Airline Security, Safety, and Smoke; Tax Day; Electoral College and New Zealand
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
| 0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:06.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:08.1 | You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. I'm Steve Grovan along with David Feldman and |
| 0:20.8 | Ralph Nader and this is an unusual show for us. |
| 0:24.6 | David is in Los Angeles. |
| 0:26.4 | Ralph is in Washington, D.C. and I am coming to you from Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 0:31.6 | We also kind of sound like we're in the same room. I'm visiting my daughter who was on a junior semester abroad studying geology and we're still connecting here. |
| 0:39.0 | Ralph, you made a trip to New Zealand at one point, did you not? |
| 0:42.0 | 30 years ago, I've been there twice. a trip to New Zealand at one point, did you not? |
| 0:42.6 | 30 years ago, I've been there twice. |
| 0:45.6 | And the last time I was there, I criticized the Prime Minister, |
| 0:49.4 | a man by the name of Muldum, and he didn't like it you know an outside agitator I thought he wasn't |
| 0:56.7 | pursuing civil liberties policy sufficiently but I got out of the country in time before he returned. |
| 1:03.2 | What was happening at that time? |
| 1:04.8 | Well, there was some sort of political struggle, and I didn't think he was pursuing old New Zealand |
| 1:10.5 | traditions of democratic open processes. |
| 1:14.3 | He was a bit authoritative in his attitude. |
| 1:17.7 | But at that time, New Zealand was going through |
| 1:21.3 | quite a bit of concern about their aborigines as well and it was a |
| 1:25.8 | interesting trip it's an interesting place and by the way Steve yes given that the |
| 1:30.6 | name of the country is New Zealand what are they applying their New Zealand now? |
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