Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs

Magazine. I am joined firstly today by my colleague, our digital editor John Ross. Hello, John.

Hi, Nathan. And we are also privileged today, first to be joined by the filmmakers, Carl Deal, and Tia Lesson.

They are Academy Award nominated documentarians, the founders of Elsewhere Films.

And for the films Trouble the Water Citizen Coke, as well as being producers on a number of Michael Moore's classics like Fahrenheit 9-11.

Their new film is steal this story, please,

about the life and work of Amy Goodman

and the history of democracy now.

Carl and Tia, first welcome to the program.

Thank you so much for having us, Nathan.

We're grateful to be here.

And we have an incredibly special guest here,

the subject of the film, the legendary journalist Amy Goodman, who has been the host of Democracy now since 1996.

Amy Goodman, welcome to Kurt Affairns. Well, it's great to be with you.

I think being the subject is probably better being the object, but it's great to be here

with all of you. Nathan, I last saw you in person at the anniversary of your magazine, so it's

really wonderful to be back. Indeed. Yes, you came to our 10-year anniversary in New Orleans.

You gave a great speech at Netroots Nation where you said, independent media like current affairs,

which we appreciated in the speech. So So this new film, which profiles the entire body of work that

you've done over the last 30 years, I want to start with Carl and Tia, because obviously

film is your concept and you've got to go through the entire archives of democracy now through making it.

And so I want to start with just asking you both, you know, why you felt that democracy now was

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