Hello friends and trashy investigators. It's Alicia and Stacey. We are so excited to share with you the

latest podcast within our Hemlock Creatives family. Y'all, it's called American Prankster, and our

friend Rainbow Valentine is an extraordinary storyteller, and she is bringing you the most

amazing story of Wavy Gravy, one of the last original beatnik poets.

But Waive is so much more than that.

He's also an improv comedy trailblazer and international comedic activist whose antics have included running a pig for president.

He totally ran a pig for president.

Y'all, this series is going to take wavy gravy from his childhood to the gaslight cafe, all of his beatnik years, all the way

to San Francisco, where the convergence of psychedelic and comedy history collide. Wavy gets out

to Hollywood, his comedy career soars.

It propels him to the famed acid tests and the birth of his hog farm commune.

Wavy even makes it out to the Woodstock Peace and Music Festival.

His historic and hilarious adventures, y'all involve everything, countless cultural watershed moments in American history.

If you like the spiderwebs, we do, I promise you're going to love the spiderwebs in this story.

Wavy fabricated the snapping for applause of an audience.

He introduced granola to hippies. Spiderwebs in this are going to

include wavy psychedelic shenanigans with countless icons like, get ready. Lenny Bruce,

Groucho Marx, B.B. King, Janice Joplin. Tiny Tim, Del Close, Ken Kesey, Neil Cassidy, Margot, St. James, the lonious monk, Bob Dylan.

Ram Dass, Albert Einstein, Peter Paul and Mary, Marlena Daytrick.

Joan Baez, Martha Graham, Alice Cooper.

My favorites, David Crosby, Jackson Brown, Abby Hoffman, too. You can't forget about

the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, too. Throw in a little mama cast, some John

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