13 episodes
Room 20 Los Angeles Times
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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The sign above his hospital bed called him Sixty-Six Garage. For more than 15 years, he would lay there unidentified and unconscious. Or so, everyone believed. From L.A. Times Studios and the team that brought you “Dirty John” and “Man in the Window,” comes “Room 20,” a story about the search for a man’s identity and the truth about his accident. Investigative reporter Joanne Faryon’s two-year journey is filled with twists and turns. Now, she'll finally reveal who Garage really is. But one important question remained for her upon this discovery: has Garage been conscious this entire time? This series was produced by L.A. Times Studios with support from Neon Hum Media.
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The First Six Days | 1
Episode 1: Reporter Joanne Faryon quits her job to find out what happened to a man known as Sixty-Six Garage. After spending six days with him in his nursing home room, she starts to question whether he’s actually in a vegetative state, like she was first told.
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The Intersection | 2
Episode 2: An old newspaper article provides clues to Garage’s accident, but many of the details turn out to be false. Faryon finds the accident report that everyone believed was destroyed years ago, and it becomes her roadmap in solving Garage’s mystery.
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The Border | 3
Episode 3: Sixty-Six Garage gets a new roommate - Omar Salgado - a young cyclist hit by a car on a highway. He’s unconscious and near death. There’s a major breakthrough in identifying Garage - will he recognize his name?
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The Name | 4
Episode 4: Sixty-Six Garage is identified and Faryon tracks down another man in the same accident as Garage. She learns what really caused the crash and begins to suspect authorities might have known Garage’s identity since the day of the accident.
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The Reunion | 5
Episode 5: The nursing home director contacts Garage’s family to break the news of his medical condition. Faryon travels to Ohio to learn what led Garage to the California desert in the summer of 1999. Garage celebrates his birthday for the first time in 17 years.
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Is He in There? | 6
Episode 6: Omar, the roommate, speaks and Garage sees his sister for the first time since he was a teenager. Faryon learns she is not responsible for her mother’s death and convinces a world expert on diagnosing consciousness to test Garage. She’s finally able to answer the question she had when she first met Garage - is he still in there?
Customer Reviews
I couldn’t stop listening
This podcast made me think about some of the most important topics in life. One of them being death and how we deal with it. What also hit me hard - again - is how life really is everything else but fair. Ignacios story is incredible sad to me. Alone the fact that of his 11 siblings only 2 are still alive is horrific. I feel Joanne Faryon is telling this story in a beautiful way that never dramatised but feels honest, respectful and very well researched. Thank you for doing this work.
Thought provoking
The poor man has spent more half his life time on life support shouldn’t he be free?
It would be interesting to know why there are so many more farms now than when the research began. I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of the director.
Thanks for sharing. It sounds like these poor souls need more people to spend time with them to find out if they can recover or not.
Thank you for this interesting podcast.