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4/19/01 Listen to Tuesday night's show. Read the chat here. Our first guest was internet pornographer Nick Tukhman of LikeWhoa.com hosting. James DiGiorgio: "Nick, are you a Jew?" Nick: "Oh no, no, no. "Sexhound own a counter [and the website Motherf---ers.com.ru]. Sean Boday, now with Flying Crocodile, used to work for Sexhound. And Sexhound claims that Sean stole their counter code. Which is bulls--- because the Flying Crocodile counter is nothing like Sexhound's. "I am 18 years old... I started when I was 15. I put up some link sites, similar to Persian Kitty." Jimmy: "Did you know that you were breaking the law?" Nick: "Definitely." Jim: "How do your parents feel about what you do?" Nick: "My father supported me. When I wanted to go bigger, he lent me some money. I paid him off." Jim: "My dad wouldn't put a dime into my porn career." Nick: "I came from one of the republics of Russia to America in 1994." Jim: "You eat beet soup?" Nick: "Sometimes." Luke: "How come there are so many Russians in the internet porn game?" Nick: "It's a good way to make money. And Russians don't care how they make money." Luke: "Are you part of the Russian Mafia?" Nick: "I don't think there's such a thing. No Russian Porn Mafia. There is a Russian Mafia. They're big in Brooklyn [where Nick lives]." Luke: "Have they ever tried to muscle into your business?" Nick: "No, they generally would attack businesses that involve a lot of cash, such as car washes, restaurants and nightclubs." Luke: "How many employees do you have?" Nick: "Fourteen." Jim: "What's your net worth?" Nick: "Seven figures." Luke: "Let's talk about the crazy email I got alleging crazy things about you." Nick: "I had three employees who decided to form a company while they worked for me. Everyone who works for me signs a non-compete and a non-disclosure agreement. They started leaving. The last two got fired. When I found out that they were competing with me, I sued them for violating the non-compete and the non-disclosure... Now they're trying to defame me any way they can. The email you got contains only one percent fact - my actual car." Luke: "So you don't try to pick up male prostitutes?" Nick: "No, no male prostitutes and no crack either. Seriously, driving a Mercedes, why would you even be smoking crack? Wouldn't you be sniffing cocaine?" Jim: "Nick, how would you like to own your own pornographer? How cool would that be? You're 18 years old and you own your own pornographer. Give me some thought because if the price is right, I could be for sale." Luke: "Nick, I wouldn't do it. Jimmy only shoots ugly chicks." Jim: "Hey, there's a market for everything." Luke: "Nick, are your parents proud of you?" Nick: "They're proud of the entrepreneur part." Jim: "Buy them a house and they will be proud." Nick: "I already did. "They're not going to say, 'My son owns an adult company.' They're going to say, 'My son owns a hosting company.' They're proud of me but they're not proud of me to express it to everybody they know." Jim: "My mom introduces me to people as, 'This is my son, the filmmaker.' Luke's parents introduce him as, 'This is my son the mental retard.'" Luke: "Nick, what role did your parents play in your start-up?" Nick: "I sat down with my father and I showed him what I wanted to do. I wanted to start something big. I didn't want to sit in my house in front of a computer all day. I needed start-up money and my father chipped in...and everything is fine." Luke: "What sort of father lets his son enter the world of pornography?" Nick: "It's not the world of pornography. I wouldn't put it like this. A world of pornography would be if I were a director. Internet pornography is more internet." Jim: "You guys stand a few feet away from it. You don't get your hands dirty. You don't have to worry about some guy accidentally splooging on your shoe." Nick says he's never been on the set of a porn movie in his life and that he's never dated a porn girl.
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