Show Notes Episode 527: When You’re Here, You’re Family

This week Host Dave Bledsoe was kicked out of Sunrise of Mountain Lakes in Parsippany New Jersey for recruiting the old ladies to join his “Hippie Sex Cult”. (Again) On the show this week introduce the man mostly responsible for destroying the feel good vibe of the 1960s: Charles Manson.

Along the way we discover Dave’s crippling fear of commitment is rooted in reality.  Then we dive right into the backstory of No Name Maddox. (You know him better as “Charlie”) We meet his incredibly bad mother, follow Charlie in and out of “reform” schools that seemed not about “reforming” kids at all. We chill with Charlie’s mentors in prison, from Danny Trejo to “Creepy” Karpus.  

From there we walk the streets of Haight Ashbury with Charlie as he quickly realized this Summer of Love thing will work for him! Then we head to Hollywood for the frankly astonishing story of how a tiny career criminal mixed and mingled with the glitteratti of Tinsel Town. (He knew Grandpa Munster!) Finally, we see how Charlie didn’t become a rock star so he became the leader of a murder cult.

Our Sponsor this week is Spahn Movie Ranch Family Fun Tours, fun for ALL kinds of families.  We open with CBS news reporting local crime and close with the Constellations, who are family.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

Charles Manson – Hoosier Juvenile Delinquent

https://weeklyview.net/2015/01/22/charles-manson-hoosier-juvenile-delinquent/

Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail

https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/danny-trejo-says-charles-manson-once-hypnotized-him-in-jail/

How Did Charles Manson’s Early Years In Prison Shape Him?

https://www.oxygen.com/manson-the-women/crime-time/how-charles-manson-prison-time-shaped-mcneil-island

Charles Manson was not an artist worth indulging

https://theoutline.com/post/2510/charles-manson-was-not-an-artist-worth-indulging

Pimpology: The 48 Rules of the Game

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pimpology/bC07OG_8KcAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Wikipedia: The Manson Family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson_Family#Confirmed_members_and_associates

Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher was ‘very paranoid’ after Manson murders, pal reveals in book

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/doris-day-terry-melcher-charles-manson-bill-cassara-book

You Must Remember This Season 4: Charles Manson Hollywood

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-must-remember-this/id858124601

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