Dirty Work

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralph spends the whole hour with Eyal Press, author of “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and The Hidden Toll of Inequality in America,” where they discuss the large gap separating the people who perform the most thankless, ethically troubling jobs in America from the rest of us, who benefit from their work. Plus, Ralph answers listener questions.

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader radio hour.
0:05.3	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.4	You've been sitting way too long.
0:14.1	Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour.
0:15.8	My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman.
0:18.8	Hello, David.
0:19.6	Good morning.
0:20.7	Nice to have you here as well as it's nice to have the man
0:23.7	of the hour is always Ralph Nader.
0:25.1	Hello, Ralph.
0:26.0	Hello.
0:26.8	Very good to be here.
0:28.3	This is going to shock some people this program,
0:32.2	but it's also going to motivate you.
0:35.0	Yes, it's always very provocative.
0:37.8	And it takes a lot of dirty work to make our modern lives
0:41.8	look this clean.
0:43.6	Our smartphones rely on rare earth metals
0:46.1	that are hazardous to extract.
0:48.6	Most of the meat we eat comes from industrial slaughterhouses
0:51.6	with brutal killing floors.
0:54.0	The natural gas in our stoves and the petroleum in our cars
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