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🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Ralph talks to professor Edward Balleisen about his book Fraud: An American History From Barnum to Madoff and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Hedrick Smith, rejoins us to critique Trump’s promises and tell us how we can “Reclaim the American Dream.”
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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 ready to song. |
0:10.2 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host, |
0:17.0 | the man who handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope at the Academy Awards, David Feldman. |
0:23.2 | Hello, David. |
0:24.6 | You laugh, but after last Sunday's Academy Awards, |
0:27.8 | I'm leaving the accounting firm of Pricewaterhouse Coopers |
0:31.0 | to take a job inside the White House Office of Management and Budget. |
0:37.0 | And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader, who had a birthday this week a belated |
0:43.3 | happy birthday round oh happy birthday well thank you Steve and David it all comes once a |
0:49.4 | year for us so that's right happy birthday to you when it comes. |
0:55.0 | Actually for me it's going to be on Saturday. |
0:57.0 | So I'm not saying to send me anything. |
0:59.0 | Just you know, I'm just putting it out there. |
1:02.0 | We have a great show by the the way, as we always do, and I think I speak for David when I say that one of the great privileges is doing this show every week is that we get to talk to some of the smartest people in the world and then we go back to |
1:14.8 | our colleagues on our comedy shows that we write for and with all these smart ideas and pretend |
1:20.0 | to know what we're talking about. |
1:21.6 | What I'm trying to say is David and I are fraud. |
1:23.3 | Speaking of fraud, we're going to be talking about the history of fraud in the United |
1:28.2 | States with Professor Edward Balison of Duke University. We will also be talking about President Trump's |
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