I've been Sawyer and this is the road to now.

Today on the show, we dig into the life of Henry David the Rowe, a guy who, honestly,

I still till very recently saw as kind of a naval gazing philosopher king type. I didn't know much

about him. I just remember learning about him, honestly, years ago when I was younger. And he didn't

seem as fascinating to me as maybe he did to my teachers, but dang, that was on them. Because

today's conversation is going to prove all that wrong. Our guests are Eric Ewers and Christopher Lauren Ewer's brothers and directors of this new two-part series Ken Burns presents Henry David the Roe. It is so almost thrilling to go back and look and rediscover something in history and uncover it and recognize that, you know

what, maybe it wasn't just my teachers. I think that certain people's lives resonate at different

moments in history. And as we discuss in this conversation, I think right now there's a good reason

why people are going to be more attracted to Thoreau's writings and his thought. He was in a

world of chaos and changing and

uncertain futures. So that's enough said. We'll get to the conversation here with Eric and Christopher.

I just want to say now that if you're listening to this the day it comes out, March 30th,

2026, tonight's the night it airs.

You can check your PBS station for the Times.

It's a two-part series, so the next one will air on the 31st.

But any time after this, make sure to go find it, it'll be somewhere after this.

Just go look it up.

Before we go on to the conversation, though, got to say, patrons, thank you for supporting the show.

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