I enjoyed the pics of your house.

Why don't you post a pic of the door to your wine cellar? I can't get enough of that.

That was a great night in Phoenix! I remember Kourush was mixing up the 80s music (and more) and the Red Bull Vodkas had me in quite the happy dancing place. I don't so much mind if everyone else thinks I am a dork when I am enjoying myself :thumbsup

Brad

Hey, I want to say that you are one of the people truly pushing our business forward. Your efforts with shows are tremendous and I thank you for it.

Now, a bit of a story about you.:winkwink:
Back in seacaucus NJ in what, 1999? At the party JoeE (I think) threw, I remember you cornering one of my then partners on a couch. he, sitting, you standing over him. You're smoking a cig with the longest ash I've ever seen about to drop off the cig, my partner caught undernieth, just waiting for it to drop on him.
We were laughing our asses off watching from across the room.
priceless.
Thanks for all the shows over the years.

Quality Entertainment...

Sweetie, YOU were the one asking for the archives. Apparently it still has "marketability" though that's not why they keep it :)

Just like the Agent 69 cartoon - there are a lot of people who have it on their servers besides CE. When you have your own servers, and it doesn't cost anything to keep something there, YNOT? :thumbsup

I would actually pay to see you do the "electric boogaloo" :winkwink:

no. but since you're snooping where you shouldn't, do you like the design?

Ugh.. is that RRRED? :error

so do u miss me at all?

missing out on gazing upon the beauty that is "punker barbie":winkwink:

its an awful picture of her. Being a gentleman, I had to take this question out of order to defend her honor.
She's a hottie. Check out the other pic of the two of us.

it signed up a ton of webmasters in its day.:winkwink:

Good interview...

ADG Webmaster

dude, that was one hell of a night.
Here's how I remember it.
It was our first try at throwing a big shot dinner. Robert and I had somehow arrainged to pic up the tab but I really don't remember us being the organizers of the event. Anyway, its you, the botto brothers, the 4 of us, Tony morgan, and a few others at Picasso and we're going to meet with some hot shot Casino dude who wanted to buy traffic from us.
At the time, the table represented a probably what, 30% reach of the entire internet?
Anyway, he come in late, greats the maitre de by name and tells the waiter to tell the chef (whos name he alos knows) that he's here and that he wants the chef to just make us whatever he wants. he then turns to the waiter and tells him to pick whatever wines he'd like to pair with the dishes the chef serves.
Robert and I look at each other and with our eyes, say to each other,"this is going to cost us a fortune":1orglaugh
The guy proceeds to explain how we can send him traffic and he'll count it by asking the arriving surfer to use a drop down box to explain where he came from.
After about 10 minutes of polite silence by us, I think it was Sweet T who finally interupted him and said something like,"no offense, but you've got over half of the adult net sitting at this table and we have a better way of counting traffic"
it broke the ice and we went on to have a great dinner. Never did business with the casino dude but dinner was fun.

Oh, and remember when they served Bob Botto quail for the main course and he balked? He says to the waiter, "um, I can't eat this. It looks too much like pigeon. I can't eat this"

verey funny night. very great night.

Lars, we need to do dinner again. Its been too long.

dude, you look good in a party hat because you're always wearing a party shirt.
The chop is all in good fun.

hmmmm, this will take me a long time to answer.
who do I look up to?
obviously Mojo. He's like a gentleman farmer of the internet. I don't think he's ever had an enemy even when *we've* had enemies. As I've said before, he's brilliant. Other people see that and want to be around him because of it. Being his idiot sidekick has opened many door for me. :winkwink:

Another guy, is Ken Lawson. honest as the day is long. I used to say back in the day, "Ken is so honest, I'd trust him with my naked wife." and its true. hell of a guy. (of course, he never thought much of me, haha)

Ron Cadwell is another guy who has my full respect. Much like Mojo, he's brilliant. Always entertaining and interesting at our dinners, always someone I look up to. When we used to worry about processors, I ALWAYS said, as long as one of the processors is run by Ron Cadwell, this business is in good hands. Another guy I'd trust completely.

Uh, I don't think I can do a paragraph for each guy I respect in this business so let me list them.

Lars, Rich Botto, Lensman, Brad Shaw, Zimm, Kjell, John Bennett, David Vander Pole (or however that dutch bastard spells it), Steve Lightspeed, Marc De, Kevin from Top Bucks, boy there's really too many to name and I'll piss some guys off by forgetting them.:(

but I make special room for Sweet T. Tony has always always been good to us. A good friend, generous, etc. He really at times led us noobs around vegas by the hand. I',m sure it meant nothing to him but it meant everything to us. Even when we weren't doing business with him he was always great.
Thanks T.

People I look down on?
shit, again I know you hope I name names so let me think.
Well, the obvious is pimpdog. How on earth do
people do business with him. He's an immature woman hater who has no business here. Our business is dependent on woman!!!! This asshole attacks them for no reason. If you're in this business and doing business with him, you're an idiot. You can choose from so many sponsors and you choose him? its quite frankly irrisponsible.

hmmmm, who else? a good number of nameless people from the AWI board. So many thieves over there that I used to call it the "traffic cheaters board"

all the anon people on GFY of course. Very few people are truely anon, they've just burnt through thier other usernames.

then there's chat board trolls like m00d, webby, mr.soul, confucy, peaches, and several others who pretend to be in this business just so they can spew their nonsense.

That's all that matters:thumbsup

god damn it, I knew I'd forget people.
Shemp, Mike Strouse, The Hun, Dave Purehardcore (ok, so thats his old school name)

Gee Ron, I still get checks from a lot of people you mentioned looking up to. And I'm pretending to be in this business? I started in 1997 and started going to shows in 1999 and I think I met you for the first time at a show around 2001. I've probably been to more shows than you have :thumbsup I don't think I'd spend my own money to attend these events if I was "pretending" to be in the biz, lol.

I realize your issue - you have to make a decision that someone is lying between two people and it's in your best interest to choose me. I have no problem with that and I understand your reasoning. But acting like I'm not in this business and haven't been for years is beneath you. Don't lower yourself to that level.

Nice save.

I believe I was 33



and dead sexy.

I made my choice after watching how the two people in question act.
I made the right choice as one of them continues to come into my threads, uninvited, and bringing nothing but nonsense.

with cake.

"Your" threads? There are "invites"? Sorry - I thought these were public message boards. My bad. And no nonsense. I was correcting your incorrect information. And I don't lie. :thumbsup

If you want to carry a "Peaches" chip on your shoulder and see everything negatively, that's your decision.

I'll view this as being "uninvited" - Ciao :upsidedow

If I were blind, I'd bang you. :winkwink:

I've written you off. I don't know you exist except for your incessant posts in all of my threads. you'r an annoyance. if thats what you aspire to, you've succeeded.:thumbsup

How old are you now?

How old are you kids? Are they interested in business/entreprenuership(sp) or do you think they will pursue careers in the professions?

Sorry if thse question were already asked, I didn't notice them.

What's your educational background and how important has formal schooling been in who you are and how you run your business.

after reading this interview so far as well as the banter, one word comes to mind.

Enigma.


carry on.

Ha, another good story.
Yeah, back before we knew him, he showed up at our door out of the blue. The receptionist calls back to my office and says,"theres someone here to see 12clicks"
well, no one just shows up to see 12clicks at our office. I was a bit freaked so I told her to put him in our conferance room. I then told one of our sales guys to go to talk to him see what he wants, and get rid of him.
Only later did I realize who he was, what he did, and how much I liked him.

He's only one of 3 people who ever came to the office. ok, 4. I forgot about Nina Knows Best.

Hey there, I am glad you feel that way, because I really do TRY!

Seacaucus was our first Internet show in 1998. 2007 will be our 10th Anniversary - and we are still here!! (our demise has been greaty exagerated from time to time) Actually, at that time about the only people in the biz I knew by sight were Mark Tiarra, Allissa, Sammi, Rich Bono, and Lee Noga. Everyone else was just a name on a chatboard. By the time I left, I think I had met just about everyone that was important in the business at that time.

because of my dead sexy man ass.

Shemp, I value our chats on the phone and our friendship. You're welcome at my table anytime (vegas or otherwise)
Oh, and you should be hearing from me soon about the business we talked about.

The 10th Anniversary should be back in NJ - NE Coast Still alive and Representing! Been a long time since any large industry gathering has been held up there.

I'm not a big fan of drugs. I've done my share in my youth and have many funny stories to go with it but I just think at some point you out grow it.
Now, booze, now you're speaking my language.
I think booze is a wonderful social lubricant. Absolutely necissary in this business filled with shut in computer geeks.:winkwink: (no offense to the shut in computer geeks)
I've had years of fun around grey goose martinis but we all know I'm a red wine man. In slightly more than moderation, its wonderful. hahaha

Twinks and babes I've had sex with? so far, I'm as pure as driven snow. Ask any women or twink who's been to my dinners if I've ever so much as undressed them with my eyes. :winkwink:
No, the day I wake up with a roofie hang over and a sore ass will be my first.

Amelia, I don't think I've ever seen these pics.
Holy shit, we look like we're about to head upstairs for sex.:winkwink:
you certainly know how to pose for, and dominate a pic!

I agree that 12clicks is right on the money with this issue and I respect him for having the balls to speak about it despite all the shit he takes.

My famous dinners. ok, I guess they are famous because of the good time everyone attending has. Our dinners usually consist of less than 15 people, all of them tops in our industry. The venues have always been fantastic (in a gay way) such as Picasso, Delmonicos, Le Cirque, and Smith&Wollenski's
People polite enough to accept our invitation have been a who's who of the industry. Besides the people already mentioned in this thread, we've had Lensman, Ron Cadwell, Tony Morgan, Botto Brothers, JB, Mike Strouse, Shemp, Gary Kremen, Chris Mallick, Punker Barbie, Three Kisses Marie, KK, Brad Shaw, Lars, Python Aly, Loryn, Butterflied, Pornkings Carol, Jen, and Lisa, Cory, and really a host of others (again, I'll be crucified for forgetting names) but who wouldn't have a good time in that company.

As far as whether its an attempt to buy friends, can you hit these people up and see if its working?

I'm Batman

they say, everyone has a twin.:1orglaugh

if your point of view spans all of 2 years, its kinda easy to misunderstand.

at my age, don't all the sexy ones look like daughters?

man, if I were Bi, I could clean up!

It's the height and the chiseled good looks! :) :) :)

I think it's that troublemaker "I'm up to no good and you love it" expression he always seems to have.

Its his lack of wine knowledge that turns me on.

:1orglaugh Classic pic of 12clicks.. Damn he has long arms...

It still is!!

(Great Ambush, btw)

Great Ambush! Just like I knew it would be.

Exactly! Everyones food was different not to mention the Cigars and Cognac
that was an amazing dinner, I still remember the dessert I ate is was simply amazing, and the Bellagio had just opened not to much earlier so it was uber hip :) Agreed lets do Dinner again for certain , but this time I get to treat :) I remember sitting at that table looking around and thinking why am I here, but looking back I know its cuzz I was pushing so much frigging golden traffic. I also remember knowing I had arrived and was starting to make a name for myself. I sure miss the Botto Boys and the whole Max Cash Crew they were great to do business with! I believe that was 1998.

I miss those days, and I don't regret one day of them.

It's good to see you back Ron, and Mojo. :)