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Hey guys, welcome back to the channel.
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Welcome to another episode of Blown for Good, Scientology Exposed.
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I am joined today by my lovely wife, Claire.
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Hey, hey, everybody.
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Happy Sunday.
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Good to see you.
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Yay, yay, yay.
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Um, today we're gonna do an episode um on questions that people basically within Scientology are not allowed to ask.
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We're gonna answer those forbidden questions.
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Yeah.
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There's more forbidden questions than there are questions that they're allowed to ask.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, you're not really when where we worked, for any of you guys that are new to the channel, we worked at the International Headquarters of Scientology.
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So at that location, as a C org member, you the one of the guys that signs the billion-year contracts, um, you're not even really allowed to ask a lot of questions.
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No.
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You're you at that level, it's not like the higher you get, the more the more access to information you get.
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You do see things that are going on around you and you you you definitely see that there's you see things that regular Scientologists would would ne would never ever in a million years see.
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Yep.
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But when something goes down, or when David Miscavige, the chairman of the board, Religious Technology Center, when he says this is how we're gonna do it, you're not allowed to say, like, well, well, hold on, why don't we do it this way?
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You know, that's not a that's not a thing that goes on even at that level.
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But for Scientologists themselves, the the things that go on in Scientology, you're basically informed of what's going on.
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You're told this is what the next thing you're going to do is, and you just have to do it as and it in a lot of times, it's a blanket thing that just gets applied to all Scientologists.
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Aaron Ross Powell Yep.
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And there's a there's a very different dynamic when it comes to a member of the C organization who signed a billion-year contract asking a question versus a civilian Scientologist asking a question.
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Because if a civilian Scientologist asks the wrong question, that could cost them tens of thousands of dollars of security checking and interrogation and what have you been reading and all that, but they have to pay for it.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Yeah, but that would be like a question more more often it's a question that's critical of Scientology or David Miscavige.
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Like, hey, I already I already did this course three times.
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Why do I need to do it again?
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Right.
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And that's uh and that's I already bought these books three times.
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Why do I have to buy them again?
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Things like that.
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Yeah.
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And that that those are questions that are very often asked by the by all Scientologists.
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Yep.
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So um so you've got these questions, right?
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I do.
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Yes.
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So the first question that we have here that we'll talk about, why aren't members allowed to investigate criticism?
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Okay.
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So well, first of all, I think it's you mean like look on the internet.
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Yeah, or you know, or even read a book.
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Right.
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Read a book or anything.
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But I think f first and foremost, it's important to understand that in Scientology, criticism is a bad thing.
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In the real world, it's a good thing.
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It's like, hey, I'm thinking about things from all perspectives and you know, hearing different views and things like that.
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In Scientology, criticism is associated and specifically indoctrinated as something created because you've committed transgressions.
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Yeah.
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People that are asking questions or being cr or or qu critical questions, they're not uh they're not following the the lead that Scientology is telling them.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Yeah, they're not towing the line.
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Yeah.
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Like, hey, we're all doing this, and you're talking about not doing this.
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Yep.
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So we need to sort you out.
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You might be a flat ball bearing in the mix here.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So I'm trying to think.
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I think I want to say that criticizing Scientology or questioning Scientology critically to another Scientologist, isn't that a misdemeanor?
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Yep.
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In Scientology's kind of like code of ethics.
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Yeah.
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So there's a policy called offenses and penalties
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that lists like hundreds of things that are considered uh crimes, misdemeanor misdemeanors, crimes, high crimes, and suppressive acts.
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Okay.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Yep.
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You can find those.
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For all you Scientologists out there, that's the stuff listed in the ethics book.
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Yes.
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Um Yeah.
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So they're not but but but even early on in scientist when you're in Scientology, there's a policy letter that you read on every single course that's called KSW, keeping Scientology Working.
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Everybody refers to it in Scientology as KSW.
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Yes.
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And in KSW, uh L.
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Ron Hubbard basically says in that policy that we've already figured out the right way to do this.
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And any way that you think we should do this is wrong.
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Yeah.
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Any any ideas of how to improve things are not welcome.
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Yeah.
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Basically saying and he he says in there, when he did take ideas from people, then Scientology sort of fall f uh floundered and was unsuccessful and almost was ex went you know bankrupt because he followed ideas or took criticisms and changed the way things were being done done at the time.
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Um and so then he says, yeah, we tried other things and they didn't work.
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So we're done with that.
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We're not trying new shit.
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It's like I know best.
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Yeah.
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I know the way to do this, and everyone else can just take a hike.
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Yeah, he actually even says in there, he says, we won't we won't contemplate or we don't need to wonder how I rose above the bank.
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This is Elrond Hubbard talking in his policy.
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Yeah, and by bank we mean reactive bank, which is the source of all human uh failure.
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Aaron Powell Yeah.
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He basically says we don't need to question how I did that.
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Right.
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I did it.
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Exactly.
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So just shut shut your face.
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Do as I say, not as I do.
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Anyway, I'm trying to think if there's any other policies or if there's any other place in Scientology where they specifically say don't ask this.
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I think that's really it.
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Well, the other thing is if you're thinking about leaving Scientology because because you're critical of it and you think, hey, this is a scam or this is a cult or this is a pyramid scheme, whatever you liken it to, and you say, I I'm thinking of getting the heck out of here, if you say that to another Scientologist, that is a crime.
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And and if you do it, that's a suppressive act.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Right.
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And if the if the Scientologist that you said that to doesn't report you, then they are liable for the same punishments as you are.
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Aaron Powell Yeah, they get you're right.
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Yeah, they get the same they get the same the penalty is the same for someone who didn't report it as the person who actually committed the act.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Yep, exactly.
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Yahoo.
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Yeah, fun, fun, fun.
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So definitely members are not allowed to investigate criticism, even when there's something significant that uh, you know, like for example, the tragic death of Lisa McPherson, there were Scientologists who knew about that, but they're not allowed to question or ask what happened or or even they're not informed.
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Like I'm sure many civilian Scientologists in Clearwater, so that happened in December 1995.
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I'm sure there were there are most civilian Scientologists that at you know were doing services at FLAG were unaware that that happened.
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Yeah, and even that's a good point because even the people that were close to that.
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Um let me just see something here.
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Okay.
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Um some of the people that were close to that, Hubb or not Hubbard, Miscavige, kind of pulled closer to his orbit so that he could keep an eye on those people.
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Yep.
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And he could sort of like control them a little bit more.
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Or a lot.
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Yeah.
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Like Bonetta Slaughter.
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Yep.
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Because she had a very close relationship with Lisa McPherson.
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Right.
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She worked at the same company, right?
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Yeah, I think she worked for um Bonetta.
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Yes.
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Or there was some kind of connection where they were friendly within Scientology and at and at work in two different areas.
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And Miscavige made Banetta Slaughter like the head of applied scholastics in um they had like some learning center somewhere in I I I want
to say it was in Oklahoma, but I don't remember.
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No, it was in St.
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Louis.
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Yeah, I think it's a lot of people.
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I think she even more recently, maybe even currently, joined the C organization.
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I don't know about that.
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Yeah.
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But either way, that was somebody who was close to that situation that if she uh defected, it would be a major, major problem because she knew a lot and she wasn't in the Sea Org.
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She was a a paying member of Scientology.
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Yes.
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So he had less control over her than he did.
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Um, is it as if she was a C org member.
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Yep.
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Um I'm trying to think of uh anything else like that that would be a good example.
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That because you know uh I say this a lot, but it's really, really true.
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There are a ton of Scientologists that watch this channel.
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Oh yes.
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So we talked about that.
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Under the radars.
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Exactly.
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And that they've been watching and going, yeah, what it's on point, right?
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Yeah.
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Nothing has changed.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Yeah.
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We're not we're not telling some stories that happened a long time ago and then they never happened again.
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It's always the same things that just happen over and over again.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Which is why we keep talking about it.
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And also a lot of these things that do happen, Scientologists, there's a like a little whisper web that goes around amongst them.
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And they're not really they're not really questioning Scientology.
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They're just saying, hey, did you hear what happened with the blah, blah, blah?
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And then they go, yeah.
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And then they they both kind of got to wonder, is that guy under the radar?
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Am I under the radar?
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What's going on here?
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Right.
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And so when we answer these questions, and when we tell them why you know Scientologists aren't allowed to ask questions and all these other things, that rings true with these people.
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So they can even, even if they don't know about the Lisa McPherson thing, because that happened in 1995.
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Yes.
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There was something that happened two years ago that the same exact thing kind of went around, and then it was just like, oh no, that, you know, that it's the best one is that there's public Scientologists, so paying members.
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Yes.
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So like civilian scientists.
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Civilian Scientologists.
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We we try to differentiate for the for the non-scientology people.
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The people that signed the C org uh contract for a billion years, those are those people are forever bound to the Scientology.
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If you're a paying member or a civilian Scientologist, you're just paying for courses and counseling.
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And if you want to leave, you could leave.
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You might have to get disconnected from your family if your family are in Scientology.
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But if you're the only person in your social group or your work group or anything that's connected to Scientology and you leave, there's not really anything they can do.
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The most leverage they have is over relatives, friends, or business associates that are also in Scientology.
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Yes.
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And that's that is one of the reasons why Scientologists often are have all those things are all Scientology, because that's encouraged by Scientology.
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Yep.
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Okay.
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Um do you want to um well we'll answer the questions at the end.
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I see Jacob Hart Harkey's got a question up here.
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We'll answer the other ones at the end.
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Yeah, we'll definitely get to that for sure.
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So what's the other thing?
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Okay, so the next question is why is looking at the internet considered dangerous?
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And specifically in regards to the internet, I I thought this was worthwhile talking about because as far back as 2000, um the internet was starting to cause a lot of problems for Scientology.
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And I personally have seen how much um the access to the internet accelerates the decompression phase that someone exiting Scientology very often goes through.
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Like it used to be that, you know, Scientology would keep tabs on those people and and have someone reporting to them, following their movements and so forth.
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But now with the, you know, with the where things have gotten to, you know, someone can get out and just go on a deep dive on the internet and learn all kinds of things.
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And
it it dramatically speeds up that that decompression phase.
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Aaron Powell Yeah.
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The other thing that I think it helps with is in Scientology, when you're in that world and you're basically living a Scientology life, there's people that disappear from your life all the time in Scientology.
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For sure.
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If you are a paying member and you're going to the organization, you might always see Susan, who's the person that tells you what your next course is and all that stuff.
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And Susan could have been at that organization for 10 years.
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Right.
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And you go into the advanced organization of Los Angeles one day, and Susan's just gone.
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Right.
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And there's another person there doing that.
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Right.
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And you say, What happened to Susan?
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And then that person says, Oh, she's on a project.
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Right.
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And you're like, Okay, is she gonna come back?
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Or da da da?
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And then they're like, Oh, but you know, she's on a project.
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It could be two months, could be twenty years.
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We don't know.
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Yep.
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And then you go to Clearwater, Florida, to do your your upper levels that you can only do there, and you see Susan running around in black digging up weeds on the sort side of the corner or whatever, and you're like, oh, she was on a project.
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The rehabilitation project, force.
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And so Oh dear, poor Susan.
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Yeah, but they do that all the time.
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Yes.
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It's a regular occurrence when somebody just disappears.
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They just say, Oh, that person went on a project.
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Yeah.
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And that is in Scientology, that is a it's a genuine answer that does happen.
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People do go on projects.
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They go to another organization or they go to another country to get science fix up some problem that they're having somewhere here or there or everywhere.
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And then you don't see that person again.
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But then you never ever see them again.
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Right.
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And that's the part that's weird, is that they left and they're gone.
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And a lot of times their husband still works at the place where she where Susan worked, her husband works there too.
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So you kind of go like, so she went somewhere, her husband didn't go with her.
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Right.
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And that's it.
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That's just the end of it.
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We're never gonna see Susan again.
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Right.
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And so But that and that's also not uncommon.
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Like that wouldn't stand out because husbands and wives are often separated, as we were.
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Yeah, but where the internet comes in is you can go on the internet and you can type in Susan, her last name, and then you find out Susan's not even in the Sea Org anymore, and she's talking smack about them on some message port somewhere.
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And you're like, she ain't on a project.
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She flew the coop.
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Here, I have to show this.
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This makes me laugh.
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Love Food Kitchen.
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Susan, we haven't heard much about her.
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Was Susan's replacement Billy Bob?
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No, Susan is the female Billy Bob, okay?
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I I don't have a good uh Elma Ray.
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I can't I what's a good equivalent?
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A Susan.
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I like a Susan because Susie Sue?
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No.
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Susie Sue.
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That's a good one.
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I like to like Susie Sue.
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Okay, we'll change it to Susie Sue.
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Susie Sue and Billy Bob.
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Susie Sue and Billy Bob.
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Yeah.
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There is a Susan everywhere in Scientology.
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For sure.
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There's always a lot of Susans.
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There's always a Susan.
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There's Susans who have escaped.
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There's Susans who are still there.
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There's Susan's on the rehabilitation project for Susan.
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Susan's on the decks.
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You know what's also funny, which they have a lot of there?
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Karen's.
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Oh, they do.
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Yes.
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I knew four Karen's at the end base.
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There's tons of Karen's.
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Yes.
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Karen Priori.
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They called her KK, but her name was Karen.
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And there was Karen West.
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00:18:13.599
Karen West.
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There was also uh Karen uh Hollander.
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That was the uh I am.
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And then there's a few Karen who are former members, like Karen De La Carrière, Karen Presley, Schles.
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I'm telling you.
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They have their stock of Karen's.
00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:29.519
They did.
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That was way before Karen became Karen.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, way back.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, so the thing about the Internet that I'm trying to get to, though, is a lot of people in Scientology go missing and they never hear about them again.
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Right.
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And when people get on the internet and they search that person, sometimes they show up and they know.
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Or somebody like us has posted something and or we've done a video about all these different things that happened, and one of those people happened to be in the orbit of that story.
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Yeah.
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And they go, oh my God, that's blah, blah, blah.
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And that's even how You know, that's the whole purpose of the Aftermath Connect program, which we have on the Aftermath Foundation website of Find a Missing Person.
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The idea of that was if you've lost a loved one or a friend or something else to Scientology, you can post there.
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And the whole goal of that is when that person eventually gets out and searches their name.
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That will pop up in the top, you know, so you leave messages for them and so on and so forth.
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And we've had a few cases where that was successful, which is awesome.
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Okay.
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I think that's uh I mean the Internet the Internet will be credited as one of the major forces that sort of defanged Scientology and also has been exposing Scientology for decades.
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Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Right.
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Because it creates a transparency that that Scientology cannot undo.
00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:04.079
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
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Yeah, and they can't use their systems to shut it down.
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They've already tried that Scientology has tried every legal thing possible to shut down things on the internet.
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They've been that for for all of the 90s and the 2000s, they were trying to get websites shut down and suing people that were hosting servers and all these different things.
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Infiltrate um message boards.
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Which they have done.
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Yeah.
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And they were successful in kind of derailing a specific site.
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But now there's so many people and so many places where you can get information about Scientology that's factual.
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Not the homogenized version Scientology gives you, but what they really actually are up to.
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And they don't have a way, they really don't have a way to plug those holes.
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There's a thousand holes in their ship that are leaking or letting water in or however it works.
00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:03.920
Yep.
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I'm not a scientist.
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Okay.
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You're not?
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Um what's the what's the next question?
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Okay, next question here.
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Let me get back to my note.
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All right.
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Why are members discouraged from asking where the money goes?
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That's a good question.
00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:34.559
So in Scientology, the money, the how they how they process funds is very, very, very like written in stone.
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Yep.
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Um they have certain accounts they're supposed to keep.
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There's certain percentages that every organization needs to send to the next level up organization, whether it's the continent or the international level or whatever it is.
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If a dollar comes in, the organization does not get to keep the largest portion of that dollar.
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That dollar moves on to the next organization.
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organization that's co or royalties from the the the business that manages L.
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Ron Hubbard's like his his works.
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So essentially in Scientology they have all these different organizations set up that are grabbing a piece of that dollar.
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And they can't really not do that.
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If you're a Scientology organization and you made$10,000, it doesn't matter that your rent is overdue, it doesn't matter if the the gas or the oil or the heat or AC is going to get shut off.
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You're still going to give that royalty for L.
00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:40.960
Ron Hubbard still going to L.
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Ron Hubbard's organization, Author Services Incorporated.
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Right.
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So it's that same way with management, with all these other things.
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The other thing that's kind of crazy about Scientology in the in the in the finance end of it is when they build one of these new ideal organizations,
they fundraise so all the people in Buffalo that are the big wigs in Buffalo and any other big wigs that used to live in Buffalo or want to give them a million bucks for the Buffalo organization, they get all that money together, they buy, build or renovate a building and then when that building's done, the organization in Buffalo does not own that building.
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That's right.
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Scientology International now has property or the building or whatever.
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And if the Buffalo organization just goes kaput, they can sell that property and make a ton of dough.
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Yep.
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And so the Buffalo organization what they end up having to do is they become a tenant of I think it's called I c it's I can't remember the name of the it used to be called CIPRO, Scientology International Property Renovations Organization or something like that.
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I mean the post of international landlord as the name implies means that those organizations will pay rent to in int management even though they fundraise locally to purchase the building.
00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:25.440
And Amy Scoby has talked about the the scenario when she was responsible for like she was the head management position over Scientology organizations.
00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:46.240
And there was a time that one of the organizations was getting evicted for not paying their rent and David Miscavige demanded that she personally out of her pocket pay the$5,000 to avert that eviction which of course no C org member has$5,000.
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.519
Most of them in those days didn't even have bank accounts.
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Yeah and and certainly$5,000 you might as well be a quatrillionaire in the C org five oh my gosh.
00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.839
Dude you know how much cigarettes and coffee you could buy with$5,000?
00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:02.799
This guy's this guy's this guy's a baller.
00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:03.440
Right.
00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:11.839
Oh my goodness yeah anyway so yeah so the finances are and also here's a crazy thing.
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So when they had the the the the standard finance system which L.Run Hubbard devised all of the all of these percentages come out of the money that Scientology gets.
00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:33.599
But that's for training on Scientology courses or getting counseling in a Scientology organization.
00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:39.279
When they switched over to this fundraising method that's a whole new thing.
00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:44.880
And because there's no such thing as fundraising in Scientology because L Ron Hubbard said not to do it.
00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:45.599
Right.
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There's no rules on where that how that money gets dealt with.
00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:49.599
Yeah.
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And whatever rules have been put in place I can guarantee you right now if you raise a million dollars in Buffalo Buffalo ain't getting that million dollars.
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That that million bucks is going up to David Miscavige in RTC or the IAS or what or whatever campaign he's running, that's the place that's getting that money just like the building ones.
00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:14.559
Right.
00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:23.680
When they ri fundraise for buildings the Scientology international and David miscavige are controlling all that money.
00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:24.240
Right.
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And they don't have to tell you anything about it.
00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:27.440
It's a donation.
00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:39.839
Exactly like any Scientologist making a donation to the IAS the International Association of Scientologists none of them are ever allowed to ask well what is this money going to be used for?
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:41.279
Where is it going?
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:52.000
Those are all bid in questions because it's critical or it's just asking it's actually asking a very logical question but it's not allowed.
00:26:52.480 --> 00:27:14.720
Yeah but you know you just brought up something you're not really allowed I mean there's rules I'm sure they're not following them but if somebody says I'm donating this money for this thing and they fundraised that money for this thing in the nonprofit world you're really supposed to put that money towards that thing.
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:37.039
Yeah it's called restricted funds when you say okay I'm I'm do making this donation to this program you that you're agreeing and and as a nonprofit you're required to document that and account for that that that those funds are earmarked for that program and it's a very precise specific thing.
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:48.960
Yeah so I guarantee you I mean that it's similar there was a lawsuit many, many years ago where they were raising money for the new building this new Superpower building.
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.440
Superpower building in in Clearwater, Florida.
00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.559
It's a giant new building that they built I don't remember.
00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:58.000
They built now it uh it opened like a a while ago now.
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.799
I want to say like 2013 or something like that.
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:11.359
Aaron Ross Powell Yeah but they had there was going to be a cross on that building and they went to like eight different people and got money to pay for the cross.
00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:24.079
So it was like hey we need 500,000 from you for this cross and it'll be you'll be the person that put the cross on the building and then they did that to another handful of people and then those people found out about it.
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:32.880
They're like well you know I paid for the cross and then the other guy's like the hell you did I paid for the cross and then you know there's seven people who paid for the cross and the cross
cost$1,000.
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.160
Right.
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:36.799
Okay next question.
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:37.680
Okay.
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:42.240
So why can't C org members simply leave?
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:45.519
Well that's a very complicated question.
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:56.880
It is there's layers there's layers to that and it also depends on what C org facility you are at um on how many layers there are.
00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:57.599
Yeah.
00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:23.680
If you joined the C organization in Los Angeles at one of the Los Angeles organizations or Clearwater for that matter you join the Sea Org and you can't cut it and you don't want to do that anymore and you were cleaning rooms at the Fort Harrison or at one of these hotels they have down there I don't think you're going to have as much of a problem trying to leave.
00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:26.319
You're going to have problems and they're going to mess with you.
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:33.519
But if you're the only person in your family that's in Scientology, again, they don't really have any leverage and they can't really do anything.
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:58.000
If you are a Scientologist and your whole friend group and family and business associates and everything is involved in Scientology and then you leave and you leave the C org there's they're going to you're going to have to be on a very tight program of the things that you're going to do to repair why you left the C organization.
00:29:58.240 --> 00:29:58.480
Right.
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:05.680
And they're going to be basically be keeping an eye on you and make sure you don't stir up nonsense with any other Scientologist.
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:12.880
But for the most part it is easier to leave from one of those physical restrictions.
00:30:13.359 --> 00:30:22.559
But no C org member no member of the C organization is allowed to just say I want to leave and then it's like okay great walk out the door goodbye.
00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:42.480
And this is the reason why many C org members choose to escape because if they say I want to leave to the um the police person, the ethics officer, then the automatic response is supposed to be to put them on what's called a leaving staff routing form.
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:48.319
And the whole purpose of that routing form is to change their minds and get them to stay.
00:30:48.400 --> 00:31:07.839
And that that involves security checking interrogations oftentimes heavy manual labor oftentimes segregation from their partner or their friends you know they're put on the on the decks and put under security watch all those extreme measures are all designed to change their mind.
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:26.799
Aaron Ross Powell Yeah and I would say there's an added layer to that which is it serves two purposes to to try to get you to stay and then if you don't stay and you do leave they have all the documentation they need because they just did an interrogation on you for three weeks straight.
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:31.279
So they know every single bad thing you've ever done in your entire life.
00:31:31.599 --> 00:31:31.759
Yes.
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:36.240
And they can make a a mountain out of a molehill of any one of those things.
00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:43.599
And they do they and they often then if the person finally reaches the final steps they will video the person now.
00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:47.279
They didn't they they had just started doing this when we escaped.
00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:47.680
Yeah.
00:31:47.920 --> 00:32:01.839
But they'll make the person sign a declaration saying oh yeah David Miscavige would never hurt a bird yeah uh everything was wonderful I committed these heinous crimes and that's the reason I'm leaving like all of that.
00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:14.240
And of course by that point the person who is trying to just get out of there is just so desperate to get be shown the door that they just go ahead and sign.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:26.160
Yeah most of the time when when the person has gotten to that stage it's been weeks or months that it took to get to this and they know it's the last thing they have to do to GTFO.
00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:30.799
And it's like I'll do I'll and they are they're like I'll sign whatever you want.
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:36.880
You guys have been torturing me for months and trying to get me to stay and I do not want to stay.
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:37.200
Yes.
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:43.599
So they have all this ammunition and they basically tell you as well you better not say anything.
00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:43.839
Yeah.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:33:00.160
And that you're signing nondisclosure bonds in some cases even now in some instances now they're also paying enough money with your signature you agree not to say anything.
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:00.799
Right.
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:08.880
When there when there's um financial exchange of funds it it weight it puts more weight to it.
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:33.440
Aaron Ross Powell It does and and that's that's kind of a crazy thing because the people that escape Scientology the the the thing we're talking about route right now is called routing out because like Claire said you do this leaving staff routing form which basically it's just a form that says go see this person and then when that person's done they sign it off and says now go see the next person.
00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:37.519
And so you go through all these different people and one step could take six months.
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:38.160
For sure.
00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:49.440
Because one of those steps is a leaving staff sex check security check where you're going to be interrogated for what crimes have you committed right right before you decided you wanted to GTFO.
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:51.279
What crimes did you commit?
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:52.160
Yes.
00:33:52.400 --> 00:34:01.519
And so they get all of that and then that's how you're
that's how you leave and they give you some money and they make you sign some documents.
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:06.160
Well if you escape it's the fast track routing form.
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.000
It's got one step GTF up.
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:10.400
You just have to succeed.
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:11.119
Yes.
00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:12.320
You do have to succeed.
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:18.480
Because because if you don't succeed chances are it's going to be a way longer road.
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:24.480
Yeah but that's the other reason why some of these other locations are a little bit easier.
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:40.000
Correct when you're at the International Scientology base, you're in the middle of the desert essentially Yeah there's no you know you don't and you don't have a phone so it's not like you if you think about it in real world terms, barely anyone has a car.
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:48.239
So you have no vehicle uh it's a long walk even it's like four miles even to a payphone at least.
00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:49.440
Yeah maybe more.
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:58.480
But also you don't have a lot of money normally most people in the Sea Org um don't have a lot of money.
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:00.800
There's a there's a few zec a few exceptions.
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:12.559
Like sometimes the the children of wealthy Scientologists are in the Sea Org and they've got an Amex card and their parents are just Melissa Fashback they they had money.
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:15.199
Trevor Burrus Yeah but they could do anything with that credit card.
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:15.440
Right.
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:22.159
They could get a biophone they could get a plane ticket whatever they needed they just show up with that credit card and they're good to go.
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.920
Now that's not the case for most Sea members.
00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:33.840
So if you have no logistical wherewithal to make a call or to get a car or to do anything.
00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:44.719
And also at that property most of those people have been very, very heavily secluded from the real world for at least a decade or so.
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.039
So they don't know how the real world works for the most part.
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:54.320
I mean we didn't even know you didn't even know what a calling card was when you tried to leave.
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:57.920
This was I mean cell phones were a thing back then.
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:05.599
But the cell phones that we had were owned by Scientology and they would regularly check the phone records.
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.000
Yes.
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:12.719
And if you if they found in the phone records that you'd made a call that was not authorized, the phone would be taken away.
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:17.199
It wasn't our personal it wasn't an open line in other words.
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:30.639
Aaron Ross Powell totally so and in fact I've heard by the way that now the phones that they give to members of the C organization are pre-programmed with the authorized phone numbers and none others are allowed.
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:39.039
Aaron Ross Powell Well they also have this little kind of net nanny spyware on there that keeps track of if they go on the interwebs where they're going on the interwebs.
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:40.639
There's some sort of filter.
00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:55.920
I don't know if this is true I also heard this from at least two or three different people that had escaped is that they weren't allowed to have iPhones because iPhones don't allow you to put that tracker software on a phone I don't know if that's still the case.
00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:07.280
Yeah I don't know it seems like that would make sense that they would make them get Android phones so that they could put this sort of app on there that is very intrusive to your privacy.
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.440
Oh Catherine said that's exactly right Mark about iPhones.
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.760
Let's see what she said here.
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:15.599
Yeah oh that's exactly right about iPhones.
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:31.039
Yeah so so that's a very telling thing that they're not even going to allow people in the Sea to have a certain phone because then they can't put on this tracking stuff that they want to use to track the person who has the phone.
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:40.480
So yeah I mean talk about crazy levels of control right it's just you can't you can't even they don't do not want you to Google David Miscavige.
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:46.400
They don't want you to Google Scientology I mean the long the list is long.
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:58.239
Yeah there's a video on this channel the whole almost the whole reason I created this channel the Blum for Good channel I think was I want to say I made it in 2008.
00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:58.960
Yes.
00:37:59.199 --> 00:38:03.920
And I just had it as a place to put videos I thought would be interesting on Scientology.
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:14.639
Not with me in them it was just a whatever but one of those really old videos is the number of domains that Scientology they registered.
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:16.400
Yes the the hate websites.
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.119
But not even the hate websites because some of them are the David Miscavige sites as well.
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:26.960
So they they have thousands and thousands and thousands of domains registered.
00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:37.440
So if you search david miscavige's beatspeople it goes to Scientology's official page for David Miscavige.
00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:51.119
But that if you look through the list I I think you can play it on half speed um it's just basically the entire list scrolling the it's a it's a few minutes long.
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:52.559
It's a lot of domains.
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:52.880
Yeah.
00:38:53.119 --> 00:38:59.119
So there's one that are what we call the hate sites and then I can't remember what we
called the other ones.
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:07.920
They were it was basically like a the PR sites that would basically just channel people who are looking up bad things about David Miscavige.
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:14.800
But like some of the domains are ri ridiculous like David Miscavige LronHubbard best friend dot com.
00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.519
You're just like you guys don't know how the internet works.
00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:31.920
You don't type in this I mean maybe at the time that was a thing to do just make the search the domain anyway I think that's I think we've answered that question sufficiently.
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.519
So why can't that's the answer to why can't SEO members simply leave?
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:35.840
Yeah.
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:36.159
Yeah.
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:50.159
And and most of it does have to do with the leverage and control that Scientology exerts on its members um you know and will absolutely use their family against them, their friends against them.
00:39:50.400 --> 00:40:04.880
It's to me, in closing it speaks to how small Scientology actually is that most of the people there cannot just leave because their family friends, the people they work for or whatever is all tied into that world.
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:05.840
Totally.
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:17.280
And the another thing that I want to say about this is Scientology claims it has millions and millions and millions of tens of millions of members worldwide.
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:17.840
Right.
00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:52.320
Which is completely horseshit but the thing that really the thing that really pushes this home that it is horseshit is if you had 10 million members and Johnny no Suzy Sue in Kia Cuck wants to leave Scientology who cares 10 million people what do we need Suzy Sue for I know but if you have but if you have 10,000 and Susie Sue wants to leave and she might take two other people with her we got a big situation on our hands.
00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:52.800
Right.
00:40:52.960 --> 00:41:00.159
That was one of the biggest wake up calls to me when we got out was they would not leave us alone.
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:08.000
That and that's what's so ironic now that in the amicus brief in the Danny Masterson trial, they're claiming I won't leave them alone.
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:13.840
I'm like, oh isn't that sweet we couldn't get more further from the truth.
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:18.000
Yeah there were hate websites about us up for years.
00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:33.119
They had they had that private investigator dude that would walk by our house every day at the same time in the afternoon when we lived in Burbank California while I was pregnant with our first son and they were doing the trash collections.
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:42.880
They were not only getting our phone records but also had detailed some summaries of every single person we'd called and what we talked about.
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:44.400
Yeah it was kind of crazy.
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:46.159
It was completely crazy.
00:41:46.559 --> 00:42:00.639
When we got those ironically we got them when Mike Rinder left yes not even right when he left years after he left I think he left in 2007 He did.
00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:04.719
And we got those I want to say in like 2010 or something like that.
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:25.679
It was years and years later and it was simply just because he had a folder of a bunch of back and forth communications he was he was having but then he also had another folder and inside that folder was another folder and there were literally hundreds and hundreds of folders with hundreds and hundreds thousands of documents and he hadn't gone through every single one.
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:31.760
He just was like yeah it's a bunch of the he thought oh it's just a bunch of the dispatches that I typed up and sent to David Miscavige.
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:32.000
Yeah.
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:34.719
And then it turned out to just be an insane amount of stuff.
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.159
Well when he first left he turned that over to the FBI.
00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:44.159
He did but we never really saw any of that and we knew he had it and we were just like whatever.
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:48.320
And then one day I said hey do you mind if I paw through this thing?
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:52.960
And then I was like dude there's a lot of stuff in here that you didn't know was in here.
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:53.360
Yeah.
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:58.320
Um but regardless um I'm trying to remember what I was going to say.
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:11.679
Oh Scientology in that stuff they were doing things all those documents showed that they were doing tons of s crazy stuff to try and harass us that we didn't even know about.
00:43:12.079 --> 00:43:12.559
Exactly.
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:19.360
So for us to then I think lit my book came out in we left in two January 2005.
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.960
Yep and my book came out November 2009.
00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:24.719
November 5th 2009.
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:26.880
Yeah sorry we left January 2005.
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:28.000
That's what you said.
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:32.400
Okay yeah and my book came out in November of 2009.
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:33.199
Yes.
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:50.400
Of course we I was posting on the interwebs on why we protest and Zenu and uh OCMB and X Scientology message board all these things that existed at the time but I didn't have a book come out until 2009.
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:51.039
Right.
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:59.360
During that entire four years they were busy busy bees trying to destroy us in every single capacity whatsoever.
00:43:59.599 --> 00:43:59.760
Yep.
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.440
And so it's kind of like it took you guys were messing with me for four years.
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:09.280
And I was like, there's I gotta tell everybody my side of this.
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:16.400
You guys are
and that's really why I wanted to put the book out was to say, no, no, this is what these guys do.
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:18.079
Who cares about me?
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:19.360
I'm just one guy.
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:19.760
Right.
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.880
This is a whole s situation here all over the world.
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.239
This is a world uh organizational system uh systemic abuse.
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:31.679
Yeah, this is thousands of people that are getting abused.
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.840
It's not my fault that that's happening.
00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:34.239
Right.
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:36.800
I'm just here by myself in Burbank.
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:49.760
Um just trying to raise our raise a family, got young kids, start from nothing, like build a life from absolutely nothing with zero credit, zero anything.
00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:53.119
But also, we weren't out to do anything to them.
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:53.679
No.
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:55.519
We were just gonna go.
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:57.519
We wanted to leave and live our life.
00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:58.000
Yeah.
00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:03.039
It was them basically poking us for four years straight.
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:03.519
Yes.
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:07.039
That was like, you guys, this is crazy that you're doing this.
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:07.280
Yeah.
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:08.719
And I would say that.
00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:14.960
I would say, if you have millions and millions of members, why would you give a shit about me and Claire?
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:15.440
Yes.
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:16.320
Who cares?
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:18.960
It's like a rounding error of members.
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:20.079
Exactly.
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:31.760
And speaking of which, there is no member of the C organization that breaks free whether they escape, whether they've gone through the torture of interrogations.
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:38.880
Not one single one of those people walks out the door and goes, I'm gonna get these guys.
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:41.119
It's not how it happens.
00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:41.519
No.
00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:44.000
That certainly was not our perspective.
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:51.280
But you're right, they kept poking and poking and poking and poking and would not leave us alone, no matter what we did.
00:45:51.440 --> 00:46:00.559
And I I I've said before, the moment child services showed up at our door with that bogus complaint was the moment for me that I was like, you know what?
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:09.760
Yes, I was born and raised in the C organization, and I was I suffered all kinds of trauma and abuse, and I'm uh scared shitless of these people.
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:10.559
But that's it.
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:13.119
You've crossed a line, game over.
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.599
I'm speaking out publicly, and I do not care anymore.
00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:19.519
I'm done with this nonsense.
00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:30.960
Yeah, I'm trying to think I want to say that that's probably a very similar situation to all the other people who have written books about Scientology.
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:42.719
If you think of the people, Mike Rinder, Amy Scobie, Jeff Hawkins, Chris Shelton, these people were basically harassed after they left.
00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:57.599
Or they or they wanted to mess with them, or in the case of some of these new people that are coming out and writing books or whatever, they want to tell the story that happened happened to them in the location of Scientology that they were in.
00:46:57.840 --> 00:46:58.000
Right.
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:06.320
Because a lot of these, Amy, Jeff, and my book and Mike's book, those a lot of those take place at the international headquarters.
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:06.719
Yep.
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:11.199
So you can find out a lot about the international headquarters of Scientology.
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:24.800
If you're a Scientologist or an ex-scientologist that's watching this and you have questions that went on about what went on at the international headquarters, there's four books you can buy that will tell you pretty much the entire scene.
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:25.039
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:25.280
Yeah.
00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:35.360
Which, by the way, speaking of which, somebody mentioned in the comments and I wanted to mention too, Marriott Lindstein also put out a her memoir on her years in Scientology.
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:41.440
Unfortunately, it's not in English, but she uh I messaged her about it saying, Oh, I just saw that this came out.
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:44.880
Turns out she released it in 2024 and I just didn't know.
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:48.880
That's not one of these uh the the Fog Island ones.
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:50.000
This is a totally separate.
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.280
This is actually a memoir of her life in Scientology.
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:53.840
Nice.
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:54.239
Yeah.
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:56.480
We should put a link to it.
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:58.239
At least the Swedes can see it.
00:47:58.480 --> 00:47:58.719
Yep.
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:00.880
And and it's in two other languages, I think.
00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:09.840
But yeah, she said um that because there are a lot of memoirs in English already that she doesn't think it's going to get translated.
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:15.360
But anyway, nonetheless, she has uh and yeah, anyway.
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.280
Okay, let's do the next question.
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:17.920
Okay.
00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:22.480
What questions did you never dare ask while inside?
00:48:24.079 --> 00:48:28.159
Well, we didn't ask I I mean I didn't ask any questions.
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:31.199
I knew uh I knew the score, I knew what time it was.
00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:44.320
You that's the other kind of crazy thing about it is when you have to do something or when you're
punished or you know, it's usually it's usually a group thing.
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:49.840
Sometimes one person can get in trouble at the international headquarters.
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.000
That happens all the time.
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:58.320
But what happens even more than that is an entire group or division of an organization.
00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:05.440
So like uh the whole entire time that I was at the international headquarters, I was in Golden Era Productions.
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:06.000
Yep.
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:14.159
And that has a it has the HCO, Hubbard Communications Office, which is kind of like the police and the administrative people of the organization.
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:27.119
Then it has dissemination, it has treasury, the accounts department, and then they have cinematography, audio, marketing, um what are some uh cinematography?
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:37.360
They have all these different estates, like a uh like a facilities organization that create build-s is the one that provides all the meals and all that does all the grounds management.
00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:37.840
That's right.
00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:39.440
They have services within them.
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:40.480
So food and services.
00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:50.159
Provides the lodging for all the staff and so David Miscavige, if something happened like one time everybody got food poisoning.
00:49:50.400 --> 00:50:03.280
Um and so the the division or the service department that made all the food, the entire department got investigated and were on an extended schedule or you know, punished as a group.
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:06.239
And that was sort of like a weekly thing.
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:15.920
Uh the next month, the estate, entire state's division could be put on a punishment or some sort of penalties, or they were all in a lower condition.
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:27.280
And then sometimes you'd have you'd have four or five divisions that were in that, and then David Miscavige's say, no, the entire, all of Golden Era Productions is in lower conditions.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:35.280
So you know, 15-minute meal breaks, um, extended schedules, uh, don't be late for muster.
00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:37.360
If you're late for muster, you have to stay up all night.
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:42.639
If you're late a second time, you go to the rehabilitation project force is what's called the RPF.
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:51.039
So that you so it was never a time when everybody was doing awesome.
00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:58.480
That time, that time never if you if your division was doing awesome, there was two other divisions that were sucking it hard.
00:50:58.639 --> 00:50:58.800
Yeah.
00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.639
And they were getting just ground into the ground.
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:09.760
And then when those divisions were sky high, your division was deep in the mud, and you were the one sucking it.
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:15.840
So it was like what question do you need to ask?
00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:20.400
The question would be why is this place such a fucking nightmare?
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:20.719
Yeah.
00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:26.320
But you know why it's a nightmare, because there's this one guy, and that's the other thing.
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:32.480
The the the head of Golden Era Productions could not assign Golden Era Productions lower conditions.
00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:47.760
There's not even there's not enough facility or some way that that person could say, all of you guys are this is this is like a an edict that's coming down because David Miscavige personally runs that organization.
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:55.280
So if he thinks the audio guys are hot shit and now you've assigned them something, now you're you're kind of messing with him.
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:55.760
Yep.
00:51:56.000 --> 00:52:16.880
So the only reason that these divisions or the organizations, and there's other, there's like four or five other organizations at the international headquarters besides Golden Air Productions, but he's the only one who gets to say this organization or this division or all organizations on the international headquarters.
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:18.960
He's the only one who gets to say when that happens.
00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:19.280
Yep.
00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:22.400
And that he used that irregularly.
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:22.880
Yeah.
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:36.000
So I don't really think of a time where I where I personally had a question and it was I knew not to ask it.
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:36.239
Yeah.
00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.880
When it w the you you learn.
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:39.440
Yeah.
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:40.559
There were many times.
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:48.719
You learn what not to do because you see the other person go, like, they say, Hey, you got into a car accident.
00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:56.559
And so you get an interview on an e-meter, and they need to find out who the suppressive is in your life that you got into this car accident.
00:52:57.119 --> 00:53:00.880
And Billy Bob Then you can't name a good hat.
00:53:01.199 --> 00:53:08.320
Bill Billy Bob's on the e-meter, and the only person that's harassing him and making his life horrible is David Miscavige.
00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:08.639
Right.
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:11.599
And so he says, Who's suppressing me?
00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:15.440
Uh yeah, David Miscavige is the guy who's suppressing me.
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:18.400
And then you don't see Billy Bob ever again after that.
00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:18.639
Right.
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.960
And you know, there's the whisper web goes, like, oh, he said David Miscavige.
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:25.519
They call it your what is it?
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:26.079
Your who.
00:53:26.400 --> 00:53:27.599
Your your who or your item.
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:31.599
Yeah, your yeah, who your PTS to or yeah, who your PTS to.
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:40.480
And so
you say David Miscavige, and uh people, there was multiple people that that did this over the years that I was at least I knew I could list off ten people.
00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:41.119
Absolutely.
00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:51.920
At one point there was a project to go through everyone's folders to find out who had said David Miscavige was the suppressive person on their case, and all those people were carted out of there.
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.760
Anyway, so you hear about that through the Whisper Web.
00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:03.280
When somebody that's the other thing that I think might be different about the international headquarters, is Dave's doing so much crazy, crazy things.
00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:03.679
Yeah.
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:09.920
And there's enough people around that are witnessing it, and some of those people aren't the most loyal.
00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:10.400
No.
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:14.719
And so then they get in the back and they're like, Did you hear what this motherfucker did?
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:16.960
And then you're like, hey, dude, take an easy.
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:18.000
And I'm like, Jesus.
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:18.239
Yeah.
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.239
You're gonna get us all lit up here.
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:20.719
Yeah.
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:29.760
Um, so I don't think I'm trying I just don't think I ever you know not what not to ask.
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.559
So it's kind of funny if you say, Well, what question would you have asked?
00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:36.880
You go, no, you you you know, you know why it's crazy.
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:38.079
Yes, you know, there's no question.
00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:40.000
You just don't have an easy way out.
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:46.000
And you can't and you can't tell people, even if you think, oh, I'm having some major clarity right now.
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:47.519
This guy's a son of a bitch.
00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:48.000
Right.
00:54:48.159 --> 00:54:50.159
Like you and I never had that conversation.
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:51.039
Never once.
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:51.440
Never.
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:52.639
Never once.
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:52.960
Yeah.
00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.639
In how many years were we there married when we were there?
00:54:57.039 --> 00:54:57.519
13.
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:02.320
Yeah, which is a it's a long time in the regular world, I think, for some people.
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:04.159
It's an eternity in the Sea Org.
00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:04.639
It is.
00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:08.880
And that's why we always say our marriage is a statistical anomaly.
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:09.360
Yeah.
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:14.639
So very few people whose marriage survived that that disaster and chaos.
00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:16.400
And not because they don't like each other.
00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:16.800
No.
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:21.360
Because one of them will get sent to the RPF and never come back to that organization again.
00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:21.840
Yeah.
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:23.679
Okay, let's do the next question.
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:24.320
Yeah.
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:30.239
Um, and actually, I suggest that we just do we end here because we're already almost at an hour.
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:33.920
So let's do our questions and then we can do another round of this.
00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:36.320
So for anyone watching, yeah.
00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:41.679
If there are questions we didn't cover that you would like us to cover in a later episode, drop it in the comments.
00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:42.320
Perfect.
00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:42.800
Yeah.
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:49.039
All right, Jacob Harkey, can you explain what postulating means in Scientology and what it looks like?
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:50.239
Is it like praying?
00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:53.280
Do Scientologists postulate for their loved ones?
00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:55.440
So it's basically just like manifesting.
00:55:55.760 --> 00:56:13.840
It's the same thing like the real so postulate is essentially, yeah, it's the the real world equivalent is manifesting, but it's like, oh, I'm going to postulate that I'm going to make$10,000 this next week, and then I'll be able to get on my next level of training or processing.
00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:14.239
Yeah.
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.280
It's, you know, it's just set it's setting a goal.
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:17.599
Yeah.
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.559
It's setting a goal or target in your mind.
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:21.360
That's all it is.
00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:27.119
It's m if you say I mean it's kind of a weird thing.
00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:36.800
But if you if you're just doing things and you're not thinking about anything, or you're not trying to go towards anything, you're probably just going to wander around and not get much done.
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:37.199
Right.
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:44.159
If you tell yourself, you know, we made$500,000 this year, I've got to make$750,000 next year.
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:44.400
Yep.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:49.119
And that's you say, we're going to make seven$750,000 next year.
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:53.519
You're probably going to make more than if you didn't say that.
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:57.199
You might not make$750, but you might make$650.
00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:01.840
Or you might make$200, but you're not going to make nothing.
00:57:03.679 --> 00:57:17.679
And Scientologist The way Hubbard talks about Scientology is that if you do Scientology, this is a good point because people say, oh, they think it's going to give you superpowers.
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:28.239
In Scientology, you have these things called postulates, these targets or goals or or states you want to achieve or things you want to accomplish.
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And L.
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Ron Hubbard says in Scientology, if you know everything about Scientology, you can remove all of the things that get in the
way of, and they say this in Scientology, in the way of making a postulate stick.
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:47.199
So Yeah, or work or yeah.
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:49.280
No, they call it making postulates stick.
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:49.840
Yep, yep.
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:57.199
So if you want to make$750,000 and there's 25 obstacles in front of you, L.
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:02.639
Ron Hubbard says, I can help you identify and get rid of those 25 obstacles.
00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:04.639
And then you can do this.
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Yes.
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:10.079
So there is a little bit of cheese in the trap.
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:15.039
And the reason there's that cheese in the trap is because otherwise there's nothing.
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:27.039
But the reason that cheese is in there is because if you can say, I'm going to make$10 million and then make$10 million, you can give eight of that to Scientology.
00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:32.079
And that's why they want they Scientology aren't recruiting homeless people.
00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:34.880
They're not recruiting people in food lines.
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:44.480
They're recruiting people that are dentists, chiropractors, business owners, uh investors.
00:58:46.079 --> 00:59:00.159
They're recruiting people that already have a ton of money, and they're telling those people listen, not only can I make you make 10 times what you're making, but I can connect you into a network of a ton of other millionaires in Scientology.
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:00.480
Right.
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And even if you can't do it, you can help one of them do it, and then you'll make that money anyway.
00:59:06.079 --> 00:59:10.079
So they that's sort of what postulates are.
00:59:10.239 --> 00:59:16.400
I think this is a very in-depth answer for Jacob Hardy's Jacob Harkey's 499 super chat.
00:59:16.639 --> 00:59:17.760
Thank you very much, Jacob.
00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:19.440
Yes, great question.
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Excuse me.
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I've got a little bit of like enlightening our weekend.
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You're welcome.
00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:30.719
Thanks for being here.
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:35.119
There was another really good question I saw that was uh good questions.
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:35.679
Okay.
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:42.079
In 1995, Code Monkey says, in 1995, I delivered media equipment to Golden Era Productions.
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I remember being freaked out by the whole scene, and I wanted to leave as fast as possible.
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Very dark aura.
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I told the sales guy, I'm never going there again.
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:55.280
Yeah, we've heard from a few people like you, Code Monkey.
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You'd be surprised.
00:59:56.719 --> 00:59:58.239
I have to tell the software story now.
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:03.360
So there's a guy that sold software to the international headquarters.
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And this software was it was uh it's basically a visual effects software that helps you create things in 3D.
01:00:12.800 --> 01:00:13.280
Yep.
01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:19.199
And then sorry, to but to be clear, this guy was never in Scientology.
01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:19.760
Oh, yeah, no.
01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:20.159
He had nothing.
01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:22.800
He just worked at the software company.
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:23.039
Yeah.
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:29.119
And he actually was a sales guy at this software company, I want to say, for decades.
01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:30.639
He was he was there.
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:35.360
He was an original kind of internet guy when the internet started.
01:00:35.599 --> 01:00:40.480
He was he was he did he created some sort of graphics uh software system.
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:46.079
And then he sold that and then he became a a sales guy for software, for this big software company.
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:46.480
Yeah.
01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:48.400
And he was one of their top sales guys.
01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:48.639
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
01:00:48.800 --> 01:00:49.199
He w was.
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:53.039
He was everybody in the entire film industry knew this guy.
01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:57.679
If you were in the visual effects industry, you knew this guy, and you knew this company, and you knew this software.
01:00:57.920 --> 01:00:58.159
Yep.
01:00:58.480 --> 01:00:58.800
Okay.
01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:03.679
So we had maybe a handful of copies of this software at the International Base.
01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:13.920
And we would use it to create Scientology organizations in 3D, and then we would animate that 3D, and then we would shoot what's called a fly-through video.
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:20.000
And we would sort of um we would sort of make videos from these 3D files.
01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:20.559
Yep.
01:01:20.880 --> 01:01:21.199
Okay.
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:24.559
So then it became well, wait a minute.
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:34.000
If you guys are building the organizations, like the the landlord office is designing a building, and then we're taking the designs and we're making it in 3D.
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:41.440
And David Miscavige was like, you should make the landlord build the organizations in 3D, because they have all the plans and everything.
01:01:41.599 --> 01:01:46.239
If they build it in this, they can use that for their plans and they can use it to build the building.
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:48.800
But then the visual effects guys already have the building.
01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:50.639
They don't have to spend all this time making the buildings.
01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:53.920
So that's the most time extensive part of this process.
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:54.639
Right.
01:01:55.280 --> 01:02:01.039
So he essentially ordered this is like on a probably like on a Friday morning or Thursday night.
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:02.960
Let's say Thursday night.
01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:12.159
He says everyone in the int finance or the int landlord office that has anything to do with building new buildings, they need this software.
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:13.760
Software's not cheap.
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.880
Software costs like$5,000 a copy.
01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:21.760
You know, back back then that that's a that's a stack of dough.
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:22.079
Yep.
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:28.400
That's how much a Sea Org that's about how much a Sea Org could make in a year or two,$5,000.
01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:28.800
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
01:02:29.119 --> 01:02:30.880
It's more like three years, yeah.
01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:32.880
$2,000 a year is the most we ever heard.
01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:35.840
Either way, it's a lot of dough to a Sea Org member.
01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:36.400
Yeah, for sure.
01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:41.679
Anyway, so the person who deals with this software guy is in Visual Effects.
01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:44.960
And so they say, hey, give us this guy's number.
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:46.639
We need to get this.
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:54.000
And the guy that's over the Int Landlord office is the international finance director, is one of the people who sort of runs that whole thing.
01:02:54.159 --> 01:02:54.239
Right.
01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:56.480
And he's the one who's writing checks as well.
01:02:56.719 --> 01:02:57.039
Yep.
01:02:57.280 --> 01:03:00.559
And so and then maybe there's 30 people that need this software.
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:00.880
Yeah.
01:03:01.119 --> 01:03:03.039
So you're talking about$150,000.
01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:03.920
Right.
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:04.559
Okay.
01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:10.559
So they go to this software, they get a hold of the number from the visual effects department.
01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:12.719
They say, hey, we need this software right now.
01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:17.360
And the guy's like, well, um, we can work up a quote and maybe I get back to you on Monday.
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:19.519
They're like, no, no, no, we need it today.
01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:21.039
Today.
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:24.159
And he's like, well, it doesn't really work like that.
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:26.000
We got to go through some things.
01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:33.519
And so he says, if we if we are if we deliver it the way you want it, it's actually$7,500 a copy.
01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:38.320
And and I don't know if I'm going to be able to move on that price.
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:42.079
And the and the finance director is like, no way, we need it for less.
01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:44.400
Uh there's no way we're paying$7,500.
01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:46.239
I think it was actually$10,000.
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:48.159
There's no way we're paying$10,000.
01:03:48.400 --> 01:03:49.039
That's a joke.
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:50.559
The software costs$5,000.
01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:55.599
It doesn't that it's just it's literally a C D or a download.
01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.880
It's not there's no there's no cost at this point.
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:01.599
The cost was paid for years and years and years ago.
01:04:02.559 --> 01:04:02.800
Okay.
01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:05.039
I need the software.
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:06.480
I need 30 copies of this.
01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:08.960
And the guy says it's going to be 10,000, da da da da da.
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.239
He goes, We're not going to pay 10,000.
01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:15.599
And then we need you we need you to give it to us as like a bulk rate.
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:17.360
And then the guy says, okay.
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:19.599
But then we have to get it to you as well.
01:04:19.920 --> 01:04:20.960
And he says, okay.
01:04:21.199 --> 01:04:24.000
Anyway, this guy basically negotiates.
01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:31.039
I'll give it to you for 9,000 and I'll deliver all copies today, or to tonight, or tomorrow morning, or whatever.
01:04:31.119 --> 01:04:33.199
However, the deadline was like, we need it today.
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:34.079
Right.
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:38.800
So this guy double charges them for the software.
01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:43.119
And then at the same time sells them 30 copies of it.
01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:47.440
Because they have no clue about the real world or anything that's going on.
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.719
But also because And also they cannot say no.
01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:54.159
They cannot tell report back to David Miscavige, oh, it can't be done.
01:04:54.480 --> 01:05:04.320
Yeah, which is it's kind of crazy the way they play the game because David Miscavige sort of makes them tip their hand in a negotiation.
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:10.960
Because David Miscavige has set a hard out on when this has to happen, otherwise you're toast.
01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:11.440
Yep.
01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:15.440
And so as soon as you enter that into the equation, the other person has all the leverage.
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:18.000
They can say it's going to be$9,000 a copy.
01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:19.199
And I'll have it to you tonight.
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:20.079
You want it today?
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:20.559
That's the price.
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:21.360
That's the price.
01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:22.239
And then you pay it.
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:26.000
And the crazy thing is now you could just probably go online and just download it.
01:05:26.719 --> 01:05:27.280
For sure.
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:29.840
But you couldn't do that back then.
01:05:30.239 --> 01:05:33.760
But um what was even the question?
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:34.960
Oh, it was the delivery.
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:35.599
The guy had it.
01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:36.800
The comment was the delivery.
01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:38.159
Yes, from Code Monkey.
01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:39.360
Thank you, Code Monkey.
01:05:39.519 --> 01:05:39.920
I appreciate it.
01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:41.440
It's very generous of you for the super chat.
01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:41.840
Thank you.
01:05:42.079 --> 01:05:42.239
Thank you.
01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:42.559
Thank you.
01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:42.800
Thank you.
01:05:43.199 --> 01:05:46.079
Are there any other super chats that we uh or any other good questions?
01:05:46.559 --> 01:05:47.599
There's a ton of great questions.
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:48.559
So let's go through those.
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:49.440
Hit them up.
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:50.000
Okay.
01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:51.039
Oh well hold on.
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:53.119
I wasn't ready for taking this over.
01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:53.679
So hold on.
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:54.320
Holy move.
01:05:54.559 --> 01:05:55.039
I'll get there.
01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:55.920
Give me a minute.
01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:57.119
Give me a minute.
01:05:57.760 --> 01:05:58.400
Here we go.
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Start.
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All right.
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:04.000
I'm going to go back there.
01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:04.880
Okay.
01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:05.840
A question for Mark.
01:06:06.079 --> 01:06:11.920
What is David Miscavige's favorite brand of hi-fi equipment?
01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:13.599
You should know you built them.
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.800
I mean his private hi-fi, not those in the organizations.
01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:17.840
Thanks, good fella.
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.440
That's a great question.
01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:30.159
For years and years and years, not only did I build those systems, but I worked with the the the place that is in charge of his audiovisual equipment is called L.
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.880
Ron Hubbard's audiovisual.
01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:33.840
That's what it's called.
01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:38.719
And for short, they call it RAV, R-A-V, Ron's Audiovisual.
01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:47.440
And in RAV, they're always testing new cassette decks and CD players and speakers and amplifiers.
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:50.719
And also custom designing them themselves.
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:59.119
One of the the brands of things would change and kind of go back and f of course Nakamichi, because L.
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:07.760
Ron Hubbard talked about it, Nakamichi was a s a solid uh brand in the in the sort of mix of brands.
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Um really uh they because L there was just a thing you could adjust on a Nakamichi that you couldn't adjust on other tape players easily, and that was the the head height and the azimuth that that actually the the the recording head that reads the signal how it's adjusted against the tape.
01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:41.280
And because you could adjust that they had that in all of the audio facilities at Golden Era Productions, but then Nakamichi became the only brand of cassette deck that the organizations were allowed to have.
01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:41.920
Right.
01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:52.000
And for many years, when I was in the systems manufacturing area and working in the systems department, we would refurbish those cassette decks.
01:07:52.079 --> 01:07:58.480
We'd change the heads or we'd, you know, bring them in, test them, fix them up, re-silk screen, you know, a bunch of stuff like that.
01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:08.960
And um But when Nagamichi started making cass uh CD players and and m later on, it was it just became like a cheap, cheap, oh cheap brand.
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:12.159
It wasn't there wasn't anything special about them.
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:17.840
Um some of the other brands were uh TDL, um Bryson.
01:08:18.000 --> 01:08:22.239
We used to have Bryson amps in all Scientology organizations worldwide.
01:08:22.399 --> 01:08:24.880
They might even still have Brysons to this day.
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:36.159
Um it's a very expensive microf uh amplifier, especially if you're gonna put them in 300 different organizations all over the world, in multiple rooms throughout throughout each organization.
01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:36.479
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:40.159
What was the equipment that Miscavige had in his private listening room?
01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:47.279
In his listening room, he would kind of uh rotate whatever the the cool thing was.
01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:56.399
So for a while he had Genilec speakers, which were these very, very expensive sort of high-end room speakers.
01:08:56.640 --> 01:09:01.680
And these speakers, sometimes these speakers that David Miscavige had, they'd be six foot tall.
01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:03.840
And they'd be three foot wide.
01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:06.319
I mean, they would be but but thin.
01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:08.640
Not not like a giant cabinet.
01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:10.479
Sometimes there were cabinets.
01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:13.439
Um I think there was another speaker brand.
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:15.600
Maybe it wasn't TDL, it was TDM.
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:16.720
I can't remember.
01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:23.039
Um there was there were so many different what he basically had whatever was hot at the time.
01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:23.600
Yep.
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:25.760
And spared no expense.
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:26.399
Yeah, exactly.
01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:27.119
One listening room.
01:09:27.359 --> 01:09:35.760
Price price was not not a one listening room setup or audio setup for David Miscavige could easily be over three hundred thousand.
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:36.880
One setup.
01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:41.039
Just the speakers and the amps, you know, could be$150,000.
01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:44.640
So we go, another one.
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:52.800
Love Food Kitchen says surely the number one forbidden question in modern Scientology is who exactly is it that stands tall?
01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:55.119
Because it's certainly not chairman of the board.
01:09:55.359 --> 01:09:56.239
Well, there you go.
01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:58.960
Not quite sure what the question is there, but it's all good.
01:09:59.279 --> 01:10:00.640
That's a we stand tall
joke.
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:01.039
Right.
01:10:01.199 --> 01:10:01.600
Yeah, yeah.
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:02.800
I know, I get that.
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:04.159
We stand tall.
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:05.199
It is also funny.
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:08.159
No turning back we'll find a way.
01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:14.479
This could be this could be a I'm gonna take this this uh this could be that question yet.
01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:15.199
Well, hold on.
01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:22.159
This could be a clip because there's a very famous Scientology video, music video called We Stand Tall.
01:10:22.319 --> 01:10:25.760
And in that video, David Miscavige is standing on an Apple box.
01:10:26.319 --> 01:10:26.560
I know.
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:28.960
Jackson commented on that in the chat.
01:10:29.119 --> 01:10:29.439
He did.
01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:31.600
Oh uh not this one, but we'll get to it.
01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:33.600
Oh, uh yeah, there he is.
01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:43.119
How about the loaded questions we were asked in AppleBox famously loaded survey one fine Saturday Renault's afternoon, but we got plenty answers that evening.
01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:47.680
I'm quite sure he's talking about the on-base, off-base survey.
01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:54.640
We were all surveyed on whether we wanted to live on the property or off the property.
01:10:55.119 --> 01:11:06.720
And it was a loaded question because if you answered on the property, you were in the clear, but a lot of people said they wanted to live off the property, and many of those people were punished for that answer.
01:11:07.279 --> 01:11:19.840
Yeah, the and the reason there's a there is a sort of a psychology behind that is because if you were at the property and David Miscavige called for you, then you could end up in a meeting with him for five hours.
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:23.840
And sometimes these meetings would get called late at night.
01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:30.399
And but if you had already left to birthing, you've already what they called secured.
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.760
If you'd already secured for the night, then that was it was that was the end of it.
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:37.359
It was like, hey, can you get Bob?
01:11:37.920 --> 01:11:38.960
He's like, Oh, he's already secured.
01:11:39.279 --> 01:11:41.600
And and most people didn't have phones, so you couldn't just call them.
01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:42.159
Right.
01:11:43.119 --> 01:11:50.960
Okay, so if you're not there, then you don't have to be there and you don't get d r rounded up.
01:11:51.279 --> 01:12:00.399
Now on the rare occasion he would say, Hey, get Susie Sue and Billy Bob over here right now, and they'd go get you.
01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:12.079
They'd just drive to your house or your apartment or wherever you lived in the town, or your birthing if it was down on Sublit Road, knock on the door, get dressed, you're coming in, and you'd be brought to him.
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:18.399
And you'd and then
you could be in the meeting for five hours, you could get chewed out in one second and then go back to post for the rest of the night.
01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:19.199
Right.
01:12:19.680 --> 01:12:25.279
But I think a lot of people thought, if we live here, well, that's the end.
01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:35.359
You know, there's no that we at least have sort of a a uh there's the this this tiny bit of sanctuary that we have is seven hours away from behind.
01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:37.039
An illusion of freedom.
01:12:37.119 --> 01:12:45.119
And the craziest part is that as part of that survey, people were asked, well, why do you want to live off base?
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:47.600
Or if it was why do you want to live on base?
01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:54.640
Anyway, and a good portion of people said that they want they liked being able to go to Vaughn's.
01:12:54.880 --> 01:12:55.039
Yeah.
01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:56.800
So do you remember, David Miss?
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:00.560
So there was the staff canteen at the at the base.
01:13:01.039 --> 01:13:11.039
So as a you know, finger in the face to all the people that said Vaughn's, he had a Vaughn sign put on on the staff canteen.
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:15.199
And I think that he might have even had shopping cards brought there.
01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:17.119
I can't remember if that was a good one.
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:19.920
I remember there was definitely the Vaughn sign was up for a while.
01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:26.239
Definitely a lot of supermarket uh accoutrements that were added to the canteen that didn't used to be there.
01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:26.560
Yeah.
01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:36.399
And also, to be fair, they did actually start selling things that people were going to the grocery store, going to Walmart, or traveling into town to get.
01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:36.880
Right.
01:13:37.119 --> 01:13:40.000
They did start stuff like lady product, you know, feminine products.
01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:41.279
And laundry detergent.
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:45.520
Yeah, no, they they started selling the things that people legitimately marked up.
01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:46.960
Oh, yeah, they weren't losing money.
01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:48.399
No, they were making money.
01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:50.800
That's another crazy thing about when you're in the Sea Orc.
01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:52.720
You're only getting 46 bucks a week.
01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:53.039
Yeah.
01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:56.399
But they're probably getting 40 of that, no problem.
01:13:56.720 --> 01:13:56.800
Yeah.
01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:10.319
It's going right back to them because you're buying Cokes and coffee and smokes and you know, some cappuccinos when they put in the fancy coffee maker at the I remember when it's like, a cappuccino is a dollar?
01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:11.119
I mean, are they?
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:13.279
Oh, they were charging like three dollars.
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:17.680
I know, but at a certain point it got to be like, I didn't drink coffee when I was in the Sea Org.
01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:19.760
So I was sort of just like, whatever.
01:14:20.079 --> 01:14:21.039
Yeah, for sure.
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:22.720
Um okay, so here we go.
01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:23.279
Next question.
01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:32.560
Leah Remini said Scientology requires two and a half hours a day of your time, but she didn't really say what you're doing daily as a public Scientologist.
01:14:32.640 --> 01:14:33.600
Can you please explain?
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:33.920
Sure.
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:35.119
That's a great question.
01:14:35.359 --> 01:14:35.920
It is.
01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:43.920
So in addition to the two and a half hours a day study, which uh has to total um twelve and a half hours per week.
01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:48.000
That's just for that's for every Scientologist who's supposed to be doing this.
01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:56.159
Yeah, because you're always supposed to be on some training course advancing in Scientology to be considered a Scientologist in good standing.
01:14:56.319 --> 01:15:07.680
In addition to that, um contributing uh in whatever other way, like many um higher-level Scientologists are a part of what's called the OT ambassador committees.
01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:17.840
So proselytizing Scientology to their local communities or but even if you're not doing a training thing, you could also be doing two and a half hours of counseling, of auditing.
01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:18.640
Yes.
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:22.399
It didn't you didn't have to do two and a half hours of training and two and a half hours of counseling.
01:15:22.640 --> 01:15:22.800
No.
01:15:23.039 --> 01:15:27.119
That two and a half hours w could be split between those two things.
01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:40.000
And then if you were one of these OT good gadrillionaires that's OT eight and there's nothing left for you to do, at that point, that's how David Miscavige is like, these guys should be putting, still putting in their twelve and a half, what can I have them do?
01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:40.399
Yes.
01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:41.840
So put them to work.
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:49.039
Yes and then they can be like, well, I don't have any course I don't have any more courses to train in Scientology or more any more counseling to get.
01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:58.079
So I'm gonna donate my time to round up other Scientologists or, you know, do one of these fake uh, you know, public relations kind of things.
01:15:58.560 --> 01:16:18.640
And in addition to the counseling or training, every civilian Scientologist is also given the role of a field staff member, which means that they are to recruit other people and sign them up for training and counseling for which they get uh paid a 15% field staff member commission.
01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:19.039
Yeah.
01:16:19.359 --> 01:16:22.880
So there's financial motive motive uh motivation.
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:28.399
I didn't think that that was a big deal
like job you could do, make any money on it.
01:16:28.720 --> 01:16:36.159
But then someone was telling me that um there's two actors that also worked in a lot of Scientology products when I was there.
01:16:36.560 --> 01:16:38.880
We shot them for film projects.
01:16:39.119 --> 01:16:40.640
But there was a guy named Michael D.
01:16:40.800 --> 01:16:53.520
Roberts, who is famous for a movie called Space Pirates, and he's also the orderly in Rain Man who brings out uh Dustin Hoffman when uh uh what's his name?
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:54.720
Um Mr.
01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:58.319
Risky Business goes to pick him up at the uh facility.
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:03.119
Um but anyway, him and another guy named Jeff Pomerance, and was it Jeff?
01:17:03.279 --> 01:17:05.279
Yeah, Jeff, the guy who did the voiceovers.
01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:05.760
Yep.
01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:07.039
Join us now.
01:17:07.760 --> 01:17:13.840
Um was also both of those actors were full-time field staff members.
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:14.239
Yes.
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:23.840
But they're getting people to pay for their entire Scientology bridge all the way up to OT eight, and maybe their wife and maybe a kid or two.
01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:24.239
Yep.
01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:27.279
And so you're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars.
01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:27.600
Yep.
01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:33.520
And if you're getting fifteen points on that, that's a that's a that's a pretty decent m amount of money.
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:34.159
For sure.
01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:36.880
And and I think they also did fundraising as well.
01:17:37.039 --> 01:17:43.199
I think they were kind of tasked to do fundraising and feel like FSM sort of activities.
01:17:43.840 --> 01:17:49.680
Yeah, fundraising became a much bigger deal after we escaped, but it was still a thing when we were there too.
01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:51.680
Okay, here's another great question.
01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:58.319
Noah says, What was the most expensive present that Miscavige received from the forced contributions for his birthday?
01:17:58.479 --> 01:17:59.520
I know the answer to this one.
01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:00.239
Okay, let's see.
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:00.960
Oh well, hold on.
01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:04.640
Okay, I'm wondering if we should make you write down the question.
01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:06.800
Um, we're gonna say it at the same time.
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:09.520
Okay, we'll go one, two, three, and say it.
01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:10.000
Okay.
01:18:10.159 --> 01:18:10.479
Okay.
01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:14.079
One, two, three, BMW.
01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:23.600
He got a seven series BMW, brand spanking new, with all the bells and whistles.
01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:24.159
Yep.
01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:27.760
Um ASI actually purchased it.
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:29.680
Author Services Inc.
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:32.319
staff um paid for that.
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:43.600
Like, like they actually got a specific bonus to them individually, all the ASI staff, that was the purchase price divided by the number of staff.
01:18:43.760 --> 01:18:46.159
It was a math problem, and that's how they took care of it.
01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:46.800
Yeah, yeah.
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:51.119
They got the bonus because you've got to dig.
01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:57.119
This guy's the head of this organization, and and they're a nonprofit.
01:18:57.439 --> 01:18:59.119
He can't be getting BMWs.
01:18:59.359 --> 01:18:59.439
Right.
01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:01.119
They gotta figure out a way to do this.
01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:04.880
So has anyone uh or no enurement much?
01:19:05.119 --> 01:19:05.439
Yeah.
01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:16.880
So so what happened was a totally separate organization that he's not a part of gave their staff bonuses, those staff gave the money back and they purchased a BMW for him.
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:17.279
Yep.
01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:22.640
And then that BMW was given to him as a gift from author services.
01:19:22.800 --> 01:19:25.439
So and I don't even think it was registered in his name.
01:19:25.760 --> 01:19:26.239
It was not.
01:19:26.319 --> 01:19:49.279
In fact, I had to interrogate Barbara Ruiz, who was the head of ASI when this happened, because the car was registered under author services, so the paper trail was really messy and you know, could be pinned down as anurement for which Barbara had to be interrogated as to whether she did that intentionally.
01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:50.079
Yeah.
01:19:50.319 --> 01:19:51.439
Crazy, crazy stuff.
01:19:51.840 --> 01:19:52.479
Crazy, crazy.
01:19:52.800 --> 01:20:04.560
But he would also get$20,000 bikes, like these super like a a pedal bike, like a a bike, you know, when you see the guys on the roads in the in the outfits that are branded.
01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:12.880
You know, these guys are these guys are dads in the middle of the neighborhood, and Billy Bob's got 27 brands.
01:20:13.119 --> 01:20:14.560
No one's paying him to race.
01:20:14.720 --> 01:20:18.079
He's just driving down the side of the street, get getting in the way.
01:20:18.479 --> 01:20:23.840
Anyway, um he would get one of these bikes that those guys ride, an ultralight bike.
01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:25.520
Like you could pick it up with your pinky.
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:27.279
That's how light the bike was.
01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:30.079
And he had like three of those.
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:30.720
Yep.
01:20:31.039 --> 01:20:32.880
And all the gear that goes along with that.
01:20:33.119 --> 01:20:33.760
Yep.
01:20:34.479 --> 01:20:38.399
Um, okay, I think we've we've um yapped enough for today.
01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:45.520
We'll save any questions we missed for next round of this if we decide to do another one of these, part two.
01:20:46.000 --> 01:20:48.800
Um, but yeah, we're almost at an hour and a half now.
01:20:48.880 --> 01:20:52.640
So let's do our giveaway and let everyone get on with their Sundays.
01:20:52.960
--> 01:21:02.000
Okay, well, and we didn't say this at the beginning of the video, but if you have commented, you've already been and automatically been entered in to win.
01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:03.600
What are we giving away, Claire?
01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:05.359
We're giving away a Davy doll.
01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:06.319
Davy doll.
01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:06.800
Okay.
01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:12.159
So one of these little one of these little oh Jesus, you're wrecking the place, Davy.
01:21:12.399 --> 01:21:13.680
One of these little guys here.
01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:15.199
Uh Skadoosh.
01:21:15.600 --> 01:21:16.800
You could win one of these.
01:21:17.039 --> 01:21:18.720
Those are great dog toy.
01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:22.960
Uh they're great if you want to just put them in compromising positions.
01:21:23.119 --> 01:21:25.199
And also, what did they do in UK?
01:21:25.520 --> 01:21:27.920
These things created Alarm and distress.
01:21:28.159 --> 01:21:28.720
Alarm and distress.
01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:32.880
A protest at the uh with Aposte Alex at the um at St.
01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:33.359
Hill.
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:38.239
If you're watching in England, this creates alarm and distress.
01:21:38.560 --> 01:21:39.119
Allegedly.
01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:39.439
No.
01:21:39.680 --> 01:21:40.239
Allegedly.
01:21:40.720 --> 01:21:41.439
Allegedly.
01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:42.479
Okay.
01:21:43.119 --> 01:21:51.359
Now I'm gonna say that every time I've seen this guy, I've not been alarmed and I've not been distressed.
01:21:51.680 --> 01:21:53.680
There's he's actually kind of fun.
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:55.039
He's got Velcro.
01:21:55.520 --> 01:21:57.039
He's at Velcro hands.
01:21:57.199 --> 01:22:00.960
Okay, so you can do you can do whatever you want with this guy.
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:01.840
Okay, check.
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:06.319
You can you know, you can he can you could even use him for what's it called?
01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:07.439
ASMR.
01:22:08.239 --> 01:22:09.119
You know what?
01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:09.840
That's true.
01:22:10.079 --> 01:22:10.720
ASMR.
01:22:10.960 --> 01:22:11.520
Here, let's do it.
01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:12.479
Let's do here.
01:22:16.399 --> 01:22:17.600
It's a little too loud.
01:22:17.920 --> 01:22:19.279
Anyway, no, that's perfect.
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:20.640
ASMR is not quiet.
01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:22.880
They're doing they're you're hearing it.
01:22:22.960 --> 01:22:25.039
Somebody's got their headphones on, they're cranking it up.
01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:26.960
Okay.
01:22:27.359 --> 01:22:27.600
Oh dear.
01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:29.199
Um, so yeah, it's a Davy doll.
01:22:29.600 --> 01:22:30.800
So let's flip over.
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:32.239
Oh, sorry.
01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:34.399
Uh Harvey Denton says, take him to the beach.
01:22:34.479 --> 01:22:35.439
Dave on the wave.
01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:36.800
Yes, there you go.
01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:41.600
Okay, we've got to switch this to you, and then
we've got to go over here.
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:43.279
It works perfectly.
01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:44.159
Yay.
01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:46.640
Okay, so I gotta go over here.
01:22:47.039 --> 01:22:50.239
Um 68 people have commented.
01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:50.720
Yep.
01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:52.159
So we're doing it.
01:22:52.399 --> 01:22:53.279
So we're doing it.
01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:54.880
Um and this is random.
01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:56.239
It's I've got to say this.
01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:57.600
It's not rigged.
01:22:57.840 --> 01:22:59.840
This is a StreamYard, the platform that we can.
01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:03.199
If Mark or I win, it's only because we commented in the chat.
01:23:03.520 --> 01:23:03.840
That's it.
01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:05.199
It's just picking somebody randomly.
01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:09.920
It doesn't know anybody is more it doesn't actually, it doesn't know who's doing the channel.
01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:11.199
It just knows who's commenting.
01:23:11.359 --> 01:23:14.560
And it has no impact, the number of comments that you have.
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:15.359
That's true.
01:23:15.439 --> 01:23:21.279
It just picks it just takes everybody who's commented and puts them on a list and then puts them in a bucket and picks one out randomly.
01:23:21.680 --> 01:23:22.880
So we're gonna do this.
01:23:23.119 --> 01:23:23.760
Yep.
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:28.880
It's pretty decent size the way I did it this week.
01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:34.880
Uh uh, uh, Brian was so pretty good.
01:23:36.479 --> 01:23:37.039
There you go, Hug.
01:23:37.439 --> 01:23:38.079
Congratulations.
01:23:38.399 --> 01:23:41.119
I want to say that was a person who did one of those questions.
01:23:41.439 --> 01:23:42.399
It was a good question.
01:23:42.640 --> 01:23:43.439
It was a great question.
01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:43.920
Yep.
01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:45.359
So congratulations.
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:58.239
Send me an email, Claire at blumforgood.com with your address, and we will get David doll, Dave on a wave, Dave on a wave, uh, Leprechaun Davy, fake Navy Davy.
01:23:58.319 --> 01:23:59.199
I think that's my favorite one.
01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:00.560
Fake Navy Davy sent off.
01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:02.399
Captain Whack from TG Ac.
01:24:02.640 --> 01:24:03.359
Yes, a good one.
01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:04.319
Yeah, that was a good one.
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:11.600
Oh, by the way, we haven't said anything about Zenu and the body thetans in this whole episode, and I just want to put out a plug for them.
01:24:12.399 --> 01:24:14.960
Uh I do we have some new merch coming?
01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:18.399
One of these years that you guys are gonna take to do this?
01:24:18.720 --> 01:24:20.800
Yes, it's we'll be coming next week.
01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:21.279
Okay.
01:24:21.520 --> 01:24:25.680
And at least we'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming for a while.
01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:29.199
So if you're here, if you haven't subscribed, please
do.
01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:30.640
It helps us get the word out.
01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:32.479
Hit that notification bell.
01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:34.239
But we'll be here next Sunday.
01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:34.800
Yeah.
01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:48.079
And if you're listening on the podcast, um on the audio only, um, you should know that Apple and StreamYard have now made it so you can see the podcasts, the video of the podcast.
01:24:48.319 --> 01:24:51.279
So it's still downloaded as a podcast, but you just get the video as well.
01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:52.000
Nice.
01:24:52.239 --> 01:24:54.159
Um and that's kind of cool.
01:24:54.319 --> 01:25:02.640
And then also you can go on wherever I I want to say on Apple Podcasts is the main place where people listen to this podcast.
01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:03.039
Yep.
01:25:03.199 --> 01:25:07.520
Um, and we actually have quite a decent amount of downloads every week on the podcast.
01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:08.079
Yep.
01:25:08.319 --> 01:25:15.359
But um, it would help us drum tremendously if you would on your Apple platform subscribe to the podcast.
01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:15.520
Yeah.
01:25:15.680 --> 01:25:18.880
And you can also um leave a review there, which helps us out.
01:25:19.119 --> 01:25:19.359
Yes.
01:25:19.600 --> 01:25:20.960
And on YouTube they have this new thing.
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I don't know, do they still have it, this hype button or whatever it is?
01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:29.840
I do I watch YouTube, but I don't really the channels I watch don't really push this hype button.
01:25:29.920 --> 01:25:30.000
Yeah.
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But every once in a while I'll watch a channel and they say hit the hype button.
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Yes.
01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:36.000
So we I know.
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I and I saw they gave us that last week I noticed that we had hype uh creator credits.
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So if we want to promote one of our videos, we can hype it.
01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:48.239
So I think it is still a thing.
01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:55.359
I'm just out of the loop because we just sit here and and yap and we really don't uh we're not boomers, but we're Gen X.
01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:56.000
Okay.
01:25:56.319 --> 01:25:59.359
So we we know our way around.
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:02.239
Computers were invented while we were kids, okay?
01:26:02.479 --> 01:26:07.760
The Inter Web Internet in our 20s is when the internet was starting to take traction.
01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:10.000
So we know a few things.
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:12.640
We also don't know a lot of things.
01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:16.399
Yeah, my my our kids help me out a bunch.
01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:19.680
Like because Mark is not the most patient person in the world.
01:26:19.840 --> 01:26:22.800
So if my printer was broken this morning, for example.
01:26:24.159 --> 01:26:29.039
I am closer to the least patient as uh uh to the What is it that you always say?
01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:36.000
No, no, what was the thing that Leah I said to Leah, uh, yeah, that's why I'm not a doctor, because I'm not good with patients.
01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:39.760
And she said, that's why that's why you're not a doctor.
01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:43.520
How about the fact that you didn't even finish middle school, you maniac?
01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:46.079
Oh my goodness.
01:26:46.239 --> 01:26:47.680
Yeah, that was funny.
01:26:48.159 --> 01:26:49.119
Yeah, that's the reason.
01:26:49.359 --> 01:26:49.920
Yeah, arcade.
01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:51.039
You picked not to be a doctor.
01:26:51.279 --> 01:26:54.000
My oldest son helped me fix my printer this morning.
01:26:54.159 --> 01:27:05.600
And he has the the skill that you have, where he walks in and I I haven't been able to, no matter what I did, I could not get my printer to show back up, you know, to connect to my computer.
01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:08.640
He walks in and it's like, boom, it's right there.
01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:09.359
I'm like, what?
01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:11.199
You didn't even touch anything yet.
01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:16.239
Yeah, that is when you have reached that's it's basically like a tech Jedi.
01:27:16.560 --> 01:27:20.880
When you've reached just you touching the machine makes it work again.
01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:21.439
Yep.
01:27:21.680 --> 01:27:26.159
That's kind of that's I definitely live in that realm.
01:27:26.319 --> 01:27:32.640
I don't always have my Jedi powers with me, but most of the time we're within five minutes, we're up and running.
01:27:32.880 --> 01:27:33.520
Yep, yep.
01:27:33.760 --> 01:27:34.079
Okay.
01:27:34.720 --> 01:27:35.039
Thank you.
01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:36.880
Alrighty, awesome folks.
01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:38.399
Well, we made it to the very end.
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Thanks for joining us again.
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01:27:56.800 --> 01:27:57.439
There you go.
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We made it till the end.
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