Ralph Nader, Consumer Crusader
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from NPR sponsor Organic Valley, a co-op of small organic family farms dedicated to producing food that promotes respect for the dignity and interdependence of all life. |
| 0:11.0 | Discover their milk at ovae. coop slash ethically sourced. Hi, nice to meet you. Come on in. The year is 1960. Now, what kind of car are we looking for today? |
| 0:31.0 | You've got an urge to hit the open road to touch the black asphalt of the nation's new |
| 0:36.3 | interstate highways that are being built all around the country. |
| 0:39.6 | I think you're going to love this. |
| 0:41.8 | Now all you need is the perfect car. |
| 0:44.6 | They just released this model. |
| 0:46.7 | Compact, sleek, a thing of beauty. Have a safe drive. You turn on your car radio and that iconic Summer Place Song Starts Playing. |
| 1:03.0 | When you hit the highway, you roll your window down, |
| 1:07.0 | letting the wind rush through your hair. |
| 1:09.0 | This is the American dream, riding in an American car on an American road, boundless and free. |
| 1:28.0 | When you come up across a slight turn you keep your foot on the gas cruising along. |
| 1:38.9 | For a moment you feel the wheels slip the car no longer in your control but then it comes back again |
| 1:44.0 | You think it's fine. It's a brand new car right off the dealership block. |
| 1:50.4 | You come up on another turn, this time a wider one. You stay the course, when all of a sudden your wheels lose traction with the road. The paramedics will later tell you you're a lucky one. As you crawl out of the |
| 2:10.2 | driver's window you think to yourself, what happened? How could driving a brand new car |
| 2:17.1 | end up with me lying on the road? This is my point. Either it's sheer callousness or indifference or they don't |
| 2:27.0 | bother to find out how their cars behave. That's a young Ralph Nader talking |
| 2:31.7 | about car safety. Ralph Nader talking about car safety. |
| 2:33.0 | Ralph Nader has announced he will run for president as a third party candidate again. |
| 2:38.0 | Yes, that Ralph Nader. |
| 2:40.0 | He's made four runs for the presidency as a third-party candidate, most infamously in the year 2000, |
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