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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Mischke spends the hour with Geoffrey Ward, the man who wrote the script for Ken Burns' American Revolution. Along with Ken Burns, Ward has also written a massive new book called "The American Revolution: An Intimate History."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Garage Logic fans, I do a podcast on the Garage Logic Network that comes out every Wednesday and Friday now, twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | But here's an important caveat. |
| 0:09.8 | There is zero logic available in my show in the formal definition of logic. |
| 0:15.4 | Of course, life is a yin and yang kind of thing. |
| 0:18.3 | There's the logic side and then there's the what the hell side which |
| 0:22.0 | needs to get its exercise so come for the what the hell and stay for the you've got to be kidding me |
| 0:27.3 | mishki now wednesdays and fridays twice a week start her up bring her up. |
| 0:44.0 | You call this a microphone? |
| 0:48.2 | Give me that. |
| 0:49.8 | My name's Mishki. |
| 0:53.1 | Mishke. |
| 0:53.7 | Mishke. Mishke. Mishke. Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me. |
| 1:34.0 | Jeffrey Ward has been a longtime collaborator of American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, |
| 1:38.6 | and I have watched everything those two have put out. |
| 1:49.2 | Jeffrey was the principal writer of Ken Burns' Civil War series and went on to collaborate with Ken Burns on most of the documentaries he has made since. |
| 1:56.1 | Documentaries on jazz, on baseball, on the Vietnam War, on World War II. |
| 2:00.7 | Jeffrey has written on the Roosevelt's, both Franklin and Eleanor, great insights into those two |
| 2:03.4 | famous Americans. He has a book out now that goes along with a wonderful series just out on |
| 2:10.3 | the American Revolution. I'm holding it in my hands, and it is a masterpiece, really. It's the |
| 2:17.1 | heaviest book I own, and I'm not exaggerating, |
| 2:20.8 | and I own a hell of a lot of books. It should be a kind of secular American Bible, in my view, |
| 2:28.8 | in every household, our book of Genesis, perhaps, the book of how we came to be as a country. |
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