From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to jump.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour.

Ralph Hello Ralph, how are you doing today?

Good Steve, we have a really great program and an unusual one at that.

That's right, it's eclectic, I would say.

That's the word I would use because I'd like to use big words.

In the second half of the show we're going to be talking about hiking the Appalachian Trail.

We're going to be doing that with 19 year old Nicholas Mochiber, who last year

hiked the over 2,000 mile trail after graduating high school and who's going to be giving us a firsthand

account of that adventure.

And that last name should sound familiar to regular listeners of the show because Nicholas is the son

of our corporate crime reporter, Russell Mocyber, who we will also be hearing from, as usual, in the middle of the show.

It's a Mokibre family fair today is what I'm trying to say.

We're going to try to get to some of your listener questions, but first we're going to talk about the subject of

bullying, but not the personal schoolyard type of bullying that we are probably all

familiar with. We're going to talk about bullying in its various institutional forms, which brings us to our first guest.

Charles Durbar is a professor of sociology at Boston College.

Professor Durbar speaks often to business and policy leaders at the conference board,

the Council of Foreign Relations, and related bodies to interpret the rising concerns about

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