Joshua Broome

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #196 Joshua Broome - "Rocco Reed," Inside The Adult Film Industry · 1 May 2025 podcast

But very quickly I thought, okay, you know, what do I have? What do I have that I can use? Okay, well, you know, I'd been doing CrossFit for a while. I got a level one certification. Maybe I can coach CrossFit. I got an exercise science background a little bit, strength conditioning, you know, understand that. Maybe I can get into that.

And then I did, you know, the formula that I knew that worked. Find a good mentor. get, you know, double down, work really hard, get some credentials, you know, build a kingdom for myself. And, you know, I was working with this guy, Jason Davidson. He was the strength conditioning coach for the Carolina Hurricanes.

He was leading the Thor program at Fort Bragg, plugged me into some right circles, vows for me. And all of a sudden, you know, I had, you know, what I like to say is I put enough good dirt on my bad dirt so I didn't look dirty. Because I couldn't change. I didn't believe I could. But what I thought I could do is I could manage people's perception of me.

And if I did enough good, it would outweigh the bad that was impossible for me to run from. And I spent about two years doing that.

That one shoot, that last shoot was the last straw, but it was the relationship. So that relationship got more toxic. It went from... us being at dinner where we had sex with the other person across the, you know, table to her wanting to talk about stuff that was happening on set, like, you know, in our home. And I was, it was interesting because I was like, man, I need to man up.

This shouldn't bother me. But it does. And I think, you know, we look at men in today's society, it's like, We're struggling with a mental health crisis because we pretend like we're okay when we're not. And the inevitable fact of pretending like you're okay when you're not, the thing that's not okay is not going to get better, it's going to get worse. So I allowed that to be part of

our relationship or her to tell me stuff that she was doing with other people and pretending like that was arousing to me. And I think, again, just like further and further compromising myself as an individual and suppressing reality led to combustion internally.

Yeah. I mean, again, the jealous kid in the grocery store is still the jealous kid that I don't want anyone to look at my girlfriend. Now I'm saying that I'm okay with people having sex with her. But yeah, so I mean that progression, and just the reality of me having sex with as many people as I did, and it just becoming,

the most arbitrary thing in the world is incredibly dangerous for your mental and emotional health. For me to walk into this studio and a girl to be sitting there and for me not to talk to her or anything and I just walk up to her and start having sex with her and then there's a bunch of cameras around and I'm doing it for these cameras and then I orgasm and then leave. And that's my job.

That's what I do for my career. That's what I do, you know, four or five days a week. And I do that for, you know, short of a decade. Like that's, I mean, that's going to damage you significantly.

Oh, yeah. I mean, there was, yeah. I mean, suicide is rampant. People are dying of overdose. I think last time I looked, around 500 people have died of overdose, suicide, and murder worldwide. over the last 20, 25 years.

And murder, because if you believe little of your, you know, if you believe little of yourself, you're going to end up in a relationship where that person thinks little of you, and there's abuse, and that abuse turns into, you know, you losing your life. And like the amount that happening, it's documented, is pretty astronomical. And then just, I mean, you know, we were talking about

Not to change the topic, but we were talking about guardian angels. It's like, man, there was HIV outbreaks in the industry. There were people I had unprotected sex with that had HIV that they died. There was an HIV outbreak that was big enough in the industry that it shut down for, you know, not a long time, but around two months.

Yeah, I mean, I call it a first-date mask, you know, where you don't know who you are, but you pretend to be whoever you think the person across from you wants you to be so that you can, you know, appease them. or so that they would like you because you don't really know who you are or you believe who you are doesn't have any value.

But I would say there's this, generally across the board, there was this belief that doing something outside of the industry the longer that you stayed in the industry was impossible. So the only, the best possible outcome

is that you have a good longstanding career in the industry and then one of the studios that you worked for a lot, you get hired on as a director and then you work as a director. That was the next hopeful progression because not being in the porn industry wasn't an option because being in the porn industry meant you couldn't do anything else. At least that's what I wanted you to believe.

I mean, for example, Cagney Lynn Carter, she was a great friend of mine. She got in a little bit after me, stayed in much longer than me, much later than me. And I think it was last year, she had left the industry and opened a dance studio. She was a ballet dancer in her teens, something she still was passionate about, and she opened up a place.

But everyone around her was like, you can do whatever you want. You can say that your name is whatever, but I know who you are. You'll never escape from that. You'll always be that person. And she tried really hard. And it's so sad, bro, because she took her life. And the day that she took her life, she posted a photo of herself on the beach saying, I'm free. But what...

But what's true is she was in prison. I wanted to leave the industry. I wanted to do something else. But you begin to believe that you can't. And it's not something you do. It's who you are. And if the only thing in which you can do is to sell yourself for sex, then your no loses its volition. It loses its validity. Your no loses its validity.

Because if the only thing that you can say yes to is selling yourself for sex, then you can't say no to anything. So you say yes to everything. And it's just so sad, man.

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