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Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome to the bonus segment for you podcast listeners. We like to give you an extra show every week. We really appreciate you checking out the podcast all the time. So you remember when President Trump decided not to fund NPR, the government should get out of the business of funding public TV, NPR, and all the

uproar about it. Well, first of all, they really weren't getting that much government funding.

Originally was a lot of it, but through the years it went down to 20%, 18%. But they kind of

slit their own throats there. The idea of public television, they used to call it educational television, the idea of NPR.

It's bringing you stuff you couldn't get on network TV.

You know, originally public television, that's where you saw, you know, a special documentary on Peru,

and you saw all this educational stuff and you saw, remember the vision

series, they'd take you on these travel things and stuff you couldn't see on regular

television. And then Sesame Street came along and that was, that was really the original idea

of all this, the great educational programming that the networks would never do. Well, it's

years later and two things happen. One, you've got online, streaming, internet, everything,

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