Defund NPR!

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Defund NPR! According to reports, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is considering defunding NPR and PBS. Should the government be funding news organizations? In defense of broadcast companies, NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik insisted that only 1% of NPR’s funding came from the federal government. Rich and Matt wonder: if it’s such a negligible amount, what’s wrong with defunding? 4:30pm- Dr. Victoria Coates— Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show BUT President Donald Trump interrupts the conversation with a press conference from the Oval Office. 4:45pm- While speaking with the press from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump revealed that he may hit European nations with tariffs. He conceded that tariffs may cause “short-term disruption” but will ultimately result in better trade policies that benefit the U.S. long-term.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists.
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0:11.7	Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:16.2	No more pronouns.
0:18.0	That's right.
0:18.6	No more pronouns for government employees. I don't want to see
0:21.8	them in your signature line. None of that nonsense. New executive order by President Donald Trump.
0:27.8	Goodbye with your pronouns. Thank God. One of the dumbest things of all time. Putting pronouns
0:33.8	on an email signature. Welcome back to the show. Glad you're here, 855, 839, 12, 10,
0:39.3	on X at Rich Zoli. That's one thing that has irritated me all these years. I mean, look,
0:45.0	listen, I'm a bit of a cramudgeon sometimes. There are a lot of things that irritate me.
0:49.5	The pronoun thing, and when people would write you an email and at the bottom of it,
0:55.6	you know, she slash her, he slash him whatever i thought that was one of the most annoying irritating pompous lefty
1:02.2	virtue signaling like wearing a mask when you're riding a bike by yourself kind of a move you
1:08.1	know what i mean i couldn? I couldn't stand it.
1:16.1	Well, today Trump ended the practice, according to our buddy, Juliana Freeman, for all federal employees.
1:17.1	She has posted that on X a short time ago.
1:19.4	So you have to 5 o'clock today to get that crap off your headlines.
1:24.3	Enough of that nonsense.
1:26.2	Good.
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