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Episode 67: Listener Questions #9

November 22, 2021 By Mike Rinder 13 Comments

This week we have another of our favorite Listener Questions episodes... We have a lot of great questions, including what the organization does with all the money it makes? Are the PI's scientologists? What would happen if we tried to rejoin scientology? What is the most bizarre Hubbard policy? What's the story with Mimi Rogers? Does David Miscavige tune in? And a lot more.   Some of the documents we mention: What are the A-E steps that a person declared Suppressive must do in order to get back into good standing with scientology? My earlier post about scientology … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: 20/20, A to E steps, Fair Game Podcast, Jokers and Degraders, Leah Remini, Mike Rinder, monique yingling, Nazanin Boniadi, odors, Pain and Sex, Passionate kiss, perfume, private investigators, recommended books from Leah, Rick Moxon, Stacy Moxon

Episode 5: The History of Fair Game

August 25, 2020 By Mike Rinder 40 Comments

  In this week's episode, Leah and I discuss the history of Fair Game and the ongoing Fair Game efforts against us. As always, I include a link here to my "summary of Fair Game" entitled: Dealing with Critics of Scientology - The L. Ron Hubbard Playbook. If you have not read this before and have an interest in this subject, I recommend starting with this. Honestly, this is one of the most important episodes of this podcast. It is not disclosing "new' information, but even seasoned scientology watchers and former scientologists will learn things they likely did not know. Few have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game, Fair Game Podcast Tagged With: Andrew RInder, Art Linson, BBC Panorama, Benjamin Rinder, Cathy Bernardini, Cathy Rinder, Danny Masterson, Dave Bloomberg, Ed Parkin, Gretchen Carlson, Guillaume Lesevre, Jackie Lacey, jenny linson, Joe Childs, John Linson, john sweeney, Justice 4 Mom, Leah Remini, Marc Yager, Mary Sue Hubbard, Michael Meisner, Mike Rinder, Paul Marrick, private investigators, Sarah Mole, Stacy Francis, STAND League, Sue Wilhere, Taryn Rinder, Taryn Teutsch, Tom DeVocht, Tom Tobin, Truth Rundown

Heber Jentzsch’s Niece Welfare Check on Her Uncle

August 3, 2020 By Mike Rinder 85 Comments

The new episode of Scientology: Fair Game Podcast is now available here. We interview one of Heber Jentzsch's nieces, Tammy Clark. Tammy reached out to me and Leah as she was concerned about Heber. Many members of the rather large family had not heard from him and she was so concerned she thought it necessary to fly from Utah to try to see him as a representative of the family. But she was fearful of scientology and asked that we help her. Leah and I were more than happy to provide her support and a camera crew from The Aftermath accompanied us. Unfortunately, this is one of the shows … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fair Game Tagged With: Dismissed Attacker, fair game, Heber Jentzsch, Jeffrey Augustine, Karen de la Carriere, Leah Remini, Leonard Purvis, Mike Rinder, Nettie Allcock, private investigators, RCSO, Rebecca Dobkin, Riverside County Sheriff's Office, Scientology The Aftermath, Tammy Clark, Tony Ortega

Aftermath: Further Thoughts on PI’s

December 5, 2018 By Mike Rinder 97 Comments

As usual, scientology "reacted" to last night's episode with smears on Cierra Westerman before the show even aired. Even for scientology -- their approach was bizarre. They did not disclaim the fact that she was hired by them to spy on former scientologists and Anonymous. Instead they called her a "Liar 4 Hire" and showed a picture of her wearing a confederate flag cap. Oh, the irony. It was scientology who HIRED her. She was not paid anything to tell her story on the show. She was THEIR operative. They put this out on the Freedom "Media Ethics Check" twitter account. This is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: The Aftermath Tagged With: PI's, private investigators, The Aftermath

Miscavige Goon

October 28, 2015 By Mike Rinder 194 Comments

Apparently Footbullet Dave can never be satisfied with shooting himself just once or twice. He just has to keep blasting away like Yosemite Sam on steroids. A normal person would learn their lesson and not repeat the same idiocy again. But that would be the logic of mere mortals, not big beings like Dave .  He "knows" when something he has ordered blows up in his face that it was only because the constant parade of SPs he has working for him have once again deliberately  sabotaged his genius plans.  So he has them "get it right this time" and do it again. The Squirrel Busters blow up in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, private investigators, public relations, Ron Miscavige

Shelly Miscavige Guarded By Armed PI’s

February 7, 2014 By Mike Rinder 159 Comments

Vanity Fair just published an article about Shelly Miscavige. It presents part of the story of the Miscavige's to a wider audience -- both David's violence and ruthlessness and Shelly's efforts to curtail him only to ultimately become another of his victims. Of course, it cannot cover everything and there are some details omitted or confused. But there is a fascinating piece of the story Vanity Fair did NOT tell. And it confirms a great deal of what WAS written. It was only discovered by a strange coincidence.... I was talking with a friend about Shelly and the story being worked on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: David Miscavige Tagged With: Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, private investigators

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