93: Scientology w/ Former Sea Org Member Mike Rinder
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Leah Remini's hit A&E show, Scientology and the Aftermath has made a lot of people curious about the inner workings of the religious organization. Today we answer some of those questions. We talk about how the group attracts members, why they are so controversial, and what the future of the group looks like. Plus, we talk to former spokesperson for Scientology and Sea Org member, Mike Rinder. He talks about why people stay in the organization and describes the ways his life has been turned upside by his decision to leave.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome once again to the Brain Candy Podcast. I'm Sarah Rice. Here with me as per |
| 0:20.2 | you is my bestie Suzy Meister. Hello friends. How you doing Suzy? |
| 0:24.6 | Well good Sarah nice to see you again. Oh you too. I'm real good. I'm excited about our |
| 0:30.4 | episode I know I'm real excited about our episode. It's a lot to discuss. Tell the kids what we're |
| 0:36.6 | talking about today Suzy. This is episode 92 and we are talking about Scientology. Oh yes this is |
| 0:45.2 | kind of like a I don't want to call it a hot topic right now but I feel like we're starting to |
| 0:50.7 | see a lot of documentaries about it. We're starting to see a lot of television shows about it. |
| 0:56.6 | It's really I don't know maybe coming into the light as what it really is or they're exposing it |
| 1:04.2 | for what it really is maybe. I think that everyone's always known that there was weirdness right and |
| 1:12.4 | that there were secrets and whatever but the problem was that people that left wouldn't talk about |
| 1:19.0 | it and so even like religious scholars were kind of not clear on a lot of what was going on or even |
| 1:27.6 | what they believed necessarily because they're so secretive. Yeah I didn't even think about that. |
| 1:33.0 | We're other religions it's very easy to find the like the technology. The technology. I didn't |
| 1:42.1 | everything and the entire structure of this is you can't know that information until you've |
| 1:48.5 | reached whatever level. Yeah so that's kind of an indication that maybe it's yeah that's a red flag. |
| 1:55.2 | Few skeletons in the closet I guess. Yeah so I think people now that well going clear came out |
| 2:01.3 | like last year's funny field and then the Leia Remini show this year and so people are like |
| 2:08.7 | finally getting confirmation of like what is going on. Have you ever met a regular person |
| 2:15.1 | who was in Scientology? Me neither. Never. That is the biggest thing is I'm watching this and |
| 2:23.0 | the the Leia Remini show I was watching it and they go to what's the Cape what is the big place in |
| 2:29.4 | Florida where? Oh yeah. I think it is clear on a Florida where they have there's a big Scientology |
| 2:35.8 | community. They're all walking around and freaking vests. What's the deal with the Scientologists |
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