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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Trump Death Clock/Saving the Post Office

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning filmmaker, Eugene Jarecki, joins Ralph to talk about the electronic billboard he put up in New York’s Times Square, the “Trump Death Clock.” And Mark Dimondstein, head of the American Postal Workers Union, reminds how the health and safety of postal workers as well as the preservation of the post office is essential for delivering medicines and other vital goods as well as protecting democracy. Plus, listener questions!


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0:00.0

It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.0

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.0

You've been sitting way too long.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David.

0:19.0

Good morning. Good to have you with us and the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello

0:23.3

Ralph. Hello everybody. Trump Accountability and

0:27.0

saving the US Postal Service. That's right. We've got a full show on both

0:32.3

those topics.

0:33.8

Sometime last week, a new billboard went up in New York City's Times Square.

0:39.4

The billboard is titled, the Trump death clock. It keeps track of the estimated deaths that

0:46.0

could have been prevented if the United States had shut down just a week earlier.

0:50.6

The clock currently counts over 50,000 preventable deaths that occurred

0:55.1

due to that one single week of inaction. The creator of this clock is filmmaker Eugene

1:00.1

Geraki, who is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director of both dramatic and documentary subjects,

1:06.0

he has twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival

1:10.0

for his takedown to the military industrial complex, that film was called Why We Fight,

1:15.6

and he went again for a film about criminal justice and drug policy entitled,

1:19.7

The House I Live in. We're going to find out what inspired him to put up this ticker that

1:24.6

resembles the National Debt Clock, which is also in Times Square. Now a few weeks

1:30.0

ago we highlighted the essential work nurses have been doing on the front lines of this

1:33.9

pandemic when director of National Nurses United Gene Ross came on the show.

1:38.3

She spoke about the lack of protective equipment nurses have been receiving.

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