btw, i what's going on here?

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Ed ,

I am glad I was there in Curacao with Mitch to witness you going up to your room :-)

Great Interview

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Yes, in grade school but only if you dip her pigtails in ink.

Sometimes people say they hate something/someone and they don't really mean it. They just say it matter of factly. Sometimes the feeling is very heartfelt. It just depends on the circumstances.

I hate the Toronto Maple Leafs as a team. Sick of their whining fans. I love watching them lose and seeing the anguish on the faces of 90% of the people in this city when they lose. I love going out here in the city and rooting for the other team in a packed bar. The best part is not getting my ass kicked because I am not afraid to make sure everyone knows I am rooting against the Leafs. I love going to Leaf games and wearing my Leafs Suck shirt.

I actually fel enlightened after writing this. I actually love the Leafs and this city for allowing me to be an asshole New Yorker and not having to worry about getting beaten like I would if I was in Philadelphia.

On a side note, if anyone ever needs an ice breaker to come talk to me about anything at a show or anywhere else just walk up to me and start talking hockey. You could also talk to me about music but I don't think anyone listens to the stuff I listen to anymore with the exception of some Europeans. :)

You can stop looking... get the check ready :)

You my friend are a masochist.

Thanx for a great nite saturday Ed, Im sorry I called you Adam the whole time though LOL

Interesting interview..good q & a

Nice interview going here. Good people over at Sex Search, always enjoyed working with them and just chatting in general. And anyone with the nick NYRangers gets my stamp of approval.

Ed Rocks... one of the best guys I have had the pleasure of knowing in this business.

great interview, nice pics as well.

I've been called alot worse. Besides, being confused with Adam is not a bad thing. He does great stuff for us and has become a good friend.

We should meet and drown our sorrows over the last 7 - 8 years of Ranger anguish. Nobody can understand the pain like we do.

Greg we go pretty far back and it has been a great ride. It's hanging out with people like you that still make going to shows worth it.

thanks. I guess its time to start answering where I left off.

I don't think He got up once, He kept begging me to stop the boat and let him off...
Poor little man.

Ed. You're the only man I have ever enjoyed puking with, and who I've ever seen flash his ass at Harbor 60.
That my good friend was classic.

Tony's was a place I worked at for an extremely long time. Started as a busboy and just did every other job imaginable. The place was cool. Very flexible to my needs. Allowed me to go through high school and college while making what I thought was pretty decent money to get by. I was even able to keep the job as a waiter or cook while I made it a secondary employment position. They were very flexible except for one thing. They would never let me tend the bar. They knew me better. I could drink and give away the nights profit in a heartbeat. I used to drink hard and made sure that anyone else I was giving a drink was drinking hard also. No measured drinks out of my hand. Buy 2 beers the 3rd is on me. I knew what it took to line my pockets and satisfy my liver. The bottle was my devil and they knew better then to let me near so many. Eventually I grew up so if I needed to go back to work at Tony's they could put me behind the bar now. I'd do more damage to their profits cooking now. My waist line is the prrof.

I enjoying reading this one, and great pics!

Very nice read. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Here I am making a post about how I grew up and am not the alcohol abuser I was in the past and you have to mention the boat ride and Harbor 60.

Rinaldo, lets make sure we aren't on a gondola in Vegas. Would be a bitch for them to clean out the canal.

ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


NY represent yoyoyoyooyoy

This actual story goes back before the Party Poker software and to the days when this company was involved in the audiotext (phonesex) business. The two partners at the time formed a business relationship with Ruth Parasol to do some kind of phonesex numbers. The deal didn't work out very well and it must have left a bitter taste in one of the partners mouth. A few years later when our company had put the phonesex business behind us and was focusing primarily on adult web sites, gaming and dating Ruth apparently came with a proposal about gaming software she was developing. One of the partners felt that the software was an inferior product and that we could develop something better. Whether this was out of spite or the fact that the software really wasn't very good I'll never know. I do know that we passed on the opportunity to start the relationship right there. We eventually scrapped the gaming division of our company due to some shady dealing by the person that was running it.

Now does this mean we missed out on the Party Poker sweepstakes? Not at all. Who knows where the relationship would have gone. It was just one of the incidents that helped form the current structure of our company today. And I for one am pretty happy with the way things are going. From the top down for the past few years I think we finally have gotten the right team in place and the results show.

Juicy

NY forever strong! Good seeing you in Toronto the other night. Nice to have a little more attitude in the place.

$4,000 back in 1996 when I bought the car. And yes, I am still driving it. I gave up my fascination of having multiple cool cars. Especially since I barely drive anymore. It wasn't practical in NY when I was there and it sure isn't practical in Toronto. Yes there are cars I love and have thought about buying then the head on my shoulders kicks in and I let the idea pass me by. I am actually buying a new car next year when it finally comes out. The Shelby Cobra GT500. The car is finally going back to it's glory years with the man who designed the best mustangs of all time. The car will be powerful beyond belief and I'm ready to lose my license. If I have to I will spend another $4,000 on the stereo system for that car as well. :)

If I had my way, My garage would be full of nothing but American muscle cars from the 60's and early 70's.

Looking very interesting

Very nice interview :thumbsup

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Im cheering on NYRangers now too since you guys got Lundqvist :thumbsup

Who's that sexy guy in the black shirt?

Some of my fellow Americans are going to bad mouth me for this but I don't care. When it comes to international hockey competitions I always root for the Swedes. I just love their style of play in the international games. It's not the pretty yellow uniforms either. But I am on your side with Lundqvist. The guy looks fantastic.

Now let's get the Canadians panties in a knot...The two best players in the NHL are Peter Forsberg and Daniel Alfredsson.

Ohhh yea :)

Forsberg and Alfredsson are awesome, I also like Naslund and Zetterberg alot too ( I played with Zetterberg in the junior league for 2 years)

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Just for you Ed :thumbsup
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First off I have to preface this by saying I didn't work specifically for the Howard Stern Show. I was employed by what was then K-Rock in New York. My internship in college was at K-Rock/Z-Rock and they actually offered me the gig of van driver. Now I know it's a pretty cheesey jo but I knew I could use it for it's perks and I did. You'd be amazed at what you can get for a pair of Grateful Dead or Bruce Springsteen tickets. Apparently I did a very good job at just being a van driver (maybe I was knowledgable with hand signals) so they offerred me a full time promotion assistant job. I jumped at it because radio is where I wanted to be. At the time The Howard Stern Show was broadcast from our office. So I got to work with the team quite often on appearances and live broadcasts and the TV show. It became a pretty nice gig. The crew was great and it really was a blast.

All the while I was doing this I still would drive the van on occassion when there was an event with one of the Stern show cast members. I would go with them wherever it was we were going. So as a result there would be some pretty late nights and I would drive the van home. One of these events was on St Patrick's Day in Manhattan. Being 25% Irish (we blame my mother) I of course had to enjoy the celebrations. Many a beer later I decided it would be wise to drive home. Yes I know it's stupid but I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. I made it home safely and dragged myself to bed. About an hour later my girlfriend at the time calls me and asks me to pick her up. Since my car is back in the city I drag myself into the van and head over to Jersey (New) to pick her up. One DWI checkpoit later and not enough shirts to make the cops happy I find myself locked up to a chair in the Oradell NJ police station. The resulting insurance issues and missing of the next days event didn't go over very well. Next thing you know I was out of radio and working full time for the audiotext company that was to become the company that I am with today.

Hard to learn a lesson when things actually work out so well. :winkwink:

On a side note, K-Rock was the only company to pass me up for a promotion because I was white. Discrimination of any color, race, religion or anything just sucks.

Who didn't smile at this little guy? Thanks JFK.

The Guy is a sex machine :winkwink:
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As glamorous as the phone sex business is to everyone I unfortunately were behind the scenes. My voice apparently isn't sultry enough to act as Brittany the sex starved 18 year old or masculine enough to be Jake the leather bound construction worker. So sadly I accepted my role behind the scenes.

Power Media was the company and it was the first incarnation of what Sex Search is today. It was started by two college kids in New York (one not being myself) getting phone numbers and advertising in different countries around the world. The business sky rocketed. Grant it the phone companies were a bit uneducated on what was going on but the people in the audiotext business knew how to make money, alot of it quickly. In 1994 and 95 we saw the potential of the internet and decided to point our company in that direction. www.decadence.com was launched and so was the beginning of a long and great run.

None of it has anything to do with going to the gym I am currently going to. The gym I go to, albeit gay, has many advantages. While for some it's the sauna and companionship in the locker room for me it's the location and fact that when I go in the morning this large gym is nearly empty. I could have deflected this part of the question by saying I obviously don't go to a gay gym because my gut would say I haven't been in any sort of a gym in years but people are expecting the truth.

Word of advice to any straight guy that goes to a gay gym, pick your spotters carefully.

reading your witty answers and clever banter make me stoked to work for SexSearch..Ed,your hilarious..

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of a devil wheel winner and our marketing and sales manager Adam Small I present to you a clip of the Devil Wheel. He has others that are much more entertaining (by entertaining I mean violent and by violent I mean hilarious) and I will try and get them as well.

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I hope you can see it.

This should be obvious to everyone. It's the typical educational background that leads someone into the porn business.

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart grade school for the formulative gardes 1 - 8. During that stretch I had 3 or 4 years of untouched altar boy experience. I'm sure I can dig up the garments somewhere in my parents basement and be available for any weddings, baptisms or bat mitvahs.

Albertus Magnus High School. Believe it or not I made this choice myself. I knew even in 8th grade that if I went to Tappan Zee high school I would have turned out a screw up (?) So I went to Albertus and paid the tuition myself. $200 a month.

Fordham University, Bronx New York. Now 99.9% of you will have no idea who or what Fordham is in the rand scheme of things but it's funny to see the reaction of some people who went there. It's like they lowered their standards for me. Maybe they did but they still never threw me out when the head of the radio station tried to get me expelled. He did manage to get me thrown off the air for playing my evil music, partying too much during my shift and having sex in the news room studio. I can go with the first two but damnit I never had sex in the news room studio.

To this day I am not allowed back on the Fordham campus. 3 years after I graduated I went back there for some party. I managed to get into the radio station and that apparentlt ruffled some feathers. I am now in the habit of returning their donation requests with a note saying, "Once I am permitted to come o campus and hand deliver the check might be te day you see any money from me." Go Rams!

Toronto because this is where I now call home most of the time. Cool city but a bit too passive for me. But I'm a simple guy and this town works for me.

New York is where I am from and where I intend to die bitterly. New York is where my accidentally produced children will not visit me when they put me in a home. New York is the place I love and someday I will return so it's good to have a place.

Budapest is where my girlfriend is from. She still lives there on and off through the year. Plus I love the city. I also have a shop there so it gives me an excuse to go there...beside my girlfriend of course.

Los Angeles is next. I have to spend more time in LA so that is my next logical place to make a purchase. I have been putting it off but I can't anymore. I have work that needs to be done in LA so I have to be there more. I'm not a fan of LA but as long as The Rainbow is still serving I'll be able to cope.

Guys let Uncle Ed give you a word of advice. A girlfriend from another country is amazing. Just do yourself a favor and don't teach her English.

Stupidity is the only obvious answer. The first I described earlier being in the K-Rock van. I was already in for the night yet I got up and went out again. The second was on my way home from a wedding. Half a mile from my place and instead of getting off the highway exit I decided to take a shortcut that is known to have cops sitting there waiting for speeders. Surprise!

The underlying reason beside getting caught is nothing but stupidity. Two court battles, community service, AA (which is a great place to meet girls) and counseling to see if I was ready to get my license back finally made me see the light.

This interview stuff is pretty good. All of the questions I am getting are coming via ICQ, this is easier then I expected. :)

Ah, Babenet. According to our records we're looking at over half a million in revenue that was never paid to us. That fiasco cost alot of people and I think was the end to many fly by night programs. Yes it had a major impact on us, half a million has an impact on anyone. But it just turned out to be another speed bump. We paid every single webmaster for every single signup they generated. That alone helped us in the long run. People knew we weren't going anywhere. They knew they were going to get their money and they did. We would eat the loss before even thinking about not paying the webmaster. That is something I am extremely proud of with each project we have done. We have been able to run our program on honesty. Every webmaster knows this. If you think otherwise I challenge you to prove me wrong.

IBill, do I need to say more? Another 6 figure impact. Not as great as Babenet but close enough. The negotiations have been a joke. Trying to extort business from us in return for the money that they owe us. That's not going to work and I am confident we will have the last word in this issue.

DMR, the first internet glory years. Back in the days of wild cross sells, upsells and any other way to make a buck DMR was willing to be the processor. It was just a matter of time when Visa and Mastercard was going to catch up with the industry and when it did everyone freaked out. Billing companies closed and funds were lost. DMR is the one that always stands out in my mind but there were others. I can't even remember the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were lost.

There has been money lost here and there in various deals but nothing as significant as those beauties. Again, I take pride in the fact that none of these incidents ever put us in jeopardy. We are here to stay folks. Wait until you see what the future holds. :)

Ed. I have a question for you... Why where you making frequent trips to Montrreal in your teenage years ???

Sorry, I got caught up in stuff last night and haven't been checking this until now.

Montreal started as a business opportunity when I was 16. I used to spend summers in upstate New York about 45 minutes south of Montreal. We used to cross the border to get beer for parties a couple of times a week. I saw the chance to set up a little business taking orders and running up to Canada to purchase the beer and sell it to other minors like myself. Was making a nice chunk of change until I discovered they would let me in the strip clubs at 16. Club Expose on Ste Catherine street was my second home. The strippers didn't mind my age either. Since I wasn't one of those kids lucky enough to have a teacher have sex with me I sacrificed and played with strippers. It's the reason why I took French in high school. :thumbsup

Date.com was one division of our company until Damian pretty much got fed up with all of the BS that was going on with the development and costs. He decided it was time to take the adult division of the company and break free. He had been trying but was getting no cooperation. So a team of trusted people were put together to set up the groundwork for the split and shortly thereafter it happened. How it happened was inspiring. We spoke to the entire staff and told them that we were going to break off and establish our own independent company. We explained the situation to the staff and told them that anyone that wanted to come with us was welcome to do so. We decided on the following Tuesday that everyone would come to the office and at 10 in the morning, we would all pick up our stuff and move to a space in the building that another company had lent us to use until we built out the basement where we are now. At 10 the office was full. Nobody was sick and everyone was in attendance. We came out of our office and made the announcement that we were going to now leave and go downstairs. The entire staff (except for some people that worked specifically on date.com) got up and came down with us.

I would have paid a good price to see the expressions on the face of the guys that were running date.com when they finally arrived at the office and saw all of the people that had left.

Eventually a deal was made and we've all lived happily ever after. Date has had their success and we have had ours.

Spam will always exist (how profound). Whether it's via email, cell phone text messaging or those annoying advertisements that show up in your regular mailbox everyday. However, we want no part of it. We have no reason to put our business in jeopardy and deal with all of the headaches associated with spam. As for the past, our adult sites dealt with mail traffic. But feel free to ask any of the spammers that we terminated. Mail was accepted, spam complaints were not.

Trojans and viruses. Not sure what the implication is there. Trojans and viruses suck. They are created by sexless drones sitting at a desk with action figures and junk food all around hoping to be the next underground hero. I'd rather spend my time trying to get laid personally.

Popups are popups. Great advertising in some places, worthless in others. I don't get the logic behind 6 million popups and taking over a browser. Then again I don't have to worry about misleading a customer to buy our product.

greetings from the philipines - you're doing great ed - hope you're enjoying the interview so far!