F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich): @DrSuzy Go Bonobos in 2023 & RIP Willem De Ridder

Warning: Explicit Conversations About Politics, Culture, & Sexuality

It’s the birth of a new year, but also the death of a good friend, Capt’n Max’s former partner in revolutionary publishing, radio, art and adventure, Willem de Ridder. Willem just passed away (we hear from Covid), so we say farewell to this great artist, storyteller, publisher, radio and TV producer, FLUXUS art movement leader, and founder of SUCK, the first European erotic magazine, featuring luminaries such as Germaine Greer, a copy of which found its way around the world and into the hands of another young publisher named Maximillian R. Lobkowicz, aka Mickey Leblovic. 

When Willem met Mickey, the two began a great friendship and collaboration, publishing some of the most innovative sex magazines, Love, Hate, Finger, God, Annie Sprinkle’s Hot Sh*t, The Sprinkle Report, The Ladies Room, the LA Star and more. On this show, we talk about their life and work together, the history of underground publishing in LA, as well as their “pirate” radio shows in Italy and work with many great artists and adult stars like Annie Sprinkle who was Willem’s lover for a time. Together, they traveled through Europe and America, making art, getting busted (22 times!) and publishing “reader-written” magazines that changed the world. 

Yes, changed the world. Now, with social media, 90% of what most of us read is “reader-written,” but back in the Swinging ‘70s, it was unusual if not blasphemous to publish the prose, photos and art of readers—not professionals—with virtually no editing or judgment. An amazing, if unheralded accomplishment for our Max and the late great #WillemDeRidder. 

Though most of this show is one wild De Ridder story after another, we manage to squeeze in shoutouts to our beloved SUZY award winners; Louisiana demanding ID to view erotica; Prince Harry getting spanked by a cougar; Julian Assange, still tragically imprisoned for practicing journalism;  Ron Jeremy declared “incompetent” to stand trial due to dementia; and to the MAGAts in Congress creating the political chaos they are paid by their oligarchical sponsors to create. #GoBonobos in 2023! Make Kink Not War! 

Read more prose & watch the shows: https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-willem-de-ridder

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