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Welcome back to No Substitutes, the show where I have some of my favorite people

on and we talk about what ingredients make them who they are.

And this week I have a very special guest.

You may have seen him on some of your favorite adult sites as well as

both of our sites.

He's made many waves in the industry, adult, maybe mainstream too,

but he's probably one of the most kind-hearted, and beautiful humans I've

ever known. So please welcome Isaiah Maxwell.

Thank you for making me smile and blush. I know.

I'm like, I'm already flustered.

I'm like, okay, I got to focus.

So happy to be here.

You know you're one of my favorite people.

Oh, there you go.

You're one of my favorite people, too. Hey.

Well, how have you been?

I've been good, you know, still working as much as I do.

So, you know, just taking care of myself in the meantime and making sure when I

rest, I can rest.

Yes, that's good.

I know you're a big horror movie fan. Have you seen any good new horror movies

since, you know, it was just Halloween season?

Yeah, I, you know, there wasn't too many like horror.

that I was able to really get into because of time constraints this year.

But I did see some style movies, so like The Substance. Oh, yeah.

And like The Deliverance, which is a new movie with like Monique and everything.

It has viral moments in it. It wasn't like the best movie, but it has its

viral moments and it's worth to watch if you're bored.

All right.

And yeah, that's pretty much it that I was able to catch up on.

Right. Well, you're doing better than me. I still haven't done the substance.

And I want to see a Nora. I hear that's like about SW

people.

Well,

let's get into it. Indeed. What are three ingredients you need for your

profession?

Three ingredients that I need for my profession?

That's a great question.

You're like probably one of the most successful ones that I know.

Yeah,

I stack up on my ingredients.

There you go.

I think like my main one would have to be you need a strong mental.

Like this game requires a really great mental strength.

And so if you've got like a strong will, know who you are, very confident in

yourself, it's harder to sway you from the direction you want to go into.

I would say the second ingredient is a strengthened body.

Yeah.

You need to be conditioned to do it.

In real life, I always like to say I'm a minute man in real life. Like when the

camera isn't rolling, I'm just happy to get as much as I can out of it. On

camera, it jumps up to about 35 to 45 minutes.

So I'm conditioned.

to perform that long. But yeah, if it was real life, I'd be like, yeah, after

five minutes, I'd be like, okay.

But I would say the third ingredient is more so

how much you use of this ingredient. So a little less goes a long

way. And what I mean by that is basically your ego.

Like you do need an ego to like perform and like, you know, be confident in

yourself. You don't want to be like, oh, do I look?

certain way on camera that's going to throw you off so but you don't want to

have an ego that kills your career and egos egocentric are like the number one

killer of careers so gotta be careful but those are like the three main that

you kind of need in order to do it that's true i like those well

i feel like you're very uh a lot of people look up to you in this career

like Male and females.

But who are some of your mentors in the adult entertainment?

Without a doubt, number one that comes to mind is Prince Yashro. He helped me a

lot when I first started. When I was barely able to afford to come up and

down from the valley to L.A., he let me shower in his studio when I needed to

smell fresh in my office because I used to spend the night in the office to

avoid the gas costs.

He also gave me a lot of game that... I use today to help me stay like a good

performer.

And then it's just like I got a lot of great general advice from like the

people that brought me in. So like the T-Rails of the industry, as a performer,

the Rico Strongs of the industry.

And, you know, shout out to my guy, Jason Brown, who was like the first

contract guy for Black.

And even just like.

coworkers that I grew up in the industry that I just like converse with

in order to understand how to be in the industry, what kind of experience

happened and make sure it wasn't just me. And so like Donnie Sims and Jack

Black are like two of my closest friends too.

So we had Anna Fox on and she was telling us that you gave her a lot of

advice that she just always ended up not following.

And she was trying to tell us some really good advice he gave her in the

beginning of, I think, her career or your career.

But she couldn't remember what it was. So we were wondering if you maybe could

remember what you told her.

Wow.

I mean, a lot of people didn't see me grow up in this game. So I've been in

the industry now for 13 years. So I used to be her publicist, her agent.

I remember as a publicist, I would take girls on interviews all the time to like

different radio stations and to get them promoted.

I would just listen to what they would say on air and then I would take notes.

And then on the drive back, you know, I'd be like, hey, listen, like you

talked about this, but you could have talked about that. You did mention this,

but you mentioned that.

A lot of advice is the same that goes along with the ingredients of just like

how to.

Represent yourself and take care of yourself while in this industry.

You know, I guess my number one advice would be research what you do.

You know, a lot of people just kind of go blindsided into all of these jobs and

gigs and then they like get talked into doing something that they don't really

want to. And if they did the research, they could have probably avoided a lot

of those hurdles.

Right. No, for sure.

Good advice.

I was going to ask if you had any other advice for new performers, but I don't

know. Yeah, I mean, doing your research alone helps stop a

lot of those kind of conflicts that arises.

You just kind of know what you're getting into a little bit when you look

up something. If you just simply look up something, people just get info and just

go. I'm super grateful because you were the second.

person I ever performed with. And so I felt almost like gifted from the gods

because you immediately, yeah, gave me some of the best advice.

I can't remember either, but I just, you, you knew how also as a male talent

just unfortunately made me have very high expectations after that.

But at least like you made me very aware of things I didn't know what to look out

for. So I'm very appreciative.

You're good.

You're a stunner.

I kind of knew you was going to blow up. Whenever I see performers like yourself,

I'm always like, hey, don't forget me.

I know y'all going to go and do amazing things. You're going to get approached

by amazing people. I know how this industry attracts.

So I'm like, hey, I'm just, when you go up, I'll be here still. I'll be here.

No, I'll never forget you.

All love.

Yeah.

Well, speaking of like people that are mentors who are some.

I don't know how to say this with like adult entertainment, but I guess who are

some people actually doesn't even have to be about your career, but about your

life. Who are some of the most influential people that you could think

of?

I would have to say my PR mentor from college, Lori Baker Shanner.

She was great motivation in terms of like don't let your past hold you down

and like you could still be able to go and do great things because in college I

got in a lot of trouble that I was like, am I going to be able to exit college

and get like a job with like everything that I've done? And she was just like,

yeah, you got this. And it's kind of reassuring me that, you know, you're

young and you still got so much life to live.

I listened to a lot of advice my parents give me.

And like I'm real close with both sides.

And my mom stays in Cleveland. My dad stays here in Cali. And so, you know,

whenever I just need somebody to talk to, I'll just go visit them or call one

of them up and just like chat and catch up on everything that I need to. And

they just kind of reassure me of who I am. And, you know, they

still give me advice to this day because they're always going to be my parents.

Yeah, that's pretty much like my core of like who I would give like super credit

to. Like, I mean, I'm a collector of perspectives.

So I love to listen to people's story and just kind of just like get to know

somebody from a perspective that I don't have. So I just talk to everybody and

kind of get a worldview.

Learning so much from you.

Every time I'm around you, I'm like, wow.

I feel like I just went to a TED Talk.

Well, what would you say was the best piece of advice your parents gave you

growing up?

The best piece of advice that my parents gave me growing up, it would have to

come from my mom who said, it doesn't matter what you do, just be the best at

what you do.

She just had me hyper-focused on making sure everything that I put my energy

into, that I just don't go half-assed.

in it right and so yeah she um really helped me out there and um and

into like just being conscious of what I do and making sure that you know I'm not

just doing stuff and then moving on to the next oh that's good no

procrastinating for you I wouldn't say that but but I I

like to tell people I'm like the most laziest productive person you'll ever

meet And so, like, at times I definitely could feel like I'm lazy, but I'm not a

big fan of being idle. So, like, after a while I'm just like, all right, let me

get up. And I do so much in, like, a compact amount of time.

Oh, nice.

Love that.

Yeah.

Who did the cooking in your family?

My mom and my sister, my aunties.

You know, I was raised by a clan of women.

On my mom's side, there's so many women and just so few guys. So it's only like

me and three other male cousins.

And then everybody else is just women. I have eight aunties and they have all

kids and my mom and I have two uncles.

And so like, you know, they cook for me every day. Like we didn't have to go out

and eat fast food. They cook meals for more than like one day at a time.

all my family members would come over and just eat and everything like that.

So it was always like a big family gathering and Sunday dinner and stuff

like that.

And so, yeah, they kind of raised me on good food.

Oh, that's good.

And that was in Ohio, right? Yes, that was growing up in Ohio.

I came out to Cali when I was a teenager.

We did high school out here. Oh, right, okay. So your dad moved out here, I

think. Well, he stayed out here. He stayed out here. He's here.

What was your favorite snack as a kid?

The only reason why I laugh is because I'm like, oh, snacks are such a luxury

item. When I was growing up,

when I was growing up, we had the nun name brand cereal and like our snacks.

My mom was in the Army, so I know people that had, like, Army parents. They had,

like, the little kind of, like, Army packs that you would get that the Army

would go out in the field with. So it was kind of like those food packs that

you would open up and pour a little water in, and then it could heat up.

Yeah, so it was just, like, ready meals. And so, like, there was always, like, a

couple of granola bars in there. That was, like, my favorite kind of brand.

Most of the time the food was like hit or miss.

But yeah, whenever I was like super hungry, my mom was like, just eat one of

those packs. And I was like, all right, dinner isn't ready yet.

Do you have a favorite MRE?

I guess the rice and chicken.

When you're hungry, everything tastes good.

So I wouldn't necessarily say I had a favorite. I was just happy I had

something. I'm very uneducated about this stuff. Is it like airport, like

airplane, kind of like pre-made things? Or what is it?

Yeah. Freeze-dried.

Yeah.

Yeah,

they're like literally like 3,000 calories per meal, though. Because my

parents are Marines, so I still have...

MREs in my cabinets.

Oh, my God. Yeah, survival food.

Because they're, like, for wartime, so they need you to, like, be filled up and

have all your calories and stuff.

And there's speed in it.

Maybe. You out in the field, you know, you just pull one of those packs out.

Perfect. I wonder what would happen if we gave a bunch of performers those.

A lot would be hungry.

Well, besides, was it MREs that we guys said it was?

Well, besides MREs, what was the best meal someone's cooked for you?

It can be from childhood to now.

Today, you know, I say it as if it was like such a long time ago. Today,

I go home for Thanksgiving all the time. And that's because my family over there

season their food a little bit better.

But I go there for like my Jamaican style Thanksgiving. So my mom is

remarried and my stepdad cooks everything from scratch and he knows how

to make the most amazing jerk chicken, the most amazing oxtails and coconut

rice.

My mom and sister be coming up with the yams and the mac and cheese and

everything like that.

I think I've been to Cleveland, like, the last seven out of eight years just

to taste their food. And so, like, that's my thing. And every time I come

out there, they always prepare it. Oxtails is very expensive, so, like, at

times. And so, like, you know, they always have it ready for me when I'm out

there. And, like, that's, like, their claim to fame dish for me.

Have you found any good Jamaican food in L.A.? Yes.

1-876, which I believe is the Jamaican area code.

If y'all fact check me, I'm probably off by one number. But yeah, there's a

Jamaican place right down the street here.

And it's in Chatsworth area.

And they're the only ones that I've seen that really kind of make their stuff

from scratch up in the Valley area. In LA, there's a lot of Jamaican places

over there. And like some are really good and some are not so good.

But this one, you know, my...

My friend Trudy is one of the owners there, and, like, we always converse,

and she, like, supports the career and come down with coworkers all the time. I

even sent my parents there, and they was like, oh, it's okay, it's good. They say

it's okay and it's good. That means it's really good because I don't have a

scale. But, yeah, that's, like, my favorite one in the Valley, L.A. area.

Nice. Yeah.

I'm going to have to check it out.

Yes, yes. They got curry goat. They got saltfish and ackee and saltfish and

beef patties. It's like the Jamaican quick snack.

Like a Hot Pocket.

A Hot Pocket. Nice.

What are some unpopular food opinions you have?

Some unpopular food opinions that I have.

I wish.

You shouldn't eat fried food every day.

Well, no.

I don't know if that's popular.

I don't know. I feel like the South might get pretty upset. Yeah,

you know, it's popular in different areas. I mean, we are in the country

that has the highest obesity rate, so.

Yeah, Ohio is the testing ground for new fast food products. So, like, I think

you could thank a city in Ohio for the Baconator.

And like, you know, when they want to test out food products, they send it to

Ohio for us to eat. And like, we're the ones that give the thumbs up or the

thumbs down.

Yeah,

yeah. You know, we have our hits and misses. Like we got the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame and Lake Erie.

I've never even been to Ohio.

I didn't know what was out there besides the birthing place of Isaiah Maxwell.

Yes, yes, yes.

I think you're actually the only association I can think of with Ohio.

I feel that.

Yeah.

Ohio is just a family town.

So, like, your family members are your friends there and stuff like that. And

everybody pretty much lives within a five to ten mile radius of each other.

So, yeah, it's just a real homey town.

Yeah. If it's placed for, like.

Pat, giving the thumbs up for fast food is probably a very big blessing that you

were fed some home-cooked meals.

Yeah.

Whenever my auntie sees me with any soft drinks, she'll be like, oh, that's two

now.

She's like, you want some water?

You want some water?

But then they also, you know, my family is funny. They'll also use a lot of

butter. And I'm like, hey, y'all should be healthy. And they'd be like, oh,

yeah, we need to get healthy. And I was like, yeah, you should use less butter.

And they're like, what, butter isn't healthy? I'm like, auntie, no, it's not.

You can bring them some grass-fed butter.

Yeah, that's true.

But they wouldn't like the taste. No.

Oh, yeah, no. I'll have a story to tell you about butter after this.

What are some hobbies you have outside of work?

You have time for hobbies.

That's a good question.

Yeah, because a lot of my time after work is prepping for more work. It's

just like, you know, like I shoot studios and collabs at the same time. So

like if I'm not on the studio set, I'm probably prepping my like content room

for a collab that's coming up.

My outside hobbies is I'm an outdoors kind of guy. Like, I don't like to be

indoors too often. And so I love to hike and get lost in the woods. I've been

doing that since I was a kid.

And I always took my friends in the woods to hope we get lost.

But we always come out the other side that was, like, not too far away. And I

was like, oh, okay, this is where it is. You wanted to live in a Stephen King

book? Yeah.

I was like, let's see if we can find, you know, that house that got candy or

something like that. But love hiking.

I do love reading. I was like, what are your hobbies? And I was like, oh, that's

right. You got like the kind of boring kind of hobbies where you don't go out

as much or don't sound as fun.

I'm not big in influencer places and stuff like that, but I do read a lot.

And I love to be outdoors when I can.

And I love to travel.

I love to see the world. I love to think of new places to visit when there's some

downtime, like around the holidays now.

It's like my great time to plan a trip.

Where's your dream vacation to go?

At the moment, I'm looking at a few of the Caribbean.

Dominican Republic is one that I'm looking at. I've also been thinking

about going to Bermuda, just because as a kid you thought the Bermuda Triangle

was like.

I still won't go. Yeah.

You don't think of it as a great vacation, but apparently it is. So I was

like, okay, let me just try it out because, I mean, I remember when the

Animaniacs did an episode on the Bermuda Triangle of, like, why everybody's

disappearing. And they, like, went to see where they went, and everybody was

just vacationing at a bar there.

It's like it stuck with me.

Yeah. Well, there you go.

And that skipped probably just one time in my life, but it stuck with me.

Okay.

Bermuda, Dominican.

I'm trying to think what else is around there.

Not Caribbean, but Caribbean. I will probably also entertain Cancun.

Cancun, yeah.

Thank you.

So you want like some beach vacation time? Yeah. That's your favorite?

No, just to chill here. You know, long-term vacation is I look more

towards across the pond and like Central Africa. So I've been looking at Ghana.

Gabon. It's like where my ancestry point me back specifically.

And also Nigeria and stuff like that. And so Ivory Coast.

And like I want to visit the coast.

Yeah. Have you been there yet?

I've been to Tanzania.

Yeah. Yes. That was my first time out the country was to Tanzania, Africa.

And I was.

I did.

A couple of tours here and there.

I don't want to say their name, the Messiah Tribe.

I participated with the Messiah Tribes and we sacrificed a goat. I fed a

village.

What was that like?

Very memorable.

It was for a job.

I was out there filming and they needed someone kind of new. This was probably

like my fourth or fifth scene in the business.

Came in with my passport. I just, like, got my passport because I was like, one

day I want to travel and I don't know when. And so I was like, but you need a

passport in order.

And as soon as I got it, I got a phone call like, you want to come to Africa?

And I was like, well, I'm ready. And they was like, why do you got your

passport? I was like, I never knew when it was going to happen. So always stay

ready so you don't have to get ready.

And, yeah, they brought me out there for a few days.

And the thing with the goat was, like, I saw a goat on a tree.

And I was like, oh, look, they got pets.

They got pets.

They wardrobe me in a complete Messiah outfit. And so I like walked over and I

was like, hey, can you take a picture of me holding a goat? And so like I was

like holding the goat by the string.

And then I saw the chief walks over with another goat.

And he was like, hey, he was like, yes, you are going to kill this one. I will

kill that one. And I was like, huh?

And then like the crew there, they was like, hey, you don't have to do it if

you don't want to. And I was just like, you know, I was like, I don't want to.

tell the story of how I almost killed the ghost. So I was like, I'm down.

And I was like, it wasn't like it was just killing and then you throw it away.

They used every part of it, the blood, the balls and everything. They tried to

feed me a couple of that.

I was like, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.

But what killed it was that we were supposed to film a scene that day and my

scene partner didn't know what was going on. So when I like started, I was going

too slow.

And it was like, no, you got to really go so it don't suffer that like the

animal won't be suffering.

And so I started going and then blood was just burning out.

And like, you know, the animals take a minute to pass away. And I didn't

realize that.

And so it was like, you know, it wasn't like traumatic, but it was just like an

experience. And like as it was going on, what they didn't tell me was that my

scene partner was vegan.

Oh, my God. So she didn't know what was going on and just was like, oh, why is

the crowd over there filming my scene partner?

And she saw like the blood just spurting out of this animal and just had a

complete breakdown. And I felt so bad. And I was like, oh, I was like, she

probably hate me right now.

And so she was just crying in a bus and it was like, yeah, the scene is canceled

for the day. Don't worry about it. And I was like, obviously.

Obviously. But, like, I went in there and consulted her and was like, you

know, like for the village and stuff like that. Yeah. She was able to get

over it. You know, I mentioned a few K-pop songs. I mean, like, back to you.

Back to you.

So, it was, yeah, it was, that was like an experience. Like, that whole Africa

trip was crazy. Like, we got arrested and we had to bribe ourselves out and

they took us to the whole jail and everything like that.

But, to be honest with you, I never felt like I was in trouble.

Like, My crew that I was there, they was probably in trouble. But me, they was

like, you're okay.

Oh, because.

Yeah.

I was like, hey, are we in trouble? He looked at me. He looked at them. He was

like, them, you.

I was like, all right, bet.

I was like, whatever about to happen, y'all good.

I was like, I just got recruited.

I got recruited.

I'm part of the tribe now. I was like, I don't know what to tell y'all.

I'm part of the family. I was like, yeah, y'all got this.

Oh, my God.

We had to give them all of our money and cash. And then we had to like leave and

go to a whole different city. It was, you know, it was a great experience.

First time out the country.

No hot water, no electricity.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Let me get this straight.

Was it for a scene?

I got the DVD at home. You could see me in my whole Messiah outfit. I had to

pretend to be one of the tribe members.

They had to cover all my tattoos because they don't have tattoos. So that was

like a thing in the morning.

What company even has that kind of?

I've never heard of that being a production.

Well, they do it with new guys. So you don't got to like pay them much in order

to go out there. So the budget for that is really, they would prefer to use real

Africans there, but they don't want to perform.

No. And so like interracial is not illegal, but it's like a thing there. So

they don't really do much interracial relationships.

And with all that being said, the food there was amazing.

Like they cook some really good food to bring it back.

Yeah, they cook some really good food there. They treated me very well out

there. And like, you know, it was just, I felt really welcome. You know, they

was really welcoming. They was charging me less for everything. They was

charging the crew more. And I felt so bad for that too. They was like charging

me a dollar for water.

Weren't you getting paid less anyways?

Yeah, so it was like, they asked me to come out to Papua New Guinea in the next

year. And I was like, no, I'm good.

That's like so much for a scene. I did not even know that people did that. I

thought it was all here. Yeah, it was way too heavy of an experience for what

they was paying. But it was a great experience for my first time. Right.

I was like, oh, okay, yeah, this is something. The world is a little

different. And they at least paid for your travel?

Yeah, they paid for my travel.

That's cool. They just couldn't pay me. They wanted to pay me in cash. We just

couldn't after that whole arrest thing. They literally took all our cash.

They was like, are you okay? But they warned me that that might happen. They

was like, oh, it's real corrupt out here. So they was like, if our money

goes away, don't worry, we'll wire you some.

Okay.

Cool.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know if this answers this question or not, but what's been the

most adventurous food you've tried and would you try it again?

The most adventurous food, probably seafood when I

used to go to like the Chinese buffet with my grandpa and just like I would

just try like the octopus, the squid and all of like those kind of stuff and just

a little pepper tasting okay and stuff like that.

But I would always try like the food at the buffets that was like extreme

looking. And I'd be like, oh, I want to see how that tastes because I was like,

it got eyes or something. It's got eyes.

There. Okay.

I also, I don't know if this question's answered also from the last story you

just told, but what's the life event that shaped you?

The life of it that shaped me was probably when I was younger and I tried

to live life on my own for the first time. I got kicked out of my parents'

places and stuff, being like a little teenage rebel and stuff like that.

And I was at the tail end of my rebel era where I was like, all right, let me

apologize to my parents and come back and come back into the fold. I

apologized to my old job and got it back, which was Burger King.

And it was like.

two or three days before I had to move out of the place I was staying because I

couldn't afford to stay there anymore.

And I remember I was down to literally my last pennies and I was standing, I

went to the 7-Eleven on the corner and I looked inside the refrigerator at a

Briss Ice Tea that was 99 cents and it was Sunday.

And I just remembered that I started work on Thursday and I had a dollar

and 11 cents in pennies in my pocket.

And I was like, OK, I could buy this drink right now or I could wait to

Tuesday and spend that money on two tacos for 99 cents and I would have

something to eat. But I was like, you ain't going to have both. I was like, so

do you want to drink something now or eat something later? I was like, once

you get to Burger King on Thursday, then you're pretty much set because you could

like snack on the fries there and stuff like that.

And throughout this whole time of thinking this, I probably was staring at

that brisk iced tea for about five to 10 minutes, contemplating what to buy.

And so I was just like, after about, after I realized how long I was staring

and contemplating at this brisk iced tea, I was like, bro, man, this is a

dollar. And I was like, you got to like figure out something that is more than

this. You shouldn't be contemplating this long over something this slow.

I was just like, all right, whatever we got to do, man, we just going to figure

it out so we don't ever have to have this feeling ever again.

So that moment was like my jumpstart into taking myself serious as an adult

and being like, all right, let's skip the shortcut ways and just do the long

grind and get there.

That's really inspiring.

I'm just picturing little Isaiah, chilling at 7-Eleven.

Such a core memory.

that's very moving it makes sense too like I don't know you're also like

one of the only people that I've met in the industry who gave me good financial

advice yes I tend to mention that a lot to people I mean I'm like the one thing

you want to first read in this industry is financial literacy and human

behavior books so like Robert Greene and like Art of Seduction, 48 Laws of Power,

financial literacy books like All My Worth or like Men, Women, and Money,

which was written by Kevin O'Leary, one of the Shark Tank people.

I mean, you could find any of your idols and they likely wrote a book.

So I was like, if you got an idol, then read what's in their mind so that you

could have a better understanding because you look up to them as

successful.

pretty much wrote the formula that helped got them there. So those kind of

books really help shape your career in terms of how you want to move.

I think you actually gave me a financial literacy book when I first got in. And I

still have it if you want it back.

Do you know which one?

No, I just remember it's...

There's an old white dude on the cover. Yep. That's men, women and money.

Because I was literally looking for that book maybe two or three weeks ago.

And I was like, oh, I was like, I thought I had it because I was about to

give it to someone else. And I was like, I thought I had this book. I was like,

all right, well, let's order it off of Amazon. I must have gave it away because

I do that time to time.

Yeah, I just reordered that book. Okay.

Just gave it away again. Okay.

But it's like one of the craziest, like 50 mistakes that people make with money.

But all my work is a really great one, too, that was written by two women. And

they got the 50-30-20 rule. But there's so many different books out there that

will blend in together after you read enough.

But those are great. And How Money Works is a very pictorial book.

That's like one of my favorites because it makes me feel like I'm in. Yeah.

I'm like, oh, look, this pig is helping me realize what it means.

I get it now. I get it now. Yes.

Currency.

Currency.

Thanks, pig.

What would you say is the most important thing to you right now?

My relationships.

And keeping those strong and healthy because money comes, money goes. And,

like, the people you care about, your core people, like my immediate family,

my sisters, my parents, always want to make sure they understand that whenever

they need me, I'm around for them.

And they always know that if you tell me to stop to do something to help you,

like, with your kids or anything like that, it's no problem.

This work could come and go later.

I was like, it's there. It's great that it's, you know, keeping me looking

responsible and stuff like that and taking care of me. But, like, I'm here

for y'all whenever y'all need to.

Nephews just had a game, a championship game, and they won. And, you know,

they're looking real cool now.

They're looking real cool.

And so, yeah, it's like those kind of events means the most to me. I invest.

I'm very frugal with my money, but I invest heavy in memories.

So, like, you know, I'm going to pay for it.

us to have a great vacation. I'm going to pay for us to go to a really great

place and just have great memories that follow through.

And when we reminisce, it's like, it's all smiles.

Yeah. I mean, if you're going to put your money somewhere, that's probably

the best place.

And then, you know, the market.

Yeah. Rest in peace. Index funds.

Rest in peace to my boy, Jake Adams. He's the one that taught me that.

Really? Yeah.

Yeah.

I think, I think I got in right the year after he passed.

Yes. We have silence for Jake.

I think we have some fan questions. We have a bunch of producer questions. Oh

my God.

So earlier in the podcast, you referred to yourself as a minute man.

Yes. And I've also been called a minute man. So it's nice that, you know.

It's nice that I finally have representation in adult film, so thank

you for that. We've got to stick together, man.

To be clear, he's not like that filming.

Well, all right.

You're like, there's just someone out there.

That's why when I film and they be like, my pop.

is um on command yeah because i i could just pop whenever they need me to and

the reason why is because in real life i'm just a minute man and like are you

close i'm like i'm always close i was like the thing is it's like i always

referenced the hulk from when he was like how could you just transform like

i'm always angry i'm like that's me i'm always ready i'm always i'm always ready

um On camera, can I get permission to say I'm just like Isaiah Maxwell anytime

someone brings that up?

I'm just kidding.

When someone says like, is that it? You could be like, hey, that is Isaiah

Maxwell quality right there. All right.

So a question that I had meant to bring up to you before we're recording.

And I forgot to. So if you don't want to answer this question, it's okay. We're

going to edit it out. Sure, sure.

In the interview, you mentioned something that kind of like caught my

interest. And earlier on in your career, you were told that you needed to look

more uncomfortable on camera.

Oh, yeah. And I don't really understand what that means. Can you explain that?

And then, you know, like were you able to achieve that?

Yes. It's one of my practices now. When I was in Ibiza,

I was working, that was like my first time working with everybody from

different parts of the world and stuff like that. And so it was like a really

great experience to like cater to different personalities.

But the owner of that company came to me one time and he was like, hey, he was

like, I really like your performance. You're a solid performer.

My only critique is that you need to learn how to have sex uncomfortably.

And I was like, what do you mean by that? And so he was like, you need to

learn how to disconnect.

He was like, when you have sex uncomfortably, that means take yourself

out of the picture and not do nothing that is just comfortable to you.

And on camera, what it does is it helps you disconnect from the scene and allow

the fan to insert himself into the scene.

Because if they just see like heavy connections between you and the

performers throughout the entire scene, it's hard for.

the audience to get involved in a fantasy. They could only fantasize like,

oh, this is between them.

And so he was like, just have sex a little bit more uncomfortable.

He was like, if it's uncomfortable, then it probably looks good.

And so he was like, the reason he mentioned uncomfortable is just so that

it could help disconnect me from the scene and insert the fan. So that advice

went a long way with me in terms of like, all right.

Most of the time, I know that they're not filming my face.

And so I don't have to worry about how my face looks so much. I was like,

especially for a lot of the POV companies you see me film for, if you

ever like behind the scenes or stuff like that, you would look at me and be

like, is he okay?

Because I'm like so far back and I'm just thrusting.

And I'm like, I could feel the insert going in and smoothly in and out. And

those are long strokes. So I'm like, okay, cool, cool, cool.

I know it looks good. I can't see what's going on. And like, there's a big camera

in my face with somebody huffing behind my ear.

And I was like, I just got a super focus. So I was like, all right, at

least I know that the fans are going to love it. So yeah, that's what

uncomfortable. That's actually pretty legit advice then. Cause in my head I

was like.

Uncomfortable.

Yeah, I just took it as, like, don't look like you're having a good time.

Yeah. If it was me, I'd be, like, smiling the whole time. I'm just happy

to be there.

Like, I'm just happy to be involved. If I am smiling, it's just uncomfortably

smiling. I'm just... I'm just like, oh, man, good job. I'm like, yeah, it feels

good. It feels good.

Feels good. Thank you. Thank you.

That's funny.

Okay, so...

Before I pass it off to the producers, before you came here, Lumi said

something really funny where she was like, oh, our producers, Ash and Morgan,

are really going to love you.

And then she's like, even you, Chris, he has such a great voice. And I was like,

all right. I hear a lot of good voices.

I said they're all going to get flustered.

And you do.

Listen, it's my job to listen to podcasts, and I listen to a lot of

radios. You have one of the best voices I've heard.

in this like you have a future if if the whole porn thing doesn't work out you

got a future in uh in podcasting or radio i feel like oh my god if it was

like the 70s what was that movie was it undercover brother when he's like a

radio talk or no something else where i think it's eddie griffin or someone he's

like he's talking on the radio

I feel like if you were in the 70s, you would have been that guy, like, talking

very sensually between all the songs that you're putting on for the lovers

and the baby makers.

Yeah. I think it definitely comes from tinkering with, like, my old ex

-girlfriends from, like, back in grade school and stuff like that. Just trying

to sound, like, cool. Like, you know, because, like, high school. But, like,

you know, just trying to deepen your voice a little bit.

But it definitely came to mind when my first job in college was kind of tele

-fundraising. It wasn't like telemarketing, but you would call like

the alumni and you would just ask for donations to their old colleges.

And I just remember talking to some lady and I was like, hey, can you like donate

$50 to this college? And she was just like, you know.

I didn't want to at all. But after listening to you talk, you just sued me

so much. And I will. I'll donate 50 bucks. You just sued me so much. And I

was like, okay.

I was like, oh, this is dangerous. Like my manager was there for four years and

she raised like $50,000 within her four years that she's been there, which made

her become the manager.

I was there for like six months and I raised like $75,000. What?

Oh, my God.

Just off his voice.

It was just, I was just, I figured out the formula very early of like what I

need to say that wasn't on the script. I was like, the script sounds too

scripted. So I was like, they only wanted me to get to the main point. So I

was able to get to like the main points and not like hold them too long and they

disagree fast. Do you think that translated into your acting career?

Because you're also like a great actual actor, not just horny acting.

It helped. Because I feel like in porn, Even if the script's good, I've been

with people that you're like, okay, I know you're saying it like you're

reading it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's like when, you know, that's like not the

best acting and it's hard to act with someone. I took an acting class in

college and that kind of gave me some pointers of like, you know, how to not

sound like you're just reading lines.

Yeah. And to kind of improvise, to like spice things up so that the script

don't. come off too bland.

But yeah, just paying attention.

So not the telephonic.

No, it was more so like I did a lot of YouTube in my 20s and like in terms of

like, oh, I can't go to acting class and do work at the same time. So let me just

look up acting classes on YouTube and stuff like that. So there was like a

bunch of people that I would listen to.

It's like one guy from Star Wars that give acting lessons.

And this is just like other guys that just give pointers. And I would just

listen because there will always be things that I wouldn't think about.

And it might not be the most sound advice, but it's advice that, again, I

wasn't thinking about. Right.

Yeah.

I don't know why I just imagine you delivering every line like whispering it

in someone's ear.

We've had a few scenes like that.

Chris has a boner.

So speaking of shows, and I know you mentioned Animaniacs, which is classic

90s cartoons.

Was there any other cartoon growing up or a specific character that you're

like, oh, that is me?

That is me.

Probably Brock from Pokemon.

I was into all of the women that I've seen, and my eyes would just light up,

and I'd be like, yes, you, yes, you, yes.

Like, whatever you need, I got you.

You got to catch them all.

You know, I can relate to Brock a little bit.

Let's see if there's any other character that I had to think of.

I can be silly at times like Spongebob.

Spongebob.

Just based off of your car, I always thought you would say Batman.

Well, Batman is definitely a big part. Yeah, I guess so. Batman animated

series. Yeah.

Like the cool series. I think when Mark Hamill was like the Joker. Yes, that's

my favorite iteration of the Joker.

And I do have a lot of philosophy in my life that comes from the Batman.

That's why you see Chucky dolls all around my place. And that's because

Batman, you just face your fear head on. And Chucky was the first thing I was

afraid of when I was a kid.

Oh, I didn't know that's why. It was the first nightmare I had.

He chased me through my house, I remember, and the black cat saved me.

The black cat saved you. It was the first dream I ever remembered and stuck

with me since.

So I was just like, all right.

And then I really got into Chucky.

Was that, like, why you got into horror films?

Yes, yes.

Because every time I showed Chucky to my friends, they were like, yeah, this is

cool, but let me show you a good horror film.

And I'd be like, oh, okay.

And then I just got into it.

And then it started with, like, Halloween of, like, watching a horror

film each day and then understanding the genre of how it peaks and then comes

down and stuff like that.

Horror films don't necessarily scare me as much anymore because I know the

formula of how it's created.

Right. But I love a good horror film. I love it if it's dumb and not so

scary or I like it when it's got a really good story and scary at the same

time. I hate when it's... No, I like it when it's dumb but have a good story. I

don't like it when it's dumb and have a bad story. Yeah.

Because even like...

All the paranormal activity movies, I think if you just watch it by it's like

one, just one by itself, you're like, cool, shit's just flying around. But

when you start and like read about the story and like how that family made a

deal and now they're all like,

oh, no. And then that like the story makes it more scary. Absolutely.

That's like the only example I can think of.

I love the classic chorus from back in the day when I was a kid, like 13

Ghosts.

Ghost Ship is like one of my favorite scary movie intros of all time.

I remember as a kid, I took the bus to go see Darkness Falls by myself because

my friend flaked out at the last second. But I was like, it looks so good.

And I saw the movie and after seeing the movie, every part in that movie made me

jump. And I was just like young.

When I was headed back home, I stood in, like, every street light. And so, like,

I was like, I ain't standing in no dark.

I saw the movie again as an adult, and it was so cheesy. Yeah.

I was like, I was scared of this. I was like, it wasn't that bad. I was like,

I'm glad I rewatched it.

Oh, good.

It's like healing your inner child in a way.

Oh, yeah. You got to do that sometimes.

Exactly. I like that.

Okay. Sorry.

Where am I? Oh, you said you love the outdoors.

And I really want to know for myself because I'm new to L.A. Where in the L

.A. area is the best hike that you've been on?

If you want to get lost.

I don't know if she does.

As long as there's not a man in jeans that comes up to me.

That's always a bad sign. All right. So let me think of somewhere else.

He's like, OK, well, you won't like Gerald.

He's the guy in jeans on that hike.

I'm not a big influencer hiker, so you won't see me at the Runyon Canyon.

I hear Fryman's not bad. If you're going to go between

those two, I hear Fryman's a little better.

My favorite trails would probably be, for exercise, I do the Bee Canyon Trail,

which is in Granada Hills.

It's like a three-mile hike up a hill.

And if you want to explore Mo once you get up to the hill part, you could go

through the backside of the gate, and that leads into, like, the bike trails,

and there's deers there and a lot more nature, and that's, like, where the

nature kind of hides out.

Esconita is a little drive away, but it has waterfalls, and it's a great hike. I

took a lot of friends there back when I was in high school.

Malibu Trail is like one that goes on forever. So if you just like to like see

how far you can go, then that's a really great trail.

And I would say Rocky Peak, which is kind of in the Chatsworth area right

before you get to Semi Valley. It's like that last exit before you make it over

there. That trail also has a lot of great kind of twists and turns for you

to, like, explore until, like, somebody gets tired and you got to turn back

around. Like, I mean, as I was hiking up the trail, I saw, like, one of the

biggest condors I've ever seen, just like a Pokemon.

But, yeah, I really love trails that...

You could get lost. Like I took myself out to Hawaii for my birthday and I went

alone because I was like, you ain't going to pay for somebody to enjoy your

birthday with you.

But I chose the big island and I chose like the volcano park and brought a week

pass there because I know how much I love to explore.

And I was like, if anybody else was on this.

journey with me, they would be mad at me because I walked to basically where I'm

like, okay, you got to turn around before the sun goes down and you won't

be able to see your way back. That park is so cool.

Yeah, it was lovely. I took pictures everywhere.

Okay, one more.

On vacation, do you care more about eating really nice or expensive food?

Or would you rather grow go on like a great adventure and have an experience?

I mean, I do love food, especially on vacation because it's part of the

experience. You know, if I go out the country, I want to experience the

culinary there because, you know, you can only get certain things across the

sea that you won't get. You know, the difference of meats is a big difference.

And when I was in Hawaii, I think I cooked everything myself.

But I did try to go out and find something to eat. It just wasn't

anything really good out there. And the Big Island doesn't really have a

nightlife. Right. I feel like everything's closed pretty early.

Yeah, like I've only been to a couple of islands, but it wasn't the real touristy

ones. It was like the more lush ones. So like Kauai and like the Jurassic Park

Island and then the Big Island.

And so there wasn't really much to eat out there.

But the food that I was able to buy there was very fresh. And, like, you

know, I brought prawns and fresh tuna and sashimi and stuff like that. And

that was, like, from Costco. So I was like, oh, wow, y'all good.

But when I'm out the country and, like, doing, like, an extended vacation, I do

like to eat.

And then I'll go out as a bonus.

But when I'm home, I'm pretty much, like, with my routine.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Is that it, you guys?

Oh, okay. No, sorry. We actually do have one more, but Ash was supposed to ask

this one, so I'm just going to ask for her. Okay.

Let me pull up her notes really quick.

You mentioned you like to read. Are there any books that you're currently

reading, and what's your favorite genre?

Is there a book growing up that you would have loved to transport yourself

to?

A lot of questions in one.

Let me go back through them.

I guess the books I would transport myself into was like those Harry Potter

books when I was a kid.

The only reason why I stopped reading them was because I hit puberty at the

time, like the seventh or the eighth book came out. And so at that time, it

was just too late for like my mind to focus on those books. But those were

great transportation books when I was a kid.

The book I'm reading at the moment is The Anxious Generation.

And I want to say the author is Jonathan something, but he's basically talking

about Gen Z and how they're one of the first phone-based generations to be

raised. And before then, the millennials, the Xers, and the boomers

were play-based generations.

And so the invention of the smartphone just kind of helped decline mental

health.

That book is a very interesting read to see how social media affect women versus

men and the way we kind of found new ways to bully each other, the new

ways that predators approach the youth in those books and stuff like that and

how we consider which age is internet adult and which is 13 at the moment.

And so, like, yeah, there's...

I love reading psychology books, books of, like, how people in groups move

together and, like, you know, sociology and stuff like that.

And I'll throw in a fiction book every now and then. I just, when I read

fiction, it goes so far into the fantasy of it, it's hard for me to, like, cling

on to feeling like it's reality.

And so I was just, like, I'll read a bunch of, like.

No fiction books in order to like keep up to date and give discussion topics

when I'm talking to my friends.

All right. Thank you so much.

Where can the fans find you?

I'm on Twitter. I'm on Instagram. It's Isaiah Maxwell. I spell my name I-S-I-A

-H Maxwell.

And with Instagram it's Isaiah underscore Maxwell.

Yes. I always tell people in this industry to make sure you give the

correct one because.

We know there's so many fake ones. Oh, yes.

And you guys know where to find me. And thank you so much for watching. Make

sure to like, comment, subscribe.

Sorry, it always just sounds so like.

Anyways, thank you.