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Cultish

Part 1: Manson's Family, Spaun Ranch & The Summer of Love: A Cultish True Crime Series

Cultish

Jeff Durbin

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, God, Theology, Jesus, Cult, Apologia, Spirituality, Apologia Studios, Spiritual, Cults

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This is the beginning of our second series in this extended True Crime series, Jeremiah & Andrew are joined once again by Dr. Robyn Hall aka (Dr. Mind-Hunter) and the three discuss the formulation of the Manson Family during the 1967 Summer of Love. The Hippie movement was the catalyst that brought Charlie to San Fransisco, but why did He move to Los Angeles? For what reason did Charlie amass a small following? Check your favorite podcast catcher for this brand new episode of Cultish to get a glimpse of life as a Manson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

March 21, 1967.

0:03.6

Charlie had both dreaded and dreamed of this day.

0:07.3

The day was finally here.

0:10.0

This would mean that he would have to leave his familiar

0:12.4

surroundings of the institution he had called home

0:15.0

for the past six years.

0:17.5

Charlie walked down the long dark corridor

0:20.0

of McNeil Island penitentiary to freedom.

0:23.1

I tried he thought.

0:24.5

I asked to say, in front of him, the heavy metal doors

0:28.2

loomed.

0:29.6

The door slowly creaked open, and Charles Manson

0:33.4

stepped out into the humid air of the 1967 summer of love

0:38.5

and made his way down to San Francisco.

0:41.4

It was in this environment of cultural revolution

0:44.8

that Charlie started his family.

0:48.2

There's a time for the time keeps on flying.

0:59.9

Think your love and baby, and all you do is cry and you can feel

1:06.6

all those feelings real.

1:09.4

Look at your game girl.

1:14.0

Look at your game girl.

1:18.2

What a mad delusion.

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