While most people associate Scientology with its founder, L Ron Hubbard, there's another guy who's ushered the organization into the modern age, refining the scheme to squeeze out the most money from its followers. That man is David Miscavige. We're joined by Gay Dave from Echoplex Media to discuss Miscavige's rise to power. (Also, what happened to his wife?)

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Notes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scientology-church-abuse-scandal-lawsuit-human-trafficking-forced-labour-leah-reminisce-david-miscavige-a8968051.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/22/scientology-leader-attacked-staff-allegation

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/03/shelly-miscavige-scientology-queen-de-throned

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-947-ron-miscavige/

https://web.archive.org/web/20000616032114/http://www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_as_a_business#:~:text=it%20is%20%243%2C200.-,Church%20of%20Scientology%2Downed%20properties,of%20land%20worth%20168%20million.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/01/25/the-strange-death-of-flo-barnett-mother-in-law-to-scientology-leader-david-miscavige/

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,972865,00.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html