Important Adults

This week is a prequarantine episode!  Sovereign Syre picked up tech raconteur Bradford Stephens and drove him around Hollywood while they talked about cryptocurrency, crazy millionaire bosses, how to create your own cryptocurrency and how Silicon Valley is full of people like Elizabeth Holmes.  Look out for Bradford's memoir coming out later this year! 

Sovereign Syre travels to Burbank to pick up the host of TV Guidance Counselor podcast Ken Reid and take him to walk up burgers at Tommy's.  They talk about the crossover between porn and stand up, how to demand your worth as a creator, and how to translate podcasts to television and so much more.  Nostalgia is the name of the game.      

Sovereign Syre picks up stand up comedian Ed Salazar and drives him around Pasadena.  They talk about open relationships, sexting etiquette, how to initiate rough stuff, dating athletes, dating apps, and how shifting gender roles are changing the sexual landscape.  

This week Sovereign Syre picks up Adam Lyons and drives him around Hollywood.  Adam Lyons is a dating coach turned entrepreneurial juggernaut.  Adam and Sovereign talk about teaching your children financial literacy, how to be a good prospect to an employer, getting the life your really want, the value of hard work and the hard work of branding and so much inbetween! 

Sovereign Syre picks up VR ingenue Ela Darling and drives her around Burbank.  Ela Darling is an early adopter of VR tech in the adult space and they talk about how she went from being a porn heaux to a corporate CMO with lots of detours into the vagaries of being Sovereign's friend and being in a lot of comedy green rooms.  Enjoy! 

Sovereign Syre picks up BBW Icon and AVN Hall of Fame performer Karla Lane and drives her around Highland Park.  They eat street tacos, get tested for STIs and talk about what it takes to make it in the adult industry when you don't fit the standard.      

Sovereign Syre picks up stand up comic and actress Melanie Vesey and drives her around Glendale!  They talk about negotiating to get paid in money instead of exposure, how to make the most of your platforms, how to determine your brand, the writing process for stand up...and they try to scout a new location for Melanie's stripping stand up show.

Sovereign Syre picks up mysterious pornstar Sir in Las Vegas and drives her around The Strip.  They talk about why Siri vanished from Porn Valley, how the adult industry has changed, the sex worker rights movement, mental health, and coming to terms with growing up and letting go of teenage dreams.  

Sovereign Syre picks up art rapper Open Mike Eagle and drives him around Larchmont Village.  They talk about the power of algorithms, streaming platforms, and how it is changing the game for creators.  From porn to music to movies, the machines are coming for all of us.  

Sovereign Syre picks up iconic pornstar Cherie Deville and drives her around Burbank.  They talk about worker bees vs. creatives, the content mill, social media, and arranging gangbangs in real life vs. in fantasy and the good and the bad of running your own business and being your own brand.  

Sovereign Syre picks up stand up comedian Dustin David and drives him around West Hollywood in search of "gay" Popeye's.  The talk about stand up comedy, mental health, how social media and technology have changed the landscape and trajectory of comedy careers, and why parking is so hard to find in L.A.  

Sovereign Syre picks up distinguished colleague and comrade Xander Corvus and drives him around Santa Monica.  The two veteran adult performers talk about communism, socialism, universal basic income, racism in porn and the frustrations of unionizing.  Also, Xander may or may not be running a cult.  Part of being an adult is being socially and politically aware and Sovereign is hoping Xander can teach her something about citizenship.  

Sovereign Syre picks up her mom and drives her all over East L.A. while they talk about growing up, finding meaning in a life you didn't plan on, what success looks like, finding joy, dealing with depression and making hard choices.  

Talking with AVN Hall of Fame director and performer Dana Vespoli and talking about IG fame, social media, branding, being a scholarship kid, living in a rich neighborhood, what success looks like and what it feels like, dealing with stigma, and owning what made you who you are.