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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Inside Philanthropy

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ralph has a fascinating conversation about the billions of dollars spent on political philanthropy and what all that money is working for with David Callahan, author of The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Also, Ralph answers more listener questions!



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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.

0:22.0

This is really almost a desperate plea for some of these philanthropists who know how to make a lot of money but don't have a clue as to what to do with it. Those are the exact words that were given to me

0:24.7

by a major multi-billionaire in America and he included himself in that.

0:30.1

Okay if that's true you know you know how to make a of money, but you don't have a clue as to what to do with it. Let's get together with the citizen groups, the citizen leaders who have put their lives in the pursuit of justice year after year in some sort of interpersonal exchange

0:46.6

face to face getting by the screeners and the sentinels that keep these

0:52.0

philanthropists

0:52.8

from getting great ideas and giving them major roles

0:56.6

in the history of our country in its future.

1:00.8

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

1:02.4

My name is Steve Scrove, and along with my co-host David Feldman,

1:06.0

the man who makes Anthony Scaramucci look like Pope Francis.

1:09.0

A lot of people make fun of Anthony Scaramucci, but he's overcome a lot of obstacles in life like going to Harvard Law School.

1:16.0

As we know, as did the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph.

1:20.0

Hello, Steve, David, Jimmy. I guess David that remark shows why you're called an amateur comedian.

1:26.1

We have a great job. We have a very great opportunity today to talk about giving philanthropy in substantial detail

1:36.0

in how it affects all communities.

1:38.0

Exactly, that's exactly what we're going to do. We're going to explore the world of philanthropy

1:42.0

and the proper role of private wealth in

1:44.1

public life and we're going to be doing that with the author and founder of the

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