Ken Burns
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Ken Burns Discusses his New Series "The American Revolution" · 14 Nov 2025
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It's a revolution.
It's a civil war, as bloody a civil war as we have.
Our civil war is not really a civil war.
It's a sectional war.
And it's a world war, the fourth world war for the prize, global war for the prize.
of North America.
And that's a really interesting and complicated story that it's taken us 10 years.
And when we started, nobody was talking 250.
Nobody was talking about all this stuff.
And of course, as I said, Barack Obama had 13 months to go in his presidency.
That's their new... The last nine months I've been touring the country and I've said the same thing to everybody.
Said the same thing to a two and a half hour conversation with Joe Rogan and you and Theo Vaughn, as I said to the editorial board of the New York Times, to inner city school kids in Charleston, South Carolina, and Detroit, Chicago, to general audiences from Seattle to Los Angeles, from Charleston to Boston,
and every place in between.
And I say the same things.
We're umpires throwing balls and strikes, but that's exactly what you want is to, you know, we live in a world in which it's just a highlight film, right?
So Babe Ruth, if you're gonna show Babe Ruth, you could just show him hitting a home run.
Well, Babe Ruth,
Strikes out more often than he hits home runs.
And he comes up only once every nine times at bat.
And sometimes it's that middle infielder, the second baseman or the shortstop who's making diddly, who comes up batting ninth, who's the star of the thing, the last world series to the Blue Jays ever loving, you know, despair.
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