Ken Burns

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ken Burns Discusses his New Series "The American Revolution" · 14 Nov 2025 podcast

You still have a question about whether Donald Trump knew about the sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein?

So I've been working for almost 10 years on a history of the American Revolution.

I began it when Barack Obama had 13 months to go in his presidency.

And of course, there's been a lot of water under the American bridge in the time then.

Mark Twain is supposed to have said that history doesn't repeat itself.

He's right.

No event has happened twice, but it rhymes.

For 50 years, I've been making films about subjects in American history, and it always rhymes.

And those rhymes change, particularly over the course of projects like this one that took 10 years or the Vietnam War that took 10 and a half years.

The rhymes are pretty obvious.

However,

However, as filmmakers, we have to have blinders on.

We want to just acknowledge them and just be disciplined to not say, isn't this so much like today?

Because they change.

We have a German, the voice of a German officer's wife who's crossing the Atlantic to join her husband, part of the Hessian mercenaries the Brits have hired to augment the British army.

And she's heard a rumor that Americans eat cats.

Now, if the film had, for some reason, the grace of God and funding come out last year, that would be a big deal.

And people would say, can you put that in there because of the crazy arguments about immigrants eating cats in Springfield, Ohio?

I think it's going to go on Sunday the 16th over everybody's.

Nobody's going to notice that.

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