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Ben McKenzie

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2248 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

And I don't want to be a jerk.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

What I did know, or what I felt pretty confident about, was having been in Hollywood and having been in show business, like, I could have imagined how this went, which is like, all of a sudden, the crypto exchanges where all these cryptos are actually traded...

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

And again, they're traded.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

You're going on these weird places to like buy and sell these speculative things.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

They're taking a cut of the action.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

They're taking a little transaction fee.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

They're making money hand over fist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

They got a ton of money and they want to keep marketing it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

And so I just imagined a scenario where insert crypto exchange, they go, they have a hundred million dollar marketing budget and they're going to the

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

three agencies that are left or whatever it is, and they're like, hey.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

We have 10 million bucks.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

Of a certain caliber actor, we will pay them $10 million.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

So I get it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

It's perfect confluence of opportunity.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

And there's nothing wrong with celebrities hawking consumer goods, hawk soap or cars or whatever.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

Yeah, I made fun of Miranda because she did like a hair commercial.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

There's nothing wrong with that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

I mean, the reason celebrities are hired is because they have a relationship to the audience and people trust them.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

And if it sort of helps you separate your product, you know, there's a lot of different hairsprays you could have, but this one has Miranda Baccarat in it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ben McKenzie (on cryptocurrency)

So, you know, buy it.