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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What do you call a deranged smuggler who asks you to stash a brick of gold

The second part of the saga of Goldfinger reveals brand new, never-before-heard information about the notorious, one-handed, counterculture

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When your parents tell you about a real one-handed smuggler

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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

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Don’t everyone’s parents small-talk about MDA chemists

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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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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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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

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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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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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