“It Ain’t So, Joe!”
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week, Ralph welcomes union activist and director of the Nurses Professional Organization, Kay Tillow, who tells us how those ads Joe Namath does shilling for Medicare (dis)Advantage are misleading you. And citizen activist, Evan Weissman, stops by to explain how he and his cohorts in the Denver area have found a way to make civics fun with an approach they call “Warm Cookies of the Revolution.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:06.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:08.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:16.0 | My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, David. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:22.0 | Good to have you here. |
| 0:23.0 | It's also good to have the man of the hour here, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:26.0 | What a program. |
| 0:27.0 | Why don't you hear it, listeners? |
| 0:29.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:30.0 | And I want to start off, though. |
| 0:31.0 | I want to mention another progressive voice we've lost recently. |
| 0:34.0 | His name is Lawrence Ferlingetti. |
| 0:35.0 | He's a poet, an artist, and he founded City Lights Books. |
| 0:39.0 | And Mr. Ferlingetti passed away on February 22nd. |
| 0:43.0 | I believe he is 101 years old. |
| 0:45.0 | And he opened City Lights in 1953 in San Francisco. |
| 0:49.0 | As an all paperback bookstore and started publishing two years later, |
| 0:53.0 | with the objective of stirring and, quote, |
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