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2. Homegrown is celebrating twenty-five years in business. How long have you owned the company out of those twenty-five years?

Homegrown Video was literally the first company to start distributing people's homemade porn and at least imo the company started a revolution in porn that reverberates through to today. However, back in 1992, the original owner had done a good job of living way too hard and spending way too fast for his own good. When competition started coming around like Mr. Peepers OGV and others then sales slowed down but his bills didn't and eventually he fell in with some unsavory individuals that were the kind of people that negative porn stereotypes are made from.

Anyone remember that scene in "Goodfellas" where the gangsters take over the guy's bar and run through his credit while selling bottles out the back door? That was about what happened to the original owner of HGV.

He had to eventually declare bankruptcy in San Diego. By this time my ex-wife and I had learned a thing or two about the business after trying for many fruitless months to sell our videos to Homegrown Video. We finally learned the reason our tapes were languishing there and that is when, on my ex's suggestion btw, we decided to try and raise money to buy it out of the bankruptcy. We finally took control in 1993 and have been at the helm ever since - along with my brother Moffitt who came in as a partner after finally getting over the shock that he had a brother in the porn industry.

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