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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order

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Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order

MS NOW

News, Ms Now, Rachel Maddow, History, Government, Msnbc

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Maddow hosts a special conversation with guests from her "Burn Order" podcast, live from the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles to discuss the fight against the race-based incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and how lessons from that episode in American history apply today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Japanese Americans almost entirely without help found ways to survive and to resist in their own way,

0:11.0

not just in that moment, but also for decades afterwards.

0:15.0

And we see their legacy on the streets of LA today.

0:18.0

What's up, LA? What's up, LA? What's up, LA?

0:21.6

My

0:22.6

My name is my name is Jacob Soberoff from MS Now. Welcome to the show.

0:40.6

My name is Jacob Soberoff from MS Now.

0:49.1

We are all so very, very, very glad that you are here.

0:55.0

And I don't know about you guys, but I have learned so much, so much from Rachel's podcast, Burn Order.

1:08.0

There is no story more central to the American experience than the story of mass imprisonment of Japanese Americans.

1:10.9

And tonight we are going to meet some of the people who are in the podcast

1:11.9

who know this history like nobody else.

1:15.2

It's going to be a great night.

1:16.2

And now, because I cannot wait one minute more,

1:18.2

please join me in welcoming to the stage,

1:19.9

my friend, my colleague, the host of the event,

1:22.7

the great Rachel Maddo.

1:28.3

Have fun. Thanks, Sam. Thank you. Have fun.

1:30.3

Thank you.

1:31.3

Oh, wow.

1:32.3

I am very happy to see you all. Thank you.

1:49.0

Hi, you guys.

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