Gold Base

And this brings me back to that terrifying image we started with today.

We need to examine Mark Headley and Scientology's gold base.

Gold Base is an incredibly secretive, highly fortified compound located in the California desert.

It serves as the international headquarters for the Church of Scientology.

The level of security there is practically military grade.

So he waits for a fateful rainy day, hops on his motorcycle, and makes a break for the gates.

Literally 10 seconds into his escape, he hasn't even cleared the driveway, and security's right there.

The surveillance apparatus at Gold Base functions like a modern-day panopticon.

She is.

Um, so Leah Remini, just like some other quick hits about his connection to Scientology, Leah Remini, who left the church in 2013, alleged that he is treated as a deity within Scientology and that he personally administered discipline to members at Miscavige's direction at Gold Base.

Like, he would, he would punish people And, um, her memoir Troublemaker describes Cruise berating staff and behaving like a child who had never been told no.

I believe it.

He literally had two different guys, one guy to take care of the audio and the video stuff.

And another dude to take care of the cameras and the film equipment and and all his pictures and all that stuff, and then a whole household unit, and then the entire rest outward-facing divisions of that organization, people would just run around at Golden Era Productions and just crack a whip.

Like, hey, is this done? It's supposed to be done.

And so when you said that organization was abolished, it was almost because Golden Era Productions has really nothing else to do except for shoot these films.

They're not making anything.

They're not doing anything.

And also Miscavige, when we were there in the 90s all the way up until I want to say the...

Through the early 2000s.