What the HELL Were You Thinking?
What the HELL Were You Thinking?
Dave Bledsoe
Episode 528: Healter Skelter
32 minutes Posted Jul 6, 2026 at 4:00 am.
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Show Notes Episode 528: “Healter Skelter!”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe was trespassed from a children’s playground (again) for screaming at a four year old “When you get to the bottom, YOU GO BACK TO THE TOP OF THE SLIDE!!!!” (Made her cry, then angry parents made him cry.) On the show this week we get to the gory parts of the story as we cover the actual murders the Manson Family did.
Along the way we discover that Dave wasn’t a very good cop. (He almost never violated people’s civil rights!) Then we return to Spahn Ranch where the Manson family was in trouble: drugs cost money in Death Valley.  We learn a little about the members of the Family closest to Charlie and about Charlie’s Plan for the coming Race War. (It was a little vague) We follow along as the Family meets famous people and people not famous at all really, then murders them. Finally Dave gets around to explaining why he keeps talking about Dune Buggies.
Our Sponsor this week is Death Valley Cave Tours, don’t start the Race War without them. We open the show with ABC news covering the Manson trial and close with the Hen House Prowler and their playground etiquette tips.
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Citations Needed: 
Wikipedia: Tex Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Watson
Wikipedia: Helter Skelter Scenario
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(scenario)
Why Did the Manson Family Kill Sharon Tate? Here’s the Story Charles Manson Told the Last Man Who Interviewed Him
https://web.archive.org/web/20200924061655/https://time.com/5633973/last-manson-interview/
Charles Manson's Evil Plans Involved A Crazy Dune Buggy Battalion
https://www.jalopnik.com/charles-mansons-evil-plans-involved-a-crazy-dune-buggy-485497751/
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