Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson For 25JAN23

Dealing w/ Conspiracy Theories & Anti-vax Online & IRL, 2023 Oscar Nominations & more w/ Luis Mendez

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, January 25th, 2022, is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by having a grown folk talk about dealing with conspiracy theories, wackadoo, and anti-vax movement that gets deeper in conspiracy and less moored in reality by the moment, how to deal with the crazymakers especially online, and how it is time to take ownership of our own social media and stop giving unworthy schemers and chaos agents our bandwidth that they are not entitled to. Our guest is film critic, Ordinary Times contributor, and Heard Tell regular Luis Mendez who checks in to see how his 2023 Oscar nomination predicitions held up (really well), the surprises and snubs for this years Academy Awards, what the nominations mean for who might win, and conversation about how new technology like that being used in Avatar might mean changing some definitions on how we view and award filmmaking. Plus, we usually try to end on a good note, and in this case a literal case of the word “good” getting lost in traslation. All that and more on this Wednesday edition of…