Ken Burns

just utterly American, but also been out there forever.

And we end up with what we have, which is this, you know, glorious, wonderful, but also dysfunctional republic.

It's the best one out there, yeah.

It's exactly right.

A lot.

pretty well versed in American history, but nothing.

I mean, like, I've worked on two films where I made the mistake of thinking, ah, I know about this subject.

Baseball and Vietnam.

Because I grew up in the 60s and I went through it.

I lived on a college campus.

I knew all the stuff, I thought.

I was at college as the war was winding down, and I loved baseball.

Every day of both those productions were daily humiliations of what I didn't know.

And so what happens is you come in with a humility that I wish to know.

And rather than tell you what I know, the last time I checked, that's called homework.

We would rather share with you our process of discovery.

Joe, you cannot believe what we just found out.

Can I use these mugs to tell you how Daniel Morgan won the Battle of Cowpens against Bannister Tarleton in South Carolina, just below the North Carolina border?

And he trusts his militia who are unreliable.

Please just fire twice the first line of militia.