The Loudest Mimes in the Room: San Francisco Mime Troupe vs. the SFPD
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mimes and police: two great tastes that don't taste great together. In the time between the Beat Generation and the Summer of Love, a band of misfit mimes joined forces with a future super-promoter to fight for the rights of performace artists and freedom of expression (also the freedom to get freaky while miming). Clashes with cops ensued, but no invisible box could hold the mimes back. This is the true story of how mime culture changed history...and gave us hippies.
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