What’s the Snark on Tom Cruise?

Sophie Ross Brooks (0:00)

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Sophie Ross Brooks (1:17)

Hey, guys. Oh. Oh. Oh. Well.

You go.

Christy Noel (1:29)

Oh, okay. Well, it is Thursday, September 3rd, and I am here with my lovely co-host, Sophie Ross. She is looking stunning.

She's in the, I was gonna say the shore. She's not at the shore.

Sophie Ross Brooks (1:41)

She's in PA right now.

Sophie Ross Brooks (1:43)

Yeah. Yeah.

Christy Noel (1:44)

And I am at my home studio. And you know, I'm kind of feeling mentally under the weather.

I think Sophie's kind of feeling mentally under the weather as well. But I think the best thing we can do for ourselves right now is walk in and talk about someone who's so nefarious that it'll make it forget, make us forget all of our own problems.

Sophie Ross Brooks (2:06)

Yeah. So yeah.

Sophie Ross Brooks (2:08)

Is that the best way to say it?

Sophie Ross Brooks (2:09)

Yeah. So I'm in PA right now, with my in-laws, because we have a wedding in Chicago this weekend, which is very fun, but we're dropping off backstreet with my in-laws. And of course, the out-of-town fun weddings always happen when you're like not feeling 100%.

So I'm like a little bit under the weather, which is why it might sound a little bit low energy.

But this is a very, very, very exciting episode that I feel like we've been wanting to do for a while. And there is so much to say when it comes to Scientology. So I feel like we will talk about Scientology a lot in this episode, but this is not going to be a dedicated Scientology episode, just because we don't have the time. But there is obviously so much to discuss with Scientology, which is incredibly fucking nefarious. Have you seen the documentary Going Clear?

Christy Noel (3:03)

I haven't, but back when I had X Knows All, I did do a Scientology episode all about Shelley Miscavige. And David Miscavige, so I do know enough to be dangerous, but my extent of my knowledge, as you guys know through looking at the title, we're talking about Tom Cruise. So I don't know too much about, obviously, I know he's a Scientologist, but I don't know too much, so I'm excited to get into it with you, because I know you've been studying Tom Cruise and Scientology for a couple of days now ahead of this episode.

Sophie Ross Brooks (3:29)

Yeah. So we will be talking about David Miscavige and Shelley Miscavige quite a bit, because David, and by the way, I actually looked up, because I knew people would yell at me if I mispronounced David Miscavige. It might be David Miscavige. I Miscavige for some reason is more natural to me to say, so I'm going to pronounce it Miscavige, so don't yell at me. Please be nice to me.

I am fighting for my life right now, but I'm happy to be here and so excited to be here, because this episode is very, very, very juicy. So I want to do the justice that it deserves. But yeah, if you have not seen Going Clear on HBO, it is a very, very, very good documentary about Scientology. And like I said, there's just so much to say. But David Miscavige, who is incredibly nefarious, whose wife has been a missing person, essentially, has not been seen since 2007, is Tom Cruise's best friend, was his best man in his wedding to Katie Holmes.

And the thing about Tom Cruise is that he is such a fucking movie star. Like, he is so good. He's such a movie. He does his own stunts. He is, like, one of our last big movie stars. And he is so just good on screen.