Joshua Broome

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

I got like a, I got a fish like coming out of water and like, you know, freaking cool, you know. But I got that covered up and shaved my head, deleted my social media. And it's like, Rocco Reed, gone, dead. New life. Walk into a Whole Foods. Like literally, I haven't even moved into my place yet. And a guy in the meat section is like, rock a read. I was like, are you kidding me?

And then it just continued to happen over and over again. And then I'm just kind of like, I was kind of found, you know, I was found out, but I just kind of, you know, deflect from it. And I was just trying to build, like, I'm a trainer, I'm a trainer, I'm a trainer, I'm a good trainer, I'm a good trainer.

I got a lot of personal training clients, you know, making money, I'm doing good, I'm helping people, I'm doing good. And two years of that. And two years in, this girl comes into the gym. She's wearing like all Iowa Hawkeye cheerleading stuff. So she had obviously, you know, was an alum, was very proud that she had cheered at Iowa.

gorgeous best athlete in the gym but she was different in that she worked really hard she would kick everybody's butt in the workout she was a gymnast so she could you know all this like old school CrossFit like if you could walk on your hands and like do stuff like that like if you were good at that like you already had a you know an edge over everybody else um

But she was just better than everybody, and I was just fascinated about, you know, with her. And she was gorgeous. So I asked her on a date, and she was like, I'm good. I was like, with love, you know, rejection, you know. So I asked her out a bunch of times, and she was finally like, well, I'll go for a long run. before church on Sunday mornings.

If you want to meet me at this park, we can go for a run. And I was like, all right, you know, I'll take whatever I can get. And I get there and I'm there early and I'm waiting. And I started thinking, I'm like, man, you know, Christmas party and like a few other parties we have, like she didn't really hang out that much.

She's always at the gym, but after the workout, if she's not doing extra work or whatever, she's not hanging out mingling.

Yeah. So, AKA, she doesn't know my story.

No. And I'm like, man, if she knew who I was... She would not agree to this. And there was just some conviction that I had. I'm like, man, I need to be forthcoming with this. Not something I'd done in the past. And when she got there, the run never made its way to a run. It was maybe a brisk walk. And I was like, hey, I want to share something with you. It's going to be a little heavy.

She was like, okay, what's up? And I was like, kind of like laid out my guts. I was like, man, I'm the kid that his daddy didn't want, and I did all this porn, and it's still all over the Internet, and every bad thing I've ever done that creates shame in my life, it's on the Internet forever, and this is who I am. And she was just like... Holy crap. Super taken back. And she didn't say anything.

We just continued to walk. She didn't say a word. I didn't know if she was mad or she was going to slap me. You know, I don't know, am I going to get fired? You know, I was just thinking, like, all these. Then she stopped, and she looked at me like, you know, she's an elementary teacher. There's a look that, like, a mom or a teacher has, and she just looked at me with this, like,

She's like, hey, I don't want to minimize the pain that you've experienced in your life. And I don't want to negate the real problems that your decisions have made for you. But I want you to know that you're not defined by the worst thing you've ever done. And you won't be defined by the greatest thing you ever do. Because there's one author of you, and it's not you. It's God.

Do you know who that is? Do you know God? And I was like, maybe. I went to church a little bit when I was a kid because my grandmother, my grandfather, they went to church. They had a faith. I was like, I know of God. I certainly don't know God.

And she was like, well, I've been following Jesus since I was in the seventh grade, and I'm not perfect by any means, but my foundation that I live from is from my relationship with Him. The way I live my life is contingent on my relationship with Him. So what kind of food do you like? I was like, what? Are you like an alien or something? Like, what? Like, what are you talking about?

Like, you don't want me to leave? Like, she's asking me about SMART goals. I'm like, dude, I don't know what an acronym is. Like, what are you talking about? Like, I had the worst of intentions with you. Like, I... My plan A, B, and C is to hook up with you. I don't, I have no idea. And then we just walked and talked and she asked me questions that I didn't think of for a long time.

What do I want to, in the gym industry, would you ever want to own a gym? What's your relationship like with your family? Like, do you, like, would you ever want to have kids? You know, just asking me things that, like, I, like, honestly, like, I feel like it had been so long of, like, me thinking like that. I was, like, reaching for humanity I didn't know if I still had.

That went on for, you know, we walked and talked for, like, probably two hours and And then we went separate ways and text like high school idiots for a week. And then on Saturday, she was like, hey, I would love for you to come with me to church. And I was like, Wherever you're going, yes, I'll be there. Wherever the pretty girl's going, yes. And she had been catalytic for some curiosity.

I'm like, what in you allowed you to respond to me like that? There's this really great book I love, Master Plan of Evangelism. Robert E. Coleman wrote it, and he talks about how it's good to tell people something, but it's better to show that. People are often not looking for an explanation. They're looking for a demonstration.

And I think Colossians 4, like Paul's talking about, hey, I'm in prison for preaching the gospel, but I'm praying for opportunities to preach the gospel, and I'm praying to do it with clarity, and I'm praying to do it with tact. I want to be wise towards outsiders. And most importantly, man, allow my speech to be gracious and seasoned with salt so I might know how I ought to answer each person.

Because how I respond matters. How I respond to the individual in front of me. Not a blanket statement, the person in front of me. How I am aware, how I'm intentional, how I react is important. And the way that she reacted to me, like, it... It was like, wow, dude. And she invited me to church. And we went there. And I thought, am I going to catch on fire when I walk in?

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