4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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We track down disabilities champion, Ralf Hotchkiss, who is in Nicaragua helping poor communities design and build more durable, low cost wheelchairs. Then filmmaker Helen Young promotes her gripping documentary about the elderly activists who snuck onto two of the most fortified military installations in the country to peacefully protest the nuclear weapons industry. Plus, David, Steve and Ralph talk more about Al Franken and sexual harassment as well as the GOP tax bill.
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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 long. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David |
| 0:18.6 | Feldman. David, how are you doing this holiday season? |
| 0:22.4 | Very good. I can't wait to meet our guest, Ralph Hotchkiss. |
| 0:25.0 | And we also have the Man of the Hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, yeah, this program is going to open a lot of minds and I think people are really like it because it provides something for them to engage. |
| 0:38.0 | Now, you know, listeners last week's show, Ralph promised you that David and I were going to do some jokes during the show and we decided |
| 0:45.9 | our guests are a little too important today. We're going to save that for next week for our year |
| 0:50.4 | end show which will be that plus listener questions to sort of wrap up the year. |
| 0:56.4 | But on the show today we are going to welcome back disabilities activist Ralph Hotchkiss |
| 1:01.4 | who will be speaking to us from Central America where he is meeting |
| 1:04.7 | with wheelchair riders and builders about producing tough reliable wheelchairs that can |
| 1:09.2 | navigate the rough terrain and the generally unfriendly confines of third world countries. |
| 1:15.1 | That's the first half of the show. |
| 1:17.0 | In the second half we welcome documentary filmmaker Helen Young who has made a film entitled |
| 1:22.4 | The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bombs, |
| 1:25.0 | about the fate of nuclear disarmament activists, |
| 1:28.0 | mainly elderly nuns and priests, |
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