Ken Burns

And his cousin freed all his slaves.

So there's already that.

The question is, if you are just taking the judgments of today to cancel somebody, you've just missed the possibility of getting to know George Washington or getting to know Thomas Jefferson.

And if you only do people who are perfect, you're either lying about them.

Or you've got very few characters, you know, because I don't know about you.

I'm not.

I presume you're not.

I don't think you know anybody who's perfect.

I don't know anybody who's perfect.

And so then it's like history becomes, honey, how was your day?

It doesn't begin.

I back slowly down the driveway, avoiding the garbage can at the curb.

You know, unless you get T-boned.

In case that's exactly the way to do it.

You edit human experience and you tolerate the vast experiences that human beings are so complex.

And it's the interest.

It was very interesting.

We did an update of our baseball series called The Tenth Inning.

And being from New England and being a Red Sox fan, the whole thing was just a disguise to be able to do the Red Sox comeback in 2004.

But we were dealing with the great Atlanta team in the 90s and the great Joe Torre led Yankees and then Sosa and McGuire and then Bonds and then steroids and whatever.