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Your Heard Tell for Thursday, the 21st of July 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need by taking an episode to once again focus on mental health, both our own and how the issue is portrayed in culture and media. We replay a conversations we had for the Heard Tell Podcast with Clinical psychologist, writer, author, and podcaster Dr. Kathryn Gordon . Dr. Gordon returns...

Our guest today is the returning Luis Mendez, our movie reviewer and cinephile friend who has thoughts on Thor: Love and Thunder, Marvel's overall plan or lack thereof, award season contenders, and whether the summer box office is back or not. Luis also talks about streaming vs theaters and the ever-evolving business model of mass entertainment through film, shows, and more.--------------------Que...

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, the 21st of July 2022, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the habit of some on social media to invoke the wily ways of the devil on anything and everything that is going on in culture and politics, but how much of what is going wrong i s satanic, demonic, or evil and how much of it is just humans behaving badly cause they want to? We'l...

Our guest today is our friend, frequent guest, attorney, and Ordinary Times Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Burt Likko returns for an in-depth, grown folk talk about what is and isn't a right under the law, constitutional rights, how the American system of rights came about from the Declaration of Independence to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, to today's court battles and headlines. Burt explain...

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, July the 20th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need as we take a deep dive into our rights, constitutional and otherwise. Our friend, frequent guest, attorney, and Ordinary Times Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Burt Likko returns for an in-depth, grown folk talk about what is and isn't a right under the law, constitutional rights, how the America...

Our guest today is Jeff Luse of Young Voices and C3 Solutions, who joins us to talk energy, gas prices, and policy. Jeff helps us cut through the rhetoric of what is, and isn't, causing the higher gas prices, what is/isn't effective policy to alleviate the pain at the pump, and who is/isn't to blame. Also, Jeff talks wider issues and solutions for climate, energy, and environmental challenges, as...

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, July the 18th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the campaign silly seaons for 2024 breaking out during the current summer doldrums of the 2022 midterm elections. Protests are bringing a crackdown in Cuba as the people push back against rolling blackouts, failing health care, and a lifetime of frustration at the ruling dictatorship. Ou...

Your Heard Tell for Monday, July 18th, 2022 is a special edition. With the release of the Texas legislatures intial report on the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, TX, we turn down the noise and read from the report verbatim, with limited commentary, so we have the information on what really happened.  Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquir...

This week on Heard Tell: Twice On SundayHeard Tell favorite, and Ordinary Times contributor Jericho Hill who joins us to talk about the economy in very practical, real life ways. Jericho talks about the weird, unusal, and seemingly contradictory economic numbers and headlines, what is causing them, and what it all means. Plus, we get into some really practical economic application based of a hirin...

Our guest today is Jakob Puckett who returns to talk energy policy, gas prices, and the plan - or lack there of - to ease increasing concerns the public has about the current crisis. Jakob discusses how the Biden Administration, like the Trump Administration before it, is seeking to use the Defense Production Act and executive orders to try and mitigate costs, but explains how that is not only a b...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 14th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on how lagging military recruitment tells us much about society, culture, and especially mistrust in the US Government. The headlines and hospitals are filling up with news of the BA5 COVID varient ,we turn to our friend Dr. Michael Siegel to seperate practical concern and precaution w...

Our guest today is writer & historian Sarah Stook who returns to Heard Tell to conclude her series on the First Ladies of the United States. We talk through the modern era of women of the White House from Jackie Kennedy to current occupent Dr. Jill Biden, and the history, stories, and personalities of the first ladies in between. Sarah also talks about how the role has evolved over the year, m...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 14th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the release of video from the Robb Elementary massacre that shows the police response to the shootings, and the 77 minutes of heavily armed officers waiting and doing nothing while children & their teachers screamed and died mere feet away, and how authorities are still trying t...

Our guest today is returning favorite James Czerniawski is back to once again hash out the ongoing Elon Musk v Twitter saga we've been covering - not to mention news and social media has been obsessing over - since April. James breaks down not only the tech side, but how a unique part of the legal system now has control of what happens next, where Twitter goes from here, and what we should have le...

Your Heard Tell Show for Wednesday, July the 13th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on some data and reporting that the American public is tuning out the headlines and trending issues as news consumption plummets , we'll discuss the particulars and the why. While on the topic of news consumption, Reuters has some worldwide data out about how news is covered and consu...

Our guest today is Elise Amez-Droz who brings her experience with health care policy to talk about the looming insolvency of the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, the funding mechanism for Medicare Part A, and how the date of that failure keeps moving closure with current events. Elise explains what got us to this point, why no one seems willing to talk about or do anything to avert the crisis, and w...

Your Heard Tell Show for Tuesday, July the 12th is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the latest in Sri Lanka where no food, no fuel, and little hope has the population rising up, the failed leadership on the run , and world powers fighting over who gets to intervene . A piece on how freedom of the press and freedom of religion is the keey to social stability and avoi...

Our guest today is economist, Heard Tell favorite, and Ordinary Times contributor Jericho Hill who joins us to talk about the economy in very practical, real life ways. Jericho talks about the weird, unusal, and seemingly contradictory economic numbers and headlines, what is causing them, and what it all means. Plus, we get into some really practical economic application based of a hiring advertis...

Your Heard Tell Show for Monday, July the 11th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the Biden Adminstration catching flack from their own side for the White House's reaction, or lack thereof, to the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade. The president issued an executive order on Friday regarding abortion, but that isn't quelling complaints of not having a strategy...

Your Heard Tell Twice on Sunday covers everything from the 4th of July, to Elong Musk and Twitter falling out, again, to UK Politics, fatherhood, criminal justice reform, and more as we review the week that was in turning down the noise of the news cycle. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...

On this Heard Tell: Special Edition we review our own coverage of the Elon Musk Twitter saga from the first announcement back in April to the Friday night news dump that Musk was pulling out of the deal. Since this story is going to continue in court and in news & social media, we look back on what we said, what we got right and got wrong, and what it all means. Included is two great conversat...

Our guest today is journalist Courtney Hessler of the Hearld-Dispatch in Huntington, West Virginia who has been covering the opioid trials there. Courtney will explain the legal rulings that came down this week, background on the opioid crisis in Huntington, and the legal, political, and cultural issues surrounding it. Also, Courtney helps to put a human face on the issue of addiction that too oft...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 7th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on shocking news out of Japan as former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is gunned down in public during a campaign speech. We discuss supply chain challenges and shortages, working of a Houston Chronicle piece about which products are getting scarce on the shelves and why. Our guest today is...

Your Heard Tell Show for Thursday, July the 7th, is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need on the news that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is resigning. We take the opportunity to review how we've been covering his tumultuous tenure at No. 10, and let you decided what we got right, what we got wrong, and where do we go from here. We will do so by running back three great di...

Our guest today is financial analyst, political commentator and co-founder of Conservatives Against Racism Albie Amankona who joins us from the UK to walk us through the political mess that is swirling around PM Boris Johnson. Albie will explain the recent string of resignations, what got us to this point, what might be coming next, and what it means for a UK under pressure with a rising cost of l...