1-31-23 What's News

Friday evening, just an hour or two after this show featuring a conversation with Leon Schagrin, an actual survivor of the Holocaust who was liberated at Auschwitz 78 years earlier, we saw the video of a group of police officers beat an innocent young man to death. Whether at a concentration camp in Germany under the orders of Hitler, or on the streets of the United States, we have witnessed the seeming unlimited capacity for cruelty that one human can inflict on others.   I still had Leon's words swimming around in my mind, having a tough time reconciling the stories he told with this lovely old man talking with us over Zoom, unable to comprehend that level of brutality, savagery, of sadism, and thinking about how important it is that people listen to that interview. We must share the stories of Leon and the other survivors, and pass them down to future generations to insure that nothing like this ever happens again.  But atrocities like those that emanated from Hitler and his followers do continue in places and sizes and permutations that civilized minds can't comprehend, and occasionally the tormentors, torturers and murderers are caught in the act. And that's what we witnessed Friday night when the video of the gruesome, horrific beating of Tyre Nichols was released.  As this is our first gathering since we saw those images we can now never un-see, I thought we should open the phones and talk about it. 954-889-6410 is the number (or you can Skype in to nicolesandler).  Meanwhile, in another corner of the unthinkable, mass shootings are back in the news and in our peripheral vision again. So of course, the fascist governor of the state of FloriDUH takes this opportunity to push for no-permit needed open carrying of weapons. Yes, that was introduced today in Florida's legislature. I'll talk with Samantha Barrios, the new Florida state director of Giffords.org, the organization founded by former Rep Gabby Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly to combat our big problems with guns.

20230130 Nicole Sandler Show - Man's Inhumanity to Man

1-30-23 What's News

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which comes on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camps. Leon Schagrin [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Schagrin] was there.

He was an 18-year old man, weighing all of 80 pounds, on this day back in 1945 when the Soviet army came through and liberated the prisoners. Leon was just 12 or 13 when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland and his long holocaust nightmare began. That he lived to tell about it is a miracle.

Leon settled down in South Florida, where he and his wife would spend many Passover dinners at a neighbor's welcoming table. The neighbors happened to be the in-laws of someone with whom I went to high school, many years ago.

It turns out that my old friend Stephen Shooster [https://www.shoostyandco.com/] wrote Leon's story. It's immortalized in a book titled THE HORSE ADJUTANT: HOW ONE YOUNG BOY SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST. [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-horse-adjutant-a-boy-s-life-in-the-nazi-holocaust-leon-schagrin/9356117?ean=9780983031918]

Leon is now 96 years and still tells his story, as it's one directive among the Jewish people -- Never forget, never again.

So, today, I'm joined by both my old high school friend Stephen Shooster and holocaust survivor Leon Schagrin.

Never forget. Never again.

20230127  Nicole Sandler Show - Never Forget, Never Again - A Holocaust Survivor Tells His Story

1-27-23 What's News

I'm back today after taking yesterday off to indulge my inner musical needs. After interviewing Dave Mason last week, his people invited us to the show. So we made a nice day and night of it.  Today is Thursday, so Howie Klein is here with lots to discuss including Adam Schiff throwing his hat in the senate race ring to replace Dianne Feinstein, the implosion of the Blue Dog caucus, the least educated member of the House, McCarthy's dilemma and lots more... But first, some news and items of interest that we missed yesterday, and more from today. Sadly, there is never a dull moment...

20230126 Nicole Sandler Show - Thursdays with Howie Klein

1-26-23 What's News

1-25-23 What's News

We can begin the list of reasons today is Terrible Tuesday with the numbers 7 and 11. Seven more people killed yesterday in two related shooting incidents in Half Moon Bay, California. The madness will never end. This is the new normal in the USA. And the death toll from Saturday's massacre in Monterey Park has grown by one, so the number of dead victims is now 11. (Can we leave now?)

Uh oh. Breaking news today... The Justice Dept has taken possession of a “small number” of documents with classified markings that former Vice President Mike Pence found in his Indiana residence. PENCE HAD CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AT HIS HOME TOO! WTF is wrong with these people??

It's a bad day for four Oath Keepers who were found guilty yesterday of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the 1-6 attack on the Capitol.

And it's truly terrible for the former head of FBI counterintelligence Charles McGonigal, who's been charged and indicted in federal court on charges that include money laundering and violating US sanctions.

There's more, including the fact that there's a new WH Chief of Staff incoming. Ron Klain is leaving. Biden chose Jeffrey Zients, who's getting reamed by critics not happy about the decidedly conservative choice, including Jeff Hauser [http://twitter.com/jeffhauser]at The Revolving Door Project [http://threvolvingdoorproject.org/], who'll join us today to explain what's so bad about Zients.

20230124 Nicole Sandler Show - Another Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Tuesday

1-24-23 What's  News

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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