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Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, September 27th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by skipping the caterwauling over the looming government shutdown and putting the blame where it really belongs, while keeping an appropriate amount of loathing for the using of workers not getting a paycheck becoming a required optic for every...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, September 25th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the latest culture war hot button viral moment - Taylor Swift going to an NFL game - and using it as the latest example of how viral stories don't happen by accident, how content creators are pushing for pay not narrative truth, how...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, September 25th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by starting with the admission as we enter government shutdown week that neither congress nor the American people take spending and fiscal responsibility seriously, as proven by the data from the government on what we do spend our money on , and t...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, September 21th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by looking at the growing economic troubles in Germany , and how the sudden end to cheap fossil fuels from Russia has laid bare some flaws in Germany's attempts to transition to renewables while also being the manufacturing and economic engi...

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, September 20th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the politics of food, specifically food deserts, and what two examples of one urban and one rural food deserts and the discussion around them have in common, including that there are no good answers to this pressing problem made worse...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, September 14th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking the politics of information, and how we are using our social media intake of news media to view the world. Jill Jacobson returns with the latest example of civil asset forfeiture, how it became abused, and what real reform would look l...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, we take some time to deep dive what's going on down south, South America that is, with the returning  Gabriel Salazar Sing  who uses a US Congressional delegation visit to the continent to talk through issues in Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, and more. Plus, Gabriel explains how Spanish language media covers things a bit differently, and what to watch for in t...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is  Economist Alexander Salter  returns to talk about economics and his new book,  The Political Economy of Distributism , how we have failed to properly understand and teach basic concepts like property, liberty, common good, and other building blocks to good economic understanding, and better ways to discuss them. Dr. Salter also talks about ethics in econ...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, September 14th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking how the FDA is finally admitting why all those decongestants you take aren't working for your sniffles and sneezes. Senator Mitt Romney announces he's not running for reelection by giving a message more of the elderly congress...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, September 11th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by taking perspective of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement about an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, why the timing matters, what it means, and the inevitable ending this latest round of impeachment is going to wind up at. Our...

The returning  Amanda Griffiths  is our guest as we have a wide ranging conversation starting with her piece about how labor, workers, unions, big corporations, and government are all colliding over  worker's efforts to unionize at some Starbucks locations.  Plus, Amanada talks about teaching first generation Americans about the political process and how their perspectives should give us all a...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, September 11th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about not just remembering September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, but considering how to remember, and what we should do about it. Nicholas Thielman of Cato joins Heard Tell to discuss the upcoming debate over the Farm Bill , how the a...

Your Heard Tell Show for Friday, September 8th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by walking through the latest 2024 polling on President Biden, the GOP primary field, where Donald Trump stands, and how to take a measured looked at what we call "campaign silly season" without losing wider perspective. We take some time t...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, September 7th, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by wishing Waffle House a happy birthday and some of the history you may not know about the cultural icon , including the two WW2 vets turned friend who built an empire on "good food fast." Jack Rowlett of Young Voices UK returns to the p...

Your Heard Tell Show for Friday, September 1st, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the longest sentence yet handed down in January 6th related trials. Former Proud Boys Leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison , we'll discuss what it means, how it fits in the more than a thousand...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks, our guest is James Czerniawski  returns to Heard Tell to talk the hype, hyperbole, and habits forming around AI, both in the discourse and in congress. James helps us understand what AI is, and isn't, and why that definition and understanding is essential  before trying to regulate this growing industry  and important in addressing fears and concerns folks have....

On this Heard Tell Good Talks Consumer Choice Center's Deputy Director Yael Ossowski  back to the program. Yael walks us through his  piece in USA Today  about the FTC going after Amazon, how this is just a new version of a long-running debate between government and the biggest retailers/companies around, the difference between good regulation and bad policy, how "the curse of bigness"...

Your Heard Tell Show for Friday, September 1st, 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, and harshest, sentences for those charged with the most serious crimes related to January 6th rioting at the US Capitol, and how when you turn down the noise the justice system is not only parsing out what happened, but...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, August 31st is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about how fandom is ruining politics and skewing folks' perspective on what is really going on. Economist Alexander Salter returns to talk about economics and his new book, The Political Economy of Distributism , how we have failed to...

On this episode of Heard Tell, our guest is attorney and EiC Emeritus of Ordinary Times Burt Likko returns to Heard Tell to take a broad look at  Trump's January 6th-related indictments,  reviews what  he wrote back then  compared to  what the charges now read , how we got here, where its going, and how to understand the legal machine the political narratives is now going to be filtered throug...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is  Alan Elrod  of The Pulaski Institute who helps use cover the increasing politicization and increased culture warring over adoption. Alan  not only wrote about , but  appeared on Dr. Phil to discuss , and is himself adopted. We talk about how life is full of contingency, what should define a family, and better policies that are kid and family centered but...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is Dennis Sanders who returns to Heard Tell to talk about his writing about hope, and how folks losing it or not keeping it greatly affects our politics and fuels the culture wars. Plus, we talk that David Brooks piece that had everyone talking, and how we do a bad job talking about race, culture, class, and more. All that and more on this episode of Heard T...

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, August 15th, 2023 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by welcoming Consumer Choice Center's Deputy Directory Yael Ossowski back to the program. Yael walks us through his piece in USA Today about the FTC going after Amazon, how this is just a new version of a long-running debate between gover...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is  Ethan Brown  of  The Sweaty Penguine Podcast  who joins to talk about the rash of forest fires, the narrative about how climate change does and doesn't affect them, and how most forrest fires are made worse by bad policy, bad conservation, and folks sometimes meaning well but not understand how the environment really works. Plus, Ethan explains how h...

On this Heard Tell Good Talks our guest is  Dr. Bob Hutton, professor of history and Appalachian studies  at Glenville State University talks the past, present and future of higher ed in Appalachia and West Virginia, talks how campuses can bring both culture shock and diversity to a local community, how outside students take to Appalachia, and addresses the issues facing colleges and universities...