Lester Holt

And so you can really create a storytelling element.

We're still journalists, as Josh points out.

We're still news people.

But it's just a way that people can step inside the shoes of the people we're covering.

That's going to bear some explanation.

That's for another session.

And they forget there's a camera everywhere.

It's remarkable.

Even when I was just in the newsroom at Nightly News, a story would come across and I'm like, does this person not watch Dateline?

Is it possible, really?

In my case, many of them, yeah.

I spent two and a half days in prison at Angola maximum security prison.

And that sticks with you.

It was a story really about mass incarceration.

And when you meet someone who was sentenced to life and they're standing there and they're 86 years old still in prison, it's hard to see it through the same lens.

But that was a compelling story.

Scary on some levels because we had more freedom than I thought we'd have perhaps behind bars.

That's right.

I'm walking through a cell block, and this guy, he's got his hand outside the cell, and he sees us walking by.

He goes, hey, hey, hey.