Psychedelic Women www.psychedelicwomenstories.com en 2025 Rainbow Valentine Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll. Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/fa06630c-011f-11f0-a319-9f7554fda31a/image/f84abfe31798afa8009ac07796950ef5.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Psychedelic Women www.psychedelicwomenstories.com yes episodic Conversations with Women of the Counter Culture Rainbow Valentine Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll. Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture. Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll. Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex, drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture.

]]> Rainbow Valentine rainbowvalentineparty@gmail.com Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 8: Greed, Loss and Psychedelic Robin Hoods You can’t buy your way into the inner circle counterculture - you behave your way in; plus what’s difference between outlaws and criminals?  In this hybrid episode, host, Rainbow Valentine talks counterculture greed, loss, trust and betrayal with her psychedelic pioneer mom, Kathy Mason Lerner (subject of eps 1 – 6) and Kira and Jasper Thelin, whose family opened the first headshop in America.  RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin’s best friend/costumer, Linda Gravenites, the ex of Nick Gravenites, who was RV’s mom’s 3rd husband’s drug-dealing partner. Plus, a bag of stolen bling, a smuggler named Anchovy, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s ex and that’s just the first 20 minutes of this psychedelic soap opera.  Next, we hear the story of the visionary boy scout who burned $100 dollar bills aka Ron Thelin, who, along with his wife, Marcia and brother, Jay, started the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street.  Ron’s kids, Kira and Jasper Thelin, tell us about their dad and uncle: all-American brothers intent on creating a free and equal society by becoming Psychedelic Robin Hoods with a counterculture Craigslist. We get into the Diggers, the Death of Hippie, psychedelic art, the theft of the Thelin family crest and much more.  Because talking is medicinal and stories are weapons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:00:00 -0000 Greed, Loss and Psychedelic Robin Hoods full 1 8 Rainbow Valentine The psychedelic pioneers of the SF counterculture on greed, loss, betrayal and trust. Plus LSD, the Death of Hippie and the Diggers. . You can’t buy your way into the inner circle counterculture - you behave your way in; plus what’s difference between outlaws and criminals?  In this hybrid episode, host, Rainbow Valentine talks counterculture greed, loss, trust and betrayal with her psychedelic pioneer mom, Kathy Mason Lerner (subject of eps 1 – 6) and Kira and Jasper Thelin, whose family opened the first headshop in America.  RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin’s best friend/costumer, Linda Gravenites, the ex of Nick Gravenites, who was RV’s mom’s 3rd husband’s drug-dealing partner. Plus, a bag of stolen bling, a smuggler named Anchovy, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s ex and that’s just the first 20 minutes of this psychedelic soap opera.  Next, we hear the story of the visionary boy scout who burned $100 dollar bills aka Ron Thelin, who, along with his wife, Marcia and brother, Jay, started the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street.  Ron’s kids, Kira and Jasper Thelin, tell us about their dad and uncle: all-American brothers intent on creating a free and equal society by becoming Psychedelic Robin Hoods with a counterculture Craigslist. We get into the Diggers, the Death of Hippie, psychedelic art, the theft of the Thelin family crest and much more.  Because talking is medicinal and stories are weapons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices You can’t buy your way into the inner circle counterculture - you behave your way in; plus what’s difference between outlaws and criminals?  In this hybrid episode, host, Rainbow Valentine talks counterculture greed, loss, trust and betrayal with her psychedelic pioneer mom, Kathy Mason Lerner (subject of eps 1 – 6) and Kira and Jasper Thelin, whose family opened the first headshop in America.  RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin’s best friend/costumer, Linda Gravenites, the ex of Nick Gravenites, who was RV’s mom’s 3rd husband’s drug-dealing partner. Plus, a bag of stolen bling, a smuggler named Anchovy, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart’s ex and that’s just the first 20 minutes of this psychedelic soap opera.  Next, we hear the story of the visionary boy scout who burned $100 dollar bills aka Ron Thelin, who, along with his wife, Marcia and brother, Jay, started the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street.  Ron’s kids, Kira and Jasper Thelin, tell us about their dad and uncle: all-American brothers intent on creating a free and equal society by becoming Psychedelic Robin Hoods with a counterculture Craigslist. We get into the Diggers, the Death of Hippie, psychedelic art, the theft of the Thelin family crest and much more.  Because talking is medicinal and stories are weapons.

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]]> 4278 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 7: Truth is the Only Thing I Remember Don’t everyone’s parents have smuggler friends who disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? In the subculture host, Rainbow Valentine grew up in, yes, but the rest of the world, maybe not. And because of this, RV shares ho-hum lunch convos with her and her former pot-smuggler counterculture parents from the podcast, Disorganized Crime. In this trio of Lunch with the Lemurs, RV's parents tell us true stories of missing smugglers, a power-crystal shaman, a San Francisco smuggler soiree, the most infamous Mill Valley cop of the 80’s, plus RV’s dad’s love of Costco, the hippie kid’s carob conundrum and that time RV’s parents took LSD and mistakenly went hot-tubbing with a motorcycle gang.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album Ep 7: Truth is the Only Thing I Remember full 1 7 Rainbow Valentine RV's former pot-smuggler parents tell her true stories from the 70s and 80s in Marin County CA Don’t everyone’s parents have smuggler friends who disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? In the subculture host, Rainbow Valentine grew up in, yes, but the rest of the world, maybe not. And because of this, RV shares ho-hum lunch convos with her and her former pot-smuggler counterculture parents from the podcast, Disorganized Crime. In this trio of Lunch with the Lemurs, RV's parents tell us true stories of missing smugglers, a power-crystal shaman, a San Francisco smuggler soiree, the most infamous Mill Valley cop of the 80’s, plus RV’s dad’s love of Costco, the hippie kid’s carob conundrum and that time RV’s parents took LSD and mistakenly went hot-tubbing with a motorcycle gang.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Don’t everyone’s parents have smuggler friends who disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle? In the subculture host, Rainbow Valentine grew up in, yes, but the rest of the world, maybe not. And because of this, RV shares ho-hum lunch convos with her and her former pot-smuggler counterculture parents from the podcast, Disorganized Crime. In this trio of Lunch with the Lemurs, RV's parents tell us true stories of missing smugglers, a power-crystal shaman, a San Francisco smuggler soiree, the most infamous Mill Valley cop of the 80’s, plus RV’s dad’s love of Costco, the hippie kid’s carob conundrum and that time RV’s parents took LSD and mistakenly went hot-tubbing with a motorcycle gang.   

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]]> 2818 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Ep 11: The Dancing Detective Before she was a 17 year old groundfloor member of the 1960's San Francisco counterculture, Rosie McGee was the child of French Holocaust survivors who, after WW2, flipped a coin on where to emigrate and as Rosie says, “I won” because San Francisco in the early 60’s was a city of beatniks melding into hippies – the perfect place for a teenage detective to become a psychedelic woman.  Before she wrote her memoir, Dancing with the Dead, Rosie McGee was Florence Nathan, a naïve, theater enthusiast who lived a double life, secret from her conservative French parents who had no idea their daughter’s job with Big Daddy Tom Donahue would lead her into the arms of comedian, Lenny Bruce, Grateful Dead bassist, Phil Lesh and to the Far East with the SF counterculture’s most infamous smuggler.  This episode unpacks true stories of the Muir Beach Acid Test, the Human Be In,  Janis Joplin, The Coffee Gallery, The Committee, the Warlocks and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:00:00 -0000 The Dancing Detective: Rosie McGee full 1 11 Rainbow Valentine Rosie McGee, groundfloor member of the SF counterculture, shares true stories of her life in the 1960s. Before she was a 17 year old groundfloor member of the 1960's San Francisco counterculture, Rosie McGee was the child of French Holocaust survivors who, after WW2, flipped a coin on where to emigrate and as Rosie says, “I won” because San Francisco in the early 60’s was a city of beatniks melding into hippies – the perfect place for a teenage detective to become a psychedelic woman.  Before she wrote her memoir, Dancing with the Dead, Rosie McGee was Florence Nathan, a naïve, theater enthusiast who lived a double life, secret from her conservative French parents who had no idea their daughter’s job with Big Daddy Tom Donahue would lead her into the arms of comedian, Lenny Bruce, Grateful Dead bassist, Phil Lesh and to the Far East with the SF counterculture’s most infamous smuggler.  This episode unpacks true stories of the Muir Beach Acid Test, the Human Be In,  Janis Joplin, The Coffee Gallery, The Committee, the Warlocks and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Before she was a 17 year old groundfloor member of the 1960's San Francisco counterculture, Rosie McGee was the child of French Holocaust survivors who, after WW2, flipped a coin on where to emigrate and as Rosie says, “I won” because San Francisco in the early 60’s was a city of beatniks melding into hippies – the perfect place for a teenage detective to become a psychedelic woman.  Before she wrote her memoir, Dancing with the Dead, Rosie McGee was Florence Nathan, a naïve, theater enthusiast who lived a double life, secret from her conservative French parents who had no idea their daughter’s job with Big Daddy Tom Donahue would lead her into the arms of comedian, Lenny Bruce, Grateful Dead bassist, Phil Lesh and to the Far East with the SF counterculture’s most infamous smuggler.  This episode unpacks true stories of the Muir Beach Acid Test, the Human Be In,  Janis Joplin, The Coffee Gallery, The Committee, the Warlocks and more.

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]]> 3449 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 6: Ungovernable “You can smuggle anything except for drugs and guns…” These were the rules laid down by a Brazilian beauty queen to her Uraguyan Jewish husband, who smuggled everything from hi-fis to Hindus.  In this episode of Smuggler Family Album, host Rainbow Valentine chats with her Brazilian drummer friend, Pedro Strasser, whose father (also named Pedro) was a smuggler during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s.  Everyone in the counterculture smuggler scene or those interested in the smugglers of yore, will relate to/be fascinated by Pedro Jr.’s memories of his scrappy smuggler dad’s innovative creativity and entrepreneurial spirit as he moved everything but drugs and guns, in his handmade yacht, in order to support his wife, kids and art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:29:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album Ep 6: Ungovernable full 1 6 Rainbow Valentine True Crime stories from the son of a Brazilian smuggler of the 1970s and 80s. “You can smuggle anything except for drugs and guns…” These were the rules laid down by a Brazilian beauty queen to her Uraguyan Jewish husband, who smuggled everything from hi-fis to Hindus.  In this episode of Smuggler Family Album, host Rainbow Valentine chats with her Brazilian drummer friend, Pedro Strasser, whose father (also named Pedro) was a smuggler during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s.  Everyone in the counterculture smuggler scene or those interested in the smugglers of yore, will relate to/be fascinated by Pedro Jr.’s memories of his scrappy smuggler dad’s innovative creativity and entrepreneurial spirit as he moved everything but drugs and guns, in his handmade yacht, in order to support his wife, kids and art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices “You can smuggle anything except for drugs and guns…” These were the rules laid down by a Brazilian beauty queen to her Uraguyan Jewish husband, who smuggled everything from hi-fis to Hindus.  In this episode of Smuggler Family Album, host Rainbow Valentine chats with her Brazilian drummer friend, Pedro Strasser, whose father (also named Pedro) was a smuggler during the Brazilian dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s.  Everyone in the counterculture smuggler scene or those interested in the smugglers of yore, will relate to/be fascinated by Pedro Jr.’s memories of his scrappy smuggler dad’s innovative creativity and entrepreneurial spirit as he moved everything but drugs and guns, in his handmade yacht, in order to support his wife, kids and art.

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]]> 3296 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Bonus ep 6: The Psychedelic Breast: Deep Diving with Dr. M on ep 10, The Psychedelic Healer In this bonus episode host, Rainbow Valentine, continues to put the psychedelic puzzle pieces of her culture together as Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, nurse practitioner and psychedelic historian, tells RV and listeners about her friendship with Nicky Scully, subject of Episode 10 and takes us down some serious counterculture rabbit holes.  Topics include insider Grateful Dead trivia, Timothy Leary, the Emerald Tablets movement, Goldfinger the smuggler, Esalen, Millbrook, Fred and Bill Wahpepah, the Sundance Ceremony, a gem called the Seva Diamond, a secret room stuffed with psychedelic goodies, women’s colleges and the Academy Award winner in Dr. Maria's theater program and much more…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:28:00 -0000 Bonus Ep 6: The Psychedelic Breast: Deep Diving with Dr. M on Ep 10 bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine Dr. Maria Mangini tells RV about her friendship with Nicky Scully and more. In this bonus episode host, Rainbow Valentine, continues to put the psychedelic puzzle pieces of her culture together as Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, nurse practitioner and psychedelic historian, tells RV and listeners about her friendship with Nicky Scully, subject of Episode 10 and takes us down some serious counterculture rabbit holes.  Topics include insider Grateful Dead trivia, Timothy Leary, the Emerald Tablets movement, Goldfinger the smuggler, Esalen, Millbrook, Fred and Bill Wahpepah, the Sundance Ceremony, a gem called the Seva Diamond, a secret room stuffed with psychedelic goodies, women’s colleges and the Academy Award winner in Dr. Maria's theater program and much more…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this bonus episode host, Rainbow Valentine, continues to put the psychedelic puzzle pieces of her culture together as Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, nurse practitioner and psychedelic historian, tells RV and listeners about her friendship with Nicky Scully, subject of Episode 10 and takes us down some serious counterculture rabbit holes.  Topics include insider Grateful Dead trivia, Timothy Leary, the Emerald Tablets movement, Goldfinger the smuggler, Esalen, Millbrook, Fred and Bill Wahpepah, the Sundance Ceremony, a gem called the Seva Diamond, a secret room stuffed with psychedelic goodies, women’s colleges and the Academy Award winner in Dr. Maria's theater program and much more…

 

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]]> 3704 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Bonus Ep 7: The Astrologer's Daughter Cults! Kidnapping! Concubines!  This epic bonus episode of the Radiate story (Eps 1 - 6) with Rainbow Valentine and her Zelig artist mom, Kathy Mason Lerner aka the Astrologer’s Daughter, gets into RV’s mom’s life before she gave her signature fur hat to Janis Joplin.  True stories of RV’s mom’s godparents who were California Bohemians of the 1930s, 40’s and 50’s, astrologers and friends with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their secret girlfriend. Plus, we learn about RV’s Grandma Kitty’s secret girlfriend (who was a psychic), the esoteric cults Grandma Kitty was into and RV’s mom’s friendships with musician Richie Valens (La Bamba) and racecar driver Donnie “the Snake” Prudhomme (the first driver to go 140 mph).   This juicy prequel to Radiate Ep 1 ends with new details about Sam Gee’s murder, his courtesan mother and the Wobblies.  If you’re into revolutionary art, artists and revolutionaries... this is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:27:00 -0000 Radiate Bonus Ep 7: The Astrologer's Daughter: Kathy Mason Lerner bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine True stories from RV's mom's life before the 1960s. Cults! Kidnapping! Concubines!  This epic bonus episode of the Radiate story (Eps 1 - 6) with Rainbow Valentine and her Zelig artist mom, Kathy Mason Lerner aka the Astrologer’s Daughter, gets into RV’s mom’s life before she gave her signature fur hat to Janis Joplin.  True stories of RV’s mom’s godparents who were California Bohemians of the 1930s, 40’s and 50’s, astrologers and friends with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their secret girlfriend. Plus, we learn about RV’s Grandma Kitty’s secret girlfriend (who was a psychic), the esoteric cults Grandma Kitty was into and RV’s mom’s friendships with musician Richie Valens (La Bamba) and racecar driver Donnie “the Snake” Prudhomme (the first driver to go 140 mph).   This juicy prequel to Radiate Ep 1 ends with new details about Sam Gee’s murder, his courtesan mother and the Wobblies.  If you’re into revolutionary art, artists and revolutionaries... this is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Cults! Kidnapping! Concubines!  This epic bonus episode of the Radiate story (Eps 1 - 6) with Rainbow Valentine and her Zelig artist mom, Kathy Mason Lerner aka the Astrologer’s Daughter, gets into RV’s mom’s life before she gave her signature fur hat to Janis Joplin.  True stories of RV’s mom’s godparents who were California Bohemians of the 1930s, 40’s and 50’s, astrologers and friends with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and their secret girlfriend. Plus, we learn about RV’s Grandma Kitty’s secret girlfriend (who was a psychic), the esoteric cults Grandma Kitty was into and RV’s mom’s friendships with musician Richie Valens (La Bamba) and racecar driver Donnie “the Snake” Prudhomme (the first driver to go 140 mph).   This juicy prequel to Radiate Ep 1 ends with new details about Sam Gee’s murder, his courtesan mother and the Wobblies.  If you’re into revolutionary art, artists and revolutionaries... this is for you.

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]]> 3698 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 10: The Psychedelic Healer How many counterculture brides can say that Janis Joplin sang at their wedding?   At least one and her name is Nicki Scully and host, Rainbow Valentine’s mom made her wedding rings.  Shamanic healer, Nicki Scully was an LSD-taking teenager who arrived in San Francisco during the 1967 Summer of Love, where she met and married Goldfinger, the infamous, one-handed smuggler who kept Nicki doped up and in a gilded cage before she left him for one of the managers of the Grateful Dead. In this gritty episode, Nicky Scully shares dark stories about surviving relationships with famous counterculture men, which gave her the tools to becoming a healer.  Along with Nicki's stories, Rainbow Valentine gets into the history of women’s shelters, abortion laws in America and Janis Joplin’s veterinarian… plus that time Nicki took LSD and delivered a baby without midwifery training, let alone the internet.  If you like counterculture history don’t miss the trippy true stories shared by Grateful Dead family member/shamanic healer, Nicki Scully. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:00:00 -0000 The Psychedelic Healer: Nicki Scully full 1 10 Rainbow Valentine Trippy, true stories from shamanic healer/Grateful Dead family member, Nicki Scully. How many counterculture brides can say that Janis Joplin sang at their wedding?   At least one and her name is Nicki Scully and host, Rainbow Valentine’s mom made her wedding rings.  Shamanic healer, Nicki Scully was an LSD-taking teenager who arrived in San Francisco during the 1967 Summer of Love, where she met and married Goldfinger, the infamous, one-handed smuggler who kept Nicki doped up and in a gilded cage before she left him for one of the managers of the Grateful Dead. In this gritty episode, Nicky Scully shares dark stories about surviving relationships with famous counterculture men, which gave her the tools to becoming a healer.  Along with Nicki's stories, Rainbow Valentine gets into the history of women’s shelters, abortion laws in America and Janis Joplin’s veterinarian… plus that time Nicki took LSD and delivered a baby without midwifery training, let alone the internet.  If you like counterculture history don’t miss the trippy true stories shared by Grateful Dead family member/shamanic healer, Nicki Scully. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices How many counterculture brides can say that Janis Joplin sang at their wedding?   At least one and her name is Nicki Scully and host, Rainbow Valentine’s mom made her wedding rings.  Shamanic healer, Nicki Scully was an LSD-taking teenager who arrived in San Francisco during the 1967 Summer of Love, where she met and married Goldfinger, the infamous, one-handed smuggler who kept Nicki doped up and in a gilded cage before she left him for one of the managers of the Grateful Dead. In this gritty episode, Nicky Scully shares dark stories about surviving relationships with famous counterculture men, which gave her the tools to becoming a healer.  Along with Nicki's stories, Rainbow Valentine gets into the history of women’s shelters, abortion laws in America and Janis Joplin’s veterinarian… plus that time Nicki took LSD and delivered a baby without midwifery training, let alone the internet.  If you like counterculture history don’t miss the trippy true stories shared by Grateful Dead family member/shamanic healer, Nicki Scully.

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]]> 3155 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 5: The True Saga of Goldfinger PART 2 What do you call a deranged smuggler who asks you to stash a brick of gold under your pillow for 6 months?  A friend or an acquaintance?  Rainbow Valentine’s mom’s art patron, Goldfinger, was a one-handed smuggler who regularly moved thousands of pounds of hashish from Lebanon to the US before being busted by the CIA, which only turned him into a fugitive. Goldfinger was a bigger-than-life real outlaw in the SF counterculture scene of the 1960’s and 70’s...but then he disappeared in the 1980’s; everyone assumed he was dead but none of the psychedelic pioneers knew how he died. The second part of the saga of Goldfinger reveals brand new, never-before-heard information about the notorious, one-handed, counterculture smuggler, including details on his outlaw life in Europe, how he died and the major secret he kept from everyone in the SF counterculture scene; never revealed… until this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album Ep 5: The True Saga of Goldfinger Part 2 full 1 5 Rainbow Valentine RV finds out how the one-handed, counterculture smuggler, Goldfinger, died and the major secret he kept from everyone. What do you call a deranged smuggler who asks you to stash a brick of gold under your pillow for 6 months?  A friend or an acquaintance?  Rainbow Valentine’s mom’s art patron, Goldfinger, was a one-handed smuggler who regularly moved thousands of pounds of hashish from Lebanon to the US before being busted by the CIA, which only turned him into a fugitive. Goldfinger was a bigger-than-life real outlaw in the SF counterculture scene of the 1960’s and 70’s...but then he disappeared in the 1980’s; everyone assumed he was dead but none of the psychedelic pioneers knew how he died. The second part of the saga of Goldfinger reveals brand new, never-before-heard information about the notorious, one-handed, counterculture smuggler, including details on his outlaw life in Europe, how he died and the major secret he kept from everyone in the SF counterculture scene; never revealed… until this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What do you call a deranged smuggler who asks you to stash a brick of gold under your pillow for 6 months?  A friend or an acquaintance?  Rainbow Valentine’s mom’s art patron, Goldfinger, was a one-handed smuggler who regularly moved thousands of pounds of hashish from Lebanon to the US before being busted by the CIA, which only turned him into a fugitive. Goldfinger was a bigger-than-life real outlaw in the SF counterculture scene of the 1960’s and 70’s...but then he disappeared in the 1980’s; everyone assumed he was dead but none of the psychedelic pioneers knew how he died.

The second part of the saga of Goldfinger reveals brand new, never-before-heard information about the notorious, one-handed, counterculture smuggler, including details on his outlaw life in Europe, how he died and the major secret he kept from everyone in the SF counterculture scene; never revealed… until this episode.

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]]> 3271 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 4: The True Saga of Goldfinger Part 1 When your parents tell you about a real one-handed smuggler named Goldfinger who lost his hand in a smuggling trip gone wrong, there’s only one thing to do: dive deeper.  In The True Saga of Goldginger Part 1, Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic woman/counterculture, groundfloor member, Raechel Donahue (wife of Big Daddy Tom Donahue), about Goldfinger - the larger-than-life, counterculture smuggler who disappeared in the 1980’s and may or may not be dead… Raechel reveals all she remembers about the unhinged outlaw who traveled everywhere (including court) with a duffle bag-chemistry lab and eventually became a fugitive after running over a movie star’s kid, smuggling thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and being taken down by the CIA and Lebanese airforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album Ep 4: The True Saga of Goldfinger Part 1 full 1 4 Rainbow Valentine True stories of a notorious one-handed, counterculture pot smuggler named Goldfinger. When your parents tell you about a real one-handed smuggler named Goldfinger who lost his hand in a smuggling trip gone wrong, there’s only one thing to do: dive deeper.  In The True Saga of Goldginger Part 1, Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic woman/counterculture, groundfloor member, Raechel Donahue (wife of Big Daddy Tom Donahue), about Goldfinger - the larger-than-life, counterculture smuggler who disappeared in the 1980’s and may or may not be dead… Raechel reveals all she remembers about the unhinged outlaw who traveled everywhere (including court) with a duffle bag-chemistry lab and eventually became a fugitive after running over a movie star’s kid, smuggling thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and being taken down by the CIA and Lebanese airforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When your parents tell you about a real one-handed smuggler named Goldfinger who lost his hand in a smuggling trip gone wrong, there’s only one thing to do: dive deeper.  In The True Saga of Goldginger Part 1, Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic woman/counterculture, groundfloor member, Raechel Donahue (wife of Big Daddy Tom Donahue), about Goldfinger - the larger-than-life, counterculture smuggler who disappeared in the 1980’s and may or may not be dead… Raechel reveals all she remembers about the unhinged outlaw who traveled everywhere (including court) with a duffle bag-chemistry lab and eventually became a fugitive after running over a movie star’s kid, smuggling thousands of pounds of illegal drugs and being taken down by the CIA and Lebanese airforce.

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]]> 2489 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Bonus Ep 5: Surprised not Surprised: Deep Diving with Dr. M on eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus 2. A lo-fi, stripped-down convo with Rainbow Valentine and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, Hog Farm Member & psychedelic historian.  RV and Dr. M talk about the true stories in  Eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus ep 2, including RV’s mom’s shocking revelation about Dizzy Gillespie, human trafficking, teenage hysteria of Beatlemania, the Lovin' Spoonful’s pot bust, peyote, the Medicine Ball Caravan, creative hiding places for illegal drugs and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Bonus Ep 5: Surprised not Surprised: Deep Diving with Dr. M on eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus 2. bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine A lo-fi, stripped-down convo with Rainbow Valentine and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, Hog Farm Member & psychedelic historian.  RV and Dr. M talk about the true stories in  Eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus ep 2, including RV’s mom’s shocking revelation about Dizzy Gillespie, human trafficking, teenage hysteria of Beatlemania, the Lovin' Spoonful’s pot bust, peyote, the Medicine Ball Caravan, creative hiding places for illegal drugs and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A lo-fi, stripped-down convo with Rainbow Valentine and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Congress, Hog Farm Member & psychedelic historian.  RV and Dr. M talk about the true stories in  Eps 5, 8, 9 and Bonus ep 2, including RV’s mom’s shocking revelation about Dizzy Gillespie, human trafficking, teenage hysteria of Beatlemania, the Lovin' Spoonful’s pot bust, peyote, the Medicine Ball Caravan, creative hiding places for illegal drugs and more. 

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]]> 3375 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 3: High Society Don’t everyone’s parents small-talk about MDA chemists bleeding out while fine dining or argue about which LSD chemist had a live/work space in a defunct nuclear silo and reminisce about a one-handed, fugitive smuggler named Goldfinger?  If you grew up with the psychedelic pioneers of SF’s 1960’s like Rainbow Valentine, then yes, probably during breakfast your elders can harken back to that big Lebanese hash deal brought down by the CIA in 1967 or tell you about the Orange Sunshine LSD chemist's funeral ; but if you didn’t grow up in the inner circle of the counterculture, you get to be a fly on the wall as Rainbow Valentine hears true tales of High Society aka the counterculture outlaws of yesteryear who paved the way for listeners to pop an adult gummy, roll a doobie and stream this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album Ep 3: High Society full 1 3 Rainbow Valentine RV's psychedelic pioneer parents tell true stories of the counterculture outlaws of yore. Don’t everyone’s parents small-talk about MDA chemists bleeding out while fine dining or argue about which LSD chemist had a live/work space in a defunct nuclear silo and reminisce about a one-handed, fugitive smuggler named Goldfinger?  If you grew up with the psychedelic pioneers of SF’s 1960’s like Rainbow Valentine, then yes, probably during breakfast your elders can harken back to that big Lebanese hash deal brought down by the CIA in 1967 or tell you about the Orange Sunshine LSD chemist's funeral ; but if you didn’t grow up in the inner circle of the counterculture, you get to be a fly on the wall as Rainbow Valentine hears true tales of High Society aka the counterculture outlaws of yesteryear who paved the way for listeners to pop an adult gummy, roll a doobie and stream this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Don’t everyone’s parents small-talk about MDA chemists bleeding out while fine dining or argue about which LSD chemist had a live/work space in a defunct nuclear silo and reminisce about a one-handed, fugitive smuggler named Goldfinger?  If you grew up with the psychedelic pioneers of SF’s 1960’s like Rainbow Valentine, then yes, probably during breakfast your elders can harken back to that big Lebanese hash deal brought down by the CIA in 1967 or tell you about the Orange Sunshine LSD chemist's funeral ; but if you didn’t grow up in the inner circle of the counterculture, you get to be a fly on the wall as Rainbow Valentine hears true tales of High Society aka the counterculture outlaws of yesteryear who paved the way for listeners to pop an adult gummy, roll a doobie and stream this episode.

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]]> 2340 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 9: The Acid-Rock Radio Pioneer Part 2 Can you imagine process-serving the Beatles? Raechel Donahue, SF's acid-rock radio pioneer, was a psychedelic second away from doing just that because she and her husband, Big Daddy Tom Donahue, produced the Beatles very last concert in North America and it didn’t go quite as planned.  And that’s just the first 5 minutes of this episode which includes Raechel’s life in swinging 60’s London where it was common to see Led Zepplin hitchhiking, the Rolling Stones buying baby clothes and smuggling pot in Pampers was routine.  And have you ever heard of the Medicine Ball Caravan aka Woodstock on Wheels? Produced by Tom and Raechel Donahue, who tells us about the epic roadtrip documentary (edited by a young Marty Scorsese) that took 150 hippies and rock stars across 1970’s America to play psychedelic music festivals in small red towns.  Plus, we learn he history of Frito chips and hear stories about the Record Plant, Sly Stone, Trident Studios, a psychedelic wedding at the Jefferson Airplane’s mansion and a psychedelic funeral...all told to us by Raechel Donahue, the Anne Frank of Rock'n'Roll, as Big Daddy Tom Donahue called her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 -0000 The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 2: Raechel Donahue full 1 9 Rainbow Valentine The continuing story of the woman who invented acid rock radio and chick engineers. Can you imagine process-serving the Beatles? Raechel Donahue, SF's acid-rock radio pioneer, was a psychedelic second away from doing just that because she and her husband, Big Daddy Tom Donahue, produced the Beatles very last concert in North America and it didn’t go quite as planned.  And that’s just the first 5 minutes of this episode which includes Raechel’s life in swinging 60’s London where it was common to see Led Zepplin hitchhiking, the Rolling Stones buying baby clothes and smuggling pot in Pampers was routine.  And have you ever heard of the Medicine Ball Caravan aka Woodstock on Wheels? Produced by Tom and Raechel Donahue, who tells us about the epic roadtrip documentary (edited by a young Marty Scorsese) that took 150 hippies and rock stars across 1970’s America to play psychedelic music festivals in small red towns.  Plus, we learn he history of Frito chips and hear stories about the Record Plant, Sly Stone, Trident Studios, a psychedelic wedding at the Jefferson Airplane’s mansion and a psychedelic funeral...all told to us by Raechel Donahue, the Anne Frank of Rock'n'Roll, as Big Daddy Tom Donahue called her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Can you imagine process-serving the Beatles? Raechel Donahue, SF's acid-rock radio pioneer, was a psychedelic second away from doing just that because she and her husband, Big Daddy Tom Donahue, produced the Beatles very last concert in North America and it didn’t go quite as planned.  And that’s just the first 5 minutes of this episode which includes Raechel’s life in swinging 60’s London where it was common to see Led Zepplin hitchhiking, the Rolling Stones buying baby clothes and smuggling pot in Pampers was routine.  And have you ever heard of the Medicine Ball Caravan aka Woodstock on Wheels? Produced by Tom and Raechel Donahue, who tells us about the epic roadtrip documentary (edited by a young Marty Scorsese) that took 150 hippies and rock stars across 1970’s America to play psychedelic music festivals in small red towns.  Plus, we learn he history of Frito chips and hear stories about the Record Plant, Sly Stone, Trident Studios, a psychedelic wedding at the Jefferson Airplane’s mansion and a psychedelic funeral...all told to us by Raechel Donahue, the Anne Frank of Rock'n'Roll, as Big Daddy Tom Donahue called her.

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]]> 3882 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Ep 8: The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 1 Imagine life without free radio.  If you lived in America before 1967, that was reality… there were no free radio stations until a group of misfit artist visionaries high on LSD decided to recreate their psychedelic record parties onto the airwaves.  In this episode, RV talks to her mom’s pal, Raechel Donahue - the pioneering woman who trained and employed the first women in America to be radio engineers and DJs and turned free acid rock radio a reality called KMPX (precursor to KSAN).  Raechel Donahue, DJ, filmmaker, voiceover actor, wife and widow of Big Daddy Tom Donahue, tells us about San Francisco beatnik life before it morphed into hippies. Stories about her adventures bellydancing, go-go dancing, modeling for a gay Holocaust refugee who invented the thong bikini and how horse racing, LSD and Tourette’s syndrome led to the birth of rock radio in America and the greedy corporate overlords who tried to squish them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000 The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 1: Raechel Donahue full 1 8 Rainbow Valentine RV chats with counterculture royalty, Raechel Donahue, the woman who invented rock radio, chick engineers and female DJs. Imagine life without free radio.  If you lived in America before 1967, that was reality… there were no free radio stations until a group of misfit artist visionaries high on LSD decided to recreate their psychedelic record parties onto the airwaves.  In this episode, RV talks to her mom’s pal, Raechel Donahue - the pioneering woman who trained and employed the first women in America to be radio engineers and DJs and turned free acid rock radio a reality called KMPX (precursor to KSAN).  Raechel Donahue, DJ, filmmaker, voiceover actor, wife and widow of Big Daddy Tom Donahue, tells us about San Francisco beatnik life before it morphed into hippies. Stories about her adventures bellydancing, go-go dancing, modeling for a gay Holocaust refugee who invented the thong bikini and how horse racing, LSD and Tourette’s syndrome led to the birth of rock radio in America and the greedy corporate overlords who tried to squish them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Imagine life without free radio.  If you lived in America before 1967, that was reality… there were no free radio stations until a group of misfit artist visionaries high on LSD decided to recreate their psychedelic record parties onto the airwaves.  In this episode, RV talks to her mom’s pal, Raechel Donahue - the pioneering woman who trained and employed the first women in America to be radio engineers and DJs and turned free acid rock radio a reality called KMPX (precursor to KSAN).  Raechel Donahue, DJ, filmmaker, voiceover actor, wife and widow of Big Daddy Tom Donahue, tells us about San Francisco beatnik life before it morphed into hippies. Stories about her adventures bellydancing, go-go dancing, modeling for a gay Holocaust refugee who invented the thong bikini and how horse racing, LSD and Tourette’s syndrome led to the birth of rock radio in America and the greedy corporate overlords who tried to squish them.

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]]> 3671 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Bonus Ep 4: Everybody Can but Do They? Deep Diving on eps 4, 5, 6 with Dr. M part 2 Part 2 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council, nurse practitioner and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Be a psychedelic fly on the wall as Dr. M tells RV the story of the Wild West Festival, an epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock, plus the physiology of women’s fertility,  the origins of San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom,  the Fillmore West, Winterland,  the counterculture’s response to anti-dancing laws in San Francisco in the 1960’s and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Bonus Ep 4: Everybody Can But Do They? Deep Diving with Dr. M 4, 5, 6 Part 2 bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine Part 2 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council, nurse practitioner and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Be a psychedelic fly on the wall as Dr. M tells RV the story of the Wild West Festival, an epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock, plus the physiology of women’s fertility,  the origins of San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom,  the Fillmore West, Winterland,  the counterculture’s response to anti-dancing laws in San Francisco in the 1960’s and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Part 2 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council, nurse practitioner and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Be a psychedelic fly on the wall as Dr. M tells RV the story of the Wild West Festival, an epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock, plus the physiology of women’s fertility,  the origins of San Francisco’s Carousel Ballroom,  the Fillmore West, Winterland,  the counterculture’s response to anti-dancing laws in San Francisco in the 1960’s and more.


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]]> 2506 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture: Bonus Ep 3: Everybody Can But Do They? Deep Dive with Dr. M on Eps 4, 5, 6 Part 1 Part 1 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Listeners get to be a psychedelic fly on the wall as RV and Dr. M discuss the Grateful Dead’s origins, the downfall of the Quicksilver, the history of women in radio aka KMPX’s chick engineers plus an insider’s story of San Francisco’s epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Bonus Ep 3: Everybody Can But Do They? Deep Diving with Dr. M on Eps 4, 5, 6 Part 1 bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine Everybody Can But Do They? Part 1 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Listeners get to be a psychedelic fly on the wall as RV and Dr. M discuss the Grateful Dead’s origins, the downfall of the Quicksilver, the history of women in radio aka KMPX’s chick engineers plus an insider’s story of San Francisco’s epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Part 1 of a deep dive into Radiate episodes 4, 5 and 6 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  Listeners get to be a psychedelic fly on the wall as RV and Dr. M discuss the Grateful Dead’s origins, the downfall of the Quicksilver, the history of women in radio aka KMPX’s chick engineers plus an insider’s story of San Francisco’s epic failure of a music festival that was supposed to be the West Coast counterpoint to Woodstock and much more.

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]]> 3011 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture BONUS Ep 2: Radiate: Dizzying Revelations In a very intimate bonus episode to the Radiate story, RV’s mom shares what she calls “the gritty stuff”, revealing never-before-heard, shocking revelations about her marriage to mid-century modern jeweler/drug dealer to the Jazz greats, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis…  Plus a teenage bullrider, a thief named Crazy Sal, murder and more.  Pull up a pot bale seat at the Anonymous Artist’s table where in the 1960's, the inner circle of the counterculture drank coffee and rolled joints as they created the art, music and culture that caught the attention of the entire world.... Peace, love and rock'n'roll came from somewhere and RV's mom spills the beans on just exactly what was happening at that somewhere: the groundfloor of the San Francisco counterculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Bonus Ep 2: Dizzying Revelations: Kathy Mason Lerner bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine RV's mom has an incredible revelation about her tryst with Dizzy Gillespie. In a very intimate bonus episode to the Radiate story, RV’s mom shares what she calls “the gritty stuff”, revealing never-before-heard, shocking revelations about her marriage to mid-century modern jeweler/drug dealer to the Jazz greats, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis…  Plus a teenage bullrider, a thief named Crazy Sal, murder and more.  Pull up a pot bale seat at the Anonymous Artist’s table where in the 1960's, the inner circle of the counterculture drank coffee and rolled joints as they created the art, music and culture that caught the attention of the entire world.... Peace, love and rock'n'roll came from somewhere and RV's mom spills the beans on just exactly what was happening at that somewhere: the groundfloor of the San Francisco counterculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In a very intimate bonus episode to the Radiate story, RV’s mom shares what she calls “the gritty stuff”, revealing never-before-heard, shocking revelations about her marriage to mid-century modern jeweler/drug dealer to the Jazz greats, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis…  Plus a teenage bullrider, a thief named Crazy Sal, murder and more.  Pull up a pot bale seat at the Anonymous Artist’s table where in the 1960's, the inner circle of the counterculture drank coffee and rolled joints as they created the art, music and culture that caught the attention of the entire world.... Peace, love and rock'n'roll came from somewhere and RV's mom spills the beans on just exactly what was happening at that somewhere: the groundfloor of the San Francisco counterculture.

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]]> 2795 yes Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture BONUS Ep 1: Deep Diving with Dr. M into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 A deep dive into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  In an intimate After-the-Episode Chat, RV and Dr. M. discuss the Hippie Family Tree, the Haight Ashbury, The Diggers, hippie kids, outlaws, rock stars, Margo St. James, Carol Doda, the Domino Club,  San Francisco’s laws around nudity onstage and dancing, plus the SF politics that led to the downfall of the SF counterculture, race relations during SF’s  Summer of Love and  the Nazi scientist responsible for the largest nuclear meltdown in America – still contaminating the mountains north of Los Angeles, CA... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Deep Diving with Dr. M into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 bonus 1 Rainbow Valentine An intimate convo between RV and Dr. M on Psychedelic Women episodes 1, 2, 3. A deep dive into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  In an intimate After-the-Episode Chat, RV and Dr. M. discuss the Hippie Family Tree, the Haight Ashbury, The Diggers, hippie kids, outlaws, rock stars, Margo St. James, Carol Doda, the Domino Club,  San Francisco’s laws around nudity onstage and dancing, plus the SF politics that led to the downfall of the SF counterculture, race relations during SF’s  Summer of Love and  the Nazi scientist responsible for the largest nuclear meltdown in America – still contaminating the mountains north of Los Angeles, CA... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices A deep dive into Radiate Eps 1, 2, 3 with RV and Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD, co-founder of the Women’s Visionary Council and member of the Hog Farm Commune.  In an intimate After-the-Episode Chat, RV and Dr. M. discuss the Hippie Family Tree, the Haight Ashbury, The Diggers, hippie kids, outlaws, rock stars, Margo St. James, Carol Doda, the Domino Club,  San Francisco’s laws around nudity onstage and dancing, plus the SF politics that led to the downfall of the SF counterculture, race relations during SF’s  Summer of Love and  the Nazi scientist responsible for the largest nuclear meltdown in America – still contaminating the mountains north of Los Angeles, CA...

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]]> 3280 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album Ep 2: Beat Poets, LSD Chemists, MDA & Murder In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane with stories about beat poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Alan Ginsberg, obscenity trials and banned books plus dining with smugglers, counterculture chemists, an airplane full of LSD VIPS, the history of Marin County, California’s sushi and an unsolved murder in the high end restaurant world of 1980’s San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 20 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album: Beat Poets, LSD Chemists, MDA & Murder full 1 2 Rainbow Valentine In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane... In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane with stories about beat poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Alan Ginsberg, obscenity trials and banned books plus dining with smugglers, counterculture chemists, an airplane full of LSD VIPS, the history of Marin County, California’s sushi and an unsolved murder in the high end restaurant world of 1980’s San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In behind-the scenes convos with her former pot-smuggler parents, Rainbow Valentine takes a walk down counterculture memory lane with stories about beat poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Alan Ginsberg, obscenity trials and banned books plus dining with smugglers, counterculture chemists, an airplane full of LSD VIPS, the history of Marin County, California’s sushi and an unsolved murder in the high end restaurant world of 1980’s San Francisco.

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]]> 2722 yes Psychedelic Women: Smuggler Family Album: Juanita the Bordello Chef In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and family.  In this episode RV’s parents (from the podcast Disorganized Crime) tell us about Juanita, a shit-talking restaurateur/brothel owner with a wild west heart of gold who ran her infamous restaurant from her bed; plus stories about the people and places of RV’s childhood in Sausalito and Mill Valley, California in the 70’s and 80’s, where it was estimated that 50% of the population were drug smugglers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 04 Jul 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Smuggler Family Album: Juanita the Bordello Chef full 1 1 Rainbow Valentine The true story of a wild west chef/bordello owner with a heart of gold and massive bosom for all. In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and family.  In this episode RV’s parents (from the podcast Disorganized Crime) tell us about Juanita, a shit-talking restaurateur/brothel owner with a wild west heart of gold who ran her infamous restaurant from her bed; plus stories about the people and places of RV’s childhood in Sausalito and Mill Valley, California in the 70’s and 80’s, where it was estimated that 50% of the population were drug smugglers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In a new branch of Psychedelic Women, Rainbow Valentine presents Smuggler Family Album, conversations with her counterculture smuggler friends and family.  In this episode RV’s parents (from the podcast Disorganized Crime) tell us about Juanita, a shit-talking restaurateur/brothel owner with a wild west heart of gold who ran her infamous restaurant from her bed; plus stories about the people and places of RV’s childhood in Sausalito and Mill Valley, California in the 70’s and 80’s, where it was estimated that 50% of the population were drug smugglers.  

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]]> 2495 yes Psychedelic Women EP 6: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 6: The Psychedelic Lightworker In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her decade on the groundfloor of the world-famous San Francisco counterculture between 1960 – 1970.  True stories about the Beatles, Joan Baez, the CIA, the Charlatans, Stoneground, Altamont, the Avalon, the Jefferson Airplane, Howard Hesseman, a trip-to-Hawaii-gone-awry with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ongoing battle of good and evil and downfall of the scene; plus, how psychedelics, Big Sur and a VW bus full of redwood led to the birth of host/creator, Rainbow Valentine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Part 6: The Psychedelic Lightworker: Kathy Mason Lerner full 1 6 Rainbow Valentine In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her decade on the groundfloor of the world-famous San Francisco counterculture between 1960 – 1970.  True stories about the Beatles, Joan Baez, the CIA, the Charlatans, Stoneground, Altamont, the Avalon, the Jefferson Airplane, Howard Hesseman, a trip-to-Hawaii-gone-awry with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ongoing battle of good and evil and downfall of the scene; plus, how psychedelics, Big Sur and a VW bus full of redwood led to the birth of host/creator, Rainbow Valentine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In the final non-bonus episode of RV's mom's story, Psychedelic wisdom galore is dropped as Kathy Mason Lerner dishes more trippy stories from her decade on the groundfloor of the world-famous San Francisco counterculture between 1960 – 1970.  True stories about the Beatles, Joan Baez, the CIA, the Charlatans, Stoneground, Altamont, the Avalon, the Jefferson Airplane, Howard Hesseman, a trip-to-Hawaii-gone-awry with the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ongoing battle of good and evil and downfall of the scene; plus, how psychedelics, Big Sur and a VW bus full of redwood led to the birth of host/creator, Rainbow Valentine.

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]]> 4313 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 7: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Psychedelic Eve: The First Woman on Earth to Take LSD On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping).  To commemorate Susie Ramstein’s tenacity, the world’s leading women-centric psychedelic organization, the Women’s Visionary Council, launched a new psychedelic holiday: Tram Day!   In this episode (which drops on Tram Day) Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic historian, Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD and Swiss psychedelic researcher, Susanne Seiler, who uncovered the fascinating history of the Psychedelic Eve aka Susi Ramstein.  Discover and celebrate the courage represented by Tram Day by listening to true stories about Albert Hoffman, ergotomine tartrate, Nazis, Sandoz Labs, Novartis Labs, Swiss aristocracy and the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000 The First Woman on Earth to Take LSD: Susi Ramstein full 1 7 Rainbow Valentine The true story of the first woman on earth to take LSD On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping).  To commemorate Susie Ramstein’s tenacity, the world’s leading women-centric psychedelic organization, the Women’s Visionary Council, launched a new psychedelic holiday: Tram Day!   In this episode (which drops on Tram Day) Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic historian, Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD and Swiss psychedelic researcher, Susanne Seiler, who uncovered the fascinating history of the Psychedelic Eve aka Susi Ramstein.  Discover and celebrate the courage represented by Tram Day by listening to true stories about Albert Hoffman, ergotomine tartrate, Nazis, Sandoz Labs, Novartis Labs, Swiss aristocracy and the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices On June 12th, 1943, Susi Ramstein became the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD and she took the tram home (while tripping).  To commemorate Susie Ramstein’s tenacity, the world’s leading women-centric psychedelic organization, the Women’s Visionary Council, launched a new psychedelic holiday: Tram Day!   In this episode (which drops on Tram Day) Rainbow Valentine talks to psychedelic historian, Dr. Maria Mangini, PHD and Swiss psychedelic researcher, Susanne Seiler, who uncovered the fascinating history of the Psychedelic Eve aka Susi Ramstein.  Discover and celebrate the courage represented by Tram Day by listening to true stories about Albert Hoffman, ergotomine tartrate, Nazis, Sandoz Labs, Novartis Labs, Swiss aristocracy and the very first woman on planet earth to take LSD.

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]]> 3679 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 5: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 5: Do You Believe in Magic? The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart.  RV’s mom is still in the center of the psychedelic revolution, working with KMPX, the first rock radio station in the country, Chet Helms and the Family Dog and the pioneering improv comedians at the Committee when a major pot bust shakes the inner circle of the counterculture to their LSD-soaked core.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us true stories about the CIA, FBI, Grateful Dead, Andy Warhol, Tiny Tim, Moby Grape, the Rolling Stones, Tim Leary, the Lovin’ Spoonful and the dramatic end of her marriage to Howard Hesseman and her new fling with the co-owner of the Straight Theater on Haight Street – a relationship that got..shall we say, complicated..and changed her life forever; plus more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Part 5: Do You Believe in Magic? : Kathy Mason Lerner full 1 5 Rainbow Valentine The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart.  RV’s mom is still in the center of the psychedelic revolution, working with KMPX, the first rock radio station in the country, Chet Helms and the Family Dog and the pioneering improv comedians at the Committee when a major pot bust shakes the inner circle of the counterculture to their LSD-soaked core.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us true stories about the CIA, FBI, Grateful Dead, Andy Warhol, Tiny Tim, Moby Grape, the Rolling Stones, Tim Leary, the Lovin’ Spoonful and the dramatic end of her marriage to Howard Hesseman and her new fling with the co-owner of the Straight Theater on Haight Street – a relationship that got..shall we say, complicated..and changed her life forever; plus more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The late 1960’s in San Francisco unfold and it’s tumultuous. In 1967 the Summer of Love brought 100,000 wannabe hippie teenagers to the City hoping to join RV’s mom’s friend group and the scene starts to fall apart.  RV’s mom is still in the center of the psychedelic revolution, working with KMPX, the first rock radio station in the country, Chet Helms and the Family Dog and the pioneering improv comedians at the Committee when a major pot bust shakes the inner circle of the counterculture to their LSD-soaked core.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us true stories about the CIA, FBI, Grateful Dead, Andy Warhol, Tiny Tim, Moby Grape, the Rolling Stones, Tim Leary, the Lovin’ Spoonful and the dramatic end of her marriage to Howard Hesseman and her new fling with the co-owner of the Straight Theater on Haight Street – a relationship that got..shall we say, complicated..and changed her life forever; plus more.

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]]> 3555 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 4: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 4: Kathy Sturdy, Psychedelic Bling Builder There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX.  In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Part 4: Kathy Sturdy, Psychedelic Bling Builder full 1 4 Rainbow Valentine RV's mom helps build 1960's San Francisco on Rock'n'Roll (and LSD). There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX.  In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices There’s an 1980’s song by the Jefferson Starship (formerly the Jefferson Airplane) called “We Built This City on Rock’n’Roll” and it’s about the ground-floor peeps of San Francisco’s 1960’s psychedelic revolution who literally did just that: built 1960’s San Francisco on Rock’n’Roll (fueled by LSD); and Rainbow Valentine’s mom was at the center of that inner circle; doing things like making bling for the Jefferson Airplane’s drummer, tripping with the Merry Pranksters and engineering for first rock radio station in the country, KMPX.  In this episode, RV’s mom gets into the mid 1960’s, sharing true stories about actors in the Committee Comedy Troupe falling off cliffs, boating in Mexico with Neal Cassady, chauffeuring Mimi Farina, singing with Joan Baez, designing jewelry for Salvador Dali, gardening with Grace Marchand, working with rock radio pioneers, Raechel and Tom Donahue, the Grateful Dead, Dizzy Gillespie and the continuing saga of her marriage to future-TV star, Howard Hesseman plus much more.

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]]> 3711 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 3: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 3: The Psychedelic Grace'n'Beauty Tutor It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic art, music and comedy is at its finest hour according to Rainbow Valentine’s mom who often found herself backstage between Janis Joplin and Pigpen after a day of teaching poise at sex-positive activist Margo St. James’s brothel or running errands for concert promoter, Chet Helms or The Committee Comedy Troupe before bellydancing beside Santana at LSD fueled concerts.  In episode 3 RV’s mom shares stories about her fascinating life in 1960’s SF...including double dating with the first stripper in America to have breast implants, hosting celebrities before they were famous( like Jack Nicholson) her tumultuous marriage to future TV actor, Howard Hesseman plus the origin story of the Family Dog production company, a shocking possible-murder involving the Mafia and a piano and her secret affair with the Grateful Dead’s grubbiest musician...and more!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 23 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Radiate Part 3: The Psychedelic Grace'n'Beauty Tutor: Kathy Mason Lerner full 1 3 Rainbow Valentine RV's mom's true stories of psychedelic San Francisco in the mid 1960's. It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic art, music and comedy is at its finest hour according to Rainbow Valentine’s mom who often found herself backstage between Janis Joplin and Pigpen after a day of teaching poise at sex-positive activist Margo St. James’s brothel or running errands for concert promoter, Chet Helms or The Committee Comedy Troupe before bellydancing beside Santana at LSD fueled concerts.  In episode 3 RV’s mom shares stories about her fascinating life in 1960’s SF...including double dating with the first stripper in America to have breast implants, hosting celebrities before they were famous( like Jack Nicholson) her tumultuous marriage to future TV actor, Howard Hesseman plus the origin story of the Family Dog production company, a shocking possible-murder involving the Mafia and a piano and her secret affair with the Grateful Dead’s grubbiest musician...and more!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices It’s the early to mid 1960’s in San Francisco and the folk music scene is shifting to acid rock; the burgeoning subculture of psychedelic art, music and comedy is at its finest hour according to Rainbow Valentine’s mom who often found herself backstage between Janis Joplin and Pigpen after a day of teaching poise at sex-positive activist Margo St. James’s brothel or running errands for concert promoter, Chet Helms or The Committee Comedy Troupe before bellydancing beside Santana at LSD fueled concerts.  In episode 3 RV’s mom shares stories about her fascinating life in 1960’s SF...including double dating with the first stripper in America to have breast implants, hosting celebrities before they were famous( like Jack Nicholson) her tumultuous marriage to future TV actor, Howard Hesseman plus the origin story of the Family Dog production company, a shocking possible-murder involving the Mafia and a piano and her secret affair with the Grateful Dead’s grubbiest musician...and more!

 

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]]> 3946 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 2: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 2: The Bellydancing Bohemian After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing  in Beatnik central of the early 60’s where she married a famous, mid-century modern jeweler with access to Stanford-made  LSD, became a bellydancing sidekick to a fire-eating Holocaust survivor, made bling for rock stars plus stories about Tijuana, Lenny Bruce, Dizzy Gillespie, the Coffee Gallery, the Committee comedy troupe, Janis Joplin, Mexican wrestlers, illegal gay bars, her third husband, TV actor, Howard Hesseman (of WKRP in Cincinnati)  and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 16 May 2025 13:57:00 -0000 Radiate Part 2: The Bellydancing Bohemian: Kathy Mason Lerner full 1 2 Rainbow Valentine RV's mom's tells us about LSD-fueled bohemian life in early 1960's San Franciso. After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing  in Beatnik central of the early 60’s where she married a famous, mid-century modern jeweler with access to Stanford-made  LSD, became a bellydancing sidekick to a fire-eating Holocaust survivor, made bling for rock stars plus stories about Tijuana, Lenny Bruce, Dizzy Gillespie, the Coffee Gallery, the Committee comedy troupe, Janis Joplin, Mexican wrestlers, illegal gay bars, her third husband, TV actor, Howard Hesseman (of WKRP in Cincinnati)  and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices After being unwittingly radiated in the biggest secret nuclear meltdown in America, Rainbow Valentine’s mom fled to San Francisco, landing  in Beatnik central of the early 60’s where she married a famous, mid-century modern jeweler with access to Stanford-made  LSD, became a bellydancing sidekick to a fire-eating Holocaust survivor, made bling for rock stars plus stories about Tijuana, Lenny Bruce, Dizzy Gillespie, the Coffee Gallery, the Committee comedy troupe, Janis Joplin, Mexican wrestlers, illegal gay bars, her third husband, TV actor, Howard Hesseman (of WKRP in Cincinnati)  and more.

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]]> 3736 yes Psychedelic Women Ep 1: Convos with the Women of the Counterculture: Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than 3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF.  There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 09 May 2025 04:00:00 -0000 Radiate Part 1: North Beach Babe: Kathy Mason Lerner full 1 1 Rainbow Valentine The true story of how a nuclear survivor landed at the dawn of San Francisco's Psychedelic Revolution. In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than 3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF.  There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In 1959 Los Angeles there was a nuclear meltdown larger than 3 Mile Island that was covered up and never cleaned up and its tragic fallout propelled host, Rainbow Valentine’s Future Mom, Kathy Mason Lerner, to flee to San Francisco where she landed in Beatnik Central aka North Beach, SF.  There shemet a Beatnik jeweler to the Jazz greats who had access to LSD made by Stanford University and RV's mom's life on the groundfloor of SF’s psychedelic revolution began.  In this episode RV’s mom tells us about Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, secret, illegal, gay bars, black-velvet paintings, the Nazi scientist who Disneyland called a hero and much more…

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]]> 3246 yes Introducing...Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were  pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll.  Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex,drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:19:00 -0000 trailer 1 Rainbow Valentine Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were  pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll.  Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex,drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Producer/Host, Rainbow Valentine was born into the inner circle of the San Francisco counterculture which didn’t seem unusual until she grew up and discovered not everyone’s family and friends were  pot smugglers, rock stars and artists activating for peace, justice and equality. Rainbow Valentine’s mom, her friend’s moms and her mom’s friends were the bedrock of the world famous 1960’s counterculture - they were the first women in history to have access to (and take advantage of) The Pill, LSD and Rock’n’Roll.  Psychedelic Women: Conversations with the Women of the Counterculture reveals never-before recorded stories of the sex,drugs and rock’n’roll of the paradigm-shifting 1960’s American counterculture.

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