Richard Powers, a novelist, said,

the best arguments in the world won't change a single person's point of view.

The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.

Without a doubt, Ken Burns is one of our greatest

storytellers. Whether it's the Civil War, Jazz, baseball, the Vietnam War, or the Roosevelt's,

his documentaries are often a mirror to America, showing us who we truly are, both in times of prosperity and in times of

crisis. That is why I'm so excited for Ken's next docu-series, which explores the founding of this

country and how it turned the world upside down. It's called The American Revolution, and it

premieres on PBS on November 16th, airing over

six nights. Here he is Ken Byrd. Can I start with, I was, I'm giddy. I feel like the young kid

growing up around my parents, my father was an archaeologist, a professor, PhD. He was an

anthropologist and a director of a museum. So I was surrounded all my life by scientists,

a hard cut. I go through life and go to Cheers, and Cheers starts paying me too much money at some point. And so I

start an environmental organization called American Oceans Campaign that became Oceania, which is one of

the largest organizations. But really what I'm doing is I'm saying, hey, dad, I may not be a scientist,

but I'm hanging out with them.

I'm trying to be like you.

And I think that was kind of my motivating force in life.

And here I am talking with somebody who's very dadlike to me.

So I'm so tickled.

My dad was an anthropologist.

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