34 Years in Prison For Tweeting, Grown Folk Talk on Guns, Machiavelli, Neighbors w/ Benjamin Ayanian

Your Heard Tell for Friday, August the 19th, 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 discussing the case of Salma al-Shehab and why Saudi Arabia sentenced her to 34 years in prison for tweeting; a sentence not only outragous on its face, but even more so when considering the connections between the ruling powers in the kingdom's business and legal connections to Twitter, their long history of human rights violations, and the always complicated political alliance with the United States and the House of Saud. Our guest today is the returning Benjamin Ayanian who joins us for a in depth and grown folk talk about guns, the 2nd Amendment, gun control, legislation, policy and cultural debate thereof. Benjamin talks mass shootings, discusses his writing on "good guy with a gun" and whether or not that is a scalable solution, the lessons we should be learning from headline making events, and how reactionary policy aimed at the news cycle almost always misses the core problems and issues. Benjamin and Andrew also have a frank discussion about how the news media online debate over firearms is overly influenced by the extremes of each side, how gun control advocates need to square their message with police failures to protect, distrust in government, and surging ownership numbers and contrast those to how the "ammo sexual" stereotypes and memes and aggresive gun owner behavior online isn't helping 2A advocates make their case, and how the vast spectrum of folks in the middle get lost in the debate. Also, we sneak preview this weekends upcoming Heard Tell podcast as Amanda Griffiths returns and joins us for a deep dive on Machiavelli, and how for 500 years the myths, legends, and conspiracy theories have had as much an impact as his political theories and philosopies from Renaissance Italy to America's founding fathers to today's pop culture. Plus, how giving ice cream to a neighborhood kid probably saved a womans life. All that and more on this Friday edition of Heard Tell.

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