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!
Congratulations to Jim Kerr for 50 Years of Radio in NYC
I've been fortunate to have had a wonderful career in radio. It's been 45 years since my first radio job while in college at the University of South Florida's WUSF. After college, I moved up to NY where I quickly found a job at WMCA producing The Bob Grant Show. One day while Grant was on vacation, the guest host was former Congressman John LeBoutillier. While he was on the air, the hotline in the studio rang. It was Jim Kerr, the morning man at WPLJ. When I gave John the message, I asked for an introduction. He asked me [...]
Remembering Angela McCluskey On and Off the Air
It was the beginning of July 1994. I had just made the difficult decision to walk away from a very high-profile gig producing the #1 morning radio show in Los Angeles. I had spent four years with Mark & Brian, a rewarding job that started out as loads of fun but became less fun as time progressed and is a story for another time. Thankfully and luckily, I landed at the perfect place. I had planted the seeds some months earlier while watching the rise of a new radio format that was actually about the music – good, quality [...]
Emptywheel Friday and an Overtime Salute to Angela McCluskey on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-15-24
Wild Colonials Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon with KSCA's Nicole Sandler at Tower Records Sunset Blvd **Echo at the start of the video is fixed in a minute. Sorry about that!** Fridays are special aside from the obvious reasons. Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist who covers legal and national security issues better than the corporate media at emptywheel.net, is our standing date to wrap up every week. Today we'll talk about the breaking news out of Fulton County, GA where Fani Willis will remain on the case as long as Nathan Wade doesn't, from NY where DA [...]
RIP Angela McCluskey
Wild Colonials Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon with KSCA's Nicole Sandler at Tower Records Sunset Blvd I'll update this post later when I have time to really gather my thoughts and write a fitting remembrance of one of my favorite people in the world. Angela McCluskey was truly the life of every party and we shared some great times. We lost her yesterday, and I'm still reeling. I thought I'd share one of the Wild Colonials appearances with me on KSCA fm 101.9 in Los Angeles. This was December 9, 1996. Enjoy. Thank you Angela for your friendship [...]
Thursdays with Howie Klein on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-14-24
It's Thursday, so time for our weekly get-together with Howie Klein of downwithtyranny.com & the Blue America PAC. This week, both Biden and TFG clinched their party's nominations, so buckle in for a loooonger than our already ridiculously long election season and all that comes with it. There's lots of political news to discuss with Howie today, but I'll certainly save a few minutes to talk about this week's losses (of some amazing musicians)... I played a song at the top of the show from a bunch of Nashville based artists supporting Gloria Johnson for Senate (she's [...]
Wednesday Wisdom with Digby on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-13-24
Because sometimes you just need to sit with a brilliant friend and shoot the shit about all the craziness in our world. That's how I approach the shows when Heather "Digby" Parton is our guest. Digby is, of course, one of the OG bloggers of progressive politics. Her Hullabaloo blog is still a daily must-read, as are her columns at Salon.com. I love it when Digby is my guest because I truly adore her and love our conversations, which can go in any direction. We never know where it'll go until the interview progresses. Too bad there's [...]
Whoops Tuesday on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-12-24
Post-show note from Nicole: Never mind! Time to fire my producer again as she apparently forgot to re-confirm Barb McQuade and send the Zoom link, so Barb will be rescheduled in the next week or two. Time to go flog Nicole again. JFC, you'd think she'd learn by now how to do her job. That said, we did hear a lot of this morning's Robert Hur hearing which was as insane as you thought it would be. Legal scholar and analyst Barbara McQuade became known to many of us due to her spot-on punditry on MSNBC and [...]
It’s Monday Again So We’ve Got The Fucking News on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-11-24
Mondays. They happen like clockwork every week, coming right after the weekend to put an official end to our fun. So on Mondays, we check in with Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News to help ease us back into the work week with an irreverent discussion of the serious shit happening in our world. Jonathan joins in at the bottom of the hour... And we check in with Spocko who fact checks the crazy rebuttal from Katie Britt who apparently learned one thing from the head of the Republican party: how to lie! While the rest of [...]
Emptywheel Friday SOTU Edition on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-8-24
I always look forward to Fridays for the obvious reasons: the weekend and emptywheel.net's Marcy Wheeler! Marcy and I have a standing date every Friday to discuss the week's happenings in Trump Trial and other national security and other news of importance. Today we speak on the morning after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, likely the last time before the convention that he'll have the opportunity to speak to the nation and the world. My quick review? He hit it out of the park, exactly what we needed at this juncture. Marcy Wheeler [...]