From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to long.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. David, what are you doing for New Year's? My people don't celebrate New Year's?

No, my people don't celebrate.

Just at all.

No, true.

Just.

Okay, very good. I did not know that about you. And we also have of course the

man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph. Hello we have a unique different

kind of show today, right, Steve?

Yes, we do. Today we're going to wrap up the year with an entire show devoted to your

listener questions sprinkled with a little humor.

And it's been a tough year.

So a couple of weeks ago, Ralph expressed an interest in having David and I do some jokes.

And it's not so apparent on this show, but both David and I have made our livings as professional

stand-ups and TV comedy writers. So after we do a bunch of your questions, we'll

see if we can close out the show with a few laughs. But that doesn't mean Russell Mochchiber is not going to show up because corporate crime never sleeps.

We'll take a break in between to check in with Russell and Ralph you had a few musings you wanted to

open the show with here.

Yes, I think before we get to the listener's questions,

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