The Nicole Sandler Show

Ahh, don't you just love it when plans fall apart? I had a guest scheduled for today, or so I thought. But there was a typo, so today's guest thought he was supposed to be here tomorrow. Good thing the world has lost its mind and everything is broken, so there was plenty to talk about. A cornucopia of news and batshit crazy stories....

It's 420 Eve, and my friend Robert Platshorn died. So, a special show about pot - weed- cannabis. What ever you call it, it was what Robert Platshorn was known for. He served almost 30 years in federal prison for smuggling pot back in the 1970s. Upon his release, he founded The Silver Tour to educate senior citizens about the value of medical marijuana. Today, we'll go back to our first conversation after he was released from prison. It was on my show on Air America Radio, August of 2009! Not too long after that, he produced a infomercial and asked me to narrate it. So we'll also watch "Should Grandma Smoke Pot?" Happy 420 eve!

A bit of what's news for now

A bit of what's news for now

If you've ever listened to my show, you know I cannot say the words Fox and News together. They're like magnets that repel each other, the two words just do not go together. But some very creative people in NY rented some trucks with LED light-signs on the sides that say Fox KNEW... along with messages like Tucker Carlson Knew, Rupert Murdoch Knew and, well, you get the message... Those trucks are driving up and down the streets of Manhattan as the Dominion Lawsuit trial against Fox (not news) officially began this morning... I'll update you on the latest, and share some other news and issues of concern. *** ACK - less than an hour before showtime, they settled! Fox is to pay Dominion $787.5 million, and here's the kicker: none of the on-air liars have to admit they lied. So boy am I glad I had a guest booked to take the temperature down a notch or two... In the second half of the show, we'll meet one of the talented musicians whose parody songs help soothe our inner and outer savage breasts regularly on this show. Miss Laurie Lehner [http://misslaurielehner.com/] joins us from New Orleans, where she'll even share a new song with us.

A bit of what's news for now

Yes, it may be manic, but it's a Marcy Monday and those are the best kind. Marcy Wheeler generously brings her knowledge and reporting to the show every few weeks to catch us up on  the various stories unfolding around us, most centering on the former guy's attempts to unravel our democracy. Today, we discuss the latest leak dump of Pentagon papers, the Dominion lawsuit, the Proud Boys trial, the Matty Dick Pics Taibbi saga and lots more... It's a full plate of info, so come prepared to digest a lot...

A  bit of what's news for now

Joan Walsh has been writing about politics longer than I've been covering them on a daily basis. When I moved over from the music radio world, Joan was editor at Salon.com. We saw her regularly on MSNBC back in those days, then over on CNN, and we're now reading her at The Nation. I knew we had a lot in common, but it wasn't until I read her column in The Nation following the opening night of Bruce Springsteen's current tour with the E Street Band in Tampa, just two months ago.  I knew she was a fan, but didn't realize that she's up there with me in terms of Springsteen fandom. But she is.   And since Bruce is in the middle of what might be the final E Street Band tour (I couldn't help but shake that feeling after seeing the show here in Hollywood FL a few days after the opener), I invited Joan on the show ... to talk Bruce.  And today is the perfect day to do so, as tonight, in New Jersey, they wrap up the first US leg of the tour.... They begin the European leg in Barcelona Spain two weeks from tonight... then back for the second US leg starting at Wrigley Field in Chicago on August 9....  Of  course, it's been a while since Joan Walsh was on my show, and there's so much happening in the world outside of music, so you know we will go there too.   But first, the governor of Floriduh MoRon DeathSentence signed a 6-week abortion ban into law last night (literally, at 11pm). It's all sickening. So I'm joined at the top of the show by Nikki Fried, newly elected chair of the Florida Democratic Party!

A bit of what's news, for now