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

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

Somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet, they shat on the walls, they shat 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 shit man.

The beast told me honestly that 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 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 will talk about in just a few minutes.

This is TBTL, why it matters, the documentary film edition.

A 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 Genu and I are both big fans of the form but I didn't really know if the listeners were down or not.

I thought well how wrong I was because I have in front of you a stack of probably 35 emails that are all citing different movies that are meaningful to one listener or the other.

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

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.

And it becomes my mission to force people to see those movies and I've got a list in front of me of the documentaries that I have literally forced upon people I will I will schedule entire evenings with people so that I can get them back to my house not to make sweet love to them.

Oh no to make them watch a movie like dark days or the cruise or hands on a hard body or.

So we thought we would just take some time now to run through some of these movies and then also talk a little bit about a few I don't know if ethical is the right way to describe it but a few questions that we have about documentary films when it comes to are you laughing at the people are you laughing with them does that ruin a film does that make it not okay that we enjoy so many documentaries that seem to really have at their core a really bizarre person.

So we'll talk about that in a minute first though I just want to start I want to kick off with a documentary that I'm just completely in love with that I don't I don't know I think I think a fair number of people have have seen it but I think not not a ton it's called the cruise it was made in I think 1998 by a not 1998 it was made this is what I get for not printing this out.

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