Live community event: Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order

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4.5 • 34K 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.

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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, man. 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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