Ben McKenzie

So it took a long time because you don't have any money.

It's the opposite of I directed on TV and in TV directing, you have all of the money and none of the time.

You have to do it very quickly.

And doc directing, you have all the time and none of the money.

But eventually we had to stop.

And it was right before the election.

And Trump had just pivoted to supporting crypto because as recently as 2021, Donald Trump called Bitcoin a scam.

And my personal theory is that, you know, what Trump's business model was prior to being elected president was sort of branding himself and sort of putting his name on hotel properties and things like that.

And so, you know, Trump wasn't getting a cut of it.

He probably didn't like crypto that much.

But then he figured out how to get a cut, and he was all in.

And as he embraced it over the summer of 2024, very publicly, investors realized that if he were to be elected president, the price would go up.

So the price started going up in anticipation of that.

Sure enough, he was elected, and then it just kept going and going.

And sure enough, he's done it pretty much, not everything he can, but a lot to really further crypto's rise.

dismantling the SEC, dismantling the literal crypto crime task force that the Biden administration had created.

Trump being the sort of leader of this cult-like

fraudulent coin is it's dark for the world but it is kind of chef's kiss for like it's the themes of the it does track it tracks it definitely tracks you know what's interesting about trying to get the movie out though that's what's interesting so i finished the movie like so we we needed to wrap production in 2024 or sort of start the editing and then there's graphics and stuff so we finally finished it in in the summer of 25 about a year ago and

Then I needed to sell it.

And I was initially thinking, oh, this is an hour and a half comedy starring Ryan Atwood from The O.C.