Joshua Broome

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

If I get paid for what I'm already doing, like maybe, you know, that would be cool.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

What do I sign? Yeah. And I, and I go and I meet with this guy and.

Yes, three smoking hot girls. Did the approach. Yeah. And yeah, so I'm like, sure, I'll meet with the guy. And I thought, so I had in my head, I'm like, if it's weird, I'll just, if I go to the place and it's like,

know at a hostel or at like a you know yeah yeah some sketchy like motel and he's like a guy like picking lint out of his belly button you know i'm just gonna get out of there but it was at you know a like a business complex like in studio city adjacent to universal studios walk in you know they brought me in through like the like underground like parking garages and they're just like you know

bentley's and beamers everywhere and i go up and walk through this hallway and he's got you know almost like if you were a sport agent how you would have all you know any players you represent so there were you know anyone that was on the cover of penthouse playboy hustler whatever i'm walking through and sit there reception it's like you know his name is derek and like derek will be right with you

And I'm waiting, and there's like porn on the coffee table in the waiting area. He calls me into his office and sits me down. He's like, so tell me, how did you grow up? What are you doing in LA? And what do you hope to accomplish?

I know. But in retrospect, I didn't think about it.

Yeah. Well, yeah. Did you grow up not having something that I can use to manipulate you to do what I want so I can extract value from you? 100% yes. That's what he was saying, but I was too naive to hear it. How'd you grow up? Just me and my mom. Perfect. It should have been a red flag. It was a green flag for him. What are you doing in L.A.?

2006.

And then he was like, well, what do you hope to accomplish? And I was like – Yes, be famous. And what's sad about that is famous is objective. It's fictitious. Because if you think, if enough people know, how many people need to know who I am to equate to being famous? How many followers do you need to have? What's the mark? And if there's no mark, there's no measure.

If there's no measure, there's no reality. And if you get to the place that you thought if you would get to that you would feel some sort of way and you don't, you just increase the measure. Being rich is the same way. It's like if I had this, I would feel that over and over again. And we know the deal. It doesn't work. But I thought, man, if I become somebody... I will feel like I'm somebody.

And again, what I was trying to do is I was trying to stack the scale in my favor enough where the kid that didn't have the dad would feel like I was wanted, seen, heard, known. He kind of spoke into all that. He's like, man, you've got acting experience. The porn industry is shifting. We're parodying all these movies. They're doing big films. You can be the lead in all these.

You can make a ton of money by doing the films, and you can do marketing with this. I've got deals with clubs in Vegas. They'll bring you out. You'll sit in the VIP, and they'll pay you $10,000 just to be there, all this stuff. And my career was going okay, but I was having more success modeling than I was acting. I really wanted to act. That was my passion.

But there was a part of me, again, I couldn't shake, that like, man, maybe I'm just not good enough to make it. At 22... Your modeling career is not peaked out, but most people have their best years modeling like 16 to 21. That's not definitively true across the board, but a lot of people do. Acting has this a lot longer range.

And I just thought, man, I just don't have the capability of being successful because... What was that based on? Well, me comparing myself on my peers.

And a lot of people that were in the same network as me or even had the same agent as me, they had booked their first lead role or they've done this and they've done that and I hadn't quite done as much as they've done, so I must not be good enough. And I thought, man, maybe this is just a...

a counterfeit version of the dream that I have and I should hop on this boat before it leaves because maybe this is as good as it's going to get for me.

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