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 of the book, The Brainwashing of My Dad. 

20230926 Nicole Sandler Moving Show #7 - Right Wing Propaganda Is Hurting Seniors

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 for the ACA begins on Nov 1… To make sure you’re informed about what’s available and to tell you the truth about so-called Medicare Advantage (neither Medicare nor an advantage), we’ll go back to Oct 15 of 2021 and an information packed conversation with health insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter….

20230925 Nicole Sandler Moving Show #6 - Wendell Potter on Medicare DISAdvantage

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 mega star was rising quickly, she came into the radio station I was working at at the time for an interview with me. That was 28 years ago! My how time flies…

But we’ll begin today with an interview from 2010 about psychedelics to treat mental health issues.

You know I recently underwent a series of Ketamine Therapy treatments for depression. It might seem like I was jumping on the new trend bandwagon, but this exciting breakthrough in treating mental health with psychedelics is an idea I’ve been following since first reading about the work being done treating returning veterans suffering from PTSD… 13 years ago!

20230922 Nicole Sandler Moving Show #5- Psychedelics for Mental Health & Alanis Morissette

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 LGBTQ community.

His vendetta against drag shows would be really funny if it weren’t so mean, discriminatory and harmful to people just trying to live their own lives….

So today, we’ll enjoy the awesomeness of The Kinsey Six, an acapella drag group who’ll show why desantis and his ilk are so scared of them…

But on this day, March `13 of this year, 2023, we once again watched the government bail out billionaires (while us poor schmucks wallow in poverty…) as banks in Silicon Valley started failing… Mu old friend Dave Johnson lived there at the time and joined me at the top of the show to attempt to explain what’s happening there…

20230921 Nicole Sandler's Best of Shows while Moving with Kinsey Sicks

Today we go back to October of 2014 for a conversation with famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and his followers for the Tate/LaBianca Helter Skelter murders. But Bugliosi wrote quite a few books, mostly dealing with famous homicide cases including the manson family murders, Kennedy assassination and even OJ Simpson.

On this occasion, we were discussing his book, “The Prosecution of GWBush for Murder” and the documentary that came out of it, the Prosecution of an American President…

20230920 Nicole Sandler's Moving Madness Best of show with Vincent Bugliosi

Today during our moving madness, we share some slices of history.

The first time I called a global hotspot hotel to talk to a regular person was Feb 2, 2011, as protests engulfed Cairo's Tahrir Square at the start of the Arab Spring. 

One of the benefits of having been doing this show for so many years is the historical record left behind. Today we experience  history unfolding…

Remember the Arab Spring? We had such hope that Democracy would finally sweep through the middle east.  It began with a singular act of defiance!

On Dec 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian street vendor who had his produce confiscated by police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the authorities’ lack of concern,

His actions triggered nationwide protests and calls for an end of the authoritarian rule of Pres Zine El Abidine Ben Ali…

And then all hell broke loose… protests continued in Tunisia… the president fled to Saudi Arabia….

But the flame had been lit and the fire was spreading throughout the middle east, many converging on Egypt

Egyptian activists called for a mass rally in a “Day of Anger” on Jan 25, 2011, set to coincide with the annual celebration of the Egyptian police, and the people took to the streets for unprecedented protests in Cairo as the city came to standstill….

Violent clashes between anti Mubarak protesters and police took over

On Jan 28, Egyptian president Hasni Mubarek announces “I have ordered the government to step down and I will name a new government tomorrow”….

On Feb 2, protesters declared Feb 4 the “Friday of Departure” for Mubarak, as the clashes between pro Mubarak and anti government began in Tahrir Square….

That day, I decided to call hotels around Tahrir Square to get a first hand account of what was happening there from just an average working Egyptian….

You just have to get through to the correct person… Sadly, the Arab Spring fizzled and democracy didn’t come to the Middle East where things are just as bad as they were before that brave and fed up Tunisian man set himself on fire….

For our next segment, we jump ahead about a decade, to Jan 3, 2020.  Unbelievably, Donald Trump was now in the WH and many of us worried about the reality that a mad man had the authority to push a button and launch another World War….terrifying!

The US and Iran have had a fraught relationship for decades now with a very tenuous co-existence in place when Trump bragged about the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, He was the head of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and the architect of its military and political power.…. A US air raid at Baghdad int’l airport hit during the early morning hours killing Soleimani and others with him. 

Many worried that this would escalate the already high tensions between our nations, so I thought it might be a good time to pick up the phone again, this time to speak with an Iranian citizen human to human…. It was Jan 3, 2020

20230919 Nicole Sandler Show - Calling for Global Peace

I'm moving! So today begins a series of Best Of interviews from throughout the years. Some special shows are coming up over the next few weeks.

We kick things off with a brand new interview, never before aired, with HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, historian and author of the new book DEMOCRACY AWAKENING: NOTES ON THE STATE OF AMERICA.

In the time left, we go back to 2014 for my sit-down interview with the Rev Dr William Barber, recorded at Netroots Nation in Detroit.

20230918 Nicole Sandler Show - Heather Cox Richardson & William Barber

After today, this studio is done! I'll be tearing it down, packing it up  and getting us the hell out of Florida. Let's put some collective  energy into making sure the gremlins stay here and don't follow us to  Arizona.  For my last live show out of here, we'll visit with David Jolliffe, my  old friend who's on the SAG-AFTRA executive committee who'll give us a  strike update, and I'll share some final thoughts on moving out of the  state that DeSantis DeStroyed...

20230915 Nicole Sandler Show -  AZ Here We Come, After a Word From David Jolliffe

It's Thursday, and since I tear down my studio after tomorrow's show for the move, this is the last time I'll speak with Howie Klein for a few weeks. Today, he brings along Maebe A. Girl [http://maebeagirlforcongress.org/], a Blue America-endorsed candidate who's running to replace Adam Schiff in the House. Schiff is, of course, running for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat, leaving his congressional seat up for grabs. It also happens to be the district where Howie Klein lives, so this one is personal for him.

20230914 Nicole Sandler Show - Thursday with Howie Klein and Maebe A. Girl

Marcy Wheeler is back  at emptywheel.net [http://emptywheel.net/] after her vacation, with a broken foot no less, in time for one last episode together before I leave for our road trip move to Arizona. Today, we talk about a lot of the shit that hit the fan while Marcy was on vacation in another information-filled show.

20230913 Nicole Sandler Show - Emptywheel Wednesday!

Nicole Sandler has worked in radio her entire adult life. After a successful career in music radio in NY and Los Angeles (WPLJ, KLOS, KSCA and others), she returned to talk radio to host mornings on then-progressive talk WINZ/Miami. After a flip to sports, she moved to Air America Radio for a nightly show. When AAR went off the air on Jan 21, 2010, Nicole Sandler moved online where she continues to question authority daily at nicolesandler.com.

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