Was interviewed on CanadaAM CTV this morning

[Mick Wenlock]

And the first question they asked me was "how did you get into Scientology?"

So I said "Well I was working in Edinburgh installing railway signaling. One Friday afternoon I goofed off work and went on a pub crawl with a couple of mates from Belfast. Ended up in the Yellow Carvel pub, totally elephants after a lot of pints of heavy. Staggered up out of the door and onto the street and there was this sign about a personality test.

Next morning I woke up with an invoice for some Communication Course. I went to the address to go get my money back. Walked down to the courseroom and the supervisor was this gorgeous woman with long blond hair called Heather. So I thought to myself 'Hmm maybe I will check this out'. That was the start of the long road downwards..."

total silence from the hosts.

Either I knocked 'em bandy or they were expecting something else...

 

[Purple Rain]

And the first question they asked me was "how did you get into Scientology?"

So I said "Well I was working in Edinburgh installing railway signaling. One Friday afternoon I goofed off work and went on a pub crawl with a couple of mates from Belfast. Ended up in the Yellow Carvel pub, totally elephants after a lot of pints of heavy. Staggered up out of the door and onto the street and there was this sign about a personality test.

Next morning I woke up with an invoice for some Communication Course. I went to the address to go get my money back. Walked down to the courseroom and the supervisor was this gorgeous woman with long blond hair called Heather. So I thought to myself 'Hmm maybe I will check this out'. That was the start of the long road downwards..."

total silence from the hosts.

Either I knocked 'em bandy or they were expecting something else...

That's hilarious! It sounds like a scene from Hangover 3 wherein the lads try to discover how they ended up in the Sea Org.

 

[Purple Rain]

Do you have a link to the interview?

 

[Captain Koolaid]

That's how my uncle got trapped. A real honey getting him to do the personality test. The funny/tragic thing is that his wife told him they were scam artists and crazy, and she insisted on going with him to the org - to monitor him so he wouldn't get sucked in behind her back. A few years later my uncle left, his wife called him a traitor, filed for divcorce and cut his access to the kids. How fucked up is that?

 

[Mick Wenlock]

Do you have a link to the interview?

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.875785 afaik it is only available today - my interview is in the first 10 minutes or so

 

[HAPInoose]

This sounds like any run of the mill day at HAPI... "Okay, so do you fancy going to Florida to become a top grade auditor?"

"Erm, let me see and consider for a while (It's pishing with rain outside on another day without paradise!!!)... fair enough? Fuck it!!"

"Okay, here's what we do..."


Hahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahhahahahhaahahaahhaahhaahahahaahhahaahhahahahhhahhaaahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:dancer::dancer::dancer:

 

[Mick Wenlock]

This sounds like any run of the mill day at HAPI... "Okay, so do you fancy going to Florida to become a top grade auditor?"

"Erm, let me see and consider for a while (It's pishing with rain outside on another day without paradise!!!)... fair enough? Fuck it!!"

"Okay, here's what we do..."


Hahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahhahahahhaahahaahhaahhaahahahaahhahaahhahahahhhahhaaahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:dancer::dancer::dancer:

I did like Edinburgh...

 

[InExile]

Next morning I woke up with an invoice for some Communication Course. I went to the address to go get my money back. Walked down to the courseroom and the supervisor was this gorgeous woman with long blond hair called Heather. So I thought to myself 'Hmm maybe I will check this out'. That was the start of the long road downwards..."
...

I have to write about mine sometime how did I get into the SO, yours is hilarious suffice to say I was chasing a girl on staff and trying to impress her but the girls father recruited me instead and I was thinking why not join the SO get the girl!! AS IF !!

Then it went downhill for me from there.

 

[HAPInoose]

I'm glad...

Various people at various times (does this count as a generality) were good but I know and trust already,! you know who they were from your experiece of HAPI... I take it you had the undistict holy pleasure of reading LRHs document on HAPI and how it should be "Hellishly" Scottish et al... as a bonafide learning and considerate Scot this was probably the most insulting shortbread tin piss take of what Scottish culture is or could be!!!! Those words - which I should add were given with white gloves as if I was privee to the most amazing Tech ever given to a Highlander since LRH choked on Laphroig because he was a big ginger pussy... they didn't wash!!! Caused me to blow... after 22 years of being around and in... MAGIC!!!! But gawd... nothing to do with Scotland or being Scottish... just the feeling of it all... Tell me more Mick... Did u know my Dad?

 

[HAPInoose]

Mick...

You articulated well how hard it is to articulate Scio... So many threads of thought the first words are crazy for them to understand.... and then... but... most listening glean I hope ("Yoda")!!!

Big Mick,

 

[Freeminds]

Scientology's version of Flirty Fishing doesn't work so well nowadays. Maybe the ladies aren't quite as attractive nowadays (with apologies to the lovely Gillian Sherwood...) and, you know, I have to wonder whether years of zero morale, long hours, poor diet -- and bad family circumstances for 2nd and 3rd generation Scientology victims -- have contributed to the general decline in Scientology's ability to project that aura of wellness.

Maybe it really is true that one can be beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside. The aforementioned HAPI poster-child might seem cute, at first glance... but would you really want to be intimate with a person who's infested with Hubbardian brain weevils? Increasingly, nowadays, Joe Public's answer is: "Hell, no!"

Maybe there's simply more casual sex going on in 2012, and it's not necessary to join a cult to get some. Maybe 2nd and 3rd generation clams have mostly been bred for ugly. Maybe ugly is the new cute, on Venus. Where they hit people with freight trains. Maybe Hubbard's nonsense about smoking being good for you is taking its toll... and maybe I think too much.

Well done with the interview!

 

[Mick Wenlock]

Yeah I remember Rae Mathiesen showing me the ED about HAPI - kind of creepy cos I had this pretty strong London accent... LOL

I don't know who you are - if your dad was around in HAPI during the late seventies then I should know him.

I loved Edinburgh - still do in fact though its been a long time since I was there. I loved working there it was an interesting time indeed. I remember going into a Hibs pub on a Five pound bet and standing up to sing The Sash along with a guy called Granger from Belfast.. And getting my arse kicked royally.

I'm glad...

Various people at various times (does this count as a generality) were good but I know and trust already,! you know who they were from your experiece of HAPI... I take it you had the undistict holy pleasure of reading LRHs document on HAPI and how it should be "Hellishly" Scottish et al... as a bonafide learning and considerate Scot this was probably the most insulting shortbread tin piss take of what Scottish culture is or could be!!!! Those words - which I should add were given with white gloves as if I was privee to the most amazing Tech ever given to a Highlander since LRH choked on Laphroig because he was a big ginger pussy... they didn't wash!!! Caused me to blow... after 22 years of being around and in... MAGIC!!!! But gawd... nothing to do with Scotland or being Scottish... just the feeling of it all... Tell me more Mick... Did u know my Dad?

 

[Purple Rain]

I love that you were able to talk about the financial ruin people were experiencing even back then and how the "world's fastest growing religion" was already going seriously backwards in Denmark in the '80s.

I, too, have a child with a disability and I can't imagine trying to meet those needs in the Sea Organization or as a Scientology staff member of any kind. It's amazing that you and your wife were able to carry on for as long as you did. I am sure you have now managed to build a good life together to provide your family with every opportunity for success and happiness.

Imagine if every person who was ordered to do something they thought was wrong just said "no". I think that is the true road to freedom, wherever you are and whatever you believe.

 

[ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn]

http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.875785 afaik it is only available today - my interview is in the first 10 minutes or so

It starts at the 12:30 Mark of the 7:00 AM Segment. Entitled Rising corn prices and the affect on consumers; escaping the Church of Scientology

 

[freethinker]

I would have found that hilarious if I hadn't read how your SO career ended. The bright side is it ended with you still alive to tell the story.

And the first question they asked me was "how did you get into Scientology?"

So I said "Well I was working in Edinburgh installing railway signaling. One Friday afternoon I goofed off work and went on a pub crawl with a couple of mates from Belfast. Ended up in the Yellow Carvel pub, totally elephants after a lot of pints of heavy. Staggered up out of the door and onto the street and there was this sign about a personality test.

Next morning I woke up with an invoice for some Communication Course. I went to the address to go get my money back. Walked down to the courseroom and the supervisor was this gorgeous woman with long blond hair called Heather. So I thought to myself 'Hmm maybe I will check this out'. That was the start of the long road downwards..."

total silence from the hosts.

Either I knocked 'em bandy or they were expecting something else...

 

[programmer_guy]

And the first question they asked me was "how did you get into Scientology?"

So I said "Well I was working in Edinburgh installing railway signaling. One Friday afternoon I goofed off work and went on a pub crawl with a couple of mates from Belfast. Ended up in the Yellow Carvel pub, totally elephants after a lot of pints of heavy. Staggered up out of the door and onto the street and there was this sign about a personality test.

Next morning I woke up with an invoice for some Communication Course. I went to the address to go get my money back. Walked down to the courseroom and the supervisor was this gorgeous woman with long blond hair called Heather. So I thought to myself 'Hmm maybe I will check this out'. That was the start of the long road downwards..."

total silence from the hosts.

Either I knocked 'em bandy or they were expecting something else...

Yes, I agree.
Sometimes when one gets way too horny ("randy" for you Brits) one can get oneself into trouble.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

--snip--

Scientology's version of Flirty Fishing doesn't work so well nowadays. Maybe the ladies aren't quite as attractive nowadays...

I was also in a bar and met this incredibly hot chick.

She disseminated to me and signed me up for a billion years right there in the pub!

Well you have to understand how unbelievably beautiful she was!

We are talking supermodel!

Brickhouse!

Smoking hot!

She didn't look that great the next morning.....

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Hey, I'm just f*cking around. LOL.

That story was an allegory to my getting seduced by Scientology.

Anyways.......Cool story & interview Mick! Thanks.


Photo of cult thugess, Helena Kobrin, provided courtesy of OSA.

 

[R6Basic]

Good interview.