Episode 22: Geoff Levin Musician, a Founder of Celebrity Centre

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Leah and Mike talk to musician Geoff Levin about his decades in scientology, and how it tore apart his successful band, damaged his mental health and wrecked his family.

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0:00.0	Alright, hello everyone, welcome to another episode of our Fair Game Podcast,
0:09.8	Scientology Fair Game. Mikey, hello. Hi, Leigh Lee. How are you? Hi.
0:16.2	I'm good. Thank you. Alright, today we have a special guest. We do indeed.
0:22.5	Today we're really happy to welcome a special guest, Jeff Levin, who infected the music for our podcast,
0:31.6	and has been a, or was a Scientologist for more than 40 years and has quite some stories to tell.
0:41.2	Hi, Jeff. Welcome. Hi, Mike. Hi, Leigh. Hi, Jeff. Thanks for doing this. And thank you for our wonderful music.
0:47.9	Oh, my pleasure. I wanted you to have something that was yours. Well, it was really, really gracious of you to do so.
0:56.7	Thank you so very much. My pleasure. Yes. Alright. So you, we like being unique. Yes, we do, at having our own thing.
1:05.1	Alright. So Jeff, why don't you tell us your story? You were a Scientologist, like Mike said, for 43 years.
1:14.2	You were a dedicated and loyal Scientologist. And why don't you, why don't you, we're going to let you take it away.
1:23.1	Oh, okay. I'll try to be brief because it really started in 1963. Yeah.
1:32.0	Which is even, you know, earlier. Yeah.
1:36.4	Quickly, I was turned on to Scientology and pot at the same time. Those two, those two don't really go together, which is interesting.
1:48.8	Yeah, they do. Yeah. The pot won. Thank God. Well, it won for, for about five years.
2:01.0	And then in 1968, I was introduced to Scientology again. One of our band members saw a bumper sticker. So they, they, they, what the, what the bumper stickers say, said find out about Scientology and then a phone number.
2:21.4	Well, that really worked. Okay. It did for. I thought, I thought Jeff, I thought you're going to tell me something interesting. Like it said something that you were like, yes, yes, I,
2:30.8	find out about Scientology. Get a natural.
2:34.1	Get a natural high. Pretty straight out.
2:40.8	Here's the, I don't know what you call it a caveat. Yeah. Or an addition. Okay.
2:48.2	When I got turned on to Scientology, they gave me a book. And which was not an L. R. H. book, not a, not a Hubbard book.
2:59.2	Sure. It was written by somebody else. And they taught me how to give an assist. An assist is something when you get injured, you, you do a certain procedure. Right.
3:14.3	And I embraced that. And they told me that I was immortal. And when they told me that. And they gave them the term. Yeah.
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