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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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0:00.0 | Gooday. Hi Hayden, how are you? Pretty good, ready to make some professional audio. |
0:11.8 | We are looking at Scientology today on Flightless Bird. Yep, I've heard about it. |
0:18.6 | Yeah, what do you think of Scientology? |
0:21.3 | I know in New Zealand we have Scientology. |
0:24.0 | It's not particularly big. |
0:25.7 | Well, can I just first of all commend you on once again following Louis Theroux into a topic? |
0:33.2 | Are you just going to meld with him one day? |
0:35.3 | Are you going to kind of get together and like let your |
0:37.5 | skins fuse? I feel I need to jump in because a lot of Americans madly don't know who Louis |
0:43.4 | throw is. He's my British counterpart. He was doing what I do much better and a long time before I was. |
0:48.9 | And he made an entire documentary about Scientology. So yes, I am merely following, as per usual, in his footsteps. |
0:57.3 | Okay. Well, I'll stop negging you. The first thing that I think about when I think about |
1:02.5 | Scientology is how on like New Year's Eve and various times you would neg me when I was still |
1:09.8 | like sympathetic to Christianity, but maybe not really into it as much, but you would neg me when I was still like sympathetic to Christianity but maybe not really into |
1:14.0 | it as much but you would say it's just the same as any other religion it's just newer you know |
1:19.6 | they've started these legends and and it's sort of grown out of that and it's just that we can |
1:25.3 | see the origins of it that makes it less |
1:28.0 | mystical and more stupid and i've probably grown quite a bit more sympathetic like i hate to say |
1:34.3 | this but i think you might have been slightly onto something there wow and then you say oh no but |
1:41.3 | they they do wild stuff like uh you just follow people around L.A. and stalk them and imprison them and stuff. |
1:49.6 | But when you think about the early Christian church, they weren't up to 100% nice stuff. |
1:55.2 | They were sort of burning Catholics in England and burning people lots of places. So like lots of religions have got up to bad stuff. |
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