Introducing: The Sunshine Place, Season 2

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the 1980s, where the war on drugs rages on and America's teenagers are caught in the crossfire. Enter Straight Incorporated, a controversial new rehab program that promises its tough love approach can set kids back on the straight and narrow. But for the survivors of Straight, their experience tells a horrifyingly different story — one of abuse, torture, and brainwashing. Season 2 of “The Sunshine Place” delves into the shocking tale of Straight Incorporated, an experimental teen rehab that descended into a sadistic cult exploiting parents' deepest fears and their children's vulnerabilities. This heart-wrenching exploration of parenting, family, and the human spirit intertwines with the dark underbelly of power, money, and politics. And at the heart of it all, we find a connection back to the subject of “The Sunshine Place” Season 1, Synanon. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford of Team Downey, together with Josh McLaughlin of Wink Pictures. The Sunshine Place is an Audacy original. 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	In the 1980s,
0:04.0	in the 1980s, teenagers all across America were going missing.
0:09.0	One day a kid from school would just be gone, and we wouldn't see him again.
0:15.0	They would just disappear right out of their suburban homes.
0:21.0	As far as I knew we were going on a vacation.
0:25.9	And strangely, they were always with their parents
0:28.6	when it happened.
0:30.8	I fell asleep in the car. I just woke up and I was at this building. It was a warehouse.
0:40.0	They walked me into a small room with no windows, just one door.
0:45.0	And there was just a bunch of girls my age.
0:50.0	They all looked pasty white pale and they seemed like they were closing in on me.
0:58.0	All those kids who vanished in the 80s ended up in a drug rehab called Straight Incorporated.
1:06.2	They grabbed my freaking belt loop and I'm like, why are you touching me?
1:12.2	And I'm jerked forward?
1:15.0	They brought me to this huge warehouse room
1:20.0	with 200 blue chairs and there's teenagers sitting in these chairs.
1:29.3	And everyone starts swinging their arms and slamming the chair onto the ground like boom boom boom boom
1:36.1	making these monstrous noises and they walk me down this aisle in between everybody, they turn me around.
1:45.0	And everybody stops.
1:48.0	And the whole room gets silent.
1:50.0	And then the whole group in unison on cue goes they scream
1:55.0	Hi Ginger love you ginger love you Katie love you Kathy love you Kathy love you Wendy
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