All Episodes

October 2, 2025 36 mins
If you like stupid, today's show is a good one.  We start off with the news that Fox is going to reboot Baywatch, and that leads to the following: Star Trek: TNG, the sexy Sir Patrick Steward and Jonathan Frakes, british accents, Treehouse Top Gun with British accents, who plays what role in our Top Gun remake, Baywatch Nights, and Thunder in Paradise, Fox, Sopranos, and I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff.  And we talk about a shortage of male porn stars.  

LINKS:

‘Baywatch’ Reboot Coming to Fox in 2026-27

There's a shortage of male porn stars — this is what it takes to sign up | Metro News

The Treehouse Show is a Dallas based comedy podcast. Leave your worries outside and join Dan O'Malley, Trey Trenholm, Raj Sharma, and their guests for laughs about funny news, viral stories, and hilarious commentary.

The Treehouse Website

Get MORE from the Treehouse Show on Patreon

Get a FREE roof inspection from the best company in DFW:
Cook DFW Roofing & Restoration 

For the BEST haunted house in DFW:
Best Haunted House in DFW


CLICK HERE TO DONATE:
The RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation
Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you feel restless and anxious, feel like something's missing
in your life? Maybe you just need a little more
Treehouse in it. Go to patreon dot com slash Treehouse
on air and check out all the bonus features of
subscription offers, including bonus shows, behind the scenes content, special
subscriber only live shows, and so much more. That's patreon
dot com slash Treehouse on Air. That's p a t

(00:20):
R e o n dot com slash Treehouse on Air.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
It is timed to leave your worries outside and life
with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Mallley along with
Trey Trendholm, Raj Sharma and Jerry called Well, thank you
for hanging out with us today. Thank you for hanging
out with us all week here inside the Treehouse. Last
week was also a big week inside the Treehouse because

(01:09):
last week we told you about the night Writer reboot
that just might include Airwolf, something to get all of
our nostalgia hearts running.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
There is a new Baywatch reboot in the works.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh good grief.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, because the movie that the Rocket did a few
years ago wasn't enough. They said, you know what, we
need to bring this show back, not just in movie form,
but we need to put this thing back on TV.
Fox is reviving Baywatch next season with an all new cast,
no householf.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
They are promising to quote bring the California Dream to
a whole nude generation of fans.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I think Hasselhoff would need a desk job at this point.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
He probably just needs a job.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
In a cheeseburger.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
And a nice cold floor.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Oh man, I never got into Baywatch.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I didn't either. Ever, I'm out on that one.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
To be fair, I don't know how much you can
actually get into Baywatch because it's I mean, it's not
like it was earth shattering storylines here it was. I mean,
you're talking about a show that was an hour long
with commercials, and ten minutes of every episode was a
music video of them running around or working out or whatever.

(02:50):
So for television, you have an hour long show. Once
you take out the commercials, you're only shooting about forty
five minutes right of content, and then back out of
that forty five another seven to ten for a nice
musical montage and slow running sequences. You've only got about
a half hour of actual show to write.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
But I mean, clearly I mean, obviously it was very popular.
I mean, I just I don't that was something of
the late eighties early nineties that I just never got into.
I mean, there's a lot of things I understood that
one is not one of them.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
That's because you weren't my age when it came out.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Also, I think it was on opposite of Star Trek,
so I was out.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
And that would have just depended on you know, your
television provider at the time.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
The show's going to feature an all not all new.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
The show feature all the adrenaline fueled rescues, tangled relationships,
complicated chemistry, and beachside heroics that defined the original, now
with an entirely new cast. The original Baywatch premiered on
NBC in nineteen eighty nine and it ran all of
one season. Then it moved a syndication for ten more

(04:08):
glorious years.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yes, Raj Pamla Anderson in a Bikini or Star Trek
and you went Star Trek. Patrick Stewart is a piece

(04:32):
of ass making, so number one, and boy.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Did they.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, don't even get me started on Jonathan Frakes.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
No one ever has.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Patrick Stewart did. Jean Luke loved him? Soon number one.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
It wasn't Jonathan Frakes.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
It was Jonathan.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
You went straight Picard. Huh, that's an odd choice. I mean,
I didn't know there was any storyline, don't they watched,
But I like the opening scene with all of them
running with the credits rolling, and it was Donna Dierico
was one of them.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, Donna Dierica. I mean you had a hell of
a cast that no, you know, over the years, a
hell of a cask. He had hell of tits, including Hasselhoffs.
I'll tell you right now. His tits bounced just as
much as Pamela Anderson's or Erica Alniax and.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
That say what you want. But Hasselhoff had a solid ass,
did he He did? Okay, he had the red shorts.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I don't remember them accentuating Hasselhoff's ass much on Baywatch,
and I know because I watched it a lot.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
They did the abs, they did it like they accentuated
his abs for sure.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, and were drawn on.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
They're just Esburgers and they're they're shading his body hair
to make it look like a six pack, you know,
with like a with like a beard trimmer.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, that's the thing that nobody noticed. Like if you
look at the old promo picture from Night Writer, he's
got the shirt open chest hair just I mean early eighties.
Then you get to Baywatch and he's just waxed.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
He had he maybe it was later years because he
he ended up going more o natural with the Chester.
Maybe he had trimmed it some, okay, but it wasn't slick. Yeah,
just just I'm not just for the record, Yes.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, you want to make fun of Star Trek and
y'all are here, you know, picking out about you know,
Table Hasselhoff's body man talking about his ass and his
abs and his fuck off. That's my prime directive, funk
all the way off.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
There was no question about hair on John Luke Picard's head.
It was it was bald, and it had it a
little bit on the side, and it didn't matter because,
as Trey so eloquently said, he was a piece of
ass with.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
A British accent, I mean the British accent.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, okay, so that's what gets that's what gets you going.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
And listen, everything is better with a British British accent.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Money.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Python would not be his nearest funny without a British accent.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Go Back and remake the Go Back and remake Money
Python and the Holy Grail. But with American accent, the
movie is gonna be garbage.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
But if you made Top Gun and everybody had a
British accent, would you take that movie? Seriously?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
No, but I'd love it.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I want to see that now. I want Top Gun three.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
I don't talk to me.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Basically, you're making hot shots and replacing Charlie Sheen.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
And we'd all watch it.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Hell yeah, I gave him the finger.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
I was inverted the whole time.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
I mean, we're already making it right now, all right,
I have an idea, and I want you to hear
me out.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
This might be a terrible idea, but what.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
We should do is get a few classic scenes from
Top Gun and then we all recreate them here inside
the Treehouse, but with our worst British accents, and we
just see what happens.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm on board, I'm there, all right.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
So Jerry, you will obviously play Kelly mcgillis's part.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
I'm sundown, Yes you are. I can't even get wolf
Man or Cowboy. I can't get.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
No.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
It's just settling into Dan, right, God.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
You'll have an expanded role in our version.

Speaker 7 (09:38):
Yet.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
In our version, Rajah SunDog will be invited to the
volleyball scene.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Excellent.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh, desegregation is awesome, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Though you're still not You're still not going to be
a pilot. You're still gonna be in the back of
the jet.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
No, I'm definitely a dee I higher.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
We don't want anyone looking at you and the cockpit
and thinking, I don't know if he should be the pilot.
Oh yeah, I can't wait for this version.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Nor can people of color.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, although I will say I know that I know
what you guys are thinking. If you raj your sundown,
and if in our version of Uh top Gun, if
Jerry's playing Kelly mcgillis's part, that means Trey and I
have to decide who has to be Maverick and make
out with Jerry.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
You're Maverick, I am not.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
If you are, I would rather be Goose, who's taller.
That's not fair.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
You're in the treehouse. Visit is online on air dot com.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm not shaving either. I have lost that loving feeling.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
So you're gonna look like Kelly McGill us.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Now, let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and
Restoration into the Treehouse eight three three cook DFW to
get your free roof inspection scheduled. The website to check
out some of the amazing work they do is cookdfw

(11:23):
dot com. Daniel, when was the last time you went
to someone's house and you immediately saw the problem but
they didn't.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
You know, a lot of times people call us out
for leaks. That's a very common thing. You know, we
have a leak in our house, we don't know where
it's coming from, you know, And the majority of the
time we jump up immediately on the roof and we
see a patch of missing shingles or we see a
pipe jack flashing boot that's failed and deteriorated. And so
now every time it rains, the rain just poured pipe.

(11:52):
And then I guess when it, you know, goes past
the insulation and all the other stuff up they the
attic and finally gets to your room or your ceilings.
Should I say, you start noticing all that moisture building
up on your sheet rock. And so it's amazing how
fast that happens. I mean, you know, I would say
probably seventy five percent of the time. Leak diagnosis and

(12:14):
finding problems are pretty simple, but there are times where
you have to do very in depth water test. You
got to climb up in the attic in these little
tiny cubbies, I mean almost get claustrophobia sometimes and any
hit in those atticts and so you know, we try
to find it.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Before we have to go do that.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
But uh, yeah, it's it's seventy five five.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well, he's gonna be very thorough. He and his team
are very thorough. They'll come out to your house check
for any imperfections and get those fixed for you. And
they'll be honest with you about they about what they
find and to leave and crawling those crevices where you
know you don't want to.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Go, that's where they go. That's where they live.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Eight three three Cook DFW or the website cookdfw dot com.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at
YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on Air.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
You're listening to the Treehouse, visit us online at treehouseonair
dot com. This segment of the Treehouse is brought to
you by not the Navy. Instead, it is brought to
you by COOKDFW Roofing and Restoration to get your free
roof inspection eight three three Cook DFW eight three three
Cook DFW. Especially if we're doing a top Gun remake

(13:35):
and we're flying around over DFW, there might be some
things falling out of the sky that'll hit your roof.
So called Daniel Cook, He'll come take a look and
he'll fix whatever issue you may have. Eight three three
COOKDFW or the website cookdfw dot com. On the heels
of the news that Fox is bringing back Baywatch to television,

(13:55):
it got me wondering because aired for one year on
NBC than ten more years in syndication. Fox is going
to bring it back. Now, there's another little interesting tidbit
about bay Watch, and I'm not sure if you guys
remember in nineteen ninety five, David Hasselhoff also starred in

(14:18):
a two season spin off called Baywatch Knights. So to me,
this begs the question, if they bring back regular Baywatch,
will they also include a reboot of the classic bay
Watch spinoff Baywatch Nights.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
What was Baywatch Knights about?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
It was him, It was basically they were The real
answer is they did a spinoff show where It was
him and his police buddy and I think his lieutenant
from the bay Watch Private Investigators Lifeguards by day Pies

(15:02):
by Sexy Nights.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
So they were trying to like Redo Magnum p I,
but with a twist. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, Basically they.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Traded Sellek for Hasselhoff. Okay, mm hmmm hmm. Interesting. I
would hope to God not.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Don't.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
I don't think anybody wants to see that except for Germans.

Speaker 9 (15:28):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Here's the thing about bay Watch Nights.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Did you guys?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Did any of you guys ever watch that show?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
I've never seen an episode of Baywatch, so I don't
think I would have stepped around for the spinoff.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'll send you some clips, Rajen, please vote. So, since
none of you guys watched bay Watch Nights, you don't
have an answer to this question, but I'm going to
ask it anyway. I don't know which show was worse
back in the early nineties, bay Watch Nights or that
show with Hult Hugan in the speedboat.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Thunder and Paradise. Thunder and Paradise.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
That was a TV show. I thought that was a movie. Mhm.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Hulk Hogan and somebody else played two former Navy seals
with a high end speed boat fighting crime and drug
lords and things.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I bet that was the elevator pitch. Like, what you
just did is like Hulk Hogan and someone else, and
they're like, keep talking speedboat, Navy seals. That's about all
we got. They're like, here's money, perfect, make it happen.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Yeah, we'll just we'll just run that right after sequest DSV.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Like a natural lead in. It was kind of built
like air Wolf but with a boat.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Mm hm yes, very very very much like that.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
Somebody put a Hulk Hogan on a TV show. Wow, okay, yeah, oh.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean it was a syndication show. It was not.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
This was not broadcast television type of thing.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
This was not. This was not Law and Order.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yes it was.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
It's Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemon, Carol Alt, Ashley Garrill, and
Patrick McNee.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Of those people, well one of them is dead. But
of those people, how many will admit to being on
that show?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, other than Carol Alt, I don't recognize any of
those names. Like you got Cogan and Carol Alt, the
rest of them, I do not know.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
They all quit Hollywood after this show. You know what
we're good, We're going to go back to our hometown.
The office managers were.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I bet it was at that point Jacqueleman disown Chris.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Is that his kid.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
Picture? Leomon looks just like his dad?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
This is my new kid.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, So I will say I don't ever recall watching
that Thunder and Paradise show.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I think I looked at it for a few minutes
just out of curiosity and thought.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Wow, this is bad. So did the world.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know how many Yeah, I don't know how
many seasons it was on, but I mean it, I
mean it beached itself on television.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yes, I remember that, especially in the nineties when Fox
was somewhat of a fledgling network.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
They put on a lot of shit.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean they you know, they had Married with Children
and the Simpsons and.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yeah, I mean the Big three when Fox started out
that I remember. The first one was obviously the Simpsons
had been married with children. First married with children, well,
it was the Tracy Almond Show. That's where the Simpsons started, right,
So it was married with Children Tracy Almond Show.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
In Living Color.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Mm hmm, yeah, but in Living Color didn't start right
at the beginning of Fox TV.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
That came a few years after.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
But that's really the three shows that I really that
was there.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
That was their Sunday night.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
They had football and then they had Sunday Night, and
then I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, then you got into the mid late nineties and then.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
X Files.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
X Files hit Oh yeah, that's right, one of my all.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Time favorite shows.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
You want to talk about epic Sunday nights back in
like the year two thousand, it was like ninety nine,
two thousand. So I'd start the night with The Simpsons
and then and then go into X Files and then
in the night watching the Sopranos. That's a Sunday night.

(20:09):
And if you timed it right, you go. You go
ahead a couple of years into like two thousand, two
thousand and one, maybe two thousand and two. Then you
got Simpsons, followed by Family Guy, followed by the X Files,
followed by the Sopranos.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
M god well, Family Guy was canceled after they're like
first season.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
It was like the first it was like the first
couple seasons something like that. But then they went to
Comedy Central and then they got brought back to Fox
and then that was the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, yeah, Anyway.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Anyways, the point is that Raj had someone in his
house and he is oh, he is upset.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Anyway, the point is Sunday Nights on Fox slapped uh
in the year I think, Like I said, I think
it was the year two thousand and two thousand and one.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
It was good.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, there was one other thing I was gonna be
to hang on.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Let me pull this pow fuck twenty one Jump Street.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Oh was that on Fox?

Speaker 3 (21:08):
I thought that was syndicated. Also, that was back when
Fox was on UHF.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
No, that says Fox was a It was one of
the I just looked it up as one of the
original Fox shows.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Okay, but didn't Fox pass on Sopranos? And it went
to everybody?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Everybody?

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Nobody passed, right? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Everyone also like it's it's amazing how there's there are
executives in this country that get paid lots of money
to make big decisions and they whiff way more than
they hit a great example of that is the Sopranos
that was shopped around to every network and eventually landed
on HBO and it went crazy. The Walking Dead, same

(21:50):
thing shopped around to every network, they all said no,
ended up on AMC, and it helped build AMC. All
these examples of shows, movies, radio shows where executives said
no to and then someone else picked it up and
then it blew up.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, but I mean, honestly, the Sopranos would have I
don't I bet the Sopranos doesn't last a season on
network TV.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
It may know, there's no way you can't cuss.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I mean, all all the stuff they could do on HBO,
never it would have even gotten close, especially at that
time with the FCC.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
So that's why I.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
Think they were trying to piggyback off of NYPD Blue
because they got kind of like they got away with
a lot of stuff, and so I think they were
trying to go with that same time slant, so where
they can get away with a little bit of cussing,
a little bit of the nudity or whatever. But everybody
passed on it, and HBO's like, yeah, that big nudity
like Dennis Franz.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
But yes, the problem with NYPD Blue wasn't because they
had the revolving partner door opposite of Dennis France. It
is because they had nudity, But it was the nudity
you didn't want.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yes, it's the nudity Dennis Friends didn't want. Yeah, he
was like, you want what? Okay? You I would like
that table read like my ass.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Meanwhile, Jimmy Smith is in the corner.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
You sure.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Ricky Schroeder's like, uh, I mean solid one.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, that was the thing that actually became that actually
kind of became the running joke on that show. I
think it was David Caruso who showed his ass first,
and then Dennis France I think was second, and then
that became the trend when you started on NYPD Blue
you had to show your butt. I Ricky Schroeder, I'm
almost positive dead.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Sorry rick Schroeder at the time.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And then I think I think Jimmy Smith's may have
as well.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
And Dan, you'll continue the tradition and uh top gun, Treehouse.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
British top gun, try Royal Air Force.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Is that me bomb?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I'm gonna play it like Austin Powers.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
You're in the treehouse. Visit us online at Treehouse on.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Air dotch some shoot down a meg.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
In my catchphrases, do I make you honey?

Speaker 9 (24:27):
You must?

Speaker 7 (24:30):
Are you ready to have the get scared out of
you back for another year? Hangman's House of Horrors is
the best haunted house experience in DFW. Hangman's House of
Horrors isn't just an award winning haunted house. They have
something for everyone, including the Outbreak Exhibit where you can
show off your zombie slaying abilities, and an interactive art
exhibit called the Beauty of Horror that would make even

(24:52):
Vincent Van Go cry and cut his other ear off.
Hangman's House of Horrors is located at forty four hundred
Blue Mound Road in Fort Worth and is op and
every weekend through November second. For more information and to
buy tickets starting at just thirty nine dollars, visit Hangman's
dot com. That's Hangman's dot com.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Are you scared?

Speaker 7 (25:10):
You Me?

Speaker 6 (25:20):
You're in the tree House? Visit us online at Treehouseonair
dot com.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
This segment of The Treehouse Show is brought to you
by Hangman's House of Horrors in its thirty seventh year
Scaring North Texas. Hangman's House of Horrors is open. It
is opened now through Sunday.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Second. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
So Friday October thirty first, that's obviously Halloween. They're open then,
but then they're also open that Saturday and Sunday after
the first and second. So open now through November second.
Get your tickets at Hangman's dot com, and when you
get to check out, use our promo code treehouse fifteen.
That's Treehouse one five for fifteen percent off your ticket purchase.

(26:05):
That works online as well as at the door. So
online or at the door at Hangman's use code treehouse
fifteen Treehouse one five to get fifteen percent off. More
information as always at Hangman's dot com. Thank you to Hangman's. Okay,
here we go, let's see how many bad puns we

(26:25):
can use in this next story. There's a there's a
shortage of male porn stars. I repeat, there's a shortage
of male porn stars. According to this article by Melissa Todd.
She says that there are a lack of men in porn,

(26:49):
and it's an actual problem because while you might think
guys would be lining up to work in porn and
be able to, you know, have sex with some of
the most beautiful and talented adult stars on the planet
for money or career and fame, it's.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Harder than you might think.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
There's one, they just don't last long.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
There's two they just come and go that's three. Look,
it's a hard job. Not everyone can do it or her.
They do say, though, that there are some interesting qualifications
that you have to have, some things that most of
us men may not think about until it's actually time.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
To most men fall short of.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yes, there are expectations most men fall short of when
it comes to trying to make it in the porn industry. Apparently,
porn producers regularly hold auditions for new male performers, which
they even advertise on social media. Auditions consist of their
turning up and having sex with the women of their dreams,
but generally no no one shows up. The reason is

(28:02):
a bit of a mystery. It's been a regular mystery
over the last decade. Maybe men feel their identity and
self esteem is more closely tied to their sexual performance
than women. Maybe porn being blamed for every societal ill
is also a factor. Men don't care about that stop
that we know young people are becoming increasingly puritanical and

(28:26):
having less sex than previous generations. Also a wild misconception,
I think on the part of miss Todd here it's basically,
and she gets into it later in the article, it
has everything to do with insecurity and having to be
able to perform on cue because as a guy, if

(28:50):
you decide, you know what I'm gonna do porn. I
got a big weenie. Well, okay, what about the rest
of you, because I mean, you can have big weenie.
But then a lot of these guys are they're ripped,
they're on steroids, they got six packs, they look like
body builders with that are that are lifting their own
dongs for weight kind of a thing.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
And then you had Ron Jeremy.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
It's the exception.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, and then the idea of when you show up
you have to then perform in front of a room
full of strangers, including sometimes a director saying now come.
It's like, oh now, oh.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
It's And they get paid less than women. It's the
only industry where they get paid less than women.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
But they get paid a lot more than they used to.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, I think it's fifteen one hundred percent, is what you. So.
I lived in the valley in uh La, that's where
all the porn is filmed, and there was a place
called Elteredo and that's where all the porn stars hung
out at happy hour every single day. I didn't know
this until I was sitting with a buddy of mine
and he goes, dude, that's so and so, and I'm like,
what is that and he's like, porn star. I was like,

(29:58):
so just started you know, I'm me, I have the
gift of gap, and just started chatting with those guys.
And it was so. This was two thousand and seventeen
and they were making fifteen to eighteen hundred per scene
and the women were making three to four times that.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, she goes on to say in her article, surrounded
by actors, camera crew, producer, wardrobe, makeup artist and now
usually a female director barking, now get a direction the
new performer. The new guy will often find himself incapable
and humiliated, and if he manages to pass that test,
he'll find himself expected the orgasm to order at the

(30:40):
time and place of the director's choosing, at which juncture
he will generally run away screaming. They do say there
are tricks that they can substitute other substances for the organism,
so they have tricks of the trade, kind of like
you like movie tricks. Meanwhile, the female porn stars have
it way easier. She says, we can so easily fake
every stage of arousal, good scored of blube, healthy dose

(31:02):
of pantings, eyeing, noisy, screaming. But then they can also
wear corsets to hide bellies, stockings to disguise cell you like,
men have no tricks to hide behind. One Japanese porn
actor claimed recently there are around seventy men to ten
thousand women in his industry. He's had sex with eight
thousand of them, usually two to three a day, so
heaven knows he's doing his part, but he can't keep

(31:23):
that up forever. Men who can perform in porn are
so rare, in fact, particularly young men, that they are
quite overwhelmed with women and work.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Sounds like it's time for me to pick up a
side hustle.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Well, isn't.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Also one of the things is that now because as
much as we think of OnlyFans for women, but there
are a lot of men doing OnlyFans and that that's
actually taking away because they're making more money doing that
than they would shooting.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Pol Sure, and then what you know, would you rather
be you know, subject to the porn studio heads or
would you want to be your own boss?

Speaker 4 (32:06):
And can I a I myself into porn?

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I mean I'm sure you could.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna go by j Mahal, the eighth Wonder
of the World.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah you are. And since it's a I, you can
have the body of.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Your dreams exactly or of theirs.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, it could be whatever they want.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
It's like, okay, it's time for you and Mahall choose
your body type.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I'm gonna be the mister potato head of porn.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Rash. I have bad news for you.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh no, there's somebody named Mahall's a gay porn star
that's already named goes By.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Oh so you guys found out now I've been trying
to hide it from a while. Man.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
So now my mister potato head looks a little weird.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Oh is the Indian? Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh god?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
That would be next level of appropriation.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
No, I gotta find this guy. I'm gonna find his.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Parents behind the hospital that he moonlights at.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
He really is okay, yeah, his parents. I know student
loans are tough, but what happened in med school.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I still think you can fulfill this dream. We just
gotta find you a different name, that's all.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I'm trying to think of what it could be now.
Raj Mahall is solid like that. Somebody, even a comedy
club owner one time, told me to go buy that
and come out dressed like uh the genie in Aladdin.
Oh uh, and they would like have a flying carpet
and yeah you know this comedy club owner.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Oh I figured out who it was.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Tracks, Yeah, it tracks very much.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
So we have to find we have to find porn
star names now for everybody here.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
No, I think Jerry's just gonna be Jerry. He's but
he's gonna be like Madonna. It's just gonna be his
one name, Jerry.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
I like it, okay. And then Trey, what what would
your porn star name be?

Speaker 10 (34:37):
Daisy does a lot of work with Roger Mahal, solid work, too,
huge tongue.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
We're all things Treehouse.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Go to Treehouse on Air, dot com, find and follow
the show on social media at Treehouse on Air. For me,
it's at the Daniel Mallley. For Trey, it's at Trey
Turnholme one. For Raj at comedian Raj TBD new porn name.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
And for Jerry at that Jerry guy.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
We will see you next time right here inside the Treehouse. Oh,
Trey killed the music. I forgot again.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
My bad.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
All right, hang on, I gotta do this. Oh everyone's
gonna get mad at me if I don't do this
in the free show. So give me one second. I
promised i'd have it in the show, and of course
I forgot. So now I'll pull it up and here
we go. Jerry, Are you ready always all right for
your listening and viewing pleasure.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
You're in good tree.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com.

Speaker 9 (36:27):
Touch I'm good, all right.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
That'll do it for us.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
We will see you next time right here inside tree
House
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.