Episode 33: Journalist Yashar Ali

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Mike are joined by media and political reporter Yashar Ali. Yashar has covered scientology for years. He was recently named one of Time's 25 most influential people on the internet: The topics range from celebrities in scientology, to media and elected officials responsibility dealing with cults to the Fair Game campaign against him.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Scientology, Fair Game, the podcast. Hello, Mikey.
0:07.0	Hello, Lily. How are you? You're very pretty today. Thank you.
0:12.0	You're supposed to return that compliment, but... Well, here's a thing, Mike.
0:17.0	Here's a thing. Mike, you always look good, okay? You have a great head of hair,
0:21.0	you have a great head of hair, you're aging beautifully. So I just feel like to say it is just...
0:29.0	It's just obvious, you know, I don't only have make up on or my hair done when we do these podcasts,
0:36.0	so it makes sense why you might say today that I look pretty. So you understand?
0:42.0	Okay. You always look good. Alright.
0:44.0	Alright. Well, you're the PR queen. Look at that. A perfect response.
0:49.0	What does that mean?
0:51.0	What does that mean?
0:53.0	Absolutely unrehearsed, perfect response.
0:57.0	It was. Would you like to introduce our guest who's been...
1:01.0	I would love to introduce our guest. We are talking to another special...
1:06.0	We have a lot of special people that show up on our podcast layer. You know that?
1:10.0	A lot. I know that.
1:12.0	And it's really great that so many people are willing to sit down and talk to us about this subject.
1:18.0	I agree.
1:19.0	But this particular person is a media and politics reporter. He's done a dozen or more stories
1:26.0	about Scientology with plenty more to come. He has a huge following on Twitter.
1:32.0	I'm going to put the adress his Twitter handle and Instagram and all the others on my website, etc.
1:40.0	when this episode goes out. But today, welcome, Yashar Ali.
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