This week’s guest on The Hankie Pankie Podcast is Howie Gordon known as Richard Pacheco. Richard grew up in a Jewish orthodox family, college educated and ridiculed as a child due to being overweight. Richard embarked on a career in the adult industry, becoming Playgirl Magazine Man of the year in 1979.

Richard appeared in more than 100 X-rated films and videos. He has won multiple adult film awards for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. He was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in January 1999. Pacheco was given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) in the year 2000. And in 2006, Pacheco was presented with the pioneer induction into the X-Rated Critics Organization's (XRCO) Hall of Fame.

His book, Hindsight is a 700-page biography can be purchased on Amazon.