Heard Tell

Heard Tell
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Heard Tell

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

  1. Talking Canada w/Canadian Sabine El-Chidiac: Tariffs, Trump, Trudeau, Economics, Elections & more

    FEB 5

    Talking Canada w/Canadian Sabine El-Chidiac: Tariffs, Trump, Trudeau, Economics, Elections & more

    On this episode of Heard Tell, we turn down the noise of the news cycle and get to the information we need on Canada being all over US news and politics. But instead of talking about Canada amongst ourselves, let's try something different and talk to Canada and the politics and economics thereof with Sabine El-Chidiac, Canadian Policy Associate for the Consumer Choice Center and an actual Canadian. Sabine and host Andrew talk through the background of the current headlines going back to the first Trump administration, how political upheaval and looming elections affect Canada's position, how the Canadian government works and the politics American's and the world need to know and understand, and the economic crisis that is the undertow to many other problems facing Canada right now. Also, Sabine gives some things to watch for in news coverage coming up, and answers the question "Could Waffle House bring peace between our two nations?" All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. Read more from Sabine at CCC here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/team/sabine-el-chidiac/ CCC's tariff explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBkEuD4wJDY&t=1433s -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Read less Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    45 min
  2. Inside Congress, Reaction to Trump, RFK Jr & Autism, Politics of DCA & more w/ reporter Eric Garcia

    FEB 4

    Inside Congress, Reaction to Trump, RFK Jr & Autism, Politics of DCA & more w/ reporter Eric Garcia

    On this episode of Heard Tell, we turn down the noise of the news cycle and get to the information we need on the early days of the new Trump administration from the perspective of congress with congressional reporter and Washington Bureau Chief for The Independent Eric Garcia. Eric takes us behind the scenes and into the hallways of Capitol Hill for how the calendar & previous congress actions are dictating the new congress and the proposed Trump agenda, thoughts on the RFJ, Jr. nomination from the perspective of autism advocacy, good media and good reporters, the long-running congressional politics of Reagan National Airport (DCA) in light of the plane collision with a Blackhawk VIP helicopter, previewing some 2026 senate races like Senator Ossoff in Georgia and Senator Tillis in North Carolina, and Eric meets Babydog and despite host Andrew's warning, fell for the Jim Justice bulldog diversion. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. Read Eric Garcia's work in The Independent here: -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    1h 5m
  3. Everything Is A Conspiracy If You Don't Understand How Things Work

    JAN 31

    Everything Is A Conspiracy If You Don't Understand How Things Work

    There have always been bad faith media actors and conspiracy theorists, because human nature is undefeated and there is nothing new under the sun. But technology means that bad faith actors and conspiracy theorists are finding comfortable homes in social media and news media where a constant search for optimized niche content is the name of the game. “Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t understand how things work” is a filter we are just going to have to apply to talking heads, pundits, social media accounts, news outlets, and even our elected officials. From the plane & helicopter crash at Reagan National to RFK, Jr.’s senate confirmation hearing, properly discerning our times means cutting through the conspiratorial noise and getting to good information by pruning our information intake in times like these. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    18 min
  4. Terror Attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas Get 2025 News/Social Media Off to Bad Start

    JAN 2

    Terror Attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas Get 2025 News/Social Media Off to Bad Start

    On this episode of Heard Tell, we turn down the noise of the news cycle and gets to the information we need as 2025 starts out with two terrible terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, and some truly bad news media and social media coverage thereof. Host Andrew delves into the changing state of getting information to current events, parsing through social media, consequences of distrust of legacy media, and how all the issues in news media and social media eventually come back to the biggest influence on both: the consumer, meaning us. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    16 min
  5. President Joe Biden Pardons His Son Hunter Biden

    12/04/2024

    President Joe Biden Pardons His Son Hunter Biden

    On this Heard Tell turns down the noise of the news cycle and gets to the heart of the matter when it comes to President Joe Biden deciding to pardon his son Hunter Biden, despite publicly declaring he would not. Politics, personal feelings, and performative news and social media all play a part, and host Andrew Donaldson talks about precedent, known history of Joe Biden, what Donald Trump has to do with it, and the lesson to learn from the latest twist in our political soap opera. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    8 min
  6. Veterans Benefits, The Economist “Absurd” Claims, & Grown Folks Talk About The Cost Veteran Affairs

    12/02/2024

    Veterans Benefits, The Economist “Absurd” Claims, & Grown Folks Talk About The Cost Veteran Affairs

    On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson took a few days before responding to an article in The Economist entitled "American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits" and subtitled "An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt-reduction efforts." Andrew talks through the nomenclature that is being misused, like the differences in "100% disabled", the good, bad, and often very indifferent VA system, the culture and technology changes that must be understood, and some of the things that are driving the increase in veteran benefits and claimants that are not being discussed in social media and news media. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    20 min
  7. Meet the New Congress, a Lot Like The Old Congress, GOP Senate Leadership, & more/ Eric Garcia

    11/15/2024

    Meet the New Congress, a Lot Like The Old Congress, GOP Senate Leadership, & more/ Eric Garcia

    On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks post-election politics on Capitol Hill with senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent Eric Garcia, who takes us behind the scenes and into the halls of congress to discuss the incomiing 119th congress is going to look a whole lot like the 118th congress, changing leadership in the US Senate as the GOP takes the majority and elects new leadership, how Majority Leader Thune and Speaker of the House Johnson will work with president-elect Trump and what if any limits to what the White House wants will the legislative branch provide, and also the real scope on how congressional news makes it into the news cycle and how we can better inform ourselves about what our elected represenation is doing. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. Buy Eric's Book "We Are Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation" here https://t.co/5dWGMA75BK -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    34 min
  8. Veterans Day and the Cost of Service

    11/11/2024

    Veterans Day and the Cost of Service

    On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks about Veterans Day and the cost of service, both the broad perspective of how the Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the largest parts of our government just to care for those that serve, and also the personal perspective of what those that servce pay in personal terms. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell. -------------------- Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inbox https://heardtell.substack.com/ Questions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us HeardTellShow@gmail.com Please follow @HeardTellShow like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others. Support Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donations Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    13 min
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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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    Heard Tell
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    2021 - 2025
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