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The podcast about why President Bad, also, why World Bad, also, Y, yes. The podcast about why President Bad, also Why World Bad, also Why America Bad. I'm Robert Evans, Introducer Extraordinaire. With me today, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, James Stout.

Eventually, special segment from James Stout later in the episode.

Yes, later is being held in custody by the FTC. That's not true. You cannot say that because

that is something that actually could happen over time. So unfortunately, but he is not.

That's why I made it be the FTC Garrison. People will believe us. I don't know.

People will believe us. We could get arrested by the FTC any day now. We could get arrested for the FTC any day now thanks to the ads that I've been reading for British Petroleum, even though I don't, I exclusively use American Petroleum. This episode we're covering the week of August 7 to August 13. Yep. For no. It's just so we wear. I think it's important to keep up because if people refer back to these episodes, it's good to know what week we're talking about. I don't usually remember what day it is. So, you know, good to do that. Good to remember what day it is. Mia, you want to start us off?

Yeah, I need to issue a correction about Sesame Street.

I was wrong about Sesame Street structure.

We got a very sweet message from someone who works on the show about the way I talked about it being stripped for parts.

Sesame Street was never actually, like, ran by PBS.

It was ran by its own independent nonprofit entity. Sesame Workshop, I believe. Yeah, yeah. It's not, yeah, it's not, yeah, it's not, yeah, called Sesame Workshop. And so the episodes that were being streamed on, uh, HBO Max, and I think they're now, they've now moved to, like, Netflix. Uh, those episodes all did still air on PBS, however, comma, they only aired nine months later.

But yeah, I want to be clear about that.

And then Garrison, do you want to talk about PBS kind of not existing anymore?

Well, PBS may still find a way to exist, but specifically the corporation for public broadcasting, which helps facilitate the, you know,

the funding and the structure and the operation of things like PBS and your local MPR after

being defunded by the Trump administration is now going to shut down completely. So.

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