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Heard Tell for Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about how technology is not only changing but changing us, and how we need to take a historical perspective on how it has done so to understand the times we live in. We update two stories that we have covered regarding the war in Ukraine, one of them that we got right, another that we got wro...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest John McCumber puts his cybersecurity expert hat back on and returns to Heard Tell to talk about the cyber war that wasn't in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, why the online battle isn't going the way most experts thought it would, and the players involved. John delves into how information and real time social media coverage are changing warfare, helpin...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about President Biden's State of the Union address, and how after waiting for years for more public awareness and government acknowledgement of the burn pit situation veterans watch the issue get hijacked by opportunistic members of congress, ongoing news media narratives, social media pr...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Brooke Medina returns to talk about the North Carolina GOP US Senate candidate debate held over the weekend, as not only some who was in the room to watch, but put the event together. Brooke gives perspective from not just watching but also behind the scenes in discussing the dynamics of the race, the no-showing of Ted Budd, Pat McCrory and Marjorie Eastman tra...

Heard Tell for Monday, February 28th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about the news coming out of Ukraine of Russian forces committing war crimes, and how it was sadly predictable, and will probably get worse as events unfold. We take a look at the reactionary, performative caterwauling about things like Russian vodka and Moscow Mules to draw a contrast betwe...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Brady Leonard, host of The No Gimmicks Podcast and proud Ohioan, joins us to turn down the noise on the hot mess that is his home state's GOP primary for US Senate. We discuss the candidacies of Josh Mandel, JD Vance, Mike Gibbons, and Jane Timkin, along with the seeming race to the bottom of trying to "out-Trump" each other, cringe social media mes...

Heard Tell for Monday, February 28th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about some things Vladimir Putin has done by invading Ukraine that he did not intended on, like how Europe is reacting, how he's revealed his true self, and how he is giving the Ukrainians the one thing he claimed they didn't have in his unhinged justification for Russia's war of...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, returning guest Cassandra Shand of Young Voices reviews our own coverage of Ukraine from her appearance a few weeks ago, what we got right, what we got wrong, and how the situation changed from then until now in the lead up to war in Ukraine. Cassandra also talks about the power dynamics involved not just with Russia and Ukraine, but NATO & Europe, China, India,...

Heard Tell for Friday, February 25th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about how to discern the deluge of images, information, and headlines coming out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With a full scale propaganda and misinformation effort underway, we talk about how to watch the coverage, what to watch for that might be red flags, and who we should be trus...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Eric Garcia returns to Heard Tell to talk about how some recent headlines and social media trends regarding Latinos should be a lesson that the fastest growing demographic in America is also a very diverse one that stereotypes and political analysis often ignores or glosses over. Also, as a reporter covering congress, Eric gives us a behind-the-scenes look at h...

Heard Tell for Thursday, February 24th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about the breaking news out of Ukraine of Russia invading overnight. Campaign season is in full swing, and we take the example of Senator Rick Scott's "11 Point Plan to Rescue America" on how these sorts of things are not really about policy but are just attention grabbing devi...

On this Heard Tell GoodTalks, Pavel Pfitzner of Young Voices joins us to talk about how we got here, the history of Ukraine and Russia that is vital to understanding the situation at hand, what it is Putin wants, who is the target audience for Russia's PR and propaganda campaign, and we try to take a global perspective on the implications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Pavel also touches...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 23th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about how recent history tells us exactly how America will respond to the crisis in Ukraine, how much push back Vladimir Putin will get, and - more importantly - how long America will pay attention at all to overseas affairs. Continuing our coverage of the Ukraine crisis, Pavel Pfitzner o...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Kenneth Schrupp of Young Voices joins us to discussion education in America, education funding, school choice, means testing education savings accounts, and how the students stuck at the poorest performing schools don't have a chance with the status quo going unchanged. We also talk about how the education dynamic is changing post-COVID, online school, char...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about the developing crisis in Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will "recognize" two regions of Ukraine as independent and send in "peacekeepers" that are anything but. We talk the background, how this is an invasion of Ukraine under pretense, how world lea...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Gabriella Hoffman of Young Voices joins us to talk labor issues, regulation, unions, politics, and political appointments, and more. Recent actions involving the NLRB, Labor Department nominee David Weil, and legislative fights over unionizing, the gig economy, and categorizing workers are all in the news and are ongoing battles in a very long war over governme...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about the school board recall election in San Francisco, how there are two very different narratives going about why the three ousted members had upset voters, but that the overlap of those narrative on one particular point has a teachable moment for election to come. Also, we take a stor...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a senate confirmation hearing for three district court nominees that turned into an utter clown show when three US Senators started equating The Innocence Project working to free wrongfully convicted folks as being responsible for rising crime rates. Guest Zeke Webster returns to Heard Tell, and a...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a senate confirmation hearing for three district court nominees that turned into an utter clown show when three US Senators started equating The Innocence Project working to free wrongfully convicted folks as being responsible for rising crime rates. Guest Zeke Webster returns to He...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, we return to a story we covered last week, and the caterwauling over a harm reduction grant that turned into accusations that the Biden Administration was spending $30m to give away free crack pipes. Andrew Egger of The Dispatch investigated not only the original story but the media reaction to it, the reaction to the reaction, the Biden Administration's mix mess...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a disturbing story out of San Francisco about policing using DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault as a database to prosecute/investigate other crimes with. Our friend Em Carpenter has a write up at Ordinary Times with the details for us to discuss. Writer PJ O'R...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, we are turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about the Canadian trucker protests in Ottawa & elsewhere and Canadian politics inside Parliament. Instead of opining from afar what Canadians think, we talk to actual Canadian and friend of the program David Clement to have some grown folk talk on the what & why of the protests, how the Ame...

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about Canadian trucker protests in Ottawa & elsewhere and Canadian politics inside Parliament. Instead of opining from afar what Canadians think, we talk to actual Canadian and friend of the program David Clement to have some grown folk talk on the what & why of the protests, how...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Jakob Puckett of Young Voices joins us to talk some environment and climate issues, such as how market based solutions to things like innovation, GHG emissions, and alternative energies are better than waiting for the government to decide what is coming next, since they often guess wrong. Jakob also explains how the energy creation process works, how the cost o...

Heard Tell for Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about how the Monday reaction to the Super Bowl halftime show is mostly posing caterwauling and has little to do with what happened on the field, since so many folks' business models need that level of cultural attention and outrage. President Biden is getting some advice leading up to...