Welcome to 2023! With the new year, comes a new home for The Nicole Sandler Show podcast.
Hopefully, you won’t notice much difference. The show still airs live weekday afternoons from 5-6pm ET. After that, it’s available as a podcast. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, or download any episode directly from this page, or from each day’s show post.
The only difference is that if you’re looking through the blog for an older show, the audio/podcast embed may not work. But you can go to the new podcast page and search for the date of the show you want to hear, and it should come right up for you.
As with anything new, it’ll likely take a little while to iron out any problems. So please let me know about any bugs you encounter, and do tell me what’s working well too!
My show is not behind a paywall, though we do depend on your donations to keep it going.
Thanks for checking us out!
3-2-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Thursdays with Howie Klein aka downwithtyranny
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/e1d6c9ee-549c-43a0-9f30-9a2c9f6aaa39.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version Today's Thursday, so Howie Klein is here. We'll certainly discuss the Republican disconnect as the dividing line will be apparent this weekend. The MAGAt/Trump crowd will be at the CPAC gathering, while the DeSantis delusionals will be just a few miles up the road from Mar a Lago with big donors affiliated with the Club for Growth. Chicago went to the polls Tuesday to elect a mayor and, for the first time in 40 [...]
3-1-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Everything Is Broken with Spocko
Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/b645cba7-28aa-4f33-80a2-6eb7831b87af.mp3 I don't have a guest booked today. I thought that having Attorney General Merrick Garland testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee would provide more than enough material to deal with for the hour. Unfortunately, much of it was unwatchable.. Republicans have become so ugly, so aggressive and confrontational, and they are just completely full of shit. They learned well from their media appendage, Fox (Not) News, because they just make shit up. [...]
2-27-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Media Madness with Project Censored
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/29238bd8-cfe1-48ea-ab1c-56782d8a83d8.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version America has a fraught relationship with the news media. We've enshrined protections for a free press in the First Amendment of the US Constitution! Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. But in today's political climate, [...]
2-24-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Living in a Warzone, One Year Later with Philip Ittner
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/a6888879-fbd7-499f-b2c1-28dd20f14afd.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version It was one year ago today that Vladimir Putin's Russia invaded Ukraine and began the bombing. It's been a horrific year for the people of Ukraine, who did nothing to provoke that monster. But a year later, they're still taking incoming fire, living without reliable power and under the constant warnings of sirens. Yet the people are strong and aren't willing to give an inch. Today, we'll look back on a year ago, and [...]
2-23-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Thursday with Howie Klein & Jessica Anderson
https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/63f7f9d0aeb48c651556cbaa/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/c8f65200-95d0-4437-bc40-5040c94870d3.mp3 The man behind DownwithTyranny.com and the Blue America PAC is back today, as he is every Thursday. But today, Howie Klein is joined by the newest Blue-America endorsed candidate: Jessica Anderson, a former devout Christian conservative who's running as a Berniecrat! to be a Virginia House Delegate from District 71 this year. I'll begin the show with a serious question: Who the fuck is Alex Murdaugh, and why is his murder trial being broadcast live on MSNBC, CNN and a bunch of other channels too? And why isn't governor Death Sentence doing anything to protect this [...]
2-22-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Radical Enough for You Harvey J Kaye?
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/5a3f152f-0a04-4e1e-94c0-7b21a5eb9e3e.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the author of numerous books about our democracy and our history, including one called TAKE HOLD OF OUR HISTORY: MAKE AMERICA RADICAL AGAIN. Harvey returns to the show today so I can ask him the question, radical enough for you yet? Harvey and I always have spirited discussions, but I'm thinking what we're living through now is not [...]
2-21-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Emptywheel Fills The Hour with Answers and Info
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/97be8fdd-3dc8-4475-9a53-72c58559bba2.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version I love the days when Marcy Wheeler is on the show. With so much going on these days, I find it difficult to stay on top of everything. But Marcy manages to cover virtually all the important issues at emptywheel.net, and remarkably, can answer just about any question I put to her regarding the most important issues of the day. Today, we'll discuss the Dominion lawsuit against Fox, and the massive discovery file they [...]
2-20-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Wide Awake & Fighting Back in FloriDUH
https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/63f4eba03ce6ede7730add4e/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/943e419c-be7e-4a71-be7f-a5c53db4a13c.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version I'm so sick of seeing laudatory stories about the bigot, racist, fascist governor of Florida. Ron DeSantis is a bully who believes his point of view is the only valid viewpoint and any other thoughts or ideas are therefore "woke," "indoctrination," or some other nonsense he spews every time he opens his ugly mouth. Just when you think he can't go any lower, he does something else despicable. The latest? In response to last week's protests [...]
2-17-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Fox (Not) News Finally Exposed
https://media.zencastr.com/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/7bfff744-f29d-4344-92b3-175f04390b04.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version We've known for many years that Fox is anything but news, but we were shouting at a brick wall. Well, thanks to a $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox, its executives, its commentators and stars, they might finally have to behave and -gasp - tell the truth! But it's really too late, as the 400+ page filing released yesterday pulls the curtain back from around the biggest propaganda outfit this country has [...]
2-16-23 Nicole Sandler Show – Thursdays with Howie Klein
https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/63eec050416aea06dda16413/audio-files/5e0cc41aa9798f001400ff98/5b08e37e-8cbc-4196-a522-53b138aeea2e.mp3 Click the player above to play, right click the download button below to download the episode, scroll down for the video version It's Thursday, so we hang out with Howie Klein of DownWithTyranny and the Blue America PAC Today, we got the first look, redacted and sparse as it may be, from the Fulton County GA grand jury report about the investigation into Donald Trump's interference in the 2020 election outcome. We'll talk with Howie about his latest column on just what is the GOP agenda... if there is one. But I started the show with [...]