Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Of course, I’m paraphrasing the old threat. The next line would be “what a shame if something should happen to it…” And that’s where we are today. Perfect timing to have Thom Hartmann on the show to talk about his new book, THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: REDISCOVERING HUMANITY’S ANCIENT WAY OF LIVING, the…
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Last minute change of plans! My scheduled guest who was to talk about what happened to the radio and record industry had to reschedule. Usually that’d freak me out, but not today.When he called to cancel, I was in the middle of taping an interview with Michael Franti, the founder and leader of Michael Franti…
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Howie Klein is here today, as he is every Thursday. Last week we spent our entire time together talking music, so today I promise at least some news and politics. After all, where else can you get talk about RFK Jr’s descent into another world and Marge Traitor Greene showing dic pics in an official…
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It’s time for labor in America to stand up for workers rights! The Writer’s Guild (WGA) went out on May 2, and SAG/AFTRA voted to strike this past weekend. Most people really don’t know the things they’re striking about, but should. So that’s our mission today, to explain and understand.To get us there, I called…
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Sometimes things happen for a reason. Digby was scheduled to be here on Friday, but due to technical problems beyond my control (Grrr Microsoft update), I opted to take the day off. Well, Digby is here today, and I’m kind of glad I blew her off on Friday because we have so much more to…
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Greg Mitchell is a filmmaker, author, journalist and more who seems equally interested in the history of the Atomic Bomb and music. It’s one of the reasons I’m a fan and enjoy talking with him. He’s written a number of books and produced at least one film about the bomb. His book, THE BEGINNING OR…
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It’s Friday Eve… Howie Klein is here. We talk politics, as he runs the Blue America PAC and writes a lot at DownWithTyranny.com. But we also often talk music. Before Howie went into progressive politics full-time, he was in the music industry. I met him probably close to 30 years ago when I was doing…
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Welcome to Wednesday. Once we get past the news that inflation is down, the economy is buzzing, yet another interest hike is on the way and I challenge you to look at the rates you’re paying on credit cards, we’ll turn our attention to the animals. I am an animal lover. You may know I…
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It’s that every other (or so) Tuesday and @GottaLaff is here to shoot the shit about the news or whatever else we feel like talking about. We’re both so fed up with politics and the sad state of things that we often devolve into silliness or worse. In fact, we’ve come up an idea for…
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Now that’s setting expectations high. There’s a lot wrong in this state, but thankfully there are some people trying to turn things around. The Florida Democratic Party has been a mess for too long. Now with former Ag Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate Nikki Fried taking over as FDP Chair, she’s shaking things up. This weekend,…
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