00:00We'll have a lot of detail in the foreground but right back here just want
00:04the indication of some happy little trees that live back in there.
00:07Several Bob Ross paintings are going up for auction to support public media
00:10after President Trump pulled funding earlier this year.
00:18Sometimes even the mistake or what you think is a mistake turns out to be a learning experience
00:22that maybe is better than what you were trying to do.
00:25Evaluate it.
00:27We don't make mistakes, you know. We have happy accidents.
00:30That is one of the three paintings going up for auction on November 11th.
00:34All the proceeds from the auction will go to American Public Television and PBS.
00:38I think this actually would have been Bob's idea.
00:41And when I think about that it makes me, it makes me very proud.
00:45Now back to our old brush, old two inch brush that had the white on it.
00:49We can come down here and clean up the edges a little.
00:52That is another of the paintings going up for auction.
00:54The joy of painting aired on public television from 1983 to 1994 and still runs to this day.
01:00He loved public television.
01:02He loved that it was sort of him and the viewer and nobody else.
01:07He liked that sort of relationship, no third party interference.
01:11That's sort of what public television was to him and how we feel.
01:16It probably would have been his idea to get these paintings out of storage and auction them off to help the television system, which he considered an American treasure.
01:29Kowalski got in touch with Bonham's Auction House, who had recently auctioned off two Ross paintings.
01:33One of them sold for roughly $115,000 and the other one sold for $95,000.
01:38And I think that was an eye-opening number.
01:40Bidding for these paintings will start between $25,000 and $30,000.
01:43You need to register ahead of time and we need to prove that you are you and that you can pay for the thing.
01:49And then after that, there's a couple different ways you can bid.
01:52You can bid in person.
01:53You can bid via our app and you can also bid online.
01:58And so the auctioneer that day will be taking bids from all of those places.
02:03You can also bid via telephones.
02:05That money will go to public television at a time they really need it.
02:08Earlier this year, President Trump signed a law cutting $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances PBS.
02:16The net proceeds are going to go to American Public Television, which who are going to then funnel the funds into Create Channel.
02:24And the Create Channel is like the premium lifestyle channel for public television stations.
02:29So this is an amazing contribution at a time, a difficult time.
02:36The president previously called on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end quote, taxpayer subsidization of biased media, end quote.
02:43I don't pay for CBS to trash the Republicans, but the idea that our tax dollars going to PBS trashing the Republicans just makes it twice as offensive.
02:53PBS's bias rating leans left, while Newsbusters leans hard right.
02:57Those involved with the auction stressed the importance of public television.
03:00Public television is the go-to where everyone can access it.
03:03This is the point of public television that doesn't matter whether you're in a small town in Wyoming or in L.A.
03:09You can turn on your TV or go to your iPad for those kids and watch public television.
03:16I grew up on public television. It was the content in the educational programs, how to do things, how to cook, how to make things, how to paint.
03:30Frankly, it's like the YouTube before YouTube.
03:32If this goes well, we'll just keep going. We'll just keep giving paintings to American Public Television and letting them go through bottoms to auction them off.
03:43We'll just go until everything is fully funded again and we can relax and watch our public television.
03:50For Straight Arrow News, I'm Dan Levin. For more unbiased, fact-driven news, download the Straight Arrow News mobile app today or go to san.com.
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