1 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:13,813 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:20,887 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:20,887 --> 00:00:27,894 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:30,397 --> 00:00:32,832 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 5 00:00:32,899 --> 00:00:33,833 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 6 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:34,834 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 7 00:00:34,901 --> 00:00:35,835 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 8 00:00:35,902 --> 00:00:36,836 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 9 00:00:36,903 --> 00:00:41,841 US. 10 00:00:41,908 --> 00:00:42,842 IT HAS BEEN A VERY BUSY WEEK. 11 00:00:42,909 --> 00:00:43,376 COP30, THE U.N.'S CLIMATE 12 00:00:43,443 --> 00:00:44,344 CONFERENCE, BEGAN WITHOUT AN 13 00:00:44,411 --> 00:00:45,345 OFFICIAL DELEGATION FROM THE 14 00:00:45,412 --> 00:00:46,346 U.S., THE LAST-EVER PENNY WAS 15 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:47,847 MINTED IN PHILADELPHIA, AND IN 16 00:00:47,914 --> 00:00:49,849 RUSSIA A NEW AI ROBOT WAS 17 00:00:49,916 --> 00:00:51,351 UNVEILED, AND IT DIDN'T GO 18 00:00:51,418 --> 00:00:56,856 GREAT. 19 00:00:56,923 --> 00:01:02,362 ♪ ♪ 20 00:01:02,429 --> 00:01:06,866 ♪ ♪ 21 00:01:06,933 --> 00:01:13,940 ["GONNA FLY NOW" PLAYING] 22 00:01:15,442 --> 00:01:22,449 ♪ ♪ 23 00:01:22,449 --> 00:01:23,383 >> John: IT'S INCREDIBLE. 24 00:01:23,450 --> 00:01:23,950 EVERY SINGLE PART OF THAT IS 25 00:01:24,017 --> 00:01:24,884 PERFECT. 26 00:01:24,951 --> 00:01:25,885 FROM THE ROBOT'S GAIT -- WHICH 27 00:01:25,952 --> 00:01:26,886 GIVES "DRUNK GRANDPA GOING TO 28 00:01:26,953 --> 00:01:27,887 PISS AFTER ACCIDENTALLY FALLING 29 00:01:27,954 --> 00:01:28,888 ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR" -- TO IT 30 00:01:28,955 --> 00:01:29,889 BEING DRAGGED OFFSTAGE LIKE A 31 00:01:29,956 --> 00:01:31,390 BACHELORETTE BEING REMOVED FROM 32 00:01:31,458 --> 00:01:32,392 A NIGHTCLUB, TO, I'M SORRY, THAT 33 00:01:32,459 --> 00:01:37,396 CURTAIN. 34 00:01:37,464 --> 00:01:38,031 AND I DON'T WANT TO JUDGE HERE, 35 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:38,898 BUT IT FEELS LIKE, BARE MINIMUM, 36 00:01:38,965 --> 00:01:39,899 YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO WORK 37 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:40,900 ANYWHERE NEAR ENGINEERING IF YOU 38 00:01:40,967 --> 00:01:41,901 CAN'T SUCCESSFULLY UNFURL A 39 00:01:41,968 --> 00:01:44,404 CURTAIN ON THE FIRST TRY. 40 00:01:44,471 --> 00:01:44,904 [LAUGHTER] 41 00:01:44,971 --> 00:01:46,406 MEANWHILE, IN WASHINGTON, THE 42 00:01:46,473 --> 00:01:47,407 GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ENDED AFTER 43 00:01:47,473 --> 00:01:48,408 EIGHT SENATE DEMOCRATS CAVED -- 44 00:01:48,475 --> 00:01:49,908 SO WEDNESDAY REALLY SHOULD'VE 45 00:01:49,976 --> 00:01:51,411 BEEN A GOOD DAY FOR THE 46 00:01:51,478 --> 00:01:53,913 PRESIDENT, UNTIL THIS HAPPENED: 47 00:01:53,979 --> 00:01:55,414 >> PRESIDENT TRUMP REFUSING TO 48 00:01:55,482 --> 00:01:57,417 ANSWER WHY HE WON'T LET THE FBI 49 00:01:57,484 --> 00:02:00,920 RELEASE THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN 50 00:02:00,987 --> 00:02:01,921 FILES, EVEN AS JUST-REVEALED 51 00:02:01,988 --> 00:02:02,922 MESSAGES WRITTEN BY THE SEX 52 00:02:02,989 --> 00:02:04,424 OFFENDER RAISE NEW QUESTIONS 53 00:02:04,491 --> 00:02:05,425 ABOUT THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND 54 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:06,426 WHETHER TRUMP WAS AWARE OF 55 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:08,428 EPSTEIN'S CRIMES. 56 00:02:08,495 --> 00:02:10,430 TRUMP'S NAME COMING UP AGAIN AND 57 00:02:10,497 --> 00:02:11,431 AGAIN IN A 2017 EMAIL TO FORMER 58 00:02:11,498 --> 00:02:13,933 TREASURY SECRETARY 59 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,435 LARRY SUMMERS, EPSTEIN WRITING, 60 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:15,969 "I HAVE MET SOME VERY BAD 61 00:02:16,035 --> 00:02:17,437 PEOPLE. 62 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:19,439 NONE AS BAD AS TRUMP. 63 00:02:19,506 --> 00:02:21,441 NOT ONE DECENT CELL IN HIS BODY. 64 00:02:21,508 --> 00:02:24,444 SO YES, DANGEROUS." 65 00:02:24,511 --> 00:02:25,445 >> John: WOW. 66 00:02:25,512 --> 00:02:27,447 THAT DOESN'T LOOK GREAT. 67 00:02:27,514 --> 00:02:29,449 WHEN EVEN THE GUY RUNNING THE 68 00:02:29,516 --> 00:02:33,453 PERVERT EXPRESS TO CRIME ISLAND 69 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,458 THINKS THAT YOU'RE A DICK, 70 00:02:38,525 --> 00:02:39,459 THAT HAS GOT TO STING. 71 00:02:39,526 --> 00:02:40,460 I KNOW TRUMP SEEMS TO BE IMMUNE 72 00:02:40,527 --> 00:02:41,461 TO SHAME, BUT C'MON -- AT SOME 73 00:02:41,528 --> 00:02:42,028 POINT HE'S GOING TO LOOK AT 74 00:02:42,095 --> 00:02:43,463 HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR AND, EVEN 75 00:02:43,530 --> 00:02:44,464 IF BRIEFLY, THINK: " NONE AS BAD 76 00:02:44,531 --> 00:02:46,966 AS ME? 77 00:02:47,033 --> 00:02:47,966 CAPTAIN FREAK OF THE FLOATING 78 00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:49,469 SEX DUNGEON THINKS I'M THE 79 00:02:49,536 --> 00:02:55,475 WORST? 80 00:02:55,542 --> 00:02:56,476 FUCK. 81 00:02:56,543 --> 00:02:56,976 THAT'S ROUGH." 82 00:02:57,043 --> 00:02:57,977 [LAUGHTER] 83 00:02:58,043 --> 00:02:58,978 THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN IN 84 00:02:59,045 --> 00:02:59,978 DAMAGE CONTROL MODE EVER SINCE, 85 00:03:00,046 --> 00:03:00,580 EVEN INSISTING THAT THE EMAILS 86 00:03:00,647 --> 00:03:02,482 PROVE TRUMP DID NOTHING WRONG, 87 00:03:02,549 --> 00:03:03,483 WHICH THEY VERY MUCH DO NOT. 88 00:03:03,550 --> 00:03:04,984 BUT PERHAPS THE BOLDEST ATTEMPT 89 00:03:05,051 --> 00:03:05,985 TO SPIN THESE REVELATIONS CAME 90 00:03:06,052 --> 00:03:07,487 FROM MEGYN KELLY, WHO FOR SOME 91 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:08,488 REASON FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO 92 00:03:08,555 --> 00:03:10,490 MAKE ONE THING CLEAR: 93 00:03:10,557 --> 00:03:11,991 >> I DO KNOW SOMEBODY VERY, VERY 94 00:03:12,058 --> 00:03:13,493 CLOSE TO THIS CASE WHO WAS IN A 95 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,027 POSITION TO KNOW VIRTUALLY 96 00:03:14,093 --> 00:03:14,994 EVERYTHING. 97 00:03:15,061 --> 00:03:16,496 JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THIS 98 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:17,997 PERSON'S VIEW, WAS NOT A 99 00:03:18,064 --> 00:03:19,499 PEDOPHILE. 100 00:03:19,566 --> 00:03:21,000 THIS WAS THIS PERSON'S VIEW, WHO 101 00:03:21,067 --> 00:03:22,001 WAS THERE FOR A LOT OF THIS, BUT 102 00:03:22,068 --> 00:03:23,503 THAT HE WAS INTO THE "BARELY 103 00:03:23,570 --> 00:03:25,004 LEGAL" TYPE, LIKE HE LIKED 104 00:03:25,071 --> 00:03:27,507 15-YEAR-OLD GIRLS. 105 00:03:27,574 --> 00:03:28,508 AND I REALIZE THIS IS 106 00:03:28,575 --> 00:03:29,509 DISGUSTING, I'M DEFINITELY NOT 107 00:03:29,576 --> 00:03:30,076 TRYING TO MAKE AN EXCUSE FOR 108 00:03:30,143 --> 00:03:31,010 THIS. 109 00:03:31,077 --> 00:03:32,512 HE WASN'T INTO, LIKE, 110 00:03:32,579 --> 00:03:36,015 8-YEAR-OLDS, BUT HE LIKED THE 111 00:03:36,082 --> 00:03:37,517 VERY YOUNG TEEN TYPES THAT COULD 112 00:03:37,584 --> 00:03:39,018 PASS FOR EVEN YOUNGER THAN THEY 113 00:03:39,085 --> 00:03:40,520 WERE, BUT WOULD LOOK LEGAL TO A 114 00:03:40,587 --> 00:03:44,023 PASSERBY. 115 00:03:44,090 --> 00:03:45,024 LOOK, IT'S -- YOU CAN SAY THAT'S 116 00:03:45,091 --> 00:03:46,025 A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A 117 00:03:46,091 --> 00:03:47,527 DIFFERENCE. 118 00:03:47,594 --> 00:03:48,528 >> NO, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT. 119 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:49,028 >> I THINK THERE IS A 120 00:03:49,095 --> 00:03:50,530 DIFFERENCE. 121 00:03:50,597 --> 00:03:51,531 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 122 00:03:51,598 --> 00:03:52,531 15-YEAR-OLD AND A 5-YEAR-OLD. 123 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:54,534 YOU KNOW, JUST -- WHATEVER. 124 00:03:54,601 --> 00:03:56,035 >> John: YEAH, THAT CLIP STARTS 125 00:03:56,102 --> 00:03:59,038 WITH, "I KNOW SOMEONE WHO'S 126 00:03:59,105 --> 00:04:00,039 SUPER IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THE 127 00:04:00,106 --> 00:04:00,673 EPSTEIN SHIT," AND SOMEHOW GETS 128 00:04:00,740 --> 00:04:03,042 SKETCHIER FROM THERE. 129 00:04:03,109 --> 00:04:04,043 [LAUGHTER] 130 00:04:04,110 --> 00:04:05,044 BECAUSE, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING 131 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:06,045 YOU THERE -- AND I'M DEFINITELY 132 00:04:06,112 --> 00:04:07,046 NOT -- EPSTEIN WASN'T INTO 133 00:04:07,113 --> 00:04:08,548 8-YEAR-OLDS. 134 00:04:08,615 --> 00:04:09,549 HE WAS JUST INTO VERY YOUNG 135 00:04:09,616 --> 00:04:11,050 TEENS WHO COULD PASS FOR EVEN 136 00:04:11,117 --> 00:04:12,552 YOUNGER, WHILE ALSO, TO 137 00:04:12,619 --> 00:04:14,053 PASSERSBY, STILL SOMEHOW 138 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,555 MANAGING TO LOOK LEGAL. 139 00:04:15,622 --> 00:04:17,055 AND YOU FELT THIS WAS AN 140 00:04:17,123 --> 00:04:18,558 IMPORTANT NUMERICAL DISTINCTION 141 00:04:18,625 --> 00:04:19,559 TO BRING UP TO YOUR 142 00:04:19,625 --> 00:04:23,062 "YES, AND"-ING FRIEND. 143 00:04:23,129 --> 00:04:23,563 [LAUGHTER] 144 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:24,564 LOOK, I'M CLEARLY NO STRANGER TO 145 00:04:24,631 --> 00:04:26,065 SHARING UPSETTING NUMBERS WITH 146 00:04:26,132 --> 00:04:27,066 MY AUDIENCE, BUT PLEASE DO KILL 147 00:04:27,133 --> 00:04:28,067 ME IF I EVER START DOING 148 00:04:28,134 --> 00:04:31,070 PEDOPHILE MATH. 149 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:33,072 [LAUGHTER] 150 00:04:33,139 --> 00:04:34,574 NOW, THE HOUSE IS APPARENTLY SET 151 00:04:34,641 --> 00:04:37,577 TO VOTE THIS COMING WEEK ON 152 00:04:37,644 --> 00:04:38,578 WHETHER THE DOJ MUST RELEASE ALL 153 00:04:38,645 --> 00:04:41,080 ITS EPSTEIN FILES, SO THERE'LL 154 00:04:41,147 --> 00:04:41,648 CLEARLY BE MORE TO SAY ABOUT 155 00:04:41,714 --> 00:04:42,582 THIS GOING FORWARD. 156 00:04:42,649 --> 00:04:43,582 BUT FOR NOW, WE'RE GOING TO DIVE 157 00:04:43,650 --> 00:04:44,584 STRAIGHT IN WITH OUR MAIN STORY 158 00:04:44,651 --> 00:04:45,218 THIS WEEK, WHICH CONCERNS PUBLIC 159 00:04:45,284 --> 00:04:46,586 MEDIA. 160 00:04:46,653 --> 00:04:48,087 IT'S BROUGHT US "SESAME STREET," 161 00:04:48,154 --> 00:04:49,589 NPR'S TINY DESK CONCERTS, AND 162 00:04:49,656 --> 00:04:51,090 "THE JOY OF PAINTING WITH 163 00:04:51,157 --> 00:04:52,592 BOB ROSS," WHICH ONCE FEATURED 164 00:04:52,659 --> 00:04:56,596 THIS EXCEPTIONAL REVEAL: 165 00:04:56,663 --> 00:04:57,597 >> OKAY, WE JUST PUT A LITTLE 166 00:04:57,664 --> 00:04:59,098 BIT OF COLOR ON THE FAN BRUSH, 167 00:04:59,165 --> 00:05:00,600 AND IN OUR WORLD, MAYBE THERE 168 00:05:00,667 --> 00:05:02,101 LIVES -- WELL, THERE DOES NOW -- 169 00:05:02,168 --> 00:05:03,603 JUST SOME HAPPY LITTLE TREES 170 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:06,606 BACK IN HERE. 171 00:05:06,673 --> 00:05:08,608 THESE LITTLE TREES WOULD BE A 172 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:09,142 SUPER PLACE FOR MY LITTLE 173 00:05:09,208 --> 00:05:12,111 SQUIRREL. 174 00:05:12,178 --> 00:05:13,112 IF YOU'VE PAINTED WITH ME 175 00:05:13,179 --> 00:05:14,113 BEFORE, YOU KNOW I HAVE ALL 176 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:15,114 KINDS OF LITTLE CREATURE PETS. 177 00:05:15,181 --> 00:05:16,115 I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU TODAY 178 00:05:16,182 --> 00:05:17,116 MY LATEST LITTLE SQUIRREL THAT'S 179 00:05:17,183 --> 00:05:17,617 LIVING WITH ME. 180 00:05:17,684 --> 00:05:19,118 HE IS THE MOST PRECIOUS LITTLE 181 00:05:19,185 --> 00:05:20,620 THING. 182 00:05:20,687 --> 00:05:21,621 YOU HAVE TO FORCE HIM TO EAT, 183 00:05:21,688 --> 00:05:23,122 SEE? 184 00:05:23,189 --> 00:05:24,123 WE CALL HIM PEAPOD THE POCKET 185 00:05:24,190 --> 00:05:25,625 SQUIRREL. 186 00:05:25,692 --> 00:05:26,626 >> John: OH. 187 00:05:26,693 --> 00:05:27,627 MY. 188 00:05:27,694 --> 00:05:29,128 GOD. 189 00:05:29,195 --> 00:05:31,130 "PEAPOD THE POCKET SQUIRREL" 190 00:05:31,197 --> 00:05:32,131 MIGHT BE THE BEST SEQUENCE OF 191 00:05:32,198 --> 00:05:33,633 WORDS IN THE HISTORY OF THE 192 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:35,134 ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 193 00:05:35,201 --> 00:05:36,636 AND ADMIT IT -- FOR A MOMENT, 194 00:05:36,703 --> 00:05:37,637 YOU THOUGHT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT 195 00:05:37,704 --> 00:05:39,639 AN IMAGINARY SQUIRREL THERE. 196 00:05:39,706 --> 00:05:40,640 YOU HEARD HIM SAY, "THESE LITTLE 197 00:05:40,707 --> 00:05:42,642 TREES WOULD BE A SUPER PLACE FOR 198 00:05:42,709 --> 00:05:44,143 MY LITTLE SQUIRREL," AND ASSUMED 199 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:45,144 HE WAS REFERRING TO AN ANIMAL HE 200 00:05:45,211 --> 00:05:46,646 WAS ABOUT TO PAINT, NOT A LIVING 201 00:05:46,713 --> 00:05:49,649 RODENT ON HIS PERSON. 202 00:05:49,716 --> 00:05:50,650 EVEN WHEN HE MOVED THE DROPPER 203 00:05:50,717 --> 00:05:51,651 TOWARDS HIS POCKET, A PHYSICAL 204 00:05:51,718 --> 00:05:52,652 SQUIRREL WASN'T ON YOUR MENTAL 205 00:05:52,719 --> 00:05:54,153 HORIZON. 206 00:05:54,220 --> 00:05:55,655 YOU JUST FIGURED IT WAS A WEIRD 207 00:05:55,722 --> 00:05:57,156 PAINT TOOL, AND THAT NO WAY WAS 208 00:05:57,223 --> 00:05:59,659 A REAL-LIFE FUCKING SQUIRREL 209 00:05:59,726 --> 00:06:00,660 CHILLING IN THIS GUY'S CLOTHES. 210 00:06:00,727 --> 00:06:01,661 THERE'S JUST NO FUCKING WAY. 211 00:06:01,728 --> 00:06:03,663 WHAT IF IT SHITS? 212 00:06:03,730 --> 00:06:04,664 BUT HAVE YOU EVER BEEN HAPPIER 213 00:06:04,731 --> 00:06:07,166 TO BE WRONG? 214 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:10,169 ALSO, FUN FACT -- PEAPOD WASN'T 215 00:06:10,236 --> 00:06:11,170 BOB ROSS' ONLY SQUIRREL. 216 00:06:11,237 --> 00:06:12,171 HE APPARENTLY BUILT AN ENORMOUS 217 00:06:12,238 --> 00:06:13,172 CAGE OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME, IN 218 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:14,173 WHICH HE NURSED ORPHANED 219 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,175 SQUIRRELS BACK TO HEALTH, WHICH 220 00:06:16,242 --> 00:06:17,677 IS PRESUMABLY WHY THIS ABSOLUTE 221 00:06:17,744 --> 00:06:21,180 BANGER OF A PHOTO EXISTS. 222 00:06:21,247 --> 00:06:23,182 AND SORRY TO EVERY LIVING 223 00:06:23,249 --> 00:06:26,185 SUPERMODEL, BUT THAT IS A POUT. 224 00:06:26,252 --> 00:06:26,686 [LAUGHTER] 225 00:06:26,753 --> 00:06:28,187 ANYWAY, IN AMERICA, ALMOST ALL 226 00:06:28,254 --> 00:06:29,689 PUBLIC MEDIA FALLS UNDER THE 227 00:06:29,756 --> 00:06:30,690 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC 228 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:32,191 BROADCASTING, WHICH UNTIL 229 00:06:32,258 --> 00:06:34,193 RECENTLY DISTRIBUTED FUNDING TO 230 00:06:34,260 --> 00:06:35,695 OVER 500 RADIO AND TV GRANTEES, 231 00:06:35,762 --> 00:06:37,196 REPRESENTING MORE THAN 1,500 232 00:06:37,263 --> 00:06:38,197 LOCALLY MANAGED AND OPERATED 233 00:06:38,264 --> 00:06:40,199 STATIONS NATIONWIDE. 234 00:06:40,266 --> 00:06:41,701 TOGETHER, THE SYSTEM REACHES 235 00:06:41,768 --> 00:06:43,703 NEARLY 99% OF THE U.S. 236 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:44,704 POPULATION WITH FREE PROGRAMMING 237 00:06:44,771 --> 00:06:46,205 AND SERVICES. 238 00:06:46,272 --> 00:06:47,707 AND PUBLIC MEDIA'S BEEN TRULY 239 00:06:47,774 --> 00:06:48,707 INNOVATIVE IN REACHING 240 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:50,209 UNDER-SERVED AUDIENCES. 241 00:06:50,276 --> 00:06:52,211 IT WAS A PUBLIC TV STATION THAT 242 00:06:52,278 --> 00:06:54,213 FIRST INVENTED CLOSED CAPTIONING 243 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,715 IN THE 1970s, AND STATIONS 244 00:06:55,782 --> 00:06:57,216 AROUND THE COUNTRY OFFER 245 00:06:57,283 --> 00:06:58,718 PROGRAMMING IN HAITIAN CREOLE, 246 00:06:58,784 --> 00:06:59,719 NAVAJO, VIETNAMESE, AND MANY 247 00:06:59,786 --> 00:07:01,220 OTHER LANGUAGES. 248 00:07:01,287 --> 00:07:02,722 BUT, AS YOU UNDOUBTEDLY KNOW, 249 00:07:02,789 --> 00:07:05,224 IT'S NOW FACING A SERIOUS 250 00:07:05,291 --> 00:07:06,225 THREAT, AS OVER THE SUMMER 251 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:08,227 CONGRESS DECIDED TO ELIMINATE 252 00:07:08,294 --> 00:07:09,729 $1.1 BILLION THAT HAD BEEN 253 00:07:09,796 --> 00:07:10,730 ALLOCATED TO FUND PUBLIC 254 00:07:10,797 --> 00:07:11,330 BROADCASTING FOR THE NEXT TWO 255 00:07:11,397 --> 00:07:14,734 YEARS. 256 00:07:14,801 --> 00:07:15,301 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT TRUMP 257 00:07:15,368 --> 00:07:16,736 CELEBRATED LIKE THIS: 258 00:07:16,803 --> 00:07:18,237 >> PUBLIC BROADCASTING, THEY'VE 259 00:07:18,304 --> 00:07:19,739 BEEN LOOKING TO GET IT OUT OF 260 00:07:19,806 --> 00:07:20,740 THERE FOR BILLIONS AND BILLIONS 261 00:07:20,807 --> 00:07:21,741 OF DOLLARS, AND VERY, VERY 262 00:07:21,808 --> 00:07:23,242 UNFAIR. 263 00:07:23,309 --> 00:07:24,744 VERY, VERY UNFAIR REPORTING. 264 00:07:24,811 --> 00:07:26,245 THEY WOULD -- I WOULD SAY THEY'D 265 00:07:26,312 --> 00:07:29,248 MAKE CNN LOOK HONEST. 266 00:07:29,315 --> 00:07:30,750 AND WE GOT RID OF IT, FINALLY. 267 00:07:30,817 --> 00:07:32,752 WE GOT RID OF IT. 268 00:07:32,819 --> 00:07:34,253 WE GOT RID OF BILLIONS OF 269 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,255 DOLLARS THAT WAS WASTED ON THAT. 270 00:07:36,322 --> 00:07:37,256 >> John: YOU KNOW WHAT? 271 00:07:37,323 --> 00:07:38,758 I CAN'T EXPLAIN THIS IN A 272 00:07:38,825 --> 00:07:40,259 PRECISE WAY, BUT DONALD TRUMP, 273 00:07:40,326 --> 00:07:41,761 PROUDLY SLURRING HIS WAY THROUGH 274 00:07:41,828 --> 00:07:45,264 ANOTHER ON-PURPOSE DISASTER 275 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:46,365 MIGHT BE THE SCIENTIFIC OPPOSITE 276 00:07:46,432 --> 00:07:48,267 OF BOB ROSS AND PEAPOD. 277 00:07:48,334 --> 00:07:49,268 IN FACT, IF YOU PLAY THOSE TWO 278 00:07:49,335 --> 00:07:50,269 CLIPS AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK 279 00:07:50,336 --> 00:07:52,772 THE WORLD MIGHT EXPLODE. 280 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:55,274 [LAUGHTER] 281 00:07:55,341 --> 00:07:55,808 BUT IT'S TRUE -- IN JULY, 282 00:07:55,875 --> 00:07:56,776 CONGRESS APPROVED TRUMP'S PLAN 283 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:57,777 TO ELIMINATE THE CPB'S FUNDING 284 00:07:57,844 --> 00:07:58,778 ENTIRELY. 285 00:07:58,845 --> 00:08:00,279 IT'S ONE OF MANY EGREGIOUS 286 00:08:00,346 --> 00:08:01,280 ACTIONS THIS ADMINISTRATION'S 287 00:08:01,347 --> 00:08:02,782 TAKEN, WHICH IS WHY THE NUMBER 288 00:08:02,849 --> 00:08:04,283 ONE SEARCH ON GOOGLE THIS YEAR 289 00:08:04,350 --> 00:08:05,284 IS PROBABLY GOING TO END UP 290 00:08:05,351 --> 00:08:06,786 BEING, "WAIT, CAN THE GOVERNMENT 291 00:08:06,853 --> 00:08:08,287 DO THAT?" 292 00:08:08,354 --> 00:08:09,789 AND ALL OF THIS HAS 293 00:08:09,856 --> 00:08:10,790 UNDERSTANDABLY UPSET A LOT OF 294 00:08:10,857 --> 00:08:12,792 PEOPLE -- EVEN SOME THAT YOU MAY 295 00:08:12,859 --> 00:08:14,293 NOT HAVE THOUGHT WOULD BE FANS 296 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,797 OF PUBLIC MEDIA, LIKE THIS GUY: 297 00:08:17,864 --> 00:08:18,798 >> PUBLIC RADIO, IT'S A NATIONAL 298 00:08:18,865 --> 00:08:20,800 TREASURE. 299 00:08:20,867 --> 00:08:22,301 I MEAN, WHERE ELSE WOULD YOU GO? 300 00:08:22,368 --> 00:08:25,805 AS A YOUNG MAN, I WATCHED 301 00:08:25,872 --> 00:08:27,807 GINGER BAKER HAVE A DRUM-OFF 302 00:08:27,874 --> 00:08:32,812 AGAINST THE DRUMMER FROM RAT. 303 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:34,313 AND, YOU KNOW, ON "ROCKSCHOOL" 304 00:08:34,380 --> 00:08:35,815 ON PBS. 305 00:08:35,881 --> 00:08:36,816 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND THAT ON 306 00:08:36,883 --> 00:08:38,818 NETWORK TELEVISION. 307 00:08:38,885 --> 00:08:39,818 AND NOT TO MENTION 308 00:08:39,885 --> 00:08:40,820 "SESAME STREET." 309 00:08:40,886 --> 00:08:42,321 I MEAN, LOOK, THIS IS -- 310 00:08:42,388 --> 00:08:43,823 THIS IS -- "MISTER ROGERS." 311 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:44,824 IT'S QUALITY PROGRAMMING, AND IT 312 00:08:44,891 --> 00:08:46,325 ALWAYS HAS BEEN. 313 00:08:46,392 --> 00:08:48,327 AND IT'S A DAMN SHAME TO JUST 314 00:08:48,394 --> 00:08:49,328 THROW IT IN THE TOILET LIKE 315 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:53,833 THAT. 316 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:54,834 >> John: OKAY, THERE'S A LOT TO 317 00:08:54,901 --> 00:08:55,835 SAY THERE, BUT MOSTLY: "THE TOP 318 00:08:55,902 --> 00:08:58,838 HALF OF HIM IS NOT THE PROBLEM." 319 00:08:58,905 --> 00:08:59,839 [LAUGHTER] 320 00:08:59,906 --> 00:09:00,840 BUT I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING. 321 00:09:00,907 --> 00:09:02,341 YOU'RE THINKING, "I HAD NO IDEA 322 00:09:02,408 --> 00:09:03,843 THAT THE BERSERKER BLÖTHAR, LEAD 323 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:04,844 VOCALIST OF HEAVY METAL BAND 324 00:09:04,911 --> 00:09:05,845 GWAR, WAS SUCH A FAN OF PUBLIC 325 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:07,346 MEDIA!" 326 00:09:07,413 --> 00:09:08,347 BUT, APPARENTLY, HE IS. 327 00:09:08,414 --> 00:09:10,349 AND IT'S BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND 328 00:09:10,416 --> 00:09:12,852 CONFUSING TO WATCH HIM UTTER THE 329 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:14,353 WORDS "MISTER ROGERS," AS IT'S 330 00:09:14,420 --> 00:09:15,354 HARD TO IMAGINE THEM IN THE SAME 331 00:09:15,421 --> 00:09:19,358 UNIVERSE. 332 00:09:19,425 --> 00:09:20,359 ALTHOUGH, I'LL SAY, I'D LOVE TO 333 00:09:20,426 --> 00:09:21,360 HAVE SEEN GWAR ON "MISTER 334 00:09:21,427 --> 00:09:22,361 ROGERS." 335 00:09:22,428 --> 00:09:23,362 "BLÖTHAR, YOU'RE SPECIAL JUST 336 00:09:23,429 --> 00:09:24,363 THE WAY YOU ARE. 337 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:25,865 YOUR DISEASED UNDERCARRIAGE 338 00:09:25,932 --> 00:09:27,366 COMPOSED OF ABSCESS-RIDDLED 339 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:28,367 PENISES MAKES YOU YOU." 340 00:09:28,434 --> 00:09:29,869 [LAUGHTER] 341 00:09:29,936 --> 00:09:31,370 BUT HE'S RIGHT. 342 00:09:31,437 --> 00:09:35,374 THIS BUDGET CUT IS DEVASTATING. 343 00:09:35,441 --> 00:09:36,375 ACTUALLY, MAYBE TAKE THAT DOWN. 344 00:09:36,442 --> 00:09:38,377 [LAUGHTER] 345 00:09:38,444 --> 00:09:39,378 THIS CUT WILL BE FELT ALL OVER, 346 00:09:39,445 --> 00:09:40,379 BUT ESPECIALLY IN RURAL, REMOTE, 347 00:09:40,446 --> 00:09:42,381 AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES. 348 00:09:42,448 --> 00:09:43,382 ONE ANALYSIS ESTIMATES THAT AS 349 00:09:43,449 --> 00:09:44,884 MANY AS 115 STATIONS, 350 00:09:44,951 --> 00:09:46,886 COLLECTIVELY SERVING 43 MILLION 351 00:09:46,953 --> 00:09:48,387 AMERICANS, ARE LIKELY TO CLOSE 352 00:09:48,454 --> 00:09:50,389 BY MID NEXT YEAR. 353 00:09:50,456 --> 00:09:51,891 AND AS A DJ AT THIS COLORADO 354 00:09:51,958 --> 00:09:53,392 STATION EXPLAINS, THESE STATIONS 355 00:09:53,459 --> 00:09:56,963 CAN FILL A VITAL COMMUNITY ROLE. 356 00:09:57,029 --> 00:09:57,964 >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO 357 00:09:58,030 --> 00:09:59,966 IS PROVIDE PUBLIC SERVICE 358 00:10:00,032 --> 00:10:01,901 ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT INFORM PEOPLE 359 00:10:01,968 --> 00:10:03,402 OF MEETINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT 360 00:10:03,469 --> 00:10:04,904 TO THE COMMUNITY, THAT THEY 361 00:10:04,971 --> 00:10:05,905 DON'T ALWAYS GET IN A TIMELY 362 00:10:05,972 --> 00:10:08,908 FASHION OTHERWISE. 363 00:10:08,975 --> 00:10:09,909 SOME EXAMPLES THAT I JUST READ 364 00:10:09,976 --> 00:10:12,411 ON THIS MORNING'S SHOW INCLUDED 365 00:10:12,478 --> 00:10:13,913 AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A 366 00:10:13,980 --> 00:10:15,414 DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES 367 00:10:15,481 --> 00:10:18,417 THAT IS OCCURRING TODAY. 368 00:10:18,484 --> 00:10:19,919 HERE'S AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT A 369 00:10:19,986 --> 00:10:21,420 FREE SLOPPY JOE LUNCHEON FOR 370 00:10:21,487 --> 00:10:24,423 VETERANS AND HOMELESS. 371 00:10:24,490 --> 00:10:25,925 >> John: EXACTLY. 372 00:10:25,992 --> 00:10:27,426 THAT MAN, WHO LOOKS LIKE 373 00:10:27,493 --> 00:10:28,427 SANTA CLAUS IF HE GOT JUST THE 374 00:10:28,494 --> 00:10:29,428 RIGHT AMOUNT INTO THE 375 00:10:29,495 --> 00:10:30,429 GRATEFUL DEAD, IS COMPLETELY 376 00:10:30,496 --> 00:10:32,932 RIGHT. 377 00:10:32,999 --> 00:10:36,936 [LAUGHTER] 378 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:37,937 HE SHOULD ALSO, BY THE WAY, BE 379 00:10:38,004 --> 00:10:38,938 PUBLIC RADIO'S NEW MASCOT, GIVEN 380 00:10:39,005 --> 00:10:39,572 HE HAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL PUBLIC 381 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:40,439 RADIO VOICE, BEARD, AND GENERAL 382 00:10:40,506 --> 00:10:41,440 VIBE. 383 00:10:41,507 --> 00:10:41,941 [LAUGHTER] 384 00:10:42,008 --> 00:10:42,975 HONESTLY, IF THE NEXT NPR TOTE 385 00:10:43,042 --> 00:10:43,943 FOR SALE DOESN'T HAVE THAT MAN'S 386 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:45,444 FACE ON IT, THEY'RE LEAVING 387 00:10:45,511 --> 00:10:46,445 MONEY ON THE TABLE. 388 00:10:46,512 --> 00:10:47,947 [LAUGHTER] 389 00:10:48,014 --> 00:10:49,448 THE POINT IS, PUBLIC MEDIA 390 00:10:49,515 --> 00:10:51,951 PROVIDES INCREDIBLE BENEFITS TO 391 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:52,952 THE COMMUNITIES THAT IT SERVES, 392 00:10:53,019 --> 00:10:53,953 AND IT'S JUST SUFFERED A 393 00:10:54,020 --> 00:10:55,454 GIGANTIC BLOW. 394 00:10:55,521 --> 00:10:56,956 SO, GIVEN THAT -- TONIGHT, LET'S 395 00:10:57,023 --> 00:10:57,957 TALK ABOUT PUBLIC MEDIA: HOW IT 396 00:10:58,024 --> 00:10:59,458 WORKS, WHAT IT DOES, AND HOW WE 397 00:10:59,525 --> 00:11:00,960 GO FORWARD. 398 00:11:01,027 --> 00:11:01,961 AND LET'S START WITH THE FACT 399 00:11:02,028 --> 00:11:03,963 THAT THE SYSTEM AS WE CURRENTLY 400 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:04,964 KNOW IT STARTED WHEN LBJ SIGNED 401 00:11:05,031 --> 00:11:07,466 THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT OF 402 00:11:07,533 --> 00:11:08,467 1967 INTO LAW, ANNOUNCING IT 403 00:11:08,534 --> 00:11:10,469 LIKE THIS: 404 00:11:10,536 --> 00:11:12,471 >> THIS CORPORATION WILL ASSIST 405 00:11:12,538 --> 00:11:13,973 STATIONS AND PRODUCERS WHO AIM 406 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,476 FOR THE BEST IN BROADCASTING 407 00:11:17,543 --> 00:11:19,478 GOOD MUSIC, IN BROADCASTING 408 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:21,981 EXCITING PLAYS, AND BROADCASTING 409 00:11:22,048 --> 00:11:23,482 REPORTS ON THE WHOLE FASCINATING 410 00:11:23,549 --> 00:11:27,486 RANGE OF HUMAN ACTIVITY. 411 00:11:27,553 --> 00:11:29,488 IT WILL TRY TO PROVE THAT WHAT 412 00:11:29,555 --> 00:11:33,993 EDUCATES CAN ALSO BE EXCITING. 413 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:36,996 IT WILL GET PART OF ITS SUPPORT 414 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:38,497 FROM OUR GOVERNMENT, BUT IT WILL 415 00:11:38,564 --> 00:11:40,499 BE CAREFULLY GUARDED FROM 416 00:11:40,566 --> 00:11:42,001 GOVERNMENT OR FROM PARTY 417 00:11:42,068 --> 00:11:44,503 CONTROL. 418 00:11:44,570 --> 00:11:46,005 IT WILL BE FREE, AND IT WILL BE 419 00:11:46,072 --> 00:11:47,506 INDEPENDENT, AND IT WILL BELONG 420 00:11:47,573 --> 00:11:50,009 TO ALL OF OUR PEOPLE. 421 00:11:50,076 --> 00:11:51,010 >> John: YEAH, THAT WAS A BOLD 422 00:11:51,077 --> 00:11:53,012 MOVE! 423 00:11:53,079 --> 00:11:55,014 THE KIND OF THING THAT TAKES 424 00:11:55,081 --> 00:11:56,015 SOME TRULY ENORMOUS BALLS, 425 00:11:56,082 --> 00:11:57,516 WHICH, AS YOU SHOULD KNOW FROM 426 00:11:57,583 --> 00:12:01,020 RECORDINGS WE'VE PLAYED OF LBJ 427 00:12:01,087 --> 00:12:05,024 COMPLAINING TO THE HEAD OF THE 428 00:12:05,091 --> 00:12:06,025 COMPANY THAT MADE HIS TROUSERS 429 00:12:06,092 --> 00:12:09,028 THAT THE CROTCH DOWN WHERE YOUR 430 00:12:09,095 --> 00:12:10,029 NUTS HANG IS ALWAYS A LITTLE TOO 431 00:12:10,096 --> 00:12:11,030 TIGHT, HE DEFINITELY HAD. 432 00:12:11,097 --> 00:12:12,031 QUICK SIDE NOTE: YOU MAY 433 00:12:12,098 --> 00:12:13,032 REMEMBER, A FEW WEEKS AGO WE HAD 434 00:12:13,099 --> 00:12:14,033 THIS POTENTIALLY LIFE-SIZE 435 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:15,034 REPLICA OF LBJ'S BALLS MADE, AND 436 00:12:15,101 --> 00:12:16,035 OFFERED THEM TO HIS PRESIDENTIAL 437 00:12:16,102 --> 00:12:17,036 LIBRARY. 438 00:12:17,103 --> 00:12:18,037 WELL, I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS AND BAD 439 00:12:18,104 --> 00:12:19,038 NEWS. 440 00:12:19,105 --> 00:12:20,039 THE GOOD NEWS IS WE HEARD FROM 441 00:12:20,106 --> 00:12:21,540 THEM. 442 00:12:21,607 --> 00:12:23,042 THE BAD NEWS IS THEY POLITELY 443 00:12:23,109 --> 00:12:23,609 DECLINED OUR OFFER, BUT, IN 444 00:12:23,676 --> 00:12:25,044 DOING SO, SAID: 445 00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:26,545 "PLEASE ACCEPT THIS BASKET OF 446 00:12:26,612 --> 00:12:28,047 FRUIT AND NUTS AS A TOKEN OF OUR 447 00:12:28,114 --> 00:12:31,550 APPRECIATION FOR ALL YOU DO." 448 00:12:31,617 --> 00:12:33,052 [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 449 00:12:33,119 --> 00:12:34,053 THIS IS THE BASKET THEY SENT, 450 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,054 WHICH CONTAINED -- AND THIS IS 451 00:12:35,121 --> 00:12:37,056 TRUE -- A VARIETY OF NUTS AND 452 00:12:37,123 --> 00:12:39,058 FRUITS, ALL IN SETS OF TWO, 453 00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,061 WHICH IS EXCELLENT. 454 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:44,063 ANYWAY -- AS LYNDON BALLS 455 00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:45,564 JOHNSON JUST SAID, THAT ONE ACT 456 00:12:45,631 --> 00:12:47,066 AUTHORIZED THE CREATION OF THE 457 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:48,067 CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC 458 00:12:48,134 --> 00:12:49,568 BROADCASTING, WHICH THEN, IN 459 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:52,071 TURN, CREATED PBS AND NPR. 460 00:12:52,138 --> 00:12:54,073 BUT THE CPB'S ROLE WASN'T TO 461 00:12:54,140 --> 00:12:55,574 DIRECTLY PRODUCE CONTENT OR 462 00:12:55,641 --> 00:12:57,076 OVERSEE PUBLIC MEDIA AS A STATE 463 00:12:57,143 --> 00:12:58,577 ARM -- IT WAS PRIMARILY TO 464 00:12:58,644 --> 00:13:00,079 DISTRIBUTE FUNDING FOR IT WHILE, 465 00:13:00,146 --> 00:13:01,080 CRUCIALLY, REMAINING INDEPENDENT 466 00:13:01,147 --> 00:13:06,585 OF THE GOVERNMENT. 467 00:13:06,652 --> 00:13:07,186 THAT'S WHY THE CPB'S A PRIVATE 468 00:13:07,253 --> 00:13:08,587 NONPROFIT CORPORATION. 469 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:10,089 THE ONLY ISSUE IS THAT, DESPITE 470 00:13:10,156 --> 00:13:11,590 NOT BEING A GOVERNMENT AGENCY, 471 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:13,092 IT'S STILL FUNDED LIKE ONE, AS 472 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:13,692 ITS FUNDING IS EMBEDDED IN THE 473 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:14,593 ANNUAL CONGRESSIONAL 474 00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:16,095 APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS. 475 00:13:16,162 --> 00:13:18,097 AND BECAUSE CONGRESS CONTROLS 476 00:13:18,164 --> 00:13:19,598 ITS FUNDING, THAT'S ALWAYS LEFT 477 00:13:19,665 --> 00:13:20,599 THE CPB VULNERABLE TO POLITICAL 478 00:13:20,666 --> 00:13:22,101 ATTACKS. 479 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:23,102 ALMOST FROM THE START, IT'S BEEN 480 00:13:23,169 --> 00:13:26,105 A PUNCHING BAG FOR REPUBLICANS. 481 00:13:26,172 --> 00:13:28,107 JUST TWO YEARS AFTER IT WAS 482 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:29,608 CREATED, NIXON PROPOSED SLASHING 483 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:31,110 ITS FUNDING IN HALF, APPARENTLY 484 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:32,611 TO HELP MEET THE FINANCIAL 485 00:13:32,678 --> 00:13:33,612 DEMANDS OF THE VIETNAM WAR. 486 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,614 BECAUSE APPARENTLY THE CPB WAS A 487 00:13:35,681 --> 00:13:37,116 BAD USE OF PUBLIC MONEY, UNLIKE, 488 00:13:37,183 --> 00:13:41,620 Y'KNOW, VIETNAM. 489 00:13:41,687 --> 00:13:43,122 [LAUGHTER] 490 00:13:43,189 --> 00:13:44,123 THAT'S WHAT LED TO A FAMOUS 491 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:45,124 MOMENT IN A HEARING ABOUT THE 492 00:13:45,191 --> 00:13:46,625 CPB'S FUNDING, WHEN FRED ROGERS 493 00:13:46,692 --> 00:13:47,626 ADDRESSED A SKEPTICAL SENATOR 494 00:13:47,693 --> 00:13:48,627 AND DESCRIBED WHAT HIS SHOW WAS 495 00:13:48,694 --> 00:13:51,130 ALL ABOUT. 496 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:52,631 >> THIS IS WHAT I GIVE. 497 00:13:52,698 --> 00:13:55,634 I GIVE AN EXPRESSION OF CARE 498 00:13:55,701 --> 00:13:58,137 EVERY DAY TO EACH CHILD TO HELP 499 00:13:58,204 --> 00:14:02,141 HIM REALIZE THAT HE IS UNIQUE. 500 00:14:02,208 --> 00:14:04,143 I END THE PROGRAM BY SAYING, 501 00:14:04,210 --> 00:14:07,146 "YOU'VE MADE THIS DAY A SPECIAL 502 00:14:07,213 --> 00:14:09,148 DAY, BY JUST YOUR BEING YOU. 503 00:14:09,215 --> 00:14:10,149 THERE'S NO PERSON IN THE WHOLE 504 00:14:10,216 --> 00:14:12,151 WORLD LIKE YOU. 505 00:14:12,218 --> 00:14:13,652 AND I LIKE YOU JUST THE WAY YOU 506 00:14:13,719 --> 00:14:15,654 ARE." 507 00:14:15,721 --> 00:14:18,657 AND I FEEL THAT, IF WE IN PUBLIC 508 00:14:18,724 --> 00:14:21,660 TELEVISION CAN ONLY MAKE IT 509 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:25,164 CLEAR THAT FEELINGS ARE 510 00:14:25,231 --> 00:14:26,665 MENTIONABLE AND MANAGEABLE, WE 511 00:14:26,732 --> 00:14:29,168 WILL HAVE DONE A GREAT SERVICE. 512 00:14:29,235 --> 00:14:31,170 >> I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL. 513 00:14:31,237 --> 00:14:34,673 I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL. 514 00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:35,674 LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST EARNED THE 515 00:14:35,741 --> 00:14:38,177 $20 MILLION. 516 00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:40,179 >> John: WOW, THAT IS A TRULY 517 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:41,180 HEARTWARMING THING THAT WOULD 518 00:14:41,247 --> 00:14:46,185 NEVER, EVER HAPPEN TODAY. 519 00:14:46,252 --> 00:14:46,452 [APPLAUSE] 520 00:14:46,518 --> 00:14:48,687 IF MISTER ROGERS HAD GIVEN THAT 521 00:14:48,754 --> 00:14:49,688 EXACT SAME TESTIMONY THIS YEAR, 522 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:51,190 TED CRUZ WOULD'VE CALLED HIM A 523 00:14:51,257 --> 00:14:52,691 "RADICAL LEFT LUNATIC," FOX NEWS 524 00:14:52,758 --> 00:14:53,692 WOULD'VE RUN WITH THE HEADLINE 525 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:55,194 "MISTER ROGERS' SOCIALIST 526 00:14:55,261 --> 00:14:56,695 NEIGHBORHOOD," AND THE 527 00:14:56,762 --> 00:14:57,696 WHITE HOUSE WOULD'VE POSTED AN 528 00:14:57,763 --> 00:14:59,198 AI VIDEO OF PRESIDENT TRUMP 529 00:14:59,265 --> 00:15:00,199 KICKING HIM IN THE BALLS. 530 00:15:00,266 --> 00:15:01,700 [LAUGHTER] 531 00:15:01,767 --> 00:15:05,704 BUT WHILE PUBLIC MEDIA'S FUNDING 532 00:15:05,771 --> 00:15:06,705 WAS SAVED ON THAT DAY, IT'S BEEN 533 00:15:06,772 --> 00:15:07,706 THREATENED CONSISTENTLY EVER 534 00:15:07,773 --> 00:15:08,707 SINCE -- USUALLY WITH COMPLAINTS 535 00:15:08,774 --> 00:15:09,275 ABOUT ITS SO-CALLED LIBERAL 536 00:15:09,341 --> 00:15:11,210 BIAS. 537 00:15:11,277 --> 00:15:12,711 >> WHY IS THERE THIS SMALL ELITE 538 00:15:12,778 --> 00:15:14,213 GROUP AT THE CORPORATION FOR 539 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,214 PUBLIC BROADCASTING THAT GETS TO 540 00:15:15,281 --> 00:15:16,715 SPEND MONEY THEY DIDN'T EARN? 541 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:17,716 WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE TO DOLE 542 00:15:17,783 --> 00:15:19,718 OUT YOUR MONEY? 543 00:15:19,785 --> 00:15:21,720 >> I THINK THE PEOPLE AT PBS SEE 544 00:15:21,787 --> 00:15:24,223 THEMSELVES AS SOCIAL AGENTS. 545 00:15:24,290 --> 00:15:25,724 THEY SEE THEMSELVES AS HAVING 546 00:15:25,791 --> 00:15:27,226 THIS GREAT FORUM, THIS GREAT 547 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:28,727 PLATFORM TO PUSH WHAT THEY THINK 548 00:15:28,794 --> 00:15:30,229 WILL BE THE GOOD SOCIETY. 549 00:15:30,296 --> 00:15:31,730 >> IT IS BRAINWASHING THE 550 00:15:31,797 --> 00:15:33,732 AMERICAN PEOPLE AND, MORE 551 00:15:33,799 --> 00:15:35,734 SIGNIFICANTLY, AMERICAN CHILDREN 552 00:15:35,801 --> 00:15:37,236 WITH UN-AMERICAN, ANTI-FAMILY, 553 00:15:37,303 --> 00:15:42,741 PRO-CRIME, FAKE NEWS. 554 00:15:42,808 --> 00:15:43,742 >> John: OKAY, SO, A FEW THINGS, 555 00:15:43,809 --> 00:15:44,243 IN ORDER. 556 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:45,244 FIRST, "WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE 557 00:15:45,311 --> 00:15:46,245 TO SPEND MONEY THEY DIDN'T 558 00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:47,246 EARN?" APPLIES TO LITERALLY ANY 559 00:15:47,313 --> 00:15:48,747 USE OF TAXPAYER MONEY, AND ALSO, 560 00:15:48,814 --> 00:15:49,748 CONGRATULATIONS TO NEWT AND 561 00:15:49,815 --> 00:15:50,749 CALLISTA GINGRICH ON THEIR 562 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:51,750 DOCUMENTARY, 563 00:15:51,817 --> 00:15:52,351 "JOURNEY TO AMERICA," RELEASED 564 00:15:52,418 --> 00:15:53,752 THIS YEAR, ON -- GUESS WHAT? 565 00:15:53,819 --> 00:15:56,255 PBS. 566 00:15:56,322 --> 00:15:56,755 [LAUGHTER] 567 00:15:56,822 --> 00:15:57,756 SECOND, IF YOU'RE CURIOUS WHY 568 00:15:57,823 --> 00:15:59,258 THIS GUY WAS SPEAKING ON BEHALF 569 00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:00,259 OF A GROUP CALLED 570 00:16:00,326 --> 00:16:01,260 "CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA," 571 00:16:01,327 --> 00:16:02,761 SO AM I! 572 00:16:02,828 --> 00:16:04,263 AND, FINALLY, AS FOR 573 00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:06,265 MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN'S 574 00:16:06,332 --> 00:16:07,766 COMMENTS, I THINK WE ALL KNOW 575 00:16:07,833 --> 00:16:09,268 WHAT SHE MEANS BY "ANTI-FAMILY," 576 00:16:09,335 --> 00:16:10,769 BUT I'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT PBS 577 00:16:10,836 --> 00:16:11,770 PROGRAMMING IS BEING INTERPRETED 578 00:16:11,837 --> 00:16:13,772 AS "PRO-CRIME." 579 00:16:13,839 --> 00:16:14,773 IS IT THE EPISODE OF "ARTHUR" 580 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,275 WHERE THE BRAIN GETS HIMSELF 581 00:16:16,342 --> 00:16:16,909 INTO A "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE" 582 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:18,777 SITUATION? 583 00:16:18,844 --> 00:16:20,279 BECAUSE I GUESS YOU COULD ARGUE 584 00:16:20,346 --> 00:16:21,780 IT INSPIRES KIDS TO COMMIT 585 00:16:21,847 --> 00:16:23,282 POTION-FUELED VANDALISM, BUT I 586 00:16:23,349 --> 00:16:24,783 THINK THE ONLY REAL CRIME 587 00:16:24,850 --> 00:16:26,285 INVOLVED IS THAT THIS SONG'S 588 00:16:26,352 --> 00:16:27,286 BEEN LODGED IN MY BRAIN FOR OVER 589 00:16:27,353 --> 00:16:28,787 TWO DECADES: 590 00:16:28,854 --> 00:16:29,788 >> ♪ JEKYLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, 591 00:16:29,855 --> 00:16:31,290 JEKYLL, HYDE, HYDE, JEKYLL ♪ 592 00:16:31,357 --> 00:16:32,290 ♪ JEYKLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 593 00:16:32,358 --> 00:16:34,293 HYDE ♪ 594 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:35,294 ♪ JEKYLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 595 00:16:35,361 --> 00:16:36,795 HYDE, HYDE, JEKYLL ♪ 596 00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:37,796 ♪ JEYKLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 597 00:16:37,863 --> 00:16:40,299 HYDE ♪ 598 00:16:40,366 --> 00:16:41,300 >> John: THAT SONG WILL NOW BE 599 00:16:41,367 --> 00:16:42,301 IN YOUR HEAD UNTIL THE DAY YOU 600 00:16:42,368 --> 00:16:45,304 DIE. 601 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:45,804 [LAUGHTER] 602 00:16:45,871 --> 00:16:46,805 IT WAS MY CURSE, AND NOW IT IS 603 00:16:46,872 --> 00:16:48,307 YOURS, TOO. 604 00:16:48,374 --> 00:16:50,309 ANYWAY, THAT CLIP IS FROM 605 00:16:50,376 --> 00:16:51,310 EARLIER THIS YEAR, AT A HEARING 606 00:16:51,377 --> 00:16:52,811 GREENE CHAIRED WHERE THE 607 00:16:52,878 --> 00:16:53,312 CEOs OF NPR AND PBS WERE 608 00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:54,813 QUESTIONED ABOUT WHY, IN HER 609 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:56,315 WORDS, TAXPAYER FUNDS WERE BEING 610 00:16:56,382 --> 00:16:58,317 SPENT ON "LEFT-WING ECHO 611 00:16:58,384 --> 00:16:59,318 CHAMBERS FOR MOSTLY WEALTHY, 612 00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:00,319 WHITE URBAN LIBERALS AND 613 00:17:00,386 --> 00:17:01,320 PROGRESSIVES WHO GENERALLY LOOK 614 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:02,821 DOWN ON AND JUDGE RURAL 615 00:17:02,888 --> 00:17:07,826 AMERICA." 616 00:17:07,893 --> 00:17:08,827 THE HEARING WAS ABSURD. 617 00:17:08,894 --> 00:17:09,828 AGAIN AND AGAIN, MEMBERS OF 618 00:17:09,895 --> 00:17:10,829 CONGRESS WOULD TAKE A TINY, 619 00:17:10,896 --> 00:17:12,330 OUT-OF-CONTEXT SNIPPET -- 620 00:17:12,397 --> 00:17:13,332 SOMETIMES OF SOMETHING THAT 621 00:17:13,398 --> 00:17:14,833 AIRED ON JUST ONE STATION -- AND 622 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:15,834 DEMAND THAT THE HEADS OF THOSE 623 00:17:15,901 --> 00:17:17,336 ORGANIZATIONS DEFEND THEM. 624 00:17:17,403 --> 00:17:18,337 HERE'S ONE CONGRESSMAN WHO 625 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:25,411 THOUGHT HE REALLY HAD SOMETHING: 626 00:17:25,911 --> 00:17:26,478 >> DO YOU THINK THAT YOU SHOULD 627 00:17:26,545 --> 00:17:27,346 PUBLISH SOMETHING THAT CALLS 628 00:17:27,413 --> 00:17:28,347 TREES RACIST? 629 00:17:28,414 --> 00:17:28,981 IS THAT -- IN RETROSPECT, SHOULD 630 00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:30,349 YOU HAVE PUBLISHED THAT? 631 00:17:30,416 --> 00:17:31,350 >> I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU'RE 632 00:17:31,417 --> 00:17:32,351 REFERRING TO, CONGRESSMAN. 633 00:17:32,418 --> 00:17:33,352 >> OH, YOU HAD A SEGMENT THAT 634 00:17:33,419 --> 00:17:34,353 CALLED -- IT WAS CALLED "RACIST 635 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:35,354 TREES." 636 00:17:35,421 --> 00:17:36,422 AND IT WAS A -- I MEAN, WE'VE 637 00:17:36,488 --> 00:17:37,389 ALREADY REFERENCED IT A NUMBER 638 00:17:37,456 --> 00:17:38,357 OF TIMES. 639 00:17:38,424 --> 00:17:39,358 SO, I MEAN, DO YOU THINK TREES 640 00:17:39,425 --> 00:17:39,858 CAN BE RACIST? 641 00:17:39,925 --> 00:17:40,859 I GUESS THAT'S A GOOD ONE. 642 00:17:40,926 --> 00:17:41,860 >> I'VE -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT 643 00:17:41,927 --> 00:17:42,861 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. 644 00:17:42,928 --> 00:17:43,862 I'VE NEVER HEARD OF WHAT YOU'RE 645 00:17:43,929 --> 00:17:44,863 REFERRING TO. 646 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:45,864 >> John: WELL, I HAVE! 647 00:17:45,931 --> 00:17:47,366 BECAUSE WE LOOKED IT UP, AND IT 648 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:48,367 TURNS OUT IT WASN'T A SEGMENT 649 00:17:48,434 --> 00:17:49,868 ABOUT HOW TREES ARE RACIST. 650 00:17:49,935 --> 00:17:51,870 IT WAS THIS DOCUMENTARY TELLING 651 00:17:51,937 --> 00:17:52,871 THE STORY OF A HISTORICALLY 652 00:17:52,938 --> 00:17:53,872 BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD IN 653 00:17:53,939 --> 00:17:54,873 PALM SPRINGS, AND THEIR 654 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:55,874 DECADES-LONG FIGHT FOR THE 655 00:17:55,941 --> 00:17:56,875 REMOVAL OF A WALL OF TREES THAT 656 00:17:56,942 --> 00:17:57,876 MANY BELIEVED WERE ORIGINALLY 657 00:17:57,943 --> 00:17:58,877 PLANTED AS A TOTEM OF 658 00:17:58,944 --> 00:18:00,879 SEGREGATION. 659 00:18:00,946 --> 00:18:02,381 SO I GUESS I'D ANSWER HIS 660 00:18:02,448 --> 00:18:03,382 QUESTION OF "DO YOU THINK TREES 661 00:18:03,449 --> 00:18:04,383 CAN BE RACIST?" WITH A QUESTION 662 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:06,385 OF MY OWN. 663 00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,387 SPECIFICALLY, "DO YOU UNDERSTAND 664 00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:08,987 THAT THE TITLES OF MOVIES ARE 665 00:18:09,054 --> 00:18:11,890 NOT ALWAYS 100% LITERAL?" 666 00:18:11,957 --> 00:18:12,891 [LAUGHTER] 667 00:18:12,958 --> 00:18:13,892 "THE SHINING" IS NOT ABOUT A 668 00:18:13,959 --> 00:18:15,394 SUCCESSFUL SHOE POLISHING 669 00:18:15,461 --> 00:18:16,395 BUSINESS, AND 670 00:18:16,462 --> 00:18:17,896 "THE WOLF OF WALL STREET" ISN'T 671 00:18:17,963 --> 00:18:19,398 ABOUT AN ACTUAL WOLF WITH A 672 00:18:19,465 --> 00:18:20,399 SUCCESSFUL INVESTMENT STRATEGY. 673 00:18:20,466 --> 00:18:21,400 NOW, SHOULD IT HAVE BEEN? 674 00:18:21,467 --> 00:18:22,901 ABSOLUTELY. 675 00:18:22,968 --> 00:18:24,903 BUT, SADLY, IT WASN'T. 676 00:18:24,970 --> 00:18:25,904 [LAUGHTER] 677 00:18:25,971 --> 00:18:27,906 AND, LOOK, THERE CAN BE A 678 00:18:27,973 --> 00:18:29,408 GOOD-FAITH DEBATE OVER BIAS IN 679 00:18:29,475 --> 00:18:31,410 THE MEDIA, LIBERAL OR OTHERWISE. 680 00:18:31,477 --> 00:18:32,911 BUT I'LL POINT OUT THAT, A LOT 681 00:18:32,978 --> 00:18:34,413 OF THE TIME, WHAT CONSERVATIVES 682 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,414 CLAIM AS "LIBERAL BIAS" IS OFTEN 683 00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:36,915 JUST THINGS LIKE SHOWING THERE'S 684 00:18:36,982 --> 00:18:38,917 A LONG HISTORY OF RACISM IN 685 00:18:38,984 --> 00:18:40,419 AMERICA, OR THAT GAY PEOPLE 686 00:18:40,486 --> 00:18:42,421 EXIST, MAKING IT HARD TO 687 00:18:42,488 --> 00:18:43,922 INTERPRET THOSE CRITICISMS AS 688 00:18:43,989 --> 00:18:45,924 ANYTHING OTHER THAN BIGOTRY. 689 00:18:45,991 --> 00:18:47,926 AND YET, ARGUMENTS LIKE THOSE 690 00:18:47,993 --> 00:18:49,428 JUST GOT USED TO JUSTIFY ZEROING 691 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:50,929 OUT THE ENTIRE BUDGET OF THE 692 00:18:50,996 --> 00:18:53,432 CPB. 693 00:18:53,499 --> 00:18:54,933 WHICH ISN'T JUST STUPID -- IN 694 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:55,934 MANY PLACES, IT'LL ACTUALLY HAVE 695 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:56,935 THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE 696 00:18:57,002 --> 00:18:58,437 INTENDED EFFECT. 697 00:18:58,504 --> 00:18:59,938 AND TO UNDERSTAND WHY, IT'S 698 00:19:00,005 --> 00:19:00,939 WORTH TALKING ABOUT WHERE ALL 699 00:19:01,006 --> 00:19:02,941 THOSE FEDERAL DOLLARS WENT. 700 00:19:03,008 --> 00:19:04,443 BECAUSE WHILE SOME OF THE CPB'S 701 00:19:04,510 --> 00:19:06,445 FUNDING DID GO DIRECTLY TO PBS 702 00:19:06,512 --> 00:19:08,947 AND NPR AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, 703 00:19:09,014 --> 00:19:10,449 THE VAST MAJORITY -- MORE THAN 704 00:19:10,516 --> 00:19:12,451 70% -- WENT DIRECTLY TO LOCAL 705 00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:14,453 PUBLIC RADIO AND TELEVISION 706 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:15,454 STATIONS, WHO USED IT TO DO 707 00:19:15,521 --> 00:19:16,955 THINGS LIKE PRODUCE LOCAL 708 00:19:17,022 --> 00:19:17,956 PROGRAMS, PURCHASE EQUIPMENT, 709 00:19:18,023 --> 00:19:18,957 AND ACQUIRE NATIONAL 710 00:19:19,024 --> 00:19:19,958 PROGRAMMING, LIKE 711 00:19:20,025 --> 00:19:20,959 "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" AND THE 712 00:19:21,026 --> 00:19:22,461 "PBS NEWSHOUR." 713 00:19:22,528 --> 00:19:24,463 AND FOR MANY STATIONS, THAT WAS 714 00:19:24,530 --> 00:19:25,964 JUST ONE WAY THEY GOT FUNDED. 715 00:19:26,031 --> 00:19:27,466 BECAUSE NONE RELIED COMPLETELY 716 00:19:27,533 --> 00:19:28,967 ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT -- IN 717 00:19:29,034 --> 00:19:29,968 FACT, ONE SURVEY FOUND THAT ON 718 00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:31,470 AVERAGE, LOCAL PUBLIC TV 719 00:19:31,537 --> 00:19:32,971 STATIONS RELIED ON FEDERAL 720 00:19:33,038 --> 00:19:34,473 FUNDING FOR 18% OF THEIR 721 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:35,974 BUDGETS, WITH RADIO STATIONS 722 00:19:36,041 --> 00:19:36,975 HAVING AN AVERAGE RELIANCE OF 723 00:19:37,042 --> 00:19:38,977 AROUND 14%. 724 00:19:39,044 --> 00:19:40,479 AND A BIG WAY THEY'VE ALWAYS 725 00:19:40,546 --> 00:19:41,480 MADE UP THE DIFFERENCE IS 726 00:19:41,547 --> 00:19:42,481 THROUGH -- AS YOU UNDOUBTEDLY 727 00:19:42,548 --> 00:19:43,982 KNOW -- VIEWERS OR LISTENERS 728 00:19:44,049 --> 00:19:45,984 LIKE YOU. 729 00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:47,486 THAT'S WHY SO MANY STATIONS SEEM 730 00:19:47,553 --> 00:19:48,487 TO BE CONSTANTLY RUNNING PLEDGE 731 00:19:48,554 --> 00:19:50,489 DRIVES. 732 00:19:50,556 --> 00:19:51,490 JUST TAKE THIS ONE FROM 733 00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:52,991 WASHINGTON STATE, IN 1999, 734 00:19:53,058 --> 00:19:53,992 FEATURING A CERTAIN FORMER 735 00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:56,061 COSTAR OF MINE. 736 00:19:56,128 --> 00:19:58,564 >> PLEASE CALL IN AT 737 00:19:58,630 --> 00:20:00,999 1-800-443-1999 AND SUBSCRIBE, 738 00:20:01,066 --> 00:20:03,001 BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET 739 00:20:03,068 --> 00:20:04,503 PROGRAMMING LIKE "MR. BEAN," YOU 740 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:06,004 CAN'T GET PROGRAMMING LIKE 741 00:20:06,071 --> 00:20:07,005 "RED DWARF" ANYWHERE ELSE EXCEPT 742 00:20:07,072 --> 00:20:08,507 FOR CHANNEL 9. 743 00:20:08,574 --> 00:20:10,008 AS YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN TONIGHT, 744 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:12,010 BRITISH COMEDY IS SO AMAZING, 745 00:20:12,077 --> 00:20:14,012 AND YOU CAN'T GET THAT ON ANY 746 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:16,014 OTHER CHANNEL, PRACTICALLY, AND 747 00:20:16,081 --> 00:20:17,015 IT'S SO WONDERFUL THAT CHANNEL 9 748 00:20:17,082 --> 00:20:19,017 CAN BRING THIS TO YOU. 749 00:20:19,084 --> 00:20:20,519 ROWAN ATKINSON IS A GENIUS, AND 750 00:20:20,586 --> 00:20:22,020 IT'S JUST SO GREAT THAT WE CAN 751 00:20:22,087 --> 00:20:24,022 BRING YOU ALL THE EPISODES IN 752 00:20:24,089 --> 00:20:26,024 ONE ENTIRE NIGHT. 753 00:20:26,091 --> 00:20:28,026 "MR. BEAN" IS A PHENOMENAL 754 00:20:28,093 --> 00:20:30,529 TELEVISION PROGRAM IN BRITAIN. 755 00:20:30,596 --> 00:20:32,030 AND YOU ASKED FOR IT TO BE HERE 756 00:20:32,097 --> 00:20:33,532 IN WASHINGTON, AND YOU GET AN 757 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:34,533 ENTIRE EVENING OF IT, AND IT'S 758 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,535 JUST WONDERFUL. 759 00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:39,538 I JUST CAN'T TELL YOU HOW I AM 760 00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:40,539 SO EXCITED ABOUT "MR. BEAN" AND 761 00:20:40,606 --> 00:20:42,040 THINGS LIKE "BLACKADDER," AND 762 00:20:42,107 --> 00:20:44,042 "RED DWARF," AND BRITISH COMEDY 763 00:20:44,109 --> 00:20:45,544 BROUGHT TO YOU ON CHANNEL 9. 764 00:20:45,611 --> 00:20:47,546 SO, PLEASE CALL. 765 00:20:47,613 --> 00:20:48,547 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S A YOUNG 766 00:20:48,614 --> 00:20:50,048 JOEL McHALE, GOING ALL OUT TO 767 00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:50,649 RAISE MONEY FOR HIS LOCAL PBS 768 00:20:50,716 --> 00:20:52,050 STATION. 769 00:20:52,117 --> 00:20:53,552 AND HE WAS GOING IN HARD ON THE 770 00:20:53,619 --> 00:20:56,555 "MR. BEAN" ELEMENT THERE. 771 00:20:56,622 --> 00:20:57,055 [LAUGHTER] 772 00:20:57,122 --> 00:20:58,557 THOSE CLIPS GO FROM "WOW, JOEL 773 00:20:58,624 --> 00:20:59,558 REALLY LIKES MR. BEAN," TO, 774 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:01,059 "WAIT, DID MR. BEAN SAY HE'S 775 00:21:01,126 --> 00:21:02,561 GOING TO PAY HIM?" TO, 776 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:03,562 "DID MR. BEAN SAY HE'S GOING TO 777 00:21:03,629 --> 00:21:04,563 KILL HIM?" 778 00:21:04,630 --> 00:21:06,064 [LAUGHTER] 779 00:21:06,131 --> 00:21:08,066 THE POINT IS, SOME LOCAL 780 00:21:08,133 --> 00:21:09,568 STATIONS HEAVILY DEPEND ON 781 00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:10,569 DONATIONS TO GET BY, AND A LOT 782 00:21:10,636 --> 00:21:12,571 ARE OPERATING ON A SHOESTRING TO 783 00:21:12,638 --> 00:21:13,572 BEGIN WITH, LIKE THIS ONE IN 784 00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:14,573 LOUISIANA. 785 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:15,574 >> Reporter: BEFORE THE SUN 786 00:21:15,641 --> 00:21:17,075 COMES UP... 787 00:21:17,142 --> 00:21:18,076 >> ALARM WENT OFF AT 4:00 IN THE 788 00:21:18,143 --> 00:21:23,081 MORNING. 789 00:21:23,148 --> 00:21:24,082 >> GOT HERE AT 5:30? 790 00:21:24,149 --> 00:21:25,083 >> Reporter: JEFF FERRELL TURNS 791 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:26,084 ON THE LIGHTS AT THE ONLY NPR 792 00:21:26,151 --> 00:21:27,085 NEWS RADIO STATION IN 793 00:21:27,152 --> 00:21:28,587 SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA. 794 00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:30,589 >> PARTLY CLOUDY AND 73. 795 00:21:30,656 --> 00:21:31,590 >> Reporter: FERRELL IS THE ONLY 796 00:21:31,657 --> 00:21:32,591 FULL-TIME NEWS EMPLOYEE AT RED 797 00:21:32,658 --> 00:21:34,593 RIVER RADIO. 798 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,094 HE'S THE NEWS DIRECTOR, ON-AIR 799 00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:38,096 HOST... 800 00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:39,598 >> THE TIME IS NOW 8:04. 801 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:41,099 >> Reporter: FIELD PRODUCER... 802 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:42,100 >> HOW MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE -- 803 00:21:42,167 --> 00:21:43,101 >> Reporter: WRITER... 804 00:21:43,168 --> 00:21:44,102 >> YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE 805 00:21:44,169 --> 00:21:45,103 MARKET. 806 00:21:45,170 --> 00:21:46,605 >> Reporter: AND SOUND EDITOR. 807 00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:47,606 15-HOUR DAYS COVERING NEWS IN 808 00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:49,107 THREE STATES. 809 00:21:49,174 --> 00:21:50,609 >> DO I REST FOR A SECOND? 810 00:21:50,676 --> 00:21:52,110 YEAH, I'LL TAKE A QUICK, LIKE, 811 00:21:52,177 --> 00:21:53,111 15-MINUTE PAUSE AND THEN 812 00:21:53,178 --> 00:21:55,113 RECHARGE. 813 00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:59,618 >> SO YOU SLEEP IN YOUR OFFICE? 814 00:21:59,685 --> 00:22:01,119 >> SOMETIMES. 815 00:22:01,186 --> 00:22:03,121 >> John: HOLY SHIT. 816 00:22:03,188 --> 00:22:04,623 THE ONLY THING MORE ALARMING 817 00:22:04,690 --> 00:22:06,124 THAN THAT MAN'S WORKLOAD IS THE 818 00:22:06,191 --> 00:22:07,626 WAY HE BRIEFLY DISSOCIATED 819 00:22:07,693 --> 00:22:10,128 BEFORE SAYING "SOMETIMES." 820 00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:11,129 [LAUGHTER] 821 00:22:11,196 --> 00:22:12,130 THAT WAS EITHER AN EXISTENTIAL 822 00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:13,131 CRY FOR HELP, OR HE JUST FIGURED 823 00:22:13,198 --> 00:22:14,132 OUT HOW TO MICRO-NAP IN THE 824 00:22:14,199 --> 00:22:16,635 MIDDLE OF AN INTERVIEW. 825 00:22:16,702 --> 00:22:17,636 [LAUGHTER] 826 00:22:17,703 --> 00:22:18,637 BUT HAVING A TINY STAFF IS NOT 827 00:22:18,704 --> 00:22:19,638 UNCOMMON, AND IN SOME PARTS OF 828 00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:21,139 THE COUNTRY -- PARTICULARLY LESS 829 00:22:21,206 --> 00:22:22,641 AFFLUENT OR MORE RURAL AREAS -- 830 00:22:22,708 --> 00:22:23,642 STATIONS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO 831 00:22:23,709 --> 00:22:25,143 RAISE WHAT THEY NEED THROUGH 832 00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:26,645 THEIR COMMUNITIES, SO THEY'VE 833 00:22:26,712 --> 00:22:27,646 RELIED MORE HEAVILY ON FEDERAL 834 00:22:27,713 --> 00:22:29,147 FUNDING. 835 00:22:29,214 --> 00:22:30,649 REMEMBER HOW I SAID STATIONS 836 00:22:30,716 --> 00:22:31,650 RELIED ON IT FOR AROUND 14-18% 837 00:22:31,717 --> 00:22:32,651 OF THEIR BUDGETS? 838 00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:34,152 THAT'S AN AVERAGE. 839 00:22:34,219 --> 00:22:35,654 FOR SOME, IT'S BEEN MUCH MORE. 840 00:22:35,721 --> 00:22:37,656 BECAUSE WHILE WNYC, NEW YORK'S 841 00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:39,157 PUBLIC RADIO STATION, LOST ABOUT 842 00:22:39,224 --> 00:22:40,659 4% OF ITS ANNUAL BUDGET WHEN THE 843 00:22:40,726 --> 00:22:43,161 CPB GOT CUT, KLND IN McLAUGHLIN, 844 00:22:43,228 --> 00:22:46,164 SOUTH DAKOTA, LOST 50%, AND 845 00:22:46,231 --> 00:22:47,666 KSHI ON THE ZUNI PUEBLO IN 846 00:22:47,733 --> 00:22:50,669 NEW MEXICO LOST 96%. 847 00:22:50,736 --> 00:22:53,171 AND WHEN BUDGETS GET SLASHED, 848 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:54,673 ONE WAY AN OUTLET CAN CUT COSTS 849 00:22:54,740 --> 00:22:56,675 IS BY PRODUCING LESS LOCAL 850 00:22:56,742 --> 00:22:58,176 REPORTING, AND RELYING MORE ON 851 00:22:58,243 --> 00:22:59,177 CONTENT THEY LICENSE FROM NPR 852 00:22:59,244 --> 00:23:04,182 AND PBS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL. 853 00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:05,183 SO WHILE I PERSONALLY THINK 854 00:23:05,250 --> 00:23:06,184 GREENE'S CARICATURE OF THEM 855 00:23:06,251 --> 00:23:07,185 PUMPING OUT "UN-AMERICAN 856 00:23:07,252 --> 00:23:07,719 PROGRAMMING" THAT DOESN'T 857 00:23:07,786 --> 00:23:09,688 REFLECT COMMUNITY VALUES IS 858 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:10,689 TOTAL BULLSHIT, THE IRONY IS, 859 00:23:10,756 --> 00:23:11,690 THE MORE LOCAL STATIONS' BUDGETS 860 00:23:11,757 --> 00:23:13,191 ARE SLASHED, THE MORE THEY MAY 861 00:23:13,258 --> 00:23:16,695 COME TO RELY ON PROGRAMMING 862 00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:17,696 PRODUCED IN THOSE "URBAN ECHO 863 00:23:17,763 --> 00:23:18,697 CHAMBERS." 864 00:23:18,764 --> 00:23:19,698 AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF A 865 00:23:19,765 --> 00:23:20,699 STATION IN CALIFORNIA SAID, 866 00:23:20,766 --> 00:23:21,700 "THE LOCAL STUFF THAT'S SO 867 00:23:21,767 --> 00:23:22,701 IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE IS PROBABLY 868 00:23:22,768 --> 00:23:24,202 THE STUFF THAT'LL GO AWAY." 869 00:23:24,269 --> 00:23:25,704 AND IT IS WORTH TALKING ABOUT 870 00:23:25,771 --> 00:23:27,205 WHAT SOME OF THAT LOCAL STUFF 871 00:23:27,272 --> 00:23:28,707 IS, BECAUSE IT CAN BE WOVEN INTO 872 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:29,307 PEOPLE'S LIVES IN ALL SORTS OF 873 00:23:29,374 --> 00:23:30,709 WAYS. 874 00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:32,210 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS, FOR 875 00:23:32,277 --> 00:23:33,712 INSTANCE, HAVE BECOME SOME OF 876 00:23:33,779 --> 00:23:35,213 THE MOST POPULAR LOCAL PROGRAMS 877 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,715 ON PBS STATIONS, WITH THE FORMER 878 00:23:36,782 --> 00:23:38,216 CEO OF ARKANSAS PBS SAYING IT'S 879 00:23:38,283 --> 00:23:39,217 ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT 880 00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:40,719 EVERYBODY LOVES, BUT ISN'T 881 00:23:40,786 --> 00:23:42,220 NECESSARILY A MONEYMAKING 882 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:43,221 VENTURE, SO COMMERCIAL NETWORKS 883 00:23:43,288 --> 00:23:44,222 AREN'T GOING TO REALLY COMMIT TO 884 00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:46,224 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS. 885 00:23:46,291 --> 00:23:47,225 OTHER AREAS USE PUBLIC MEDIA IN 886 00:23:47,292 --> 00:23:49,227 QUIRKY WAYS. 887 00:23:49,294 --> 00:23:50,228 IN RURAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, 888 00:23:50,295 --> 00:23:51,229 THIS STATION HAS A REGULAR 889 00:23:51,296 --> 00:23:52,731 SEGMENT CALLED "TRADING TIME," 890 00:23:52,798 --> 00:23:54,232 WHERE PEOPLE CALL IN TO OFFER 891 00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:55,233 ITEMS TO SELL, TRADE, OR GIVE 892 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:56,735 AWAY. 893 00:23:56,802 --> 00:23:58,236 AND DURING PLEDGE-DRIVE SEASON, 894 00:23:58,303 --> 00:23:59,738 CALLERS WILL SOMETIMES EVEN 895 00:23:59,805 --> 00:24:01,239 CONTRIBUTE THE PROCEEDS BACK TO 896 00:24:01,306 --> 00:24:03,742 THE STATION, LEADING TO 897 00:24:03,809 --> 00:24:04,342 ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OFFERS LIKE 898 00:24:04,409 --> 00:24:05,744 THIS ONE: 899 00:24:05,811 --> 00:24:08,246 >> GOOD MORNING. 900 00:24:08,313 --> 00:24:10,248 WE HAVE A BIDET THAT'S -- WE 901 00:24:10,315 --> 00:24:12,250 JUST REMODELED A BATHROOM, TOOK 902 00:24:12,317 --> 00:24:13,251 OUT THE BIDET THAT WE WEREN'T 903 00:24:13,318 --> 00:24:14,252 USING. 904 00:24:14,319 --> 00:24:15,754 IT'S IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. 905 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:17,255 IT'S A KOHLER. 906 00:24:17,322 --> 00:24:18,757 AND IF YOU GO TO GET ONE NEW, 907 00:24:18,824 --> 00:24:20,258 THEY'RE LIKE $300 OR $400, BUT 908 00:24:20,325 --> 00:24:22,260 WE WILL SELL THIS ONE FOR $50 OR 909 00:24:22,327 --> 00:24:24,763 BEST OFFER AND DONATE ALL THE 910 00:24:24,830 --> 00:24:27,766 MONEY TO THE PLEDGE DRIVE. 911 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:28,767 >> OKAY. 912 00:24:28,834 --> 00:24:32,270 SO IT'S A GOOD DAY FOR A BIDET. 913 00:24:32,337 --> 00:24:33,772 JOHN IN MENDO'S GOT ONE FOR YOU. 914 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:34,773 IF YOU BUY IT, $50 OR BEST 915 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:35,774 OFFER, HE'S GOING TO DONATE THAT 916 00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:37,275 RIGHT TO THE STATION. 917 00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:41,780 >> WONDERFUL. 918 00:24:41,847 --> 00:24:42,781 >> John: YEAH, IT IS WONDERFUL! 919 00:24:42,848 --> 00:24:43,782 IT'S ALSO -- LET'S BE HONEST -- 920 00:24:43,849 --> 00:24:46,785 SUPER WEIRD! 921 00:24:46,852 --> 00:24:48,286 THE SADDEST SIX-WORD STORY MAY 922 00:24:48,353 --> 00:24:50,288 BE "FOR SALE: BABY SHOES, NEVER 923 00:24:50,355 --> 00:24:51,790 WORN," BUT THE WEIRDEST ONE IS 924 00:24:51,857 --> 00:24:53,291 "FOR SALE: USED BIDET, FOR 925 00:24:53,358 --> 00:24:54,793 CHARITY." 926 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:57,295 [LAUGHTER] 927 00:24:57,362 --> 00:24:58,797 AND IF YOU, LIKE ME, THOUGHT 928 00:24:58,864 --> 00:25:00,298 THAT WAS ANOTHER ARTIFACT OF THE 929 00:25:00,365 --> 00:25:01,299 '90s, YOU SHOULD KNOW, IT'S FROM 930 00:25:01,366 --> 00:25:04,803 THREE WEEKS AGO. 931 00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:06,304 AND IT'S GREAT TO KNOW THAT 932 00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:07,806 PUBLIC RADIO CAN STILL BE A 933 00:25:07,873 --> 00:25:09,808 RESOURCE FOR BIDET-RELATED NEWS 934 00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:11,309 AND DISCUSSION. 935 00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:12,310 ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT THE ONLY 936 00:25:12,377 --> 00:25:13,311 PLACE TO GO FOR THAT WAS THE 937 00:25:13,378 --> 00:25:14,813 BIDETS SUBREDDIT, WHERE YOU CAN 938 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,814 FIND POSTS LIKE "I DIDN'T BUY A 939 00:25:15,881 --> 00:25:17,816 BIDET, I BOUGHT AN AMUSEMENT 940 00:25:17,883 --> 00:25:19,818 PARK RIDE FOR MY BUTT," 941 00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:20,819 "HAVING A BIDET AT HOME HAS 942 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:21,386 REALLY RUINED THE ALLURE OF 943 00:25:21,453 --> 00:25:22,821 POOPING AT WORK," 944 00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:24,823 "MY BIDET KEEPS SPLASHING INTO 945 00:25:24,890 --> 00:25:26,324 MY BALLS," AND THIS SIMILAR 946 00:25:26,391 --> 00:25:28,326 POST, "HUSBAND'S CHESTNUTS 947 00:25:28,393 --> 00:25:30,328 GETTING BUSTED IN CANADA," WHICH 948 00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:31,329 GOES ON TO SAY, "HUSBAND'S 949 00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:32,330 HONEYNUTS GETTING BRUTALIZED BY 950 00:25:32,397 --> 00:25:33,832 THE BIDET. 951 00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:35,333 GENTLEMEN, HELP HIM. 952 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,334 CANADIAN CANTALOUPES ARE 953 00:25:36,401 --> 00:25:37,335 COMPROMISED." 954 00:25:37,402 --> 00:25:39,838 [LAUGHTER] 955 00:25:39,905 --> 00:25:41,339 BUT OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT ALL HIGH 956 00:25:41,406 --> 00:25:42,841 SCHOOL SPORTS AND BIDETS. 957 00:25:42,908 --> 00:25:43,842 IN SOME PLACES, PUBLIC MEDIA'S 958 00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:46,344 THE ONLY SOURCE OF LOCAL NEWS. 959 00:25:46,411 --> 00:25:47,345 ACCORDING TO ONE ANALYSIS, IN 960 00:25:47,412 --> 00:25:48,847 NINE COUNTIES, A PUBLIC 961 00:25:48,914 --> 00:25:50,348 BROADCASTING STATION IS THE SOLE 962 00:25:50,415 --> 00:25:52,851 SOURCE OF LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE. 963 00:25:52,918 --> 00:25:53,852 AND IN 47 OTHERS, IT'S ONE OF 964 00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:55,353 ONLY TWO, WITH THE OTHER 965 00:25:55,420 --> 00:25:56,354 TYPICALLY BEING A WEEKLY 966 00:25:56,421 --> 00:25:58,356 NEWSPAPER. 967 00:25:58,423 --> 00:25:59,357 AND LOCAL PUBLIC MEDIA'S SCORED 968 00:25:59,424 --> 00:26:00,859 SOME AMAZING SCOOPS. 969 00:26:00,926 --> 00:26:02,861 TO RATTLE OFF JUST A FEW: 970 00:26:02,928 --> 00:26:03,862 IN WEST VIRGINIA, THESE OUTLETS 971 00:26:03,929 --> 00:26:05,864 UNCOVERED THE FACT THAT 972 00:26:05,931 --> 00:26:08,366 BOB MURRAY, FRIEND OF THE POD, 973 00:26:08,433 --> 00:26:09,868 FOUGHT AGAINST BLACK LUNG 974 00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:11,369 REGULATIONS AND THEN FILED FOR 975 00:26:11,436 --> 00:26:12,871 BLACK LUNG BENEFITS FOR HIMSELF. 976 00:26:12,938 --> 00:26:13,872 WHICH IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF 977 00:26:13,939 --> 00:26:16,875 BEHAVIOR THAT MIGHT LEAD SOMEONE 978 00:26:16,942 --> 00:26:18,877 TO TELL YOU TO GO EAT SHIT. 979 00:26:18,944 --> 00:26:20,879 IN ALASKA, KTOO BROKE THE STORY 980 00:26:20,946 --> 00:26:22,380 OF A MASSIVE FOOD STAMP BACKLOG 981 00:26:22,447 --> 00:26:23,882 AFFECTING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, 982 00:26:23,949 --> 00:26:25,383 WITH THE ALASKA PRESS CLUB LATER 983 00:26:25,450 --> 00:26:26,885 WRITING THAT IT WAS THE 984 00:26:26,952 --> 00:26:27,419 REPORTER'S COMMUNITY-BASED 985 00:26:27,485 --> 00:26:28,386 REPORTING AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH 986 00:26:28,453 --> 00:26:29,387 SOURCES THAT BROUGHT LIGHT TO A 987 00:26:29,454 --> 00:26:30,889 STATE PROBLEM THAT AFFECTED 988 00:26:30,956 --> 00:26:31,890 THOUSANDS OF ALASKANS WHOSE 989 00:26:31,957 --> 00:26:34,392 VOICES NEEDED TO BE HEARD. 990 00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:35,393 AND A REPORTER AT THIS PUBLIC 991 00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:38,396 RADIO STATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 992 00:26:38,463 --> 00:26:45,470 PRODUCED BOTH A MASSIVE 993 00:26:46,471 --> 00:26:47,405 INVESTIGATION AND THIS PODCAST 994 00:26:47,472 --> 00:26:48,006 ABOUT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AT THE 995 00:26:48,073 --> 00:26:48,907 LARGEST ADDICTION TREATMENT 996 00:26:48,974 --> 00:26:49,908 CENTER IN THE STATE. 997 00:26:49,975 --> 00:26:50,909 AND SHE KEPT AT THAT REPORTING 998 00:26:50,976 --> 00:26:51,910 EVEN AS THE TARGET OF HER 999 00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:52,911 INVESTIGATION SUED HER AND HER 1000 00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:53,912 STATION, AND AS HER HOUSE AND 1001 00:26:53,979 --> 00:26:54,913 THOSE OF HER PARENTS AND HER 1002 00:26:54,980 --> 00:26:55,547 BOSS WERE VANDALIZED, SOMETHING 1003 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:56,915 SHE LATER EXPLAINED TO HER 1004 00:26:56,982 --> 00:27:01,920 PUBLIC TV STATION. 1005 00:27:01,987 --> 00:27:02,921 >> MY HUSBAND CHECKS OUR 1006 00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:03,922 SECURITY CAMERAS AND, SURE 1007 00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:05,423 ENOUGH, A BRICK HAD BEEN THROWN 1008 00:27:05,490 --> 00:27:06,424 THROUGH THE WINDOW AND THE WORDS 1009 00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:08,426 "JUST THE BEGINNING" WERE 1010 00:27:08,493 --> 00:27:09,928 SPRAY-PAINTED, EXCLAMATION 1011 00:27:09,995 --> 00:27:11,429 POINT, UNDER THE BROKEN WINDOW. 1012 00:27:11,496 --> 00:27:12,430 >> YOU HAVE A YOUNG DAUGHTER. 1013 00:27:12,497 --> 00:27:13,932 WAS THERE A POINT WHERE YOU 1014 00:27:13,999 --> 00:27:14,933 THOUGHT, MAYBE I WILL NOT BE 1015 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:22,007 CONTINUING THIS? 1016 00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:26,011 DID IT MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT 1017 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:26,945 DROPPING THIS AND NOT CONTINUING 1018 00:27:27,012 --> 00:27:27,946 TO WORK ON IT? 1019 00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:28,580 >> YOU KNOW, I NEVER CONSIDERED 1020 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:29,447 STOPPING. 1021 00:27:29,514 --> 00:27:30,448 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S INCREDIBLY 1022 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:31,449 BRAVE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I'M 1023 00:27:31,516 --> 00:27:32,450 ASSUMING THAT MESSAGE DIDN'T 1024 00:27:32,517 --> 00:27:33,451 CONTINUE, "JUST THE BEGINNING 1025 00:27:33,518 --> 00:27:33,952 OF A STORIED CAREER IN 1026 00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:34,953 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM. 1027 00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:35,954 KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. 1028 00:27:36,021 --> 00:27:36,488 P.S., THE BRICK IS MADE OF 1029 00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:37,455 CHOCOLATE!" 1030 00:27:37,522 --> 00:27:38,957 [LAUGHTER] 1031 00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:40,458 THE POINT IS, LOCAL PUBLIC 1032 00:27:40,525 --> 00:27:41,960 MEDIA'S FILLED WITH IMPRESSIVE 1033 00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:43,461 REPORTING LIKE THAT. 1034 00:27:43,528 --> 00:27:44,462 IN FACT, WE'VE RELIED ON IT ON 1035 00:27:44,529 --> 00:27:45,964 THIS SHOW, IN PIECES WE'VE DONE 1036 00:27:46,031 --> 00:27:47,465 ABOUT HOAs, JUVENILE JUSTICE, 1037 00:27:47,532 --> 00:27:49,467 AND IN OUR FIRST AND SECOND 1038 00:27:49,534 --> 00:27:51,469 LETHAL INJECTIONS STORIES. 1039 00:27:51,536 --> 00:27:52,470 AND IF YOU'RE HEARING THOSE AND 1040 00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:53,505 THINKING, "MAN, THIS SHOW IS 1041 00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:54,973 MORE DEPRESSING THAN I 1042 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,976 REMEMBERED," GIRL, SAME. 1043 00:27:58,043 --> 00:27:58,977 [LAUGHTER] 1044 00:27:59,044 --> 00:27:59,978 AND AS THIS MANAGER FOR A TRIBAL 1045 00:28:00,045 --> 00:28:01,479 STATION IN OREGON EXPLAINS, IF 1046 00:28:01,546 --> 00:28:02,981 BUDGET CUTS MEAN SHE CAN'T 1047 00:28:03,048 --> 00:28:06,484 AFFORD TO BROADCAST NEWS TO HER 1048 00:28:06,551 --> 00:28:08,486 LISTENERS, THAT'S GONNA BE A 1049 00:28:08,553 --> 00:28:09,487 PROBLEM NOT JUST FOR HER 1050 00:28:09,554 --> 00:28:10,488 STATION, BUT FOR EVERYONE. 1051 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:11,489 >> WE DO OUR OWN LOCAL NEWSCASTS 1052 00:28:11,556 --> 00:28:12,490 AND WE CAN COVER WARM SPRINGS 1053 00:28:12,557 --> 00:28:13,992 BETTER THAN ANYBODY. 1054 00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:14,993 UM, MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOESN'T 1055 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:15,994 NECESSARILY SHOW UP UNLESS 1056 00:28:16,061 --> 00:28:17,495 SOMETHING VERY BAD HAS HAPPENED. 1057 00:28:17,562 --> 00:28:18,997 >> Reporter: SHE'LL HAVE TO MAKE 1058 00:28:19,064 --> 00:28:19,998 CUTS, AND SHE EXPECTS TO LOSE 1059 00:28:20,065 --> 00:28:21,499 ACCESS TO NATIONAL NEWS AND 1060 00:28:21,566 --> 00:28:23,501 TRIBAL NETWORKS. 1061 00:28:23,568 --> 00:28:25,003 >> "NATIVE AMERICA CALLING" AND 1062 00:28:25,070 --> 00:28:26,504 "NATIONAL NATIVE NEWS," AND 1063 00:28:26,571 --> 00:28:28,006 THOSE ARE PROGRAMS THAT PEOPLE 1064 00:28:28,073 --> 00:28:29,007 HERE LOVE AND TUNE IN FOR LIKE 1065 00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:31,009 EVERY DAY AT 10:00. 1066 00:28:31,076 --> 00:28:32,010 >> Reporter: LEAVING THE HIGH 1067 00:28:32,077 --> 00:28:33,511 DESERT AT RISK OF BECOMING A 1068 00:28:33,578 --> 00:28:35,013 NEWS DESERT. 1069 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,514 >> THERE'LL BE, LIKE, A VOID 1070 00:28:36,581 --> 00:28:37,515 WHERE PROBABLY INCORRECT 1071 00:28:37,582 --> 00:28:44,589 INFORMATION WILL GROW. 1072 00:28:44,589 --> 00:28:45,523 >> John: EXACTLY. 1073 00:28:45,590 --> 00:28:46,124 AND YES, I KNOW THAT WHEN YOU 1074 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:47,025 HEAR "VOID WHERE INCORRECT 1075 00:28:47,092 --> 00:28:47,592 INFORMATION WILL GROW," YOU 1076 00:28:47,659 --> 00:28:48,526 IMMEDIATELY THINK OF WHATEVER 1077 00:28:48,593 --> 00:28:49,027 INFINITE CHASM IS BEHIND 1078 00:28:49,094 --> 00:28:50,028 MEGYN KELLY'S EYES. 1079 00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:50,528 [LAUGHTER] 1080 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:51,529 BUT, IN THIS CASE, IT MEANS 1081 00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:53,031 SOMETHING ELSE. 1082 00:28:53,098 --> 00:28:54,032 AND EVEN BEYOND NEWS, PUBLIC 1083 00:28:54,099 --> 00:28:55,033 MEDIA CAN BE HOW CRITICAL 1084 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:56,034 INFORMATION GETS DISSEMINATED. 1085 00:28:56,101 --> 00:28:57,035 IN COMMUNITIES WITH LIMITED 1086 00:28:57,102 --> 00:28:58,536 BROADBAND OR CELL SERVICE, 1087 00:28:58,603 --> 00:29:00,038 PUBLIC RADIO MAY BE THE ONLY WAY 1088 00:29:00,105 --> 00:29:01,039 TO DISTRIBUTE MISSING AND 1089 00:29:01,106 --> 00:29:02,540 ENDANGERED PERSONS ALERTS. 1090 00:29:02,607 --> 00:29:04,042 IT CAN ALSO BE CRUCIAL DURING AN 1091 00:29:04,109 --> 00:29:05,543 EMERGENCY LIKE A HURRICANE. 1092 00:29:05,610 --> 00:29:07,045 REMEMBER THAT STATION WHERE 1093 00:29:07,112 --> 00:29:08,046 ONE GUY'S THE ONLY FULL-TIME 1094 00:29:08,113 --> 00:29:10,048 NEWS EMPLOYEE? 1095 00:29:10,115 --> 00:29:11,549 IF IT GOES AWAY, A LOT GOES WITH 1096 00:29:11,616 --> 00:29:12,550 IT. 1097 00:29:12,617 --> 00:29:14,552 >> Reporter: ABOUT 19% OF 1098 00:29:14,619 --> 00:29:16,554 LOUISIANA LIVES IN POVERTY, AND 1099 00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:19,057 15% DON'T HAVE INTERNET ACCESS, 1100 00:29:19,124 --> 00:29:21,059 ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CENSUS. 1101 00:29:21,126 --> 00:29:22,060 >> YOU CAN'T AFFORD SATELLITE 1102 00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:23,061 TV. 1103 00:29:23,128 --> 00:29:25,063 YOU CAN'T BUY CABLE. 1104 00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:27,065 AND THEY'RE ALONE. 1105 00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:29,567 AND SO IT IS A LIFELINE. 1106 00:29:29,634 --> 00:29:31,069 AND WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THIS IS 1107 00:29:31,136 --> 00:29:33,071 THAT THEY FEEL CONNECTED. 1108 00:29:33,138 --> 00:29:34,072 THEY STAY CONNECTED TO THE 1109 00:29:34,139 --> 00:29:35,073 WORLD. 1110 00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:36,574 >> Reporter: THESE RADIO 1111 00:29:36,641 --> 00:29:38,076 EMERGENCY ALERTS ARE VITAL 1112 00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:39,577 DURING HURRICANE SEASON, WARNING 1113 00:29:39,644 --> 00:29:41,079 FOLKS WHERE AND WHEN STORMS WILL 1114 00:29:41,146 --> 00:29:42,580 HIT. 1115 00:29:42,647 --> 00:29:44,582 >> PUBLIC RADIO SAVES LIVES. 1116 00:29:44,649 --> 00:29:46,584 THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. 1117 00:29:46,651 --> 00:29:49,087 WITHOUT IT, PEOPLE WOULD DIE. 1118 00:29:49,154 --> 00:29:50,588 >> John: RIGHT. 1119 00:29:50,655 --> 00:29:51,589 WITHOUT THEIR EMERGENCY 1120 00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:52,590 BROADCAST SYSTEM, PEOPLE WOULD 1121 00:29:52,657 --> 00:29:54,092 DIE. 1122 00:29:54,159 --> 00:29:58,663 IF YOU TAKE ONE THING AWAY FROM 1123 00:29:58,730 --> 00:29:59,664 THIS PIECE, IT REALLY SHOULD BE 1124 00:29:59,731 --> 00:30:00,598 THAT -- EVEN THOUGH, 1125 00:30:00,665 --> 00:30:01,232 UNFORTUNATELY, IT'LL PROBABLY BE 1126 00:30:01,299 --> 00:30:02,100 THIS INSTEAD: 1127 00:30:02,167 --> 00:30:02,667 >> ♪ JEKYLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, 1128 00:30:02,734 --> 00:30:03,601 JEKYLL, HYDE, HYDE, JEKYLL ♪ 1129 00:30:03,668 --> 00:30:04,602 ♪ JEYKLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 1130 00:30:04,669 --> 00:30:05,603 HYDE ♪ 1131 00:30:05,670 --> 00:30:06,604 ♪ JEKYLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 1132 00:30:06,671 --> 00:30:07,605 HYDE, HYDE, JEKYLL ♪ 1133 00:30:07,672 --> 00:30:08,239 ♪ JEYKLL, JEKYLL, HYDE, JEKYLL, 1134 00:30:08,306 --> 00:30:11,109 HYDE ♪ 1135 00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:12,911 >> John: THIS IS NEVER LEAVING 1136 00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:14,112 YOUR BRAIN. 1137 00:30:14,179 --> 00:30:15,280 IT IS TATTOOED ONTO YOUR 1138 00:30:15,346 --> 00:30:16,114 EARDRUMS. 1139 00:30:16,181 --> 00:30:17,115 IT'S NOT JUST THAT. 1140 00:30:17,182 --> 00:30:18,116 SOME STATIONS HAVE ALSO JUMPED 1141 00:30:18,183 --> 00:30:19,117 IN TO SERVE THEIR LISTENERS, 1142 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:19,717 EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT PREPARED 1143 00:30:19,784 --> 00:30:20,618 TO. 1144 00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:21,619 TAKE BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO IN 1145 00:30:21,686 --> 00:30:22,187 NORTH CAROLINA, WHICH HAD TO 1146 00:30:22,253 --> 00:30:23,121 PIVOT INTO EMERGENCY ALERTS 1147 00:30:23,188 --> 00:30:24,122 DURING HURRICANE HELENE LAST 1148 00:30:24,189 --> 00:30:25,623 YEAR, WHEN ITS SMALL STAFF OF 1149 00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:26,624 SEVEN DIDN'T JUST REPORT THROUGH 1150 00:30:26,691 --> 00:30:28,126 THE STORM AND IMMEDIATE 1151 00:30:28,193 --> 00:30:30,128 AFTERMATH, BUT THEY ALSO KEPT 1152 00:30:30,195 --> 00:30:31,129 WORKING THROUGH A 53-DAY STRETCH 1153 00:30:31,196 --> 00:30:32,130 WHERE LOCALS DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS 1154 00:30:32,197 --> 00:30:35,133 TO CLEAN WATER. 1155 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,134 AND IF YOU HEAR THE MESSAGES 1156 00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:37,135 THEY GOT FROM LISTENERS 1157 00:30:37,202 --> 00:30:39,637 AFTERWARDS, YOU GET A PICTURE OF 1158 00:30:39,704 --> 00:30:40,238 JUST HOW MUCH THEIR WORK MEANT 1159 00:30:40,305 --> 00:30:42,140 TO PEOPLE. 1160 00:30:42,207 --> 00:30:43,141 >> YOU GUYS WERE WONDERFUL, AND 1161 00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:44,142 YOU SUSTAINED ME. 1162 00:30:44,209 --> 00:30:45,643 I WAS ISOLATED ON A 1163 00:30:45,710 --> 00:30:47,645 MOUNTAINSIDE. 1164 00:30:47,712 --> 00:30:48,646 >> MY WIFE AND I ARE SO THANKFUL 1165 00:30:48,713 --> 00:30:49,647 FOR YOUR CONSTANT PRESENCE 1166 00:30:49,714 --> 00:30:51,149 DURING THIS CRISIS. 1167 00:30:51,216 --> 00:30:52,150 KEEP IT UP. 1168 00:30:52,217 --> 00:30:53,151 WE LOVE YOU. 1169 00:30:53,218 --> 00:30:54,185 >> THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR 1170 00:30:54,252 --> 00:30:56,154 BEING THERE. 1171 00:30:56,221 --> 00:30:58,656 IT'S JUST GOING TO MAKE ME CRY, 1172 00:30:58,723 --> 00:30:59,657 BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONLY SOURCE 1173 00:30:59,724 --> 00:31:02,160 OF INFORMATION THAT WE'VE HAD. 1174 00:31:02,227 --> 00:31:03,161 THANK YOU. 1175 00:31:03,228 --> 00:31:04,662 BYE-BYE. 1176 00:31:04,729 --> 00:31:05,663 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S INCREDIBLY 1177 00:31:05,730 --> 00:31:07,165 MOVING. 1178 00:31:07,232 --> 00:31:08,166 HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING 1179 00:31:08,233 --> 00:31:09,667 TO CRY, AND I HAVEN'T CRIED AT A 1180 00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:10,668 RADIO SEGMENT SINCE THAT TIME I 1181 00:31:10,735 --> 00:31:12,670 HEARD ABOUT A 1182 00:31:12,737 --> 00:31:14,172 NEAR-MINT-CONDITION KOHLER BIDET 1183 00:31:14,239 --> 00:31:15,673 BEING SOLD FOR THE LOW, LOW 1184 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:16,674 PRICE OF $50. 1185 00:31:16,741 --> 00:31:19,177 [LAUGHTER] 1186 00:31:19,244 --> 00:31:20,678 SO THAT'S WHAT'S AT STAKE HERE. 1187 00:31:20,745 --> 00:31:21,679 AND WHILE SOME MIGHT SUGGEST 1188 00:31:21,746 --> 00:31:23,181 THAT "THE FREE MARKET" WILL FILL 1189 00:31:23,248 --> 00:31:24,682 IN THE GAPS -- IN MANY CASES, 1190 00:31:24,749 --> 00:31:26,184 THESE STATIONS ONLY EXIST 1191 00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:27,685 BECAUSE THE FREE MARKET HAS 1192 00:31:27,752 --> 00:31:29,687 SHOWN IT WON'T. 1193 00:31:29,754 --> 00:31:31,189 BECAUSE, UNFORTUNATELY, IT MAY 1194 00:31:31,256 --> 00:31:32,690 WELL NOT FIND VALUE IN LOCALIZED 1195 00:31:32,757 --> 00:31:33,691 EMERGENCY ALERTS DURING 1196 00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:35,693 HURRICANES, OR ANNOUNCING FREE 1197 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,195 SLOPPY JOES FOR VETERANS, OR 1198 00:31:37,262 --> 00:31:38,196 EVEN IN POCKET SQUIRRELS. 1199 00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:39,697 WHICH IS MADNESS, GIVEN THEY 1200 00:31:39,764 --> 00:31:40,698 SHOULD CLEARLY BE THE MOST 1201 00:31:40,765 --> 00:31:43,701 VALUABLE COMMODITY ON THE 1202 00:31:43,768 --> 00:31:44,702 FUCKING PLANET. 1203 00:31:44,769 --> 00:31:46,204 AS THE GENERAL MANAGER OF 1204 00:31:46,271 --> 00:31:47,705 BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO TOLD ONE 1205 00:31:47,772 --> 00:31:48,706 REPORTER: "'NBC NIGHTLY NEWS' 1206 00:31:48,773 --> 00:31:50,208 CAN SHOW YOU PICTURES OF 1207 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:51,209 DEVASTATING FLOODING, BUT THEY 1208 00:31:51,276 --> 00:31:52,210 DON'T TELL LOCALS WHERE TO GET 1209 00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:54,212 FRESH WATER. 1210 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,214 NBC NEWS IS NOT FOR THAT." 1211 00:31:56,281 --> 00:31:57,715 AND SHE'S RIGHT. 1212 00:31:57,782 --> 00:31:58,716 NBC ISN'T FOCUSED ON EMERGENCY 1213 00:31:58,783 --> 00:32:00,218 INFORMATION ON THE LOCAL LEVEL. 1214 00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:01,719 IT'S CLEARLY FOCUSED ON ONE 1215 00:32:01,786 --> 00:32:02,720 THING AND ONE THING ONLY: 1216 00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:04,222 KEEPING LORNE MICHAELS ALIVE. 1217 00:32:04,289 --> 00:32:06,224 [LAUGHTER] 1218 00:32:06,291 --> 00:32:07,725 AND, FRANKLY, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A 1219 00:32:07,792 --> 00:32:09,727 BIT WEIRD HOW LITTLE WE FUND 1220 00:32:09,794 --> 00:32:10,728 PUBLIC MEDIA, GIVEN HOW VITAL IT 1221 00:32:10,795 --> 00:32:11,729 CAN BE. 1222 00:32:11,796 --> 00:32:13,731 BECAUSE, TO BE CLEAR: U.S. 1223 00:32:13,798 --> 00:32:15,233 PUBLIC MEDIA IS A GLOBAL OUTLIER 1224 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:16,234 IN HOW LITTLE FEDERAL FUNDING IT 1225 00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:18,236 RECEIVES. 1226 00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:19,237 EVEN BEFORE THESE CUTS, FEDERAL 1227 00:32:19,304 --> 00:32:21,239 SPENDING AMOUNTED TO LESS THAN 1228 00:32:21,306 --> 00:32:23,241 $1.60 PER CAPITA ON IT, COMPARED 1229 00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:24,742 TO COUNTRIES LIKE NORWAY, SWEDEN 1230 00:32:24,809 --> 00:32:25,743 AND THE U.K., WHICH DEVOTE 1231 00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:27,745 NEARLY $100 OR MORE. 1232 00:32:27,812 --> 00:32:30,248 AND RESEARCH SHOWS A POSITIVE 1233 00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:32,250 CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STRENGTH 1234 00:32:32,317 --> 00:32:33,751 OF PUBLIC MEDIA SYSTEMS AND THE 1235 00:32:33,818 --> 00:32:35,753 HEALTH OF DEMOCRACIES. 1236 00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:37,255 AND, GIVEN THE HEALTH OF OUR 1237 00:32:37,322 --> 00:32:38,256 DEMOCRACY IS CURRENTLY BEST 1238 00:32:38,323 --> 00:32:39,757 DESCRIBED AS "THAT ONE PHOTO OF 1239 00:32:39,824 --> 00:32:41,259 PRINCE PHILIP WHERE HE WAS IN 1240 00:32:41,326 --> 00:32:43,761 THE CAR," WE COULD USE ALL THE 1241 00:32:43,828 --> 00:32:44,762 PUBLIC MEDIA FUNDING WE CAN GET 1242 00:32:44,829 --> 00:32:45,763 RIGHT NOW. 1243 00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:48,266 SO, WHAT CAN WE DO? 1244 00:32:48,333 --> 00:32:49,767 WELL, IN A UNIVERSE IN WHICH A 1245 00:32:49,834 --> 00:32:51,269 COMPETENT, EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT 1246 00:32:51,336 --> 00:32:52,770 WERE IN PLACE, WE'D IDEALLY WORK 1247 00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:54,772 ON A LONG-TERM FIX FOR THE WAY 1248 00:32:54,839 --> 00:32:56,274 THE CPB'S FUNDED, AND INSTEAD OF 1249 00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:56,841 GIVING CONGRESS THE POWER TO 1250 00:32:56,908 --> 00:32:58,276 TAKE ITS MONEY AWAY EVERY TWO 1251 00:32:58,343 --> 00:33:00,278 YEARS, WE'D INSTITUTE SOME KIND 1252 00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:01,279 OF TAX OR LICENSING FEE THAT 1253 00:33:01,346 --> 00:33:03,281 COULD RELIABLY FUND IT. 1254 00:33:03,348 --> 00:33:04,282 THAT'S SOMETHING PEOPLE HAVE 1255 00:33:04,349 --> 00:33:05,283 BEEN RECOMMENDING SINCE THE CPB 1256 00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:07,785 WAS FIRST CREATED. 1257 00:33:07,852 --> 00:33:09,287 SADLY, WE DON'T LIVE IN THAT 1258 00:33:09,354 --> 00:33:10,788 UNIVERSE RIGHT NOW, AND UNTIL WE 1259 00:33:10,855 --> 00:33:11,789 DO, PUBLIC MEDIA'S IN A DIRE 1260 00:33:11,856 --> 00:33:14,292 SITUATION. 1261 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:15,293 FORTUNATELY, THERE'S BEEN A BIG 1262 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:16,794 PUBLIC PUSH RECENTLY TO RAISE 1263 00:33:16,861 --> 00:33:17,795 MONEY TO SUPPORT HARD-HIT 1264 00:33:17,862 --> 00:33:20,298 STATIONS AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. 1265 00:33:20,365 --> 00:33:21,299 A NONPROFIT CALLED THE PUBLIC 1266 00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:22,800 MEDIA COMPANY HAS LAUNCHED AN 1267 00:33:22,867 --> 00:33:24,302 INITIATIVE CALLED THE BRIDGE 1268 00:33:24,369 --> 00:33:25,803 FUND, TO COLLECT AND DISTRIBUTE 1269 00:33:25,870 --> 00:33:26,804 FUNDING TO AT-RISK LOCAL PUBLIC 1270 00:33:26,871 --> 00:33:28,306 MEDIA STATIONS. 1271 00:33:28,373 --> 00:33:29,307 AND IF YOU WANT TO GIVE TO ONE 1272 00:33:29,374 --> 00:33:30,808 DIRECTLY, YOU CAN FIND THE 1273 00:33:30,875 --> 00:33:31,809 STATIONS MOST IN NEED AT 1274 00:33:31,876 --> 00:33:34,312 AdoptAStation.org. 1275 00:33:34,379 --> 00:33:36,814 MEANWHILE, OTHERS ARE FINDING 1276 00:33:36,881 --> 00:33:38,316 IMAGINATIVE WAYS TO RAISE MONEY, 1277 00:33:38,383 --> 00:33:39,817 INCLUDING, JUST THIS WEEK, THIS: 1278 00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:40,818 >> WHO DOESN'T LOVE BOB ROSS, 1279 00:33:40,885 --> 00:33:41,819 RIGHT? 1280 00:33:41,886 --> 00:33:43,321 THREE ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY THE 1281 00:33:43,388 --> 00:33:44,822 RENOWNED TV ARTIST HAVE FETCHED 1282 00:33:44,889 --> 00:33:48,826 A TOTAL OF $662,000 AT AUCTION. 1283 00:33:48,893 --> 00:33:50,328 PROCEEDS OF THE SALE WILL 1284 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:51,829 SUPPORT PUBLIC TV STATIONS WHICH 1285 00:33:51,896 --> 00:33:52,830 NEED IT AFTER RECENT FEDERAL 1286 00:33:52,897 --> 00:33:54,332 FUNDING CUTS. 1287 00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:56,334 >> John: IT'S TRUE -- 1288 00:33:56,401 --> 00:33:58,336 APPARENTLY, BOB ROSS INC. PUT 1289 00:33:58,403 --> 00:33:59,337 THESE PAINTINGS UP FOR AUCTION, 1290 00:33:59,404 --> 00:34:00,338 TO RAISE MONEY. 1291 00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:01,339 AND THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY 1292 00:34:01,406 --> 00:34:03,841 BEAUTIFUL. 1293 00:34:03,908 --> 00:34:04,475 LOOK, I'M NO ART CONNOISSEUR -- 1294 00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:05,343 MY LIKING A PAINTING OFTEN COMES 1295 00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:06,344 DOWN TO WHETHER OR NOT IT 1296 00:34:06,411 --> 00:34:06,978 FEATURES CARTOON RATS GETTING IT 1297 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,347 ON. 1298 00:34:09,414 --> 00:34:12,850 [LAUGHTER] 1299 00:34:12,917 --> 00:34:13,851 BUT, IN THIS CASE, I'LL HAPPILY 1300 00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:17,355 MAKE AN EXCEPTION. 1301 00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:18,356 NOW, I'LL BE HONEST, WE ACTUALLY 1302 00:34:18,422 --> 00:34:18,956 BID ON THOSE PAINTINGS, TRYING 1303 00:34:19,023 --> 00:34:19,857 TO WIN ONE SO THAT WE COULD 1304 00:34:19,924 --> 00:34:21,859 RE-AUCTION IT TONIGHT TO BENEFIT 1305 00:34:21,926 --> 00:34:22,860 PUBLIC MEDIA. 1306 00:34:22,927 --> 00:34:23,494 SADLY, THOSE PRICES WERE OUTSIDE 1307 00:34:23,561 --> 00:34:24,362 OUR BUDGET. 1308 00:34:24,429 --> 00:34:25,362 SO WE ASKED THE PEOPLE AT 1309 00:34:25,429 --> 00:34:25,963 BOB ROSS INC. IF THEY'D DONATE 1310 00:34:26,030 --> 00:34:27,364 ANOTHER ONE FOR US TO AUCTION, 1311 00:34:27,431 --> 00:34:27,931 AND THEY SAID, VERY KINDLY, 1312 00:34:27,998 --> 00:34:28,866 THAT'S JUST NOT SOMETHING THEY 1313 00:34:28,933 --> 00:34:29,867 DO. 1314 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:30,868 OTHERWISE, EVERYONE WOULD ASK 1315 00:34:30,935 --> 00:34:31,869 THEM ALL THE TIME, AND THEY'D 1316 00:34:31,936 --> 00:34:34,871 HAVE NO PAINTINGS LEFT. 1317 00:34:34,938 --> 00:34:35,873 WHICH DOES MAKE SENSE. 1318 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:36,873 BUT THEN WE REMEMBERED: WE'VE 1319 00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:38,376 ACTUALLY ACCUMULATED A BUNCH OF 1320 00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:39,377 WEIRD ARTIFACTS ON THIS SHOW 1321 00:34:39,444 --> 00:34:40,378 OVER THE YEARS THAT WE COULD 1322 00:34:40,445 --> 00:34:41,879 DEFINITELY AUCTION OFF TO RAISE 1323 00:34:41,946 --> 00:34:43,880 SOME MUCH-NEEDED MONEY. 1324 00:34:43,947 --> 00:34:48,386 SO PLEASE, COME WITH ME... 1325 00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:51,389 ♪ ♪ 1326 00:34:51,456 --> 00:34:53,891 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1327 00:34:53,958 --> 00:34:56,393 WELCOME! 1328 00:34:56,460 --> 00:34:58,396 I'M PROUD TO ANNOUNCE "LAST WEEK 1329 00:34:58,463 --> 00:34:59,397 TONIGHT'S" FIRST-EVER AUCTION IN 1330 00:34:59,464 --> 00:35:01,399 AID OF PUBLIC MEDIA. 1331 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:02,900 THIS IS REAL. 1332 00:35:02,967 --> 00:35:04,902 IT'LL BE RUNNING THROUGH 1333 00:35:04,969 --> 00:35:05,903 NOVEMBER 24TH, AND YOU CAN BID 1334 00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:07,405 AT THE WEBSITE 1335 00:35:07,472 --> 00:35:09,407 JohnOliversJunk.com, WHICH WAS 1336 00:35:09,474 --> 00:35:12,410 INEXPLICABLY AVAILABLE. 1337 00:35:12,477 --> 00:35:13,911 WE HAVE LOTS OF FANTASTIC ITEMS 1338 00:35:13,978 --> 00:35:16,914 UP FOR SALE. 1339 00:35:16,981 --> 00:35:17,915 HERE'S JUST A SELECTED FEW. 1340 00:35:17,982 --> 00:35:19,417 OUR FIRST ITEM'S ACTUALLY BEEN 1341 00:35:19,484 --> 00:35:20,918 AUCTIONED OFF BEFORE. 1342 00:35:20,985 --> 00:35:22,420 BECAUSE, YOU MAY REMEMBER, WE 1343 00:35:22,487 --> 00:35:24,422 ONCE BOUGHT RUSSELL CROWE'S 1344 00:35:24,489 --> 00:35:25,423 JOCKSTRAP FROM "CINDERELLA MAN," 1345 00:35:25,490 --> 00:35:26,924 WHEN HE HELD A, QUOTE, 1346 00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:28,926 "ART OF DIVORCE AUCTION." 1347 00:35:28,993 --> 00:35:30,428 HE THEN USED THE PROCEEDS TO 1348 00:35:30,495 --> 00:35:32,430 FUND A KOALA CHLAMYDIA WARD IN 1349 00:35:32,497 --> 00:35:33,931 AUSTRALIA IN MY NAME. 1350 00:35:33,998 --> 00:35:35,433 WELL, I'M NOW HAPPY TO SAY THIS 1351 00:35:35,500 --> 00:35:36,934 LIFE-SAVING JOCKSTRAP CAN BE 1352 00:35:37,001 --> 00:35:39,437 YOURS. 1353 00:35:39,504 --> 00:35:39,937 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1354 00:35:40,004 --> 00:35:41,939 HERE IT IS. 1355 00:35:42,006 --> 00:35:43,941 IT'S A PRICELESS PIECE OF 1356 00:35:44,008 --> 00:35:45,943 CINEMATIC HISTORY, AND IT'S 1357 00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:49,447 SAVED COUNTLESS KOALAS. 1358 00:35:49,514 --> 00:35:51,449 MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO: 1359 00:35:51,516 --> 00:35:53,451 BACK IN SEASON 9, YOU MAY 1360 00:35:53,518 --> 00:35:53,985 REMEMBER THAT I MARRIED A 1361 00:35:54,051 --> 00:35:55,453 CABBAGE IN A BEAUTIFUL 1362 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:56,454 NON-DENOMINATIONAL CEREMONY 1363 00:35:56,521 --> 00:35:58,456 OFFICIATED BY STEVE BUSCEMI. 1364 00:35:58,523 --> 00:35:59,957 WELL -- AND THERE'S NO GOOD WAY 1365 00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:01,459 TO SAY THIS -- MY CABBAGE WIFE 1366 00:36:01,526 --> 00:36:03,961 IS AVAILABLE FOR SALE TO THE 1367 00:36:04,028 --> 00:36:04,962 HIGHEST BIDDER, NO QUESTIONS 1368 00:36:05,029 --> 00:36:06,964 ASKED. 1369 00:36:07,031 --> 00:36:12,970 [LAUGHTER] 1370 00:36:13,037 --> 00:36:13,671 [APPLAUSE] 1371 00:36:13,738 --> 00:36:14,472 AS MUCH AS IT HURTS FOR US TO 1372 00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:15,473 SPLIT, WE'RE DOING IT FOR THE 1373 00:36:15,540 --> 00:36:16,474 GREATER GOOD. 1374 00:36:16,541 --> 00:36:17,475 BIDDING FOR HER IS NOW OPEN. 1375 00:36:17,542 --> 00:36:18,476 MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE. 1376 00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:19,477 AND, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, 1377 00:36:19,544 --> 00:36:20,478 THESE WERE FEATURED ON OUR SHOW 1378 00:36:20,545 --> 00:36:21,979 PRETTY RECENTLY. 1379 00:36:22,046 --> 00:36:24,482 LBJ'S GIANT BALLS. 1380 00:36:24,549 --> 00:36:25,483 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1381 00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:26,484 JUST LOOK AT THESE GLORIOUS 1382 00:36:26,551 --> 00:36:27,985 MONSTROSITIES! 1383 00:36:28,052 --> 00:36:29,487 IF LBJ'S PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY 1384 00:36:29,554 --> 00:36:30,087 DOESN'T HAVE A HOME FOR THEM, 1385 00:36:30,154 --> 00:36:31,989 MAYBE YOU DO. 1386 00:36:32,056 --> 00:36:33,491 BECAUSE THESE THINGS COULD BE A 1387 00:36:33,558 --> 00:36:34,992 REAL CONVERSATION PIECE FOR YOUR 1388 00:36:35,059 --> 00:36:36,494 LIVING ROOM, BEDROOM, STUDIO 1389 00:36:36,561 --> 00:36:40,498 APARTMENT, OR NURSERY. 1390 00:36:40,565 --> 00:36:44,001 [LAUGHTER] 1391 00:36:44,068 --> 00:36:44,502 AND, IN KEEPING WITH THE 1392 00:36:44,569 --> 00:36:45,503 PRESIDENTIAL THEME, WE'RE ALSO 1393 00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:47,004 AUCTIONING OFF OUR WAX 1394 00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:48,005 PRESIDENTS, WHICH WE BOUGHT AT 1395 00:36:48,072 --> 00:36:49,507 AN AUCTION IN GETTYSBURG, 1396 00:36:49,574 --> 00:36:50,508 PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUT IN MOVIE 1397 00:36:50,575 --> 00:36:52,009 PARODIES WITH, AMONG OTHERS, 1398 00:36:52,076 --> 00:36:55,012 LAURA LINNEY AND TOM HANKS. 1399 00:36:55,079 --> 00:36:56,514 BUT WAIT, BECAUSE I'M STILL NOT 1400 00:36:56,581 --> 00:36:58,015 DONE -- AND TO TELL YOU ABOUT 1401 00:36:58,082 --> 00:37:00,017 SOME OTHER ITEMS UP FOR AUCTION, 1402 00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:01,018 HERE'S A MAN WITH DECADES OF 1403 00:37:01,085 --> 00:37:02,019 EXPERIENCE FUNDRAISING FOR 1404 00:37:02,086 --> 00:37:03,521 PUBLIC TELEVISION, 1405 00:37:03,588 --> 00:37:07,024 MR. JOEL McHALE. 1406 00:37:07,091 --> 00:37:07,525 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1407 00:37:07,592 --> 00:37:08,526 >> THANKS, JOHN. 1408 00:37:08,593 --> 00:37:10,027 AS YOU'VE SEEN TONIGHT, PUBLIC 1409 00:37:10,094 --> 00:37:11,028 MEDIA IS SO AMAZING. 1410 00:37:11,095 --> 00:37:12,029 I LOVE IT ALMOST AS MUCH AS I 1411 00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:16,534 LOVE BRITISH COMEDY. 1412 00:37:16,601 --> 00:37:17,535 WHICH IS SO AMAZING. 1413 00:37:17,602 --> 00:37:18,536 ROWAN ATKINSON IS A GENIUS, AND 1414 00:37:18,603 --> 00:37:19,136 ANYONE WHO THOUGHT THEY COULD 1415 00:37:19,203 --> 00:37:20,037 REPLACE HIM AS ZAZU IN 1416 00:37:20,104 --> 00:37:21,038 "THE LION KING" IS OUT OF THEIR 1417 00:37:21,105 --> 00:37:21,539 FUCKING MIND. 1418 00:37:21,606 --> 00:37:25,042 [LAUGHTER] 1419 00:37:25,109 --> 00:37:25,810 THAT MOVIE WAS RUINED WITHOUT 1420 00:37:25,876 --> 00:37:26,043 HIM. 1421 00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:27,044 ANYWAY, I'M SO EXCITED TO TELL 1422 00:37:27,111 --> 00:37:28,546 YOU ABOUT SOME OF THESE ITEMS, 1423 00:37:28,613 --> 00:37:29,547 INCLUDING THESE GOLDEN SNEAKERS, 1424 00:37:29,614 --> 00:37:31,549 WORN BY BRITISH COMEDIAN 1425 00:37:31,616 --> 00:37:33,551 JOHN OLIVER IN A SHOW ABOUT FIFA 1426 00:37:33,618 --> 00:37:34,552 THAT, JUDGING BY THIS, AIRED 1427 00:37:34,619 --> 00:37:39,056 AROUND 25 YEARS AGO. 1428 00:37:39,123 --> 00:37:39,757 [APPLAUSE] 1429 00:37:39,824 --> 00:37:40,057 SO AMAZING. 1430 00:37:40,124 --> 00:37:41,559 AND BECAUSE NO PUBLIC MEDIA 1431 00:37:41,626 --> 00:37:42,560 FUNDRAISER IS COMPLETE WITHOUT 1432 00:37:42,627 --> 00:37:44,061 IT, WE'RE ALSO AUCTIONING OFF A 1433 00:37:44,128 --> 00:37:45,563 BIDET, SIGNED BY -- AND THIS IS 1434 00:37:45,630 --> 00:37:46,564 TRUE -- THE BERSERKER BLÖTHAR 1435 00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:50,568 FROM GWAR. 1436 00:37:50,635 --> 00:37:51,068 [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 1437 00:37:51,135 --> 00:37:51,569 SO AMAZING. 1438 00:37:51,636 --> 00:37:52,570 AND, FINALLY -- AND THIS IS MY 1439 00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:54,071 FAVORITE ITEM -- I THINK 1440 00:37:54,138 --> 00:37:59,076 EVERYONE KNOWS HOW EXCITED I AM 1441 00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:00,278 ABOUT ROWAN ATKINSON, THE NUMBER 1442 00:38:00,344 --> 00:38:02,580 ONE BRITISH COMEDIAN OF ALL 1443 00:38:02,647 --> 00:38:02,780 TIME. 1444 00:38:02,847 --> 00:38:04,582 SO WE ARE AUCTIONING OFF THE 1445 00:38:04,649 --> 00:38:06,083 COMPLETE DVD BOX SET OF 1446 00:38:06,150 --> 00:38:07,084 "MR. BEAN," SIGNED BY ME, SIR 1447 00:38:07,151 --> 00:38:09,086 JOEL McHALE. 1448 00:38:09,153 --> 00:38:10,087 BACK TO YOU, SETH! 1449 00:38:10,154 --> 00:38:11,088 >> John: THANKS, JOEL! 1450 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:12,590 ALL THOSE ITEMS AND MORE ARE 1451 00:38:12,657 --> 00:38:14,592 AVAILABLE AT JohnOliversJunk.com 1452 00:38:14,659 --> 00:38:16,093 WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO THE 1453 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,595 PUBLIC MEDIA BRIDGE FUND. 1454 00:38:17,662 --> 00:38:18,596 BUT WAIT -- THERE'S ACTUALLY ONE 1455 00:38:18,663 --> 00:38:20,097 MORE THING. 1456 00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:21,599 BECAUSE REMEMBER WHEN I SAID 1457 00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:23,100 THAT BOB ROSS INC. NEVER LETS 1458 00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:24,101 PEOPLE HAVE PAINTINGS TO SELL? 1459 00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:25,102 THAT'S TRUE. 1460 00:38:25,169 --> 00:38:26,604 THEY NEVER DO. 1461 00:38:26,671 --> 00:38:28,105 EXCEPT, INCREDIBLY, THEY'VE TOLD 1462 00:38:28,172 --> 00:38:29,106 US THEY'RE WILLING TO MAKE A 1463 00:38:29,173 --> 00:38:30,107 ONE-TIME EXCEPTION FOR THIS 1464 00:38:30,174 --> 00:38:31,108 AUCTION. 1465 00:38:31,175 --> 00:38:33,110 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1466 00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:35,112 SO WE HAVE THIS ACTUAL BOB ROSS 1467 00:38:35,179 --> 00:38:38,115 ORIGINAL, UP FOR SALE. 1468 00:38:38,182 --> 00:38:40,618 IT'S CALLED "CABIN AT SUNSET," 1469 00:38:40,685 --> 00:38:42,620 HE PAINTED IT ON TV IN 1987, AND 1470 00:38:42,687 --> 00:38:43,621 IT'S BEEN IN STORAGE FOR NEARLY 1471 00:38:43,688 --> 00:38:47,625 40 YEARS. 1472 00:38:47,692 --> 00:38:49,126 IT'S A TRUE MASTERPIECE PAINTED 1473 00:38:49,193 --> 00:38:50,127 BY A MAN AND, I'M JUST GOING TO 1474 00:38:50,194 --> 00:38:51,128 ASSUME, HIS POCKET SQUIRREL, 1475 00:38:51,195 --> 00:38:52,630 PEAPOD. 1476 00:38:52,697 --> 00:38:55,132 YOU CAN FIND THIS PAINTING AND 1477 00:38:55,199 --> 00:38:56,133 MANY, MANY OTHER ITEMS -- FROM A 1478 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,636 CASE OF JOHN OLIVER WINE, TO OUR 1479 00:38:58,703 --> 00:38:59,637 GIANT REESE'S MUG -- AS WELL AS 1480 00:38:59,704 --> 00:39:01,138 A LINK TO FIND STATIONS TO 1481 00:39:01,205 --> 00:39:02,139 DONATE TO DIRECTLY, AT 1482 00:39:02,206 --> 00:39:03,641 JohnOliversJunk.com. 1483 00:39:03,708 --> 00:39:05,142 THAT'S IT! 1484 00:39:05,209 --> 00:39:06,644 THAT'S OUR SHOW, AND INDEED OUR 1485 00:39:06,711 --> 00:39:08,646 SEASON. 1486 00:39:08,713 --> 00:39:10,147 THANKS SO MUCH FOR WATCHING ALL 1487 00:39:10,214 --> 00:39:14,652 YEAR. 1488 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:15,152 WE TRULY APPRECIATE IT. 1489 00:39:15,219 --> 00:39:16,153 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN IN FEBRUARY. 1490 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:20,658 GOOD NIGHT! 1491 00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:27,732 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1492 00:39:28,733 --> 00:39:29,367 BID RIGHT NOW. 1493 00:39:29,433 --> 00:39:33,170 I'M GOING TO MISS YOU SO MUCH. 1494 00:39:33,237 --> 00:39:35,172 YOU'RE GOING TO A BETTER PLACE.