America's Most Hatred Family

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i made a programme that was called america's most hated family. The second time i visited them, obama was in office and they began thinking he was the antichrist. When i visited the first two times, and then the third i went back for hi time, an shed left. I mean, all the time, that's people kind of drifting in and out. They they sort a hemorrhaging members are every year. And it's just, it is an interesting thing to see how, you know, i basy the pull of the outside world and the wish it's uso pro. There's a real complex a interplace of three dimensional phenomena to do with how

Shermer and Theroux discuss: how documentary films are made • religious fanaticism and why people believe • UFO cults, end-times sects, and cognitive dissonance • Scientology: religion or cult? • neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism • prisons, pornography, and prostitution • Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile • self-help movements and gurus • deception and self-deception • social proof and human conformity • are humans naturally rational, irrational, or both?

Louis Theroux is a genre-defining documentary filmmaker best known for his explorations of controversial and complex topics. Using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach, Louis has shone light on intriguing beliefs, behaviors, and institutions by getting to know the people at the heart of them — from the officers and inmates at San Quentin prison to the extreme believers of the Westboro Baptist Church; from male porn performers in California to young women with eating disorders in London.