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A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Mike Rinder
“it really is a fantastic book”
“it's a it really is a fantastic book because Lex the guy the guy was born and raised in Scientology and worked personally with El Ron Hubbard”— Aaron Smith-Levin
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Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
Marc Headley
“Mark Hedley blown for good behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology so he escaped from the international base on a motorcycle it's a wild story”— Aaron Smith-Levin
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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
“Stephen Wolfram who uh wrote a a book called A New Kind of science that explores uh complex systems and cellular automata”— Lex Fridman
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Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
L. Ron Hubbard
“now when L Ron Hubbard first wrote Dianetics in 1950 this was before Scientology came along a couple years later”— Aaron Smith-Levin
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Mark VIII E-Meter (Mark Ultra VIII)
Church of Scientology
“the e-meter what does it look like visually like oh you can pull it up pull up Mark eight e-meter Mark eight”— Aaron Smith-Levin
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Ozark
Netflix (inferred)
“because I just watching Ozarks is so stressful it is right it's so stressful watching it”— Aaron Smith-Levin
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Animal Farm
George Orwell (inferred)
“if you look at a book like Animal Farm where the pigs start to rule the other animals and over time the life of the animals gets worse”— Lex Fridman
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