Hey, investigators, Alicia here to tell you about a new show that I am so, so excited about.

My friend Rainbow Valentine has been collecting the stories of the first generation of women to have access to the pill, rock and roll and LSD.

In her new podcast, Psychedelic Women, Rainbow talks to the women who lived and made the counterculture in 1960, San Francisco, and eventually the world.

It is a fascinating, beautifully crafted show featuring real life stories that will blow your mind.

Coming up, super special for y'all is the trailer for psychedelic women, and episode one lands today. Go subscribe and peace out, y'all. One time I was sitting

backstage, like, this is like in 67 or something, and I'm on a bench with Janice on

one side and pig pen on the other, and they're both just drinking and out of it. That's my mom.

She's talking about Janice Joplin and Ron Pigpen McCurnan, a founding member of the Grateful Dead.

I just sat there for 10 or 15 minutes, and they looked at me they looked at me oh hi i'm rainbow valentine and

this is a series about the pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s who left behind societal tradition

expectation and uniformity to create produce and participate in the psychedelic revolution

the people that stand for we're giving away free trips of sandals, the real thing.

And so I said, sure, I want to have my third eye opened.

I'm going to go through the doors of perception.

We had all started taking acid by that time.

Obviously, my mom was a Mary prankster and a big proponent of psychedelics.

One night we had a full theater and somebody dosed the whole crowd, so there was like 900 people

dosed. And we had to lock the front door so they couldn't leave and get busted.

So my mom, her friends, my friends' moms, and their friends were some of the first women in the

history of humanity to have access to the pill.

So he took me to a doctor right away. He was giving everybody birth control.

LSD. So at Millbrook, we took acid with Leary and Albert.

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