October 23, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of the In Depth Crew Podcast, Graham, executive producer Brad Galbreath, and director of photography Seth Donnelly take you behind the scenes of our interview with Onlyfans models Bryce Adams and Brian Adam.
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All right, DP Seth, DP Brad. Hello.
I'm Graham. We're back.
We just spent a couple days profiling one of the top only
fan stars, Bryce Adams. Most money you've ever made in a
year? 1314 million.
Your guys thoughts coming out ofthis experience, Whoever wants
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to take it away first? Good, Brad.
What? Do I have to go first?
No, that's fine. I'll go first.
Interesting, I think is the the keyword.
It is amazing what they, it's amazing seeing what they do to
get views and it's nowhere near what I would have expected going
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into it. What do you mean?
You know, only fans, you know the reputation of that.
The site is exclusively not safefor content.
That's not the case. Bryce, though, dabbles in not
safe for work content. Maybe more than dabbles and not
safe and not super content but. That's how she's.
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That's how, that's how she's made all her money.
But what we were there for was seeing how she's using other
mainstream social media platforms to drive, you know,
people too, only fans, but also just to get views on social
media and increase your popularity that way.
And so we're there and we're we're filming, we're seeing like
behind the scenes, which he's filming.
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And it's just kind of these likeskits that anybody could like
film at home. Like the production value is low
but. On cell phone cameras.
Cell phone cameras. Days are coming up with like on
the spot. Right on the spot, like little
skits. And it's like, OK, so that
translates to millions of views and then millions of dollars.
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And so it's just interesting seeing how it all kind of comes
together to see how all that gets made.
And and I, I, I will say too that Bryce and Brian, two of the
nicest people we've met in termsof showing up and the, you know,
the guests in this case, you know, they're hosting us at
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their home slash office, being accommodating and over
delivering, welcoming us in there.
You don't get that. We don't get that on every
shoot. 99% of the shoots we do, but it's not every shoot.
And they were certainly accommodating to us.
Yeah, they were. They couldn't have been nicer.
I was yeah, it was weird. Not in the sense of what people
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probably assume why it was weird, but for like from my
perspective, right? I've from a young age been
interested in like video, like got into this, love cameras, got
into editing, lighting, all thisstuff.
Take the show for instance rightnow, how much work goes into
planning a shoot and how much work goes into the actual shoots
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and the post production of thoseshoots.
It's a lot of a ton of work. A ton of, we put a ton of work
into all this stuff. And then you watch like 3 people
be like, what if we did this andthey shoot it and then it gets
20 million views in like a day. And it's just like, it's a
little disheartening. But it's also like they're, I
can't, it's just like, it's justlike I'm a little jaded.
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But it's also like, like if we work so hard and they're just
like spitting out bullshit ideasand it's just like all.
Although, yeah, I mean, I think we all give them a ton of credit
because what is what I think is clear from having been there is
like it's not half assed, which is an interesting term to use in
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the industry we're talking about.
But they're very clearly smart. I, I don't think there's a doubt
in anybody's mind coming away from spending time with them
that these aren't 2 intelligent people that have figured out
through their own intellect how to become the best of what they
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do. Because there are plenty of
people who screw on camera, haveonly fans accounts or, you know,
any, any of these other platforms and have not figured
out how to monetize it even a fraction as successfully as they
have. And to your comment about, you
know, we're watching them make these, you know, silly videos
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for IG and Facebook and YouTube or TikTok, wherever else they
put them. I I mean that that we were, but
the fascinating thing about it was, you know, they make organic
ad revenue from these platforms for ads that run in conjunction
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with that safe for work content that they put on those
platforms. But that's all gravy to them
like that. So that's almost a rounding
error because for them that content is a marketing tool to
drive people to become paid subscribers on only fans where
they have an 8 figure business. Admittedly, like I was the one
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that kind of forced this throughon our end.
I was kind of. Yeah, full transparency, like
you're the only one that wanted to do it.
And not like in a like nobody here.
It's not like we were with a bunch of perudes or anything
like that. But it was just a situation of
like, like we said, how much work goes into all this stuff.
And it's not like she's a household name or anything like
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that. But as she is, it was
interesting. I was.
I was impressed by her for sure.I I might get some pushback on
this one, but I think that's notthink that's my favorite episode
we've done so far this season really only because completely
different. Yeah, My interest in it was just
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kind of learning about this business model because it's, to
use a word that's going to get bleeped again.
I mean, I think most people think it's just been on camera
and making millions and like it is not that for them.
Like there's very clearly strategy and intellect and this
whole back end to use another term that's weird to use given
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the industry infrastructure they've put in place.
And I just thought, you know, maybe this brings me to the next
question. But I like the challenge of
figuring out how to do that in away that was broadcast safe,
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that wasn't alienating our audience or any of our partners.
Because there's very clearly opportunity for this to have
turned into something much different and crass and, you
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know, exploiting everything thatall all the stereotypical type
stuff. So I'll shut up now.
No, Keep going. Do you think you were?
Do you think we were successful in that?
I, I think we created a finishedepisode that was consistent in
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quality and tonality of any other one we would do.
So from that standpoint, I, I think we hit the mark.
I think they're always going to be people that are scratching
their heads as to why we might choose to profile a certain
person. But I think one of the things
that I like about having the opportunity to now do with this
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show is, you know, profile needle movers, thought leaders,
people that are kind of the bestat what.
There's obviously a large amountof people that are interested in
her, whether it be what for one reason or another, but that
they're, they're interested in her.
So I think having doing a profile like we did with her is
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going to be interesting to a lotof people.
I do think it's going to be, it's going to alienate a lot of
people as well. I think it already has.
I mean if you read the comments like there's seems to be 1
specific kind of person, I don'tknow if that's the right way to
put it. Although anytime we profile
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somebody that is notably left orright leaning, you get a lot of
comments that. That's just the way we look in
now. Yeah, exactly.
Alienating alien really matters.If they unfollow or unsubscribe
because leaving a comment doesn't, that's just engaging
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and. Yeah, no, I mean, this stuff's
only been up for 24 hours at this point, so it is like you'll
see like 13 comments and they will be things like, you know,
like disappointed and Graham forthis, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. And it's just like.
But I think if I wasn't involvedin the episode and I was
familiar with the show, it's what I would have expected to
come out of an episode of this like.
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And we're not the first major publication to profile.
No, no, I know, but I'm saying like this.
It seems like the episode you would have done on another fan
star. It doesn't seem like you were
trying to exploit anything or trying to get clicks.
It just seems like a a genuine episode of the show.
You mentioned how I was kind of the only one that was initially
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excited about doing this. That happens often with episodes
when I flush the toilet. That's the number one or #2.
Which toilet is that I? Think it's the one.
Keep this in, keep this in, yeah.
Son of a bitch. This all stays in, Yeah?
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This all. Stays in.
This is good stuff. Do we have a camera pointing at
the pipes to really capture the?Cut the pipe Cam, it's like the
start of a second. Yeah.
All right, it's time for the pipe Cam.
Mr. Kim's like a pipes like vibrating.
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So now, on the other side of it,having profiled her and put the
episode together, would you do it or not do it if you were
making the decision from the outset, each of you?
I don't. I don't think I have.
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Based on what you know today. Yeah, I, I don't think I
haven't, based on what I know today, I don't have enough
evidence to the contrary to go against my opinion before, which
was I probably would not do it. But I think there's still lots
of time for that to change whereif this ends up doing really
well for us, because we just published a lot of the clips and
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you know, yesterday and the showgoes out this weekend.
I guess by the time you time this airs, you've already seen
the episode. But to me, it's still too early
to tell. So in this moment, right here,
right now, I would still say I would not have done it.
I mean, I'm happy we did it. I think it's fun to do things
that are, you know, not typical of just some, you know, actor or
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athlete that's, you know, that those are interesting and cool
as well. But to do something I like, but
just to broaden the scope of what we do and also like, you
know, I mean, going into, it's really easy to assume what
somebody's going to be like, especially somebody who does
like only fans for a living. But she was, I thought,
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incredibly smart, insanely sweet, like genuine, like.
So I'm happy that we get to shedlight on that aspect of her.
In independent of performance ofthe content, I think it was
worth doing just for quality of the story.
Actually, I would argue. And, and to be clear, I'm happy
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with how everything turned out. It's just, you know, was it
worth doing it? That's what I'm.
That's what I'm waiting to. So tell them about the call you
got a number of days before the filming.
Oh, right, so we were going intothis episode thinking, let's
profile this only fan star and, and how she's built this
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incredible business and that that was kind of the that would
be the story. That's the episode.
And then a couple days before weget a call from Bryce herself
saying, Hey, Brian and I, Brian being a long time boyfriend, 15
years dating back to high school, Bryce is telling me
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Brian and I are actually going to separate or breaking up.
And I was like, at first I was like, is this a joke?
Like, I, this was the first timeI'd ever, like, talked to Bryce.
I was like, I don't know her well enough to be like, maybe
she's just trying to be funny. Like, so Bryce is this like, is
this real? And he's like, yeah, yeah.
Like we're kind of making our way through it.
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But when you'll visit, it's kindof going to be our last hurrah
because he's then moving to Vegas.
And I was like, damn. Like, OK, like we immediately
have another storyline in there and, you know, the background of
their relationship is it's always been an open
relationship. I think just from a human
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interest level, people in that business having an open
relationship and then it going bad, it's like and they're still
on good terms that you know, that, you know, they say they're
still on good terms, which is good for them.
And but the human interest levelthat I thought was super
interesting of like, OK, only fan stars, adult, adult content
stars, open relationship, they're going bad.
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Is it because of the business? And we kind of got into that a
little bit in the episode where it did relate back to the
business as we saw with Tyler and some of the decisions that
they started to make and why thesplit ended up happening.
I'll show up now. No, it was a little reality TV,
like the There's like a love triangle within their little, I
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don't know, groups that they film with.
And it's like, it's kind of easyto like from like take a step
back and be like, yeah, of course this is what you're doing
is messy. Like it's not going to work.
The more interesting part of that phone call with Bryce,
though, in terms of how things could have happened differently
if I made a different decision, which it would have been a
stupid decision for me to make, was Bryce is like, do you think
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we should wait to like, maybe wedon't tell Graham about the
breakup. I can like tell it to him on
camera, like when we're there and we can like, it can be like
his real reaction, like I mean that you, whatever you want to
do with that. But like, it was just a thought
that I had and I, I thought about it for all of like 2
seconds before I was like, yeah,I don't know how that would
work. We like to have research done.
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Right. I was like, that would be weird
because then like, like I was envisioning a world where like
Graham is like, so how about your relationship guys?
And like, imagine. Imagine.
Imagine Graham finding out that they'd broken up.
You knew the whole time in the shoot and Graham's like what the
probably a different question. I probably would have been
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heated. Yeah, so I.
I give her credit though for like trying to do some pre
production and like ID 8 with you.
I mean she had the best of intentions with all of that.
Yeah, it was interesting as partof the prep talking to Brian
ahead of time and Brian giving context and.
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You probably would have found out because you talked to Brian
ahead of time. Even even if I had to be like,
OK, let's not tell Graham. Brian probably would have told
you. Knows if it depends.
I don't know if he would have brought it up or not, but he
definitely had strong feelings. Yeah, I don't know.
That I have anything else to sayon that topic other than is
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interesting to capture because not only were they high school
sweethearts and have been together forever, but as you
stated, they're Co owners of thebusiness.
And how 50505050 and how that dynamic changes as they now
aren't together anymore is anybody's guess.
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But you know, hopefully for bothof their sakes, it won't be to
the detriment of their business.And then also they can each
live, you know, happily ever after.
I would say the funniest thing though, independent of this that
was brought up, you know, just because I'm curious, I was like,
how do you guys avoid getting diseases?
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Yeah, you know, everybody's likescrewing everybody.
And I assume because this is like a successful industry that
there's, you know, process and all that in place for testing
etcetera, and where I spoke to that in a very articulate
professional. Way there are designated testing
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centers that have databases and you go in and you have to be
tested a certain window before you're going to do a shoot.
You also have an online databaseso that you know, if I'm
collaborating with somebody and I want to look up and see when
their last Test date was, I can look it up.
I can see the results, see they were all clear, look like
through like their history. So it's very, it's very like
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open, very commutative and everyone's very safe about all
that. And I'm like, OK, like, that
makes sense. I get it.
And then Brian, we sit down withhim and he's like, oh, that's
all bull. She's holding out on you.
She's like, Oh yeah, we did a great job.
Yeah. After all of us had chlamydia.
Yeah. And what was so great about
Brian is like they're both againclearly smart, but Brian
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provided a lot of the color thatyou didn't get maybe in the
price interview. So they complimented each but.
I wonder if them having broken up like the week before that
added to the color that he was adding like a little bit of like
a like a you. Perhaps, although I will say
even on the Zoom, Zoom resumes we had with them ahead of time
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before they were broken up, he was the same way, just more kind
of you like almost like Charles Barkley esque and just his
bluntness and. Whatever he's going to, there's
certain points in the interview with Brian though, where you
could tell he was thinking for asecond and then decided to wing
it. And so it's those moments that I
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do wonder if. He ranged it in though.
Sometimes. Correct.
There'd be times where he would literally be like, and then you
would just say something crazy and you're just like, like a lot
of like a lot of Brian's interview, as he's saying.
And I'm like, well, we can't useany of this.
Like when he's like miming like A and a hot dog bun.
And it's like, yeah, I don't know how we're going to edit
this too. Do we use that?
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In the clip we did, yeah. In the clip, yeah, I.
Mean we bleed. But we show him miming the I
mean. Sure.
Sure. On that note.
Well, hang on, there's one thingI want to bring because it
didn't make the edit and it was my favorite thing that happened
the whole shoot. One of my favorite things that
happened. On the baseball field.
Yeah, Graham fell into the fence.
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I don't even remember. You remember that you were
running I. Yeah.
Wait, I thought I didn't wipe out or did I wipe?
Out you just so two of the funnythings about baseball was so we
have we shot there like production meeting, which I
think they were just kind of doing that for us like, oh, we
should have a we should like I'msure they have meetings that are
productive. But the first thing they said in
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that meeting was today we'll play baseball, we get to the
field, we'll free play for an hour and then we'll tape a
couple of things. And it was just like that
Probably didn't need to be in a meeting.
It was just funny to me anyway, we didn't have to do that.
Like, imagine us having a meeting.
It's like, cool. So we get there, everybody free
play for a while. Recess.
Recess, everybody gonna swings. So anyway, Graham's in the
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outfield. Dragon balls.
So it had rained like that day, 'cause we're in Florida, so it
rains every day. And yeah, Brian hit one like to
the fence and grandma's running to it.
And you didn't technically wipe out, but you did like jump and
like land in mud and then slide into the fence.
And I was like, oh, I can't waitfor this to make the clip.
And then we didn't end up doing anything with baseball, so we
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never got to show that we'll. Show it now.
We'll show it now. That's what this podcast is for.
But I guess the the context there is we went to the baseball
field. Why it was baseball was because
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Brian played baseball in high school.
And it ties into the other business that I think is
honestly to me more like eye opening than the only fan stuff
because to me, I understand thatsex sells.
Like that's like not everybody'ssuccessful at only fans.
Not only fans, but like, I understand how it can be
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successful, but the fact that Bryce and Brian together and
when they started their baseballbat business in high school,
that's now sold, I think to datemore than $25 million worth,
according to Bryce. Like how you just think to like,
let's go buy baseball bats from mom and pop stores and start
selling them across the country.Let's export them to South
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Korea. Let's find out where we can
attack this seemingly very nichething and like, just have it go
crazy and make all this money off of it is insane to me.
Like I would never in a million years think that you could make
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it do millions of dollars in sales off of reselling baseball
bats. But they did it.
And not everybody thinks to do that.
So that to me was very impressive.
And precisely why I would again argue this was a worthy episode
to do and I'm thrilled we did it.
The longest crew podcast conversation we have ever had.
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We'd love to. Cover.
For DP Seth EP Brad, I am Graham, we'll see you next time.
All right, DP Seth, DP Brad. Hello.
I'm Graham. We're back.
We just spent a couple days profiling one of the top only
fan stars, Bryce Adams. Most money you've ever made in a
year? 1314 million.
Your guys thoughts coming out ofthis experience, Whoever wants
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to take it away first? Good, Brad.
What? Do I have to go first?
No, that's fine. I'll go first.
Interesting, I think is the the keyword.
It is amazing what they, it's amazing seeing what they do to
get views and it's nowhere near what I would have expected going
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into it. What do you mean?
You know, only fans, you know the reputation of that.
The site is exclusively not safefor content.
That's not the case. Bryce, though, dabbles in not
safe for work content. Maybe more than dabbles and not
safe and not super content but. That's how she's.
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That's how, that's how she's made all her money.
But what we were there for was seeing how she's using other
mainstream social media platforms to drive, you know,
people too, only fans, but also just to get views on social
media and increase your popularity that way.
And so we're there and we're we're filming, we're seeing like
behind the scenes, which he's filming.
(01:30):
And it's just kind of these likeskits that anybody could like
film at home. Like the production value is low
but. On cell phone cameras.
Cell phone cameras. Days are coming up with like on
the spot. Right on the spot, like little
skits. And it's like, OK, so that
translates to millions of views and then millions of dollars.
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And so it's just interesting seeing how it all kind of comes
together to see how all that gets made.
And and I, I, I will say too that Bryce and Brian, two of the
nicest people we've met in termsof showing up and the, you know,
the guests in this case, you know, they're hosting us at
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their home slash office, being accommodating and over
delivering, welcoming us in there.
You don't get that. We don't get that on every
shoot. 99% of the shoots we do, but it's not every shoot.
And they were certainly accommodating to us.
Yeah, they were. They couldn't have been nicer.
I was yeah, it was weird. Not in the sense of what people
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probably assume why it was weird, but for like from my
perspective, right? I've from a young age been
interested in like video, like got into this, love cameras, got
into editing, lighting, all thisstuff.
Take the show for instance rightnow, how much work goes into
planning a shoot and how much work goes into the actual shoots
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and the post production of thoseshoots.
It's a lot of a ton of work. A ton of, we put a ton of work
into all this stuff. And then you watch like 3 people
be like, what if we did this andthey shoot it and then it gets
20 million views in like a day. And it's just like, it's a
little disheartening. But it's also like they're, I
can't, it's just like, it's justlike I'm a little jaded.
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But it's also like, like if we work so hard and they're just
like spitting out bullshit ideasand it's just like all.
Although, yeah, I mean, I think we all give them a ton of credit
because what is what I think is clear from having been there is
like it's not half assed, which is an interesting term to use in
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the industry we're talking about.
But they're very clearly smart. I, I don't think there's a doubt
in anybody's mind coming away from spending time with them
that these aren't 2 intelligent people that have figured out
through their own intellect how to become the best of what they
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do. Because there are plenty of
people who screw on camera, haveonly fans accounts or, you know,
any, any of these other platforms and have not figured
out how to monetize it even a fraction as successfully as they
have. And to your comment about, you
know, we're watching them make these, you know, silly videos
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for IG and Facebook and YouTube or TikTok, wherever else they
put them. I I mean that that we were, but
the fascinating thing about it was, you know, they make organic
ad revenue from these platforms for ads that run in conjunction
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with that safe for work content that they put on those
platforms. But that's all gravy to them
like that. So that's almost a rounding
error because for them that content is a marketing tool to
drive people to become paid subscribers on only fans where
they have an 8 figure business. Admittedly, like I was the one
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that kind of forced this throughon our end.
I was kind of. Yeah, full transparency, like
you're the only one that wanted to do it.
And not like in a like nobody here.
It's not like we were with a bunch of perudes or anything
like that. But it was just a situation of
like, like we said, how much work goes into all this stuff.
And it's not like she's a household name or anything like
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that. But as she is, it was
interesting. I was.
I was impressed by her for sure.I I might get some pushback on
this one, but I think that's notthink that's my favorite episode
we've done so far this season really only because completely
different. Yeah, My interest in it was just
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kind of learning about this business model because it's, to
use a word that's going to get bleeped again.
I mean, I think most people think it's just been on camera
and making millions and like it is not that for them.
Like there's very clearly strategy and intellect and this
whole back end to use another term that's weird to use given
(06:20):
the industry infrastructure they've put in place.
And I just thought, you know, maybe this brings me to the next
question. But I like the challenge of
figuring out how to do that in away that was broadcast safe,
(06:41):
that wasn't alienating our audience or any of our partners.
Because there's very clearly opportunity for this to have
turned into something much different and crass and, you
(07:02):
know, exploiting everything thatall all the stereotypical type
stuff. So I'll shut up now.
No, Keep going. Do you think you were?
Do you think we were successful in that?
I, I think we created a finishedepisode that was consistent in
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quality and tonality of any other one we would do.
So from that standpoint, I, I think we hit the mark.
I think they're always going to be people that are scratching
their heads as to why we might choose to profile a certain
person. But I think one of the things
that I like about having the opportunity to now do with this
(07:48):
show is, you know, profile needle movers, thought leaders,
people that are kind of the bestat what.
There's obviously a large amountof people that are interested in
her, whether it be what for one reason or another, but that
they're, they're interested in her.
So I think having doing a profile like we did with her is
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going to be interesting to a lotof people.
I do think it's going to be, it's going to alienate a lot of
people as well. I think it already has.
I mean if you read the comments like there's seems to be 1
specific kind of person, I don'tknow if that's the right way to
put it. Although anytime we profile
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somebody that is notably left orright leaning, you get a lot of
comments that. That's just the way we look in
now. Yeah, exactly.
Alienating alien really matters.If they unfollow or unsubscribe
because leaving a comment doesn't, that's just engaging
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and. Yeah, no, I mean, this stuff's
only been up for 24 hours at this point, so it is like you'll
see like 13 comments and they will be things like, you know,
like disappointed and Graham forthis, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. And it's just like.
But I think if I wasn't involvedin the episode and I was
familiar with the show, it's what I would have expected to
come out of an episode of this like.
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And we're not the first major publication to profile.
No, no, I know, but I'm saying like this.
It seems like the episode you would have done on another fan
star. It doesn't seem like you were
trying to exploit anything or trying to get clicks.
It just seems like a a genuine episode of the show.
You mentioned how I was kind of the only one that was initially
(09:35):
excited about doing this. That happens often with episodes
when I flush the toilet. That's the number one or #2.
Which toilet is that I? Think it's the one.
Keep this in, keep this in, yeah.
Son of a bitch. This all stays in, Yeah?
(10:00):
This all. Stays in.
This is good stuff. Do we have a camera pointing at
the pipes to really capture the?Cut the pipe Cam, it's like the
start of a second. Yeah.
All right, it's time for the pipe Cam.
Mr. Kim's like a pipes like vibrating.
(10:28):
So now, on the other side of it,having profiled her and put the
episode together, would you do it or not do it if you were
making the decision from the outset, each of you?
I don't. I don't think I have.
(10:49):
Based on what you know today. Yeah, I, I don't think I
haven't, based on what I know today, I don't have enough
evidence to the contrary to go against my opinion before, which
was I probably would not do it. But I think there's still lots
of time for that to change whereif this ends up doing really
well for us, because we just published a lot of the clips and
(11:13):
you know, yesterday and the showgoes out this weekend.
I guess by the time you time this airs, you've already seen
the episode. But to me, it's still too early
to tell. So in this moment, right here,
right now, I would still say I would not have done it.
I mean, I'm happy we did it. I think it's fun to do things
that are, you know, not typical of just some, you know, actor or
(11:35):
athlete that's, you know, that those are interesting and cool
as well. But to do something I like, but
just to broaden the scope of what we do and also like, you
know, I mean, going into, it's really easy to assume what
somebody's going to be like, especially somebody who does
like only fans for a living. But she was, I thought,
(11:56):
incredibly smart, insanely sweet, like genuine, like.
So I'm happy that we get to shedlight on that aspect of her.
In independent of performance ofthe content, I think it was
worth doing just for quality of the story.
Actually, I would argue. And, and to be clear, I'm happy
(12:18):
with how everything turned out. It's just, you know, was it
worth doing it? That's what I'm.
That's what I'm waiting to. So tell them about the call you
got a number of days before the filming.
Oh, right, so we were going intothis episode thinking, let's
profile this only fan star and, and how she's built this
(12:41):
incredible business and that that was kind of the that would
be the story. That's the episode.
And then a couple days before weget a call from Bryce herself
saying, Hey, Brian and I, Brian being a long time boyfriend, 15
years dating back to high school, Bryce is telling me
(13:02):
Brian and I are actually going to separate or breaking up.
And I was like, at first I was like, is this a joke?
Like, I, this was the first timeI'd ever, like, talked to Bryce.
I was like, I don't know her well enough to be like, maybe
she's just trying to be funny. Like, so Bryce is this like, is
this real? And he's like, yeah, yeah.
Like we're kind of making our way through it.
(13:25):
But when you'll visit, it's kindof going to be our last hurrah
because he's then moving to Vegas.
And I was like, damn. Like, OK, like we immediately
have another storyline in there and, you know, the background of
their relationship is it's always been an open
relationship. I think just from a human
(13:45):
interest level, people in that business having an open
relationship and then it going bad, it's like and they're still
on good terms that you know, that, you know, they say they're
still on good terms, which is good for them.
And but the human interest levelthat I thought was super
interesting of like, OK, only fan stars, adult, adult content
stars, open relationship, they're going bad.
(14:07):
Is it because of the business? And we kind of got into that a
little bit in the episode where it did relate back to the
business as we saw with Tyler and some of the decisions that
they started to make and why thesplit ended up happening.
I'll show up now. No, it was a little reality TV,
like the There's like a love triangle within their little, I
(14:32):
don't know, groups that they film with.
And it's like, it's kind of easyto like from like take a step
back and be like, yeah, of course this is what you're doing
is messy. Like it's not going to work.
The more interesting part of that phone call with Bryce,
though, in terms of how things could have happened differently
if I made a different decision, which it would have been a
stupid decision for me to make, was Bryce is like, do you think
(14:53):
we should wait to like, maybe wedon't tell Graham about the
breakup. I can like tell it to him on
camera, like when we're there and we can like, it can be like
his real reaction, like I mean that you, whatever you want to
do with that. But like, it was just a thought
that I had and I, I thought about it for all of like 2
seconds before I was like, yeah,I don't know how that would
work. We like to have research done.
(15:13):
Right. I was like, that would be weird
because then like, like I was envisioning a world where like
Graham is like, so how about your relationship guys?
And like, imagine. Imagine.
Imagine Graham finding out that they'd broken up.
You knew the whole time in the shoot and Graham's like what the
probably a different question. I probably would have been
(15:33):
heated. Yeah, so I.
I give her credit though for like trying to do some pre
production and like ID 8 with you.
I mean she had the best of intentions with all of that.
Yeah, it was interesting as partof the prep talking to Brian
ahead of time and Brian giving context and.
(15:54):
You probably would have found out because you talked to Brian
ahead of time. Even even if I had to be like,
OK, let's not tell Graham. Brian probably would have told
you. Knows if it depends.
I don't know if he would have brought it up or not, but he
definitely had strong feelings. Yeah, I don't know.
That I have anything else to sayon that topic other than is
(16:19):
interesting to capture because not only were they high school
sweethearts and have been together forever, but as you
stated, they're Co owners of thebusiness.
And how 50505050 and how that dynamic changes as they now
aren't together anymore is anybody's guess.
(16:44):
But you know, hopefully for bothof their sakes, it won't be to
the detriment of their business.And then also they can each
live, you know, happily ever after.
I would say the funniest thing though, independent of this that
was brought up, you know, just because I'm curious, I was like,
how do you guys avoid getting diseases?
(17:06):
Yeah, you know, everybody's likescrewing everybody.
And I assume because this is like a successful industry that
there's, you know, process and all that in place for testing
etcetera, and where I spoke to that in a very articulate
professional. Way there are designated testing
(17:29):
centers that have databases and you go in and you have to be
tested a certain window before you're going to do a shoot.
You also have an online databaseso that you know, if I'm
collaborating with somebody and I want to look up and see when
their last Test date was, I can look it up.
I can see the results, see they were all clear, look like
through like their history. So it's very, it's very like
(17:49):
open, very commutative and everyone's very safe about all
that. And I'm like, OK, like, that
makes sense. I get it.
And then Brian, we sit down withhim and he's like, oh, that's
all bull. She's holding out on you.
She's like, Oh yeah, we did a great job.
Yeah. After all of us had chlamydia.
Yeah. And what was so great about
Brian is like they're both againclearly smart, but Brian
(18:14):
provided a lot of the color thatyou didn't get maybe in the
price interview. So they complimented each but.
I wonder if them having broken up like the week before that
added to the color that he was adding like a little bit of like
a like a you. Perhaps, although I will say
even on the Zoom, Zoom resumes we had with them ahead of time
(18:39):
before they were broken up, he was the same way, just more kind
of you like almost like Charles Barkley esque and just his
bluntness and. Whatever he's going to, there's
certain points in the interview with Brian though, where you
could tell he was thinking for asecond and then decided to wing
it. And so it's those moments that I
(19:01):
do wonder if. He ranged it in though.
Sometimes. Correct.
There'd be times where he would literally be like, and then you
would just say something crazy and you're just like, like a lot
of like a lot of Brian's interview, as he's saying.
And I'm like, well, we can't useany of this.
Like when he's like miming like A and a hot dog bun.
And it's like, yeah, I don't know how we're going to edit
this too. Do we use that?
(19:22):
In the clip we did, yeah. In the clip, yeah, I.
Mean we bleed. But we show him miming the I
mean. Sure.
Sure. On that note.
Well, hang on, there's one thingI want to bring because it
didn't make the edit and it was my favorite thing that happened
the whole shoot. One of my favorite things that
happened. On the baseball field.
Yeah, Graham fell into the fence.
(19:43):
I don't even remember. You remember that you were
running I. Yeah.
Wait, I thought I didn't wipe out or did I wipe?
Out you just so two of the funnythings about baseball was so we
have we shot there like production meeting, which I
think they were just kind of doing that for us like, oh, we
should have a we should like I'msure they have meetings that are
productive. But the first thing they said in
(20:03):
that meeting was today we'll play baseball, we get to the
field, we'll free play for an hour and then we'll tape a
couple of things. And it was just like that
Probably didn't need to be in a meeting.
It was just funny to me anyway, we didn't have to do that.
Like, imagine us having a meeting.
It's like, cool. So we get there, everybody free
play for a while. Recess.
Recess, everybody gonna swings. So anyway, Graham's in the
(20:25):
outfield. Dragon balls.
So it had rained like that day, 'cause we're in Florida, so it
rains every day. And yeah, Brian hit one like to
the fence and grandma's running to it.
And you didn't technically wipe out, but you did like jump and
like land in mud and then slide into the fence.
And I was like, oh, I can't waitfor this to make the clip.
And then we didn't end up doing anything with baseball, so we
(20:46):
never got to show that we'll. Show it now.
We'll show it now. That's what this podcast is for.
But I guess the the context there is we went to the baseball
field. Why it was baseball was because
(21:07):
Brian played baseball in high school.
And it ties into the other business that I think is
honestly to me more like eye opening than the only fan stuff
because to me, I understand thatsex sells.
Like that's like not everybody'ssuccessful at only fans.
Not only fans, but like, I understand how it can be
(21:29):
successful, but the fact that Bryce and Brian together and
when they started their baseballbat business in high school,
that's now sold, I think to datemore than $25 million worth,
according to Bryce. Like how you just think to like,
let's go buy baseball bats from mom and pop stores and start
selling them across the country.Let's export them to South
(21:51):
Korea. Let's find out where we can
attack this seemingly very nichething and like, just have it go
crazy and make all this money off of it is insane to me.
Like I would never in a million years think that you could make
(22:12):
it do millions of dollars in sales off of reselling baseball
bats. But they did it.
And not everybody thinks to do that.
So that to me was very impressive.
And precisely why I would again argue this was a worthy episode
to do and I'm thrilled we did it.
The longest crew podcast conversation we have ever had.
(22:34):
We'd love to. Cover.
For DP Seth EP Brad, I am Graham, we'll see you next time.
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