It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC.

Happy Friday, everybody.

We have Ken Burns on the show today, the legendary documentary filmmaker, of course.

Ken Burns has another ambitious project ready to

roll out. It's called the American Revolution, and it's pegged to the fact that we are now in the

250th anniversary year of the founding of the United States, right? Well, this is a six-part,

12-hour documentary on the war, basically, the American Revolution and all the

cultural and political and for many people personal things around the war. So Ken Burns

coming up on the American Revolution. And then at the end of the show for this Halloween,

we're going to have a call in for your political

costumes or pop culture costumes that reference something current, right?

On the political ones, I was talking to somebody off the air this morning who said,

she's going mostly by putting on a red beret.

So if you're in New York City, I think almost everybody listening right now will know who

she's going at.

So we'll get to your calls with your Halloween, contemporary pop culture or political costumes

later in the show.

But we begin today with an ending, the end of our election series, 30 issues and 30 days.

We made it, and we never even missed a day.

30 straight shows looking away from the polls, which is what most of the other media talk

about incessantly, to the many issues in the New York mayoral and New Jersey gubernatorial race.

We hope we served a public purpose and maybe even helped some of you make up your minds

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