Heard Tell w/Andrew Donaldson for 28July2022

“Lazy Millennials” Myth, Kazakhstan At Crossroads, Cubans in Crisis w/ Roy Mathews & Cassanra Shand

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…