It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels, and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

All right, it is Dearly Departed podcast.

It is episode 34.

And I'm Mike Dorsey.

I'm Scott Michaels.

And if you're watching the video version, you know what this is about already because Scott is wearing his helter-skelter shirt.

The true tour.

The helter-skelter tour. The True Tour, the Helter Skelter Tour.

We are going to be talking about the original Helter Skelter, the Helter Skelter made-for-TV movie from 1976 that was based off of Vincent Bouliosi's book of the same title, The

Heltor Skelter Book, one of the most famous

true crime novels ever written.

I think it's still probably the number one ever sold, probably the most famous, but yeah,

yeah, all of those things.

Yeah.

So obviously this is an area we love to talk about.

We talked about it before because we did our whole episode on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

And, you know, Scott and I, if you don't know, I'm sure you do.

We did the documentary, the Six Degrees of Helter Skelter on the Mansons, which, by the way, BuzzFeed readers ranked at the fourth scariest documentary ever made.

Scary?

Interesting.

Yes.

You know, Brandon, Brandon's music really, really complimented that documentary so very much.

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