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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

The Art of the Steal

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Ralph spends the hour with fraud expert, Frank Abagnale, inspiration for the Spielberg film, “Catch Me If You Can.” They talk about how to protect yourself from identity theft and other scams in our high tech, digital economy. Plus listener questions!



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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 ready to jump.

0:10.6

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my

0:17.3

co-host David Feldman. Hello David. How was your Black Friday? Oh it was great.

0:22.4

We you know Thanksgiving we have our Thanksgiving How was your Black Friday? Oh, it was great.

0:23.0

We, you know, Thanksgiving, we have our Thanksgiving dinner

0:25.3

in front of Best Buy, so we just whip out the sleeping bags

0:29.1

and we're first in line for the new iPhone tents.

0:32.0

Eating a lot of that canned turkey and canned cranberry sauce.

0:35.0

And we also have the band of the hour.

0:37.0

Ralph Nader, hello Ralph.

0:38.0

Hi everybody.

0:40.0

On today's show, we are going to talk to a notorious con artist.

0:44.2

Now I know what you're thinking.

0:45.2

No, it's not our current president.

0:47.1

I doubt when they do the movie about him

0:48.8

it would be played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

0:50.8

Maybe John Voight, Larry the Cable Guy, I don't know. Our one and only guest today is the one and only Frank W. Abagnale, the inspiration for one of my favorite films. Catch me if you can. And I'm not just saying that because he's on the show it's it and we love that movie so right up there with strange love and midnight run and those movies for me and we're going to talk to him about things like identity theft and whether it's easier or harder to do now what he did back in the 60s.

1:20.0

We will also, as always, check in with our corporate crime reporter, a little later on,

1:24.9

Russell Mokiber, and then at the end of the hour, Ralph will answer some listener questions.

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