Hannah Ferguson

At a convention in Wichita with an audience of around 80, Hubbard introduced a new invention that he called the e-meter.

It was a small metal box with a few knobs, a dial with a needle and wires connected to two tin cans.

The crowd went wild.

Hubbard claimed that this was proof of how engrams or painful memories stayed stored in the body.

You were this guy that reminds me of.

Sorry.

I remember when my family took a family vacation.

We were very lucky we went to Hawaii.

We went to Honolulu when I was about, I don't know, primary school age.

And we went into the markets and they were selling power bands.

And my fucking idiot family and I were like, this is the best thing to exist.

And they were like, put your arm out, put your arm out.

All right.

And then he whacked it out of nowhere.

And obviously my hand went down.

Right.

And then he was like, now put a power band on.

And then he went to whack it.

My arm didn't move.

Did I think it was because maybe I knew he was going to hit me this time?