This was such a fun night-at the epassporte dinner in Florida.

I had Charles to my right and Sleazy to my left... quite a good time and hilarious conversation!

Charles can't wait to read this Ambush! :thumbsup

Interesting ambush. At least it looks like you're running out of ambushing noobs. :1orglaugh

4.Do you think Bell and Sean will get back together? or will Jack Die? What about Sammy and Lucas?

You know of all the things coming out in the open this was truly the one I was most concerned about. When i was between offices and working at home i developed an addiction to Days of our Lives. I still tape it to this day, every day even after 9 years of watching it.

Do you think Bell and Sean will get back together? Probably but not for at least 3 more years they like to play up the love triangle

will Jack Die: One can only hope

What about Sammy and Lucas? Sammy will get her way as usual but I truly hope Lucas finally pulls his ass out of his head and hooks up with somebody else.

DRAMA!78

I can't wait to hear about question number 7! :1orglaugh

Charlie is a good man. I can't wait to read his answers!!

Matt

Ok this is the last one for a bit because I get to go spend some time with my son now. I will be back later tonight to answer more questions.

5.Do you like being a hobo at conventions?
Well after spending 6 months living in a Car after I left home being a Hobo at the convention is better then being a hobo under a bridge. We here at Karups have a bad habit of saying we are not going to any more shows. Then a week before the show we get a call from some of our good friends and decide we will last minute. This often leads to us not getting rooms in the main hotel and we have to book a room down the street. As many of you know getting off ?the bus? at 6am is not conducive to taking a cab down the street to find a place to sleep. Very often friends who know me offer to let me crash on an extra double bed. Out of all the shows I have been to I have actualy slept in a room under my name maybee 20% of the time even though there is one in my name down the street ?just in case?.

50..........

woj never misses.....

if he does the next 20 or so ambushes and gets the top pages of them I'll ambush woj

i havnt' ambushed ANY noobs - everyone has been over 1 year full time and sucessful in this biz

This is going to be a great interview! :thumbsup

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...and for the record, he is almost as bad of a dodgeballer as I am (course I was playing with a broken foot, don't know what his excuse was). :winkwink:

that's a horrible shirt, mr. andersen.

oh btw - hurry the fuck up already

6.What the fuck are you doing to Scotty Apples in this vid? http://www.ambushinterview.com/66/apples-owned.wmv

One of my finer moments! For those that don't know Scotty apples from http://www.applecash.com has a bad habit of playing jokes on others. One of his victims came to me knowing I am twisted and asked to help with some revenge. We apparently took it to far with the first bucket so we decided to be nicer and only get him with the clean second one. After partying for so many hours seeing him to tired to even get out of the ice water in his bed was priceless. Though I have a feeling I better watch my ass at the next show in a few weeks.

Here's a favorite of mine ... (Rich, Charlie, and Tim in a Train)

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I knew that one was going to come back to haunt me as soon as you started posting..

Brad I am there name the day and time and we can top it off with flight club when were done.

Of course, it was bound to.

It's unfortunate that I don't have any pics from the morning in phoenix with you and tim snuggling up after a hard night on the town. free loader =)

It's been a pleasure getting to know you. I'm excited to read the rest of the responses to your ambush and looking forward to adding many more rediculous stories over the coming years

Charlie Charlie Charlie. What is there to say? He's most def. one of a kind and one of my favorite people in this biz! Great responses so far keep'em coming :)

7.Why did you call Vanilla ugly in Miami?

For the record I did not call her ugly. My exact statement to her after she asked me about a cute girl that walked in was ?she is way uglier then you? Meaning though she was cute she was a drop in the bucket compared to the lovely Vanilla. Though I am a wizard at sales mainstream or not I still get tounge tied around beautiful ladies and Vanilla definitely makes it hard to talk :) Its amazing how comments made to be compliments often get twisted by me coming out so people have to think and wonder was that a compliment or an insult?

its about time you started the affirmative action ambushes and interviewed some gay webmasters.

Excellent Karups is all class !

8.Have you ever been drunk or high at a webmaster event? discuss in detail.

LOL are you kidding me? Like I said before work hard party hard. The only time partying is an issue is if you let it affect your daily duties. I have always believed that the rewards in life are the moments you will never be able to duplicate again. I am sure this question had more behind it but I have been drunk so many times and had so many crazy show stories I don't know which one your trying to ask about.

http://www.hqgal.com/supergay.gif right on!

Sorry for the delay's in answering we have been beta testing a new backend for our affilite program.

9.Ever fucked a girl that works in the industry?
America listen to me I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

A great wise individual took some time to get to know me a year ago in LA and gave me some sagely words of advice. Never fuck a girl in this industry it only leads to problems. Tease them, play with them, but never do it. I have lived by this since then.

10.Talk about the time you went to webmaster access in Atlanta and had to go show shopping cause you didn't bring the right shoes.

As we already established I am a bit of a grungy individual. I stopped paying attention to how I dress when it no longer affected how I was looked at in the work place. That being said I went to the Atlanta show with only sandals. This was shortly after switching our hosting to National Net the best host on the net. They offered to take us out to some hot club that was almost impossible for an average joe to get into. Tony takes one look at my sandals and is like ?no way? God could not get me in with those on. Lucky for me Aaron M was walking past and offered to take me to this downtown shop that had the best bad ass clothes in the city. So Aaron Dave and me all get on the city subway and shoot down to some shady ass section of the city. The store didn't look like much from the outside but they had some fly ass shit. I bought shoes and a whole new wardrobe just for the night and went back to the hotel. That was the first time I ever walked into the club and the bouncers actually stopped me to tell my how pimp my outfit was. Thanks Aaron I still sport the gators at shows from time to time and it has gotten me hit on more then once.

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11.Just why is your favorite strip club called 'fight club'?

Well anybody that has come up to visit the Karups crew has been to or knows of flight club. It is by far the best strip club in all of Michigan. Filled with hot UofM and MS students earning there way through college. In addition if you have ever been out with Lou you know he doesn't do anything small or half assed. Walking into that place next to Lou is like walking in with a celebrity. The only night I haven't seen the bouncer kick people out of his booth was when Eminem was there and then the crew got to sit in the next booth over. Flight club has been good to us over the years that is actually were we met Tony Morgan and many other industry people for the first time. It's also were creative brain storming sessions take place because you can sit down over food talk about marketing porn without everybody around you giving you dirty looks.

12.Why do you have one name for friends and one for everyone else?

Doesn't everybody? Its just the way it goes with me. I have had so many different ?lives? that each group thats known me has a different nickname or impression of me or who I am. Having a different name for each makes it easier for me to keep track of it all. Almost everybody calls me Charles which is funny cause I hated that name growing up. When I started in the industry I was going to just go by Charlie but Lou has introduced me as Charles to everyone so it just kind of stuck.

LOL that was a great day. My bet is you were so afraid I would make you look bad you broke your foot to get out of having to compete. The flu you were figting off didn't help much either. Next year team Karupted Monkey's will come back strong and healthy. and Mr. Izzy you better not be looking to become a free agent.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

13.What was it like selling crap door to door? discuss
Horrible but vital to who I am today sums it up. Sales is one of the few things that regardless of education you can still make a lot of money with no salary cap if your good and at the right place. Being my family had no money and they could not afford to send me to school finding a way to be successful and liquid became a top concern of mine. From a very young age (10) I started looking for ways to get the things I wanted as a kid like GI Joe's and the such. Going door to door introduces you to a lot of freaks in your neighborhood you didn't know existed. In addition getting rejected and shot down so many times before I got into the sales industry as an adult gave me a huge advantage. I wasn't scared of the ?NO? like newbies often are. I believe if I had not grown up so hungry and determined to be something, with the years of hard work under my belt I would not have made it to the success I am today.

14.Discuss your time working as a stock broker and things that happened in this job in detail.

Well this one could take up pages and is much better told in person. I became a broker two weeks after I turned 19. I was and still am to this day the youngest broker ever at the firm, in addition to holding the record to the largest opening trade in the firms history. We mainly pushed small cap IPO's private placements and bridge loans. Very speculative extremely risk ventures that were almost guaranteed to fail. However when they work they worked big and made up for all the looser's (usually). It was all good and fine until the day the we got shut us down. A few of us were hand picked by the senior partners and those of us with clean reputations were sent us off to another location for a bit so we could come back to NY when it all was done. It was not till we got back that we found out the owners had been selling thier personal shares out to our clients. This is when I realized that no matter how legit or reputable a business is in the mainstream eyes that it can still be and often is all a charade. The opinion of me people developed because I made it as a stock broker was only worth so much if I could not sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror. I made a decision to never work for anybody if I did not have knowledge of how the entire operation operated to verify it was clean and proper. Needless to say I never went back to the brokerage industry and have since let my license lapse.

Of all the job over the years I have never been prouder of my involvement with any company more then Karups. What is most puzzeling to me is the same people that told me good job and were so proud of you when I was a stock broker are now the first to judge me as a pornographer. Yet I can sleep at night knowing we work had to deliver a great product with more updates then anybody and running a clean program that keeps both webmasters and members satisfied (pun intended).

15.How exactly do you start a web development company and not own a computer?

The short answer is with a big pair of balls. We used to joke around as brokers that all you need to sell stock is 3 letters and a juicy story. The same holds true for websites. People buy because they have a need (thought they may not know that yet) and you are there to fill it. All I had to do was explain that there competitors are all going after the pie and they can't get a piece if there not in the game. A few Glen Garry Glen Ross ABC closes and a check arrives the next day.

A gentleman I met along the way told me one day why we would always be in a position to make money. During the gold rush in California lots of people moved west to make it big on gold claims. Some hit and became rich but many more failed. However there was one guy guaranteed to make his no matter what and that was the man selling shovels. It takes big balls to go out on your own and try to hit it big with the next big site or program. I admire anyone who goes out and tries it but personally my bet is on the safe money. Finding a niche people need in order to purse there dreams of hitting it big like software, hosting, feeds, and the such.

Great interview! Charlie has been one of my favorite people in the industry since we met at the national net suite in Atlanta! :1orglaugh

16.Talk about your therapy sessions at the Deville's house
Wait a minute shouldn't this be covered by doctor client privileged? Stewie and Vanilla are two of the greatest and coolest people I have ever met. It was a true honor to get to know them over the years and I can only hope our friendship continues to grow as time progresses. I have never met a married couple that has so much of an understanding of what it takes to make it in a relationship that is constantly under a microscope in our industry. They were there for me during some tough times and really helped me get my head back on and realize what family and marriage is all about. Thank you guys!