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228: Episode 228 - Scientology - Part 1: The Maternity Ward of Questionable Religious Sects

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In part 1 of this 2 part series, Hannah and Suruthi peer under the slippery stone of Scientology’s sinister origins. They track the life of founder L. Ron Hubbard, from the birth of dianetics, to the constantly shifting goalposts of engrams, and of course the conception of the Sea Org.

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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

https://watchdocumentaries.com/going-clear-scientology-and-the-prison-of-belief/

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0:00.0

Without the horn, a unicorn is just a pretty horse.

0:04.0

Which would you prefer your company to be?

0:06.6

Introducing Vorgos, the only fibre network providing 10 gigas standard

0:11.6

for London's most ambitious businesses.

0:14.2

Vorgos, fibre for your unicorn, built by Vorgos for London.

0:19.8

I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to the second episode of Redhanded 2022.

0:34.8

We're supposed to be the first, but life happens sometimes.

0:37.8

It does happen and by life happens sometimes we mean that Sruti accidentally gets incredibly drunk

0:45.3

and then falls over in her childhood bedroom and ends up with an ankle size of a grapefruit.

0:51.1

And it's still limping around. Yes, no, it was not the ideal way to start 2022, it's not what I had planned.

0:57.5

I had planned to come into this year being far more impressive.

1:02.9

And I have degraded myself almost immediately.

1:06.1

But you could look at it another way.

1:07.9

Oh, tell me. You have already overcome.

1:10.0

There you go.

1:10.8

It ain't swash keeps me around.

1:12.0

I'm already hit the trough.

1:13.6

Yeah, it's only up from it. That's what I keep telling myself.

1:16.0

But I hope not because I'm truly struggling to walk uphill right now.

1:19.1

The ankle is bandaged.

1:20.7

It is not ideal.

1:22.1

Thank you to everybody on Patreon who sent me recommendations on how to deal with a sprained ankle.

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