Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's up, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Parish Circuit.
I'm Stuart Amadon, your jovial host, who's really just here to try and make Appaloosa's St. Landry Parish, Acadiana, Louisiana, the Gulf South, a better place.
That's what we're chasing, right, Dave?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Absolutely. And with me is always is David Riley. David the man. Riley.
David. I have four sons, Riley.
It's impressive.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: How dare you assume my gender?
[00:00:35] Speaker A: That's your voice.
Sorry, David's in the middle of taking notes right now. He's trying to. He's trying to get his head wrapped around the issue. All right, here we go.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Topic.
[00:00:44] Speaker A: We got a couple of different things we're going to talk about today. This episode will only cover one. We'll have other episodes.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Let me butt in here for our first topic here.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: All right, go.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Over the past three years, how much would you guess that the United States spent on Onlyfans?
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Spent only on onlyfans.
[00:01:06] Speaker B: Just on onlyfans. Over the past three years in the United States, how much money has been spent on Onlyfans?
[00:01:13] Speaker A: This is a guess.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Okay, so, listeners, you should pause the podcast now and try to come up with your own number.
Okay, welcome back. You've unpause the podcast.
All right, so my guess. A billion dollars.
[00:01:25] Speaker B: Way higher.
[00:01:26] Speaker A: What?
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Way higher.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: Way higher than a thousand millions.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Yep. In fact, 13.848 times your guess. What, almost $14 billion on one porn
[00:01:40] Speaker A: website of three years.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the depressing part. Like, the numbers are shocking here. And then you think, oh, this is not probably. This probably isn't.
[00:01:48] Speaker A: This is not the whole industry.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: This isn't the whole industry. Maybe. Is it the biggest? I don't know. It might be that.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: Number one, we have no idea.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: But like, those numbers are shocking. And you. You just got it.
There's a lot to talk about here.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: Okay, because then this is 13 billion.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: Yeah. This is from an article from the Town Talk.
It's been going around Alexandria and.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Okay, yeah, Alexandria Town Talk. Yep, yep, yep.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: But then they. They get closer. So it's the. What's interesting about the article is it focuses. Focuses in. On Louisiana specifically and has a breakdown of money spent.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: So how much is Louisiana spent?
[00:02:23] Speaker B: So in.
[00:02:24] Speaker A: Now, wait, are these projections or are these.
[00:02:27] Speaker B: So that that number was the past three years in the United States. Okay, that's happened.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: But here's a projection for 2026. I'm guessing that's based on numbers that have already been spent.
[00:02:38] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: This year. But just In Louisiana.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Oh, gosh.
[00:02:43] Speaker B: Just in Louisiana. In 2026, it is projected that Louisianians will spend 5.256 billion.
[00:02:53] Speaker A: Billion, billion with a B.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: With a b billion on OnlyFans in 2026. In 2026.
It says national spending has increased almost 9% since last year.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: That can't be right. No, no, no, no, no. Billion. Billion with a B in 2026.
Billion with a B.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: So it's a huge jump. They have the number from last year. You Want to know 2025 number.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: It's less, but it still has a B in the number.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Stop.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: 2.63 billion were spent in 2025.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: Just. Just Louisiana.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Just in Louisiana. And now it's projected to be like, twice that much in 2026.
[00:03:32] Speaker A: David.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Which is crazy.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Come on, man. You've got to be kidding me, right?
[00:03:35] Speaker B: No, I mean, look, maybe they're kidding. I don't know. But we're reading. I'm reading this article, and that's what it says.
[00:03:41] Speaker A: I can'.
This is insane. Okay, so. All right, so let's talk about this for just a second. How many people are in the state of Louisiana?
Drum roll, please. How many people are in the state of Louisiana? Do you know the number?
[00:03:55] Speaker B: I don't.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: Let me confirm this, but at one point it was about 4 million people.
Let's see what the total number is right now. Louisiana state population. Yeah. Four and a half million people. I was right. I was close. Okay. Four and a half million people. So if, David, if that 5 billion number is accurate, that means that there's $1,000, a little bit more than $1,000 per person in Louisiana that is being spent on OnlyFans.
That's insanity.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: That's absolute insanity.
I can't believe this.
That's happening now.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: There is like, I'm a little confused about these numbers because then this article starts talking about other numbers.
In 2026, LA residents have spent a total. So they're making a distinguishment between residents and consumers in Louisiana. So they have some other numbers that are only in the millions between consumers and, I guess, other people coming into the state. So that's a little confusing.
[00:05:09] Speaker A: The numbers aren't accurate.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: Is that what we're dealing with here? I'm not really sure.
[00:05:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: Okay.
We'll have to sort that out. So go read the Alexandria Town Talk article.
Try to sort through whatever the heck is going on with these numbers. But the projected. The projected number for Louisiana is 5 billion. The state.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: That's what it says.
The state is projected to spend 5.256 billion in 2026.
[00:05:35] Speaker A: I can't.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: According to Only Guider, which is Only
[00:05:38] Speaker A: Guider now, which is like the, I
[00:05:40] Speaker B: guess the tracker of the. The people on Only Fans.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Okay, so there's a lot of things to talk about here. Let's talk about this first. This is the exploitation of women. Now the argument against that will be like, no, these women have chosen to do this. These women in the same sense that women have chosen to enter into prostitution.
In the same sense that like this will end in the abuse of women. There is no such thing as.
What's the phrase that the leftists use today?
It's safe sourced porn.
It's ethically sourced porn. That's the phrase that I've heard some people use before. No, no, this is okay because they're choosing to participate in it. Like women historically have chosen to participate in prostitution.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: We have some problems right there in that sentence.
Combining ethical with porn is a problem.
[00:06:31] Speaker A: Go look at the history of the industry. Go look at the history of the sex work industry, the history of pornography. It always ends in the abuse and exploitation of women.
Always.
Like this is not. But, but for people to be like, no, no. People make a good living off of this. And they've chosen to do this of their own free will. They are choosing to enslave their sisters.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: They are in choosing, they are choosing to subjugate other women. And not only that, they're choosing to destroy families and households. Like these. This, this should be illegal.
This should be prosecutable by law. Like we should see.
[00:07:07] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Jeff Landry, Liz Merle. Hey, shout out Jeff Landry, Liz Merle. We like a lot of the things that you guys are doing. Let's go after this. Let's knock this out, man. Like this needs to be shut the heck down.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: We're destroying families. We're incentivizing people to live lives of licentiousness, functional prostitution and the enslavement of black people. Yes.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah. And then.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: And men.
[00:07:35] Speaker B: Men enslaving themselves.
Yeah. To sin.
[00:07:39] Speaker A: Yeah. 100%.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: Yep. Now I'll just say this. We're not totally sure what all these numbers mean. Maybe.
But I think I've maybe sorted it out.
[00:07:47] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: Maybe the billions numbers. And they don't really. They don't put it this way. So it would be, it's. It seems misleading. But the, it's okay.
[00:07:54] Speaker A: Town talk.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: Maybe the billions is like a reference to like all porn spending possib the year. Yeah, maybe it's Just not. It says it's only. Only Found fans, but maybe it's all sources, possibly. Because then they get more specific with the numbers after the intro paragraph, and it says, In 2026, LA residents have spent a total of 47.55 million on OnlyFans, which seems to contradict the number they just had above it.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So then maybe the other number is just pornography in general.
[00:08:22] Speaker B: In general. So onlyfans so far in Louisiana, apparently, is still a crazy high number, but maybe something that sounds a little.
So, like, almost 50 million just so far.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah. So like, $10 a person instead of $1,000 a person.
[00:08:36] Speaker B: Yeah. But then it gets interesting because they break it down by parish. Do I know the parish breakdowns?
[00:08:42] Speaker A: I do. Tell me, Saint Landry. What's Saint Landry?
[00:08:45] Speaker B: Or the city breakdowns? Well, first, let me just scroll down here. Let's start with the. The cities. What city do you think?
[00:08:51] Speaker A: New Orleans.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: I don't even have to think about that.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is. It's actually crazy. It's actually pretty darn high. So just so far, in 2026.
[00:08:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
[00:09:00] Speaker B: New Orleans has spent almost 9 million just in the city of.
Which is, like, way higher than anywhere else. Baton Rouge is Next, of course. 3.55 million. But that's like. New Orleans isn't that much bigger than Baton Rouge.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Yeah, but what do you go to New Orleans for?
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Well, exactly. Yeah. So it's well over twice as much as Baton Rouge. And then we get to Lafayette, which is actually more than slightly more than Baton Rouge now.
[00:09:23] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:24] Speaker B: Come on. Lafayette.
Lafayette spends more on only fans than New Orleans. That's crazy. 3.58 million. Shreveport's down there a little ways, but not New Orleans.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Baton Rouge, you said.
[00:09:35] Speaker B: No. Yeah. Lafayette is more than Baton Rouge. Yes. And then we get to the parishes.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: Baton Rouge just hides it better.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: Yeah, that could be. That could be.
[00:09:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I said it.
Well, yeah, I said it.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, so parishes.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Parishes. St. Landry. What do we got?
[00:09:51] Speaker B: St. Landry spent. Has spent.
And I think this is still just in 2026 so far.
Do you want to take a guess before I tell you?
[00:10:01] Speaker A: Million dollars.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: No, it's not that much. It's about half a million.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: That's really not bad.
[00:10:05] Speaker B: Half a million.
[00:10:07] Speaker A: I mean, I thought it was gonna be way worse. Okay, well, like, straight talk. Like, I feel better about that now. Orland, we have something like 80,000 people.
80,000 people. 100,000 people.
[00:10:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: So we're about half the size of Lafayette Parish, and it Sounds like their porn expenses are way more than ours. So I count that to, like, our upstanding Christian heritage, moral people, generally speaking, in St. Landry Parish. I like that. Way to go, Saint Landry. Let's kill it all the way. Let's get that number to zero.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: There we go. Let's kill it all the way.
Yeah. Orleans Parish is way up there. Near 9 million so far. Of course, it is in 2026. And then Jefferson and then East Baton Rouge and so forth. Lafayette. Lafayette's way up there.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: All right, so we've already talked about some solutions.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: It should be illegal.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Should be illegal.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: Should be illegal.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Why?
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Well, the law.
Well, first off, the law should reflect God's law.
And the law.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: Adultery is a sin.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: Yep.
And he who has looked at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery according to Christ.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: Yeah. So guess what? It should be illegal.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Should be illegal.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: It should be illegal. And destroying marriages. Our government. All right, here we go. Soapbox time. Our government should be in the business of incentivizing and helping marriage and not, like, in the sense of punishing the evildoer and rewarding the good.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:38] Speaker A: We should be making sure that we're finding ways to, like, come alongside husbands and wives and be like, great job, guys. Y' all are doing a great job not trying to find ways to incentivize. To tear them down.
The sake of tax revenue.
[00:11:49] Speaker B: And we would. And we would. And to clarify, we would say, probably, for the most part, government should actually not be involved in marriage much other than tax breaks, punishing and forbidding the wickedness. And, okay, some tax breaks, that could be the incentive. The incentives.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: That's what I'm talking about. So, like, the married filing jointly was originally created as a tax benefit to people who were getting married when the state was trying to incentivize marriage and align with such values.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah. But as we talked about.
[00:12:15] Speaker A: I'm not saying mail us all a check.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: Right, Right. No, no, no. Yeah.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: Thank you for that qualifying, which they
[00:12:20] Speaker B: are trying to do. And now the incentives to remain, you know, poor and separated or unmarried are, you know, far outweigh the incentives to be married and stay committed.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: And let me just take a minute here and, like, talk to them. Talk to the men who are addicted to porn. Okay, so we have people who listen to this podcast. There might be some guys out there who are addicted to porn. Statistically, it's a large number, or at least guys who have interacted with porn at some point in their life. Okay. Like, this is A big number. Hey, listen, let me just talk to you guys for just a second. You can be free of this right now. You're a slave. You are 100% a slave of somebody else. You're like, no, I'm choosing this at my own free will. No, you're not. And there's a pathway and a trajectory for this addiction that you have. And it ends in bad things. It only escalates and gets worse. It ends in you falling into worse and darker sins. I know people that this has happened to. Like, this is not a small conversation to have. Your sin grows over time. You can be free. You can be free. The Bible says if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just, will forgive your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. You can actually have this off of your conscience right now. You can confess it to Jesus. You can be done and move on. You do not have to carry this burden anymore. You can be free. You can be free.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Yep. And it won't be easy. Breaking out of patterns of slavery to sin are going to be. It's going to be. It might be difficult.
[00:13:45] Speaker A: Yeah. You need a church.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: It's going to be a fight.
[00:13:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: And you need a church.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: You need a church. You need a pastor who cares about you, who wants to help you through these things, to try and minister to your soul, to partner with you, to hold you accountable. You need all of those things in your life, but you can. My big charge to these guys is sometimes they feel like they've gone too far. They feel like they've fallen into darkness, they've gone too deep, they can't come back, they can't return from it. And I'm just saying, yes, you absolutely can. You can be free.
Confess your sins to the Lord Jesus. You will be forgiven and cleansed. Period. Full stop.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Yeah. Amen. And regard to the kind of the. What role does the government have to play here? The another they should punish the evil doer. And something else that the law does is it teaches.
The law teaches. So while politics, it's often said, you know, is downstream from culture. And that is true there.
If we're, if we want things to change, there is a top down change that can happen too.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: When we repent as a nation.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: Right.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: And we start to follow God's law, we want to see that individually and families and communities. But when we recognize that our laws are not in line with what God would want and they are a curse to us, we should change them. And those laws will teach over time Those laws will teach.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Yes, absolutely. And it should be. This is a way that we protect the weaker vessel.
One of the callings of men is to protect specifically their wives, but it is also the calling of men to protect those who are weaker in their towns, neighborhoods, parishes, counties. And this is one of the ways to do that. Gentlemen, we should be calling for this to be illegal.
This has only led to the subjugation and destruction of women throughout human history through pimps, through gangs, through. Pick your thing. Okay.
Through human trafficking. We can end this.
We should end this. But it starts first with confession of our sins of participation and then confession of our sins of abdication from dealing with this issue.
This should be illegal, and we need to make the push. We just had sheriff on the podcast. We should have brought this up with him. Hey, how do we make this illegal in our parish?
How do we make this illegal in our city? Let's take it to the ballot.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: Yeah. And as a.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: You know, who would not want this to be illegal?
[00:16:20] Speaker B: It sat. Well, I think a lot of people, unfortunately.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, my point is, who would. Who would. Who would square up about this?
[00:16:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I think nationally they would. And it seems like a big hurdle nationally, but I think this is. This would be an interesting local, you know, case study.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: We could pass an ordinance, say.
[00:16:38] Speaker B: Not here.
[00:16:39] Speaker A: Not here.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Right. Not in our town.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: You can't do this here.
[00:16:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: You can't do. This is illegal. You go to jail for this.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: I mean, come on. Sheriff's department. You want to write some more tickets? I just found a way. I just found a way.
[00:16:51] Speaker B: Well, that shouldn't be our ultimate motivation, but it would teach.
[00:16:54] Speaker A: Listen, I'm just saying, I'm trying. Anything I can do, like.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: It would be a punishment of the evildoer. Amen.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: All right, guys, thank you all so much for listening to another episode of the Parish Circuit. You can find more information at the parish circuit.com articles, stories, blogs, podcasts, all the wonderful things. Thank you so much for participating with us in this so far, and we pray that you would enjoy this and continue to grow as we put this content out. Thank you all so much. I'll see you next time.
