Hustler

Son of the devil.

In 1974, Larry Flynt starts Hustler.

Son of the devil.

Hugh Hefner- [upbeat rock music] Welcome, family, to the Jesse Romero Show.

In 1965, Bob Guccione starts Penthouse.

Son of the devil.

In 1974, Larry Flynt starts Hustler.

Son of the devil.

Uh, s- what, Cinemax, you could like watch it blurry on TV to see like soft-core porn.

Hustler Magazine if you could get it, your hand on it.

There was nothing like that, the videos that kids have access to today.

Oh, no.

Hello, and welcome to Molly World, a show about LA's friendliest and most walkable neighborhood, Hollywood Boulevard.

I'm your host, Molly Lambert, and on today's episode, me and my guest, Andrew T., will be checking out the Hustler Store on Hollywood Boulevard.

All right, we got you can unfollow me, but you can't unfollow me.

That's not true.

[laughs]

You can easily unfollow.

And then we'll be coming back to the studio to talk about Hustler and the Hustler Casino.

Come with us, won't you? Andrew T.-

It's just a joke.

And we read it right out of Hustler's Dirtiest Jokes, Volume 2.

So if you want to write to somebody, write to, well, Hustler Magazine, I guess, if they're even still around.

This book, I bought it used on eBay, and you can tell it's a few decades old.

Not quite as old as telegrams, though.

Without unification, all you have to be is the one that is recognized by this magazine, which is weird to me.

That's like the equivalency, that's like the equivalency of the greatest porn star being like, "Oh, hey, I got the Hustler Award," because Hustler Magazine thought that you were the greatest porn star out there.

Sure, you might have been in a lot of other magazines, but this magazine says that you're number one.

That's really what this is, right? What? What, are you trying to say-

the boxers aren't whores? [laughs]

Oh, oh, no, I'm not gonna say that.

I was just rather, rather transfixed by Hustler Magazine, which I've not heard for ages.

Um, m- myself and, and, and my friend Alan, we have, um, when we were children, younger, not children, younger, there was a, a, a pornographic magazine in Britain called Razzle, and this was the headline.

I've been getting that ques- I've been doing a lot of press.

You know, and I was gonna say, I did, did an interview with Hustler Magazine yesterday.

They, uh, asked me some different questions than you're asking me.

[laughs]

The only thing we can tell you at this time that we're positive of is that there have been two people shot here at this location.

Larry Flint, the publisher of Hustler magazine, he and his lawyer were walking down the sidewalk when somebody on the street opened fire.

His

methods vary, making him nearly impossible to catch.

He seems to have perfected the method of his killing.

In addition to blacks and Jews, Franklin sets his sights on an infamous magazine publisher who dared to print pictures of an interracial couple.

Larry Flint, the publisher of Hustler magazine, he and his lawyer were walking down the sidewalk when somebody on the street opened fire, shooting Flint in the stomach and his lawyer in the side, and then escaped.

Both are in critical condition.

That is, knowledge of false is a reckless disregard for the truth.

One of the big questions, as I'm sure you appreciate in the area of AI now, is, well, what about parody? What about satire? Isn't that all protected speech? And under Supreme Court jurisprudence, like the Jerry Falwell case involving Hustler Magazine.

Yes, it absolutely is protected, but even so in that case, but the court said, but of course, if you're able to demonstrate actual malice, knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth, calling it parody and satire in and of itself will not be a sufficient defense.

Well, we really appreciate the time.