Mike Rowe Obliterates Scientology On His Podcast 

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Hello. Where can I find your own experience in Scientology and when you got out?

@@duke417 4 month old account

Iouuuui😊

A grifter going in on another grift it's funny as hell.

A REAL PATRIOT... What's not to love...

thats good lookin out

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You clearly had a very intelligent father who loved you along with your curiosity & thirst to learn & he didn't want anyone taking that from you.

Great Dad!!❤

that first paragraph was unnecessary. it was just an opportunity for you tell everyone how smart you think you are. something that you probably don't let people forget when you can help it.I see these types of people often. Just be humble, no one is questioning your intellect as a child.

One of my favorite quotes. I have posted it many times

It's going on in U.S. politics right now, too. The fooling of people, I mean.

@@marywood8794 Sure. It really started in 2016.

@@benharbak it started when hillary got it in her head that a russian hoax was a good idea.

@@thedramallama69 I don't know what's worse. The thought that Russians could have been behind Trump winning or that people actually, willingly voted for that bloated smoked ham hock.

An old Aunt by marriage got into JW, along with her oldest Daughter. When my Uncle died, the church assigned her a new husband, but they never lived together. They also tried to get her to sign over her house to him and the church, but her son who was on the title, said no way. They sound very similar to each religion, JW & Scien...

Also raised as one, stopped going and never went back!!

That's why I respect Mike Rinder. Rathbun couldn't handle it

@@lobitome My mom got invited to goto another Country,hand picked a Big honor yet they were Not paying for this Big Honor,not the cost of flight or hotel,food so who couldn't go on there OWN. To Me it sounded like the Mules I've watched on TV yet at least those ppl got free flights,rooms & food,I just didn't see the payoff of that,ur ppl use there money & maybe a pat on there back. Covid came & she didn't take that trip. I'd luv to hear you Won a trip to ? I'd like to visit until I hear well we picked U but U have to pay for it yeah 👏 👏,WAIT A MIN that's a 💩 💩 deal.... SMH. ✌

Yes I briefly went when I was very young but now I know they are a cult as well. Wow it did take a few years after no involvement to believe they are a cult also

They “cleared” her of her money and that is disgusting!! A bunch of brainwashing con artists who get people under their control and ruin a lot of lives. Whoever in the IRS made the mistake of giving them church status should be ashamed!!

You need to keep telling people this in the various comment sections of all these vids on the internet about them . And tell them what happened to her after she moved on from them and how she struggled or is still struggling .

Not to be that guy but if you think $400 a month for rent is ridiculous then youre tapped

@@jakefromstatefarm4771 WOW did you miss the point entirely. Let me make it clearer. They didn’t pay this lady for working from them and they took what little savings she had. She paid THEM to live and work for them. In order to go clear they charge you! They milk you for every dime you have. Every level you complete they charge you. All for the church! They have you run up your credit cards. Take out loans. Pay them to belong.

@@xxThink_Againxx tldr, don't care

thank you for your service 💚

A soldier, ex or currently serving, is the last person who should talk about anyone being weak-minded or any kind of brainwashing like it is a bad thing, that's a case irony so powerful only god itself could have created that. And yes, scientologist "elites" should totally be placed in an unopenable iron cage

Like other religions aren't BS.

@@alphanerd7221 most don't force you to stay or operate like criminal institutions.

@@MuantanamoMobile There isn't a single documented incident of anyone making people stay in scientology. I've seen the documentaries. When push comes to shove it's just some guy sternly suggesting they don't leave. All Churches bigger than one community operate like criminal institutions. The Catholic Church is practically the mafia.

If only more would speak out ! Many “stars” had some knowledge of it good or bad! But these “ stars” were treated differently ! Special treatment for them !!

Exactly! Well said.

Let's hope he goes after the cults of christianity, Judaism and Islam next.

He's a nut that wants to suspend the constitution and end all voting forever. I don't believe a GD word he says. Not until he disavows MAGA & the GOP.

I think if you wanted to get in touch with Leah they would already be in touch. Maybe she will invite him onto her podcast. That would be fun!

Mike has a lot of his own projects going. Anyone who wants to break open Scientology needs to contact Mike, not add it to his plate.

Exactly! I love him!

Glad you got out. Have you been interviewed or made a your own testimony video? Be great to hear your story and you see you say it.

Go to the police, don’t let the bastards away with it.

@@tjburr1968 Thank-you. I haven't done anything like that, I'm just trying to do the best I can with the upbringing I've had.

@@claremandalas2121 how old were you when got out? You were born into it? Your parents get out too?

I was glad I got out of christianity. Oh the horror.

We’re you able to get a refund? Or did you try? I’m so glad you got the hell out of there! Smart girl;)

Good for you, Tara. Stay clean & all the best for your future.

@@PandoraWake I didn't even try!

Wow. Glad you got out of there and congrats on 17 years clean!

Ditto!!! Congrats on your recovery! I too tried AA, Narcanon etc. I felt as though I was being forced to admit things I am not. Some of us need to do it on our own terms. 20 for me. Much ♥️

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They are criminals. It is a criminal organization that must be stopped.

As a retired midwife, it’s pretty extreme to birth a full term 3 lb baby, there was much NOT going on

I think any woman who has children gasped in horror at the story of that birth, but also Spanky finding her older infant neglected, malnourished and with an active eye infection. I live in Los Angeles and it makes me want to tag big blue with “Child Abusers”, though I know or at least it seems based on former members that the CoS no longer allows SeaOrg members to have and keep infants in the program. I’m very glad Spanky got out, I’m still surprised that no authorities were called when she delivered a FT 1361 gram infant with almost no prenatal care. But perhaps the L&D nurses were familiar with the gulag of Scientology

I don't think you really need a degree to figure any of this out, just disgusting.

Holy shit!

Some lady made a comment about how her and her daughter went to some meeting and wanted to leave....after that...she swore she was being followed around. Had no idea these people do that. Id carry a gun to shoot on site!

@@ellebelle4094 A religion determines its own belief system but the law of the land determines its tax status. Anyone can call themselves a religion but not everyone who says they are a religion meets the standards written into law. My dad taught me well on a number of things. Most of all he taught me not to be a dickhead like you.

Scary stuff! They should start paying taxes period.

@@ellebelle4094 keep drinking the kool aid. Scientology is no church.

YES, let's all notify legislatures, representatives, gov tax policy people to REVOKE their tax-exempt status....this will end their cult bigtime.

It sounds kinda like what world economic forum Klaus Schwab wants to do to everyone!

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You dishonored your shift key by capitalizing “Cult”

@@technophant 😆

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ALL religion is a cult to some degree.

That voice alone

Deal !! I love his laugh 😃 fills me with warmth 💕

He’s a Baltimorean just like me!

"Celeb"? He had a TV show that ended 10 years ago.if he came our with this during his time on TV. Then he had "balls".(,whatever that means).stop putting these celebs on pedestals They are the same as anyone else

One of the few so-called celebrities I still admire yes it show ended but he's done a lot of work since then and he has a podcast on Spotify so I guess he's not doing too bad.

Celebs are the most cowards and compromised people out there. Not ones to be looked upon

@@Lisboooa celebs like everyone else should be assessed one by one. Are the majority psychopaths? maybe. Mike is a good one.

Right on, same here 👍👍👍👍

Wow! In which city?

Yep, I thought that too while listening to this. Thought Stopping is just part of Self Regulation Therapy, or SRT. All common approaches used by real Doctors with real facts.

Agreed

He was promoting his parents book on Fox while the network lied to the American people for 45. Sorry he fooled you. He's only going to protect his own hind end. Not that you'll believe me, people didn't believe me about Trump, either. Heroes like John Stewart would have actually helped get a bill passed to stop something like scientology. I know because John Stewart helped get healthcare for our vets, by following a bill all the way to the Senate. Mike made an outrage video about scientology, but was perfectly okay with domestic terrorists profiting off of his image while 45 was in office. I find that interesting.

I could not agree more.

Coming from a Dog Fart that's high praise

@@sidmac50 Then you have failed Mike Rowe, now, haven't you?

Not to mention, his voice is intoxicating and he is quite easy on the eyes.

@@OldJoeBlows And when he sings, wow!!!!

@@carolemerckel3461 oh wow. I’ll have to look into that. Thanks. 👍

Mike Rowe was on Fox, promoting his parents book, while Fox lied for the president to the American people. Y'alls bars are entirely too low, please don't prop up someone that hurts our country by helping fox profit on lies. Mike made it off the backs of working Americans, then never went to the lengths people like John Stewart did to help the country that helped him. Soooo...I don't trust him to do what's right for any of us. Just another self promoting shill the boomers and elderly millennials cling to while he profits off looking like "one of us".

@@freedomishavingachoice3020 😂🤣John Stewart?? Why do you need help? Do it yourself. Did anyone ever tell you that life isn’t fair? If not, I may be the first to let you know. Nothing is promised to you just because you were born, except if you live in the USA and you get Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. No where does it say anyone has to help you reach your goals. Being a Biden supporter and by the tone and content of your comment, I’m not sure you’ll understand.

I wonder why the show is no longer being filmed? It was very educational and eye opening about cults. Especially Scientology. I hope she’s doing ok.

Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He laughed his ass off all the way to the bank about the "religion" he created. He's still laughing now from beyond the grave. But this a large reason why I find it difficult to take any religion seriously.

Call it what it is, a cult.

And yet, Scientology isn’t nearly as dangerous as the evangelical cult of Trump.

@@byMidnyt if good and evil and Dod and the Devil are true. I imagine he’s not laughing so much. Just a thought.

I used to walk by their building everyday to work. There was a large mentally I’ll homeless population bc the state mental Health hospital was very close by. I would see the way they treated these other humans and hear their disgust. It was the opposite of any church I had seen

@@tatianagranger2427 So you heard from a bunch of homeless crazy people and that's what you are basing your opinion on. WTF is wrong with you?

When I was there on vacation my friend and I would drive by there on the way to Clearwater Beach. The building was as big as a capital building. It just gave you an eerie feeling every time you drove by. Supposedly Tom Cruise lives very close by as well as Kirstie Alley. Also I read too that just before John Travolta's wife passed away she made him promise her that he would leave Scientology.

thank God there is common sense left in this world.

Dianetics is just healthy living for the first 115 pages... then it goes psychotic like other religions... but no written orders to mass murder everyone like other religions have...

@@morrisd2242 Get lost.

She is a warrior 🙌✨

l love this man! Mike! Call me❤️

It was a prison, she DID kidnap them. I knew someone who was a Scientologist for 16 years. So hard to escape.

@@plaidpaisley5918 Nonsense! She had every right to rescue her children, and that is precisely what she did. That is NOT kidnapping.

@@karlayork877 she had to use kidnapping tactics to rescue them!

It is deeply upsetting, but you have to consider the sort of bubble they're stuck living in. The organization will say absolutely everything they can to make that member of your family seem evil, and they'll go so far as to fake "evidence" to convince you. It's hard to accept that your loved one does what they say, but it's also hard to accept that the church (which cements itself in the mind as the only way to be happy and spread happiness) would lie to you about that. Luckily the internet increases everyone's access to this information, but scientologists are also not allowed to view that information for fear of real-world consequences.

You needed a deep dive to know this ?

True! Preys on the poor!

Like the prosperity gospel Christian churches?

Scientology is buying up Clearwater Florida. Their HUGE headquarters near the courthouse has hundreds of cameras .pointed in every direction. They are buying all the vacant stores and whole city blocks are now their buildings. Taxes are no longer getting collected on those properties. If you get stopped at a traffic light, take note if the guys in suits and secret service earpieces checking the cars and car doors of vehicles parked in their parking lots. Unbelievable how paranoid these people are. What are they afraid of?

@@rosspimental8384 they are pretty much the same--cults, not real, God loving faithful.

All organized religion is a scam the longest running scam and otherwise inteligent people fall for it. I dont get it

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All the DUNES movies make money for them ... thus they keep repeating making dunes

@@cultureal9544 good to know! thank you.

I've met Mike and was on one of his shows and he really is a very genuine guy. I don't agree with 100% of what he posts, and he would be the first person to say of course that's ok. He does radiate integrity and respect.

So all you know of him is dirty jobs and this?

Same reason the country is in this position today. People will never admit they've been fooled so they go full steam.

@@920WASHBURN amen 🙏🏻

They're seperated from their children. They often have to try to find them.

Since you have learned about scientology, can you help me understand: why would they jeopardize their young? That is the future of their church. So, one would think the young would be cherished. I know absolutely nothing about the field beyond reading, actors Cruise and Travolta belong.

They are brainwashed. Cults do this,they target people feeling lost,alone,oppressed then capitalize on that.

Loved Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of the Story"...didn't think anyone else remembered...

@@debbiebasche7760 We used to listen to it on the way home from school in the car. My mom and I both read his books way back around 1979. Fun summer reading. If you like Paul Harvey, you'd love Mike's book. I listened to it on Audible.

because money talks and because scientology has infiltrated various government agencies and authorities (blackmailing the i.r.s., buddy buddy in cahoots with the l.a.p.d.) and so on..... Don't forget our way overboard "religious freedom" amendment........

same as the catholics

@@annekerotterdam7499 As a "wayward Catholic" as my late mother used to call me, I can tell you that Catholicism for all its faults is NOT the same. Both mothers and children aren't housed separately in weird compounds and starved to the point of death for starters. Catholics aren't required to monitor each other and report on their fellow church members either. Actual religions raise money to help poor people around the world. I will admit that those people do get a dose of the faith doing the distributing of the aid. If you watch the show that exposes Scientology by the woman from the show King of Queens, you'll find out that they raise money then pretend to use it to help people around the world. That's the least of the bad things that this group does.

@@annekerotterdam7499 Wrong in so many ways it's not even funny..... educate yourself on what scientology is and always has been...

@@marywood8794 Catholics raise money from poor people, Italia, South America, to build cathedrals. I know Scientology

Good thing you handed the book to your dad and he took it seriously and read it and took action for his family! Good for you to follow your instincts and ask questions to your dad too!

Smart Dad!

Several years ago I was given this book to read by a friend. I was totally unaware that it was a religious book. I handed it back to her and told her I don't read science fiction books.. I was totally unaware she was a Scientologist

@@helenes52 actually, L. Ron Hubbard was originally an author of science fiction. Not a far cry to Scientology.

Sociopaths and narcissists are so good at deception when they are charming. That's why they're so successful.

bingo.

Straight-up! People around der fuhrer said that ol' Adolf came off as a nice, sweet person in his personal life. It doesn't mean he was a good guy!

Everyone who undergoes auditing and that is EVERY scientologist, has a file on them containing the auditor's notes on the person they are auditing. The questions that are asked range from the benign to the extremely personal. Travolta's sexual preferences have been questioned for years. It was probably an area which he was probably thoroughly questioned. Since the e meter is considered infallible, Travolta would be fearful of being less than truthful regarding his answers especially if he was assured that his answers would be held in strict confidence. Of course that was a lie and the person being audited didn't realize that the session was being videotaped.

Standing Ovation 💗

Kinda like what might have happened if Manson had started and continued a large powerful cult with connections in high place, and hadn't executed the 1969 events. Only difference is Manson was probably far more sane.

You dodged that bullet! 😊

I still remember the ads for his book I'd see on TV as a kid.

Agreed. He created Scientology for power. What he saw all over society was selfish, lying human beings also seeking power socially. That idea is everywhere. I have no doubt he created Scientology because he was angry at women. He was a genius and an asshole. He did live the truth compared to Christians, but he ended up being a zealot. Basically, Hubbard was mentally ill (like everyone else here). I am absolutely certain he was a psychic medium, but didn’t like the messages from the “body thetans”. He was rejecting the information. If you listen to the band TOOL, the ideas are the same. It’s always about telepathy.

IF YOU FOCUS ON TELEPATHY AND NOT RELIGION, THEN YOU GET IT! Everyone that focuses on the religious / authoritarian aspects of Scientology is missing the overall point of Scientology. This excludes people born into it with strict parents (for a short while). You’re SUPPOSED to reject human authority altogether and figure out the Universe on your own. That’s the core belief of Scientology. People want a sense of belonging, so they allow authority in other people in the church. All churches are stupid. Everyone here is psychic. Either people take shit from others and they allow people to tell them they are inferior socially, or they reject that idea completely. All of the real Scientologists are psychic mediums. Anyone playing head games over power in the church is an asshole. You’re supposed to love other people, not toy with people that haven’t healed and don’t understand. All the people that haven’t healed try to hurt other people. When people love they focus on the spirit and love others. This idea is true for Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and everything else out there. Scientologists aren’t all bad, but the authoritarianism needs to go for good. Scientology is much more realistic than any other religion out there. That is what is cool about it. Scientology is based on psychic mediumship and telepathy. The core belief of Scientology is that disembodied thetans are communicating telepathically with human beings in the mind. All the e-meter, volcano / aliens, and Xenu bullshit is just plain stupid. The rejection of psychiatry is an excellent idea, however. That is self love. No one really needs Scientology. People just need to focus psychic and heal with love from Source. If people don’t focus away from authoritarians and allow people to push them around, they never see themselves as psychic. Read this from Wikipedia.: “Scientology claims not to preach or impose a particular idea of god on Scientologists. According to Scientology promotional materials, followers are expected to discover the truth through their own observations as their awareness advances. Scientology beliefs revolve around the immortal soul, the Thetan. Scientology teaches that the Thetan is the true identity of a person - an intrinsically good, omniscient, non-material core capable of unlimited creativity. Hubbard taught that Thetans brought the material universe into being largely for their own pleasure. The universe has no independent reality but derives its apparent reality from the fact that Thetans agree it exists. Thetans fell from grace when they began to identify with their creation rather than their original state of spiritual purity. Eventually they lost their memory of their true nature, along with the associated spiritual and creative powers. As a result, Thetans came to think of themselves as nothing but embodied beings. In Scientology, the concept of the thetan is similar to the concept of self, or the spirit or soul. A body thetan or a BT is a disincarnate thetan who is "stuck" in, on or near a human body, and all human bodies are said to be infested by these disembodied thetans, or clusters of them.” (Tom Cruise is a well known Scientologist and the executive producer of all of the Mission Impossible movies. I have no doubt he is responsible for this dialog.): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DyxyQ8Zd3qg.html Here are additional links about telepathy and psychic mediumship: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F_Jjqmd_qXo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T3nwEmyndMQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hHcIOwgOHqk.html

My husband gave all of his inheritance money from his Mother and Father, passing, to them. While we lived in a cheap apt. while I worked because he has to do things for the church. They had him so turned around that he just didn't understand that caring for his family should come first.

@@lynnedavis4819 those people are true predators. Sorry that happened.

I agree with your comment a 1000%

My sister, who was 12 years older than me, gave me L. Ron Hubbard’s book when I was ~18. She was all amped up about this Scientology precursor, but I only got through a few chapters, and gave the book back to her. She asked what I thought, and I said “I think you have lost your mind!” She said I was too young to understand, and I told her that “if you buy this sh*t, then you need serious mental help.” Years later, after many episodes of crazy things she committed, my entire family realized I was right!!

They weren't able to get tax exempt since the 60's they were desperately trying and failed until the Clinton's Presidency that's when they finally were able to be recognized as a religion and tax exempt. Talk about corruption the Clinton's Obama's Biden's Nancy Pelosi ect, and of course hollywood elites who don't live like the individuals who are not Tom Cruise ect, rat's

And a “B” science fiction writer at that! And they got the tax-exempt church status, as I understand it, by having a lot of money to pay many lawyers, both in and out of the cult, to spend 25 years fighting the IRS. Apparently, the IRS finally just got worn down by the seemingly unlimited legal resources the cult had, so just gave in. And this was years ago. Imagine the money they have today to pay for all those lawyers!

@@cydkriletich6538 Hi friend with all due respect. They received the tax exempt from the Clinton's Presidency. The Clinton's foundation is one of the biggest scams ive ever found. Unbelievable ! again there attorneys ect, were trying desperately to accomplish getting tax exempt since the 60's an failed time after time regardless of the enormous amounts of money that they were pouring into campaigns an it was 1993 the Clinton's gave it to David miscavage, i did some research and that's how i learned about it is sick twisted evil.

Probably had dirt on the President at that time. That was one dirty ass President after all.

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Wow. Good for you.

You should have broken one finger to send a message to the top ;) jk

That seemed to get his attention. Good.

I think them trying to "recruit" you was the tip off. I've stayed at a religious retreat myself in 1991, and i loved it. However, you had to be referred there by an ordained minister/ rabbi/ leader of some type. You ( the individual) had to be seeking them, not the other way around. The signs to look for are constraints: seclusion, locks on doors, being singled out. We had none of these. No lock on any door. Inside payphone, and you weren't allowed to stay past 90 days. I got my life back together, by communing with other misfits. Men only, with a women's only home across the river. I loved it. Haven't taken a drink since. Remember the signs: if they want to lock you in, it's the wrong place!

Great Patriot!!!

I'd like to see social services come in on that group. You will never ever see this group letting in social services at one of their children nurseries.

They have stopped letting people have kids inside the seaorg specifically to avoid getting in trouble for it… if you get pregnant in the sea org they push you to abort it or you get kicked out of the sea org for it … her story is from before they changed the rules when they had “nurseries”etc

@@msuew94 dear mary.....I thought slavery had ended. How do they keep getting away with it.

I feel so sorry for the children in scientology. Child neglect and abuse should never be allowed!!!

Hey, 12 year old brain surgeon...that was in the past memory of a thousand years of existence zenu!

Hello Lorena how are you doing today

Wow..thats quite a story. It def reminds me of the Jehovahs Witnesses when they go out of their way to bring in new young people

Wow thats crazy, but 100% believable

Realize Scientology is vastly less murderous than any other religion..

@@BuzzLOLOL sounds like a brainwashed cultist Scientologist!

I hope and pray your child didn’t suffer any cognitive issues for lack of neonatal and post natal nutrition snd care.

Thank you!

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Ditto to that 100%!! #Aaronsonfire 🔥🙌🏻👏🏻👍🏻

Totally!

I was living in Baltimore back in the early 2000s, and remember first watching Mike while he showed homes for sale on cable on Sundays. I then saw him on Dirty Jobs, and then got to watch him on a panel discussing the importance of, and desperate need for, skilled labor professionals (electrician, plumber, shrimper, etc.). I am a licensed clinical psychologist myself, but was always taught to have great respect for the gifted people who work with their hands and have learned a trade. Mike Rowe has always been a proponent of this, and I believe that is why he is respected deeply. ♥️

He's wrong about so many things that I can't even begin to start. He's a terrific presenter, has the perfect voice, mannerisms, and sounds like such a down to earth guy. That makes him dangerous as he spreads his ridiculous ideas about how employment, work, and economics should be viewed. He has done a terrific job spreading BS to many folks as they get sucked in by his presentation skills. He's a smooth operator spreading some very bad ideas.

@@BrianHoff04 such as what?

@@EmiliaJay Start with his SWEAT Pledge. What a cluster of weird pledges and incorrect ideas.

True! Happened to my oldest son. Called: PAS

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Hi Debbie how are you?

A noisy investigation is what they call it and I mam also freaked the hell out how that happened!!! They bullied the government in plane sight, so what do they do in the dark?

They are very powerful.

Christian stand outside of abortion clinics and using intimidation tactics on women. And their numbers are much larger. That's what scares me.

I beat the crap out of several of them in Minneapolis.

@@ellebelle4094 You doubt her claim? So tell us: how's the kool-aide tasting these days Elle? Whopper my ass.

I would subsidize Tom Cruise by paying to see his movies in the theatres or on Netflix, or cable T.V..

Wow, I did not know that. He does have a really good talking voice.

The time on his DJ show when he sang inside a water tower was incredible, but didn’t impress the others inside with him 😂🤣😂🤣

Man that's got to be one of the most mind-blowing pieces of trivia I've ever heard in my life anywhere wow . I would love to see film clips of him singing opera oh my God who would have thought

I had no idea!

@@gardensofthegods you can find clips on RU-vid. I'm in the classical music community that's why I know about this. Honestly it was kind of weird to see him on TV doing dirty jobs because I knew who he was before that.

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He once said "Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion." There are several versions of this quote as he said it many times to many people.

And burning in Hell because of it! 💯

I know what you mean. I was recruited into the so-called Communication course when I was a college kid in the 1970's. The first thing I noticed was that the scientology staff running the course refused to communicate. They were not allowed to answer questions. All inquiries were referred to an L.Ron Hubbard book which they were eager to sell. The next thing I noticed was the scientology staff were mostly all chain smokers - you could smoke cigarettes indoors in those days and cigarettes were still cheap. Then I noticed that the "comm" course was stupid and unlikely to improve communication skills. When they started pressuring me to pay thousands of dollars for something called auditing they wouldn't answer questions about that either. I never finished the course. I've fallen for some stupid stuff in my life. Fortunately scientology isn't one of them.

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Many many people exclude themselves from aquintances friends and family based on beilef...many did it and do it.

@@ydonnay3145 - And they are insecure in themselves & their beliefs if they do. Just because someone is different doesn't automatically them them wrong & you right or vice versa. We cannot grow grow without being exposed to new or different ideas, ways of accomplishing things, etc.

I have many friends that are totally antithetical to the way I vote, live, believe etc. But the way things are going they are trying to keep that from happening. Which is a shame. Having friends that believe differently from you, enriches your life.

@@kathenavarro6850 - Yes, it does enrich our lives to have people around us that are different from us. It does take patience, understanding, knowledge, & work to create a relationship with other people, but to me, it keeps us grounded in reality & appreciate the diversity of humanity. We don't have to agree with someone to treat them with the same respect & dignity we want for ourselves. It's depressing to me to see so many people these days not wanting or willing to bridge differences or come to an understanding. The polarization of our country is tearing us apart.

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Right there with ya Matt!

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