It's 4th Tuesday and time to talk about adult children of cults. Synanon is our focus, our special guest is Sari Crawford host of the new podcast The Sunshine Place about Synanon a revolutionary rehab cult from 50's to 90's in USA. 0ne of the executive producers of that show is Robert Downey Jr. The interview starts with Sari who's parents were decades in Synanon, and eclipses with her mother joining the talk. It's audio gold, as Sari's mom Sylvia takes us through her first time playing "The Game" and Sari talks about her dad's role as one of the early board members of Synanon. See https://shows.cadence13.com/podcast/the-sunshine-place See frankiefilespodcast.com for more on this show.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.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frankie-tease/message

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