Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Live from Washington DC, Ralph Nader introduces us to Dr. Sidney Wolfe, his compatriot in taking on the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Wolfe is the co-founder and director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer and health advocacy lobbying organization. Among his numerous books, Dr. Wolfe is the author of Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

From the headquarters of Public Citizen in Washington DC, David and Steve talk to Ralph about money in politics and other good fights with special guest, Public Citizen president, Robert Weissman.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

We talk to Ralph about patenting human genes, and how Monsanto is doing "God's work," literally. Ralph writes to LeBron James and offers Barack Obama one hundred grand on a dare.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

In episode seven of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Ralph talks about his new book “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” and we touch on a few of the twenty-five things on which liberals and conservatives should be able to agree.  Also: the real reason Donald Sterling is a racist.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

With Ralph in DC, David in LA and Steve in New Zealand, Ralph tells us how one airline made the mistake of bumping him from a flight, how Paul Ryan lives in a corporate bubble, how he might tweak our system of government, and how one irate gentleman once delighted in blowing smoke in his face.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

Ralph pitches a couple of apps, explains how not to get screwed on contracts, and we ask him if the Comcast/Time-Warner merger is good for us. Take a wild guess.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

Ralph carves up Antonin Scalia and “Corporate Welfare King,” Rush Limbaugh, points out how Exxon actually made money on the Exxon/Valdez oil spill; and we discuss whether Germany actually won World War II, and the one position that Ralph took that he now regrets.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

In episode three of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Ralph tells Bernie Sanders to go for it, tells us why a corporation does not have religious beliefs, why college athletes should be paid and pays tribute to the late anti-war writer and activist, Jonathan Schell. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

This week we ask Ralph if Jamie Dimon is a criminal, whether we really need a CIA, and why should we worry about Fukushima.  And Ralph explains the true meaning of one of our most sacred holidays-March Madness.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com

In this inaugural episode of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, Ralph talks about his old nemesis, General Motors, once again getting called on the carpet. How conservatives and liberals should come together to raise the minimum wage. Whether young people should sign up for Obamacare. The situation in Ukraine. Missile defense. And whether the Yankees' Derek Jeter is a worthy successor to his boyhood hero, Lou Gehrig. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ralphnader.substack.com