In The Bubble: Ken Burns on Franklin, Public Health, and More

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we bring you a favorite conversation from our friends at In The Bubble with host Andy Slavitt. Here he talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about Benjamin Franklin, public health, and the work of history.

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Every day, the world seems on the brink of crisis. Join Andy Slavitt and experts, policymakers, journalists and thought leaders Monday, Wednesday and Friday to stay informed, safe and … entertained. As a White House advisor, author, crisis response leader, non-partisan counselor to policymakers here and abroad, Andy has been called the ultimate outsider’s insider for a reason. Now, when overlapping crises and a relentless news cycle overwhelm Americans, Andy finds the right helpers to help us move forward together. Smarter. Calmer.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia
0:07.1	my name is Jody Avergan and as I mentioned on the last, over the next week or so we're going to be bringing you some special episodes, stuff from shows we love, a few of our favorite recent episodes from this podcast, all as we kind of plot and scheme and get ready for a new year
0:25.3	with lots of great new stories. So today we're excited to present an episode of In the
0:30.7	Bubble with Andy Slavit.
0:33.0	Andy's been on this show before.
0:34.3	You may know his work.
0:35.2	He's a White House advisor generally on health care policy.
0:38.6	Super interesting, super compelling guy.
0:41.5	Each week on the show, he joined by expert policymakers, journalists,
0:45.2	and more to break down everything from the latest COVID wave to gun violence to
0:49.5	Supreme Court cases. The show to my mind started out as a bit of a COVID
0:54.0	pandemic lockdown type show, but it's really evolved into a look at the many
0:58.0	crises and challenges that we face, but it doesn't get bogged down in the
1:02.4	news cycle. It's really much more about
1:04.4	context and perspective and a look at how we can move forward together which are all
1:09.2	wonderful things and things we like on this show as well. So we want to run an episode of
1:14.3	in the bubble that we think you'd like. It's got a nice historical perspective.
1:18.4	This is an excerpt from his conversation with filmmaker Ken Burns, the legend. They discussed Ken's
1:24.4	2022 PBS documentary on Benjamin Franklin and how Franklin balanced his
1:29.4	libertarian views with scientific and public health reasoning, how Franklin thought about pandemics and public health reasoning, how Franklin thought about
1:34.0	pandemics and public health, and whether he would support a COVID-19 vaccine
1:38.4	mandate. They also get a little bit into how Ken Burns thinks about the work of history and what he's learned about this country through his many many films.
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