Episode 34: Journalist and Author John Sweeney

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Our friend -- and scientology nemesis -- journalist, author and podcaster John Sweeney talks about making his BBC programs on scientology and compares his experiences to his reporting in N. Korea, Russia, Serbia and other places. He is an entertaining and well-informed on the subject of scientology.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Scientology Fair Game Vlog podcast.
0:10.1	We have yet another special and very distinguished guest who made us wait by the way so that
0:18.1	he can form self-drink.
0:20.1	Well, that's usual.
0:23.3	Anyway, Mike, do you like to introduce him?
0:26.0	You guys have a long history together.
0:29.8	My good friend at this point.
0:35.1	And one of the truly old school investigative reporters, he's also a very accomplished writer
0:46.8	who's written a dozen books, including a very good book about Scientology called Scientology
0:55.6	Church of Fear.
0:57.6	He was a reporter for a long time for the BBC for Panorama, which is how I first came
1:04.9	to meet him.
1:06.1	He has now recently embarked on a new career as a podcaster, having put together an incredibly
1:13.9	successful podcast called Hunting Jislein about Jeffrey Epstein's former lover.
1:22.6	And that is now being, I just read recently, converted into or turned into a TV series
1:30.6	by Sony Pictures TV.
1:33.8	So it's with great pleasure that I welcome to our little chat session today, my friend,
1:42.1	John Swini.
1:43.1	Hello.
1:44.1	Hi.
1:45.1	How are you?
1:46.1	Well, before we start, I just want to get one thing clear.
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