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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we are with the great Ken Burns

since the 1981 release of his documentary Brooklyn Bridge nominated for the Academy Award. Ken has been the gold

standard in documentary filmmaking. His subjects have ranged from

political figures like Huey Long, Thomas Jefferson, the Roosevelt's, to sports figures like

Ali and Jackie Robinson, to literary figures like Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway, to the subjects

of war, national parks, and jazz. He is one of the leading voices of our time,

and he is out with a new documentary,

Leonardo da Vinci, which premieres Monday, November 18th, tonight,

at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., which I understand is double pumping in the biz.

So episode one comes out twice tonight,

and episode two comes out twice tomorrow night. Da Vinci on PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS app. So do not miss it. I've actually was fortunate enough to get advanced credit so I have seen it and it's spectacular. Thank you. Ken, welcome. It's great to have you here. It's my pleasure, Doug. Thank you. Today, a little green tea. green tea little green tea I hope I'm not crimping your late afternoon style but well for the subject of DaVinci we need to have our wits about us because he is running hard and fast so it'll be we'll try to

keep up I should also mention that among your many accolades not least of those is five appearances on the Simpsons.

Oh, yeah, my kids, the credibility with my children is so great, you know. I've been made fun of by,

you know, the Leno's and the Letterman's and the Colbert's and Conan's. They don't know that

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