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The Sunshine Place

S1|E3: The Trip

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Legend, ritual, religion, LSD. Chuck experiments with all of it on his followers in Synanon. 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. There I put her right here.

0:13.0

My job is to make sure the baby is all right.

0:18.0

By now she's very hurt.

0:21.0

Well, when is the document look at it? We don't have a doctor. I thought this was a hospital.

0:29.0

It is, but it's a different kind of hospital.

0:36.0

This is a tape recording of my dad and me,

0:38.4

from 1997 when I was about three and a half years old.

0:45.0

We're at home in Reno, Nevada. My dad's name was Bill, Bill Crawford,

0:49.0

and we were very close.

0:51.0

Very sick people that we have to examine.

0:55.0

My dad came to send it on as an addict in 1959.

1:00.0

He was one of the first 12 people to move in. He became a leader. He was a big shot, as they said in Synonym.

1:07.7

And he was one of Chuck's closest and most trusted confidants. At the time this was recorded he didn't live in

1:17.3

Sinon anymore. He had been out for almost 20 years. Let me see if I got the

1:22.4

straight.

1:23.0

The doctor has to come by it once in a while.

1:27.5

My dad was an addict, a bad one, until he got to Synod. That's when he got clean for the first time since he was a teenager.

1:37.6

But it wouldn't last. His addictions were dormant in Sinonon, but they came roaring back after he left.

1:51.8

His years of alcohol and heroin abuse had led to hepatitis C and ultimately

1:56.2

terminal liver cancer. He was an alcoholic up until the day he died when he took a lethal dose of morphine that he had been saving for the occasion.

2:07.0

Maybe all of that was bound to happen after he left Synonym, but I think it has a lot to do with how he left.

2:18.0

I didn't know about all of this until I was older.

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