Introducing: Hasan Minhaj Doesn’t Know (feat. Ken Burns)
Alive with Steve Burns
Lemonada Media
5.0 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.0 | For nearly half a century, Ken Burns has told the story of America. |
| 0:10.0 | Its characters, its contradictions, its ideals, and its failures. |
| 0:17.0 | From the Civil War to World War II to Vietnam. And now with his new documentary |
| 0:24.5 | on the American Revolutionary War, Ken Burns has given dads across America countless hours |
| 0:30.7 | of television to watch alone on their sofas, wondering why they don't have a closer relationship |
| 0:37.0 | with their son. |
| 0:38.8 | As a documentary dad myself, I was so excited to talk to Ken that I kept interrupting him, |
| 0:43.7 | like a thirsty man on his first date. |
| 0:46.0 | Which is going to allow the British to capture Philadelphia, and they do. |
| 0:49.8 | So he makes mistakes from the stories of us. |
| 0:53.3 | Not just the U.S., but us. |
| 0:55.3 | And that's a big, big. |
| 0:56.9 | Can I show a map real quick? |
| 0:58.0 | We'll talk about something that's so good. |
| 0:59.7 | Locke said life, liberty, and property. |
| 1:01.8 | When Eisenhower, in the late term, says just like more perfect union is, process words. |
| 1:08.8 | And the other thing I want to say is, |
| 1:10.7 | and Ken has such an encyclopedic |
| 1:12.3 | knowledge that I honestly could have just let him go. I didn't even have to really be there at all. |
| 1:20.0 | But I was there. And if you want to make your dad proud, you will watch this entire interview, |
| 1:26.0 | including the ads, and then try to connect with your |
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