Helene's Deadly Warning from NPR's Up First
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to September. Public media has had a rough summer. On July 18th, Congress passed the Rescissions Act of 2025, which eliminated $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then on August 1st, CPB announced they would be winding down operations.
When folks talk about these cuts, they usually talk about the vital public services public media provides, such as emergency alerts. But we'd be remiss if we didn't also talk about how NPR is an audio storytelling powerhouse. Throughout the month, we've partnered with our friends at NPR to present four pieces that represent the breadth and depth of their incredible reporting.
We hope you enjoy.
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Part 1: This weekend on The Sunday Story, NPR's Laura Sullivan examines how the nation is failing to rebuild after major storms in a way that will protect them from the next one. As climate-related storms become more frequent and severe, NPR and PBS FRONTLINE investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit when communities don't. Despite billions in federal aid, outdated policies, weak building codes, and political resistance are putting lives and homes at continued risk.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.3 | When a disgraced podcaster follows a Maryland manchild through an IKEA wardrobe. |
| 0:12.7 | The wardrobe is a portal? |
| 0:14.1 | Oh man, I told you not to follow me. |
| 0:16.0 | She stumbles into a once pristine magical kingdom now drowning in fast food and vape clouds. |
| 0:22.5 | They are eating into my margins. |
| 0:24.4 | Where'd you pick up that fancy business talk? |
| 0:26.4 | He spent years living in a hollowed out stump. |
| 0:28.5 | If these two unlikely heroes are ever going to change anything, |
| 0:31.6 | they'll have to start with their miserable selves. |
| 0:34.2 | Stanland, featuring Bobby Moynihan, Reyes Seahorn, John Hamm, John Waters, and more. |
| 0:40.2 | Subscribe now. |
| 0:43.0 | A Better Help ad. |
| 0:45.0 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:50.3 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:55.7 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes can be really difficult. |
| 1:00.1 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 1:04.7 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 1:08.3 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 1:13.6 | Hi, this is Yuri from Radiotopia, back with another podcast to share from our friends at NPR. |
| 1:20.8 | As you've heard me say every week on the feed this month, Congress passed a bill to eliminate |
| 1:26.1 | federal funding for public media. So we are presenting |
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