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Louis thoreau is an award-winning documentary film maker. He's best known for his explorations of controversial topics using a gentle questioning style and an informal approach. Louis has wrtten three books that callor the weird got to get through this and through the keyhole. We talk about how to become a documentary film maker, religious fanaticism, u f o, scientology, neonae's far right content producers,. on line prisons, pornography, prostitution, and his long investigation of jimmy seville who was one of the most famous people in england before he died.

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.