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Toph Cottle from Young Voices joins us to talk about BBB post-Manchin and what to expect from the legislation come 2022, and specifically talks about the Child Tax credit as a policy that should be not only passed, but done so separately and with bi-partisan support. He explains and answers the questions both sides have when it comes to the Child Tax Credit Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle...

Journalist and film maker John W. Miller joined Heard Tell to talk about his documentary Moundsville, universal truths from this unique small town, how communities adapt when industry moves on, and how the people make the story. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Election expert Genya Coulter joined Heard Tell to review all the election news and headlines from 2021 and looking ahead to a 2022 that is destined to be dominated with elections, politics, the midterms, and a rehashing of 2020. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney and Ordinary Times Senior Editor Em Carpenter joins us to talk about how right now is the golden age of being a True Crime fan, and how from podcasts, to documentaries, to TV shows there has never been more of the genre available, and more impact into how folks view in real life crime based on their True Crime hobbies. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Travis Nix of Young Voices joins us to talk tax policy, why this once dominant issue isn't talked about as much anymore, some proposals that could get bipartisan support and actually make a difference if tried, BBB, inflation, and other tax related policy issues. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...

Heard Tell for January 28th, 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need on a story requested by listeners about organ transplant patients being removed from consideration for not having the COVID-19 vaccines. Also, we've talked about "studies" and how they can be more than meets the eye, and another example from Stanford regarding gas stoves vs. electric ones. Guest Tra...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, guest Eric Peterson joins to explain the latest headlines and panic over Bitcoin, how Bitcoin mining works, and how the regulation and rules aren't keeping up with the technology. Plus, Eric has written about NFTs, and uses a sports analogy to try and explain what they are, how they work, and the potential & pitfalls of this new frontier. Advertising Inquirie...

Turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a scandal that involves over 1/5th of Congress. Addison Hosner of Young Voices joins us to talk about insider trader and financial advantages Members of Congress are using to get rich while they are supposed to be working for us, asks who is watching the watchers, and how financial corruption does extreme hard to public confidence...

Heard Tell for January 27th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, which means it is time to gird your loins and keep your bearing for what always is a contentious and loud fight in the political realm when his appointed replacement goes for confirmation. We skip the caterwauling over the Biden Administration&#39...

Guest Dr. Michael Siegel returns to Heard Tell to cut through the caterwauling about natural immunity and get to facts about how it works, how it doesn't, and how it should fit into our calculations and policy regarding COVID. Michael also talks about how as a scientist and academic how those fields have lessons to learn from the pandemic, and how they need to communicate better and more effec...

Heard Tell for January 26th, 2022 turns down the noise and gets to the information we need regarding how Big Tech is getting into the prayer business, but it isn't theology you need to worry about with it so much as the end user license agreements - that little box you scroll through and click without reading - which you might just find sinful. We update our coverage of UK PM Boris Johnson&#39...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, Guest Sarah Stook of Elections-Daily.com joins Heard Tell to talk about her latest article where she takes the subject of presidential approval ratings and reviews every POTUS since FDR to find trends, examine similarities & differences, and provide a historical perspective on the most momentary of metrics. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priv...

Heard Tell for January 25th, 2022 turns down the noise and gets to the information we need on how not everything we see in politics and culture can be explained by ideology, and proposed the 5 Stages of Grief as a way to look at how - and why - certain folks are acting a certain way online and in the news media. We revisit & update our previous coverage of redistricting and gerrymandering as i...

Guest Sarah Montalbano from Young Voices joins us to talk COVID on campus and how the pandemic and various policies and challenges has affect those in higher education. Pus, Sarah has written and op-ed covering legislation in the infrastructure package regarding in-car DUI monitoring which raises questions about technology, regulation, and privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brand...

Heard Tell for January 24th 2022 turns down the noise and gets to the information we need involving wars and rumors of wars coming out of Ukraine with Russia threatening. We talk social media and some new data out about all the various boycotts, exoduses, and flocking to alternate social media platforms because of political reasons, and how that isn't going well and why. Guest Sarah Montalbano...

Caleb Franz of Young Voices joins us to talk libertarianism, communalism, the work of Young Voices, and his Profiles in Liberty podcast that puts historical figures in context of their contributions to American freedoms. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Guest Joe Szymanski from Elections-Daily.com joined Heard Tell to talk redistricting, gerrymandering, which states got it right, which states got it wrong, how it will affect the 2022 midterm elections, and does a report card on independent commissions. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Guest Portia Berry-Kilby from Young Voices UK joined Heard Tell to explain UK politics, the latest problems for PM Boris Johnson, how COVID and a party scandal are combining to bring his approval ratings to an all-time low, and whether he can survive calls by a reinvigorated Labour Party to resign Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Economist Jericho Hill returns to Heard Tell to talk economics, the economy, DC information and perception bubbles, and how the news cycle headlines are not always the best way to get good information about what's really happening with the economy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In this Heard Tell Good Talk, host Andrew Donaldson has a wide-ranging conversation about space, science, technology, and the Hungry Hungry Hippos Theory of Life w/scientist and Ordinary Times contributor Dr. Michael Siegel Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Heard Tell for January 21th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding the reaction and fallout to President Biden's press conference, and asking questions about what, if anything did we really learn, and how we should approach such things. Press Secretary Jen Psaki went on Fox and it throws into sharp contrast the pointless theater of the Brady Briefing Room. Guest D...

Heard Tell for January 20th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding the Biden "reset" narrative and the folly of thinking the president is going to be anything different than what his long history in Washington, DC tells us he is. We cover how a story about the Supreme Court became yet another cautionary tale about how we consume news media. Plus, host Andrew D...

Heard Tell for January 19th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding the Biden Administrations COVID woes both in practical policy and in approval ratings. We remember Tuskegee Airman General Charles McGee on his passing at age 102. Caleb Franz of Young Voices joins us to talk libertarianism, communalism, the work of Young Voices, and his Profiles in Liberty podcast tha...

Heard Tell for January 18th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding the terrorist motivation for attacking a synagogue in Texas and what it tells us about the need to be vigilant. The oppressed Uyghurs people are back in the news thanks to some comments by the billionaire minority owner of the Golden State Warriors, and unlike him we do care about human rights abuses a...

Heard Tell for January 17th 2022 turns down the noise and gets the information we need regarding diversity in America on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We skip the caterwauling and get to the core issues involved in the Novak Djokovic story as the famed tennis player is deported from Australia. Guest Joe Szymanski from Elections-Daily.com talks redistricting, which states got it right, which st...