Episode 65: Filmmaker and former Jehovah's Witness Aaron Kaufman
Fair Game
Leah Remini & Mike Rinder
4.8 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Leah and Mike talk to filmmaker Aaron Kaufman. Known for producing Robert Rodriguez films, more recently he directed Crusaders, a documentary on Jehovah's Witnesses for Vice TV. Aaron was raised a JW. His doc focuses on the data base containing allegations of sexual abuse amassed by the organization which they have refused to make public. Plenty of scientology parallels in this discussion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another Scientology Fair Game Podcast. Hello, Mikey. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello, Lily. How are you out there today? |
| 0:10.4 | I'm good. Thank you. |
| 0:12.0 | Excellent. |
| 0:13.0 | You're so cute. |
| 0:14.0 | All right, you want to introduce our guest? |
| 0:16.0 | Absolutely. We have a guest a little different than many of our normal guests this week. |
| 0:23.0 | Someone who was raised at Jehovah's Witness but then left and then had a very successful |
| 0:29.0 | career as a Hollywood movie producer. And then in the last couple of years has devoted |
| 0:36.0 | a considerable amount of time and effort to directing a documentary about the Jehovah's |
| 0:45.0 | Witnesses, which we're going to talk about, which appears on Vice TV. And I'll have all |
| 0:50.0 | the links as usual on our show. But it's a great pleasure to welcome Aaron Kaufman to the |
| 0:57.0 | show today. Hi, Aaron. Hi, how are you? I'm good. How are you? |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you for joining us. Yeah, of course. |
| 1:04.0 | Happy to have you now. For those of you who've watched the aftermath, you know that we did |
| 1:09.0 | a special on the Jehovah's Witnesses. We were, Mike and I were really interested because we |
| 1:15.0 | had an overwhelming response to it. We pitched to A&E to do a whole series on just the |
| 1:22.0 | Jehovah's Witnesses because as we scratch the service, I mean, what did we have 12 guests, |
| 1:29.0 | Mike? Yeah. And that was just the ones who were available to come for the taping. I mean, |
| 1:35.0 | there was a ton of them. And each person, Aaron, we found we could have done an episode just |
| 1:42.0 | on them because each person had layers of atrocities happen to them while being Jehovah's |
| 1:51.0 | Witnesses, while having the policies, if you will, administer to them, to family members. |
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