Did The Sacklers Get Away With It?
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Author and addiction advocate, Ryan Hampton, joins us to talk about his experience trying to hold Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family accountable for the horrific opioid plague they helped set in motion as outlined in his book, “Unsettled, How the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Failed the Victims of the American Overdose Crisis.” Plus, Ralph answers a listener question about Medicare (Dis)Advantage.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Tom Morello and you're listening to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:13.7 | My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my trusty co-host David Feldman. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello, David. |
| 0:18.4 | Good to see you. |
| 0:19.6 | I mean, I actually don't see you because we're on radio. |
| 0:22.6 | But to hear you, hello, it's better off that you just hear me. |
| 0:27.5 | Well, that's not going to be for long because what are you? |
| 0:31.4 | I might no longer going to be a part of the show. |
| 0:33.4 | No, if you are, but we're going to do a live Zoom recording of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour |
| 0:39.2 | in a couple of weeks. |
| 0:41.3 | Yes, do good people want power? |
| 0:43.4 | We want good people to have power or do they just want to talk about it? |
| 0:46.8 | That will be the theme of an upcoming program and we want you to be part of it. |
| 0:52.0 | Join us on Wednesday, December 15th. |
| 0:54.6 | That's Wednesday, December 15th. |
| 0:56.3 | A couple of weeks at 12.30 p.m. Eastern time for a live recording of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 1:03.4 | Our guest will be Richard Panchick, he's the author of the new book, |
| 1:07.3 | Power to the People. |
| 1:08.4 | And there will be an opportunity to ask him and Ralph your questions, |
| 1:11.6 | but how we can fight for our rights, citizens, and consumers against and trans |
| 1:16.2 | corporate power. |
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