S1|E2: The Miracle on the Beach

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 44 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	See 13 originals.
0:03.0	originals.
0:04.0	Oh good.
0:07.0	Oh good.
0:08.0	Oh good.
0:09.0	Baby.
0:10.0	Like a little baby.
0:11.0	Everything I say you will not do like a little baby. I want, I want, I want, I want.
0:17.0	I want! I want!
0:18.0	You're not a man, your mouth don't make you a man.
0:23.2	Could you take an order?
0:24.6	You can't even know what.
0:27.4	Well, when I first moved in, my first game,
0:30.2	I was terrified because a couple of guys were mad at each other and they were screaming at each other practically out of their chairs.
0:38.6	Tony, please take it easy and bang.
0:41.2	And I thought a fight was going to break out.
0:44.0	And it didn't, you know.
0:47.0	I imagine everybody in this room knows they don't have no friends out there.
0:50.0	And after a while they simmered down and they became just like they were before.
0:55.0	And the conversation moved to somebody else and somebody turned it on me and said,
1:02.0	why are you here? And somebody turned it on me and said,
1:02.8	why are you here?
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