(Rad) Girl On: Rad Girls

Aug 02 2007 / Los Angeles, CA

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If you haven't heard of the Rad Girls by now, you've probably been hiding in a cave somewhere.  The trio of wild, hilarious and grotesque girls have lit up cable television, pushing limits and boundaries to places it has never seen.

The girls, with their pseudonyms of Ramona Cash, Munchie and Darling Clementine, recently completed their first season on Fuse.  And while they're in the middle of going to a new network (Fuse is apparently changing their focus more towards music), the first season was beyond insane. 

Want proof of how crazy and wild these chicas are?  Go to youtube.com and search 'Rad Girls', or go to  their home pages, myspace.com/radgirls and radgirls.tv.  There you can catch some clips of their antics from the first season, such as dressing up like mimes and mimicking sex scenes on public streets.  Or taking baths in pure hot sauce and rinsing in milk (Clementine looks like she was in a lot of pain from that skit).

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Their playful, jest acts entertain the audience.  Here's the thing though.  In addition to Ramona, Munchie and Clementine's creativity, these chicks are hot.  It's a very difficult thing to change the channel when you see gorgeous girls auditioning to be strippers (very terribly at that, which is what made it so entertaining), or creating a fake porno set and asking a pizza delivery guy to join in.  Only, in typical Rad Girls fashion, they replaced themselves with a guy at the last minute, freaking the pizza guy out when he realized it was going to be a gay scene!

The trio originally met in Santa Cruz, California six years ago.  Ramona and Munchie were working together at a club called The Catalyst.  "Ramona taught me how to cocktail waitress.  We worked together and became great friends," said Munchie.  "Darline Clementine and I butted heads at first.  We were both dating members of the band The Expendables.  Our relationships ended with those guys, but we became great friends.  More like sisters really."

The group has a fourth member as well, considered to be the fourth Rad Girl.  Only this "girl" is actually a guy, Jason Martinez.  Jason is the man behind the scenes, and helped make the Rad Girls what they are today.  An MTV producer who worked on shows like "Viva La Bam", Jason went up to Santa Cruz, filmed the Rad Girls pulling stunts for a whole month, created the pilot, and the television show was born.

In addition to their crazy antics, the Rad Girls rip it at surf, skate and snow.  "I looooove to surf, skate and snowboard.  My dad still teases me that I am a  twenty-something woman 'going on 15 year-old boy,' said Ramona.  "I remember when I first started to surf, I was like 'dude, this is the greatest thing I've ever done, hands down!'  I ended up taking a personal leave of absence from college to  move to Maui to surf.  I didn't have a car out there so I started skateboarding everywhere and riding this miniramp down the street from my house.

"Initially I thought of skateboarding mostly as a 'cross-trainer' for being a better surfer but then I fell for it in its own right after working for the All Girl Skate Jam in Haleiwa that winter.  After I moved back to the mainland it was only a matter of time until I had to head for the big,  powdery hills.  I haven't snowboarded nearly enough in my lifetime but I'm hoping that this is the winter that all changes."

Just to show how hardcore the Rad Girls are, Ramona literally cracked her femur skateboarding just days before shooting the original pilot.  "I cracked my femur in half dropping into a big, nasty nine-foot bowl at the Scott's Valley skate park just outside Santa Cruz.  I was in the hospital for five days getting a knee full of titanium, learning how to use a wheelchair, the whole nine yards," said Ramona.  "As Bananarama says, it was a 'cruel summer.'  But as Kurt Cobain says, 'You gotta pay to play.'"

And while the Rad Girls are on hiatus, they're still keeping their feet warm, getting ready to release a 'best of' dvd and staying on top of their game.  Just recently, at a Hot Tuna X Games pre-party/fashion show, the Rad Girls were asked to be models.  And in typical Rad Girls fashion, they mooned the crowned when walking down the cat walk, with 'Rad Girls' tattooed on their asses.  Ramona even did 'The Worm' down the catwalk.

If there is one thing about the Rad Girls, it's that these smokin' hot chicas live up to their name.  They're  RAD!