Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Mo News podcast. As Moschwana here, sorry, my voice is a bit hoarse.

I've done a lot of interviews on a variety of topics. But the one I'm most excited about this week is the one you're about to hear with Ken Burns.

There are a few filmmakers out there who have shaped how we understand American history,

how we understand ourselves like Ken Burns, whether it was a civil war, Vietnam, baseball,

the Roosevelt's, the Brooklyn Bridge. He has been doing documentaries about this country

and the people in this country for several decades that have helped define our collective

memory. And so this week, he came into the studio to talk about his newest documentary out this

month on PBS. He's gone back to the beginning. His latest project is the American Revolution.

It is a sweeping six-part, 12-hour documentary premiering on PBS month, that revisits the founding of the country.

Not just a tale of heroism and ideals and everything that we think about, guys in Wigs in Philadelphia,

thinking big thoughts, but also the complicated, violent, deeply human struggle that set the stage

for the American victory, which he, by the way, says in this interview,

had a 0% chance of success at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. And what would become

this country that celebrates 250 years next summer? We talk about what took him so long to tell

the story, what he learned about the birth of democracy, division in America, and how today,

even with our division,

even with our partisanship compares to periods like the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War II,

and yes, the American Revolution.

This, I think, is a fascinating conversation you will get a lot from.

We talk about truth.

We talk about rights.

We talk about context.

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