You ever think it's a little odd that we have spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours

talking about what we are, who we are, how we work, why we exist?

What all of this is based on?

And yet, Nick, yet, we have never really talked about the beginning.

The war that changed everything.

And I mean everything.

You think you know something about the revolution.

And then what you learned over the next nine and a half years is that you knew nothing about the revolution.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

I'm Nicapecateche.

This is Civics 101.

And today we are speaking with two people who radically opened my eyes to the thing that I,

and I dare say many of us, thought we knew a lot about.

We were wrong. I'm Ken Burns. I am a co-director and co-producer of the

series of The American Revolution with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. My name is Sarah

Botstein and I co-produced and co-directed the series along with Ken and David Schmidt.

If you've missed it on PBS or you're not television inclined, the whole series is available to stream on pbs.org.

Hannah and I have watched it, all of it, and I'll just speak for myself.

I feel like I just met America.

And this episode is a little bit different from your typical civics 101, wherein we pick a topic and explain that one thing as best we can.

Because today, we're not going to explain the revolutionary war to you. If you want that, I warmly recommend you

dig into the documentary. Instead, we are going to talk about what it was like for Ken and Sarah to

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