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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...

Your Heard Tell Show for Friday, October 13th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by having some grown folk talk about inflation, consumer prices, and the constant narratives about the economy that have a real disconnect between the numbers, the talking heads, and the folks at the cash registers. Then, we dive into the usage...

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 reading the writing of Avi Woolf from his perspective in Israel after the Hamas terrorist attack and the " The Death of Hamas’ Weakness Excuse, or Why Might Can Be Right ." Our guest is Sarah Anderson of the R Street Institute who...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our scientist friend and spacecraft flier Dr. Michael Siegel returns to talk about the return of  NASA's real life "Armageddon" mission  that returned samples from an asteroid back to Earth, and yes, we use lots of references and jokes from the movie to explain science, space, and physics of some really cool space tech. Plus, as an academic, we ask Michae...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about moral clarity, historical and political context, narrative nomenclature, news and social media coverage, and the complicated dynamics that we need to understand about the horrific violence in Israel over the weekend as Hamas un...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by returning to the story of the Marion, Kansas newspaper that was raided by local law enforcement now that the chief of police has resigned, been caught lying and deleting evidence, and how good reporting and social media attention has turned...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, October 2nd, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by discussing congress pressing the snooze button on a government shutdown, starting a new 45 day clock on getting the government funded , and setting up a GOP intramural between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz. Economist Stephen Popick re...

On this edition of Heard Tell Good Talks, we go to the UK and our friend  Ben Harris  returns to Heard Tell to talk about his perspective on Rishi Sunak, roiling  Chinese spy scandal  that was right down the hall from where he works in parliament, the crumbling schools hot mess, cost of living and housing crisis, young people "brain drain" possibilities, and how - in Ben's words - NIMB...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, September 28th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by zooming out from all the recent headlines on labor, unions , strikes , and workers to get a wider perspective beyond just buzzwords and idealized slogans to talk about what good companies and good unions with a proper government ought to be,...

Your  Heard Tell Show  for Thursday, September 28th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the informa tion we need to discern our times by reviewing the hot mess that was the second GOP presidential debate for the 2024 primary, some real talk about what did and didn't happen, skip the narratives and "there must be a horserace" mentality as to how this primary real...