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🗓️ 23 July 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Today we are joined by Shitshow Susan, who shares about her upbringing, the impact that manifested in adulthood, and her ongoing journey of healing & recovery.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to shit show Saturday and I found her guys. I found her. She is not a |
0:22.2 | Scientologist herself, which we're really bummed about, but this will do. So welcome, Susan. |
0:29.3 | Thank you. Thank you for asking me. Yeah. What if I was like, and we have |
0:33.2 | Elron Hubbard reincarnated? So maybe we should just get this part out of the way. |
0:39.8 | So your brother joined Scientology when in his 20s? |
0:44.7 | Yeah. So he was a student at Cal and he was like going to be a doctor pre-med. I'm nine years |
0:52.0 | younger than him. So I had this idealized older brother thing going on. And then it was the 70s and |
1:03.9 | he joined Scientology with a friend of his at Cal and dropped out of school and |
1:12.1 | he's, let's see, how old is he now? Is he 70? He might even be. No, he's almost 70. And he's |
1:20.0 | been in Scientology the whole time. He married a Scientologist. His kids, his two sons that were |
1:26.2 | born into Scientology. And it was never discussed in our family. You know, my mom always, |
1:34.9 | we were raised pretty much by my mom single-handedly. Always expressed disdain for it, but never really |
1:42.0 | nothing was ever really explained. It was just he was in Scientology and we were a Catholic. So |
1:48.0 | that was kind of, you know, against definitely our Catholic faith. But he didn't try to like |
1:55.4 | reel y'all in. No, no. So he wasn't one of those. He's a very passive personality, which I think |
2:02.1 | has made him perfect for being sucked into something like Scientology. But no, no, there was never |
2:09.7 | any attempt to convert us. I think he knew better. I grew up with a lot of brothers and they were |
2:17.8 | not afraid to kick anybody's ass. So yeah, I don't think he was going to attempt anything like that. |
2:24.4 | And so did you like how much were you aware of it prior to like going clear coming out? And once |
2:31.9 | things started to like be said, did you know how weird it was prior to like it becoming more public? |
2:37.5 | I knew and I don't really know how I knew this because there wasn't a lot of publicity around it |
2:47.6 | like in the 70s and 80s. But I just knew that they requested a lot of money from him. Like he never |
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