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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!
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 8-2-24
Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins Nicole Sandler to recap and discuss the week's news. Today, that includes the $10 million transfer from Egypt to Donald Trump in 2017, the huge prisoner swap that President Biden was negotiating while sick with Covid and the media was declaring him too old to do his job, and lots more... https://youtu.be/Wy94-iusSzw
He’s Back! Thursdays with Howie Klein on the Nicole Sandler Show 8-1-24
He's been gone for a few weeks, but Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny and the Blue America PAC is back today. A few things happened while he was out... we'll catch up on the political sea change that took place over the past three weeks, and then some... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNHxfnWy4A
Getting To Know Kamala Harris with Joan Walsh on the Nicole Sandler Show 7-31-24
She's been our Vice President for almost four years now, but do we really know Kamala Harris? Joan Walsh first interviewed her for a 2003 San Francisco magazine profile when Ms. Harris was running for district attorney. She sat down with most recently just a few weeks ago, for a cover story profile of the VP for The Nation magazine. The timing was fortuitous -- or maybe just slightly early, as they spoke just before the ill-fated debate between President Biden and his orange White House predecessor and now again-opponent. And then everything changed. Regardless, we'll speak [...]
Girls Rule – from Ancient Times to Today- Nicole Sandler Show 7-30-24
Quick technical note... I had some audio issues as I started playing back today's interview (what else is new?). I was able to quickly fix it... just wanted to give you a heads up.. I'll admit it. I don't know much about ancient history. I read The Iliad and The Odyssey, but most other historical literature from the ancient world is like Greek to me.... And although I excelled in Advanced World History in high school, that was a very long time ago and sadly, I've forgotten most of what I knew. But I do remember [...]
Monday and the Weird Fu&king News on the Nicole Sandler Show – 7-29-24
Another Monday has arrived and the outlook is much rosier than in recent weeks. Needless to say, there's lots to discuss. And it's Monday, so Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News (thefuckingnews.substack.com) joins in for the second half hour of the show. We'll venture into the world of the weird, which we acknowledge that there are different strains of weird... Some weird is good, while some is just, well, weird.... creepily weird. (Did someone say Don-Old Trump and JD Vance - or what ever variation on that name he might be using today?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrstJGBUtQ
Emptywheel Fridays – the Change and Hope Edition on the Nicole Sandler Show – 7-26-24 (full show)
Another week that feels like a decade gone by since our last Friday get-together. There's no shortage of news to discuss today as Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I try to recount what all happened. Of course, it was this week that President Joe Biden stepped away from his re-election campaign and passed the torch to VP Kamala Harris. With that change came a renewed sense of hope. I witnessed that first-hand on a massive Zoom call last night, which will continue Sunday evening as Women for Harris all come together. For details visit answerthecall2024.com. And if you [...]
A Tale of Two Speeches and More on the Nicole Sandler Show – 7-25-24
The blurb I posted on the live video stream today read I watched two speeches from Washington DC yesterday. One that shouldn't have happened, and one that should (though the way we got there is troublesome). One brought out the best of America; the other, the worst. We'll discuss both of them today and more news of the day. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), I didn't comment on the quite offensive missive from Netanyahu because I spent that time railing against a regular listener who made a ridiculous comment in the chat telling me (somewhat [...]
Brian Karem Returns to the Nicole Sandler Show and I Have Some Questions – 7-24-24
My first existential question is whether we, as a nation, are too broken. Our politics are broken. Our 'news' media is broken. Our ability to talk with one another is broken. Believe it or not, I'm not as depressed as I was yesterday (or the past few weeks), but that changes too... Journalist, columnist, author, podcaster, musician, dog lover, White House correspondent and Trump provocateur Brian Karem returns to talk about all of it on today's show... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgQIASfnNlU
It’s a New Day Tuesday on the Nicole Sandler Show 7-23-24
I took a rare day off yesterday as I was in no shape to do a show. Emotions are running too high due to a combination of things beyond my control. I should probably take off another day or four, but there's too much at stake to sit on the sidelines. But I also realized that by not doing a show, I'm internalizing all that I'm feeling. So I figured today would be a good day to give us all a place to vent. I will and you can too... And we'll watch [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show – 7-19-24
I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted. Thank Dog it's Friday so we can stick a fork in this week. But another one is coming right behind this one with plenty more shit to be stirred. At least have this hour each week to get together with Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist at emptywheel.net, to dissect the events of the week. To day this was a busy one is a huge understatement. It was a smorgasbord on insanity that included an attempted Trump assassination, Judge Aileen Cannon tossing the entire Stolen Documents case including the indictment, the Republican [...]