Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)| Review | Examining media about cults
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Jim McDonald
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Some interesting aspects of this belief system are the need to pay huge sums of money to advance to higher levels of the organization and the fact that many aspects are not even explained to members until they have reached specific levels.
For all its focus on mental health, are believers actually involved in activities that support good mental health?
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| 0:41.5 | Okay, so we just did a thing we don't usually do, |
| 0:43.6 | and we started a conversation that I thought we didn't have necessarily a whole lot to say about it. |
| 0:49.0 | And we did have a lot to say about it, and so that is its own episode. |
| 0:52.6 | And now we're plowing into going clear. We had a |
| 0:55.9 | conversation during the last review that we did with our friend Dean Sodoris about a skateboard |
| 1:06.1 | company that basically collapsed because its owner, |
| 1:17.2 | because of its owner's association with the Church of Scientology. |
| 1:19.7 | And so we said, geez, we don't, |
| 1:27.1 | I don't know that much about the inner workings of Scientology and And the sort of intro to Scientology documentary is going clear. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.4 | About 10 years ago or so. |
| 1:37.4 | We're on a run of Colts, ladies and gentlemen, join us. |
| 1:39.5 | Colts have always kind of interested in me. |
| 1:41.2 | This, first thing I'll say is this isn't the movie I thought it was. |
| 1:45.5 | Okay. So I've seen this one, and then I rewatched it. Which one did you? I told you it was like |
| 1:50.4 | the King of Queens lady. Yeah, Leah Remini. I think there's like a whole one almost based on her. |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah. And I thought it was this one, but she wasn't even mentioned right no she wasn't |
| 2:01.4 | mentioned at all it was a paul haggis yeah was that actor guy obviously john travolta and |
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