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The Sunshine Place

S1|E7: The Holy War

The Sunshine Place

Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Chuck is consumed by paranoia and Synanon erupts in violence. 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

C13 originals.

0:05.0

original.

0:08.0

W. I.

0:11.0

A W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. I'm wider. I'm 12 or 13 and I'm working at the wire with

0:20.0

I'm 12 or 13 and I'm working at The Wire with Dan Sorkin, this guy who was a big radio

0:26.2

personality in Chicago, he was like best friends with Bob Newhart and all this stuff.

0:31.5

But he lived in Synen. This is Jay Butler. The Wire was Synon's internal

0:38.4

broadcasting system. Most of the time there was a synonon game on the wire or a speech Chuck made.

0:45.0

But other times it was just like a regular radio station with music and shows

0:51.0

like the one Jay worked on.

0:54.0

My dad had a show too.

0:56.0

He called himself Sergeant Radio, and he used it to flirt with my mom.

1:01.0

But Chuck also used the wire to send messages to the community whenever he decided to.

1:07.0

Chuck could break in at any time, so you could be doing a show and he could break it and just start talking about whatever.

1:15.0

And Chuck breaks in and says,

1:18.0

that asshole, Otis Butler, split and left us with his three fucking kids.

1:24.0

Jay was one of those three kids that Chuck was yelling about.

1:30.0

Otis Butler was his dad. He had left Synod, leaving Jay and his siblings behind.

1:37.0

But he took the money that their mom had left after she died from cancer.

1:42.0

Jay felt alone. after she died from cancer.

1:47.0

Jay felt alone, but Chuck's wife Betty was there for him. She was the mother I needed at the time,

1:51.0

and you know, obviously she had a lot of juice. Chuck she introduced me to

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