Ambush Interview #35 Lenny2

[woj]

50...........

[ArkansasDave]

Go Lenny!

[Martin]

Fucking Lenny. Good guy

[MrIzzz]

lenny has the most supple nipples of any man i have ever met

great interview!!!!!

[pradaboy]

awesome interview so far... Lenny is a fun guy

[Snake Doctor]

4. Describe the lifestyle difference between a christian apologist and someone who works in porn like you.

Ahhhhhhh. For a few years, when I was in my early twenties, I was a religious zealot. I had found "religion" and immersed myself into it totally.
Now being a good christian fellow, I honestly believed that anyone who didn't agree with me was going to hell. So my mission in life was to convince people on an intellectual level that the Bible was the word of God, and that they needed Jesus or else they were going to be in a world of hurt.

I read stacks and stacks and stacks of books. I learned about all of the other religions of the world (in a skewed kind of way, since the books I was reading were explaining why Christianity was the real deal and all the other religions weren't) I lived for heated debates with Atheists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone else who didn't agree with me.
I had plans to attend seminary and become a christian apologist (defender of the faith)

However, the more I studied the Bible in an effort to prove it was the inerrant word of God, the more flaws I found in it, the more circular reasoning I found in Christian theology, and the more things I found that just didn't make sense.
My friends in the church told me I was frying my brain, I didn't need all that stuff, I just had to accept things on "faith"
However by my way of thinking, if the Bible truly was the word of God, then there would be no flaw in it. God's word would be irrefutable by anything as simple as man's logic and reasoning. Eventually I saw things for what they were, but it was a long and greivous process for me.

Its very hard to admit that you've wasted a few years of your life and even harder to give up ALL of your friends and start life over again. It was as painful as getting a divorce I'd say. However I always promised myself to be committed to the truth, and when I realized that what I had wasn't the truth, I had to give it up.

[V_RocKs]

Dork

[V_RocKs]

4. Describe the lifestyle difference between a christian apologist and someone who works in porn like you.

Ahhhhhhh. For a few years, when I was in my early twenties, I was a religious zealot. I had found "religion" and immersed myself into it totally.
Now being a good christian fellow, I honestly believed that anyone who didn't agree with me was going to hell. So my mission in life was to convince people on an intellectual level that the Bible was the word of God, and that they needed Jesus or else they were going to be in a world of hurt.

I read stacks and stacks and stacks of books. I learned about all of the other religions of the world (in a skewed kind of way, since the books I was reading were explaining why Christianity was the real deal and all the other religions weren't) I lived for heated debates with Atheists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone else who didn't agree with me.
I had plans to attend seminary and become a christian apologist (defender of the faith)

However, the more I studied the Bible in an effort to prove it was the inerrant word of God, the more flaws I found in it, the more circular reasoning I found in Christian theology, and the more things I found that just didn't make sense.
My friends in the church told me I was frying my brain, I didn't need all that stuff, I just had to accept things on "faith"
However by my way of thinking, if the Bible truly was the word of God, then there would be no flaw in it. God's word would be irrefutable by anything as simple as man's logic and reasoning. Eventually I saw things for what they were, but it was a long and greivous process for me.

Its very hard to admit that you've wasted a few years of your life and even harder to give up ALL of your friends and start life over again. It was as painful as getting a divorce I'd say. However I always promised myself to be committed to the truth, and when I realized that what I had wasn't the truth, I had to give it up.

I know your pain. From the time I was 19 to about 27 I was a religeous zealot who read and read and read. When I hit 28 I figured it out. When I was 29 I flipped back and forth. At 30 I was thinking crazy shit. Finally at 31 I realized that the majority of the bible is just plain bullshit written by man. While I still do believe in God, I think he isn't subject to 3rd grade intelligence or High School Girlism (gossip and clics), which is basically what you get in churches.

[Snake Doctor]

I know your pain. From the time I was 19 to about 27 I was a religeous zealot who read and read and read. When I hit 28 I figured it out. When I was 29 I flipped back and forth. At 30 I was thinking crazy shit. Finally at 31 I realized that the majority of the bible is just plain bullshit written by man. While I still do believe in God, I think he isn't subject to 3rd grade intelligence or High School Girlism (gossip and clics), which is basically what you get in churches.

There's an old saying
"I don't have a problem with God, its the people that work for him that I don't like"


I've got to run and pick up my son. I'll be back soon to answer the rest of the questions.

[V_RocKs]

There's an old saying
"I don't have a problem with God, its the people that work for him that I don't like"

Haha. That about sums it up.

[NaughtyAce]

These are great responses Lenny.
Keep it up only 100 more questions to go lol.

[Snake Doctor]

Nobody fired Lenny.

That's true, the only job I've ever been fired from was Chippendale's.

I had my G-string on backwards.
















And it fit

[Snake Doctor]

5. Why did the army ask you to leave?

I just wasn't cut out for the Army. My sergeants never appreciated my sense of humor...LOL
I enlisted during the 1st Gulf War, but by the time I made it to boot camp the war was over. (I remember eating alot of the pre-packaged meals they were sending back from the Gulf, since they had taken a year's worth of supplies with them and the ground war lasted all of a couple days)
The technical term for what happened to me was RIF. (reduction in force)
This was during George H.W. Bush administration, the cold war was over, Desert Storm was over, and the military was reducing its size.
I was the weakest link....LOL
I never did anything to warrant getting kicked out, but I was just barely getting by. They "asked me to quit" and I didn't like them anymore than they liked me, so I signed the papers and got sent home.
Its something that I don't regret doing, but would never want to do again.

[Chio The Pirate]

[QUOTE=Lenny2]I just wasn't cut out for the Army. My sergeants never appreciated my sense of humor...LOL
...QUOTE]

YARGH! Great ambush!! ARMY!!!!???? Here be a pic of me tank.

[Snake Doctor]

6. Is it true all used car salesmen are scam artists?

I'd say the 80/20 rule applies. 80% will rip you off if you let them and 20% are good honest people.
I was good at it because I used my humor to disarm people. If they like you they'll want to do business with you.
However, I'm very glad to be out of that rat race.

[V_RocKs]

Reminds me of my own 80/20 rule.

Supposedly my friends say 80% of what I say is complete bullshit. Just nod your head and say, "Uh-huh."

The other 20% is golden. So pure that you will want to keep one ear listening for that 20%.

[Snake Doctor]

7. What did you like more - being a stand up comic or what you do now?


Being a stand up comic for sure. It's all I ever wanted to do.
I quit doing stand up when I found out my girlfriend (at the time) was pregnant. Then it was time to be serious about life and settle down and get a "real job"
Being a road comic doesn't pay shit. As a feature act you'd get about $100 a night plus the club would pay for your room. You had to pay for all of your own travel expenses.
Most guys drive which is hell on their cars, and by the time you're done eating out 3 times per day and paying for gas etc....you're lucky to bring home $200 at the end of the week.
Headliners make more, but its still quite the grind. You really have to love doing it in order to do it for a living.
I loved it enough to do that, but there was no way I could go on the road and be a good dad.
My son being born is the best thing that's ever happened to me, and I wouldn't trade him for the world. So now I'm just an arm chair smart ass instead of a smart ass for hire.

[Mrs. Lenny2]

So now I'm just an arm chair smart ass

Talk about an understatement!!

[Snake Doctor]

8. Is 7-11 the ultimate convience store?

Slurpees rule!!! LOL
I worked for a local convenience store chain named EZ Serve for about 5 years.
Managing a convenience store is a job I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Your "freedom" is dependent on whether or not a bunch of minimum wage earning 18 and 19 year old kids decide to show up for work.

Most of the stores we had were small neighborhood stores. we didn't have any of the monster stores you see nowadays with 20 gas pumps and 4 people inside working. We had one person working at a time, and if someone decided to call in sick, or quit without notice, guess who had to go cover that shift?

What's worse is that it always seemed to happen on days that I was supposed to go see my son. I had to cancel so many visits it made me sick.

Plus I was on salary and didn't make one penny extra for pulling midnight shifts or doubles or whatever it was I had to do in order to keep the store open.

This was in the late 90's when the economy was booming and unemployment in my county was about 2%. It was ridiculously hard to find a warm body to put behind the counter, much less a dependable honest worker.

During the tail end of my time there is when I discovered the internet and stared building websites part time. I was desperate for another way to make money so I didn't have to run a convenience store any longer.

Also my son was getting older and was starting to notice when I didn't come to see him on the days I was supposed to. This was my main motivation for starting my own business where I could make my own hours. (Its so funny a friend of mine once said about me "yeah he peddles porn, but it's because of his family values....LOL)

So for well over a year and a half I worked from 5am-3pm at the store (plus whatever extra shifts I had to pull) and from 4pm until I passed out on my desk on websites. I didn't go on a date or have any kind of social life for almost 2 years.

Finally the day came that I quit my day job and devoted 100% of my working hours to this business. It was of course a risk, but one that I'm glad I took.

6 months after I went full time in this business, the convenience store chain I was working for filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its stores. So much for the "job security" and "guaranteed paycheck" I gave up on to do my own thing.

[Shap]

Hey Lenny2 (and Mrs Lenny2) I liked you before this interview and I like you even more now. I must say there is some really cool interesting info about you that I didn't know. You are one cool dude and REAL REAL funny!

[Snake Doctor]

Hey Lenny2 (and Mrs Lenny2) I liked you before this interview and I like you even more now. I must say there is some really cool interesting info about you that I didn't know. You are one cool dude and REAL REAL funny!

Hey thanks Shap, that means alot coming from you.


For those of you who don't know Shap, he's one cool cat. (and so is his "Boss")

Back when I was a soaking wet behind the ears newbie, Shap and Beth helped me out alot.
They had this deal on their TGP's called splitrev galleries. This was way before anyone had ever heard of a hosted gallery.

Basically if you built galleries for them, they'd post them on their sites and split the $$ with you for the signups they generated.

We hosted them on terra.es. It's a spanish free host that had no banners and if I'm not mistaken they allowed porn sites. (Or at least they never took the porn sites down) I had to get a friend who could read spanish walk me through the signup page.

Back then bandwidth was very expensive, you could blow $100 on one TGP picture gallery, so you had to know your shit would convert before you could submit it.

This way I got the bandwidth for free and guaranteed listings, so it allowed me to experiment with alot of different layouts and sales pitches without risking any money. This really helped me develop my sales skills and I made some money in the process.

We were using TopCash (now known as TopBucks) We were getting $40 per sign up on 1.95 trials to Iteens....and the sales were tracked by CTC (a third party) so they were "shave proof".....talk about the good old days!!!

Much later, when I bought my very first paid listing on a TGP, I bought it from Shap. For the last few years I've made a good living doing nothing but buying spots on TGP's. Shap and Beth definitely helped me on my way down that path.

If you don't already have an account with Twisty's Cash you should get one. They treat their webmasters and their members like gold

[JFPdude]

This Interview is the best so far in my opinion.

[J$tyle$]

Hey thanks Shap, that means alot coming from you.


For those of you who don't know Shap, he's one cool cat. (and so is his "Boss")

Back when I was a soaking wet behind the ears newbie, Shap and Beth helped me out alot.
They had this deal on their TGP's called splitrev galleries. This was way before anyone had ever heard of a hosted gallery.

Basically if you built galleries for them, they'd post them on their sites and split the $$ with you for the signups they generated.

We hosted them on terra.es. It's a spanish free host that had no banners and if I'm not mistaken they allowed porn sites. (Or at least they never took the porn sites down) I had to get a friend who could read spanish walk me through the signup page.

Back then bandwidth was very expensive, you could blow $100 on one TGP picture gallery, so you had to know your shit would convert before you could submit it.

This way I got the bandwidth for free and guaranteed listings, so it allowed me to experiment with alot of different layouts and sales pitches without risking any money. This really helped me develop my sales skills and I made some money in the process.

We were using TopCash (now known as TopBucks) We were getting $40 per sign up on 1.95 trials to Iteens....and the sales were tracked by CTC (a third party) so they were "shave proof".....talk about the good old days!!!

Much later, when I bought my very first paid listing on a TGP, I bought it from Shap. For the last few years I've made a good living doing nothing but buying spots on TGP's. Shap and Beth definitely helped me on my way down that path.

If you don't already have an account with Twisty's Cash you should get one. They treat their webmasters and their members like gold

I love stories like that!

... and I don't know who's funnier - you or Beth?

In the early days, Beth was one of the people I always look forward to spending time with at tradeshows. It was always a pleasure and she had one fantastic sense of humor.

Keep going Lenny - and I think we need to get together in San Diego, man!

[Mrs. Lenny2]

Hey Lenny2 (and Mrs Lenny2) I liked you before this interview and I like you even more now. I must say there is some really cool interesting info about you that I didn't know. You are one cool dude and REAL REAL funny!

Hi Shap. It was a pleasure meeting you and your wife in Vegas.

[Peter Romero]

This is a great thread & Interview. I want to thank Sleazydream for putting you on the spot and conducting this interview. He had to know alot about you to even ask these questions and now that he did, we all know alot MORE about you Lenny. If I didn't run out of coffee & have to run to the store & get more, I'd write more, but, this is all I can give you pre-caffine. It makes for interesting reading & I'm excited to learn more about you & your trial & perils in this business and beyond. Carry on, you have more questions to answer.

[Snake Doctor]

9. What exactly happened with Joel?

Let's just say I worked for him a long time ago and it didn't work out. We've both gone our separate ways. We had plenty of board drama a couple years ago and I'd rather not re-live it.

[Peter Romero]

I just got back and I'm high on Starbucks.

Get to typing!

[Snake Doctor]

10. Just how much spam have you mailed out?

Very little. A couple years ago I started talking with this guy who was heavy into mailing. He led me to believe that I could make a fortune doing very little work. (just by placing tiny classified ads in newspapers from my one bedroom apartment....LOL)

I got ripped off in a big way. I bought this CCbill list that had been sold and given away probably 1000 times. (Of course I didn't know this...I thought it was a "fresh list") I got a copy of send-safe, made up some text ads (I wasn't comfortable mailing pictures) and spammed away.
All in all I only sent out a few thousand emails and I think I made one or two sales. You live and you learn.

When I worked for Naughty America I handled mailers for them. That was alot different though, we'd mail once in awhile to our expired members and we also had a double opt in list of emails that had been collected off of gallery pages over the years. This was all before CAN-SPAM and all the lawsuits against mailers. Its a totally different ball game now, one that I'm glad I wasn't very involved in.

[MaDalton]

c'mon - we're curious

[Snake Doctor]

Sorry I'm slow....its the weekend and I'm in and out.

11. What the fuck is Project Revenue?

I thought you'd never ask.
<spam>
Project Revenue is my new affiliate program. I've spent alot of time and alot of money putting it together.
After working for a top notch program like Naughty America and after years of sending A SHITLOAD of joins to other affiliate programs, starting an affiliate program was the next logical step for me.
We currently have one paysite, RealBigRacks.com. The site features naturally busty girls and converts the hell out of big tit and amateur traffic. It also does pretty good with teen traffic since alot of our busty girls fall into the 18-20 year old range.
We've spent a fortune on exclusive content, we update the site 3 times per week, and so far our conversion and retention numbers are looking very very good.
Another thing that I believe sets us apart is our hosted galleries. Remember I've made a living the past few years on nothing but TGP traffic, so I know how to convert that traffic into $$$.
If you're tired of hosted galleries that look like they were created by a newbie with his first copy of thumbs plus, then you're going to love Project Revenue. Our galleries will convert AND help you get more bookmarks for your sites.

</spam>

[Snake Doctor]

I love stories like that!

... and I don't know who's funnier - you or Beth?

In the early days, Beth was one of the people I always look forward to spending time with at tradeshows. It was always a pleasure and she had one fantastic sense of humor.

Keep going Lenny - and I think we need to get together in San Diego, man!

I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to San Diego, but, if I do you're on the top of my list of people to hook up with

[Snake Doctor]

12. What exactly did you have to do for the old man that helped you out with your diploma?

Without getting into alot of details or a pity party, let's just say I had some family problems when I was 16. I had nowhere to live. I couldn't get a full time job because I wasn't 18, so I couldn't really support myself.
I bounced around from friends house to friends house and one day a friend introduced me to an old man who ran a private school.

Now this wasn't a private school where "rich kids" went to school. Most of the students there were kids that had been expelled from the public school system. It was a "tough love" kind of place.
I explained my situation to him, and told him that all I wanted to do was get my diploma so that when I turned 17 in a couple of months I could join the military. That way I wouldn't have to worry about where I was going to live and where my next meal was going to come from etc. Plus there was the college money and all that stuff that military was offering. It was a very attractive option for a kid with nowhere to go.

This old guy worked with me on nights, weekends, whenever I had time to go see him. I got the credits I needed to finish school in a short time, got my diploma, and off to boot camp I went. (And he never charged me a dime)

While the army didn't work out for me, I definitely did ALOT of growing up there. When I got out I was a totally different person and able to take care of myself.
There's no telling what might have happened to me if that old man hadn't helped me out. I owe him ALOT.

He's not around anymore, but I do have (serious) plans to start a charitable organization in the next few years, and it will bear his name.

[Sly]

Hey Lenny I was checking out Project Revenue the other day, was wondering what back-end you're using? And also, what do you have for available content pic wise? Movie stills or actual pic content?

[Mutt]

Since you are now becoming an expert on girls with big racks do u have any idea why there don't seem to be many girls in America porn, hell in general, with natural big racks? Europe seems to have many more big tittied young women. Is the government doing something to our young female population that is stunting the growth of their breasts?

[Jim Neil]

This Interview is the best so far in my opinion.

I second that.
This is one of the best ones so far. Great questions and great answeres!

Thanks.

[Vitasoy]

Another great one, we have here.

[SleazyDream]

awesome answers so far

[MaDalton]

[Praguer]

Cool Interview and answers

[Snake Doctor]

Hey sorry guys, my cable connection died last night so I didn't get to post anymore answers. I'll get these all answered today.

13. What cities have you lived in?

I was born in Baltimore, MD.
I've lived in Miami, Orlando, Columbus and Savannah, GA (in the army)
Now I live in Hammond, LA. Its an hour north of New Orleans and 45 minutes east of Baton Rouge. Its not the city that I would pick to live in, but my son lives here, so I do also.

[Snake Doctor]

Hey Lenny I was checking out Project Revenue the other day, was wondering what back-end you're using? And also, what do you have for available content pic wise? Movie stills or actual pic content?

We're using clickcash for the back end.
It uses mod_rewrite to track sales, it doesn't depend on cookies or php sessions like most tracking software, so its very very accurate.

It doesn't have alot of the bells and whistles that some of the other affiliate software programs do, but its been tried and tested over the years and I didn't want to go through "growing pains" with a new software company.

We do have LOTS of pic content, and its high quality photography, not movie screen grabs. High quality photography is a staple of our members area, we have multiple photo sets and videos of each girl that we shoot.
There are about 40 zip files in the webmaster area of exclusive picture content, and we plan to update it frequently.

[Snake Doctor]

Since you are now becoming an expert on girls with big racks do u have any idea why there don't seem to be many girls in America porn, hell in general, with natural big racks? Europe seems to have many more big tittied young women. Is the government doing something to our young female population that is stunting the growth of their breasts?

Yes its a government conspiracy. They weren't trying to find WMD's in Iraq, they were trying to find out where Saddam hid all of our breasts at!!!

I think there are plenty of busty girls in the US, but most of them are also "big girls"
There are far less overweight people in Europe, so the thinner busty girls are much easier to find there.

[Snake Doctor]

14. Are yahoo chat rooms any good for scoping babes?

I would have to say YES!!!
I met my wife in a yahoo chat room. She was in New Jersey and I was here in Louisiana.
I wasn't "looking for a date" or anything at the time, but we started chatting and got along really well.
After about a month of chatting we decided we should meet. I booked my flight and was there a month later. That was the best 10 days of my life.
A few months later she moved here to Louisiana and we got married in January, in Vegas, right before Internext.

[MaDalton]

Yes its a government conspiracy. They weren't trying to find WMD's in Iraq, they were trying to find out where Saddam hid all of our breasts at!!!

I think there are plenty of busty girls in the US, but most of them are also "big girls"
There are far less overweight people in Europe, so the thinner busty girls are much easier to find there.

so you think it's easy finding the girls you want over here???

[Snake Doctor]

so you think it's easy finding the girls you want over here???

Nope, just easier than it is here.

I don't envy your job at all.

[Snake Doctor]

15. Talk about your first internext.

My first Internext was an eye opening experience to say the least.
I went to the show a whole two months after I started working full time in this business. I thought I was the shit because I'd made enough money in porn to be able to quit my day job. (most of the people I knew from the message boards were just part time pornsters)

It was when I got to the convention that I realized just HOW MUCH money there was floating around in this business, and how tiny a slice of the pie I really had. I came home very determined to change that and I doubled my income that year.

I was working for Joel at the time, and he paid my way to the show. I wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise, so I do thank him for that.

[MaDalton]

I don't envy your job at all.

so you say that because your wife is reading this - or are you really sure that at least the part of shooting wouldn't interest you at all???

[Snake Doctor]

so you say that because your wife is reading this - or are you really sure that at least the part of shooting wouldn't interest you at all???

I don't want to deal with talent. They don't show up half the time, they show up high half the time, pain in the ass to deal with.

I have enough headaches as it is, I'd rather have people like you handle the other headaches for me.

[Peter Romero]

I don't want to deal with talent. They don't show up half the time, they show up high half the time, pain in the ass to deal with.

I have enough headaches as it is, I'd rather have people like you handle the other headaches for me.

Lenny... trust me, you are right about this last statement more than you know. I think I sprouted 200 new grey hairs in the last 2 weeks just from dealing with the "Talent" who have no actual skills. I'd trade jobs with you in a second except for one thing - I love photography & cinematography. If the talent could act S O M E W H A T professional, courtyous, or dignified they would be a danger to themselves with how much money they could make.

Carry on with the interview. Just needed to add my and let you to know that we are here & reading you.

[Xenophage]

Now this shit is hot !


Nice interview.