Ralph tears apart the looming Trans Pacific Partnership with America’s #1 populist, Jim Hightower, and the director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, Lori Wallach.  Plus, listener questions.

Author and car mechanic Matthew Crawford talks to us about his book Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work about what it means to be able to work with one’s hands.  And co-founder of U.S. Right To Know, Gary Ruskin([email protected]), tells what we can do to find out what is really in our food.  And after the latest deferred prosecution, Ralph calls GM a “homicidal fugitive from justice.”

Harvey Wasserman rejoins us this time to talk about the real mischief going on with electronic voting machines.  And Public Citizen’s Dr. Michael Carome warns us about bad drugs, antibiotic resistance, hospital infections and ways to avoid them.

Ralph talks to former protégé, Mitchell Rofsky, who founded the “Better World Club,” an eco-friendly alternative to AAA.  And we also check in with Rick Newman, the executive director of The American Museum of Tort Law about the importance of preserving our civil justice system.

Former ambassador Anthony Quainton from the School of International Service talks to Ralph a bout the Iran deal. And Ralph both grills and advises Mark Everson, who is running for president in the Republican primary about the IRS, tort reform and breaking up the big banks. 

Ralph talks about fighting political corruption Texas-style with Craig McDonald, director of Texans For Public Justice and professor Brandon L. Garrett fills us in on the depth of American corporate crime with his book Too Big To Jail.

President of Missouri Farmers Union, Richard Oswald discusses the fight for U.S.’s “Country of Origin Labeling, and nuclear advocate and old friend Harvey Wasserman on the continuing dangers from the use of nuclear energy and aging power plants.

Ralph talks to old pal Dr. Sid Wolfe about the prescription drugs you should immediately stop taking and how Medicare Plan D has been paying needlessly high prices for the drugs you should be taking.  We also hear from journalist and author Alyssa Katz about the US Chamber of Commerce’s perverse idea of patriotism.