Achyutananda Das (aka Charles Barnett) who is now 72, became Srila Prabhupada's student at the age of 17 and soon lived in India for the next 11 years, where he became a successful musician and Vedic lecturer.

Prior to that, he was the flautist for counterculture musician Richie Havens, who led off Woodstock.

Achyutananda recorded musical albums in the 1970s and has also more recently published a well-received book about the pioneering days of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and his memories of his spiritual master and other spiritual mentors in his life.

We discuss all these things and more in this the sixth episode of the Gargsville Podcast.

He got his Bachelor’s at the University of Miami, his Master’s at Boston University and was awarded a Fellowship at Columbia University.

We discuss these things and much more, including the anti-semitism his father dealt with in Miami in the 1940s, and his service in the Marines during Korean War, where he wrote for Stars & Stripes.

Will's younger brother, Marty Lewis (the voice of Old Uncle Hound), also makes an appearance.

Bio from brittanybrave.com:

Brittany Brave is a NYC-based comedian, actress, writer, producer and host. Born in New Jersey and raised in Miami, Florida, Brave used these unfortunate facts to develop a line of comedy that is as animated as it is cerebral.

Having both trained and performed at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), iO, Second City, The People’s Improv Theater, Magnet Theatre, SAK Comedy Lab, Impromedy Miami and more of the world’s leading schools, Brave has accumulated more than 15 years of on-stage experience with a focus on improv and sketch comedy. 

In 2017, Brave began to perform stand-up and was quickly named an Emerging Talent by TBS Network at the New York Comedy Festival, and two short years later (2019), the festival selects Brave to perform on their Best New Talent showcase at Caroline’s on Broadway. In addition to Caroline’s, Brave performs stand-up comedy nightly at Broadway Comedy Club, Gotham Comedy Club, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, LOL Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Yonkers Comedy Club, Lucy’s Laugh Lounge and more. She celebrated her first tour in fall of 2018 with LA-based comedian Josh Novey (Jay Leno, Amazon Prime). The two performed original comedy on the Nobody’s Happy Comedy Tour, traveling cross the Northeast U.S., raising money for Stronger Than Stigma, a non-profit organization advocating for mental health awareness.

Not only an acclaimed performer, but an accomplished producer, Brave runs two critically acclaimed, monthly comedy show’s Improvised Tarot at QED Astoria and Rock Candy at Rockwood Music Hall. Rock Candy is the venue’s only original stand-up comedy series and has welcomed the likes of Mark Normand, Harrison Greenbaum, Sean Donnelly and more, as well as praise from The New York Times for being a must-see weekend comedy event.

Brave has made appearances on TBS, MTV, Sirius XM, The Jerry O. Show and The Wendy Williams Show, and local networks like NYC’s BRIC TV and BalconyTV, in which she was the on-camera personality for the Manhattan and Brooklyn branches of the series from 2016-2018. Her comedy, specifically her material on gender dynamics and abuse, has been praised by ELLE Magazine, Ashton Kutcher’s A-Plus, sheBOOM and Ciao Magazine.

Brave, a survivor and open advocate for domestic violence awareness, co-hosted and produced the podcast, Violently Funny.  She also launched and runs Cat Call (@wearecatcall), a live platform and organization committed to advancing female leadership and camaraderie. The organization has established partnerships with Bumble, Sofar Sounds, Deep Eddy Vodka, SassClass and more. 

Brave does all this and is still somehow only 4’11? What a crime. 

Billy was born in County Cork, Ireland, and grew up on the streets of the Bronx. He served in Vietnam and after he returned to New York was a Teamster for Jimmy Hoffa, a pub and restaurant owner, and before becoming a NYC firefighter for over 20 years, an illegal bookie.

A self-described obsessive personality, Billy struggled for years with addiction to alcohol, gambling, drugs and sex.

After the tragedy of 911 and the loss of 343 of his fellow firefighters, he sobered up and attended the University of Florida.

At the age of 62 he earned his journalism degree and began to write . He has written two highly praised weekly columns, two screenplays and numerous political pieces. He has authored or co-authored four books, the first one being the critically acclaimed "Confessions of a Bronx Bookie."

He currently co-hosts a podcast with "Murphy Brown," "Head of the Class" and "The Don Rickles Show" producer Frank Chase called A Mick A Mook and A Mic.

Gargs also checks in with long-time friend AV Erving (the Singing Chef), who resides in the San Diego area. They discuss the trend of more Californians choosing to live in their vehicles. AV also touches on his early life growing up in Hare Krishna boarding schools from the mid-seventies to mid-eighties.