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So you might have Heard Tell that a lot of our debates and discourse about culture and politics comes down to identify. How we see the world, what our priors are, what group of folks we identify with; all these things and more factor in to how we view, discuss, and react to issues in culture and politics. Even more than that, especially in the modern social media age, our culture & politics ar...

Heard Tell Radio for December 10th 2021 turns down the noise and gets the information we need about the how Listerine and Covid-19 are leaving a bad taste in a lot of folks' mouths, Bob Dole is being remembered in today so as his state funeral is held in DC our friend and congressional correspondent for The Independent Eric Garcia joins us to talk the late senator's legacy as one of the mo...

Heard Tell Radio for December 9th 2021 turns down the noise and gets the information we need about the wars and rumors of wars coming out of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine, including from out of some American mouths, how NOT to fire people and what the viral video of one CEO's bungled zoom mass termination tells us about the current debate over labor, workers, and what it...

Heard Tell Radio for December 8th 2021 turns down the noise and gets to the information we need about America's "diplomatic boycott" of the upcoming Winter Olympics and China's reaction, Ordinary Times Contributor Michael Siegel on Devin Nunes leaving congress and recaps some of his udderly ridiculous behavior, cow pun intended. Also, with today being the first day in 16 years Germ...

Heard Tell Radio for December 7th 2021 has Georgia politics on our mind with David Perdue primarying Gov. Kemp and championing former President Donald Trump's 2022 electoral vendetta ride. Plus on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor we tell the story of the USS West Virginia from sinking during the day of infamy to getting revenge in the largest naval battle ever fought. Then, we talk high profile...

Heard Tell Radio for December 6th covers Chris Cuomo being fired from CNN, the string of news media stories about Vice President Harris, holiday songs that are crimes against Christmas & humanity, a except from Andrew's interview with economist Dr Abby Hall Blanco from the Heard Tell podcast, a Oxford school shooting victim gets an unlikely moment of honor, and more. Advertising Inquiries:...

So you might have Heard Tell that worries about the economy are all over the headlines lately, especially heading into the holiday season. But instead of just reacting, we us this episode of Heard Tell to talk to Abby Hall Blanco, professor of Economics at Bellarmine University, to turn down the news cycle noise on what we should and shouldn't worry about in the economy, what to look for in th...

On this Heard Tell we talk to our friend in Ireland Conor Duffy to turn down the noise, and get a wider perspective, on the current news cycle. We cover President Biden's recent trip to the COP26 climate conference in Scotland, and compare/contrast this trip with his last visit to the UK for the G7. We also talking US-European relations, China's influence, and what news from America does a...

So you might have Heard Tell that some recent comments by Dennis Prager stating that “During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users, who were the vast majority of the people with AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would have been inconceivable. And it should have been inconceivable; they should not have been made pariahs. But this is...

You probably Heard Tell that Virginia not only had an election recently, but that election means that [insert prior political position here] is vindicated...or, at least that seems to be how a bunch of folks are approaching it. Instead of doing that, we are going to turn down the noise on the Virginia elections and turn to our friends at Elections Daily, and their Deputy Director for their Electio...

So you probably Heard Tell that fall is full-bore sports season with all four of the major sports in America going at the same time, which means once again cultural issues and political discussions find their way into, onto, and involved in the sports world. Recent scandals in the NFL with John Gruden's emails once again riled up long-running issues of race and abusive language and behavior in...

With redistricting in full swing nationwide, the coverage and conversation about what to one person might be redistricting is to another gerrymandering has reached a fever pitch. We try to turn down the noise on this always touchy topic and turn to Kayla Young, the sitting delegate for West Virginia's 35th district. Del. Young is the perfect person to talk to about this as she serves in a even...

So you might have Heard Tell that our German friends had an election recently and are forming a new government. The interesting thing is that government for the first time in nearly 16 years will not including Angela Merkel as Chancellor. This is a huge change not just in Germany, but in the world order as the most powerful woman in the world passes off the scene from helming Europe's largest...

The Gabby Petito story is the latest true crime missing person story to explode across media, but something interesting happened: the American public started asking questions about why the Gabby Petito story got coverage that some other missing person stories did not. Media outlets responded by running stories along the lines of "What about these other stories" which brought another backla...

You might have Heard Tell that Canada had an election. Well, we turn to our friend and Canadian David Clement to explain not only the last 40 days of an election that seems to have changed very little, the background on how we got here, thoughts on Justin Trudeau, a break down of the other parties involved, how leaders like Erin O'Toole, Jagmeet Singh, and Annamie Paul fared, and what happens...

The social media age has given an opportunity for folks who otherwise might not have a voice to join the wider world. But with that increased awareness comes increased debate over how to cover a community as diverse as the Autism spectrum, how to effectively help them, and which voices need to be heard. Our friend Eric Garcia used his own frustration at the media's coverage of Autism, and his...

Australia has a Covid-19 problem: despite low numbers of the disease compared to other countries, vaccination rates and availability lags as fears about the Delta variant grow. So the Australian government has turned to strict lockdowns, causing viral videos of police and troops enforcing, headlines about rights being violated, and questions about a leadership that increasingly blames the Aussie p...

Our friend and Economist Jericho Hill thinks that while concerns about the economy and inflation are justified, there are media story lines and narratives that might actually be making things worse than they are. And he would know about putting on a show with narratives and story lines because before he was an economist he had a cup of coffee in the pro wrestling business working behind the scenes...

The Opioid epidemic is still raging through communities even as other events dominate the news headlines. But with over 90K dead from overdoses in 2020, there is no end in sight to the crisis. We turn to Dr. Keith Humphreys who has been an addiction expert for many years on his recent testimony before a US Senate committee on the opioid crisis, how the new synthetic drugs like Fentanyl are a whole...

The just concluded special election in Texas has some narratives and story lines that are going to be repeated as we enter the 2022 midterms. Eric Cunningham, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Elections Daily joins us to turn down the news cycle news on midterms, Donald Trump's spree of early endorsements, races like the North Carolina US Senate seat, legacy political names like George P. Bus...

The Pegasus spyware scandal has embroiled world leaders, journalists, governments, and once again raises questions about cybersecurity. So we turn to cybersecurity expert John McCumber to turn down the noise on the Pegasus headlines and explain why governments turn to companies like NSO Group, how cybersecurity works to shape geopolitics, why terms like "hack" aren't helpful in explain...

Yael Ossowski from the Consumer Choice Center helps us turn down the news cycle noise on President Biden's latest Executive Order on "encouraging competition" from  his latest piece breaking the EO from Real Clear Markets . Also, as someone who splits their time between Europe and America, we get Yael's thoughts on how regulation affects travel and how debates over trains and airli...

The Robert Williams story of an innocent man wrongly accused by police using facial recognition technology stunned a congressional hearing, and once again brings up the active fault line of freedom & regulation. Technology and policy analyst James Czerniawski helps explain how the Williams story is one of many of issues with facial recognition technology, while turning down the news cycle nois...

Protests in Cuba against the communist government, stories of Russian disinformation schemes to undermine America's political process, trouble in the Middle East, political upheaval...familiar headlines in new forms lately. In this episode of Heard Tell we turn down the news cycle noise on what we are seeing and hearing about America's current foreign policy challenges and turn to Universi...

Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson explains some of his background story, why do a podcast in the first place, and how his experiences in life and online shape how Heard Tell approaches culture and politics. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy