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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

March for the Ocean!/Basic Income

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes back ocean conservationist David Helvarg, who talks about offshore oil drilling and June 9th’s March for the Ocean and Steven Shafarman, author of Basic Income Imperative: For Peace, Justice, Liberty and Personal Dignity.



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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.

0:11.1

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour. Ralph Nader, how are you doing today Ralph?

0:20.0

We're full of news and full of them.

0:22.0

Yeah, the president just got his physical, for instance.

0:25.0

That's in the news.

0:27.0

That's right.

0:28.0

And you know what? He was pronounced in excellent health, which means the Republicans no longer have an alibi, that his crazy

0:35.7

statements and crazy behavior is due to instability. So he's cognitively

0:40.9

pronounced stable and so now we can hold him accountable for premeditated

0:47.3

assertions that border on the cruel and the absurd if not actually being described by those two adjectives.

0:55.8

So I think the important thing here is to say, well, it's good that he's in good health.

1:01.6

Now we can hold them to a higher standard.

1:04.0

Yeah that's tough when you as a party you have to decide whether it's better to say he is mentally stable

1:09.6

or he's not mentally stable either way how does it explain the actions he can be

1:14.9

relied on now to avoid any kind of alibis by his sycophants and his advisors rolling

1:22.0

your eyes.

1:23.6

The other thing is, you know, the doctor, the naval vice admiral, who examined him in the question

1:29.5

period basically said, you know, he doesn't exercise, he's got a terrible diet, it's all genetic. In other

1:36.2

words, his good health is based on genetics, not on lifestyle, and he sort of mused that if he, Vice Admiral had that kind of lifestyle he would not be very healthy

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