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When Alanis Morissette burst onto the scene in the summer of 1995, KSCA fm 101.9 had been on the air in Los Angeles for about a year. I was one of the lucky few to be in the room for a showcase at a small club in West LA whose name I can't remember, though I can still picture the scene quite clearly. She was in the larger, upstairs room, filled with mostly industry people. I was mesmerized as she strutted across the stage, sing-screaming about going down on her ex in a theater and other equally in-your-face lyrics. I had heard the first single, "You Oughta Know" only once before being treated to her live performance, but those two listens were enough for me to know that I was seeing something special. I went home, dialed up to connect my computer to AOL where I logged on to the old "Velvet Rope" chat room, and posted something about seeing the next big thing that evening in Alanis Morissette. I went into work the next day and raved about her performance on the air, though I think "One Hand in My Pocket" and "You Learn" were more the flavor of KSCA than "You Oughta Know," but we played them all. Of course, the album Jagged Little Pill and Alanis' career blew up. I tried and tried to get her into the fm 101.9 Music Hall for an interview and performance. They remembered how I came out publicly very early, and they wanted to thank me for that support. In the end, I was really lucky to get a nice long sit down interview with her - no performance- when she was sitting on top of the world. In fact, the album hit #1 on the Billboard album chart just three weeks after our interview! So, on September 18, 1995, Alanis Morissette joined me on the air for an in-depth conversation about her groundbreaking album that next month, in November of 2019, will open as a new Broadway musical. So, I figured this was a good time to share our interview from 24 years ago...

She couldn't be here Tuesday, so GottaLaff [http://twitter.com/GottaLaff] joins Nicole Sandler today to recap the latest insanity from Trump's AmeriKKKa

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Nicole begins the show with the latest in our world of ever-breaking news... It's Thursday, so Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny and the Blue America PAC is our guest today...

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Just when you think things can't get any more screwed up in the USA, Donald Trump opens his mouth again. This time, he's abandoned our allies The Kurds, leaving them susceptible to being annihilated by Turkey. We'll examine what's at stake with author, State Dept veteran and academic David L. Phillips [http://twitter.com/DavidLPhillips4] who wrote about Trump's betrayal of the Kurds here [https://news.columbia.edu/news/trump-kurds-syria-turkey-withdrawal]. Then, with the start of the news Supreme Court term comes a new book from Thom Hartmann [http://ThomHartmann.com]. He joins us today to discuss The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America.

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Donald Trump is playing dangerous games in Syria with Turkey and the Kurds. On Monday, he said he's pulling out of Syria and allowing Turkey to come in, which leaves our allies, the Kurds in a really bad situation. Since so many of us know so little about Kurdistan, I pulled out an interview I did in 2015 with the Kurdistan Regional Representative to the US, Bayan Rahman [http://twitter.com/BayanRahman]. I promise you'll learn something! Then, the Supreme Court is back in session, today hearing three cases joined together to ask if companies should be allowed to discriminate against gay and/or transgender people. We'll speak with Jasmine Beach-Ferraro, executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality [http://SouthernEquality.org].

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