Heard Tell

Yael Ossowski from the Consumer Choice Center helps us turn down the news cycle noise on President Biden's latest Executive Order on "encouraging competition" from his latest piece breaking the EO from Real Clear Markets. Also, as someone who splits their time between Europe and America, we get Yael's thoughts on how regulation affects travel and how debates over trains and airlines are a practical way to talk about government regulation and the need for consumer choice. Plus, we consider the last 18 months of many folks - perhaps for the first time in their lives - seeing restrictions in the way they go about their daily lives due to Coronavirus restrictions, and what consumers learned from the Covid-19 pandemic that might change their point of view going forward.

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The Robert Williams story of an innocent man wrongly accused by police using facial recognition technology stunned a congressional hearing, and once again brings up the active fault line of freedom & regulation. Technology and policy analyst James Czerniawski helps explain how the Williams story is one of many of issues with facial recognition technology, while turning down the news cycle noise on Big Tech regulation and concerns over freedom and liberty both here in America, and in places like China where facial recognition is being used in things like gaming to monitor people's actions. We also talk how maybe we don't appreciate the internet for the tool for information, free speech, and freedom that is in America, and how we should use that view when discussing potential legislation and regulation of it.

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Protests in Cuba against the communist government, stories of Russian disinformation schemes to undermine America's political process, trouble in the Middle East, political upheaval...familiar headlines in new forms lately. In this episode of Heard Tell we turn down the news cycle noise on what we are seeing and hearing about America's current foreign policy challenges and turn to University of Illinois Professor of International Relations and Arc Digital Senior Editor Nicholas Grossman on what we can/can't do to help the Cuban protesters, how the latest splashy Russian disinformation story is probably to good to be true for certain folks that want it to be true, America's current place in world affairs, and how our domestic culture and political debates have global implications.

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Heard Tell host Andrew Donaldson explains some of his background story, why do a podcast in the first place, and how his experiences in life and online shape how Heard Tell approaches culture and politics.

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With The Supreme Court ruling on voting rights, Bill Cosby's conviction being vacated, and the #freeBritney movement over Britney Spears' conservatorship all making headlines, the law and America's legal system is very much a focus right now. We talk with attorney Em Carpenter who turns down the news cycle news on these complicated legal issues and breaks down the legal issues, opinions, and lawyering that we need to know about the information beyond the reactions.

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While celebrating American independence from England, it is the perfect time to turn down the news cycle noise and get the UK POV on the latest in American culture and politics from our friend Ben Harris who works in politics and parliament in London and shares his viewpoints from over yonder. We talk the differences in the US and UK systems of government, how President Biden is perceived abroad, how the Black Lives Matter movement jumped the channel, racism and protests in sport, differences in policing, BREXIT and the EU, a bit about soccer/football, defending British food, and that time Ben ordered a Philly cheesesteak without the cheese in Philly.

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Science! Believe the Science! Believe all scientist! She blinded me with science! After hearing so much about science, how science works, and how politics & culture can shape the perceptions of science during the Covid-19 pandemic, we turn down the noise on the controversies, debates, and conspiracy theories surround science in the Covid era and turn to scientist Michael Siegel to explain when to believe the science, when to question things, what we've learned the last 18 months about how the scientific sausage is made, and what lessons we should all learn from it going forward.

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Over a year after the killing of George Floyd we now know the sentencing for former police officer Derek Chauvin for it: 22.5 years in prison. But how did verdict land with the folks in Minneapolis? Was this justice to them? We turn down the noise on everything we've heard about George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, the protests and the riots that happened and get to the information about where Minneapolis came from to get here, and where they, us, and the country goes from here with pastor, writer, and Minneapolis local Dennis Sanders.

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Turning down the noise and getting beyond the images and narratives of Portland from the protest and violence, and getting to the information beyond with PDX locals Burt Likko & Tod Kelly. What is really happening on the ground in the city, how does Portland's history and laws affect the protests, and some blunt talk about the history of the city's issues with race and how the perception of Portland being a very progressive city isn't living up to the reality with some of it's own citizens. But it isn't all negative, as we also discuss the positives of PDX's culture scene, the beautiful landscape surrounding it, and just how close to Portlandia does Portland IRL really come.

An Essay Containing Many Lies About Portland

BY BURT LIKKO (2018)

Heading Seventeen Degrees Westerly Of True North From Herlong Junction

BY BURT LIKKO (2018)

Rod Dreher’s Battle Against “Portland Sharia” by Tod Kelly (2014)

In Which The City of Portland Makes Me Seriously Consider Becoming a Registered Libertarian by Tod Kelly (2013)

Burt Likko's Twitter

Tod Kelly's Twitter

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“Social media is bad for your mental health” we are relentlessly told, but is engagement through technology on issues like culture and politics really a uniformly bad thing? We turn to Dr. Kathryn Gordon helps us turn down the noise in the news cycle on mental health and helps us better understand questions like did the Covid-19 pandemic really bring about a huge mental health crisis, does political engagement and cultural debate hurt or help your mental health. She also delves into popular culture to give us some good examples of how mental health is dealt with in movies and TV shows, and some of them you might find surprising. 

Dr. Gordon's Twitter

Dr. Gordon's Website

The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook by Dr. Kathryn Gordon

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