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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Hope From The Heartland/Robot Lawyer

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, Art Cullen, about his hometown, Storm Lake, Iowa and how its ethnically diverse community thrives despite being located in Rep. Steve King’s ultra-conservative district. And 21-year old Joshua Browder tells us how you can save a lot of money using his robot lawyer.



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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. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host

0:19.6

David Feldman. I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving, David.

0:23.0

Yes, I did and this is a great show.

0:25.0

It covers two of my passions.

0:27.0

The fate of journalism and divorce attorneys.

0:30.0

Yes, it does.

0:32.0

Yeah, don't give away too much though. Okay. And we have also, guess who else is here, David the man of the hour Ralph Nader? Hello, Ralph. Hello, everybody. We have yet, as alluded to another fascinating show on tap today.

0:47.0

First up we are going to be speaking to Art Cullen who lives in Storm Lake, a meat packing town of a little more than 10,000 people in northwest Iowa.

0:57.0

Mr. Cullen and his brother John founded a small newspaper called the Storm Lake Times, which is published twice a week, and in writing editorials for this tiny paper in this small town,

1:08.0

which took on corporate agribusiness for fouling the state's water and poisoning its soil, Art Cullen ended up winning the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

1:17.0

He's written a book about that experience and the history and people of his town entitled Storm Lake, a chronicle of change, resilience, and hope from a

1:26.5

heartland newspaper. That's in the first part of the show and unfortunately our

1:31.1

guest in the second half of the show invented an app that came a couple years too late to help my good friend David Feldman through the legal thicket of his divorce.

1:42.0

Our second guest essentially invented a robot lawyer, David's dream.

1:47.1

Joshua Browder is a young software engineer and apparently a terrible driver.

1:52.6

He was looking for a way to appeal the numerous parking tickets he was accumulating shortly

1:57.5

after getting his driver's license in the UK and then after successfully repealing

2:02.0

many of his tickets, he decided to create an app that would help guide other people through that relatively simple process.

2:10.0

That way you wouldn't have to spend money in a lawyer.

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