1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of double Elvis, Dennis Wilson, his 2 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: relationship to Charles Manson, his state of mind, and the 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: wild ups and downs of the Beach Boys. Is a 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: story that is so complex that two episodes are needed 5 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: to properly tell it. If you're just getting hit to 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back 7 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: to Disgraceland Episode forty seven, or part one of the 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,279 Speaker 1: Beach Boys Saga, where we discuss the band's creative rivalry 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: with the Beatles, drummer Dennis Wilson's falling in with the 10 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: Manson family, and the gruesome murders of Sharon Tate, Jay 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: Sebring and others unlucky enough to be hanging out at 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: ten zero five zero Colo Drive on the night of 13 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: August eighth, nineteen sixty nine. In this episode, we get 14 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: into the Beach Boys coming apart in a very public 15 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: way in the truly great music made by their rivals, 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: the Beatles, unlike the music played at the top of 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: the show that wasn't great music that was a preset 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: loop for my mellotron called three Rings Sous of Magic 19 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: MK two. I played you that loop because I can't 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: afford the rights to Say Say by Paul McCartney and 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. And why would I play you that specific 22 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: slice of tearful con Man Cheese? Could I afford it? 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 24 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: December twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three, And that was the 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: day the Beach Boys Dennis Wilson went for a swim 26 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: in the Pacific Ocean and never came back. On this 27 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: episode con Man Cheese, the Demise of the Beach Boys, 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: a dead surfer in Charles Manson's Long Shadow, I'm Jake 29 00:01:46,680 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Brennan in this this Disgraceland. Saturday morning, early Hollywood was 30 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: still asleep. Birds were singing, Sprinklers were sprinkling. It was hot, 31 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: real hot, even for August. There was a sense of 32 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: hope like always. It was, after all, Hollywood Land nineteen 33 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: sixty nine, a different kind of place, a different kind 34 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: of time. Who knew what this day or the next 35 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: night would bring. The party was on. The party was endless, 36 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: It was all innocent. It was all free love, nearly 37 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: free drugs, new ideas, a noticeable shift in the establishment paradigm. 38 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: The Hippies were on the ascent. The squares were positioning 39 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: themselves to not let the door hit them in the ass. 40 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: But no matter the cut of the bell bottoms, the 41 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: width of one's lapel, or the opulent design and fabric 42 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: of one's ascot. The rich, the powerful, the famous, they 43 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: ran this town. This was a company town. For you 44 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: were only as relevant as your last picture, which meant 45 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: that Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate were about as relevant 46 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: as you could be. On August ninth, nineteen sixty nine, 47 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: the telephones started ringing almost as soon as the morning 48 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: tennis lessons wrapped up, just as the early bird coffee 49 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: carafts were being wheeled out in place of the late 50 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: morning Bloody Mary's and early afternoon Tom Collins. Steve McQueen 51 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: could have used any and all of the above. He 52 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: was late to rise and hung over, and there was 53 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: a sharp ringing in his head. He peeled off the sheet. 54 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: He was naked, and so was the beautiful dancer lying 55 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: next to him. He took note of her tropican of body. 56 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: His eyes bleary, scanned his bedroom for the phone, and 57 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: that ringing like an axe to his skull. He leaned 58 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: over to the bottom of the bed on all fours 59 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: like a dog. The sun blasting through the windows, blinding 60 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: and annoying him at the same time. Where the fuck 61 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: was that phone? He saw the coiled cord on the floor, 62 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: half hidden from the clothes his jeans, T shirt, belt, 63 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: big ass buckle, leather moccasins, hers, mini skirt, haltertop, pocahontas vest, 64 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: go go boots. The sight of it all had him 65 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: horny again. Then he went to grab the telephone cord 66 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: and toppled off the end of the bed, head first 67 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: onto the floor. Fuck, more ringing, more pain. But he 68 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 1: had the cord in his hand now and began spooling 69 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: it toward him with two hands like some third world fishermen. Finally, 70 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 1: the damn phone was in reach. He clutched the receiver, 71 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,039 Speaker 1: picked it up off its handle, and on the other 72 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: end heard a dial tone. He had Sharon and Roman's 73 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: Coello drive phone number committed to memory, and began dialing furiously. 74 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: The number you have dialed is not in service. Please 75 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: check the number and dial again. Steve hung up and 76 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: tried again, same thing. What the hell? He tried a 77 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: third time, eager to connect with his buddy Jay Sebring, 78 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: who he knew would be at his friend Sharon's house 79 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: on that morning, knowing of course, that Roman was out 80 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: of town and that Jay was haplessly holding out for 81 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: Sharon to get hip and dump the two short a 82 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: list director for him hairdresser to the Stars, Steve knew 83 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: his buddy Jay was a sap for Sharon, but still 84 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: Steve needed to apologize for blowing them both off the 85 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: night before. He was supposed to join them at Ciellow 86 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: Drive for a little party, but wound up in bed 87 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: with Pocahontas instead. Jay would understand, Sharon would roll her 88 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: eyes all the same. Steve wanted to explain himself, but 89 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: Jay Sebring wasn't available. Quite the contrary, his body was 90 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: in the process of being bagged, zipped and sent off 91 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:49,160 Speaker 1: to the city Morgue. Elsewhere throughout Hollywood on that morning, 92 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: the telephones kept bringing The news was fresh and spreading fast. 93 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 1: Bob Evans got the news from George Hamilton, who got 94 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: the news from Joan Diddy, and who heard it from 95 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: Lenny Down. Lenny, who's husband Dominic was on the other 96 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 1: coast producing a film, got all the news first. Bob 97 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: called Warren, who called Jack, who called no one, but 98 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: went into the next room with the Playboy mansion. He 99 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: woke up and to tell anyone who would listen. Dennis 100 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: Hopper wasn't shocked. He knew something like this was coming. 101 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: It further fueled as paranoia, he told Peter Fondo. Of course, 102 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: he got word to Casavevas, who called me, who told Frank. 103 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: Frank Lua Gasket went all alpha and called the boys 104 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: in Chicago, who shook their heads and dismissed the whole 105 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: thing as hippie dippy bullshit. The Sinatra sisters told Big Nancy, 106 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: who told Frank Junior, who hid in his room and 107 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: pissed himself a little. His father would kill him if 108 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: he found out, so he told his mom about his 109 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: piss jeans, and Big Nancy had the maid take care 110 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: of it, and then called Lenny, who of course already 111 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 1: had the news hours ago, and hung up. Annoyed on 112 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: missus Frank Sinatra to call mister British Kennedy aka Peter 113 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: Laufer down in Palm Springs, who was trying to get 114 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: through to Roona Barrett to find out what the hell 115 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: was happening of in Hollywood. Roona's phone was ringing up 116 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: the hook, of course, and when it wasn't. She was 117 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: dialing everyone in a rolodex for answers. Paul Newman had none. 118 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: He was shook. His friend Jay Seabring was murdered with 119 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: his friend Sharon Tate. Why Paul picked up the phone 120 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: and tried to get some answers of his own. He 121 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: dialed the phone, rang and rang and rank some more, 122 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: and finally it was answered. On the other end, Jay 123 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: Sebring and Paul Newman's mutual friend, Steve McQueen spoke. What 124 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: Paul could tell by the vinegar in Steve's voice that 125 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: he just rusted McQueen from a thick, drunken sleep. Steve, 126 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: wake up, it's Paul. Jay's dead, murdered with Sharon. Steve McQueen, 127 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: convinced he was in the middle of a bad dream, 128 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: quickly hung up the phone. He blinked his eyes as 129 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: his cobweb mind snapped too fuck. Wait, wait a minute, 130 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: what the hell was that all about? Was that Newman? 131 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: Steve didn't have Paul Newman's numbers, so he couldn't call 132 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: him back. He then tried Jay again. Damn it. McQueen 133 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: slammed the receiver down into its handle. Pocohonta spoke up 134 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: asked her one night leading man what the matter was. 135 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: He promptly told her to shut up and go back 136 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: to bed. She got hip and took the direction. Steve 137 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: then picked up the phone and dialed the number of 138 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: his one other friend who might know what the hell 139 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: was going on up at the Yellow Drive. His acid buddy, 140 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: his fellow skirt chaser, a gearhead, his friend with the gonorrhea, 141 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: and the twitchy guru the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson. Dennis 142 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: Wilson could feel the paranoia everywhere he went in Hollywood. 143 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: Everyone was paranoid. The killings at Roman and Sharon's, along 144 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: with the disturbingly similar stabbing murders of upper middle class 145 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,719 Speaker 1: Los Felez residents Leno and Rosemary LaBianca the very next night, 146 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: had Hollywood stars on edge, without any arrests, without any 147 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: real suspects. Anyone who was anyone, along with everyone who wasn't, 148 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: couldn't help but wonder if they were next. Especially Dennis Wilson, 149 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: the rumors about the Cielo Drive crime scene had him 150 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: more than just a little freaked out. While the press, 151 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,319 Speaker 1: the public, and Hollywood illuminati focused on the rumors a 152 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: drug deal gone wrong, there were of course, drugs found 153 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: in Jay's Porsche. Or was it an orgy that went 154 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: off the rails with too much LSD, or perhaps the 155 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: real life satanic interpretation of Rosemary's Baby. Whatever it was, 156 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: the darkness was real, and Dennis had good reason to 157 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: believe that he may have stirred it, and that the 158 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 1: demonic boomerang may have just headed straight back toward him. 159 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: As such, the whole saga was infinitely chilling. The stabbings, 160 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: the needless successive stabbings, dozens and dozens of cuts, many 161 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: post mortem. Why it was sadistic for pleasure or practice training? 162 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 1: It felt like ritual. Dennis remembered Charlie's rituals at Cielo Drive. 163 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: The word pig had been scrawled in blood on the 164 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: door at the Labyanca crime scene in Los Felez. The 165 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: next night, the word war had been carved Intolino Labianca's 166 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: belly and misspelled on the wall, and blood held through Skelter. 167 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: Dennis remembered Charlie's obsession with the White album. Helter Skelter 168 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: was on the white album, And then of course there 169 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: was the address. It was Roman and Sharon's play, sure, 170 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: but it was also Terry and Candy's place before that, 171 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: Dennis remembered being there just seven months ago with Charlie. 172 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: So while the paranoia drove the Mamas and Papa's Michelle 173 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: Phillips to shop for handguns and Warren Batty to install 174 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: an elaborate security system, Dennis Wilson doubled down on cocaine 175 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: Helter Skelter. Paul McCartney heard the criticism and said the 176 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: song was about a rollercoaster. Charles Manson heard the song 177 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: and said it was a secret message to him from 178 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: the Beatles, telling him to start a race war. Dennis 179 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: Wilson heard the song and was reminded of the wild 180 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: ups and downs of a cocaine binge, which is where 181 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 1: his head was at lately. The sprawling opus known as 182 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: the White Album was full of tracks just as eclectic 183 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: and inscrutable as Helter Skelter, a psychedelic oral diorama of 184 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: obscure meaning recorded by the big band of the planet, 185 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 1: the Beatles, for the biggest mass market audience in the 186 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: history of the world, to be interpreted in as many 187 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: ways as they had listeners, which is to say millions. 188 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: The White Album was the fading promise of the sixties, 189 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: Revolution one and nine Blackbird back in the USSR. The 190 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: latter song a little bit of a piss take on 191 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: the Beach Boys themselves, and a song that Mike Love 192 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: claimed to help his friend Paul McCartney write. The lyrics 193 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 1: to these tunes rubbed up against the foreshadowed nihilism of 194 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: the coming decade, with songs like Happiness is a Warm Gun, 195 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: I'm So Tired, Piggies and near Blues. It was a 196 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: newfound cynicism for the Beatles, one that had always been 197 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: there but never quite so pronounced on record, and Charles 198 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: Manson bit down hard. Piggyes was the gutting of the 199 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: pigs and the establishment, Thus pig and Sharon Tate's blood 200 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: on the door. The Blackbird was the coming race wars 201 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: called the Arms, where the Blacks would rise up against 202 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: their white oppressors, wipe them out and create a power 203 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: vacuum for Charlie's charm and to eventually rule the world. 204 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 1: Thus war carved Intolino Laveanca's belly. Sexy Sadie was about 205 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: Manson family member Susan Atkins, thus the name Sadie Mae Bluttz. 206 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: Revolution one and nine, Happiness is a warm gun. Were 207 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,680 Speaker 1: anthems compelling Charlie to rise up and kick off the 208 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: race war, get down to the business of ruling the 209 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: world once and for all, an exact same revenge on 210 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: the pigs and the establishment who ignored and ridiculed him, 211 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: And of course helter skelter to catch all lyrical messaging 212 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: that encapsulated Charlie's entirely fucked up worldview. All of it 213 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: was right there on wax for anyone to hear plain 214 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: a day, of course, you had to be a complete 215 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: psychopath to hear in the Beatles songs what Charles Manson heard, 216 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: the rest of the world heard one of the greatest 217 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: albums of all time, most definitely the greatest double album 218 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: of all time. The record was a smash hit, selling 219 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: more than three point three million copies in the US 220 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: alone during its first four days of release. The mid 221 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: sixties friendly competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys 222 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: with a decisive victor, and it was hard for the 223 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: Beach Boys, facing a four album critical and commercial slump, 224 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: not to glance silently at their own frontman Brian and 225 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 1: feel that if it weren't for his mental health problems, 226 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: it could have been them and not the Beatles who 227 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: defined what was clearly an important moment in time. It 228 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: could have been Smile, not the White Album. And had 229 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: it been, what if any messages would Charlie Manison have 230 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 1: vibed on? Where? How would the Beach Boys lyrics compel 231 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: others toward darkness or toward light? Why? How had it 232 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: gone so wrong? What if? So? Side? Helter Skelter was 233 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 1: on everyone's mind. Seven dead, so much blood, so many questions, 234 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: no arrests, no suspects. Hollywood Land, USA, nineteen sixty nine. 235 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: Creep City Fall was settling in around Tinseltown, and with 236 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: it a chill alongside the knowledge that the killers were 237 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: still out there. Dennis was at his friend Greg's place. 238 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: What's a small gathering. Gregg and his wife had just 239 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: lost their baby. It was a miscarriage, nowhere near as 240 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: gruesome a loss as their friend Romans, but a shared grief. 241 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,280 Speaker 1: Dennis was trying to cheer them up, but the mood 242 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: was somber. He decided to play the piano, sing a 243 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: song or two, try to take everybody's minds off of 244 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: the rampant paranoia that had consumed their little community for 245 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: the past several weeks, drinks flowed and glasses clinked, the 246 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: grass was passed, Piano keys tapped out soft melodies. Sorrows 247 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: were on the verge of drowning. And then the door 248 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: burst open, and through it none other than the man 249 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson feared most, Charles Manson. Charlie was in rare form. 250 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: Even for him. It was clear to all in attendance 251 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: that he'd been on a tear tweaked out to the max, 252 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: processing the paranoia in his own way, clearly showing the 253 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: effects of coping through endless tabs of acid and hippie 254 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: death cult sex or whatever the hell it was. Charlie 255 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: got up to on his own with his family out 256 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: its spawn ranch. He was wearing a giant sombrero and 257 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: his eyes were doing that crazy shitthouse rat trick again, 258 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: rolling around endlessly in his sockets. He lapped the party, 259 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: spewing random hippie bullshit. He smelled like shit, he looked 260 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: like shit, and he scared shitless most everyone he got 261 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: close to. He approached Dennis and got right up in 262 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: his face. Brother, where have you been? I've been to 263 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: the moon and now I'm back. Neil Armstrong had been 264 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: the first American to walk on the Moon only a 265 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 1: month earlier. It wasn't surprising to anybody that Charlie would 266 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: try bending history to prop himself up. Dennis said nothing, 267 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: kept his head down, kept playing the piano. Charlie's eyes somersaulted, 268 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: and he got up quick and bounced, leaving the party 269 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: almost as quickly as he'd arrived. Everyone was freaked the 270 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: fuck out, and they were even more freaked out a 271 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: month or so later when they learned Charlie had been 272 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: arrested out in Death Valley. He was brought in by 273 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: the County Sheriff's Department on grand theft, auto and minor 274 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: arson charges related to the family squatting in caves along 275 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: the valley's edge, ripping and repainting cars to doom buggies 276 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: through the desert with and to sometimes sell for quick cash. 277 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 1: But once the authorities had Charlie in custody, it was 278 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: only a matter of time before the pieces of the 279 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: puzzle started clicking together. Just who was Charles Manson and 280 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: who were the members of his so called family, and 281 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: what in the hell were they doing out in the desert, 282 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: and what was with that unexplained murder the one where 283 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: the drug deal went bad a couple months back, where 284 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: political piggy was written in blood on the wall, the 285 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: murder that led to the arrest of Manson family member 286 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 1: Bobby Boselet. That scene sure felt a lot like the 287 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: Tate LaBianca crime scenes. California law enforcement had a hunch 288 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: that they had their man. Charles Manson was charged with 289 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: conspiracy in seven charges of murder for the Tate Labyanka 290 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: Kilsprey's and it resulted in a nationwide media circus of 291 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: a trial, the longest trial ever in California at the time. 292 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: One were prosecutors to prove that Charles Manson orchestrated in 293 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: order the gruesome murders, but did not commit them himself. 294 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: When the news broke in December of sixty nine about 295 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: the charges against Charlie, Dennis Wilson's heart sank. Dennis showed 296 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,879 Speaker 1: Charlie the house on Sea Drive. Dennis introduced Charlie to 297 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 1: Terry Melcher when he lived there. Dennis got Charlie's hopes up. 298 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: Dennis opened up a new world to Charlie, a world 299 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: that closed itself off to him and stoked his rage. 300 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: Of course, it all made sense Dennis believed it before 301 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: the newsman even said it. So he drank, so he 302 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: did more and more drugs and an effort to not 303 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: feel in an effort to outrun the guilt and the 304 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: paranoia and the fear was real. Even with Charlie behind bars, 305 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: along with most of his family members, their real names exposed. 306 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: Susan Atkins aka Sadie made Gluts aka Sexy Sadie, Patricia 307 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: Crenwinkle aka Big Patty aka Yellow aka Katie, Charles Watson 308 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: aka Texts, Lynette From aka Squeaky, Catherine Cher aka Gypsy, 309 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 1: Sondra Good aka Blue, Bobby Bolsoleigh, Leslie Van Houghton, Mary Brunner, 310 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: and future informants and star witnesses Paul Watkins and Linda 311 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: Kasabian jail or no jail. Dennis was still freaked. Charlie's 312 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: reach was long and legit, and there were still other 313 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: members of the Manson family on the outside and who 314 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: knew what Charlie was capable of compelling them to do. 315 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: It was December nineteen sixty nine, in those cold days 316 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: between Christmas and New Year's when Dennis started finding stray 317 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: bullets in and around his front door, and there were 318 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 1: also little notes left on his doorstep and in his mailbox, 319 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: the one that simply said you can't get away from me. 320 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: That one cut Dennis good. And of course there was 321 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: the creepy, crawling Charlie's girls. Those still on the outside 322 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: would sneak into Dennis's home while he was sleeping and 323 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: move his furniture around to fuck with him. One morning, 324 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: he woke up to find his piano in a different 325 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: part of his house. But nothing chilled Dennis Wilson more 326 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: than waking up in the dead of night next to 327 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: his girlfriend with two dark figures hovering above his bed, 328 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: knives drawn, pointing straight at Dennis's neck. He said nothing. 329 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: Neither did the two women standing above him. They just 330 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: grinned demonically, giggled softly, and creepily crawled out into the night. 331 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. After this word, word word, Dennis 332 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,680 Speaker 1: Wilson couldn't see straight. Something was off. This is supposed 333 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: to be the part of the set where he shined, 334 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: where he emerged from behind the drum kit to take 335 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: center stage and sing lead on the tune his brother 336 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: carl wrote, Angel Come Home, And usually that was the 337 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: case Dennis, No matter how high or drunk during their sets, 338 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: always nailed this tune. In fact, the drugs and alcohol 339 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 1: usually contributed to his vulnerability and thus his on stage appeal, 340 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: crooning into the mic like Venice era Jim Morrison crossed 341 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: with some imaginary hippie version of Dean Martin. Dennis Wilson 342 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: was in control when he had this song rolling over 343 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 1: his lips, but not tonight. He literally couldn't see straight. 344 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: His focus was off, and his focus was being pulled 345 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: sideward toward the direction of his cousin, Mike Love, singing 346 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: backing vocals stage left into Dennis's estimation, not doing a 347 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: very good job. Was he sabotaging Dennis's moment? That's all 348 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: he could think about. He loved Mike, but he also 349 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: hated Mike. Mike Love was everything Dennis was not straight, focused, determined. 350 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 1: Dennis was a shabby, drug and alcohol addicted mess, and 351 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 1: they both wanted the same thing for the Beach Boys 352 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: to remain relevant and successful, but both came at it 353 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: from opposite angles and thus believed the other's efforts to 354 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: salvage the band were actually efforts to sabotage the band. 355 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 1: Dennis with his self destruction and Mike with his determination. 356 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: Plus Dennis knew Mike never forgave him for tearing off 357 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: with his wife Suzanne back during the whole Charlie era. 358 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: Not only that, Mike was especially pissed that Dennis and 359 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,479 Speaker 1: Suzanne left Mike's kids alone to be babysat by Manson 360 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: family member Susan Atkins aka the notorious Sadie Mae Glutts, 361 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: the one directly responsible, along with Tex Watson, for viciously 362 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: murdering Sharon Tate along with the others at Colo Drive 363 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 1: on that night. Now ten years in the rear view, 364 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: Charlie was eventually sentenced to death for the Tate LaBianca murders, 365 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,439 Speaker 1: but that was commuted to life when California banned the 366 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: death penalty a year after his conviction in the name 367 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: of mercy. Charlie Fucking Manson would live to a ripe 368 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: old age, but Dennis would never forget that time. It 369 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: was always with him, the madness of it, the guilt, 370 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 1: the grief. He would never talk about it, though, not 371 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: to anyone, but he thought about it often. It always 372 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: came back to Charlie. When the family was arrested En 373 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: mass for the car robbery scam and Death Valley. It 374 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: was Susan Adkins Sadie May, already under suspicion of a 375 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: different murder, who gossiped to jailbirds about the Tate LaBianca murders. 376 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: The jail birds ratted Sadie out, and the dominoes began 377 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 1: to fall, with each brick laid in the dark mythology 378 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: of the Manson family. The knot in Dennis Wilson's gut 379 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: tightened that other murder that Sadie may have been involved with. 380 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: A mescaline dealer named Gary Hinman. Manson family member Bobby 381 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: Bosley made a deal to sell a batch of Gary's 382 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: drugs to a biker gang, the Straight Satans, who came 383 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: back demanding a refund for what they claimed was actually 384 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 1: a bad batch of strychnine. Bobby, Sadie May, and other 385 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: family member Mary Brunner confronted Hinman and ended up stabbing 386 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 1: him through the heart and using his blood to make 387 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: the scene nice and witchy, just the way Charlie liked it. 388 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: This was the run up murder to the Tate LaBianca murders. 389 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: Soon enough, investigators connected the witchy blood on the wall, 390 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: the Hindman scene with the blood on the wall, the 391 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: Tate Labanca scenes and connected to Charlie through Sadie May. 392 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: The DA had their suspect, Charles Manson hip death cult later, 393 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: and Dennis Wilson watched in shock as prosecutors moved quick 394 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: to try his one time friend for the most gruesome 395 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: murders in recent American history Hinman, Tate LaBianca, and even 396 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 1: the dead stuntman Shorty Shay, the one they dug up 397 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 1: at its Spawn ranch. It all made sense. Dennis could 398 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: certainly believe it. To him, Charlie was a phantom everywhere, 399 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,479 Speaker 1: haunting him. How close had he come? How far had 400 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: he gone? Astray? He wasn't in danger, but he never 401 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: felt safe. Charlie was in jail forever and forever on 402 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: Dennis's mind, even right now in front of a sold 403 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: out crowd at LA's Universal Amphitheater, looking for some of 404 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: those endless summer beach boys vibes. But Dennis Wilson couldn't deliver. 405 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: He couldn't get Charlie out of his head, so he 406 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: focused on Mike Love. Why was Mike staring at him? 407 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: Why was Mike singing out of key? Why was Charlie 408 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: staring at him, And why was Charlie singing out of key? 409 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: Why did Charlie have to botch the audition with ry 410 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: Mike never would have done that. Mike would have shown 411 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: up and nailed his part. That was the thing about Mike, 412 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: always on time, always in tune. But Charlie, No, Charlie 413 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: was a fuck up. Charlie was never in tune, unlike Mike. 414 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: But wait, why wasn't Mike in tune right now? Was 415 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: it Mike? It must have been. He was too tall, 416 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 1: too bald to be Charlie. Besides, Charlie was in jail. 417 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: Dennis rapped the song the polite applause, and he hated 418 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: Mike for it. He headed back to take a seat 419 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: behind the drums, stopping at the piano to climb up 420 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: on top of it to rant at the audience. The 421 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: audience didn't know what the hell was going on, neither 422 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: did his bandmates. Mike was grinning, Dennis was embarrassing himself, 423 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: and Mike, it seemed, was celebrating his failure. Dennis knew it. 424 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 1: Who the fuck did this guy think he was? Anyway, 425 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: Dennis was detained by his own security and pulled backstage, 426 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 1: Mike Love laughed to get back into the next song, 427 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: and the band was cooking now. Dennis re emerged and 428 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: began shouting. Mike kept singing, doing his job a pros pro. 429 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: Dennis tried to follow suit, sat down at his kit 430 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: and readied himself for the next song. Mike was talking 431 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: into the mic between tunes. Dennis couldn't make out what 432 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,399 Speaker 1: he was saying, but he was sure Mike was fucking 433 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: with him, goating him on poking fun. Dennis always feared 434 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 1: Mike resented him for sleeping with his wife, for his 435 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: relationship with his brother Brian, the creative leader of the band, 436 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: for Dennis's obvious appeal with their female fans, and most recently, 437 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 1: for the creative success of Dennis's solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue. 438 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: Dennis knew it got Mike's goat. It was an honest, tender, 439 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: an emotionally raw creative statement that established Dennis as a 440 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: serious artist in the minds of critics. It was something 441 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,399 Speaker 1: Dennis knew Mike could never achieve on his own. An 442 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,920 Speaker 1: Angel Come Home, though a Beach Boys song, was performed 443 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 1: live in the style of most of the tunes on 444 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: Dennis's solo record, and that's partly why Dennis loved performing it. 445 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: It reminded the audience of who he was outside of 446 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 1: the shadow of his brothers and his cousin Mike, and that, 447 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: to Dennis's mind, anyway, was why Mike had sabatae the 448 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: tune and fucked with them on stage. Fuck this guy, 449 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: Dennis snapped, kicked the drums off the riseer, leaped up 450 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: from behind him, and charged his cousin at the front 451 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 1: of the stage. When Mike saw Dennis coming, he laughed 452 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: at first, but when he saw the manic look in 453 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: his little cousin's eyes, he knew shit was real. Mike 454 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,479 Speaker 1: bolted for the side stage. The audience could not believe 455 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 1: what they were seeing. Was this some kind of joke, 456 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,120 Speaker 1: some stage playful family feud. Dennis caught up with Mike 457 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: at the side of the stage and began to pummel them. 458 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: Mike fought back hard. The two tussled, pounding each other 459 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: with a pent up aggression of jealous teenage boys. Security 460 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,359 Speaker 1: pulled them apart and attained Dennis for a second time. Backstage. 461 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 1: A brief intermission was called for and the audience, all 462 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: six thousand of them, shared the same look, the one 463 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: that said what the fuck. Shortly the band reappeared on 464 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 1: stage with four smiles. Dennis stumbled to a mike and 465 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: started repeating the mantra, I Love Mike Love, I Love 466 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 1: Mike Love. I Love Mike Love. Mike kept his stance 467 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: for the rest of the set. His little cousin Dennis 468 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: had appeared, was finally gone. It wasn't revenge so much 469 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: as it was a giant fuck you to whom exactly 470 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson wasn't sure. But Dennis's life at the dawn 471 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties was like some elaborate performance ar 472 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: at piece gone wrong. The once handsome avatar for Southern 473 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: California's surf culture and the promise of the nineteen sixties 474 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: had descended into a drugged out zombie roaming the Venice 475 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: boardwalk in search of his next score in his next lay. 476 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: Ousted from his own band in the late seventies until 477 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: he proved himself clean enough to return to the stage 478 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 1: and frankly, did not kill himself. Dennis Wilson, by nineteen 479 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: eighty one, was thirty six years old and on a 480 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,959 Speaker 1: mission it scene to snart all of the cocaine in 481 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: southern California, while at the same time drinking all of 482 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: the alcohol he could get his hands on and doing 483 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: it in the company of a sixteen year old. She 484 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,840 Speaker 1: was a friend of his teenage daughter, and her name 485 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: was Sean Love. And if that last name sounds familiar, 486 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: it's because Sean Love claims she was the daughter of 487 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson's cousin and bandmate, Mike Love, making her Dennis's niece. 488 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: And when the sixteen year old Shawn gave birth to 489 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson's son, which meant that Dennis Wilson, lifelong pain 490 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: in the ass to his cousin Mike, was now Mike's 491 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: fucked up, drug addicted son in law. For all intents 492 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: and purposes, it certainly seemed like there was an intent there. 493 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: As for Dennis and Sean's son's relationship to his father 494 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: and grandfather, I can't even do the incest math. It's 495 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 1: so messed up. It should also be noted that Mike 496 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: Love has denied that Seawn is his daughter, but Dennis 497 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: seemed to accept, if not relish, the connection. The vindictiveness 498 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: was a distraction, and so was fatherhood. Dennis Loved his 499 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: new son, but otherwise his life was a mess. Everywhere 500 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: he looked, he saw the ghost of Charles Manson cruising 501 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,320 Speaker 1: the boardwalk. He saw Charlie everywhere. Charlie was in jail, 502 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: but he was also in Dennis Wilson's head and messing 503 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: with him endlessly. The promise in the innocence of the 504 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,959 Speaker 1: sixties was long gone. So long endless summer, Hello, endless bummer. 505 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: The nihilism of the seventies gave way to the greed 506 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: of the eighties, and what was shaping up to be 507 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: for Dennis Wilson at least a drag of a decade. 508 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: Charlie don't surf, maybe, sure, but Charlie do kill, and 509 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: Dennis would never forget. He saw Charlie shoot down that 510 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: dude up by Spawns with an sixteen. The swarm of 511 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: twenty two caliber bullets nearly saw the dude in half. 512 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: Charlie and his girls then went to work stat bawling 513 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: up the body and stuffing it into a well or 514 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,480 Speaker 1: was it a shallow grave out by Shorty Shay in 515 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:04,280 Speaker 1: the desert. Dennis wasn't sure. All he knew was that 516 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: Charlie was for real and he was out there, even 517 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: when he wasn't, even when he was behind bars. To Dennis, 518 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: Charlie was everywhere and nowhere, all at once, God the devil. 519 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: What's the difference. Once you've crossed the line transcended, there 520 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: is no salvation. Dennis's brother, Brian knew this was true. 521 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: He crossed the line, he transcended. He was far from innocent, 522 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: he was mad, he was a genius and whatever you 523 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: called him, Brian had suffered a real and acute mental 524 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: health crisis at the worst moment when everyone was counting 525 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 1: on him. Smile was Brian Wilson's ghost. It was like 526 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: the sixties had imploded inside of Brian and taking him 527 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: down with the decade. Early on, and when Brian most 528 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: needed his brother, his original muse, Dennis, the only beach 529 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: boy who actually served. When Brian was stuck or hanging 530 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: out there on the fragile limbs of creative madness and 531 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: mental illness. Dennis was distracted, enthralled by the Charlatan guru 532 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 1: Charles Manson. But that was one of those things for 533 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: Dennis to feel, not to say, and the results were devastating, 534 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: because when the sixties curdled inside of Charlie, manson stewing 535 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: like they had inside Brian Wilson. Charlie didn't retreat into 536 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 1: a sandbox of creative madness. He exploded violently out into 537 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: the world. The weight of choosing the wrong guru, of 538 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: choosing Charlie over Brian became Dennis Wilson's burden to bear forever. 539 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: Though Brian held no grudge, Dennis held the grudge against himself. 540 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: Just fine. Dennis heard the knock on the door to 541 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: his Venice apartment and dispatched the kid, the one who 542 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: just saved his life, the Beach Boys fan who somehow 543 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: wrangled his way into Dennis's mid afternoon coke party to 544 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: ultimately smother Dennis in his embrace, literally after Dennis had 545 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: lit himself on fire attempting to light his fireplace with 546 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: lighter fluid. And the kid was all right, he could stay. 547 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: Dennis would allow it. It was a festive time, the 548 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 1: new year was once again around the corner, but the 549 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 1: kid would have to earn his keep, fetch more coke 550 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 1: vodka and answer the door when necessary. Dennis was at 551 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: the piano picking out the notes to Old lang Syne, 552 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: and the knocking continued the door. The kid snabbed too, 553 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: and beat his own coke fueled beeline to see who 554 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: was knocking. When he opened it, his shifty gack, confused 555 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: jaw nearly hit the floor. There he was, the gentle 556 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 1: surfer bear himself, Brian Wilson, all three hundred pounds of him, 557 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: his hair greasy, his beard shaggy, foll dripping with spittle, 558 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: his stench intense. Dennis was all he said to the boy. 559 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: The boy said nothing, stood gobsmacked in the face of 560 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: his hero. Brian pushed past him into the apartment, saw 561 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: his little brother at the piano, sat down next to him, 562 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: pulled out an ounce of cocaine, plopped it down on 563 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: top of the piano, and dove into it, side by 564 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: side with Dennis. Together, with cocaine white peppering their scragly beards, 565 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: they pumped out a talk chalk duet version of God 566 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: only Knows. They followed it up with a reprise of 567 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: Old Lang Zion. This version coke fueled and slightly out 568 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: of tune, but decidedly more festive. It was madness, but 569 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: it was true love, brotherly love. Dennis truly loved his 570 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: brother Brian. He was a genius, and geniuses can be frail, 571 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: But Brian also took more abuse than any of his 572 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: younger brothers from Murray, their disciplinarian father, who was himself 573 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: a failed musician and jealous of the boy's success. Brian 574 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: shielded his younger brothers from Murray's wrath as much as 575 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: he could, and the abuse wrought havoc on his psyche. 576 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: Just google Murray Wilson letter for a glimpse of his 577 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: fatherly advice. It's eight pages of anything but fun, fun fun. 578 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: But despite his father's failings, Dennis Wilson loved his dad, 579 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: who passed back in seventy three. Dennis loved him, just 580 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: like he loved Brian, and of course, like he loved 581 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 1: his brother Karl and their bandmate Al and if he 582 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: were being honest with himself, deep down, he even loved 583 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: his Mike. But Dennis Wilson had no agency when it 584 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: came to showing that love. His life by the time 585 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three year old around was a complete and 586 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: total disgrace. He bounced in and out of the band, 587 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: in and out of relationships, and in and out of consciousness. 588 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: He was completely consumed by cocaine and alcohol and taken 589 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: to roaming around the Venice boardwalk, looking like a common 590 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,960 Speaker 1: street bump. As the Beach Boys with Mike Love at 591 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 1: the Helm, did their best to remain relevant in their 592 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,760 Speaker 1: third decade, Dennis descended deeper into oblivion, and Charlie Manson, 593 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,920 Speaker 1: as usual, was on his mind. Dennis song daily on 594 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: the boardwalk, mostly struggling to hang on, just like he 595 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: was panhandling and playing songs out of time on his 596 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,919 Speaker 1: beat up acoustic. Dennis would see him. The locals called 597 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 1: him slave and Dave, but Dennis knew it was Charlie, 598 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: or at least slave in Dave's busking body had been 599 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: possessed by Charlie as a means to forever fuck with Dennis. 600 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: Dennis joined him in song on the boardwalk frequently. It 601 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 1: was the holidays and they had a halfway decent version 602 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 1: of Little Saint Nick. But Charlie could never keep time. 603 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: Dennis wandered. It was December twenty eighth, nineteen eighty three, again, 604 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: those in between holidays days festive if you had a 605 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: family to gather with, downright bleak if you didn't, and 606 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: it was cold on the boardwalk, Dennis ran into some 607 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: friends and they were having a little party on a 608 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: boat in the Maria. It was right where Dennis used 609 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,560 Speaker 1: to dock his boat, but that was a lifetime ago, 610 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,800 Speaker 1: and Dennis ate. They all did, and of course they drank. 611 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,879 Speaker 1: Dennis entertained he was good for that, always was, ever 612 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 1: the smiling entertainer. He was feeling himself and decided that 613 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: despite the chill in the air, a swim was in order. 614 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: Right there in the marina. Off of the boat, he 615 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: dove in and swam down to the ocean floor. He 616 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: could see his reflection in the port side of the 617 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 1: boat docked next to the one he dove off. His 618 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,959 Speaker 1: underwater image shocked him. He was younger, looking a better 619 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: version of himself. He swam up for air and dove 620 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:05,839 Speaker 1: back down again. His reflection compelled him. Where had this 621 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: version of himself gone, he wondered. He swam up for 622 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,279 Speaker 1: air once more and took another dive. His reflection had 623 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: now changed. It morphed. It was older, longer hair, big, 624 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: hippie beard. Dennis swam up again for air. He could 625 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: feel himself getting tired, but dove back down. His reflection 626 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: was there at a greet him waiting, but Dennis swore 627 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 1: it was snarling back at him now, and those eyes 628 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: he recognized, those eyes, rocking back and forth, somersaulting in 629 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 1: their sockets, taunting him. Dennis knew it then. It wasn't 630 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 1: his reflection, it was Charlie's. Dennis opened his mouth to 631 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: shout to fend off this guru creep, once and for all, 632 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,840 Speaker 1: to get rid of the ghost. His mouth filled with water. 633 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 1: He shouted once more more water. It ballooned his lungs. 634 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: Dennis gasp. He tried to break for air, swim to 635 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: the surface, but his arms were no use to him. 636 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,359 Speaker 1: He was too tired, he was too drunk. It's too 637 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 1: far gone. He looked into Charlie's eyes, He closed his 638 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 1: own and transcended the Pacific Ocean, blue behind bars. 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