Ed Powers hosted Rick Masters and his wife Charlese L'Amour, French porner David Mondo, and internet stripper Venus Sunday morning 8/30/98. Rick derided the number of wimpy Viagra-gulping male performers. Ed told him to watch his language or his allegations would show up on Luke F-rd's web site.
This brought a chorus of boos and remarks about what a jerk Luke is.
David Mondo says he started in mainstream but has now made numerous pornos. He plans to shoot nonstop in LA for the next few months, both gonzo and features. "We are dealing with the honorable Jim South."
Second call comes from Dago. "Why is it really that you guys don't like Luke? I've talked to Luke on the phone. My girlfriend is an ex-porn star. [Both statements are true. They have serious allegations about Jim South which I have quoted on my site.] If you want to save your industry, you have to get rid of people like Jim South who are banging 17-year olds…"
Ed: "Oh come on, that's not true. First, I have nothing against Luke. He's a journalist. He might put on his site what anybody says, but that's what he does."
Liz: "You [Dago] lie."
Dago: "You guys want to back him [Jim] up… Old boy network. I know two girls under 18 that have done it."
Liz: "Girls lie. Jim South would never do that."
Dago would not recommend any agent.
Ed: "Jim South is an upstanding man."
David: "Jim South has an incredible reputation in Europe. Most big European production companies recommend Jim South. They work with him all the time."
Dago: "Of course. That's the point. If they don't recommend him, he won't supply them with girls."
Dago refused to detail his porn connections.
Ed: "In 1994, I won the Humanitarian Award from the Berkeley Popular Culture Society. And the man who gave me the award is on the line. John, the founder…"
Ed talked about his 87-year old mother Kitty who's listening to the show.
Luke F-rd phones in.
"I wanted to review the allegations about underage women [at Jim South's]… The three biggest names in porn who performed porn while under the legal age of consent, 18 in the US, were all through Jim South. Traci Lords, Clarissa Barrington and Alexandra Quinn. These girls faked their IDs. There is no evidence that Jim deliberately went out there and sought under age girls… Though Jim's rival agent Reb Sawitz has said that representatives of Jim's World Modeling tried to recruit Reb's 16-year old into working in porn. And when she said, 'look, I'm only 16,' Reb said Jim's reps said, 'we can work around that.'
"Jim's the most powerful man in porn in his area so he is going to attract a lot of jealousy. He's professional, intelligent, well-organized, a good businessman… He represents about 2/3 of the leading talent…"
Ed: "But you also say that a lot of people BS because they are jealous."
Luke: "That is undoubtedly part of it, but there are also serious charges… All power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. [Lord Acton's dictum] Jim has wielded tremendous power for 15 plus years in the porn industry… Jim may be a better man than I, a better man than most of us. But for most of us, if we wielded that kind of power running a porn talent agency, it would tend to corrupt us."
Ed: "Wouldn't you say that he's a better man today?"
Luke: "Yes. I think we all tend to become more humane, wise and empathetic as we age."
Ed: "You mean that might happen to you?"
Luke: "Yes. Jim having that power has set him up for the charges by people in the industry like Nick Long and Kerri Downs that Jim has required sexual favors. Any outsider would expect that a powerful porn talent agency would get sexual favors from talent.
"Today, now that Jim's getting more competition than ever, that things are probably better for the talent."
Ed: "Everybody thinks they're an agent."
Luke: "Actually, there is only one licensed talent agent in the porn industry. And that's a friend of mine. I'm biased. Rob Spallone's Star World Modeling."
Ed: "Jim South is licensed."
Luke: "Jim South is not a licensed talent agent. There is only one licensed through the state of California… Jim South and Regan Senter and Reb Sawitz have business licenses, but technically legally speaking these are not talent agents. Jim does not get the 10% fee from the talent. He charges a flat rate to producers of $65 per performer whether the talent gets paid $100 or $1000. A licensed talent agent gets a 10% fee and thus a porn star would have more of an incentive if she was signed with a talent agent who had more of an incentive to get her higher paying work."
Ed: "Luke, when you transcribe my show, do you put your call in there?"
Luke: "Yes."
Charlese: "Where do you get your information from, because it seems to be always incorrect when we read it on the internet?"
Luke: "I do get things wrong. Let's say someone on the show tonight says something that is factually incorrect and I may not know it. So I may quote Charlese something that is factually wrong…"
Charlese: "I'm talking about actual information, not dates and times. I'm talking about specifics."
Luke: "I interview people and I write down what they say. And I check on what they say with other people."
Liz: "Didn't you say that with the addresses and real names, that you read through old newspapers…"
Luke: "I have looked through many old newspapers but I have never put anyone's address or phone number on my site."
Charlese: "You have put incriminating words in there that are incorrect and can affect somebody's livelihood. Something affected my husband and myself."
Ed: "Rick Masters vs. Luke F-rd. Let's get ready to rumble."
Rick: "No names."
Charlese: "The information about us harboring HIV positive people in our home [Caroline]."
Rick: "The Hungarians living at my house."
Charlese: "You were suggested as a carrier."
Luke: "I have never suggested that Rick Masters was an HIV carrier. Or Charlese. I did quote something that I think Charlese mentioned that Caroline spent a day or two at your home."
Charlese: "I told you that it was before I even knew Rick and it's still in there as though we all lived together as one big happy family."
Rick: "Don't you think that's personal information that not everybody in the world needs to know."
Liz: "Who cares?"
Rick: "Let's put your business on the damn internet for the whole world to know."
Luke: "If during an interview, after I have identified myself as a reporter, Charlese mentions that Caroline spent a day or two at your home, that may well show up in my story."
Charlese: "Actually, I was correcting your "that she lived there" theory. He asked me if Caroline and Agi lived with Rick, and I told him that was before I was there. It was way before she tested positive."
Luke: "The only way that I would know about that would be if I had talked to Charlese… It is entirely possible that I misunderstood something she said."
Ed: "I can picture people driving along, turning on 97.1, the FM talk station, looking for intelligent conversation, and hear we have these one-on-one things… And people don't know what is going on here. We have people in the adult industry talking to a journalist who has self-appointed himself on the internet, l-keford.com, what do you call it?"
Luke: "Luke F-rd."
Ed: "He's been writing a lot of things that people have said. Some things seem to be out of context when they just pop up… You put it together and it becomes this big soap opera…"
Charlese: "There's a difference between journalism and gossip."
Ed: "Luke, what do you think? Is there a difference between journalism and gossip?"
Luke: "That's a good question. I think they interpenetrate. I don't think there's such a clear divide between news and gossip."
Charlese: "I think there is. Because gossip is hearsay and the rest is fact."
Rick: "How about three words: MTV, 18-year old girl and Free Speech."
Liz: "How about three words: Get a life."
Charlese: "The false positive…"
Rick: "That was all over the internet and I think that was an invasion of privacy…"
Luke: "What Rick and company are talking about, is that five weeks ago, AIM (Adult Industry Medicine) sent out faxes that a certain performer had tested HIV positive."
Rick: "Does that need to be put on the internet for everyone else to know?"
Charlese: "He doesn't have anything else to put on."
Ed: "Luke, you were on the show. And you indicated that you were on a crusade against the adult industry. Is that true?"
Luke: "Absolutely not. I said that I was not an industry supporter. I am not an industry apologist."
Liz: "Yet in the next breath, when Ed asked you if you would be in one of his movies, you were like, 'woah…'
Charlese: "You notice that he stumbles on everything. That everything is incorrect."
Ed: "I don't want to misquote you…but give me an example of something positive you might see on Luke F-rd."
Luke: "If you read the interview with Nina Hartley. I quote people. If you think your show is positive, I provide lengthy excerpts. I have the bio of Rick Masters here. Rick Masters ranks among the top studs in the biz. I talk about his time on the Judge Judy TV show which was a funny show."
Ed: "You've got to look at it this way. Let's get mature about this. There are certain ways that Luke legitimates our industry. A lot of people who are so upset about things that he has written… They can come on this show and talk about it. It's our weekly thing. Somebody brings up Luke F-rd at least one time a week. And Luke, what were you doing before you had the internet?"
Liz: "He was in Hebrew school."
Luke: "I was a struggling actor."
Charlese: "Jilted talent."
Rick: "Viagra did not come out yet."
Luke: "Right."
Liz: "Weren't you in Hebrew school or something?"
Luke: "I spend a lot of time in yeshiva."
Ed: "Oy, oy. Luke, thanks for your call. Give me a call, will you?"
Black male performers Suave and Tony Eveready phone in. They joke about drugs (marijuana).
Ed: "Look at you [Tony]. You're always late."
Brooke Ashley phones.
David: "Less and less in European productions are girls shaving. And tattoos are out."
Kristen, victim of the false positive report from AIM, phones:
Rick: "Did you hear us stick up for you, honey?"
Charlese: "Did you hear us defend you with Luke the Fluke?"
Kristen: "I've never even talked to Luke. He doesn't know me.
"Matt and I talked to the Nasty Man about a month ago.
"I'm tired tonight. I'm just sitting on Rick and Charlese's couch. It's bubblegum time… I live with them."
Rick: "Don't print that Luke."
[I hear that Matt Zane, his dad Chuck and Kristen met with Sharon Mitchell a few weeks ago (after the false positive) and buried the hatchet.]
Kristen sounds bubbly, naïve, friendly, sweet.
Rez writes: "Power's latest effort on the radio reached a dazzling zenith last nite when for about 2 minutes, listeners were treated to the sounds of burping & farting.
""Master" filmmaker, "ground-breaking" radio personality...what's next..." Mac Daddy Eddie & The Debs "get DOWN with some tunes?
"Caller: "Hey Ed, whassup? I heard your CD, man. It ROCKS. Were those Debs naked & stuff when you recorded it?"
"Ed: " Yeah. We recorded it at Motel 6. We used DAT. Revolutionary.
"Caller: " Yeah." [burp]. " You 'da man." [fart]."
Is Anybody Listening?
by Frederick J. Buccolini
Hi everybody, this is Guido.
You may know me by my hugely successful series of amateur videos entitled, "Guido Drops his Socks and Grabs his Cock at the Bus Stop."
I want to thank all of my fans for spending all of their hard earned dollars to buy my videos. I have become a millionaire.
You are probably wondering what I do with all my money. Well, I try not to spend it, if I can. But there are times when I get weak.
I'll be walking down Melrose Avenue and I see a nice leisure suit in the window and I just have to buy it. I'll go two hundred bucks for something in a nice tan polyester.
Now, I've been hearing a lot of criticism about the quality of adult videos. Frankly, I am too busy shooting my own stuff to watch what the competition is doing. I haven't seen any of Max Hardcore's work; I wouldn't know a Rob Black video if you hit me in the face with it.
I am simply too busy searching out new beaver. And, let me tell you--it's not easy. Girls are shy, embarrassed, insecure. But God gave me a gift: An incredible sense of...what? Humor? Looks? I don't know.
But whatever it is that I've got--You can't have it!
Because, ya see, it's all about me.
Earlier in the year I got a call from a program director at a local radio station out here in L.A.. He said, "Guido, I've seen your latest series of videos, "Spaced out Debs from Pomona," and I really like your style. The way you talk these girls right out of their panties; the way you put your fingers right in front of the lens and pretend to be squeezing a performer's nipples; the way you play with the zoom lens, going in and out, making the viewer dizzy while making irritating cartoon noises in the background. Great stuff. Listen, I would like you to pay me practically no money, maybe $15,000 weekly, if you could do your own radio show on Sunday mornings from midnight till 3 a.m.. And if you can bring the ratings up, I will comp you a few Kiss concert tickets."
Well, I told the PD, I am flattered...I would like respect.
If I can get people to understand that what I do is noble--that I make adult videos, not pornography; if I can sell about three thousand more videos a week by having a media platform to promote my video catalog; then I will gladly do a radio show. The PD said, "You've got it, Dude!"
Ya know, my radio show is a work in progress. I know it appears that practically every call is a question like, "Whatever happened to that girl in 'Spaced Out Debs from Pomona #388?'" Well guys, cut me some slack, will ya? How in the hell am I supposed to freakin' know?
You think I have the time to keep track of these girls?
And speaking of my Debs: to all of the girls who have appeared in my videos please do not call me in the middle of the f---ing night telling me the battery in your car is dead and that your stuck on MountainView Peak, or Bum f--- Egypt Road. I am not your daddy. I am not going to pick you up!
And, by the way, how in the hell did you girls get my unlisted number?
And to all of you guys who keep calling my radio show asking me how much I pay the girls who star in my videos, well, I got your answer right here, and it's written on the middle finger of my right hand...let's see, it says: f--- YOU!
Jeez, what do you take me for? Someone with integrity?
Look at the profession I have chosen: It's filled with backstabbing, parasitic, check-bouncing, sleazy, egotistical buffoons. But hey, it's all in the family.
Oh, I have a few quick hellos:
To my relatives out in Long Island, if any of you are reading this website, then I guess the jig is up--I am not in the aluminum siding business.
To the IRS: BITE ME!
To my Uncle Milty, who said I'd never amount to a hill of beans, well, I guess the joke's on you. You're a respected medical doctor, and I've got this cool leisure suit.
Oh, and this Luke F-rd character. I know he seems to be more trouble than he's worth. But I know, and you know, that he's a fan. And fans are good for business. His website, despite showing all of the flaws of the business, essentially promotes it.
What worries me and my colleagues are the repercussions of a future Republican administration. I mean, if the stock market doesn't go into the toilet, and we get Al Gore, then I think we're cool for another term. But if the national economy goes belly-up, and we get, say, a Michael Reagan--holy s---! Luke's website is a f---ing blueprint of who's who in the adult industry.
So, there is a lot of grumblings going on. Do we whack Luke? Do we praise him? Or do we just abuse him? I think we'll go for the latter...for the time being.
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Porn star Kendra allegedly took a hidden video camera with her when she slept with Jerry Springer. After taping their session, she supposedly tried to shake him down for $1 million. He responded by saying that in Illinois you have to have my permission to tape me and you don't have a waiver either. No one will show the tape. He agreed however to pay her $100,000 for the tape and make the whole situation end. Stephanie Swift claims to have made $24,000 for being the Gang Bang Angel. I don't know if that is true or not. Porn midget Scotty Schwartz allegedly sets up porn stars such as Devon Shire with famous atheletes, such as Barry Bonds, Cecil Fielder, Kevin McReynolds so he can get in good with them and get free tickets. One time he misled Devon and set her up with a massage trainer on the team making her think he was an athlete.
Scott writes: "I would like to know more about the financial blood-letting of Barbara Dare and how she was forced to move in with her parents. I live not far from Reading, Pennsylvania and a club called Al's Diamond Cabaret. Dare has been there regularly and guys are always giving her expensive gifts such as jewelery and furs. She always stayed at a local dive motel within walking distance and her little dyke girlfriend was always lining up "private sessions" after the club closed for the evening. With her videos and appearances she must have made money."
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Blake Leigh, husband of porn star Heavenly Leigh writes to me:
Hello Luke a few things
I need to say: One the good old boys club that Jim South leads well
that club has killed three girls thanks to Marc Wallice(get over it
porn industry he was the one that gave it too them)Jim South a honorable
man where???I have to say he never asked my wife for any thing but accused
her of being on drugs when he damn will knows she is not to this day
i don't know what he was after and I don't care we left him and I took
over and got her more work in a week then he did in six months.(You
see Rob goes the extra mile for the girls where Jim never leaves his
office.)And second,ok you made a error about the HIV test of Matt Zanes
girlfriend at least you did not go on MTV and tell but then again Sharon
Mitchell is part of that good old boys club and all is forgiven so you
see its not you Luke its porn its self its ok to go on a tv show where
millions of people are going to see it and hear it but GOD forgive you
if you go on a little web site and post it.I am having a hard time figuring
out the two eviles here national tv or a little web site.They forgive
Sharon Mitchell but not you its a porn thing one thing everyone forgets
is that she and Aim broke the law with the faxes, if that was my wife
there would be no AIM I would owen them and every one involved with
AIM.There are two rules in porn one for them and one for everybody else!!!!!Back
to the JIm South thing I beleave today Jim has caused her to loose work
I see alot of the girls that are working every day and some of them
are very ugly but keep getting work day after day,my wife is twice as
good looking as alot of the girls and no one wants to hire her so I
would have to say some one has talked s--- about her to alot of the
bigger companys!!!