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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Flower Power

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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What we equate with acid, hippies, and garish polyester prints actually began as a theatrical way of protesting bans on free speech and the Vietnam War. When the hippies got hold of it, it definitely transformed.

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0:00.0

Hey friends I'm Jessica Kapshaw and this is Camilla Luddington and we have a new podcast call it what it is

0:06.8

You may know us from Graceland Memorial, but did you know that we are actually besties in real life?

0:13.4

And as all besties do, we navigate the highs and lows of life together.

0:17.3

Big or small, we are there.

0:19.1

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0:24.8

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0:29.3

Hey welcome to the Short Stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're going to talk about

0:37.6

flower power, so let's start doing that right now.

0:40.0

Yeah, kind of specifically the two flower powers because there was one flower power movement in

0:47.0

1967 specifically in end of 68 that had to do with politics and protest and then there was a

0:57.8

second flower power movement kind of either concurrently or on the heels of that

1:02.3

that was a little bit more about like,

1:05.0

hey man, like wear this cool shirt and listen to this music, we're in San Francisco.

1:08.8

Yeah, that is a good point.

1:10.3

And one more from the other, I think the whole thing originally had its origin in 1965,

1:19.6

thanks to Alan Ginsburg, who would become one of the luminaries.

1:23.3

He was like Neil Cassidy, one of those rare beat generation guys

1:29.4

who was able to kind of make the transition over to Hippie. And so he became a

1:34.3

luminary of this this whole scene, the very beginning of like the hippie movement

1:40.1

in the 60s. And so by this time he was already a very respected counterculture person and so

1:46.3

when a bunch of Berkeley students decided that they were going to protest if he had any advice for him and boy did he ever

2:00.9

ever yeah he wrote a essay to give out to the protesters called

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