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 phenomenal dude. Phenomenal dude. He's the biggest, tallest person that I know that does not play basketball.

Oh, yeah. And he's got, you have to ask him about Victor also.

Yeah. If I could take what you said and just back up a little bit, I think it's so important. So I grew up in South Carolina. Mom got pregnant with me when she was 15, had me at 16 in a super small town, like one gas station, one grocery store. And my dad was in that town, but never in my life. And my mom worked at this like

flounder and fried chicken you know like restaurant and that it had like big glass windows and the windows i would sit there and i'd eat pretty much the same thing i'd pretty much eat the same thing um after school every day um this is what i was earlier but i would i would uh I would look out that window, and it was called – Rogers was called the convenience store, and Rogers is my grandfather.

And also – so my father was Roger Dell Jr., and he was Roger Dell Sr. And I saw the convenience store, and I saw the green Z71, like, pull up every once in a while. And so I saw – Was that your dad? It was my dad. And I saw him. So he was in close enough proximity for me to see him often, but never know him. And I was confronted with over and over again not being chosen.

And just the way that attachment theory works neurologically, just how we develop an understanding of our emotions. It's like, man, I had this conflict and this chaos that I didn't understand, and the way that I made sense of it must be on me. There must be something wrong with me that he's not choosing me. So the best I can do is try to overcome. How young were you when you started seeing that?

I mean— Nine, ten. I mean, when I started, like, comprehending it.

Yeah, my whole life, you know, up until graduated high school.

Yeah, I mean, there was probably, like, a few times where there was some fumbled, awkward attempt for us to have a conversation. There was never any malice involved, but... It was just strange. And in retrospect, at a place now, I can have an understanding of, man, what stays in the dark grows. And today is the easiest day to apologize for the thing that you did today.

Tomorrow is going to be even harder. And the next day and the next day and the next day, it's just going to compound over time, especially if there's shame involved. So I don't think he's like, man, I don't want to be this kid's dad. Maybe he didn't know what to say. And then so much time passed by, he just became crippled by it. But either way, it impacted me. And so then I go to college.

study theater, I was in a fraternity, all the stuff. And I was sharing earlier with someone, one of your team members, I was sharing how my fraternity brother was the one who taught me how to tie a tie for the first time. Because our fraternity, we wore suit and tie on Tuesdays in a pin. And they were like, man, you can't be wearing a clip on. You'll get a smack down for that.

And I was like, man, I don't know how to tie a tie. And I remember my big brother teaching me how to tie this single Windsor tie. And it stuck with me forever. And just moments like that, it's this duality of I'll always be this kid that his daddy didn't want, but also, man, I need guys in my life to teach me something.

But kind of with that foundation, I believed at the core of my being is, man, if I earn enough, if I become enough, if I do enough, maybe... I'll feel as if I'm enough. And what I really wanted to hear was, son, I'm proud of you. And because I never heard that, I thought I could earn it from the world.

And I was just kind of one of those guys where Like everything I did, I found success in, like I was a good, I was a good ball player. I was good at acting. I had a lot of success in modeling. So kind of took that to Hollywood and I was, I had an agent and I was, I was having more success in modeling than acting, but. Everything was great.

I was living in Hollywood, had a great place to stay, had a good friend group, had a great agent, had opportunities.

Yeah. I think what you said is so important, that added layer. Because it's one thing to say, I'm proud of you, or you did a good job, or whatever that might be. But when you make it intentional and explain why... I feel like that would be even more meaningful and allow them to understand.

But yeah, I mean, kind of all that foundation led me to that moment of being in Hollywood and still acting like an idiot, like living like an absolute fool. Yeah. But kind of with all that factored in, I saw porn for the first time when I was 13. Never saw my mom in a healthy relationship. She was married for a very short period of time to someone who was very abusive, drug addict.

So outside of that, I never saw her in a healthy dynamic. My grandmother and grandfather, they didn't sleep in the same bed. My grandfather was like fishing every day, you know, like bad back or whatever. They didn't share a bed. I just had no like foundation of what is a healthy relationship? What is love? What is intimacy? What is, you know, never had a sex talk, saw porn when I was 13.

And I thought, man, maybe if I, act out what else what i'm seeing in this magazine maybe i'll feel what i don't and you know that was kind of the start of me living a very promiscuous lifestyle in addition to that were you did you ever did you ever did your dad ever come into the picture still to this day

Well, I mean, I have a really great story about forgiveness because at the end of the day, it's like, I'd say I love that I get to share. Thank you for asking that. And I love that I have the platform that I do today with the maturity that I do because when I used to talk about him, when I used to talk about him... I think I did it in a way that I was still a little bit angry with him.

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