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

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:15.0	I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to the second episode of Redhanded in 2022.
0:21.0	We're supposed to be the first, but life happens sometimes.
0:24.0	It does happen and by life happens sometimes we mean that Sruti accidentally gets incredibly drunk and then falls over in her childhood bedroom and ends up with an ankle size of a grapefruit.
0:37.0	And it's still limping around. Yes, no, it was not the ideal way to start 2022. It's not what I had planned.
0:44.0	I had planned to come into this year being far more impressive.
0:50.0	And I have decorated myself almost immediately. But you could look at it another way.
0:55.0	Oh, tell me. You have already overcome. There you go.
0:58.0	I'm already hit the trough. Yeah, it's only up from it. That's what I keep telling myself.
1:03.0	But I hope not because I'm truly struggling to walk uphill right now.
1:06.0	The ankle is bandaged. It is not ideal. Thank you to everybody on Patreon who sent me recommendations on how to deal with a sprained ankle.
1:13.0	It is nothing more interesting than that. It's absolutely fine. Everybody just feeling a little bit bruised, ego-wise and ankle-wise.
1:20.0	But all is well and we're back. We are so back, back, back, back again with something, you know what?
1:29.0	Part one of our Scientology series. I feel fine about. I feel like we're not going to get fairgamed. No one's going to sue us.
1:36.0	Part two. We may run into some issues. I can't run very fast right now.
1:42.0	I'll carry you on my back. But that's the rule is that you've just got to pair up with someone who isn't as fast as you see.
1:48.0	Oh, yeah. So they'll just get you. So I'm the limp gazelle right now, ready for a chomping from Scientology.
1:54.0	The reason I say that is that of course lots of podcasts have covered Scientology.
1:59.0	What they tend to do is stay on the Elron Hubbard side of things and then they stop.
2:07.0	We won't be doing that. We are not going to stop.
2:11.0	That is the epitaph that will be on my gravestone. She would not stop.
2:17.0	Exactly. So without further ado, happen you year. One more ado. Let's get on with it.
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