Black Cracker Josh Alan Friedman: What Screw’s Goldstein knew! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interview

Today's Guest: Writer and singer Josh Alan Friedman, author of Black Cracker, Tales of Times Square, and co-author of Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein's memoir, I, Goldstein.
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Al Goldstein broke the mold of the men’s magazine publisher.

In an industry in which Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner was that nice ographer next door, Penthouse’s Bob Guccione Sr. was its Caligula, and Hustler’s Larry Flynt was the equivalent of comedy’s Gallagher 2, Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein was off-the-charts ridiculous and scandalous – frequently at the same time.

But in many ways, Goldstein – described in the headline of his New York Times obituary as “A Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex” – was also the most human of the bunch, never seeking to elevate himself through his sex rag so much as to use it to expose a world of hypocrisy and bullsh*t.
JOSH ALAN FRIEDMAN podcast excerpt: "Al Goldstein was arrested once for showing pubic hair. He enjoyed being arrested; it was a great pleasure for him! The first arrest was eight hours after putting New York City Mayor John Lindsay's erection -- a composite photo -- in the paper. That was the first time the NYPD raided Screw magazine's offices and took Al out in handcuffs... He was a Hebrew pitbull. I wouldn't say he was a defender of the First Amendment. The First Amendment may have been his defender. But he was the one who tested it and flexed the First Amendment's muscles more than any other