Speaker 1: Hey, Michaelangelo here. You know, Joe and Jack have interviewed
Speaker 1: a lot of different people over the years, and one
Speaker 1: of the most I don't know, strangest, weirdest interviews they
Speaker 1: did was with Larry Flint back in two thousand three.
Speaker 1: Mr Flint passed away yesterday at the age of seventy eight. Um.
Speaker 1: He was known, of course for Hustler Magazine and other
Speaker 1: pornographic ventures, but he also fought for freedom of speech.
Speaker 1: He was big on the First Amendment. Uh. Larry Flint
Speaker 1: was a candidate for governor believe it or not, during
Speaker 1: the recall election in California, and so Joe and Jack
Speaker 1: talked to him, and UM, here's how it sounded. But
Speaker 1: before we play it, I just want to say it
Speaker 1: was a long, droning interview. It was kind of it
Speaker 1: was very uncomfortable. I remember running the show and it
Speaker 1: being very uncomfortable just because, quite frankly, we couldn't understand
Speaker 1: him very well because he did get shot in the
Speaker 1: spine and it did affect his speech. You know, Plus
Speaker 1: you're talking to a pornographer. Hustler magazine is very controversial
Speaker 1: and um certainly used to be very controversial in way
Speaker 1: not my cup of tea. But so, without further ado,
Speaker 1: here is uh Joe and Jack interviewing Larry Flint back
Speaker 1: in two thousand three. We're waiting for the appearance via
Speaker 1: telephone of Lawrence Flint. Gubernatorial candidate. Larry Flint will ask
Speaker 1: him how the campaign's going and how he likes his
Speaker 1: chances for tomorrow. Yes, okay, great, Mr Flint is on
Speaker 1: the line. Good morning, Larry. How are you all right?
Speaker 1: How are you? We're great? How's the gubernatorial campaign going?
Speaker 1: How do you like your chances tomorrow? All right's going
Speaker 1: pretty good? But uh, I didn't really uh So I
Speaker 1: had a shot, you know, but I felt the platform
Speaker 1: was cheap, and I I wanted to say about how
Speaker 1: could be approved rationally farm perfect ly far and allowing
Speaker 1: slot machines for priving to see those I felt that
Speaker 1: would balance the budget. And so I've been able to
Speaker 1: get out my word over the last let's say week.
Speaker 1: H it's not pretty effective. Maybe some of some people
Speaker 1: will say, hey, the do it's about ibi for hour,
Speaker 1: or maybe some of the candidates to Bob, they feel
Speaker 1: the same way. You know, I almost wish you'd taken
Speaker 1: that gambling thing a little longer and louder, just because
Speaker 1: I've always wondered, you know, if if it's okay to
Speaker 1: run a casino for an American Indian, why not white
Speaker 1: people with a gigantic budget deficit. Either gambling is okay
Speaker 1: or it's not. Yeah, well you know the sad part
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, every state in the U for the Indians,
Speaker 1: have gaming. Uh they have compacts where they pay a
Speaker 1: large procent pacenti to the revenue to the state, but
Speaker 1: not in California. But say the reason why they don't
Speaker 1: in California because you don't know four years uh Uh,
Speaker 1: the Indian to pay us over five billion dollars. So
Speaker 1: and they give him for that body for one reason.
Speaker 1: One reason, so well, they don't want to have to
Speaker 1: share a piece to pie with the state. And also
Speaker 1: they don't want the private zeros to get any special
Speaker 1: rights because they don't want to compete with them. It's uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: the most unfair thing I've I've ever witnessed for my
Speaker 1: thirty five years and big in business, I would agree
Speaker 1: with you on that one. Uh. Speaking of business, how
Speaker 1: goes the porn business these days? What do you prefer? Erotica?
Speaker 1: It's great, you know, but I knew I can never
Speaker 1: get the people of California to separate my candidacy for
Speaker 1: my profession. But uh, you know what the hell, one
Speaker 1: of these days, uh, all these people won't be so
Speaker 1: up tired about SEXTI. Larry Flynn is speaking of the
Speaker 1: thirty ninth anniversary of the free speech movement on campus
Speaker 1: in Berkeley. Uh, he's a guest, I guess of the
Speaker 1: a c LU Martin Luther King Union, seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1: What's the state of free speech in America? Mr? Flint?
Speaker 1: Not very good? You know. They the Patriot Act, pretty
Speaker 1: hefty blow, you know. Uh, and they used the oldest
Speaker 1: trick in the book of politish wants to copyish after
Speaker 1: you just scare the people and tell them about you're
Speaker 1: gonna fix it. And they only scared the American people,
Speaker 1: but they scared Congress as well. Now we've got a
Speaker 1: situation where the president attorney general had it either right
Speaker 1: to attorney or can have access to your medical records
Speaker 1: or financial records, even the books you check out of
Speaker 1: a library. Um, and even if you do have an attorney,
Speaker 1: all of your uh conversations can be can be monitored
Speaker 1: by them. And what happened. The average of record says, well,
Speaker 1: that's for territs that don't affect me. Well, that's not true.
Speaker 1: This is not limited just people involved in terrors. So
Speaker 1: it could be used and gets any American in the country.
Speaker 1: And as a breakers what said you know that people
Speaker 1: who are welling to trade their civil lebrities for security
Speaker 1: deserve neither. And I think UH Bush could have got
Speaker 1: a lot by taking a page out of their Franklets book.
Speaker 1: It's it's really really a very frightening situation. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any chance of paper UH Patriot Act too,
Speaker 1: through which they're trying and there is a lot of
Speaker 1: UH Congress, food Etceterators on both sides of the out
Speaker 1: which are trying to roll back the UH patriarch one
Speaker 1: now as it is because people are beginning to realize
Speaker 1: that they gave h the government to biche say if
Speaker 1: they would have lonely stopped to think, you know, Americans,
Speaker 1: but a beacon freedom in the world, Uh everything to
Speaker 1: it is exist. And when we after nine eleven push
Speaker 1: the Patriot Act, that means that we was getting right
Speaker 1: now in the mud with the terrorists and we were
Speaker 1: no difference in amor no better, and we were confessing
Speaker 1: that our court systems, you know, I could not deal
Speaker 1: what Terry is. Man. Uh, it's one of the most
Speaker 1: awful things that I don't know with. Uh, well, listen
Speaker 1: to that. We're at risk of running out time. I
Speaker 1: just want to say, you know, no matter what you
Speaker 1: think of Mr. Flint's core business, he is one of
Speaker 1: the great first Amendment watchers and American history. But one
Speaker 1: more question about the core business for the record, sir,
Speaker 1: not you as a businessman, but as a man. Silicone,
Speaker 1: yes or no telicone? Is that what you say? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a natural man myself. You hate it? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: we wondered where you stood on that show. Larry Flint
Speaker 1: is a king tonight at you see Berkeley about free speech,
Speaker 1: the what God gave a woman, That's what I'm saying. Well,
Speaker 1: if you've ever browsed through a Hustler magazine, and I
Speaker 1: actually haven't looked at one for years, Jack, come back
Speaker 1: to Hustler. But um, if it's anything like it used
Speaker 1: to be, free speech is alive. And well I mean
Speaker 1: Patriot Act aside. I mean, you know, obviously there's plenty
Speaker 1: of uh, just a raw sex They're available in any
Speaker 1: news stand practically in America, and just they say in
Speaker 1: Husler magazine, I mean, the most amazingly vile things about
Speaker 1: politicians that have ever been said in the history of
Speaker 1: the earth and get away with it. So I mean,
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, you gotta admit free speech is doing
Speaker 1: all right. Yes, yes, it bears watching. I mean I
Speaker 1: couldn't even describe to you some of the things they
Speaker 1: say or depict about, you know, presidents or senators in
Speaker 1: that magazine, and nobody's you know, nobody's coming down on
Speaker 1: them for that. Often they portrayed them as human as
Speaker 1: I I agree with him on the Indian casino thing.
Speaker 1: It is the most amazing thing that has happened that
Speaker 1: you allow one business to go out there based on
Speaker 1: race and they don't have any competition, they don't get
Speaker 1: any competition, and they don't have to pay any taxes
Speaker 1: based on race. Standing back to Fifty's absolutely amazing. It
Speaker 1: is stunning. What a crazy, crazy world. Larry Flint, first
Speaker 1: time I've ever actually talked to him. Yeah, yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: like to have a conversation between Larry Flint and Ozzy Osbourne.
Speaker 1: I think it sounds something like this funny. We can
Speaker 1: you imagine that little azzi with it? No, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't make fun of a guy who's shot in
Speaker 1: the spine. I can't. I just can't. How about a
Speaker 1: guy who's bitten the neck by a tiger? I see
Speaker 1: your point. Let's what time is the regroup? I think
Speaker 1: we had a regroup. All right, let's regroup. We're completely ungrouped.
Speaker 1: Your calls stand up to show Please hold just for
Speaker 1: another moment or two. Figure. I'm afraid he was gonna
Speaker 1: die on the phone. I was really worried about that.
Speaker 1: Ah God, that's uncomfortable. You know, normally we're okay with
Speaker 1: interrupting people. I feel it feels feels disrespectful. He's a pornographer,
Speaker 1: can be disrespectful to Larry Flint. Well, that was an
Speaker 1: interesting interview. I guess it's kind of weird and strange.
Speaker 1: Um not particularly great actually, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: But we did find out that apparently Larry Flint he
Speaker 1: liked natural breast, and uh so do Joe and Jack Well,
Speaker 1: and that that was really about it. I mean, he
Speaker 1: never did become governor, obviously, and it was just a
Speaker 1: strange interview. Was one of those interviews that we had
Speaker 1: a controversial figure on the air, but really not a
Speaker 1: whole lot came out of that interview, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. He kind of talked, said his thing, and
Speaker 1: then left and that was pretty much it. Although I
Speaker 1: did like the fact that I used porno music to
Speaker 1: uh as bumper music to go out from the segment.
Speaker 1: That was kind of fun. I thought that was clever.
Speaker 1: So well, I guess that's it.