Introducing: Ye Gods! with Scott Carter and Ken Burns

History That Doesn't Suck

ProfGregJackson

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Introducing a new podcast: YE GODS WITH SCOTT CARTER. We all know that faith and ethics are recurring themes in history. Scott Carter is an award-winning TV producer for HBO and PBS whose shows get people talking about the big issues of the day. Now he’s launched a new podcast to get people talking about the big questions of life. Each week he asks prominent authors, comics, musicians, filmmakers and philosophers about the rules that guide their lives, whether they be sacred or secular. Hear from Ken Burns, Susie Essman, Hari Kondabolu, Patricia Heaton, Tim Gunn, and many more. Ye Gods! with Scott Carter, a podcast even atheists can follow religiously, wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Hello, my friends. It's Professor Greg Jackson.
0:34.8	I'm excited for our next regular episode in which I'll tell you the tale of the United States entry into World War One.
0:40.2	From the sinking of Lucidania to some serious British spycraft into coding.
0:44.3	But as you wait on this down week, I'm equally excited to share a little bonus with you.
0:49.0	Today's bonus is an interview with a historian who prefers to be called a storyteller.
0:53.3	The acclaimed filmmaker of American history, Ken Burns.
0:56.9	You're undoubtedly familiar with Ken Burns films, including The War, The National Parks,
1:01.7	baseball, jazz, country music, and many others.
1:04.7	Plus my personal favorite, The Civil War.
1:07.2	This interview is from an episode of a new podcast, Yee Gods.
1:11.2	From producer playwright and a new acquaintance of mine, Scott Carter.
1:15.2	In Scott's new podcast, Yee Gods, he talks to historians, journalists, authors, musicians,
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