Episode Details

Your Heard Tell show for Monday, June 20th, 2022 is turning down the news cycle noise and getting to the information we need on a perfect example of how headline writing and SEO optimization is manipulating the news and aiming more for your emotions and reactions than informing, we'll walk through how the noise of the news cycle really works using a Fox News story about Disney and a child sex predator sting. Meanwhile, in Uvalde, the horrible story of Robb Elementary just keeps getting worse, as the City of Uvalde and Uvalde police are lawyering up to prevent practically all information and video of and surrounding the school shooting and police response from becoming public, we'll discuss it. Our guest Garion Frankel returns to Heard Tell to talk about Latino culture, demographics, "LatinX", and how identity doesn't always fit neatly onto a government form or political/cultural debate. Garion uses his own family's example and explains how the Chicano movement changed not only a region, but a group of people, and his own family. Plus, Garion gets into the political and cultural changes within Hispanics and Latinos in places like the Rio Grande Valley, and why election results like the recent Texas Special Election for the 34th district flipping for the first time 150 years is surprising if you pay attention to facts on the ground in the RVG, and not the "demographics is destiny" rhetoric of past years. Also, we check back in with Sri Lanka, where the fuel and food crisis has gotten so bad the government is ordering work from home since there is no public transit, we talk about the real life example of a government that mismanaged its resources and money to tragic results for the people of a country. In our good news segment, how much would you pay for a lunch? One famous businessman has been auctioning off lunches for years for charity, and the latest one was an eye-popping number that brings millions to a great cause. All that and more on this Monday Edition of Heard Tell.

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