Fire Elmo, Keep Elon: Defunding NPR and PBS
The Happy Women Podcast
Happy Women
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this episode of the Happy Women Podcast, hosts Jen and Katie engage with Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discussing the future of public broadcasting, particularly PBS and NPR. They explore the implications of government funding on media bias, the efficiency of public media, and the potential consequences of cutting taxpayer support. The conversation highlights the challenges faced by public media in maintaining credibility and relevance in a changing political landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | There are two happy women bringing you inspiring stories, politics, pop culture, and lifestyle hacks, all with an eye to making our communities and our country a better place to live. |
| 0:13.5 | It's the Happy Women podcast with your host, Jen Horn and Katie Gorka. |
| 0:19.8 | The Trump administration going after Mr. Rogers and Oscar the Grouch. |
| 0:24.8 | Okay, maybe not so much. |
| 0:26.9 | Maybe they're just going after a little bit of corruption and government fraud and overspending on things that probably don't need our tax dollars. |
| 0:36.9 | We'll have a little bit of fun |
| 0:37.9 | today on this episode of the Happy Women podcast. I'm Jennifer Horn. And I'm Katie Gorka. |
| 0:44.1 | And joining us right now, I'm so excited because Katie, you know, you're our workwife. Yeah, |
| 0:51.1 | you're our workwife. I'm here with you on the podcast. And my, don't, you know, don't worry. It's just platonic workwife. Yeah, you're our workwife. I'm here with you on the podcast. And my, don't, you know, |
| 0:56.2 | don't worry. It's worth just platonic workwives. And Mike Gonzalez is the co-author of your book, |
| 1:01.3 | which we talk about all the time, next gen Marxism. He's also a senior fellow at the Heritage |
| 1:05.8 | Foundation. Has an amazing career, amazing story career. And he joins us right now, and it's our first time getting to chat. So it's so exciting to have you here, Mike Gonzalez. Thanks so much for being with us. |
| 1:14.9 | It's my pleasure to be here at Adnanbird. |
| 1:18.8 | Now, now here we go. It's exactly right. Yesterday, you took part in this hearing, which I thought |
| 1:25.4 | was so enlightening. I was able to watch pieces of this |
| 1:28.4 | about the future of PBS, the future of NPR. There are so many, there's so many outlets, |
| 1:36.2 | the government funds that are political actors and are acting politically motivated and not |
| 1:42.0 | necessarily spreading just a non-political message from our government. |
| 1:47.4 | And first of all, how was that hearing for you yesterday? |
| 1:50.5 | You mentioned before we started recording that it's very chaotic. |
| 1:54.5 | It kind of sucks you in. |
| 1:55.8 | But what did you think? |
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