the Supreme Court, breaks down one example of the nominees writing and rulings on an unusual case, and...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, March 23th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on Utah Governor Spencer Cox's veto of a transgender athletes, and more specifically the governor's outlined and explained reasons for doing so. Guest Em Carpenter returns to Heard Tell to help us get beyond the posing, grandstanding, and caterwauling of the Ketanji Brown Jackson co...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Lillian Tara updates us on Glenn Youngkin's promised education action in Virginia now that the election is over. We talk about the role of education, and since Lillian studies economics, we get into how education and money are topics folks desperately try to keep separate, but are inexorably linked. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privac...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, March 23th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on whether all the attention the senator's on the dais for the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings are getting the political bang for their attention-seeking buck in the high-profile proceedings. We go overseas to review an interview in Der Spiegel that explains the world as Vla...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Kelsey Grant of Young Voices joins to talk energy policy, environmental concerns, and the need to re-examine some terms and ideas that have devolved into buzzwords and misconceptions. Kelsey takes the situation in Ukraine as an example of how energy policy must be constantly updated and modified to match world events, and explains why terms like carbon pricing,...

Heard Tell for Tuesday, March 22th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on what the caterwauling over the Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings has in common with the March Madness college basketball tournament - besides folks losing their minds over it. Vladimir Putin's "Fortress Russia" plans to economically prepare his country and regime for the kin...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest John Deeth joins us to talk about the Iowa Caucuses and the push by Democrats and others to change or even do away with them. John is an election official that has been organizing the Iowa Caucuses for nearly 20 years and gives an expert, first-hand account of what happened in 2020 that created the electoral disaster, why the caucuses have become something they...

Heard Tell for Monday, March 21th, 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on witnessing Putin's war crimes in real time in Ukraine, and making sure we record, remember, and see clearly what is happening since Russian propaganda insists it is not happening, and there will be those that forever claim it did not. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation heari...