Dick Doyle
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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But you go, like, we'll call him... Dick Doyle, and it just sounds dumb. Like it just, you know what I mean?
A talent manager? A manager is like a... I'm being recorded now?
Agents make deals. Managers kind of cultivate people's careers. Agents have 125 clients. Managers have 15 to 20, 25. Got it. Managers are a little bit more inside partners with their clients. That's kind of why I have like this perspective on the NFT thing is because agents just see the deals and they send them in and they're like, here's a big opportunity.
And I'm the one who has to go like, yeah, maybe it's not a great opportunity.
At first, I was confused. I didn't totally understand it. Then it was kind of explained to me what an NFT was in the abstract. And it's, you know, my best friend in the world, he was really big in the modern art scene.
And so it's really hard to say to a person, okay, that individual squiggle, like that thing that just sold for half a million dollars at Sotheby's, which I don't see the inherent value of, is actual art. but this NFT isn't. There was a little bit of like, the whole thing's a grift. It's gas prices, gas, you know what I mean? It's worth whatever someone's willing to pay for it.
Unlike modern art, which went from like, the modern art era was like 1890 to like, it took about 40 seconds for people to be like, Oh, watch this. Everything's for sale. Every frame of a Quentin Tarantino movie is now going to be an NFT.
The degree to which they were selling stuff and how fast they were trying to sell it and how fast they were trying to move the inventory off the shelves with the NFTs made me think maybe it wasn't quite like a Basquiat. You know what I mean?
And, and it's very, it's a very, if you, if you do this thing long enough in my job, you see there's a pattern of like,
people show up they think they've cracked the case on how to make money in hollywood and they it's the same type of person i don't mean that like it's just a person who's like uh i make money doing foreign you know i raise foreign financing and i get an actor and it's all like kind of like a grid like like whatever the thing is there's always like a little bit of like it's not totally clean but i know i can make a bunch of money you just have to go with me on it
and everyone i knew who was like a little bit of a shady reputation immediately was in the nft business like instantly and they're calling my clients directly telling them how much money they can make on nfts and they're calling my company and they're just like literally there's there's gold there's gold everywhere they're just they're selling every piece of the store before they've even like established the medium itself
It's all for sale. They stripped it down. They're like, it's like, if you went in to buy some milk and like, do you want the cash register too?
I'm not a store I'm staying in business with.
Yeah. In the sense of not none that were like, I really want to do it. And a lot of like, is there something happening here? That's really cool that we're missing out on. Like, it was just everywhere all at once. Literally, that's the nature of an NFT is literally anything is an NFT, right?
It's a picture. It's an idea. It's like it's the feeling of being cold. Like anything can be an NFT. So like there were a lot of conversations like, OK, if this is where the media, this is where it's all heading. How do we how are we a part of it?
I'm looking at all of these, like, hey, uh, you know, Hey guys, happy new year. Not sure if you're familiar with the NFT space, but I wanted to flag an interesting idea. We work with a company that owns a massive amount of board apes.
The IP here has skyrocketed financially, had a general popularity over the break, and they've gotten over 400 ape owners, which is to say that they can use their IP for an animated show. So we're looking for producers and writers who can help. I got so many of these. I'm just searching through.
And the thing is, none of them owned rights to anything other than their own individual board ape.
It's I had a thing where a person called me up and they're like, we want to set a meeting with you and a very prominent client. And their plan was to take out a show that was going to be a space opera or a big, big idea for a show. And then once the show was on the air, sell the individual NFTs of the characters to the audience. So they would get to own a piece of the show.
And they thought that they reinvented the wheel. Basically, like you're going to do the first show ever where you get to watch your own character, the character that you own. Maybe he lives, maybe he dies, maybe he saves the day. And I was like, you have a humongous, you still have the barrier to entry, which is like,
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