Joe Rogan Experience #2336 - Ken Burns

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 11, 2025

Duration

2h 45m

Channel

The Joe Rogan Experience

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Ken Burns is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “The Vietnam War,” "Jazz,” "Country Music," among many others. His next project, “The American Revolution,” a six-part series, will premiere November 16, 2025 on PBS. ⁠https://www.kenburns.com⁠ https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-revolution Try ZipRecruiter for FREE at ⁠https://ziprecruiter.com/rogan⁠

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Ken Burns

  guest

• Narrator

  other

• Joe Rogan

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Ken Burns and Narrator, Joe Rogan Experience #2336 - Ken Burns explores ken Burns on war, America’s soul, and storytelling’s saving power Joe Rogan and Ken Burns explore how Burns became America’s defining historical documentarian, why he’s stayed with PBS, and how time, independence, and deep scholarship shape his long-form work. Burns describes his mission as using story to ask, “Who are we?” and to reconnect Americans with their complicated history—especially through films on the Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, the American Revolution, and iconic figures like Muhammad Ali and Jack Johnson. They delve into the founding, the Constitution’s checks and balances, slavery, the American Revolution as a bloody civil war, and how war reveals both the worst and the best in human beings. Throughout, Burns argues for humility, nuance, and “negative capability” in judging the past, and for using history and nature alike as antidotes to a shallow, transactional, and polarized culture.

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