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 I forgave him, and it was a big moment for me because, you know, when, like, forgiveness is easy. or easier when you know that reconciliation is on the other side. But when reconciliation doesn't meet your expectations, are you still willing to forgive? Meaning that, why would I forgive my dad if he's not going to become my dad and become a grandfather to my kids? Why would I forgive him?

Why would I forgive the person that's not going to change? Why would I forgive the person that did wrong and is not going to be sorry for it or pay a price for that? I understand that God is a God of justice, and justice will be served in the end, but we often find ourselves saying, I want to play God in some way. I want to control the outcome.

I want to have some kind of autonomy, and I'll forgive if... Not in God's economy, not in God's kingdom. We forgive because we've been forgiven. And when you don't forgive, the person who pays the price is you. And for a long time, I was dealing with, man, it was on the other side of me conquering all these other things, like all these addictions and traumas and lust and all this stuff.

But I was still wrestling with a little bit of anger issues. And it was because... Like in my heart of hearts, I would say, man, the messed up stuff that people say about me or say about me to my wife or say about my kids or whatever, there was a little part of me that said, dad, if you would have been there, I wouldn't have done those things and this wouldn't have been happening.

So it's kind of your fault. And I had to come to grips with that's not true. My trauma impacted the way that I saw the world, yes. But upon my own volition, I made those decisions. I have free will. So I had to take ownership of my mistakes and I had to let go of that with him. So I speak about him very differently. I speak about him with more empathy today than I have in the past.

We don't have the relationship that I wish we did, but... Where'd you learn forgiveness from? Victor.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it was super emotional. I mean, I was so, like, I'd made up my mind what I was going to say before it got too far. So as soon as I got him on the phone, I said it soon, and he apologized. What did he say? He didn't – I don't remember much about it. You know, it was more – it wasn't this, like, he's not an emotional guy. You know, it was like – it wasn't like I conjured up in my head.

I thought it was going to be this groundbreaking moment where, you know, I thought it was going to be like, you know, Rocky and Apollo, like, you know, dapping up on the beach. But, yeah, I mean – What did you say? I said, I'm sorry that I blamed you for every bad thing that I've ever done. And I've been holding a lot of resentment for you not being there. And I missed you a lot. I needed you.

But the frustration that I have in my life and the unforgiveness that I have in my heart, I want to let it go. And he pretty much said, me too. You know, he said he was sorry for not being there. That was kind of it.

And I think, you know, my prayer is that my life and the way that I pursue him is healing for him in some way because I can't imagine what goes on in his head, in his heart internally.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, so kind of all that leading up to me being in Hollywood. And I was at this bar, Saddle Ranch, so like Mechanical Bulls and all this stuff. And these three girls walk up to me. And they were headhunters for the porn industry. And they worked with a porn agent. And they asked me straight up, like, hey, would you be interested in being in a porn?

And I was like, not really, you know, but maybe. Maybe. I think it's like when you don't have a good reason to say no, sometimes you say yes to something you should say no to. Some people ask me, is there a correlation between sex trafficking and the porn industry? And think about trafficking. generally involves force, fraud, and coercion.

And people ask me, well, does some of that exist in the porn industry? It doesn't exist. It is completely dependent on it.

it's manipulation is, you know, at the cornerstone of the porn industry and that the girls were trained to use language where they're in a place where, you know, a lot of people are trying to make it and they're using, you know, meet with our agent and you'll do an interview and, you know, he'll help you with your career and all that stuff, you know. And it's almost like,

When we say things or when we call things different than what they are, it creates this unrealistic barrier. And that, you know, we say, we don't want to say porn, we say adult film industry, yet porn is a word that is from the Greek New Testament, so pornea. And it's, you know, but we want to say adult film industry. But when we say that, trying not to be abrasive, what are we saying?

We're insinuating that that's adult behavior, that's how adults act. You know? So it's just so interesting that they would use specific language of saying agent, this and that. And then they, essentially they were like, hey, if you want to do this, you know, you'll meet with our agent. And I was like, you know, I've been watching porn for a long time. I've been acting like an idiot forever.

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