Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here. We have a very, very, very special episode

today. There are a few superheroes in the current affairs pantheon, and we are lucky to have one of

them with us here today, consumer advocate and public citizen. Extraordinaire, Ralph Nader. Thank you

for coming on. Oh, welcome. Pleasure. Later in the interview, Ralph Nader. Thank you for coming on.

Oh, welcome. Pleasure. Later in the interview, Ralph, I want to get your views on what is happening in politics today. But before we do, I think listeners could learn a lot from, I sure

have learned a lot from in my life, from hearing about your process, some of the strategic decisions you

have made and civic innovations you have realized in your creative crusading career. So may we journey

into the past and hear about this. Let's do it. So let's begin from the very beginning.

You, many of our listeners are young. Some are in their, some are in

their teens, some are in their 20s, some are in their early 30s. And you started your famous career

in your 20s. And I'd like to know, we know the myth. We know you had friends who were heard

in Otto. It's a true myth, but we've heard the epic story.

Friends heard in auto industry crashes.

You eventually write unsafe at any speed.

You're in the White House a few years later with Lyndon Johnson signing the Highway Traffic Safety Administration bill.

But I'd like to go to really, what is that first moment?

You're in law school and you decide,

I'm not an engineer. I'm not an expert in this field. I'm just a 20-something. And I'm going to

start researching this. And I think I can make a difference. It started in my teens, early teens,

reading. I read, read, read, read, read, read, once in a while I turn on WINS and

listen to the Yankee games, and I read, and I read. Why am I repeating myself? Because almost

everybody I've ever met knows how to read, but that doesn't mean they read. They're illiterate. And so

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