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Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by having a little fun with history as Sarah Stook returns to Heard Tell to explain the how and why of her listing of all the Presidents of the United States sorted into Hogwarts Houses from the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Sarah explains the four houses and their charac...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by heading across the pond as Harris Griffiths returns to Heard Tell to talk the recent UK local elections, what the results may mean for the looming general elections, changing political coalitions, futures of PM Rishi Sunak and soon-to-be PM Keir Starmer, breaking down the...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by going beyond the headlines and into the halls of congress with Eric Garcia, the Washington bureau chief and senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent. Eric explains the current changes in congress that saw the foreign aid bills passed, the apparently sideline-ing...

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the shocking case of dead 14 year old girl in Boone County, West Virginia, who was found “emaciated to a skeletal state” dead on her bathroom floor . While the mother has been charged, this horrible story once again highlights the issues of endangered childr...

Your  Heard Tell Show  is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need by talking to our good friend, attorney, and Senior Editor at Ordinary-Times.com about the start of the New York trial of Donald Trump, how NOT to follow the trial, how celebrity trials are just different, understanding factors that might affect the vedict, seperating good coverage from bad coverage, importance...

Your Heard Tell Show for January 18th, 2024 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the GOP primary not being over, because it was never a primary in anything but name in the first place as Donald Trump crushes in Iowa and is cruising to the Republican presidential nomination. We update folks on why there hasn't b...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is returning friend of the program and Deputy Director of the  Consumer Choice Center  Yaël Ossowski  who hashes out aliens - or at least the new nomenclature of UAPs as opposed to UFOs - with a skeptical host Andrew, why the US government is doing some different and interesting things in this field, how other worldwide governments are responding, what we s...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is  John McCumber , who returns to Heard Tell to talk about the current discourse over financial planning, careers, and retirement from the POV of someone who did the "sell everything and move to Florida" thing after several successful careers. John not only was part of the more than 4 million folks that retired and dropped out of the workforce duri...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, November 9th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the 3rd GOP presidential primary debate as host Andrew reviews the five candidates, what they said, how they behaved, watching the debate with a teenager, and what it all means as Iowa draws near. Our friend Sarah Montalbano...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about how we can use the 2023 election results - and more specifically the coverage there of - to calibrate our news media and social media intact leading up to the 2024 election. Sarah Anderson of R Street Institute returns to Hea...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, November 6th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking about that Joe Biden poll that had the talking heads and chattering classes in overdrive , how to parse out what is/isn't a good poll, how the different factions of the Democratic Party came to propel President Biden to the White...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, November 6th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the entirety of today's program to talk about mental health. Our friend Dr. Katie Gordon returns to guide us through how our news media and social media not only affects our mental health, but how being serious about our mental he...

Your  Heard Tell Show  for Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about how crisis clarifies, and how we should be using our news media and social media feeds to judge the actions that political leaders, pundits, and everyone else when it really matters. Then, now that Halloween is over, time t...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, October 31th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the latest narrative in the 2024 GOP primary coverage - that Nikki Haley is surging and fighting Ron DeSantis for 2nd place - is missing the point of what is actually going on as Donald Trump continues to dominate polling and...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is  Kelli Caseman , Executive Director of  Think Kids West Virginia , to talk about the long-running issues of the West Virginia CPS that started long before the recent headlines of  shocking abuse cases ,  backlogs of neglect cases , and fights over manning and funding. Kelli and host Andrew talks about the underlying issues of the opioid epidemic and pover...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is attorney and  Ordinary Times  Senior Editor  Em Carpenter  who uses  her latest writing to lawsplain the plea deals of Sidney Powell  and others in the Georgia conspiracy charges revolving around Donald Trump and the 2020 election interference of his backers and attorneys. Em talks about how these plea deals are and are not like normal ones, how they rea...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, October 26th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the horrible murder of 18 people in Lewiston, Maine , the manhunt for the gunman, parsing through the unreliable early reports of breaking news, and how to start framing the discussion now before the inevitable "next time...

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the plea deals in the Georgia trials over Donald Trump's interference in the 2020 elections, with Jenna Ellis being the latest MAGA star to say one thing in their court confession that runs counter to the years of social...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about how the current chaos on the GOP side of Congress is the result of leadership problems that run long before the current groping in the dark for a Speaker of the House. A horrific 152-car pileup in Louisiana leaves 7 dead, an a...

On this episode of Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is Marcos Falcone, who joins us from Argentina to talk the current elections in that country, how  the debate over fast or gradual liberalization is raging,  what is the substance underneath the media hype and coverage of Javier Milei, the historical context of Argentina's perpetual economic issues, and what to watch for in the election and h...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks , our guest is  Jeffery Tyler Syck  who has been writing about the  "Old Mistakes From The New Right'' and  talks about the failure and folly of populism, explains pluralism and why diversity is a dividing line with the worst actors on the right, and why the lessons of despotic regimes and tyrants need to be applied to people everywhere who demand all powe...

Your  Heard Tell Show  for Friday, October 20th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the very real danger in the inflammed rhetoric and escalating tensions we see from the Israel-Hamas war, rising anti-semitism, pro-Palestinian protests, and why now more than ever we should believe what folks insist on tellin...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks , our friend and Iowa election expert  John Deeth  explains the ins and outs of the looming Iowa caucuses, does having "ground game" still matter? The reality of Trump support, how Iowa views President Biden, and how the Democratic Party is moving forward with ending the Iowa Caucuses as we've known them. All that and more on this episode of  Heard Tell. -...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks,  Eric Suarez  joins the program to talk about the  Biden's administration's latest deal with Venezuela  which has some eyebrow raising concessions to the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship in exchange for loosening restrictions on Venezuelan oil. Eric explains from the perspective of being Venezuelan why this is a bad deal and a bad bet for America, the current situ...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, October 12th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by going inside the chaos in the United States Congress with reporter Eric Garcia who breaks down the week to come in the messy GOP Speaker of the House race, can Jim Jordan get the gavel, who the players are involved, and what is coming next...