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Speaker 1: let's get to my beautiful guest. She started as a dancer,
Speaker 1: became a glamour model, shot for Playboy, and somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way a cop paid her to choke her out
Speaker 1: in a champagne room. But we'll get to that. Three
Speaker 1: years in, August Sky has an expos Award, a Popcorn
Speaker 1: Award for an indie web series, and a brand built
Speaker 1: around intimacy and high glamour content. But she's a lot
Speaker 1: more interested in talking about where the industry is going
Speaker 1: than where she's been. Let's welcome the one and only
Speaker 1: August Guy.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, Hi, having made of course, it's so nice
Speaker 3: to have you so August and I actually first met
Speaker 3: when I shot her for Twisties in a girl girl.
Speaker 1: Scene with neither of us can remember their name.
Speaker 2: I cannot, and that was like what that was like
Speaker 2: the first year.
Speaker 1: In Yeah, yeah, you were brand new, and I think
Speaker 1: I was about I was on my way out. I
Speaker 1: think that was like one of the last few months
Speaker 1: that I was directing and then I stopped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, that has been a good time though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's talk about your beginnings. You grew up
Speaker 1: in Colorado and came from a creative background art, fashion, performance,
Speaker 1: So how did you end up in adult entertainment?
Speaker 2: For me, it was like always like a curiosity that
Speaker 2: I've had, So I've always been in tune with like
Speaker 2: my sexuality. I know that kind of sounds weird. I've
Speaker 2: always been like explorative with it. So it kind of
Speaker 2: started off as like, you know, modeling, So I did
Speaker 2: like like I did like fashion modeling when I was
Speaker 2: like a lot more like you know, petite, and then
Speaker 2: like you know, you start to get a little older,
Speaker 2: you know, huberty hits, you turn like twenty two, twenty three,
Speaker 2: you can't really change that, and then I just then
Speaker 2: I got a casting call for Playboy, and then it
Speaker 2: just kind of went from there, and then I think
Speaker 2: things just kind of escalated. And then it was like
Speaker 2: right after COVID, I had this hinkering and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: like I'm just want to I want to try this thing,
Speaker 2: probably like two years after COVID and I was like,
Speaker 2: I've always wanted to try doing adult films because it's
Speaker 2: always like I used to watch it when I was
Speaker 2: like younger, you know, like we all did, you know,
Speaker 2: I Little curiosity and porn and I was like, well,
Speaker 2: these girls look like they're enjoying themselves. They're like they're
Speaker 2: having a good time. And I was like, I'll try
Speaker 2: it at once. And I tell myself, if I try
Speaker 2: it and I don't like it, I'll never do it again. Pasha,
Speaker 2: you know, pretend like it never happened. But then I
Speaker 2: tried it and I loved it, and I stuck around.
Speaker 2: So now three years later, here we are.
Speaker 1: So what was the first scene that you did or
Speaker 1: the first experience that you had that that was such
Speaker 1: a positive experience.
Speaker 2: So my first scene was with net video girls. I
Speaker 2: don't know if they're still I've.
Speaker 1: Heard of them. They do a lot like new New,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I think they're still around.
Speaker 2: And they still Okay, my first scene did go viral
Speaker 2: on porn hub, so that was like nice. But I
Speaker 2: think when I was on there, like it was like
Speaker 2: that heart like the heart palpitations. The adrenaline was like running,
Speaker 2: and I was like chatting with the makeup artist and
Speaker 2: she was like, Oh, you're gonna do well. You're gonna
Speaker 2: do fine, and then my scene partner. Everything just like
Speaker 2: went really well, and I just like, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the process of it. I don't know, I
Speaker 2: enjoyed the cameras. I enjoyed the whole. It was just
Speaker 2: like a good situation. I don't know how to like
Speaker 2: how to explain. I was like, oh, this feels right.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Maybe you went into it like nervous,
Speaker 1: but then like while you were doing it, it kind
Speaker 1: of felt more natural. Whereas you know, some people's first scene,
Speaker 1: even though they may have like quote unquote a good experience,
Speaker 1: they may you know, come out of it being like
Speaker 1: I I am not sure if this is my thing,
Speaker 1: And it sounds like you came out of it feeling
Speaker 1: like it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a guilty pleasure. Like I think
Speaker 2: it was like nervous, but it was more like adrenaline.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm about to do this, I'm about
Speaker 2: to do this, and it was more of like that
Speaker 2: like back like the voice in the back of my
Speaker 2: head of like your family, your parents, wop are going
Speaker 2: to see this, like what happens, what happens? What happens?
Speaker 2: Like you're selfish for like doing this, but it's like
Speaker 2: you want to do this. I think it was more
Speaker 2: of like my subconscious of like the aftermath more so
Speaker 2: than me actually doing the thing. The stigma, yeah, the
Speaker 2: stigma behind it, right. But then I was like, well,
Speaker 2: I think the feeling was is like I feel guilty
Speaker 2: for actually enjoying myself, like having a positive experience. And
Speaker 2: I know, like not a there's people out there who
Speaker 2: haven't had like a positive experience, but like for me,
Speaker 2: I was like, this is something I want to do
Speaker 2: and I like it and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: So how was the aftermath? Like did you get a
Speaker 1: lot of blowback from family? Friends?
Speaker 2: So? Oddly enough? So I thought I was like, I
Speaker 2: was like one of those things was like you always
Speaker 2: think that you can keep it a secret.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how he does. I heard that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all.
Speaker 2: Think like, oh my goodness, they'll never know my siblings.
Speaker 2: They were like okay, whatever, fine that we we don't care,
Speaker 2: you know. So I think, like my parents. They my
Speaker 2: dad I think was the first person to find out,
Speaker 2: But like, I think it was more so like it's
Speaker 2: never like the first thing that they want to know
Speaker 2: that their child is doing. So it's not that they're
Speaker 2: like so like super supportive. It's not like they're like, yay,
Speaker 2: go do this thing. I think it was a lot
Speaker 2: of emotions for them to go through, but they came
Speaker 2: out to see me. I'd moved to La they came
Speaker 2: out to see me, and I think like they wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure that I wasn't doing it as like
Speaker 2: a last resort and like I was doing it as
Speaker 2: like a form of something that I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: And then I think what I saw like my life style,
Speaker 2: how is living? That I was happy, and that there's
Speaker 2: so much more around it than the actual scene itself
Speaker 2: or the actual act itself, that they were like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we see, we understand you as our child, and you're
Speaker 2: not just doing this because you know, like you're down bad, right,
Speaker 2: like the stigma that I think that everyone still has
Speaker 2: around it. They're like, oh, you're doing this out of
Speaker 2: pure enjoyment. You're doing well, You're turning this into a business,
Speaker 2: so we accept it. Like do we talk about it,
Speaker 2: Like no, not really, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: it's not like, oh, you know, like how was work today?
Speaker 2: They just like no, you know, I'm working or I'm
Speaker 2: traveling or I'm doing things. But I think that they've
Speaker 2: accepted me as a person and the things that I
Speaker 2: enjoy and like, and they've accepted my lifestyle. Like do
Speaker 2: they completely understand it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Are they trying? Yes, you know, but it's it's always
Speaker 2: a constant like learning learning curve for them. So I'm
Speaker 2: appreciative of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, that's great because obviously not every child, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I've talked to people who've been disowned by
Speaker 1: their family. Yeah, and it's it's pretty sad. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people whose parents like they come around
Speaker 1: to it, you know, and they end up being like
Speaker 1: really proud of their kids. And I think I think
Speaker 1: the first thought is always like is she safe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like is she doing this because she wants to? Or
Speaker 1: is she being pressured into it? That's I think every
Speaker 1: parent's first concern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was their first concern. And like
Speaker 2: was it like immediately like were they just like yes,
Speaker 2: we like no, it was it was like a process,
Speaker 2: Like we didn't talk for like a while, and it wasn't,
Speaker 2: you know, like they had a They really had a process.
Speaker 2: It It wasn't like, oh they found out and then
Speaker 2: like a day later. It probably took them about a
Speaker 2: year for them to really come back around, right, But
Speaker 2: like I said, my siblings, they were like, okay, girl, whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, we don't care. We figured at some point
Speaker 2: in life you'd be doing something. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So you've shot covers for Playboy and Pure Taboo and
Speaker 1: you had a full spread and Hustler. These are very
Speaker 1: different publications with very different audiences. What was it like? Like,
Speaker 1: how was each experience.
Speaker 2: In the beginning, I thought like Playboy was like the
Speaker 2: do all end All, which it still was like it was.
Speaker 2: It was a very enjoyable experience. But Pure Taboo was
Speaker 2: one of the more recent ones that I shot, and
Speaker 2: I liked it because it was so it was kinky,
Speaker 2: and I think I've like changed over time, so I
Speaker 2: think that it was more representative of who I am now,
Speaker 2: you know. I think Playboy is like more of like
Speaker 2: that like girl next Door, you know, kind of like
Speaker 2: sweet she's doing the thing. But I think Pure Taboo
Speaker 2: is kind of like, Okay, she's She's who I thought
Speaker 2: I was gonna become.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what like new like kinster sexual opportunities of
Speaker 1: like opened up in your life. I used to shoot
Speaker 1: for pure taboo, so too. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's like a lot of things. So it was things
Speaker 2: that I didn't know that I would enjoy. So there
Speaker 2: was like golden shower play that I did in that
Speaker 2: scene that I was like, oh, like I like that
Speaker 2: a lot of like being dominated are things? Right, Like
Speaker 2: the idea of like being dominated I do because I think, like,
Speaker 2: given being in this industry, like uh, the women are
Speaker 2: more dominant, right, So I like to be more submissive
Speaker 2: in my personal life. It was just nice to play
Speaker 2: that role for like a little bit. You know, I
Speaker 2: think you and I are kind of similar in this way.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I wasn't obedious and relationship a long
Speaker 2: time ago.
Speaker 1: I'm way more vanilla now. But I always liked being submissive, right.
Speaker 1: And but on the flip side, like in real life,
Speaker 1: I'm like a boss, I have like people working under me.
Speaker 1: I like do a lot of stuff. I'm like often
Speaker 1: in charge. You strike me as somebody who's probably the same. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it's just like when it comes to sex,
Speaker 1: you just like for once in your life, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be the one giving the orders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to land tell me what to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just want to let go. Like there's something
Speaker 1: really sexy and freeing about like flipping the script and
Speaker 1: that that power dynamic completely shifting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you hear this all the time about like
Speaker 1: you know, talk to dominatrices who you know, have like
Speaker 1: high powered financial Wall Street guys coming in, and I
Speaker 1: think that's pretty common.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think even too, like you know,
Speaker 2: I still I mean i'd full disclosed like I do
Speaker 2: have clients too, and like I think it's like the
Speaker 2: same thing too, Like they want to be either they
Speaker 2: want to be dominated to where like they don't want
Speaker 2: to think about anything like not I'm not like any
Speaker 2: sort of domain natrix by that standard of some of
Speaker 2: these women. But they want you to just they just
Speaker 2: want to have you do everything right. They want you
Speaker 2: to initiate it, they want you to do the whole thing,
Speaker 2: which I get that. Or they want you to be
Speaker 2: very soft with not maternal with them, but more like
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know the word, but they
Speaker 2: want you to like pet them and like coddle them
Speaker 2: and like, yeah, tell them it's gonna be Oh, you're
Speaker 2: so wonderful and so perfect and everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: You like it's okay, set like you know. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: maybe like they want to be submissive in that way, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm learning that there's different versions of submission.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Scharidaville is a really good friend of mine, and
Speaker 1: she is like very specific fans who want very specific things,
Speaker 1: and one of them is like tucking them into bed
Speaker 1: at night. There's like a whole like group of guys
Speaker 1: that want her to tuck them into bed at night.
Speaker 2: See, that's a very specific thing. I've never I've never
Speaker 2: had that, but hey, I get it. I want Seridavill
Speaker 2: to tuck me in. I know that's fair. I see
Speaker 2: the appeal.
Speaker 1: It's just so interesting working in this industry because I
Speaker 1: think you really get to explore other people's like kings
Speaker 1: and desires and you learn things about people that you
Speaker 1: would never normally have done.
Speaker 2: Right yeah, yeah, well it makes sense. Right. So I
Speaker 2: think a big thing that I do is like the
Speaker 2: girlfriend experience and a lot of guys like they it's
Speaker 2: a very similar thing. I guess, like they want you
Speaker 2: to they want like the cudd of the experience. They
Speaker 2: want to chat with you, they want to like they
Speaker 2: they don't really want anything like explicitly sexual, like they
Speaker 2: wanted to be a very like girlfriend. Ye, let's hang out.
Speaker 2: I want to know what your favorite movie is. How
Speaker 2: is your day like experience?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, absolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What about do you do customs and if you have
Speaker 1: what's like the most interesting request you've gotten?
Speaker 2: Oh, of course I do customs. Man. They're all so
Speaker 2: like they're all over the spectrum right like, but for
Speaker 2: the most those parts, it's probably one of the craziest
Speaker 2: ones that I've gotten in recent times. I think what
Speaker 2: it is I'm so desensitized to them like sounding crazy,
Speaker 2: so like I'm like, this isn't crazy, this is just
Speaker 2: like normal. The biggest thing is just like the girlfriend thing.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing is like, oh, like tell me,
Speaker 2: will you just like come over and tell me like
Speaker 2: how much you like me? Or like you're leaving your
Speaker 2: boyfriend for me, or like how good of like a
Speaker 2: boyfriend that I am? And of course like I get,
Speaker 2: you know, I get some other crazy like can you
Speaker 2: put on a strap on a stroke your dick and
Speaker 2: tell me how much of a little shit I am?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yeah, you get those two right?
Speaker 2: Or I mean, of course I get like the I
Speaker 2: get milk request, and I get everything in between. Like
Speaker 2: I don't really have just like one thing really, I
Speaker 2: mean the girlfriend thing is it's it's not as like
Speaker 2: aggressive as it could be. You know which I'm lucky?
Speaker 2: You know which I'm lucky?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it depends on the demographic that you, yeah,
Speaker 1: are track Yeah, yeah, I mean I've heard like I
Speaker 1: remember I think it was Candleblocks and she was like
Speaker 1: a fetish clips creator, like that was her specialty. And
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing I heard from her was a
Speaker 1: guy paid her to sit on a Duffel bag for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. Just sit on a black Duffel bag for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: I get guys to ask for things like that. They're like,
Speaker 2: can you just like sit in like these three different poses,
Speaker 2: but like you don't have to say anything or I
Speaker 2: don't know. Sometimes I'm like, where are you guys getting these?
Speaker 2: Because you know, you get sometimes you get like these
Speaker 2: I don't know where you guys are getting the time
Speaker 2: to write some of these requests because it is like
Speaker 2: a script.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, what, yeah, Like what are you
Speaker 1: guys like a feature film?
Speaker 2: Dude? Yeah, Like they've taken all of like their best
Speaker 2: and then written it. And I'm like, I'm involved in
Speaker 2: the story now, I'm like, where's part two to this?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 1: So speaking of interesting experiences, let's talk about the cop
Speaker 1: in the champagne room.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, my favorite, my one of my favorite dancer stories.
Speaker 2: So I was a dancer in this upscale gentlemen's club
Speaker 2: in Denver and it was kind of like a slow
Speaker 2: night and me and my friends who were hanging out
Speaker 2: at the bar, and like this group of guys come
Speaker 2: in and anytime like guys come in and they're like,
Speaker 2: I bet you guys don't know what we do for work,
Speaker 2: and if you did, you probably wouldn't talk to us.
Speaker 2: And we're like, okay, you guys are obviously cops, right,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, just like the demeanor,
Speaker 2: it's not like okay whatever. So like long story short,
Speaker 2: they're like they're they're, you know, doing the thing, and
Speaker 2: we've we've we've convinced them to get into a into
Speaker 2: a champagne room. So I think it was like a
Speaker 2: group of like six guys, right, so three of them
Speaker 2: decided they get into a champagne room. So it's like
Speaker 2: three guys, three girls or four girls. It's me and
Speaker 2: my friend Rodeo that were on this one.
Speaker 1: Guy that's an awesome stripper name yeah, that is so good,
Speaker 1: and she is a Rodeo.
Speaker 2: That girl is a riot. But we got this guy
Speaker 2: and he was like, oh man, like the same thing
Speaker 2: he wanted to be dominated. He's, oh man, no one's
Speaker 2: been able to like dominate me like the way I
Speaker 2: wanted to. And she goes, all right, challenge approved, you know,
Speaker 2: challenge accepted, and we're we're hanging out this guy. Mind you,
Speaker 2: she's only about like this big and I'm I'm five
Speaker 2: eight for people who don't know, so I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: tell it. When you have stripper heels on, but I
Speaker 2: have might that's step that adds another seven inches. So
Speaker 2: we're we're we're we're hanging out with this guy. We're
Speaker 2: doing the thing. So she starts like open fisted slapping
Speaker 2: them and he goes like, that's not hard enough. That's
Speaker 2: not hard enough. So I started doing the thing. I
Speaker 2: played volleyball, so I'm like, okay, I can do the thing.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, that's not hard enough. You guys aren't
Speaker 2: doing you guys aren't doing what I want you to do.
Speaker 2: So rodeo. She takes off his belt and she wraps
Speaker 2: it around his neck. But she has experience in this,
Speaker 2: and she wraps it around his neck and she puts
Speaker 2: both of raffeta up against the wall and she slides
Speaker 2: back oho and this guy passes out full sin passes out.
Speaker 2: I was like, girl, his friends like you could hear
Speaker 2: a pin drop in this room. Like I was like,
Speaker 2: oh girl, we are going to prison. I was like,
Speaker 2: we're going to down. I was like, I was like,
Speaker 2: I know, I got a lawyer in my phone or somebody, right,
Speaker 2: Like I hope this outfit is cute enough to be in,
Speaker 2: like mug shoddy. I don't know what's happening here right now.
Speaker 2: But she does that, and then I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: Like all right, okay, go on and play along. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: keep playing the game, right, And then so we started
Speaker 2: she's laughing. I was like, girl, fucking roady. Oh my girl.
Speaker 2: So then we start smacking him. I was like, she's
Speaker 2: laughing to smack him. I'm like smacking him. I'm like
Speaker 2: smacking him Marcas. I'm like, bro, please wake up, please,
Speaker 2: like wake up, wake up. He like wakes up. I
Speaker 2: mean it felt like it was fucking forever, right, because
Speaker 2: you know when you have like that situation going on,
Speaker 2: you're like you think time is fucking forever. But it
Speaker 2: was only like what in a matter of like minutes.
Speaker 2: He wakes up. He looks at both of us in
Speaker 2: the face, he goes, I love you guys, and got
Speaker 2: it really fatip out of it, right, and then yeah,
Speaker 2: I was like okay, and he's like, he's like, will
Speaker 2: you guys like do it again? And I was like,
Speaker 2: I'll do it lightly, but I'm like I'm not doing
Speaker 2: that again. But I don't think you're ready for that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I was like, you just passed out, Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to come to work the next day with
Speaker 1: me around your neck?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So we did. We played around with it again,
Speaker 2: like we're doing it like, he gave us a nice tip.
Speaker 2: He had a good time. I don't think his friends
Speaker 2: were ready for it either, right, Like it's like one
Speaker 2: of those things, like the thing with the guys who
Speaker 2: go into like the strip club with like a group
Speaker 2: of friends or something, or like a bachelor party. It's
Speaker 2: like if you don't know what your friends are into.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's like shocking, right, Like you gotta
Speaker 2: like warn your friends that, like you're into that kind
Speaker 2: of like hardcore play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you just can't be doing all that, dude.
Speaker 1: You know that they were all coughs, They're all guaranteed you.
Speaker 1: They might give him so much shit on the beat,
Speaker 1: like all the time, like they've got to make like
Speaker 1: and choking jokes like constantly, like guy will never live
Speaker 1: that down.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I don't think he wants to. I don't
Speaker 2: think he wants to write. And I feel like he's
Speaker 2: one of those people's like he's always got to be
Speaker 2: searching for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So I was like, all right, bro, all right, cool, interesting, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got it, love it. That's so good. But it's
Speaker 2: a fun time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, So let's talk about this Popcorn Award for
Speaker 1: an Independent Web Series. I've actually never heard of it,
Speaker 1: but that sounds really cool and I would like to
Speaker 1: also win it. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: I would I would like to win it. So just
Speaker 1: putting that out there, whatever it is, nominate me. So
Speaker 1: what was this project and what did winning something for
Speaker 1: independent work specifically mean to you?
Speaker 2: So this was like before I had gotten into adult
Speaker 2: This was like a project that a director hit me
Speaker 2: up in twenty twenty, you know, obviously when I think
Speaker 2: people were just like doing nothing right but creating. Yeah.
Speaker 2: His name was Brian Nesbit, and it was a series
Speaker 2: called Born at Night and it was about this. It
Speaker 2: was actually about a sex worker, which was ironic enough,
Speaker 2: but she would is seeking revenge. It wasn't a spy,
Speaker 2: but it was more of like, uh, you know, seeking
Speaker 2: revenge because she was sex trafficked and you know, going
Speaker 2: through and beating guys down.
Speaker 1: Kind of like infiltrating.
Speaker 2: Infiltrating, yes, but yeah, exactly. It was about five or
Speaker 2: six episodes and age episode was no more than like
Speaker 2: ten minutes long. And I was actually surprised because, like
Speaker 2: you know, when you sometimes like you do things, you
Speaker 2: don't really keep up with it. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is like a fun project to work on. During COVID, right,
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not really doing much of anything.
Speaker 2: But then he was like, hey, like, I'm going out
Speaker 2: to this award show. We've been nominated you've won, which
Speaker 2: is basically like a Webby Award. Ye you know, it's
Speaker 2: like this. It was, it's a similar thing, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was cool because I was like, oh, like, you
Speaker 2: actually have h talent, right like you people were actually
Speaker 2: responsive to you, right, And I think for me, like
Speaker 2: that's that. It was cool because I like, I'm a
Speaker 2: creative at heart. So I was like, oh, like that
Speaker 2: that was nice to be a to have a nomination
Speaker 2: and win the award.
Speaker 1: Right, and you were an actress in this, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Was the main actress in it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So along those like lines, do you prefer to shoot
Speaker 1: Gonzo scenes or features?
Speaker 2: Features? I do like to do features. I do like
Speaker 2: to shoot Gonzo, but just I like the features. I
Speaker 2: think the creative behind it and having to act and
Speaker 2: come up with the scenario for me is a little
Speaker 2: bit easier than just like the getting straight to it,
Speaker 2: like the kind of.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, like you want like a storyline behind it,
Speaker 1: like a reason yeah why you're there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Not just like it's fun to go to Poundtown.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, but like, I think it's also
Speaker 2: like fun so like because I imagine like watching your
Speaker 2: favorite movie and then you actually get to like see
Speaker 2: this scene, and I think that's what I like. Yeaheah.
Speaker 1: So a feature movie is generally an adult movie that
Speaker 1: has like acting in it, that has a storyline that
Speaker 1: has you know, it's not just sex. A gonzo scene
Speaker 1: is generally a scene that is just sex, so like
Speaker 1: goes pretty much straight to sex. There's usually no act.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it'll be like a solo. Well a lot of
Speaker 1: times it'll be like a solo of the girl like
Speaker 1: showing her off and she'll be stripping and doing something sexy.
Speaker 1: But that's the difference between the two types of scenes. So,
Speaker 1: do you have any features that you've done since you've
Speaker 1: been in the adult industry that you really like, are
Speaker 1: proud of.
Speaker 2: So I did a featurette last year that was up
Speaker 2: for quite a few awards where it was for Adult
Speaker 2: Time and was I got to do the prosthetics of
Speaker 2: like being like a black widow spider, which was super cool.
Speaker 1: How long were you in makeup and hair for that?
Speaker 2: Oh man, that was a long Those were long days. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was first one in literally the last one out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it was the concept was like this woman whose
Speaker 2: like wife, her husband wasn't like giving her any attention.
Speaker 2: She gets bit by a spider. She turned into like
Speaker 2: a black widow. She like gets these guys into her web,
Speaker 2: and then it's like a it's a whole situation at hand.
Speaker 2: I've done a I can't think about the name of
Speaker 2: the project right now, but I've done some features for
Speaker 2: Seth Gamble and Ricky Greenwood. So yeah, I've done quite
Speaker 2: but I can't think of their names right off the bat,
Speaker 2: you know, but they've all been fun.
Speaker 1: They and they both shot so many scenes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Like you're like trying to think about it.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh my goodness, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So deeplatforming is something that you feel very strongly
Speaker 1: about and it's a huge problem for our industry. How
Speaker 1: has it affected you personally and how do you manage
Speaker 1: protecting yourself against it if at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, like, as we know right now, I think
Speaker 2: that we are in the like the mass deplatforming of creators.
Speaker 2: I think there's so many people who are trying to
Speaker 2: advocate it for it, and I think Instagram even like released
Speaker 2: a statement today saying that they are tackling actual sex
Speaker 2: workers and they are deleting their accounts on purpose. For
Speaker 2: me personally, just like everybody, I'm on my eighth Instagram
Speaker 2: accountant and that's even before being like an adult performer.
Speaker 2: But you know, we spend money to get our accounts back.
Speaker 2: We spend money to keep our accounts afloat. You try
Speaker 2: to do everything that you possibly can, but you know,
Speaker 2: it is a full send attack on performers or sex
Speaker 2: workers or whatever the case may be, because it does suck, right,
Speaker 2: because it's your brand, and that's how we make most
Speaker 2: of our money.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Unfortunately, like that's really the only way that
Speaker 1: we can promote ourselves. Yeah, that's where the traffic is.
Speaker 1: So it's not like we have somewhere else to go,
Speaker 1: and it's just like the same old trying to push.
Speaker 1: But yeah, people in the industry underground, and you know,
Speaker 1: everyone does their best to follow the rules and they're
Speaker 1: so opaque about things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they well they're always constantly changing the rules. And
Speaker 2: now they have AI and different systems like that that
Speaker 2: are running through the system. But it's not like back
Speaker 2: in the day, right where it's like you know, you
Speaker 2: can just do like box covers and all these things
Speaker 2: and stay relevant. Now you have like social media, but
Speaker 2: people don't tell you about adult work as social media
Speaker 2: is like eighty percent of your job now. But as
Speaker 2: far as like protecting myself, So I've worked with my
Speaker 2: with my team, and they've came up with like a
Speaker 2: very rare technology now where it is an auto poster
Speaker 2: where they it puts your content into the autoposter now
Speaker 2: and it tells you if it's safe to put on
Speaker 2: your platform or not. And it also runs it because
Speaker 2: Instagram is always changing their rules and that's the opeckness
Speaker 2: of it, because if you don't know, it's always changing, right,
Speaker 2: and that gives them reason to deplatform you. But because
Speaker 2: of the autoposter and because of their AI system, they'll
Speaker 2: tell you and it also warn you if your account
Speaker 2: is about to be banned and the reason as to
Speaker 2: why it's about to be banned. I've been working with them,
Speaker 2: collaborating with them and using them because I have my
Speaker 2: account taking down maybe like two weeks ago, and like
Speaker 2: all these people texted me. They're like I was in
Speaker 2: Chicago and they're like, hey, you know your account got
Speaker 2: taken down. I was like, yes, and I happen to
Speaker 2: be with my manager at the time, Steven, who is
Speaker 2: the person who created this poster or this auto poster.
Speaker 2: I got my account back in twelve minutes because it
Speaker 2: was one of those things to where everything was come client,
Speaker 2: so my page was compliant, so they had no reason
Speaker 2: for me to take it down. So it's like Instagram
Speaker 2: couldn't fight it. They couldn't just have my platform taken
Speaker 2: from me because they don't tell you things like, oh, well, hey,
Speaker 2: you you reason why your platform got taken down is
Speaker 2: because you have AVN tagged in like your bio right,
Speaker 2: Avn's page might not be compliant. You don't know that,
Speaker 2: so now your page gets taken down. So they make
Speaker 2: it so snakeish. But now having this technology for us
Speaker 2: made for us, it's like a nice safety net so
Speaker 2: we don't have to always lose it and always have
Speaker 2: to pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars to
Speaker 2: get these accounts back, because it gets ridiculous and it
Speaker 2: gets harder and harder the bigger your numbers get. Right,
Speaker 2: I've had friends with like one point five million followers
Speaker 2: and they get their account ban and the guys like, oh,
Speaker 2: I need twenty bands to get this back, and it's like,
Speaker 2: is it really I'm not just going to come off
Speaker 2: a twenty thousand, But I think it's nice to have
Speaker 2: a to be ahead of the game, right because they're
Speaker 2: already getting pushed out between verification and already being an
Speaker 2: adult performer. They don't really want us on their platform.
Speaker 2: So I think it's better to be protected before instead
Speaker 2: of you know.
Speaker 1: Just existing is like against the terms of service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, existing is against the terms of service, but like
Speaker 2: if they have if you have the right tools to
Speaker 2: protect yourself, then I think it goes a long way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been looking into something similar as well, like
Speaker 1: for my marketing agency. But yeah, it's just the frustrating
Speaker 1: thing is it's like I don't understand why, like just
Speaker 1: tell just tell us, like give us these new rules,
Speaker 1: give us something like that, some sort of filtering system,
Speaker 1: because like people don't want to violate the rules. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: some people will push some lemen, yeah whatever, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: But like for those of us who really are trying
Speaker 1: to stay in within compliant, within the community guidelines, we're
Speaker 1: just trying to make a living for a job. Which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I don't know why I have to
Speaker 1: like constantly remind people, but it's legal. It's legal, we're
Speaker 1: not running guns, yeah or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know. It's just like it's just crazy. Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1: You know, just make it so that we know what's
Speaker 1: going on so we can yeah the rules.
Speaker 2: I think their thing is is like they like, oh,
Speaker 2: like we do make it, but you just don't read
Speaker 2: the terms in service, Like, well who reads the terms
Speaker 2: in service?
Speaker 1: But it's also so vague and a lot of it
Speaker 1: is you know, based on like.
Speaker 2: Legal jargon or terminology that a lot of people don't
Speaker 2: or just like opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. It's like the whole like obscenity cases, right,
Speaker 1: like what is obscene to you? You know, definition of
Speaker 1: obscenity is vague. It's like it violates local community standards.
Speaker 1: I think is like one of the rules. Well what
Speaker 1: the fuck? What what is like? And that's just so
Speaker 1: that's just like regional, right is that? Like what are
Speaker 1: the community standards? Like doesn't appeal to like apparent interest
Speaker 1: and you know, isn't like educational artistic well, like what's educational?
Speaker 1: What's artists different? Like this podcast? Is it educational because
Speaker 1: they educate people in the adult industry like what goes
Speaker 1: on behind Like, but you know, there's been plenty of
Speaker 1: times that I've been knocked. You know, you could say
Speaker 1: this whole thing is educational.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is how you ask Yeah yeah, for me,
Speaker 2: I think it's always like one of those things too.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, if you don't want to if you
Speaker 2: don't want to see, your algorithm is based upon what
Speaker 2: you look at, right, So if you ended up on
Speaker 2: that side of the algorithm, then it isn't that kind
Speaker 2: of like based upon what you Oh yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like how did I get here? I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you got here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how you got here? Right? Or it's
Speaker 2: just like the same thing. But you know, it's like
Speaker 2: putting a childlock on, right, Like my parents put the
Speaker 2: childlock on the television. Yeah, so you know, like, but
Speaker 2: you know whatever.
Speaker 1: So the infrastructure that adult creators depend on, payment processors, banks,
Speaker 1: social media platforms, as we were just saying, is constantly
Speaker 1: working against us. So how do you build a sustainable
Speaker 1: career when the ground keeps shifting? Like how do you
Speaker 1: stay one step ahead?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I just have to thank my team for that.
Speaker 2: I can't even fully stay on Like I can't say
Speaker 2: that it's me. I just have to thank my team
Speaker 2: for that because they're constantly doing like the research and
Speaker 2: telling me what I need to stay on top of
Speaker 2: and giving me the guidelines. Because we all have a
Speaker 2: thousand things to do, right, I can't like be on set,
Speaker 2: create content, create social media, do the shoot, show up,
Speaker 2: do all this stuff right. So that's for me personally.
Speaker 2: That's what it is is having like a strong team
Speaker 2: and being lucky enough to have that. Yeah, And if
Speaker 2: you don't have that, then just really try and do
Speaker 2: your research as much as possible and try to listen
Speaker 2: to some of the girls who are like yelling about it, right.
Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of performers who are trying
Speaker 2: to advocate for it, who try to be a couple
Speaker 2: of steps ahead. So if you are by yourself and
Speaker 2: you don't have a team, then try and like look
Speaker 2: out for that, right the girls who the girls and
Speaker 2: guys who are trying to make it easier for you
Speaker 2: to digest. But yeah, like I said, I just I'm
Speaker 2: lucky to have a good team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's telegram groups that you can join. There's Reddit threads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of different places that you can try
Speaker 1: to But I just feel like everyone's always guessed thing.
Speaker 1: We're all discussing.
Speaker 2: It's a guessing game, and it's always changing. It's always changing.
Speaker 1: So where do you think the industry is actually headed
Speaker 1: in the next five years. Do you think it's getting
Speaker 1: better or do you think the walls are closing in?
Speaker 2: That's like a good question. So I feel like I
Speaker 2: got in in like late twenty two.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: I feel like it was like content Creator that was
Speaker 2: like the only fans era. Everyone says like the death
Speaker 2: of the porn star like doesn't exist. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think that if we For me personally, I don't
Speaker 2: think you can really kill a porn star, to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, or the porn industry, I think that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think it's it's gonna come full circle,
Speaker 2: right Like, I think everything's just gonna come back full
Speaker 2: sain They're gonna try and make it difficult. I would
Speaker 2: love the day for like porn stars to like really
Speaker 2: come back and like you know, you're doing the box
Speaker 2: covers and the DVDs, like the whole thing. I wanted
Speaker 2: to be when I got into the industry. I wish
Speaker 2: I could say, but I don't know. I thought I
Speaker 2: could say, but I don't know. I mean, you've been
Speaker 2: in it for longer, and you've you've seen this probably happen.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like if I could predict it, I'd
Speaker 1: probably be a lot richer than I am. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I thought that we were moving
Speaker 1: forward and we were, you know, starting to become more
Speaker 1: sexually acceptable, and I feel like we've taken quite a
Speaker 1: few steps backwards in the lost honest Trump and President
Speaker 1: You're not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been like a rough time, right,
Speaker 2: But then I know there's other countries that are starting
Speaker 2: to put heavy bands and yeah, you know. So I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: How has this work changed your personal relationship with your
Speaker 1: own sexuality.
Speaker 2: My private sex life is definitely different than like my
Speaker 2: work sex life. I think work sex life is always fun,
Speaker 2: but it's also work, so it's not as like fluid
Speaker 2: as my private sex life. But it's just added like
Speaker 2: a layer of like openness and like a layer of like,
Speaker 2: oh I want to try that. I want to try that,
Speaker 2: and if I don't like it, then I don't have
Speaker 2: to do it again, right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've had a lot of performers say that
Speaker 1: they feel like porn is a good place to safely
Speaker 1: explore kinks fantasies that they might feel nervous about trying
Speaker 1: to do on their own because it's like in a
Speaker 1: controlled environment and they feel like they could explore these
Speaker 1: things in a safe way, surrounded by people who are
Speaker 1: looking out for their safety. I mean, you know, like
Speaker 1: try to organize your own gang bang.
Speaker 2: Good luck? Oh yeah, try to order your own gang bang,
Speaker 2: your own orgy, right, like, because it's like if you're
Speaker 2: a girl and try and organize an orgy, it's like
Speaker 2: you can get every man to show up. Yeah, if
Speaker 2: you want a nice, balanced out orgy, good luck, good luck.
Speaker 1: And also like every guy that shows up, like are
Speaker 1: they safe? Are they tested? Like all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's always like number one too. It's like I yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like is it worth it?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know what does the public consistently get wrong about
Speaker 1: the sex lives of people who work an adult.
Speaker 2: Is that a that we are easy and promiscuous and
Speaker 2: that we The one thing that I get a lot
Speaker 2: that people complain about is that like, we choose our
Speaker 2: scene partners. I don't choose my scene partners. That's like
Speaker 2: one complaint that I get at least like every week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh they don't like who you worked with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they don't like it any time.
Speaker 2: This is like a movie, right, I don't get you
Speaker 2: can't just walk in and say I want to play
Speaker 2: this role. I make fantasies, not reality.
Speaker 1: But you have a no list And can you explain
Speaker 1: what a know list is to people who may not understand?
Speaker 2: No list is like for people like you don't particularly
Speaker 2: want to work with right, and it's not. It could
Speaker 2: be for a multitude of reasons. It could be that,
Speaker 2: like you worked with them once and it just didn't
Speaker 2: go well. Maybe you've heard complaints about other girls online
Speaker 2: who are maybe friends or somebody that are like hey,
Speaker 2: like watch out, like this performer might be this, that
Speaker 2: and the other, or you just don't like what they
Speaker 2: got going on. Maybe like, oh, well I don't like
Speaker 2: their brand, I don't like something about this just won't
Speaker 2: work right. Personalities might not work well together, so you
Speaker 2: know this scene's not gonna be good. Or maybe like
Speaker 2: there are really aggressive and you're like, I don't really
Speaker 2: do that, right, So I think like a no list
Speaker 2: is someone that you just know that you're not gonna
Speaker 2: work well with, or you've worked with them once and
Speaker 2: you're like, nah, I don't want to do that, And
Speaker 2: I do have a no list. Yes, is it a
Speaker 2: very long no list? No, it's a very short no list,
Speaker 2: But I do have one. So that's probably as far
Speaker 2: as it goes. It's you know, in surprise, surprise guys.
Speaker 2: Sometimes performers are on a no list because their dick
Speaker 2: is too big, has nothing else to do with anything else,
Speaker 2: but the fact that the girl feels like she would
Speaker 2: not be able to perform with that guy. It would
Speaker 2: be painful and it would not be a good scene.
Speaker 2: And that is literally the only reason why. And it's
Speaker 2: nothing personal whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a director, you usually ask one thing you
Speaker 1: always ask is what is you know in your booking talent?
Speaker 1: What is their no list? So you make sure that
Speaker 1: you don't book somebody that they don't want to work with.
Speaker 1: I like to ask people about their yes list, like
Speaker 1: who they like working with? Do you have any particular favorites?
Speaker 1: I think pretty much everyone that like is not on
Speaker 1: the no list?
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, like there's my yes list is
Speaker 2: always like Charles Darra is always a yes, Charles, like
Speaker 2: all the like most of the guys are always like yes.
Speaker 1: You know, if you could go back and tell yourself
Speaker 1: something that you know now that you didn't know getting
Speaker 1: into the industry, what would it be, Like a piece
Speaker 1: of advice you could give your younger self.
Speaker 2: Just shooting the scenes isn't what's going to catapult your career.
Speaker 2: It's everything else outside of the scenes that catapults your career.
Speaker 2: And I wish I would have focused on that a
Speaker 2: lot sooner, but you know, you get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so understanding that, like being an adult film star
Speaker 1: is so much more than just showing up and having sex. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I think a lot of people don't get.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, you have such an easy job. You
Speaker 1: just show up, you obtection, you go home, and it's
Speaker 1: like such a massive amount of time from your day
Speaker 1: is now the marketing.
Speaker 2: It is a lot of the marketing and staying afloat,
Speaker 2: staying relevant, building your brand, Like there's cause there are Yeah,
Speaker 2: you are on set, You're on set. You can be
Speaker 2: on set for four hours, you can be on stt
Speaker 2: I've been on set for twenty hours, right, like you
Speaker 2: don't know? And it is building your brand and staying
Speaker 2: relevant because there are millions and millions of beautiful girl
Speaker 2: roles coming in every day or be around the world
Speaker 2: every day. Right, there's hundreds of beautiful girls coming into
Speaker 2: the industry every day, right do they often last know?
Speaker 2: But it is good to have staying power, and it's
Speaker 2: good to build your brand, and it's good to say, okay, well,
Speaker 2: the next best thing is always trying to come in,
Speaker 2: so how do you You know? You got to keep
Speaker 2: yourself relevant and you can't always compare yourself to everybody
Speaker 2: that's always coming in. So it is always good to
Speaker 2: build your brand, and the shoots aren't always going to
Speaker 2: do that for you. The shoot gets you a nice,
Speaker 2: comfortable name for yourself and you can build you like
Speaker 2: a nice starter foundation for a fan base, but that's
Speaker 2: not going to catapult you into the next season or
Speaker 2: the next level of where you really want to be,
Speaker 2: depending on where you want to be. You know, some
Speaker 2: people they just they just want to do the scenes,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. Some people they you know, you see
Speaker 2: these people who have like these mega brands, and it
Speaker 2: is a constant twenty four to seven, seven day a week.
Speaker 2: Like I'll tell you, I work every day and that's
Speaker 2: not just shooting scenes, that is everything else behind it.
Speaker 2: So I think that's one thing I would have told
Speaker 2: myself is like, girl, you're going to be doing if
Speaker 2: you want, if you want to get to that level,
Speaker 2: you need to be prepared to know that you need
Speaker 2: it's everything else that comes with it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Well, August, thank you so much for coming on.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you for asking. Makes a pleasure.
Speaker 1: We are going to do a special bonus segment we
Speaker 1: have the questions from a Patreon members, and we're also
Speaker 1: going to do a little extra something for FTV. In fact,
Speaker 1: just real quick, maybe a shout out on your o
Speaker 1: f TV channel. What is your channel and what do
Speaker 1: you do on there?
Speaker 2: Yes, I do have a of channel. It is called
Speaker 2: sky High Cocktails and they are just like five to
Speaker 2: seven minute episodes. It's me and then you see a
Speaker 2: lot of like your favorite familiar faces performers and we
Speaker 2: just do cocktails and we chat about what's what's bits,
Speaker 2: what's been going on, and then also we do like
Speaker 2: nice little challenge so sometimes there's like a shakeboard and
Speaker 2: people got to make me some drinks. Sometimes people are
Speaker 2: getting blindfolded. Sometimes people got to like make a drink
Speaker 2: for me just based off of what they've tasted, like
Speaker 2: a blind taste test. But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun, a lot of cute girls
Speaker 2: and bikinis having a good time.
Speaker 1: What more could you ask? Right? All right? Well again,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on. And can you
Speaker 1: let everybody know where else they can find you online?
Speaker 2: Everything is at Underscore August Underscore sky that's sky e
Speaker 2: x X. That's where you can find me under everything.
Speaker 2: I try to keep it simple and.
Speaker 1: You guys can find me on Instagram and on x
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Speaker 1: Q and A that we're going to film right after this.
Speaker 1: Have a good one. I'll see you guys all next week.
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