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The Sunshine Place

E2: The Miracle on the Beach

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Dederich hits rock bottom as an alcoholic in the beachside slums of Los Angeles. It's 1958, and he's got nothing but an idea, but it's one that would save countless lives. He calls it Synanon. Others call it the Miracle on the Beach. Through sheer force of will, Chuck's idea becomes national news, and Synanon becomes a household word. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast RISK.

0:05.8

Risks where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share.

0:10.9

Like the one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos.

0:15.9

Or, the woman who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online, was

0:20.9

her dad.

0:21.9

If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear RISK.

0:26.5

Until now, on the Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.5

Well, when I first moved in, my first game, I was terrified because a couple of guys

1:02.7

were mad at each other and they were screaming at each other, practically, out of their

1:08.0

chairs.

1:09.0

And I thought a fight was going to break out.

1:15.2

And it didn't, you know?

1:16.2

I imagine everybody in the room knows they don't have no friends out there.

1:20.9

And after a while, they simmered down and they became just like they were before.

1:26.4

And the conversation moved to somebody else.

1:30.2

And somebody turned it on me and said, why are you here?

1:35.6

And I said, because I'm an addict.

1:38.5

And they said, no, you're not.

1:39.6

You haven't had drugs.

1:40.6

How long you've been here?

1:41.6

I said, I don't know, few days.

1:45.0

We haven't had any drugs, so you must not be an addict.

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