How are you going to know who the next great filmmaker is unless you give them a chance?

And you give them a chance on something that may be quirky or odd, but seems to be particularly compelling.

And maybe it's at a lower budget level. And then suddenly it's a fantastic film.

And you think, wow, this is a new filmmaker with a great vision. Let's support that person.

Hello and welcome to Wise is Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

You know, we don't have great audience data about the folks that listen to Wise is happening.

Although sometimes I run into you, you know, in the park on the street in different places,

I get emails from you. I always love hearing from you guys. I don't know your ages, really.

So if you, if it just indulged me for a moment in a little middle-aged reverie about how it used

to be in the old days, in the old days, if you wanted to watch a documentary, this was a very

specialized product that you could not readily access. I always love documentaries, but you know,

most movie theaters wouldn't be playing them like large synoplexes. You had to find like the art

house cinema in New York when I was growing up. It was the Angelica, which down in the

Houston street, great place. There was a movie theater in Providence, Rhode Island. I would go

to and you would go and see documentaries if that was what you were into. It was a very sort of

specialized art form and it was a little hard to acquire. And then obviously the era of the

VCR and the VHS tape came. But even like, you know, a lot of video stores didn't really stock a ton

of them and it was sort of hard to get your hands on them. And then like the streaming revolution

happened. And suddenly, and it's one of the things I actually love about the streaming revolution,

is that across all different forms, particularly both, you know, television and podcast, they're suddenly

like it's just complete golden age of this form of storytelling, of documentary storytelling.

It can be told in, you know, limited series. It can be told in one, two and a half hour sort of

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