G’Day World #331 – Ex-Gloria Jean’s Franchisees Speak Out

Summary: My guests tonight are a couple from Melbourne who we'll call "Bazza" and "Shazza". For the last five years they were franchisees with Gloria Jean's Coffee. They've come on to discuss their experience. <a href="http://www.site5.com/in.php?id=134003-50"></a> As regular readers will know, I've been taking an interest in Gloria Jean's over the last few years (<a href="http://http://noillusionspodcast.com/index.php?s=gloria+jeans">read earlier posts here</a>), especially in the relationship between Gloria Jean's Coffee, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsong_Church">Hillsong Church</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Ministries">Mercy Ministries</a>. As you might be aware, there have been allegations over the last six months that Mercy Ministries has been treating it's clients (mostly "troubled" young women) with techniques including exorcisms and prayer readings. Even <a href="http://http://noillusionspodcast.com/2008/03/18/gloria-jeans-coffee-reponds-to-allegations-of-abuse/">Gloria Jean's Global Marketing Manager has commented on the blog</a> in an attempt to provide their side of the story. So I was pleased when Bazza and Shazza agreed to come on to share an insider's story. The G'Day World theme music: <a href="http://redirect2.iodalliance.com/artist.php?id=43954243E8EDDA604308E5ECADF2BFDBEE71577306007A3237B189EEBF61C81C" rel="nofollow" target="_new">Conquest</a> <a href="http://redirect2.iodalliance.com/download_track.php?id=8A36C28854BAF910700C503B0B6A90D513FC83A82E6DA109FD784753FE70072F748DC54AB2BB95D4912393798364BC1D" rel="nofollow" target="_new"> "Secrets of Life"</a> (mp3) from "End of Days" <a href="http://redirect2.iodalliance.com/label.php?id=08C98435FF441C6A8674255813490E6BD5A65926B51A3120FA4996E39DF2FC20" rel="nofollow" target="_new">(Dark Star Records)</a> <a href="http://redirect2.iodalliance.com/buy_album.php?id=8A36C28854BAF910700C503B0B6A90D5467D053C50A03CBF4C77DF97EE8C9405F9B1D9141F7BE26D6EC6EC965EA5BAE7" rel="nofollow" target="_new">More On This Album</a> If you're wondering what the opening quotes are from on today's show, it's the opening lines from <a href="http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html">Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell"</a>.