Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
We’re midway through the third week of these special shows I put together to fill the airtime while I’m moving and right about now, I could use some good music and a few laughs. I’m thrilled to share with you one of the highlights of my radio career. In February of 2000, Steely Dan released…
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Political scientist/election analyst/political strategist Rachel Bitecofer exploded on the scene in 2018 by making some election predictions that came to pass. Using her theory of “negative partisanship” she continued to call them right. She has a substack newsletter at substack.com/@thecycle. And a new book coming out in Feb 2024…
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When I decided to put together some actual best of shows to run while I’m in transit, I asked for requests…. Almost immediately someone asked if I had ever interviewed Tom Petty. I did! IT was the one and only time I ever met him… It was April 30, 1999…. We had just signed a…
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It’s another two-fer today. We begin today by going back in time 10 years ago tomorrow! It was Sept 30, 2013 when I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Helen Caldicott, one of the world’s foremost anti-nuclear voices. She’s been in this fight for probably 50 years now. Then we head back a bit…
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Today, we reach back into the thick of the early days of the pandemic… March 11, 2020. Not only was it covid time, it was the pinnacle of the 2020 presidential primaries…. In fact, this show was the day after the so-called mini-Tuesday after which Joe Biden appeared to have clinched the nomination to knock…
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Today, we go back to April 17, 2020. We were in the thick of the pandemic and most of the country was under lockdown. A glance into what’s news from that day gave me this dire report: “The number of reported deaths in the U.S. from covid19 spiked to nearly double the prior record Thursday,…
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This past year we saw Fox NOT News hit with $787 Million in damages after losing a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox admitted they lied and had to pay the largest fine ever levied on a media entity in history, yet their behavior hasn’t changed, and its dangerous. Jen Senko is author…
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So I’ve assembled some shows that really are best ofs to run until I can get my studio set up in a new home… It’s the end of September, so pretty soon we’ll all be inundated with ads for Medicare Advantage, as Medicare open enrollment begins on Oct 15, thru Dec 7…. Then open enrollment…
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Today’s show draws from two decades, neither of them the one we’re in. At this time in 1995, an artist named Alanis Morissette was climbing the charts. Her album Jagged Little Pill would hit #1 just a couple of weeks later. I was an early cheerleader for the album and because of that, as her…
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Today we just go back to March of this year…. As you may have heard me mention, I’m moving out of Florida- in large part to the fascist ways of the governor and his authoritarian rule over the state. One of his most heinous actions is his treatment of and lack of regard for the…
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