Hey, it's Luke. I'm off washing my cat and Jan and Sean are videotaping it. So hopefully you're enjoying this best of TVTL.

I believe it was yesterday. I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery.

To take care of something. I walked in the bathroom in the middle toilet right there.

Somebody didn't shoot in the toilet. Somebody shot that on the toilet. They shot that on the walls. They shot that on the floor.

I had to clean it up, man. But before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds, man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man.

To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment.

I was thinking, I'm 30 years old and in about 10 seconds, I got to start cleaning up somebody's shit, man.

Precisely the kind of moment that we think makes documentary film so amazing and something that if you don't spend enough time with, you really should get that straightened out.

That's a moment from the movie, American movie, features the trials and travails of somebody named Mark Borschert, who we'll talk about in just a few minutes.

First, though, this is TBTL, why it matters, the documentary film edition.

A little while ago, listener Dan emailed us a note saying, you know what you should do? You should talk about great documentary films.

And I thought, okay, this is going to be a little self-indulgent because Gen U and I are both big fans of the form.

But I didn't really know if the listeners were down or not, well, how wrong I was.

Yeah.

Because I have in front of a stack of probably 35 emails that are all citing different movies that are meaningful to one listener or the other.

There's lots of comments on the blog and there's still emails coming in that we're not even able to deal with.

So we'll try to get to as many of your suggestions as possible. We haven't seen all of them.

So that'll be a little bit of a problem because what we want to try to do here is just give you some backstory on and also just some encouragement on some documentaries that we've seen and loved.

But at some point, we also will try to run through this list so you guys can all feel like you've put the word out there because when you see a documentary and it is really meaningful to you or funny or interesting, you really, really, really want to go tell somebody about it.

I feel like even more so than a work of fiction because you see a normal feature film and it's really good and you think to yourself, boy, that was good.

And if somebody asks you, you say, oh, yeah, I like that. That was good. You should see that.

But if you go see a documentary where you find out about some little corner of the world that you never knew about, it kind of, I think, on a very personal level really affects you, at least for me.

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