Name: Joe Rogan Experience #908 - Leah Remini
Uploaded: 2017-01-31T00:45:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #908 - Leah Remini' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-31. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #908 - Leah Remini' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-31. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #908 - Leah Remini

james is a wild man you don't understand and you're still getting laid it's
crazy look at him
you are three good for you one we're live gotta change subjects okay leah
revenue gotta abandon
all that crazy talk we're just talking about it was it was definitely good talk
um first of all
it's good to see you you haven't seen you in a long time you look great you do
too i haven't
seen you since king of queens it's been a long time that's crazy and um i found
out about you
know the whole scientology i knew you were into it back then but it was one of
those things where i'd
heard about it yeah and then i met you i'm like oh she's pretty normal first i
tell it right well i
i met john travolta once too and i said the same thing like pretty normal nice
guy kelly preston is
pretty normal she's normal yes you know it's i guess you get deeper get to know
them really well and
it might get a little weird yes yeah because the thing is scientologists are
good people they really
are it's they they really as i did believed that we were doing amazing things
for the world so
they go into it thinking i'm helping myself and i'm helping others right um but
then as you
like you said as you get more and more uh and by the way you don't really get
close to scientologists
when you're a scientist like you when you're a non-scientologist when you're
non-scientologists
correct like everything that i did and they do is for the purpose of um setting
a good example
being a good person being a good friend um so to get you in there's a purpose
in that like i would
never tell when i was in a non-scientologist my real problems it would be kind
of uh bad for the church
to ever appear human whoa to a non-scientologist it would be setting a bad
example like it would
actually be considered like a transgression if i told you joe you know oh yeah
i'm fighting with
my mother i'm fighting with my husband or i would never tell you those types of
things because it would
be bad pr for the church wow so that's something that you're taught correct now
you you kind of grew
up in it yes how old were you when you nine i think when my mother you don't
even remember pre-scientology
a little bit and you know what i remember pre-scientology was you know i had a
very catholic sicilian
father who you know believed in punishment believed in not talk like did i talk
to you i don't know why
you're talking to me like that kind of guy right like my my dad sits at the
head of the table and
then we don't talk back at all or you know so that is kind of what i knew and
then uh we were baptized
as catholics because my mother wasn't really religious my mother's jewish she's
you know so she
but she didn't have any kind of religion growing up my father of course was
catholic so we got baptized
as catholics and the only time we really went to church was with our grandma we
went to visit her
in you know in the city and my dad on holidays so uh that's really kind of all
i remember pre-scientology
and my mother meeting my stepdad he was in scientology and he got her in as
well us like right
away right away yes so that was like part of the deal correct yeah and by the
way joe like we went from
like don't talk until you're spoken to to hey we see you as spiritual beings we
want you to talk to us
we want you to communicate like you're just you're not you're not children you're
you know spirits in a
little body and so immediately that kind of indoctrination begins that you're
not a child and
so you know as children you have kids you know they always want to be grown up
so that that really starts to
work this kind of idea that you're an elitist that your ego becomes kind of
stroked as a kid like
you're very powerful and you returned and you came back and you found yourself
back you picked your
mother because you knew she'd get into scientology and you're very strongly and
you're very strong
nicole to my sister you picked your mother you picked your mother for this
reason to find your way
back to scientology now as a child remember you you want to be more important
than you are kids are
always trying to exercise their power you know so that speaks to something
inside of you that like
oh i'm bigger than a kid i'm more than a kid i'm a spiritual being in a little
body and so it sets up
that kind of indoctrination very early on did you like it because it made you
when you were young it
made you feel like okay now i can express myself better that i don't feel
suppressed yes exactly because
you know again i'm going from a dad who tells me to you know shut the f up and
talk when i talk to
you and you sit in that chair and you don't have any thoughts worth listening
to to you're very much
an important being you're a big being that's a word that's used a lot those
words big beings you're a
big being um and so yes you start to feel very important you start to feel um
that you're powerful
these are not bad things to make kids feel but this is the way cults work and
you don't realize
that joe until you're out you don't realize any of this was really going on
because i've heard people
call it a cult throughout my 30 plus years and i i was offended by it i was
deeply offended by it
and i couldn't even allow myself to believe that i was in a cult and so all
these epiphanies are
only happening you know after the fact well i was watching a scholarly
documentary once on christianity
and they were referring to it as the cult of christianity and um it's it's that
word is the
correct word if you want to just look at it in terms of the the actual literal
definition of it yeah but
when any it's automatically got this negative connotation you say the word cult
and people think
you're brainwashed you're lost right there there's a there's a natural inclination
that people have
to be tribal there's a natural inclination people have to be on a team and we
like it when we're all
together yes you know i know you're a scientologist i'm a scientologist we're
together in this thing
everybody else doesn't get it right and that's yes that's a good feeling right
yeah and you're taught
that yeah it's not even just that you think it joe you you are taught that you
are the elite of the
world um and and by the way you're going in every single day it's not like i'm
going i'm going
easter and i'm going christmas you know it's an everydayness so what did you do
every day like when
you say you went in so i'd go do king of queens and then after rehearsal i'd
have to drive to hollywood
and put in my two and a half hours a day two and a half hours every day yeah
every minimum no minimum
okay so and then if i couldn't like let's say on a tape day i couldn't you know
it's there from
nine in the morning till ten at night as you know i'd have to make up the time
on the weekends or i'd
have to make up time on my hiatus so i'd be there all day and night so what if
you went to hawaii on
vacation or something very rare that scientologists would go on a vacation i'd
have to make up the time
i'd have to make up the time when i got back i'd have to put in on weekends
like let's say if my
schedule was you know 12 to 2 30 to go in then i'd have to go in one to six or
one to ten or nine to
ten so there's an everydayness of this indoctrination it's not only that there's
it's it's policies right
you're studying the policies all day and all night you're looking up words you
don't understand you're
being tested like after you read an l ron hubbard you know l ron hubbard's
policy then you're tested
you go into another room they go what is the definition of this what is the
definition of that
so it's it's almost worse uh we had a cult expert on and he said it's worse
because you actually
brainwash yourself because you have to study the policies of the church and
then you get tested on
it and you have to look up words you don't understand you have to put them in
sentences
you have to write essays you have to do clay demonstrations so you're really
brainwashing
yourself and you're speaking all the same language you're all working towards
one goal and that is
very intoxicated like it is to feel like you're saying to be tribal to be part
of something imagine
being something part of something that you think and and are told and are
reading every day is the
most important thing that's going to save mankind you are doing the work that
no other group is doing
and so you believe that you start you want to believe that you want to believe
i'm more than just an
actress i'm more than just this i'm saving the planet and now all this stuff
that you're doing you're
going in for two and a half hours every day and are you trying to move your way
up the ranking system
like because i know there's some there's a chart right right and everybody's
what does it start off at
uh well there's like uh the in doctor like the the little courses they're
called self-improvement
courses and these are the things that i people like me would say like when
people would ask me about
the money right i'd say well there's courses for 35 dollars 65 dollars you know
it's all it's very
affordable like these these are the lines that we're taught to say it's not an
outright lie it's it's omitting
a lot of data right right because really the the next the follow-up to that is
but when you're
really a scientologist it's going to cost you a half a million easy or whatever
it's going to be but
it's preset prices so you start on these self-improvement courses and then you
get onto this actual chart
called the bridge and um the bridge is very uh precise nobody's doing different
things you're all
working at the bottom all the way up to the top which was um ot8 that's like
the most enlightened
how many people are ot8 uh not a lot anymore because the people who were in
scientology in the 50s 60s
and 70s who got to ot8 uh were like this is some it wasn't what i thought it
was going
to be and so a lot of them left at a time i'm sure scientology was big because
it was almost it almost
spoke to the time that it was you know when people wanted free thinking but
also wanted to be
morally on the right path you know not doing drugs like they were you know
maybe not part of that but
they they kind of didn't want to be held by uh you know a certain uh religion
but they did still
want spirituality in their life and i think it spoke to the people of the time
um so i don't think
you're you're going to find new scientologists you know in the world so do you
think the internet took
a big chunk out of that yes because of the information information was very
hard to get uh for example
oh yeah for example let's say you were a scientologist and um one day i just
didn't see you and i said hey
what happened to joe where's joe why is he not in scientology anymore oh they
they tell me whatever
they want to tell me about you to discredit you he's an enemy to the church and
here are the reasons
why and they could say anything and they do say anything that immediately makes
me not want to talk
to you ever again well and then become an enemy really an enemy once you're an
enemy i can't actually
talk to you i can't actually talk to you the policy says that once you are
declared labeled a suppressive
person my association with you would then make me a suppressive person and then
me an enemy so i
can't actually talk to you but they can tell me whatever they want to tell me
about you and so i
couldn't actually find out are these things true about joe but now with the
internet with social media
it's harder and harder to to tell people whatever you want to tell them about
the person because the
information is there um you have to want to seek it out i didn't seek it out um
i didn't want to
seek it out and when i did seek it out and i'd go to the church they'd say that's
a lie that's not true
here's the real data and they have actual doctored you know um they actually
doctor things that make
you believe i mean you don't you're not going to go and take it to an analyst
you're not going to go
take it to 