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I’ve been remiss in updating this page, but fixing that now to point you to our 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!
Three Weeks To Go with Brian Karem on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-15-24
We are now three weeks away from election day with, literally, the world at stake. Today, I welcome journalist, author, podcaster, White House Correspondent and musician with the perfect snarky sense of humor, Brian Karem, back to the show. We'll delve into opposite world and beyond, including that very weird Town Hall Meeting turned disco dance party at which TFG answered a few questions then decided he'd rather be a DJ than president. Weird is correct. Demented is probably more accurate... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOe9kMeh1Jw
We’re Back and in the Home Stretch on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-14-24
We are moved. Well, we're out of the old house and all our stuff is at the new place. Now we get to put it all together. My first task was rebuilding my studio. I somehow got it working well enough last Wednesday to interview Christopher Steele, and it crapped out on my on Friday while taping our Emptywheel Friday show with Marcy Wheeler. So, I rebuilt the whole thing over the weekend and as I'm prepping for today's show, it seems to be working correctly. Please let me know if gremlins invade so I can try [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-11-24
Our move to a new home is almost complete, and things at the show should be back to our usual state of quasi-controlled chaos. Though I had the new studio somehow run smoothly for the Christopher Steele interview on Wednesday, the gremlins decided to make an appearance during today's taping with Marcy Wheeler. So... it starts out ok, albeit with awful lighting on my end. But when I couldn't leave well enough alone and tried to adjust the lighting about 10 minutes in, the video software decided to mess with me... so we regrouped and did the rest [...]
About that Dossier with Christopher Steele on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-9-24
Moving a full house, even just seven miles, is a major undertaking. I'll tell you all about it when time permits. I'm back today for an important interview.... Christopher Steele will join me right at the top of the show. Yes, the man behind the infamous dossier has written a book. UNREDACTED: RUSSIA, TRUMP, AND THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY hit shelves yesterday. And he's here today. Since this is the maiden voyage of my newly-rebuilt studio, I urge the gremlins to give us a break and let everything work so we can get to the bottom of some [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-4-24
It's Emptywheel Fridays. I'm in moving hell, so just listen and let the episode speak for itself! https://youtu.be/kpA6Nb2qyDg
Thursdays with Howie Klein on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-3-24
It's Thursday and Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny is back with us this week. We have lots to talk about from the Veep debate and just how creepy JD Vance is... and we'll get a status update on how the Blue America PAC endorsed candidates are faring. Plus a farewell to another friend. Getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative, I guess. My friend Julie Gordon died yesterday after a long battle with breast cancer. Variety posted a beautiful obituary... "Julie Gordon, Founder of the ‘Velvet Rope’ and A&R Exec, Dies at 65" I mentioned that [...]
About Last Night’s VP Debate on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-2-24
Last night we saw the first and only Vice Presidential debate of the season, and probably the last one for either VP or POTUS this time around. I'll share some clips and take your calls if you have a burning question or comment... I promised I'd post these two pictures side by side. The one on the left is JD Vance's official Senate portrait. The one on the right is his gaslighting version of it. I guess this is what he wants people to think he looks like. In his dreams... (Thom Hartmann was scheduled on today's show, [...]
Veep Debate Prep with Digby on the Nicole Sandler Show – 10-1-24
Hopefully the gremlins have been eradicated and we're firing on all cylinders today... Governor, Coach and our next VP Tim Walz is in the spotlight today as tonight, he'll face JD Vance (or whatever he's calling himself today) in their only debate tonight. Trump is showing us how deranged, disoriented and demented he is every time he opens his mouth. The Middle East is a mess, as is Asheville, NC. But the good news is that my friend Mari Dew is alive and well... Heather Parton aka Digby is our guest today! Here's Digby's post about [...]
I’m Back Today along with the Fu&%ing News -Nicole Sandler Show – 9-30-24
My long housing hell nightmare is almost over! I'm back live today and boy do I have a story to share with you! I'll fill you in on why I was out all last week and why I'm doing so much better today. Then, as it's Monday, we'll visit with Jonathan Larsen, proprietor of TheFuckingNews.substack.com (along with JonathanLarson.substack.com) who helps us kick off each week on Mondays with some original reporting and some of the other shit that we can't believe is actually happening.
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show – 9-27-24
I've been off the air all week due to the housing hell we're in. Long story short -- the place we had lined up to move into on Monday was yanked out from under us Saturday evening for no reason (I'll share all when this is over), so we've been frantically looking all week. We have to be out of here next week, and I've been dealing with panic attacks due to the stress. So I am all the more grateful that today is Friday, and I get to find out what happened this week [...]