Joshua Broome

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

And if I just won that award, I had this belief that something would happen, like something supernatural would happen in me, like the feeling of worthlessness or inadequacy or whatever I wrestle with on the pillow at night, it'll just go away if I won that award. And then I won it. Nothing happened. And when nothing happened, everything got worse.

Yeah.

Six and a half.

Yeah, I mean, I was doing... Just every day? Well, because the industry... So the award show is in January, and everyone's trying to get stuff turned in for the year to submit for that. So to make it... Because if something wins an award, then it has notoriety, you can push it, etc. So... Kind of the industry doesn't shut down, but slows down significantly in December and January.

So really like 10-month increments. I was doing 20 scenes a month. minimum and then during the summer sometimes you know i was shooting two three times a day i do i think i've done like 40 something in a month um was the most i did but well i mean what constitutes an award well i mean you know uh is it view counts what is it so i mean there's used to be on showtime you know it was

voted by fans and the studios.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, for the most part, like, you were friends with, and if you dated, you dated from inside the pool of the people who are in that industry. Like, your friend group wasn't exclusive to people who were just in that industry, but...

Dating, it would be really hard to, maybe not in today's age, but it was hard to kind of say, you're meeting someone at the gym or wherever you might meet someone and talking about what you do for a living. It's like, well... I'm a porn star. That's probably not going to be someone you see yourself compatible with. Maybe for a fling, but not a relationship.

So people would date within the industry. And that, I think, was a large part of my mental and emotional demise in that I was dating someone for a while in the industry, for almost two years. And she was already popular, became even more popular. Who was it? Asa Akira is her name. So she's like the face of Pornhub now. She's a spokesperson for Pornhub.

She's gone viral for multiple things, like crazy things she said. But she was... She was my person at that time. Do you guys still interact? No. No. I mean, I haven't spoke to her since well over 10 years. But the thing was, if all my friends are in that industry and my girlfriend is in that industry...

You live in this suppression of reality in that we would say that we were in a monogamous relationship while having sex with other people, just calling the work in which we did, or calling us having sex with other people at work, we would just call that work. It wasn't sex, it was just work. So they didn't count sex. And we suppressed that as reality.

But what we claimed as reality is that we were in a monogamous relationship. Because off camera and on camera were two different realities. But then you're faced with, I'm sitting at Mastro's in Beverly Hills with a friend of mine. And he's there with his girlfriend. And my friend had had sex with my girlfriend earlier. on Monday and I had sex with his girlfriend that day.

And we're pretending as if That's not real, and it's not problematic to the atmosphere. And when you suppress reality, chaos is a promise.

I mean, I was in a place where... I mean, I could have sex, and I would do them. It's like I would have sex in a theater in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and especially in Europe, and not think twice about it. Wait, what? Yeah, they would have live sex shows. It used to be a thing. Hundreds of thousands of people? Yeah.

Or you know how now it's become popular to take your podcast on the road to have that live element? Well, instead of watching a porn on a screen, you would watch it happen live. That was a thing for a while. But I could do that and drop the hat, like no problem at all, like not face me. But you look me in the eye and shake my hand, tears would stream down my face because that was real.

It was terrifying. Jeez. Like that's how much I had suppressed reality.

I think it was in – Probably two years in, but is either in Vegas or was one of the first times. And then like stuff like that happens a lot, like in Europe or like Barcelona. Do you remember the first time? I don't. No? No. Everything just became so – there was no interaction that was more special than the others.

The only thing that I have real memories around is the roles I played where there was significant – there was a script to learn, a character to play, things that were outside of – you know, the sex aspect, because in a porn, you know, cause like Star Wars, we filmed, you know, over three or four months, there's five sex scenes, you know, which takes, you know, a few hours to film.

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