Escaping Scientology, Tom Cruise's Impact, and a Prison of Belief, with Mike Rinder | EP. 400

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Mike Rinder, former senior executive with Scientology and author of "A Billion Years," to discuss the ban on Scientologists reading negative press about Scientology, how Scientology pushes you to remove your emotions, how Scientologists remove toxic personalities in their life through "disconnection," growing up and his parents getting involved in Scientology, how Rinder "escaped" from Scientology, the stalking and spying that happened when he left, the way Scientology separates parents and kids, why celebrities are such a big part of Scientology, Tom Cruise's influence on Scientology, how Cruise's marriages were navigated, the infamous Cruise-Lauer moment, how the Sea Org was banning new children for a time, the "prison" of belief, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
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0:14.7	Before we begin today's show, want to start by sending our prayers to the people of Florida.
0:18.7	It's Hurricane Ian makes landfall today.
0:21.2	This is a bad one.
0:22.6	Right now the storm is maximum sustained winds near 155 miles per hour.
0:26.8	If it is 157 that means it's a cat 5 hurricane.
0:31.3	Good gracious.
0:32.3	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis telling Floridians just a short time ago to prepare for major
0:37.1	impact and that if you have not left the so-called red zones, it's now too late.
0:42.6	So we are thinking of our friends in Florida, especially one of our staff members John who's
0:47.1	in Florida with his wife and children be safe.
0:49.0	I'm going to have updates throughout the show if major breaking news happens.
0:53.1	Maybe say a little prayer because that's, I mean that is just devastating.
0:57.4	In the meantime we have an exclusive interview for you today as we celebrate a big anniversary
1:02.5	here at the Megan Kelly show.
1:03.8	It was exactly two years ago today when we launched the Megan Kelly show podcast.
1:09.9	One of our first guests was Ben Shapiro and he will be with us tomorrow for the full
1:14.2	show.
1:15.4	Over the past few years we've grown from three days a week, a three day a week podcast
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