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🗓️ 18 February 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Ralph talks to literacy expert, Nancy Newman about how to raise passionate readers; and law professor, Alexandra Lahav tells us how a "litigious society" is actually vital to a functioning democracy.
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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. |
0:05.6 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:07.8 | You've been sitting ready to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my |
0:16.2 | co-host David Feldman who last week very proudly told me that he has cleaned |
0:21.0 | out all of Ivanka Trump-Branc shoes from his closet. |
0:24.0 | Congratulations, David. |
0:26.0 | It wasn't a political decision. |
0:28.0 | I was just making room for Chris Christie Leisure |
0:31.0 | where. |
0:32.0 | It takes up a lot of space in my closet. |
0:34.9 | And of course we have the Mad of the Hour, Ralph Nader. |
0:37.6 | Hello, Ralph. |
0:38.8 | Hello. |
0:40.1 | Yes, David and Steve, we have an extraordinary program today that will spellbound the listeners. |
0:47.0 | Yes, prepared to be spellbound because on today's show we're going to touch on two of your favorite topics Ralph reading and the law. |
0:55.3 | As regular listeners know, Ralph is a fierce defender of a citizen's right to have his or |
1:00.4 | her day in court. |
1:01.4 | He even founded a museum dedicated to that proposition called the Museum of Tort Law. |
1:07.0 | So in the second half of the show we're going to speak with University of Connecticut law professor Alexandra Le Hav, whose most recent book makes the argument |
1:15.0 | the lawsuits are actually good for society and essential to democracy. |
1:20.0 | And regular listeners also know that Ralph is a voracious reader on a wide variety of topics. |
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