Heard Tell

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson talks the aftermath of the 2024 election and talks the coalition that won it for the GOP and what Democrats need to do to rebuild theirs, looking ahead to how Trump administartion 2.0 success runs through a slim GOP House of Represenatives that hasn't shown itself to be particularly effective, and how the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential races are already underway.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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On this Heard Tell Special Edition host Andrew Donaldson reacts to the 2024 elections results as former President Donald Trump becomes the president-elect, breaks down why Kamala Harris lost running as a psuedo-incumbent, where both political parties go from here, and what it all means for an electorate that is showing signs of real change.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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On this Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson explains that while content must be created, analysts must analyze, and talking heads must talk, there really is nothing happening and nobody knows anything between now and whenever we find out who wins the 2024 election.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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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 numbers about who is paying attention to the election and how. No, not poll numbers regarding the candidates, but new Pew research on who is paying attention to election year news media, how they consume it, and the trends in the last few elections that reveal how news media is changing and the narratives about news media are not keeping up with that change.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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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 spectacle that was the Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Host Andrew Donaldson covers the reaction to Donald Trump’at MSG, why folks are responding so strong stronly to it, what was the Trump campaigns real intent in staging it, and what it all means a week from election day 2024.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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