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Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 43 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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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey, Radiotopia friends. I wanted to make sure that you knew that home cooking is back with a new season. |
| 0:15.1 | If you haven't heard home cooking yet, the show launched back in March 2020 right at the start of lockdown at a time when we all |
| 0:22.0 | needed advice on cooking smarter at home. |
| 0:24.5 | Host Samin Nasrat, chef and author of the best-selling cookbook, salt, fat, acid heat, and |
| 0:30.5 | the host of the Netflix series of the same name, and Rishikeshirwe, host creator of the |
| 0:35.4 | Song Exploder podcast and Netflix series, continued to give the best food advice. |
| 0:40.7 | What's the proper way to store herbs? |
| 0:42.6 | How can you recreate your long-lost family recipes? |
| 0:45.6 | And what are the best food gifts for the holidays? |
| 0:48.4 | Samin and Rishi are here to help with lots of laughs along the way. |
| 0:52.3 | Home cooking is back on August 29th with new episodes |
| 0:55.5 | every other week. Make sure subscribe to get new episodes and visit homecooking. Welcome to September. I'm here for it. Public media has had a rough |
| 1:16.7 | summer. On July 18th, what we, my colleagues here at PRX and around public media, feared what happened, |
| 1:25.1 | happened. Congress passed the Rescisions Act of 2025, which eliminated |
| 1:30.9 | $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, that on August 1st, |
| 1:38.5 | CPB announced they would be winding down operations. When folks talk about these cuts, they are usually talking about the vital public services |
| 1:48.0 | public media provides, such as emergency alerts. |
| 1:52.0 | But I think we'd be remiss if we didn't also talk about how NPR is an audio storytelling powerhouse. |
| 2:00.0 | Throughout the month, we've partnered with our friends at NPR |
| 2:03.2 | to present four pieces that represent the breadth and depth of their incredible reporting. |
| 2:09.1 | We hope you enjoy. |
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