Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader

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2024-09-17

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Over four episodes, comedian and documentary maker Jamali Maddix spends time with leaders and key figures in growing communities on the fringes of the mainstream to find out just why they inspire such devotion among their followers.Jamali Maddix: Follow The Leaderinvestigates religious cults, political movements, underground radicals and ostracised groups to try and make sense of how our post-pandemic world has splintered and been reframed.

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S1E1 - Paedophile Hunters

Jamali Maddix is on a mission to find out what's driving people to join extreme subcultures and communities, and what their leaders promise.

In this episode he travels across America to spend time with some of the country's most prolific vigilante paedophile hunters, both at home and on the road.

Immersed in their morally murky world, Jamali questions the hunters' methods and motivations, whilst also getting to grips with their huge and growing fanbases.

Air Date: 17 Sep 2024 06:00 (CDT)

S1E2 - Passport Bros

In this episode, Jamali travels to Medellin, Colombia, in search of the leaders of the Passport Bros movement, which is enticing American men overseas to find traditional girlfriends and wives who will treat them like 
kings.
What supposedly began as a men's health movement is now a booming lifestyle 
industry blowing up thanks to social media - with young American men packing their bags and getting their passports to travel overseas, enticed by controversial content promising the opportunity to find traditional girlfriends and wives who will treat them like kings.

Air Date: 17 Sep 2024 06:00 (CDT)

S1E3 - King Bullet Head and the Gun Church

The award-winning documentarian and comedian Jamali Maddix is exploring the appeal of emerging movements and subcultures, and finding out what their leaders promise. Jamali travels to Tennessee to meet with Hyung Jin Moon, also known as Pastor Sean and King Bullethead, the gun-toting leader of the Rod of Iron Ministries. While the church of his father, the Reverand Moon, was best known for match making people across the globe and holding mass weddings, his son has branched out to embrace firearms, Trump and MAGA to further his new religious movement. Jamali gets to the heart of King Bullethead's beliefs and what his congregation have given up to follow their leader.

Air Date: 17 Sep 2024 06:00 (CDT)

S1E4 - Gangs of Chicago

In this episode Jamali is traveling to Chicago to spend time behind bars with the inmates at DuPage County Correctional Facility. Delving into gang life and exploring the appeal of belonging to a group, Jamali will try to understand the sense of brotherhood it offers and the undying devotion and loyalty demanded by its leaders, before heading out to meet the shockingly young members who have taken over the streets in their leaders absence. He will also encounter gang members who have decided to try and leave it all behind and take part in the jail's rehabilitation program.

Air Date: 17 Sep 2024 06:00 (CDT)