Episode 195: The Sun Gym Gang Part 1

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Sun Gym Gang, a notorious group of Miami bodybuilders, made headlines in the 1990s for a string of violent crimes that shocked the nation. Led by Daniel Lugo and Adrian Doorbal, the gang’s ambitions went far beyond their obsession with fitness, spiraling into a terrifying series of kidnappings, torture, extortion, and murder.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph. I'm Alex. And we're live. Hello.
0:13.0	How are you?
0:14.0	And we're live.
0:18.0	Hello. How are you?
0:20.0	I'm great. How are you? And we're live. Hello.
0:23.0	How are you?
0:24.0	I'm great. How are you?
0:25.0	I am okay.
0:27.0	Good.
0:28.0	I am just okay.
0:29.0	Sure.
0:30.0	That's okay.
0:31.0	Yeah, sometimes we are just okay and that's okay. Right as you said and I've heard I've heard the tagline for this story. Uh-huh and I am immediately
0:40.6	interested. Yes, yeah what I told Alex is that we are talking about a gang of bodybuilders,
0:46.9	which is true. That's what we're talking about today.
0:50.3	Yeah, I had not heard of this story before kind of now, but it's a go-go from start to finish, and we have two parts.
1:00.0	Two parts.
1:01.0	Yeah. Sometimes that's how it goes. but yeah I just on its face would think that body
1:06.8	builders are too busy building bodies, you know? Well, they're not too busy to make some money, that's for sure.
1:15.0	And this story was so ridiculous at times that it was made into a movie that I have yet to see. I have not seen it yet, but we're going to watch it before
1:24.9	part two. So we'll be talking about it a bit more in part two. But yeah, why don't we just jump in because we
1:30.9	got a lot to talk about? Let's do it. In 1987, John Meese, a Miami accountant, opened
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