Turning down the noise of what we are hearing in the news cycle, social media, and the discourse to get to the information on culture, politics, and the issues of the day we need to properly discern the times we live in. Hosted by Andrew Donaldson
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Effective Tax Policy vs Campaign Buzzwords, Breaking Down "No Tax On Tips" & more w/ Alex Muresianu
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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 talking to our friend Alex Muresianu from The Tax Foundation to explain "no tax on tips" and why there is bipartisan political agreement for it, and bipartisan agreement in policy circles it is a bad idea. Plus, Alex gives…
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Rust Belt Politics in Election Year, Minnesotan POV on Tim Walz as Governor & more w/ Dennis Sanders
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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 talking with our friend, writer, podcaster, and pastor from the great state of Minnesota Dennis Sanders about Rust Belt politics, the changing electorate of the midwest, history and economic factors that drive voters, and …
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Trump & Harris Agree On Something, Olympics, Ukraine/Russia, Hurricanes, Taking Freedom for Granted
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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 talking about VP Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are both pitching "no tax on tips" which is bringing bipartisan agreement among lawmakers to do it bipartisan agreement among policy wonks it is a bad idea. …
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3 Slain Girls Hijacked By Anti-migration Mob, UK Justice Crisis, Knife Crime & more w/ Jack Rowlett
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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 talking about the really ugly anti-migrant rioting in the UK, the facts around the murder of 3 Southport girls at a Taylor Swift party in a knife attack, how that got hijacked by agitators online and in the streets, who di…
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Tim Walz VP Pick, Politicized Market Panic, RFK's Pitiful Enablers, What Simone Biles Proved & more
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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 talking about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz being tabbed as the running mate for VP Kamala Harris, the Monday financial panic that looks silly on Tuesday, the embarrassing case of supporting/using RFK Jr's joke candidacy, wh…
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Plain Talk on Economics, Inflation, Jobs Report, Sahm Rule, Politicized Econ & more w/Stephen Popick
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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 talking about economics with our returning friend, economist, and writer Dr. Stephen Popick with plan spoken, grown folk talk about economic headlines, inflation worries and recession fears,answering what social media frea…
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Will Deadpool & Wolverine and Avengers: Doomsday Revive Marvel? Vintage Films & more w/ Luis Mendez
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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 talking about one of the biggest IPs in all of entertainment, Marvel. Our friend and film critic Luis Mendez of the Mendez Movie Report returns to Heard Tell to talk about the huge success of Deadpool & Wolverine, and the …
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Congress News Not Making Headlines, DC Reax to Harris Campaign & Vance VP Pick & more w/ Eric Garcia
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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 talking about all the news that we should be paying attention to, but isn't making the headlines as the Trump v Harris campaign change has dominated news media. Eric Garcia, the Washington bureau chief and senior Washingto…
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President Biden Speaks, Harris '24 Kick-off, Sonya Massey Murder, Evangelical Politics, & Babydog
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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 talking about President Biden's address to the nation regarding his decision not to seek re-election, VP Kamala Harris kicks off her 2024 campaign and the state of the race, the camera footage and criminal charges regardin…
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Debating Intent: Minimum Wage, Rent Control, Universal Healthcare, & Wealth Tax w/ Benjamin Ayanian
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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 talking to our returning friend Benjamin Ayanian about the difference between the what folks want to happen with policy proposals and how real world factors like economics, politics, and human nature change the ideal theor…
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JD Vance Wins Veepstakes, Trump Assassination Attempt Fallout, Republican National Convention & more
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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 talking about the selection of US Senator JD Vance of Ohio to be the GOP nominee for vice president. We talk about the fallout from the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the security failure and quest…
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UK Elections: Labour Routs Tories, PM Keir Starmer, What All It Means & What's Next w/ Jack Rowlett
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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 heading across the pond to cover the results and reactions to the UK's general election. Jack Rowlett of Young Voices UK returns to Heard Tell to talk about Labour's historic win, why the Conservatives collapsed, major iss…
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Freakout Over Presidential Debate, Freakout Over Supreme Court, Everybody Everywhere Is Freaking Out
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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 digging beyond the news media and social media reactions to the presidential debate, recent Supreme Court decisions and more. Host Andrew talks through the fallout of President Biden's shocking debate performance against T…
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Putin's Blood Gold Network & How Wagner Steals Billions From Africa For The Kremlin w/ David Clement
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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 going beyond the headlines of what Vladimir Putin and Russia are doing in the world and examining how they help fund everything from the invasion of Ukraine, destruction in Syria, power projection elsewhere, and more. Our …
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Enough Doom & Gloom, Caitlin Clark Story is Breaking Folks, Misinformation, Partisanship Fail & more
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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 talking about how big loud news events like Donald Trump's conviction, Hunter Biden's conviction, and even the disaster that was January 6th all bring wide sweeping reactions but actually show things are holding up pretty …
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Big Doings In Space, SpaceX Starship, Boeing Starliner, Future of NASA & more w/ Dr Michael Siegel
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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 covering the latest news from outer space, or at least what man is doing to keep going up there. Our own resident space expert Dr. Michael Siegel returns to Heard Tell to talk about NASA and Boeing's Starliner finally gett…
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Debating Mandatory National Service, Politics of Old v Young, UK Politics & more w/ Alex Petropolous
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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 debating the merits of the latest calls for mandatory service with Alex Petropolous, who has been doing media appearances on the subject including a SkyNews segment that received attention. Alex joins us from Brussels, Bel…
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Reactions to Trump Verdict, Caitlin Clark Coverage, D-Day Anniversary Thoughts, India Rising, & more
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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 talking about the reactions of folks in news media and social media to the Donald Trump verdict in his New York City business records case. Next, the Caitlin Clark coverage as the woman's basketball star transitions from c…
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What's Wrong w/the Movie Industry After Terrible Memorial Day Weekend w/ Lius Mendez
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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 digging into the business and cultural factors that cause movie theater box offices to have their worst Memorial Day Weekend in a generation. Film critic Luis Mendez of the Mendez Movie Report returns to talk not just why …
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Better Mental Health In Real Life, In Election Year & On Social Media/News Media w/Dr Kathryn Gordon
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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 once again pausing everything else and talking about mental health with Dr. Kathryn Gordon, clinical psychologist & author of The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook. Dr Katie once again not only discusses current issues like the e…
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We Are Doing News Media and Social Media Wrong, and What To Do About It w/ Andrew Donaldson
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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 talking about news media and social media, and how we consume it. Host Andrew Donaldson uses his own experiences as a writer and talking head on news programs to talk about the changing ecosystem of news media, Pew data on…
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Local POV of President Biden's Morehouse Speech, His Black Community Support & more w/Donnell Suggs
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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 talking about President Joe Biden's trip to Atlanta to campaign and deliver the commence address at Morehouse College, which brought national media attention and ongoing narratives. We skip all that and turn to Donnel Sugg…
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Standardized Testing, Teachers, Students, & Texas-sized Problems in Education w/ Garion Frankel
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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 talking standardized testing in Texas with Garion Frankel. Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Garion talks about the STAAR testing and integration of automatic grading as a touch point to discuss how testing is dominating s…
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Sorting All The US Presidents Into Hogwarts Houses From Harry Potter w/Sarah Stook
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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 Potte…
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UK Local Elections: What They Do/Do Not Mean, What To Know, & What‘s Next w/ Harrison Griffiths
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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 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…
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Insider Perspective On Congress Beyond The Headlines w/ Congressional Reporter Eric Garcia
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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 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 for…
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The Worst Case Scenario of Child Protective Failure Happens in West Virginia w/guest Kelli Caseman
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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 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…
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Turning Down The Noise On The NY Trial of Donald Trump w/ Attorney & Writer Em Carpenter
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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, sepera…
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The GOP Primary Isn't Over, It Never Was; Personal Update; Uvalde Report; Iran; Elevator Talk & more
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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 nom…
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Aliens, UAPs vs UFOs, AI, and Executive Orders, Oh My, w/guest Yael Ossowski
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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 …
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Grown Folk Talk About Career Path, Finances, Retirement, Influencer Culture, Social Security, & more
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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 retir…
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Reviewing GOP Presidential Debate, Micro Nuclear Reactors, Discussing Factions in Conservatism & more
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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 mean…
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Using '23 Elections to Prep for '24; SAFER Banking/Cannabis; DeSantis Boot Scootin' Politics & more
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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. S…
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Biden's Poll Numbers; Aliens, AI, & Privacy, Oh My w/Yael Ossowski; Country Roads: German Version
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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…
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Heard Tell: Mental Health From Media & News Consumption, To Suicide Prevention, & Pop Culture Trends
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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 hea…
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Heard Tell: Crisis Clarifies; No, It Ain't Christmas Yet; Helping Techers; Generational Voter Change
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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 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 m…
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Grown Folk Talk on Career & Retirement, Nonsense of Nikki Haley "Surge", Matthew Perry, Maine & more
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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 …
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How West Virginia's Child Protective Services Become So Dysfunctional, and What We Can do About It
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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 underlyi…
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A Lawyer Explains Plea Deals Trump's Lawyers Are Taking in Georgia w/Attorney & Writer Em Carpenter
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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 ar…
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Lewiston Murders & Manhunt, Speaker Mike Johnson, Lawsplaining GA Plea Deals, Viral Gaza Vids & more
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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 di…
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Plea Deals in Georgia Trump Trials, Israel-Palestine Erupts On Campus, Defending Taylor Swift & more
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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 confe…
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GOP's Leadership Problem, Fixing WV's Dysfunctional Child Protective Services, 152-Car Pileup & more
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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 horrif…
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Argentina Elections: History & Context, Javier Milei Hype, Perpetual Issues & more w/ Marcos Falcone
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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,…
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Old Mistakes From "New Right", Grown Folk Talk on Pluralism & Diversity, Lessons From Despots & more
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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 peop…
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Choosing Right Before A Crisis, Core Cause of Congressional Chaos, Movies w/Film Critic Luis Mendez
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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 ev…
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Does "Ground Game" Still Matter in Iowa Caucuses? Real State of GOP Primaries, & more w/ John Deeth
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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 mor…
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Why Venezuelan Oil Deal Is Bad Politics & Economics, Real Cost of Dictatorship, & More w/Eric Suarez
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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…
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Inside GOP Speaker Fight, The Old Mistakes of The New Right, That Viral George Santos Scream, & more
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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…
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Prices & Inflation; On Comparing Hamas to 9/11; Canada Media Law; History & Economics of Furniture
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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 a…
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Perspective From Israel on Hamas, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Does Iowa Caucus Ground Game Still Matter?
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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…
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