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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Amazon Takes Over The World!

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to Lina Khan, monopoly expert with the Open Markets Institute, about how to tame “Too Big To Fail” corporations like Amazon. And Ralph’s Princeton classmate and Renaissance Man, Scott McVay, tells us about some of the adventures he chronicled in his memoir Surprise Encounters With Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things. Plus, Ralph weighs in on the DACA controversy and devastating hurricanes.


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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.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting great to long.

0:19.0

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David David. Hello David. We got a great show today. Indeed we do and it includes of course the man of the hour

0:27.0

Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph. Hello and those of you who shop Amazon better listen carefully to this show.

0:34.0

I thought that word would come up because on today's show we're going to

0:38.3

speaking to Lena Khan who is director of legal policy for the Open Markets Institute,

0:44.1

which was recently spun off from the New America Foundation.

0:46.9

She studies corporate consolidation and monopoly power

0:51.1

and the consequences that has for our economy.

0:55.6

And also in the program, when I was doing my research for an unreasonable man, the documentary

1:00.0

about Ralph, I forget who told me about how Ralph apparently does a pretty mean impression of the mating calls of Wales.

1:07.2

My guess is that he learned all about that from the work of our second guest,

1:10.8

Scott McVeigh, a painter, a poet, a naturalist, a philanthropist, and all-around

1:16.4

Renaissance man. He has written a memoir of his life and adventures entitled,

1:20.8

Surprise Encounters with artists and scientists, whales and other living things.

1:26.0

It's somewhere in the middle of the program we will check in with our corporate crime reporter

1:29.5

Russell Mocyver who will give us the latest on the crime in the sweets. But first, we talk a lot on

1:35.8

this program about how to make our economy more equitable from many different angles,

1:40.9

through fair trade deals, raising the minimum wage, establishing worker-owned

1:44.9

cooperatives, instituting Wall Street transaction taxes. Well today we're going to talk a little bit more

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