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The Beach Boys Pt. 1: Endless Summer, LSD, Orgies, Charles Manson and a Steve McQueen Man-Crush · DISGRACELAND

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Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information.
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Speaker 2: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.
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Speaker 3: The stories about the Beach Boys, specifically about their drummer,
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Speaker 3: Dennis Wilson, are insane. He lit himself on fire, got
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Speaker 3: into a fistfight with the singer and his band on
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Speaker 3: stage in front of thousands, partied with Steve McQueen, and
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Speaker 3: befriended and helped support unbeknowns to him, one of the
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Speaker 3: most notorious serial killers of all time. Dennis Wilson was
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Speaker 3: a handsome, sunny California surf kid who Brian Wilson, his
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Speaker 3: big brother, wrote all those Beach Boys songs about. But
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Speaker 3: he was also consumed by drugs, alcohol, and darkness. Much
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Speaker 3: of that darkness was due to his relationship with Charles
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Speaker 3: Manson and his guilt over the brutal murders of Sharon Tate,
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Speaker 3: Jay Sebring, and all who were felled by Manson's psychotic
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Speaker 3: homicidal rage. But Dennis Wilson made great music. That music
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Speaker 3: you heard at the top of the show that wasn't
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Speaker 3: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron
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Speaker 3: called Monkey in a grind MK one. I played you
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Speaker 3: that loop because I can't afford the rights in the
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Speaker 3: year twenty five, twenty five by Zager and Evans. And
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Speaker 3: why would I play you that specific slice of futuro
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Speaker 3: doom Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the
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Speaker 3: number one song in America on August eighth, nineteen sixty nine,
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Speaker 3: And that was the day Charles Manson's killers crept into
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Speaker 3: the house of Dennis Wilson's friends to commit one of
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Speaker 3: the most gruesome murders in American history, an act that
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Speaker 3: had countless consequences, but for the Beach Boys forever put
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Speaker 3: to rest, the notion of their sunny innocence, marking with
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Speaker 3: authority the beginning of the end for one of the biggest.
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Speaker 1: Bands on the planet.
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Speaker 3: On this episode Future O Cheese, the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson,
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Speaker 3: Charles Manson in the End of Innocence, I'm Jake Brennan
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Speaker 3: and this is disgraceland. Sam Cook had been dead for
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Speaker 3: almost four years, but his cherry Red Ferrari was very
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Speaker 3: much alive, and at the moment in nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 3: its new owner, Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, was
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Speaker 3: using it to tear the ass off of the two lane.
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Speaker 1: Blacktop out on the pch.
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Speaker 3: Dennis downshifted the Ferrari's powerful engine as soon as he
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Speaker 3: saw them. Two hippie girls, one pregnant, both attractive, young
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Speaker 3: with their thumbs outstretched on the side of the road,
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Speaker 3: pacing backwards, slowly, cut off jeans, stems for days, bare feet,
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Speaker 3: visible dirt on their skin, loose flower children, blouses, matted hair,
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Speaker 3: sexy as fuck. Dennis slowed the car to the curb,
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Speaker 3: popped open the passenger side door. Both girls hopped in.
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Speaker 3: Dennis flashed that gazillion wat dumb beach bone, smile, hippie
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Speaker 3: hearts melted, first gear, it's all right, second gear, out
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Speaker 3: of sight, spitting tires, spitting sands, squealing rubber, and they
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Speaker 3: were off in no time.
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Speaker 1: They were pulling into his driveway.
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Speaker 3: But it was well understood before the front door of
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Speaker 3: Dennis's Sunset Boulevard bachelor pad even opened.
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Speaker 1: They were going to fuck. And so they did.
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Speaker 3: And for Dennis, one of Hollywood's most notorious stick men,
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Speaker 3: the sex was revelatory. It tapped into something within him
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Speaker 3: that he didn't know was there since splitting with his
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Speaker 3: wife Carol. The sex Dennis had been having as of late,
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Speaker 3: despite its randomness, at its wildness, it had grown stale groupies,
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Speaker 3: hitchhiking hippies, aspiring starlits, even bonafide stars Catherine Denote, Jane
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Speaker 3: Seymour and Goldie Hahn among them. He had been having
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Speaker 3: so much sex, so often, and with so many different
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Speaker 3: partners that it all seemed to blend together. In nineteen
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Speaker 3: sixty eight, sex for Dennis Wilson was more like masturbation, ordinary,
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Speaker 3: wrote functionary, but sex with these two filthy hippies was
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Speaker 3: something else.
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Speaker 1: Entirely.
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Speaker 3: It was like they'd been trained by a master discerned,
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Speaker 3: but not just to cater to connect. Dennis was lost
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Speaker 3: in the Minaja twa, completely out of his head. To
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Speaker 3: the unenlightened, his state during sex could be described as
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Speaker 3: being unconscious, but as he enlightened as the contrarian gurus,
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Speaker 3: as the teachers and the seekers, the Maharishi and Gurdjiath
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Speaker 3: in that fucking blockhead cousin of his and singer in
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Speaker 3: his band, Mike Love, as they would all agree, it
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Speaker 3: wasn't unconsciousness. It was pique consciousness. It was more than sex.
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Speaker 3: It was transcended When it was over, Dennis wiped himself off,
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Speaker 3: threw on his jeans and T shirt, and split for
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Speaker 3: his brother Brian's studio. He had a recording session that night.
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Speaker 3: He told the girls to hang tight at his pad.
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Speaker 3: He'd be back for round two in a couple hours.
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Speaker 3: In nineteen sixty eight, the Beach Boys were in a
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Speaker 3: tenuous state. They had experienced near immediate chart topping success
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Speaker 3: when they hit the scene in nineteen sixty three, but
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Speaker 3: by sixty eight all the vertigo of their ride to
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Speaker 3: the Top had finally hit and they were reeling inspired
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Speaker 3: by Dennis's genuine embodiment of the southern California surfer life,
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Speaker 3: filtered through the musical genius of his older brother Brian,
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Speaker 3: had guided to their initial recording contract by the Wilson
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Speaker 3: brothers overbearing and meddling father Murray. The Beach Boys had
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Speaker 3: built a throne out of surf rock on the West
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Speaker 3: coast of America, just as the Beatles were building their
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Speaker 3: own parallel throne out of britpop on the west coast
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Speaker 3: of England, and almost simultaneously, both bands transcended their pop roots,
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Speaker 3: shed their skins, and remade themselves as countercultural Visionaries. Murray
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Speaker 3: the Old Man was out as manager, so were the
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Speaker 3: skinny ties and candy striped matching suits. Brian's compositions grew
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Speaker 3: more operatic and experimental. The sixties, or at least what
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Speaker 3: we talk about when we talk about the sixties, had arrived.
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Speaker 3: By mid decade, the mutual admiration society between the Beach
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Speaker 3: Boys and the Beatles had produced several of the greatest
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Speaker 3: records of all time. The Beatles Rubber Soul inspired the
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Speaker 3: Beach Boys, Pet Sounds and Pet Sounds inspired the Beatles,
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Speaker 3: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. Brian Wilson's artistic correspondence
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Speaker 3: with the artists he considered as peers resulted in some
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Speaker 3: of the greatest music of the twentieth century, and not
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Speaker 3: just his own. That is the very definition of cultural influence.
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Speaker 3: The Beach Boys caught a wave and were sitting on
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Speaker 3: top of the world, but the air's thin when you're
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Speaker 3: up that high, and Brian's constant need.
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Speaker 1: To defy gravity left him light headed.
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Speaker 3: He had always been a sensitive soul, but the demands
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Speaker 3: of the throne of creative genius had led him from
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Speaker 3: that transcendent high into something scarier, weirder, more paranoid, extensive
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Speaker 3: drug use, LSD, experimentation, and all the other rights of
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Speaker 3: sixties rock Royalty had unlocked greater volatility and vulnerability in
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Speaker 3: Brian Wilson's fertile creative mind. When the result of that
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Speaker 3: was Brian literally living in an indoor sandbox, it was troubling,
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Speaker 3: to say the least. But when the result was something
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Speaker 3: like Good Vibrations, the pure piece of pop synthesis, intended
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Speaker 3: as a prototype for the sound that Beach Boys would
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Speaker 3: achieve on their next anticipated masterpiece album, Smile. While one
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Speaker 3: Good Vibrations foregave a lot of indoor sandboxes, Brian called
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Speaker 3: the song a teenage symphony to God. It was more tender,
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Speaker 3: loving care than three minute pop, more impressionist paint and
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Speaker 3: assembly line product. It was born out of a library
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Speaker 3: of individual sounds Brian had categorized by feeling. He used
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Speaker 3: them as brushstrokes to recombine and to a tract that
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Speaker 3: most likely made Paul McCartney see his jealousy. And yet
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Speaker 3: Brian had become too anxious to perform live. As he
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Speaker 3: dug in to record the full album, he became increasingly reclusive.
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Speaker 3: He suffered outright delusions that his songs were causing terrible
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Speaker 3: events out in the real world. The mind fuck was
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Speaker 3: too much for him. The release of Smile was canceled,
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Speaker 3: making it one of, if not the most notorious unreleased
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Speaker 3: album in the history of pop.
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Speaker 1: On a business level, it was moot.
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Speaker 3: Brian Wilson was either having a nervous breakdown or he
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Speaker 3: was such a sensitive soul that he was having a
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Speaker 3: premonition of things lurking out there in the darkness of
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Speaker 3: the future. While Brian Wilson spiraled, Dennis Wilson partied. The
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Speaker 3: Beach Boys next three album Smiley, Smile, Wild Honey, and Friends,
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Speaker 3: were received with disappointment, both critically and commercially. Each album
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Speaker 3: had its moments, particularly Wild Honey, where the band seemed
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Speaker 3: to remember what the Beatles never forgot that at their core,
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Speaker 3: stripped of all the hippie zeitegeist artifice, they were always
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Speaker 3: just a good little rock and roll band. Perhaps it
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Speaker 3: wasn't fully appreciated at the time the fact that the
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Speaker 3: band's creative turn south was due to Brian's mental health,
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Speaker 3: but regardless, their canceled performance at the Monterey Pop Festival
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Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty seven dealt an undeniable public blow to
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Speaker 3: their reputation in relevance. Yet here Dennis Wilson was in
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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight, trying in his way anyway to keep
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Speaker 3: his and his brothers Brian and Carl Wilson's Endless Summer
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Speaker 3: of Love dream alive, jamming that afternoon at Brian's working
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Speaker 3: on the next album, with two dirty hippie sex pots
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Speaker 3: waiting back home for him. Record sales were down, but
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Speaker 3: so what. It was all good peace, love and lots
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Speaker 3: of sex, and his brothers loved him for it. Most
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Speaker 3: people loved him for it. Dennis was the type of
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Speaker 3: guy who showed up and left work with a smile
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Speaker 3: on his face. Charismatic isn't strong enough a word positive
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Speaker 3: to his core Back then, he seldom had a negative
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Speaker 3: word to say about anyone, except, of course, from Mike Love.
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Speaker 3: The Beach Boys by this point were splitting into two camps.
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Speaker 3: Camp won the brothers Wilson, Brian, Carl and their fierce
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Speaker 3: defender and loyal brother Dennis and everyone else Mike, guitarist
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Speaker 3: Al Jardine and Bryant's road replacement Bruce Johnston. The latter
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Speaker 3: camp endeavored to keep the wheels on and ensure that
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Speaker 3: band remained a profitable, creatively satisfying endeavor worth everyone's time.
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Speaker 3: The former camp had well less formal intentions and was
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Speaker 3: clouded by a reservoir of alcohol and LSD. Beach Boys
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Speaker 3: fans divide themselves amongst these camps as well, with those
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Speaker 3: who consider themselves serious officionados aligning with Team Wilson. They
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Speaker 3: harbor real contempt for Mike Love and company. Brian, the sensitive,
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Speaker 3: drugged out creative genius, is viewed as the vulnerable mark
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Speaker 3: for the straight as an arrow machiavellian Mike Love, who
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Speaker 3: throughout the history of the band is steene as being
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Speaker 3: guilty for their greatest creative transgressions. Kocomo, anyone paging mister
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Speaker 3: John Stamos, Uncle Jesse, you're late for the gig. But
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Speaker 3: this is way too simple an explanation. The Beach Boys,
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Speaker 3: pretty much since their inception, were a total mess, creatively, financially,
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Speaker 3: personally in every which way, and a large part of
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Speaker 3: that mess was created and sustained by Brian Carl and
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Speaker 3: Dennis Wilson. Not that the Mike Love Camp's hands were
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Speaker 3: totally clean, but Mike Love is was more than a
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Speaker 3: creative boogeyman. More than a necessary evil, much more, he
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Speaker 3: was a great singer and astute lyricist and skilled songwriter
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Speaker 3: who brought out some of the best in his cousin
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Speaker 3: Brian Wilson, and in a lot of ways, Mike Love
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Speaker 3: was the engine that motored the Beach Boys forward through
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Speaker 3: blow after devastating blow. Without Mike Love, and to a
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Speaker 3: lesser degree, without Bruce Johnston, the Beach Boys would have
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Speaker 3: ceased to exist.
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Speaker 1: A long time ago.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad thing. I
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Speaker 3: get why people would think that way, but I don't.
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Speaker 3: There'd be no wild honey either way. I digress back
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Speaker 3: to Dennis Wilson in the Hippie sex Spots. The session
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Speaker 3: was dragging, Brian was stuck, and Dennis was bored. He
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Speaker 3: bounced eagerly headed home for what he hoped would be
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Speaker 3: another round of mind bending sex with the two hitchhikers
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Speaker 3: he'd left back at his place, the one that called
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Speaker 3: herself no joke Cinderella, and the other one Katie. Dennis
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Speaker 3: pulled his car up the driveway at one four to
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Speaker 3: four zero zero sunset boulevard, killed the engine and made
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Speaker 3: his way up the stairs to his patio entrance. He
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Speaker 3: felt the California night air shift. Suddenly, there was a chill,
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Speaker 3: and then he saw something ominous and stop short on
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Speaker 3: the stairs. There feet in front of him was a small,
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Speaker 3: mean looking man, a long hair, standing in the light
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Speaker 3: of his doorway. He was disheveled, dirty. The menace in
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Speaker 3: his dilated pupils was immediately evident. In fact, his eyes
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Speaker 3: seemed to roll around inside of his head as he
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Speaker 3: stood there, near still, but oddly somehow pulsating his body.
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Speaker 3: His lips clinched, his cheekbones stretched themselves up the sides
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Speaker 3: of his face, and pressed his eyes into that insane
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Speaker 3: rolling spell they were now casting. The short man's chest
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Speaker 3: heaved slowly as he stood, moving ever so slightly, not bouncing,
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Speaker 3: not rocking, not quite shifting, but definitely moving softly, almost,
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Speaker 3: it seemed to Dennis hovering His arrow was obvious. It
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Speaker 3: was dark, compelling, witchy. Dennis spoke first, are you going
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Speaker 3: to hurt me? And the short man spoke, as if
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Speaker 3: the option was definitely on the table. Do you want
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Speaker 3: me to hurt you? Brother? Dennis stood silent, his heart
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Speaker 3: beating a rampant triple stroke roll total fear it was
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Speaker 3: clear that he didn't want the short man to hurt him.
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Speaker 3: That is, the shortman took a step toward Denis. Dennis
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Speaker 3: lean back impulsively, but otherwise remained still. His heart beat
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Speaker 3: quickened more fear, and then the short man dropped to
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Speaker 3: his knees and began kissing Dennis Wilson's feet. Dennis was
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Speaker 3: still in shock when the man finally stood and looked
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Speaker 3: up at him to say, welcome home, brother, My name
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Speaker 3: is Charlie. Steve McQueen loved Dennis Wilson as much as
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Speaker 3: the inner workings of Steve McQueen's holy headero mind would
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Speaker 3: allow him to love another man anyway. Steve, like Dennis,
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Speaker 3: was one of holly Wood's biggest hounds, notoriously sleeping with
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Speaker 3: as many as two women a day while on set
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Speaker 3: shooting his films. This is somehow unbelievable, gross, impressive, and
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Speaker 3: sad all at the same time. Free love meant a
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Speaker 3: lot of things to a lot of people, but the
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Speaker 3: guys like Steve McQueen and Dennis Wilson, rich, famous, handsome
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Speaker 3: beyond compare, it meant something entirely different. The opportunities for
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Speaker 3: promiscuous sex were endless, but Dennis Wilson was learning that.
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Speaker 1: Nothing is indeed free.
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Speaker 3: Dennis and Steve were hanging out behind the mobile station
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Speaker 3: up on the pch.
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Speaker 1: It was their spot.
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Speaker 3: They'd meet up, Dennis and his Ferrari, Steve and his Mustang,
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Speaker 3: smoke weed, drop acid, and calibrate their engines before dragging
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Speaker 3: up California's iconic Route One. The two got on great.
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Speaker 3: Steve could care less about the beach boys or who
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Speaker 3: Dennis was. The two had common interests and Dennis was
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Speaker 3: easy going and obviously didn't give a shit about who
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Speaker 3: Steve McQueen, the movie star was. The guy knew a
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Speaker 3: lot about fast motors, cycles, faster cars, and even more
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Speaker 3: about fast women, and that suited Dennis, who was in
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Speaker 3: the market for some advice. The gonorrhea was killing him,
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Speaker 3: at least it felt that way anyway. Charlie's girls were
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Speaker 3: becoming a real pain. Literally. Dennis had no idea which
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Speaker 3: when he contracted the std from Cinderella or Katie or
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Speaker 3: Marnie or Sadie May Gypsy or Blue Yellow or Yellowstone
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Speaker 3: or whatever her real name was. They all had it
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Speaker 3: and the billy ended up forking over to the Beverly
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Speaker 3: Hills doctor for the penicillin shots was upwards of one
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars. It wasn't just the clap. Charlie and his
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Speaker 3: girls had sapped Denis of about one hundred thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: in cash, food, clothes, you name it.
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Speaker 1: After all, he was.
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Speaker 3: A famous rock star and they had nothing, and they
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Speaker 3: were basically sand people. Dennis had been to their place
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Speaker 3: out in Death Valley, the old movie ranch owned by
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Speaker 3: that blind, pervy cowboy George Spahn.
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Speaker 1: It was bleak.
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Speaker 3: Other than some ramshackle old sets to sleep in, there
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Speaker 3: was next to nothing there except privacy, which was of
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Speaker 3: course needed for Charlie and his girls, the family as
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Speaker 3: they called themselves, to freak out on LSD orgy it
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Speaker 3: up and tune into whatever hoodoo guru vibes. Charlie was
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Speaker 3: laying down at the moment one day, while a record
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Speaker 3: spun on the house stereo. Charlie started preaching how in
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Speaker 3: a good song with the right lyrics, you were transported
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Speaker 3: to the state where you could see yourself and the
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Speaker 3: whole world reflected in a million different ways at the
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Speaker 3: same time, like the song was a prism. A good
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Speaker 3: song could bring the past back to life. Or show
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Speaker 3: you the future, harmless hippie talk. But Dennis thought of
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Speaker 3: his brother's struggles and delusions trying to make smile and
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Speaker 3: felt that strange chill again. Then Charlie looked at him.
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Speaker 3: The room was rippling. Charlie asked, what if all of
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Speaker 3: life is like that all the time. What if you're
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Speaker 3: the prison you would have the power to do anything.
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Speaker 3: We would all have the power to know ourselves as God,
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Speaker 3: and all we have to do is just listen. Then
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Speaker 3: he tweaked his finger in his ear violently, and it
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Speaker 3: broke the spell. Charlie Manson was something else man. Dennis
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Speaker 3: had never seen anything like him, except for maybe Steve McQueen.
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Speaker 3: Charlie was born the son of a gangster and Steve
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Speaker 3: the son of a prostitute. They both had charisma for
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Speaker 3: days and a long string of women ready and waiting
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Speaker 3: for them whenever they wanted. But unlike Steve, Charlie didn't
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Speaker 3: know shit about cars, others than how to steal them.
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Speaker 3: He didn't really know about music either, that we pretended to.
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Speaker 3: He fancied himself a musician anyway. It was part of
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Speaker 3: his whole prophet rap that he laid on anyone who
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Speaker 3: would listen, and in the beginning, Dennis Wilson's ears were
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Speaker 3: wide open. Charlie seemed like he was onto something genuinely,
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Speaker 3: like a real guru. Dennis's soulless cousin, Mike Love had
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Speaker 3: the Mahriishi in transcendental meditation, so Dennis would have Charles
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Speaker 3: Manson and his improvised tantric stick. It seemed like a
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Speaker 3: good deal for Dennis. Besides, Manson had better pussy than
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Speaker 3: the Mariishi. So Dennis encouraged Charlie in his music, and
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Speaker 3: Charlie was eager to tap into Dennis's music industry connections.
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Speaker 3: And this is at a time when the Beach Boys
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Speaker 3: had set up their own record label, Brother Records, with
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Speaker 3: a distribution deal with their major label, Capital Records, in
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Speaker 3: order to promote and sell more cutting edge and experimental artists.
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Speaker 3: Dennis thought Charlie would be a great fit. His brothers
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Speaker 3: Brian and carl did not share his enthusiasm, and neither
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Speaker 3: did Bruce Johnson or Al Jardine, and of course, from
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Speaker 3: Mike Love, Charles Manson was a hard note. But Charlie
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Speaker 3: wouldn't be dissuaded. He and his girls went on living
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Speaker 3: at Dennis's place, partying, pawning all Dennis's shit.
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Speaker 1: Off for cash. When he wasn't looking, two.
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Speaker 3: Of the girls wrecked one of Dennis's cars, which was
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Speaker 3: not insurance. It was a parasitic shit show. By the
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Speaker 3: end of the summer, Dennis Wilson had been milked by
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Speaker 3: the freeloaders to the tune of one hundred grand. Despite
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Speaker 3: all of this, and for reasons nobody really knows, perhaps
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Speaker 3: because of the power and influence of Charles Manson his personality,
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Speaker 3: or because of the sheer amount of LSD Dennis was
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Speaker 3: taking at the time, Dennis tried setting up Charlie with
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Speaker 3: his influential friend and producer of The Birds, Terry Melcher.
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Speaker 3: Dennis brought Charlie up to Terry's place at ten zero
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Speaker 3: five zero Cllow Drive in the Hollywood Hills, where Terry
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Speaker 3: was living with his movie star girlfriend Candice Bergen for
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Speaker 3: an audition. Terry heard Charlie sing in play and he
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Speaker 3: was not impressed. Like Mike Love for Terry Melcher, Charles
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Speaker 3: Manson was a definite pass.
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Speaker 1: Manson was pissed embarrassed.
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Speaker 3: Dennis was positive as usual, and there would be other
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Speaker 3: producers other opportunities, he assured Charlie, but Charlie seemed twitchier
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Speaker 3: than usual.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this word word word.
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Speaker 3: The knife flashed out of Charlie's pocket in an instant,
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Speaker 3: and Charlie waved it all around the room crazy like
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Speaker 3: a shithouse rat. He aimed it at the vocal booth
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Speaker 3: and then wheeled it towards Dennis, right next to him
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Speaker 3: in the control room, pressed it to his throat. The
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Speaker 3: blade was warm on his neck, the fear was cold
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Speaker 3: in his veins, and Dennis froze and felt that now
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Speaker 3: familiar Charlie, chill right is fine. If I hear one
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Speaker 3: more fucking note from you, I swear man respect the
21:19
Speaker 3: prism fuckers. He then put the knife away. Everyone acted
21:24
Speaker 3: as if this was somehow cool. Dennis included this shit
21:29
Speaker 3: Charlie's twitchiness. It had doomed his shot at a record
21:32
Speaker 3: deal with Terry Melcher, who had seen right through his
21:35
Speaker 3: psychedelic manic guru act. Pulling knives in the studio, neglecting
21:40
Speaker 3: advice from seasoned rock stars who for some reason believe
21:43
Speaker 3: in you, were clear indicators of what a pain in
21:45
Speaker 3: the ass working with this dude would have been for
21:47
Speaker 3: someone like Melcher. But the clincher was that Charles Manson
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Speaker 3: just wasn't very good. He could barely sing and play
21:54
Speaker 3: guitar at the same time. He wasn't practiced in anything
21:57
Speaker 3: really other than bullshitting. And Terry Miller was a pro
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Speaker 3: he knew better fuck this guy. But Dennis Wilson wasn't
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Speaker 3: so easily dissuaded. In the summer of nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 3: he went back and forth between wanting to do right
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Speaker 3: by Charlie, getting Charlie and the girls out of his life.
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Speaker 1: Steve McQueen was firmly.
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Speaker 3: Advising Dennis to walk away knives to the throat aside,
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Speaker 3: no pussy was worth one hundred grand in a rotting package.
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Speaker 3: Dennis was slow to listen. He brought Charlie and the
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Speaker 3: girls into the studio to try to get something down himself,
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Speaker 3: and it was nothing short of a nightmare, and the
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Speaker 3: recording session devolved into an orgy, the results of which
22:37
Speaker 3: were captured on tape and to this day had never
22:40
Speaker 3: been heard. And aside from occupying a rather large swath
22:43
Speaker 3: of music history's collective imagination, they are buried somewhere deep in.
22:48
Speaker 1: The Beach Boys vault they ceased to Exist, which.
22:51
Speaker 3: Was the title of the Charles Manson song Ceased to
22:54
Speaker 3: Exist that Dennis Wilson decided to purchase off of his
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Speaker 3: wild eyed Guru friend in one life desperate attempt to
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Speaker 3: propel the grifter prophet out of his life of hippie
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Speaker 3: squalor and into music industry stardom, Cease to Exist. The
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Speaker 3: simple folk blues number that Manson penned about well who
23:12
Speaker 3: the fuck really Knows was purchased by Dennis Wilson for
23:15
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars in a BSA motorcycle that Charlie
23:18
Speaker 3: coveted for use at Spawn Ranch Market two hundred grand
23:23
Speaker 3: out the window into Manson family coffers. Dennis brought the
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Speaker 3: track and record with the Beach Boys, passing it off
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Speaker 3: as an original song that he'd written. Once they had
23:34
Speaker 3: the track in the studio, Dennis, unusually engaged in the process,
23:38
Speaker 3: get down to arranging and producing the track with his
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Speaker 3: brothers Brian and Carl and the rest of the group.
23:44
Speaker 3: They modified the feel from a traditional blues to something
23:46
Speaker 3: more pop, more of a psychedelic ballad than only The
23:49
Speaker 3: Beach Boys and their tremendous harmony singing along with Brian's arrangement.
23:53
Speaker 1: Prowess could pull off.
23:55
Speaker 3: They altered Charlie's lyrics ceased to exist, became ceased to resists,
24:01
Speaker 3: and a bridge was added to avoid the monotony of
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Speaker 3: Manson's original.
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Speaker 1: Finally, the title was changed from the Bleak.
24:07
Speaker 3: Ceased to Exist to the Hippie Zeitgeist, sounding never Learned
24:11
Speaker 3: Not to Love, and the results were pretty stellar.
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Speaker 1: The track is, in a couple of words, fucking awesome.
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Speaker 3: It was featured as a B side to the December
24:20
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty eight Beach Boys single Bluebirds Over the Mountain.
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Speaker 1: It was later.
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Speaker 3: Featured on the Beach Boys album twenty twenty. The A
24:28
Speaker 3: side charted and the B side was met with positive reviews,
24:33
Speaker 3: but Charles Manson was not impressed. In fact, quite the opposite.
24:37
Speaker 3: He was furious. He was incensed that Dennis Wilson, Hippie
24:41
Speaker 3: Stoner's surfer twat that he was, would change his lyrics.
24:45
Speaker 3: Who the fuck did Dennis Wilson think he was? Charlie
24:47
Speaker 3: gave him specific instructions on how the Beach Boys would
24:50
Speaker 3: record his song. The song had a message, man, The
24:54
Speaker 3: song had meaning. It was supposed to change minds melt hearts.
24:58
Speaker 3: It was part of the master plan. They see that,
25:00
Speaker 3: didn't they know that? Of course they didn't. Fucking celebrity
25:04
Speaker 3: cunt sheeps sucking at the tea to the establishment trying
25:07
Speaker 3: to pretty his song up and weasel their way into
25:09
Speaker 3: the purse of teenage America's mom. They changed his fucking
25:13
Speaker 3: lyrics man and his rhythm, and the title was changed
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Speaker 3: as well. And whose idea was that to add a
25:18
Speaker 3: fucking bridge must have been Dennis's halfway brother, Brian. And
25:21
Speaker 3: to top it all off, he wasn't even credited. Dennis
25:24
Speaker 3: was listed as a songwriter, and that tore Charlie up.
25:27
Speaker 3: But what really pissed him off, what really got his
25:30
Speaker 3: gears grinding, was the fact that the track wasn't even
25:33
Speaker 3: the A side. It was the B side, an afterthought,
25:37
Speaker 3: a bit part a walk on greatness adjunct a fucking
25:41
Speaker 3: side show a sidecard drafting along next to Steve McQueen's
25:44
Speaker 3: sixty one triumph bullshit. Charles Manson played second fiddle to
25:48
Speaker 3: no Man. Charles Manson was the fucking man and the
25:52
Speaker 3: goddamn son.
25:53
Speaker 1: Of man all at the same time.
25:56
Speaker 3: When Charlie heard the song on the radio, he high
25:58
Speaker 3: tailed it over to Dennis's mouth. By now, Dennis had
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Speaker 3: taken his buddy Stee's advice and moved out of his
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Speaker 3: Sunset Boulevard at home, abandoning it to Charlie and his girls,
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Speaker 3: stopped paying rent and was just waiting for their inevitable eviction.
26:12
Speaker 3: He knew how pistock Charlie was about the song and
26:14
Speaker 3: wanted no part of Manson in a short temper. The
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Speaker 3: knife to the throat in the studio was one thing,
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Speaker 3: but there were rumors going around that were particularly unsettling
26:24
Speaker 3: to Dennis, the internal chattering and whispering of the Manson
26:28
Speaker 3: family that he picked up here and there, losing further
26:31
Speaker 3: and further touch with reality. Charlie's vision of seeing prophecy
26:35
Speaker 3: and music had led to a bizarre obsession with the
26:38
Speaker 3: Beatles so called White Album, which was just released the
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Speaker 3: month before. Now, Charlie had a manic focus on producing
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Speaker 3: a record of his own. Dennis didn't understand it, but
26:48
Speaker 3: it reminded him very much of Brian's mental health struggles.
26:52
Speaker 3: Only Brian Wilson was a much gentler soul. Charlie tracked
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Speaker 3: Dennis down at his new Palisades apartment. He stormed the
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Speaker 3: front steps and began beating on the door incessantly. Dennis
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Speaker 3: was in no mood. He'd been up for days high
27:07
Speaker 3: on cocaine, and the comdown had left him in a
27:10
Speaker 3: coke funk. Depressed, dejected, hung over, missing his wife Carol,
27:14
Speaker 3: missing his kids, his little boy and his toddler daughter,
27:18
Speaker 3: Bummed about the current state of his band, blown way
27:21
Speaker 3: the fuck off the charts by the White Album, pissed
27:24
Speaker 3: off as always at Mike Love, and above all, ornery
27:27
Speaker 3: at the lack of transcendent sex he was missing out on.
27:29
Speaker 3: Now that he'd extricated himself from the Manson family, he
27:33
Speaker 3: opened the door nonplus to find just what he'd expected,
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Speaker 3: wild eyed Charlie Manson standing there in front of him
27:40
Speaker 3: doing his I'm so fucking crazy thing.
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Speaker 1: What do you want, Charlie?
27:45
Speaker 3: Charlie was quick to the point he pulled a bullet
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Speaker 3: out of his pocket and held it up to Dennis's face.
27:51
Speaker 1: You see this man, you see this? Dennis said nothing.
27:55
Speaker 3: He was a bit wild eyed himself at this point,
27:57
Speaker 3: fed up with Charlie's act, and two damn hungover to
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Speaker 3: be scared.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what you see this man? This bullet man?
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Speaker 3: This is for you, and every time you look at it, man,
28:08
Speaker 3: I want you to think of how nice it is
28:09
Speaker 3: your kids are still safe. It was the mention of
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Speaker 3: his kids that sent him off. Something in him snapped,
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Speaker 3: and Dennis Wilson proceeded to kick the shit out of
28:17
Speaker 3: Charles Manson, first to right to the face. Charlie fell
28:21
Speaker 3: back on his ass, stunned into stillness. Dennis went full
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Speaker 3: feral Papa bear, kicking Charlie in the gut, in the ribs,
28:27
Speaker 3: in the head. Charlie tried getting up while backing away
28:30
Speaker 3: on the ground, crab walking backward from Dennis, whose kicks
28:34
Speaker 3: were endless. By now, Dennis's guests, the remnants of the
28:37
Speaker 3: previous night's coke party. His friends Terry Melcher and some
28:41
Speaker 3: others were up out of their stupors and behind Dennis
28:44
Speaker 3: in the doorway, taking in the scene their friend, the
28:46
Speaker 3: passive beach bomb hippie beating the snot out of the
28:49
Speaker 3: angry guru dwarf, and they were laughing. Dennis finally stopped.
28:55
Speaker 3: Charlie got up. Dennis said nothing. Charlie stared at him,
29:00
Speaker 3: betrayed beyond angry. His eyes widened and pulled back deeper
29:05
Speaker 3: into his sockets. The corners of his lips pulled themselves
29:08
Speaker 3: back into a demonic half smile. He raised his eyes
29:12
Speaker 3: over Dennis's shoulder and saw Melcher and a few others
29:14
Speaker 3: in the doorways smiling, stifling their laughter, save for a
29:17
Speaker 3: few escaping giggles and darting eyes to avoid contact with
29:21
Speaker 3: the angry, violent dwarf who had just got his ass
29:23
Speaker 3: kicked by a hungover pacifist. For Charlie, the humiliation was
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Speaker 3: quick and cutting, and way worse than the pain of
29:31
Speaker 3: the beating itself. Charlie began walking backward. He shouted to Dennis,
29:37
Speaker 3: you're a thief, and up toward Melcher, but to no
29:40
Speaker 3: one in particular. What are you looking at? You don't
29:43
Speaker 3: know me, You can't know me. Don't look at me
29:46
Speaker 3: like that. Man, don't feel sorry for me. Man, I
29:48
Speaker 3: don't need your pity. I don't take pity from no pigs.
29:52
Speaker 3: That's all you are, little piggies in your polyester pants,
29:55
Speaker 3: condescending down to me. But you don't know me. Man,
29:58
Speaker 3: I'm God, I'm the devil.
30:01
Speaker 4: But you will know me. You all know me. You
30:03
Speaker 4: can count on that. I'm going to see you all later. Man,
30:06
Speaker 4: you could count on that. I'm going to see you later.
30:26
Speaker 4: Terry Melcher had to get out of the house on
30:28
Speaker 4: Coello Drive. It had bad juju breakup vibes. He and
30:32
Speaker 4: actor Kandas Bergen had their toured passionate affair, but now
30:36
Speaker 4: they'd fallen out. Melcher needed a change of scenery. He
30:40
Speaker 4: needed someone to take up the lease, and if Terry
30:43
Speaker 4: and Kandas had been tinsel Town's golden couple in their
30:46
Speaker 4: time at Coelo Drive, it was fitting that the new
30:49
Speaker 4: tenants would be heirs to that throne. Roman Polanski and
30:52
Speaker 4: Sharon Tate. Roman Polanski in nineteen sixty nine was the
30:57
Speaker 4: hottest filmmaker in the Western world after direct Rosemary's Baby.
31:01
Speaker 4: His earlier films proved he had unsettling insight into lives
31:05
Speaker 4: lived with barely contained trauma, but Rosemary's Baby was his
31:09
Speaker 4: most terrifying portrait yet, A beautiful bride glowing with child,
31:14
Speaker 4: slowly hauntingly revealed to be the victim of a demonic
31:18
Speaker 4: conspiracy to unleash hell on Earth. A true nightmare. It
31:22
Speaker 4: freaked America.
31:23
Speaker 3: Out wherever all that darkness came from. It more than
31:28
Speaker 3: paid Roman's bills and off screen, his life seemed picture perfect.
31:33
Speaker 3: Sharon Tate, his beautiful bride, was gaining a foothold in
31:36
Speaker 3: the industry of her own as an actor, and she
31:39
Speaker 3: was pregnant with their first child. When they got the
31:41
Speaker 3: keys to the new place, Terry and Candy's old place
31:44
Speaker 3: up on Siellow Drive, it felt like a coronation. Together
31:48
Speaker 3: they would cross the threshold into their transcendent new life.
31:53
Speaker 3: They signed the lease on February twelfth, nineteen sixty nine,
31:57
Speaker 3: and moved in the following Saturday, the fifteenth. But just
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Speaker 3: six months later, on August seventeenth, nineteen sixty nine, when
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Speaker 3: Roman ascended the driveway to his ben Atic Canyon home
32:07
Speaker 3: for the last time, he was in shock. He needed
32:11
Speaker 3: to gather some items before going into hiding. Disappearing was necessary.
32:16
Speaker 3: There were no arrests, no leads, no answers. He was
32:19
Speaker 3: both a suspect and a victim. As such, the spotlight
32:23
Speaker 3: was white hot. Walking toward the front door, he was
32:27
Speaker 3: outside of himself, autopilot, his stomach one big knot, his
32:31
Speaker 3: eyes set back deep in his sockets, weighed down by
32:35
Speaker 3: heavy bags, his backbone stealed for what he could not believe.
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Speaker 1: He was about to witness the crime scene, and there
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Speaker 1: were detectives.
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Speaker 3: Crime lab techts, a photographer he had asked to accompany him.
32:47
Speaker 3: There was zero faith and authorities. Roman would gather his
32:50
Speaker 3: own clues and take them to a psychic for evaluation
32:53
Speaker 3: in hopes of uncovering the killers savages. Roman stopped on
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Speaker 3: the front step. The sight of it was too much.
33:01
Speaker 3: Immediately he took a knee there on the doorway, and
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Speaker 3: what he could only presume was his wife's blood the
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Speaker 3: letters p I G PIG. The knife the killer had
33:14
Speaker 3: used to stab his wife, his eight and a half
33:17
Speaker 3: months pregnant wife was taped around its handle to prevent
33:20
Speaker 3: any fingerprints from being discovered should the knife ever be found.
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Speaker 3: It was a small knife, a buck knife with a
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Speaker 3: three quarters inch diameter blade, A tiny.
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Speaker 1: Knife that made for a lot of blood.
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Speaker 3: Roman noticed the stains, deep brown stains on the carpet
33:36
Speaker 3: upon entering his home, from where the blood had pooled.
33:38
Speaker 3: He followed smaller blood stains on the floor into his
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Speaker 3: living room, and there was the sofa out of place,
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Speaker 3: with an American flag draped over its backside. On the floor.
33:48
Speaker 3: On the other side of it, another stain, so brown,
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Speaker 3: so deep, in the carpet. It could only be from
33:53
Speaker 3: an unimaginable amount of blood. The knot in Roman's stomach tightened,
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Speaker 3: the steel in his spine stiff and solid.
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Speaker 1: He looked up to the rafters.
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Speaker 3: There it was the white nylon rope the detectives told
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Speaker 3: him about, hanging down over the wooden ceiling beam slack
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Speaker 3: at the moment, having done its job to.
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Speaker 1: Fuck her up around the neck, do it, shut that
34:23
Speaker 1: bitch up the rope around her neck? Do it? Do it?
34:27
Speaker 1: Go ahead and do it.
34:29
Speaker 3: The killers took one under the rope and wrapped it
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Speaker 3: around Sharon Tate's neck, then took the other end of
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Speaker 3: the rope and wrapped it around the neck of her
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Speaker 3: best friend and next lover, Jay sebrings neck. Jay was
34:39
Speaker 3: still deeply in love with Sharon. Roman knew this, but cared.
34:42
Speaker 3: Little Jay was a pajama boy, his station barely higher
34:46
Speaker 3: than that of service industry worker. Roman was one of
34:48
Speaker 3: Hollywood's most in demand directors. Jay Sebring and his fancy
34:52
Speaker 3: shears were really no thread at all but.
34:54
Speaker 1: The rope at the end of his neck.
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Speaker 3: Every time Jay struggled, every time he winced, moaned, tried
34:59
Speaker 3: to crawl the rope threatened to choke out the woman
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Speaker 3: he loved. At the other end of it, Roman Polanski's
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Speaker 3: wife crying, mumbling, pleading for mercy. Jay stayed still on
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Speaker 3: the floor. He tried calm, he tried reason, and the
35:14
Speaker 3: killers were not listening. Sharon pleaded some more, and the
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Speaker 3: big one, the one the others were calling texts, he
35:20
Speaker 3: began kicking Sharon in the belly, directly.
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Speaker 1: Impacting her oborn baby.
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Speaker 3: Sharon cried and Jay protested his words meant nothing. Roman
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Speaker 3: took a beat, turned away, closed his eyes, opened them,
35:34
Speaker 3: looked out of the window to the back lawn arrange
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Speaker 3: crime scene pylons marking the exact points where the bodies fell,
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Speaker 3: two of them, Gibbey Folger and her lover in Roman's
35:43
Speaker 3: bud from back in Poland, Voytek Forkowski. Roman knew his
35:47
Speaker 3: old friend wouldn't have given up without a fight. Roman
35:50
Speaker 3: could imagine the horror, the drama of it all, the
35:53
Speaker 3: killers taking a beat, surmising their progress to that point
35:57
Speaker 3: that they'd done what they were about to do, looking
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Speaker 3: at their victims near dead, literally at the end of
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Speaker 3: their rope, and then looking at each other as if
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Speaker 3: to question their own steel, their own metal, their own purpose.
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Speaker 3: Just what in God's holy hell were they even doing?
36:12
Speaker 3: And why the unholy fuck were they even there?
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Speaker 1: Sharon J.
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Speaker 3: Gibbe, Voytech, through their fear and fleeting moments of clarity,
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Speaker 3: they wondered the same things in the name of Christ,
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Speaker 3: what was happening? And then, as to answer God himself,
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Speaker 3: the big One, Texts looked down at Sharon and spoke
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Speaker 3: with undeniable purpose, I'm the devil, and I'm here through
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Speaker 3: the Devil's business. There was a brief calm in the
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Speaker 3: living room as they bled out, Sharon on one end
36:42
Speaker 3: of the rope, Jay on the other, whimpering softly their
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Speaker 3: inevitable killers. Texts and the small witchy chick, the one
36:49
Speaker 3: they called Sadie, pacing whispering to each other on the floor,
36:53
Speaker 3: tied up with towels, sat a severely beaten Voytech Frekowski
36:56
Speaker 3: and his girlfriend Abigail Gibbey Folger. And then Voytech freed
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Speaker 3: himself and rose up. Sadie caught the move and stabbed
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Speaker 3: Voytech in the thigh. They struggled, Sadie stabbed Voytech.
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Speaker 1: Three more times.
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Speaker 3: He tripped, got to his feet with a quickness, so
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Speaker 3: went out Sadie, grabbing her by the back of the
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Speaker 3: hair and flinging her around and around, severing screamed.
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Speaker 1: Tex shut him up with a bullet to the head.
37:18
Speaker 3: Somehow, Sadie freed herself from Voytech, who along with Gibbey,
37:21
Speaker 3: beat it out to the back lawn. The killers were
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Speaker 3: on them in no time, straddling them each on the
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Speaker 3: freshly manicured grasp, stabbing them relentlessly in a full on
37:29
Speaker 3: mannic LSD inspired anti establishment take no prisoners, leave no
37:33
Speaker 3: recognizable features rage. Voy Tech Frakowski was stabbed fifty one times,
37:39
Speaker 3: beating over the head with the butt end of Texas
37:41
Speaker 3: twenty two bunt line revolver, and shot twice. Abigail Folger
37:46
Speaker 3: was stabbed twenty eight times, four to the face, one
37:49
Speaker 3: in the air, five in the neck, two in the stomach,
37:52
Speaker 3: two in the back, one in the arm, one in
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Speaker 3: the shoulder, one in the other arm, two in the thigh,
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Speaker 3: one on the hand, two on the wrists, and six
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Speaker 3: others peppered elsewhere about her mangled twenty five year old body.
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Speaker 1: Roman snapped to and re entered the living room.
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Speaker 3: It was almost unrecognizable the rearranged furniture that fucking American flag.
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Speaker 3: The bloodstains jarring sucked him in. Sadie got down on
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Speaker 3: the ground next to Sharon, tried looking her in the eye, stared.
38:29
Speaker 3: Text shouted down at her, do it for Christ's sakes it.
38:34
Speaker 3: Sadie continued to stare. Sharon whimpered some more, fearing for
38:38
Speaker 3: her unborn baby, thinking of her own mother whispering to her,
38:44
Speaker 3: Sadie tried piercing Sharon's closed eyes with her own demonic gaze.
38:48
Speaker 3: Text could take it no longer. Fuck this, He pounced
38:51
Speaker 3: and begin stabbing maniacally. Sadie took her cue and joined
38:54
Speaker 3: in almost immediately. Together they stabbed Sharon sixteen times. Sharon Tate,
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Speaker 3: eight and a half months pregnant, that was dead, along
39:03
Speaker 3: with her unborn son. Roman broke out of the haze
39:07
Speaker 3: of horror. There were too many people around the crime
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Speaker 3: scene his house to get fully caught up in the
39:12
Speaker 3: trauma of what had happened just days earlier. He collected
39:16
Speaker 3: some personal items and resolved to catch his wife and
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Speaker 3: unborn child's murderers, with or without the help of authorities,
39:23
Speaker 3: and bailed. A few days later, while on the road
39:26
Speaker 3: with the Beach Boys in support of their album twenty twenty,
39:30
Speaker 3: the one with the Charlie Manson song that Dennis had
39:32
Speaker 3: bought and reworked as his own. Dennis got the call
39:36
Speaker 3: there was a murder at Terry's place, the one Roman
39:39
Speaker 3: was now renting.
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Speaker 1: Sharon was dead, so was Jay.
39:43
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39:45
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