#2236 - Ken Burns
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We're up. Mister Burns, pleasure to meet you. You.
It's my pleasure. Thank you.
I'm a huge fan, dude. I've been watching your work for so long, and I've always had so many questions about how a person like you becomes a person like you, how you become the preeminent documentarian of our time. I mean, you have so much work out there. It's really extraordinary. And all of it on PBS. Right? Right.
All of it. All of it. Which
is also extraordinary.
You know, it's the public broadcasting service. It's, the Declaration of Independence applied to communications, just as the national parks, you could say, was the declaration of independence applied to the landscape. I mean, like like, manifestations of really American things that may not seem obvious to us, but it seemed obvious to me that that's where I should go. So I had lots of, you know I I headed for the hills out of New York, you know, forty six years ago because I thought I was taking a vow of anonymity and poverty to do this stuff. And I've lived in the same house that I've lived in
the time.
It's the time and the ability to marinate the ideas, to do the deep dive into the scholarship, to triangulate the various scholarships as you know better than anybody. There's lots of different viewpoints and perspectives, and you wanna find a way in which you can kind of if if not average them out, you can find a way in which you can understand them and you can have a a conversation, a a sort of a campfire around which you can discuss the complexity and the undertow of any subject. You pick it, the Brooklyn Bridge, the American Revolution most recently.
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