Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, July the 28th, 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 revisiting an old trope with new data and the benefit of hindsight. "Millennials are lazy" went from meme to accepted common knowledge but new data, and the rise of the generation behind them, is shedding new light show that shows the lazy rhetoric wasn't accurate for what was happening. We'll tall teen employment then and now and what it should have taught us about changing economic times and the folks living through them. We have not one but two guests on Heard Tell today focusing on two countries we need to be paying attention to. Guest Roy Mathews returns to Heard Tell to talk about Kazakhstan, and how the ancient crossroads between the East and the West once again finds themselves between world powers. Roy explains the situation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev from publicly confronting Putin, to internal questions about legitimacy, and what his background and motivations are in trying to position his country in a shifting world with China on one side and Russia on the other, and is there an opening for the west to make inroads. Plus we'll talk how China's increasing trade and financial influence complicates not just geopolitics, but the ordinary Kazakh citizens including the largest diaspora of Uyghurs along with other ethnic Turkic groups who know all too well China's human rights violations. Also joining us on Heard Tell guest Cassandra Shand returns to the program to talk about the current crisis in Cuba, from the fuel and food shortages that are plaguing most of the world, to the healthcare system collapse and crackdown on protests that are becoming all too familiar again. Cassandra also talks about the newest wave of the very old problem of migrants and exiles fleeing Cuba and trying to get to America, and whether or not America's current policy from embargo to official status to immigration rules needs reviewed and adjusted. All that and more on this Thursday edition of Heard Tell.

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