Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 12Aug22

Reaction To News Stories, DIY Internet, China’s African Ambitions, CPAC & More w/ Alexander Jelloian

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…