Introducing: The Sunshine Place

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.

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0:00.0	Hey, shocking details listeners. It's me, Vincent. I'm here with a preview of The Sunshine Place,
0:06.1	which is a new documentary podcast from C-1-3 originals in association with Team Downey and Wink Pictures.
0:12.1	The Sunshine tells the mind-blowing true story of Sinanon, which became one of the most dangerous
0:16.5	and violent cults, as it's never been told before, from the inside out, by the people who lived it.
0:22.9	Once called, quote unquote, the miracle on the beach, synonon began in the 1960s and as an experimental
0:29.1	rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim. They could cure heroin addiction.
0:34.9	Before long, they would make an even bolder claim. They could fix any problem.
0:39.0	All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach in Santa Monica soon spread to
0:44.6	San Francisco and Oakland, then to compounds all across the state of California and the country,
0:49.6	with thousands of people and millions of dollars in assets. The man who made the miracle happen would be the same man to destroy it all,
0:57.2	along with the lives of many of his followers.
0:59.6	The Sunsign Place is a production of Peabody Award-nominated C3 Originals
1:04.7	and is available now on the Audacity app or wherever you listen to your podcast.

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