November 2, 2025 • 13 mins
After years dreaming of making my own documentary reality series, but struggling to find anyone to believe in my vision and back it, everything changed six months ago. Since then, my life has been a blur as I was given $250,000 to bring it to life as quick as possible.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello guys, and welcome back to the Math twenty podcast
with me Joshua Fox, and welcome to my big announcement
which I am so excited to finally be able to
share with all of.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You lovely people.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
As many of you noticed, over the last couple of months,
I've been slightly am I and I've completely dipped out
of the Married at First Sight world. Like I stopped
crashing filming for the twenty twenty six season. I stopped
keeping up with what this year's hast have been up to.
I think I've lokey unfollowed a lot of them already,
and I stopped having like any form of social life
or personal life myself, Like even my own social media
(00:35):
has gone dead because the one thing that has consumed
my life for months now, like every day sometimes up
to seventeen eighteen hours a day, is the one thing
I couldn't post or talk about until now. So Yeah,
for the last few months, I have been traveling the
country filming a brand new show. And not only have
I been filming it and like kind of in it,
(00:57):
but I've also been directing it too, being the executive producer.
I can't believe I'm finally sharing this. This is like my
dream coming true because like for years now, I've had
this idea or a reality documentary series that I would
love to make, and it's been like this dream in
the back of my mind that I have tried to
make happen multiple times, but no one has ever really
(01:20):
believed in it to make it become a reality. But
everything changed in May, and everything since then has essentially
been a blur because not only did I find two
investors who understood what I wanted to make and they
like fully backed my vision, but together they then quickly
pulled together two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and we're like, yeah,
(01:41):
here you go, Josh, here's your budget, go make it,
which is still kind of surreal to me because that
is a significant amount of money and for me to
be in charge of that and having to hire a
cruise and locations and book flights and like it, it's
been a lot. But I can't complain because this is
of mine I have wanted to do for so long now,
(02:03):
And in two weeks now, the first episode is going
to drop and be available to stream. And let me
tell you, this whole project in the last five six
months has been wild. So the teasers and announcements for
my show will start going out this week, and everyone's
going to read the initial bio and see the first
(02:25):
promos and they're going to think this show is just
going to be one thing. But I want to give
you guys the full context here and say it's much bigger.
And I also want to just let you know, like
how all this happened. So just bear with me for
a few minutes here, please, And before I even explain
the concept of the show, I want to take this
to the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Very start, and I want to let you in on
a little secret, which actually I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Know is even a secret, because I've kind of touched
on this briefly before. But over the last ten years,
I have been working in the adult industry and with
adult stars. And this started in the UK when I
was a journalist and glamor models were a thing. Then
this was long before OnlyFans and I knew a few
glamor models and I saw the shame and judgment they
(03:09):
faced every single day, and I kind of had this idea, well,
let's do some features on them, Let's put them in
the magazine, a workout, and let's try and humanize them
in a way and say, like, yo, just because these
women do topless modeling or porn or escorting or whatever
like that doesn't mean that's all they are, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And then you know, that was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Fast forward to COVID what it's like five six years
ago now when I'm now a journalist in Australia, And
that's when Only Fans started to take off, and I
was then doing the same with articles and features on
OnlyFans creators as the public became fascinated with this shocking
new website that suddenly was taking over and making people rich.
And then as Only Fans started to become more and
(03:49):
more mainstream, I started working with more and more creators
from that platform and they would reach out to me
to help them with their pr and business strategies. And
it got to the point where I was physically filming
their pond for a good while, which is still kind
of crazy to me, but I'm so desensitized to all
of that now, like it's just work. And then when
(04:10):
I was working on radio, I'd be booking people like
Annie and I and the girth Master, who you guys
may have heard of. There two of Australia's biggest creators.
I'd be booking them onto the breakfast shows I worked
on as their like first ever mainstream interviews, and essentially
everything I was doing over these years was highlighting how
these creators feel empowered in like a mainstream way to
(04:34):
mainstream audiences, as well as like highlighting the crazy money
they were making.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But the problem I.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Realized with this last year especially though, is like as
only fans has become more and more mainstream, creators are
now going to more and more extremes to stand out,
which has kind of become dangerous. And I'm talking like
these sex stunts of I'm going to have sex with
a thousand people today, Oh well, I'm going to try
to sleep with more than an one thousand people to
(05:00):
beat you will. I'm going to tie myself up and
put me myself in a glass box and people can
come do what they want to be Like, it has
got out of hand and I have realized, like this
narrative that I helped initially set in the media that
joining only fancies like an instant gateway to fame and
fortune is just not true. And we're now at a
(05:21):
time where we're seeing like the effect this narrative has
had on society as things now get like out of hand.
And yes, Only Fans does make people rich and famous,
but most regular people who sign up, like after being
sold this dream through the media and through articles that
I have done previously, they barely make minimum wage when
(05:42):
they sign up, and they're then left asking themselves like
what have I done here as they realize their content
will live on their Internet forever and it was just
not worth it for them, So on that the show
I've wanted to make for a good while now, it's
just showing the reality of this world through a medium
people are familiar with, which is reality television. And when
(06:05):
I pitched this idea to production companies or streaming places
or networks, they basically all said the same thing like no, thanks,
not for us, and you'll never make these people likable
to the general public, which pissed me off and made
me go, well, yeah, I will just wait. And instead
of creating something just to like shock or outrage people
like the few previous documentaries on Only Fans, creators has
(06:28):
set out to do or you know, to create something
just to continue glamorizing it like the media have been
doing since the start my show, and my idea is
I do want to show the brutal reality of what
it actually takes to make it on the platform. I
don't want to like get a few of the world's
biggest stars from only fans and be like, here's me
(06:48):
fucking the thousand people watch me behind the scenes. I
want to reverse that and go to the basics and
find four new people and show this is what they
will have to do and how will this impact all
parts of their life and if they wish to do it.
And again, in doing this, I want to be able
to humanize these creators and show that they're not just
(07:10):
their job title, which they are always reduced to by
most people. And before I even cast anyone on this show,
like I knew going into it that my main objective
was to be able to show just like emotion and
the vulnerability and depth to these creators. And again I
keep saying that would humanize, but that's it because to
most people, they don't see them as regular people, regular
(07:32):
humans like you and I. They just reduce them to
their job title and often a derogatory remark like slot,
which I don't like to saying that, but that is
the reality of it, and like, yeah, that was my concept,
while also still being able to like make the show
entertaining and fun and sexy and even a bit controversial,
because that is also the reality of that world. So
(07:55):
now if you're thinking, well, how the hell did you
manage to do that, Josh, Well, after getting the investors
on board and the funding, I spent a long time
finding four creators at four different levels, all from like
different parts of Australia and the world, actually.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Because one of them is from London and just moved
over for the show, and I flew them all to Sydney.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I moved them into a house I'd hired for production,
and then I enrolled them into the XX Academy, the
world's first only fans academy, which is essentially where the
entire show is based. Imagine like rupost drag racing, they've
got the work room. Then imagine like The Apprentice, where
you've got these people like competing in the business world,
(08:38):
and then imagine maybe a bit of like old school
Joddy show Wild Antics with Louis Farau on the side,
who's made like that is essentially this show. And with
the Academy, I joined forces with XX Management, who are
Australia's biggest adult talent agency, and together we just developed lessons,
(08:58):
lectures and an entire curricerm like we legit had an
entire studio and space and campus like this wasn't like
some online tape course and with the exex academy like
the cell For the reality side of this project is
we set out to see if these four girls have
what it takes to become the next big only fans creator,
you know, which is like a sexy sell which you
(09:20):
can summarize in one line, which to wider reality audiences
will go, Okay, I get that, but this is just
as much a documentary series too, And through the academy
and through the lessons that I developed and the guest
speakers and all of that, like I wanted the girls
to ask themselves, is this really worth it? What are
(09:40):
my boundaries? Is this even what I want to do?
How will this impact my long term goals? And like
even what told will this have on my mental health,
my relationships, my family, even even my body? And before
I wrap this up because I know I'm rambling, sorry,
like I just want to say the aim of this
whole our project and everything isn't to deter anybody from
(10:03):
joining the adult industry. I'm still so for that world
like I always have been, but I just want anyone
who judges that world to maybe understand it a little better.
I see it in a way that it's never been
shown before. And also for anybody thinking of signing up
to only fans themselves to really understand what it entails
to now make it on that platform, because there are
(10:24):
i think on the last count two million models on there,
and you're essentially competing with them, and the four girls
we cast for the show, like their individual story is
like everyone, especially women, will be able to resonate with
at least one of them in ways they never expected,
and like I still cry, is cringy. I still cry
(10:47):
thinking of some of the things that happened during filming
and on set, and like the things the girls all
learned about themselves and each of them just how everything
played out. And I don't want to do spoilerss, but
like the whole thing, I've honestly got tamed. The whole
thing became so unexpectedly emotional. And the thing that gets
(11:08):
me the most even now is like on the last
day of filming, Maxine, one of the girls after being
part of like a pretty heavy, important storyline which none
of us saw coming. She kind of pulled me aside,
tears in her eyes and just said like, thank you
for creating the space, Josh and like for her to
realize some of the things she did and process again,
(11:31):
I don't want to go and spoiler, but like the
second she said that to me, like we hugged and
I just got out of that studio as quick as
possible to cry because.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's still getting to me now.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I didn't want to become emotional and set as this
was never about me, Like, yeah, I'm the person making
the show, but my job from the start was helping
these girls tell their stories and educate them on the industry.
But fuck me in that moment, like it, I think
that this significance of what we'd achieved just hit me,
(12:03):
hit well, it hit all of us. And it's so
funny to think that a show with the initial strap
line of have they got what it takes to become
the next big OnlyFans starts is going to have people crying,
Like I know people are going to cry watching not
just one episode but multiple Like that's how vulnerable these
(12:23):
girls get and yeah, anyway, sorry I am rambling. The
show is called Spicy Summer. It'll be airing as a
YouTube exclusive. The first episode will be dropping on YouTube
on November sixteenth, and then there'll be a new episode
every Sunday for six weeks up until Christmas, and you
can follow the show on Instagram and TikTok at Spicy
(12:45):
Summer Series.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Please go do that, please get behind it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We'll be dropping the teasers and the backstories I think
from today or tomorrow, and I like, although this is
very much my project, remember there are investors, there's another
people involved, so like, I'll be honest, the backstories do
play into more of the shock factor just to hook
people and playing into what people expect ahead of the
first episode. But trust me when I say, like this
(13:12):
show will just have so much substance beyond that that
I ask you, lovely people, to please give it a
chance and wait for it, because I am very proud
of what we achieved and I'm so grateful for the
four girls who like came on and trusted me with
their stories. And again I'm getting emotional, so I'm going
to end this now and say thank you. If you've
(13:34):
listened this far and yeah at spicy summer series on socials,
say it
Hello guys, and welcome back to the Math twenty podcast
with me Joshua Fox, and welcome to my big announcement
which I am so excited to finally be able to
share with all of.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You lovely people.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
As many of you noticed, over the last couple of months,
I've been slightly am I and I've completely dipped out
of the Married at First Sight world. Like I stopped
crashing filming for the twenty twenty six season. I stopped
keeping up with what this year's hast have been up to.
I think I've lokey unfollowed a lot of them already,
and I stopped having like any form of social life
or personal life myself, Like even my own social media
(00:35):
has gone dead because the one thing that has consumed
my life for months now, like every day sometimes up
to seventeen eighteen hours a day, is the one thing
I couldn't post or talk about until now. So Yeah,
for the last few months, I have been traveling the
country filming a brand new show. And not only have
I been filming it and like kind of in it,
(00:57):
but I've also been directing it too, being the executive producer.
I can't believe I'm finally sharing this. This is like my
dream coming true because like for years now, I've had
this idea or a reality documentary series that I would
love to make, and it's been like this dream in
the back of my mind that I have tried to
make happen multiple times, but no one has ever really
(01:20):
believed in it to make it become a reality. But
everything changed in May, and everything since then has essentially
been a blur because not only did I find two
investors who understood what I wanted to make and they
like fully backed my vision, but together they then quickly
pulled together two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and we're like, yeah,
(01:41):
here you go, Josh, here's your budget, go make it,
which is still kind of surreal to me because that
is a significant amount of money and for me to
be in charge of that and having to hire a
cruise and locations and book flights and like it, it's
been a lot. But I can't complain because this is
of mine I have wanted to do for so long now,
(02:03):
And in two weeks now, the first episode is going
to drop and be available to stream. And let me
tell you, this whole project in the last five six
months has been wild. So the teasers and announcements for
my show will start going out this week, and everyone's
going to read the initial bio and see the first
(02:25):
promos and they're going to think this show is just
going to be one thing. But I want to give
you guys the full context here and say it's much bigger.
And I also want to just let you know, like
how all this happened. So just bear with me for
a few minutes here, please, And before I even explain
the concept of the show, I want to take this
to the.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Very start, and I want to let you in on
a little secret, which actually I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Know is even a secret, because I've kind of touched
on this briefly before. But over the last ten years,
I have been working in the adult industry and with
adult stars. And this started in the UK when I
was a journalist and glamor models were a thing. Then
this was long before OnlyFans and I knew a few
glamor models and I saw the shame and judgment they
(03:09):
faced every single day, and I kind of had this idea, well,
let's do some features on them, Let's put them in
the magazine, a workout, and let's try and humanize them
in a way and say, like, yo, just because these
women do topless modeling or porn or escorting or whatever
like that doesn't mean that's all they are, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
And then you know, that was ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Fast forward to COVID what it's like five six years
ago now when I'm now a journalist in Australia, And
that's when Only Fans started to take off, and I
was then doing the same with articles and features on
OnlyFans creators as the public became fascinated with this shocking
new website that suddenly was taking over and making people rich.
And then as Only Fans started to become more and
(03:49):
more mainstream, I started working with more and more creators
from that platform and they would reach out to me
to help them with their pr and business strategies. And
it got to the point where I was physically filming
their pond for a good while, which is still kind
of crazy to me, but I'm so desensitized to all
of that now, like it's just work. And then when
(04:10):
I was working on radio, I'd be booking people like
Annie and I and the girth Master, who you guys
may have heard of. There two of Australia's biggest creators.
I'd be booking them onto the breakfast shows I worked
on as their like first ever mainstream interviews, and essentially
everything I was doing over these years was highlighting how
these creators feel empowered in like a mainstream way to
(04:34):
mainstream audiences, as well as like highlighting the crazy money
they were making.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But the problem I.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Realized with this last year especially though, is like as
only fans has become more and more mainstream, creators are
now going to more and more extremes to stand out,
which has kind of become dangerous. And I'm talking like
these sex stunts of I'm going to have sex with
a thousand people today, Oh well, I'm going to try
to sleep with more than an one thousand people to
(05:00):
beat you will. I'm going to tie myself up and
put me myself in a glass box and people can
come do what they want to be Like, it has
got out of hand and I have realized, like this
narrative that I helped initially set in the media that
joining only fancies like an instant gateway to fame and
fortune is just not true. And we're now at a
(05:21):
time where we're seeing like the effect this narrative has
had on society as things now get like out of hand.
And yes, Only Fans does make people rich and famous,
but most regular people who sign up, like after being
sold this dream through the media and through articles that
I have done previously, they barely make minimum wage when
(05:42):
they sign up, and they're then left asking themselves like
what have I done here as they realize their content
will live on their Internet forever and it was just
not worth it for them, So on that the show
I've wanted to make for a good while now, it's
just showing the reality of this world through a medium
people are familiar with, which is reality television. And when
(06:05):
I pitched this idea to production companies or streaming places
or networks, they basically all said the same thing like no, thanks,
not for us, and you'll never make these people likable
to the general public, which pissed me off and made
me go, well, yeah, I will just wait. And instead
of creating something just to like shock or outrage people
like the few previous documentaries on Only Fans, creators has
(06:28):
set out to do or you know, to create something
just to continue glamorizing it like the media have been
doing since the start my show, and my idea is
I do want to show the brutal reality of what
it actually takes to make it on the platform. I
don't want to like get a few of the world's
biggest stars from only fans and be like, here's me
(06:48):
fucking the thousand people watch me behind the scenes. I
want to reverse that and go to the basics and
find four new people and show this is what they
will have to do and how will this impact all
parts of their life and if they wish to do it.
And again, in doing this, I want to be able
to humanize these creators and show that they're not just
(07:10):
their job title, which they are always reduced to by
most people. And before I even cast anyone on this show,
like I knew going into it that my main objective
was to be able to show just like emotion and
the vulnerability and depth to these creators. And again I
keep saying that would humanize, but that's it because to
most people, they don't see them as regular people, regular
(07:32):
humans like you and I. They just reduce them to
their job title and often a derogatory remark like slot,
which I don't like to saying that, but that is
the reality of it, and like, yeah, that was my concept,
while also still being able to like make the show
entertaining and fun and sexy and even a bit controversial,
because that is also the reality of that world. So
(07:55):
now if you're thinking, well, how the hell did you
manage to do that, Josh, Well, after getting the investors
on board and the funding, I spent a long time
finding four creators at four different levels, all from like
different parts of Australia and the world, actually.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Because one of them is from London and just moved
over for the show, and I flew them all to Sydney.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I moved them into a house I'd hired for production,
and then I enrolled them into the XX Academy, the
world's first only fans academy, which is essentially where the
entire show is based. Imagine like rupost drag racing, they've
got the work room. Then imagine like The Apprentice, where
you've got these people like competing in the business world,
(08:38):
and then imagine maybe a bit of like old school
Joddy show Wild Antics with Louis Farau on the side,
who's made like that is essentially this show. And with
the Academy, I joined forces with XX Management, who are
Australia's biggest adult talent agency, and together we just developed lessons,
(08:58):
lectures and an entire curricerm like we legit had an
entire studio and space and campus like this wasn't like
some online tape course and with the exex academy like
the cell For the reality side of this project is
we set out to see if these four girls have
what it takes to become the next big only fans creator,
you know, which is like a sexy sell which you
(09:20):
can summarize in one line, which to wider reality audiences
will go, Okay, I get that, but this is just
as much a documentary series too, And through the academy
and through the lessons that I developed and the guest
speakers and all of that, like I wanted the girls
to ask themselves, is this really worth it? What are
(09:40):
my boundaries? Is this even what I want to do?
How will this impact my long term goals? And like
even what told will this have on my mental health,
my relationships, my family, even even my body? And before
I wrap this up because I know I'm rambling, sorry,
like I just want to say the aim of this
whole our project and everything isn't to deter anybody from
(10:03):
joining the adult industry. I'm still so for that world
like I always have been, but I just want anyone
who judges that world to maybe understand it a little better.
I see it in a way that it's never been
shown before. And also for anybody thinking of signing up
to only fans themselves to really understand what it entails
to now make it on that platform, because there are
(10:24):
i think on the last count two million models on there,
and you're essentially competing with them, and the four girls
we cast for the show, like their individual story is
like everyone, especially women, will be able to resonate with
at least one of them in ways they never expected,
and like I still cry, is cringy. I still cry
(10:47):
thinking of some of the things that happened during filming
and on set, and like the things the girls all
learned about themselves and each of them just how everything
played out. And I don't want to do spoilerss, but
like the whole thing, I've honestly got tamed. The whole
thing became so unexpectedly emotional. And the thing that gets
(11:08):
me the most even now is like on the last
day of filming, Maxine, one of the girls after being
part of like a pretty heavy, important storyline which none
of us saw coming. She kind of pulled me aside,
tears in her eyes and just said like, thank you
for creating the space, Josh and like for her to
realize some of the things she did and process again,
(11:31):
I don't want to go and spoiler, but like the
second she said that to me, like we hugged and
I just got out of that studio as quick as
possible to cry because.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's still getting to me now.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I didn't want to become emotional and set as this
was never about me, Like, yeah, I'm the person making
the show, but my job from the start was helping
these girls tell their stories and educate them on the industry.
But fuck me in that moment, like it, I think
that this significance of what we'd achieved just hit me,
(12:03):
hit well, it hit all of us. And it's so
funny to think that a show with the initial strap
line of have they got what it takes to become
the next big OnlyFans starts is going to have people crying,
Like I know people are going to cry watching not
just one episode but multiple Like that's how vulnerable these
(12:23):
girls get and yeah, anyway, sorry I am rambling. The
show is called Spicy Summer. It'll be airing as a
YouTube exclusive. The first episode will be dropping on YouTube
on November sixteenth, and then there'll be a new episode
every Sunday for six weeks up until Christmas, and you
can follow the show on Instagram and TikTok at Spicy
(12:45):
Summer Series.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Please go do that, please get behind it.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We'll be dropping the teasers and the backstories I think
from today or tomorrow, and I like, although this is
very much my project, remember there are investors, there's another
people involved, so like, I'll be honest, the backstories do
play into more of the shock factor just to hook
people and playing into what people expect ahead of the
first episode. But trust me when I say, like this
(13:12):
show will just have so much substance beyond that that
I ask you, lovely people, to please give it a
chance and wait for it, because I am very proud
of what we achieved and I'm so grateful for the
four girls who like came on and trusted me with
their stories. And again I'm getting emotional, so I'm going
to end this now and say thank you. If you've
(13:34):
listened this far and yeah at spicy summer series on socials,
say it
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.