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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Killer Air Bags

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes Jerry Cox, author of “Killer Air Bags: The Deadly Secret Automakers Don’t Want You to Know,” his insider account of how the Takata company made airbags that were essentially equipped with pipe bombs of ammonium nitrate. And the former executive director of Greenpeace, Peter Bahouth, comes on to rail against that noisy, polluting scourge of the suburbs: the leaf blower. Plus, Ralph answers your questions.



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0:00.0

It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.0

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.0

You've been sitting way too long.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove

0:16.3

and I'm my co-host David Feldman. Hello David.

0:19.2

Hello there. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

0:22.3

Hello Ralph.

0:23.0

Hi, everybody.

0:24.0

Well, you know, this isn't a true crime podcast, but we sure do spend a lot of time on this program talking about true crimes, corporate crimes. And I'm not just talking about abstract

0:36.3

white collar crime, but negligence and conspiracy that literally injure and kill innocent people.

0:42.1

This is no less violence in many cases than the headline

0:45.7

grabbing crime committed by gangsters on the street. That's why in the first half of our show today

0:51.4

we're going to do a deep dive into a decades-long

0:54.8

corporate crime spree that would fit right into any popular true crime series.

0:59.5

We'll be speaking with Jerry Cox, author of the incendiary book, Killer Airbags, The Deadly Secret

1:06.4

Automakers Don't Want You to Know. This book chronicles the shocking, but for anyone who follows

1:11.7

the corporate crime beat, not terribly surprising story of how the

1:15.7

Takata Corporation equipped tens of millions of airbags with what were essentially

1:21.6

pipe bombs.

1:23.0

That's the first half of the show.

1:25.0

The second half of the show,

1:26.6

the stay-at-home order has made,

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