What are the best albums of 2024?

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There's a lot of people who could sing that exact line, and I would be like, you're under arrest.

But she pulls it off.

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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR. It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.

My guess this week is, I'm pretty comfortable making this assertion.

He's the first person we've had on our program for whom an entire camera technique has been named.

If you've ever used iMovie to cut a video, you probably already know who I'm talking about.

Ken Burns. Civil War, National Parks, Jazz, the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ken Burns is an artist who has dedicated much of his life to telling the

story of America. He does it in epic documentaries, sometimes 10, 15, or 20 hours. He immerses

himself in research, thousands of primary sources, hours and hours of interviews with academics

and enthusiasts. His most recent work applies that same

approach to a non-American subject, Leonardo da Vinci. Over four hours, Burns and his co-directors,

his daughter Sarah Burns and his son-in-law, David McMahon, examined the life and work of one of the

greatest minds, and among the many voices included

is that of director Guillermo del Toro.

There is a delightful, unbridled joy of curiosity in him.

His duty is to the question.

His duty is to the question. His duty is to the thirst for knowledge.

Basically, he says,

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