Here’s his first in his series, including its full transcript:
Here’s Mike Rinder’s Full Transcript of this video:
“Hi there, everyone.”
Thanks for tuning in and taking the time to watch this video.
The last 18 months have been a roller coaster ride that has had, typical of anybody’s cancer journey, a lot of ups and downs. I have tried to give some updates along the way, mostly on the positive side, when things are going well, so as not to create too much, allow more worrying people that they shouldn’t really have a bet.
But at this stage, I have exhausted the efficacy of two cancer drugs, two chemo cocktails, two immunotherapy treatments, and recently underwent full brain radiation treatment when metastases showed up in my brain and the top of my spinal column, that has been a particularly rough patch over The last month, but it’s also brought some clarity and made me realize, without the pristine that perhaps now it’s time to look to other potential solutions, other things that I can do.
She’s been reading a book to me that is a wonderful book talks about changing your diet as a primary thing to seek what they call radical remission, which is steps outside of normal medical treatment when it doesn’t seem like there’s much left down the Medical Treatment Avenue.
So we changed my diet, and there are a bunch of other things that are more spiritual, metaphysical, Soul related, that include trying to look for the things that have brought toxicity and poison into your life that have been held up inside and that you need to release and doing things that you feel are important for you.
Based on your instinct and what you feel to be true, part of that for me is that I have never been someone who has backed off from bullies or haters or those who seek to hurt other people, and it has been somewhat difficult over these, well, sort of the last year and a half, to not speak out and not respond to a lot of things that have been said that are toxic and hurtful and poisonous and untrue.
And I want to take this opportunity somewhat for myself, but perhaps more importantly, because I feel that I have always been someone who has spoken out against that stuff, to try and protect other people, or at least give them an opportunity to understand that they too may get involved when they too be negatively affected by things and people, and so I am doing a series of videos here to try and set forth some truths.
I know that there are plenty of people out there that will just dismiss this, say that this is just some sort of vendetta. Believe me, it’s not.
It’s something I’m trying to do for my own good and for everybody else’s good. Obviously, I have stepped down recently from the Aftermath Foundation and Child USA, I did so because I felt I could no longer fulfill any role that would be a value to them at this point. Neither of them asked me to do so. In fact, both foundations requested that I not when I first volunteered to step down because I thought that it might be helpful, they were both, no, we’re not. We’re not going to just allow you to voluntarily resign because you think it’ll be good for us. It won’t be.
And so I went along for quite a long time, basically, until this radiation treatment. And then I just told him, I I feel bad. I don’t want to pretend that I am something that I’m not. I don’t want to pretend that I’m participating in the activities of either of these boards when I’m really not. And so I simply stepped down and said, I’m done.
I am obviously addressing a lot of what has happened with Aaron Smith Levin.
Aaron Smith Levin is someone who came into this world of the ex Scientology community and grabbed on to the credibility that being a part of the Aftermath show and the Aftermath Foundation gave him, excuse me, and from the very beginning, this started to create a lot of problems.
Problems with Aaron didn’t begin in November of 2023, they began way before that, and those problems were things that related to primarily his personal life.
And none of us on the board of the Aftermath Foundation, who were all friends with Aaron, wanted to make his personal life the issue of his participation in the board.
In fact, he was constantly reminding us that it’s a very scientological thing to judge someone based on their personal life, that that is not how society is today, and not how, quote, ‘normal people act’
But the litany of things that happened over the beginning stages of the ultimate breakup are problematic or were problematic because they were very public and were very antithetical to the goals and purposes of the Aftermath Foundation.
It began, I guess, with the email that the board received from someone who had discovered the activities that Aaron had engaged in when he went on a Cocaine fuel sex worker binge to Columbia rather than being embarrassed or concerned about it.
Mark Headley, Aaron, me and one of the guys we were working at the time in on a project for Mark’s company at a Toyota plant in Mississippi. And the night that email came in, the next morning, Aaron walked in and announced to the three of us here, I am a King of Cocaine and hookers in Columbia like he was proud of.
He took a trip to China to visit with Nathan Rich and his girlfriend, a Chinese woman, and when he came home, he told us the story of how he had gotten so blackout drunk at the apartment of Nathan’s girlfriend’s family that he, quote, “lost three days of his life”.
He had no idea what happened, and he told us that proudly, and it was like, Aaron, what are you going to do next?
Well, we next had a problem, because now he was promoting himself as the Vice President of the Aftermath Foundation. He was the only person on the board who constantly used that title for himself, and it became a big problem for the tax exempt status of the Aftermath Foundation, because he was raising money for himself personally on the basis of his association with the foundation. And that is, by definition, enormous, and disqualifies an organization from maintaining tax exempt status.
We had to tell Aaron that he had to stop doing that. It was another indicator of his lack of understanding and judgment when it came to what was good for the foundation.
Also during this time, Leah and I had wholeheartedly supported his effort to run for the City Council of Clearwater, but in the midst of that, he got involved in two drunken altercations at two separate bars in Clearwater, and there were police reports that were written about it, and the Tampa Bay Times got those police reports, and I went to bat Baron to try and prevent that story from being too scandalous.
The best I could do was tell them that the only thing that they could print was based on the police reports, not based on the other things that they had heard, including the trip to Columbia and the rumors that Aaron was having sex in the back of a pickup truck at the cigar cave in Clearwater.
That article came out, he didn’t win the election, not a big surprise, but once again, it was the idea that his judgment was so poor that he couldn’t understand that this would have a negative effect.
Mark Headley and me and Christy and Claire had had to take his keys away in other drunken incidents where he was insisting on driving. We would drive him home, drive his truck home, hide his keys, and we were all worried that Aaron was going to get himself in really deep trouble. We forewarned him. The person was watching him every step of the way.
Stupidly, he thought that he was somehow above, that it didn’t really matter, didn’t really have any importance, and later on, would even say, “Well, if I’d only known that OSA X, Y and Z”, he knew full well.
The biggest problem that We had, though, was we all had a very deep friendship with Heather and his daughters, and we didn’t want to hurt them. We didn’t want to be the ones that were announcing anything about his personal life. We considered that that was between them, and Aaron did everything he could to cover that up from us, the best he possibly could.
We wanted to go on a cruise with them, in March of 2023, and Aaron was all lovey dovey over Heather and pretending that he and Heather had a perfect relationship. And we, none of us, thought that it was our job or business to disclose details or provide any kind of bad news or things that would be hurtful to them, and we ended up doing and saying nothing.
Heather later would lament the fact that she had only discovered details of what had been going on when Aaron did a video and she watched as 80,000 other people also finding out about the details of his quote “open marriage”.
Unfortunately, Heather became completely cowed. She showed up at our door one day with a micron of bobblehead saying she could no longer have this in her house. And at this point, sadly, she has become perhaps Aaron’s greatest enabler by acquiescing to whatever he says about the relationship. And it’s a very sad thing for all of us to watch that happen.
Oh, there was one other thing that was really, really important in this saga. Aaron had become the intake person for the Atermath Foundation, when people reached out to the foundation, and we discovered that he had been unilaterally rejecting people without informing other people on the board.
He had also been taking people who reached out to the foundation and using them as a means of getting content for his videos. Reese Quibble was someone who reached out to the foundation Aaron never reported anything about it and started using her as a source of inside information into Scientology until he doxed her.
I’m not going to go into anything further at this point, I’m going to address the ultimate incident in Los Angeles in the next video. I thank you for taking the time to watch this. I hope you watch all of the videos in the series. I think that it is important.
I think it’s really important that people know the truth, and at least that some people can prevent themselves from being harmed by what I know to be a source of problems, and I did a pretty extensive series on my blog that you can look up under the the title of sociopathy, and I learned a great deal in there from reading and studying this subject.
And I think that those lessons and those the wisdom of people who are much smarter than me, that are contained in there will be helpful for anyone to understand. and seek to protect themselves from being armed.
Thank you for taking the time. I really really do appreciate it.
I look forward to finishing this series, and letting everything out for you.
Thank you. Hi, to everyone.