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 record...
Latest episodes
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1 h 10
Raised on the Cosmic Stage: Trixie Garcia
Imagine growing up in the Merry Pranksters commune and Grateful Dead family -that’s like being part of the hippie Game of Thrones House Targaryens and Lannisters – it’s the inner i…
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1 h 12
Smuggler Family Album Ep 11: The International Smuggler's Son: Mocean Melvin
The second most notorious smuggler of the SF counterculture was an outlaw named Milan Melvin, who everyone from the scene has a story about… If you listened to past episodes, Milan…
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1 h 06
The Death of the Tiger's Milk Bar
In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, American counterculture offspring like host, Rainbow Valentine and her childhood peers from Northern California, were forbidden to have sugar and real…
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1 h 07
The Joyful Juvenile Delinquent: Julia Girl Bridgen
Rainbow Valentine talks with her mom’s friend, Julia Brigden, aka Girl Frieberg, who married musician, David Frieberg of the Quicksilver Messenger Service at the age of 17 to avoid…
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25 min
Smuggler Family Album Ep 9: The Dragon Lady & Ergotomine Tartrate Smuggler
In a mini episode of Smuggler Family Album previously only avail on Patreon, Rainbow Valentine’s mom, Taffy Lemur aka Kathy Mason Lerner, from Psychedelic Women and Disorganized Cr…
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1 h 12
Radio Revolutionary, DJ Dusty Street
Before she became one of the first female DJ’s in America, Dusty Street was babysat by San Francisco’s most iconic Madam, Sally Stanford and the brothel’s cook, Juanita, who became…
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1 h 11
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 Va…
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47 min
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…
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57 min
The Dancing Detective: Rosie McGee
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 o…
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55 min
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…
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1 h 01
The Psychedelic Breast: Bonus Deep Dive with Dr. Mangini on Ep 10
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…
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1 h 01
The Astrologer's Daughter: Bonus Radiate Ep with Kathy Mason Lerner
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 Dau…
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53 min
The Psychedelic Healer: 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.…
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55 min
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, Goldfi…
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41 min
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 Tru…
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56 min
Surprised not Surprised: Bonus Deep Dive with Dr. Maria on eps 5, 8, 9 and Dizzying Revelations
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…
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39 min
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…
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1 h 04
The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 2: Raechel Donahue
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 Dadd…
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1 h 01
The Acid Rock Radio Pioneer Part 1: Raechel Donahue
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 dec…
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42 min
Everybody Can But Do They? Bonus Deep Dive with Dr. Maria on Eps 4, 5, 6 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 Far…