Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, August the 11th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with a review of the loudest, most trending news story of the week, the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, and seeing if our reactions on Monday match the information we have on Friday - starting with being honest about what we did and did not know based on initial reactions. We go to Michigan and the story of a man who started his own internet service provider when he couldn't get the big name companies to do so is expanding to hundreds of homes, laying miles of fiber optic cables, and just got a multi-million dollar federal money infusion to keep explanding, we'll detail this amazing bit of good, old fashioned yankee ingenuity. Our guest today is Alexander Jelloian, a Young Voices contributor and of the Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity, a project of the Institute for Economic Affairs in the United Kingdom. Alexander talks Africa, and more specifically China's increasing intrests, investment, and interference in the continent. Alexander details the recent history of how the players might be new but the issues of economic exploitation and imperial/colonial ambitions are nothing new in Africa, and how strategic partnerships and good faith alliances are crucial in curtailing the actions of China and others. Plus, Alexander details how trade policy doesn't fix everything, but could be the key for not only international powers in Africa, but more prosperity and peace among the African nations themselves. Also, we have a sneak peak at the return of the Heard Tell Podcast, longer form discussions and deeper dives into issues and current events, starting with Chris Schlak reporting on his in-person perspective of CPAC Dallas, and how that viral Brandon Straka-Marjorie Taylor Greene moment was even more bizarre, longer, and far more planned out than just the viral videos indicated. We finish this epsiode, and the week, as we always do with an uplifting story, this one from our good friend Rufus Hickok who wanted to highlight the work of a couple in New York City who took on the mission of feeding people in need, and built up a community in the process. All that and more on this Friday edition of Heard Tell.