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The Great NFT Explainer: Lindsay Lohan, Kings of Leon, and Owning the 9/11 GIF
from #242 - You're Money Now | The Tim Dillon Show · #242
15 min
A long riff (with Ben helping explain mechanics) on NFTs as a tax scam, covering Lindsay Lohan's $17k token, Kings of Leon selling an album NFT, Mark Cuban's dancing gif, Soulja Boy, the Nyan Cat GIF sale, and escalating hypothetical NFTs of Ghislaine Maxwell, OJ Simpson, Morgan Wallen's slur, and even a 9/11 conspiracy GIF.
- Tim identifies Lindsay Lohan's NFT sale as a tax scam.
- He preemptively defends a potential Tim Dillon Show NFT as legitimate while calling others scams.
- Tim criticizes Brett Easton Ellis for pitching a Patreon podcast instead of accepting a show appearance offer.
- NFTs represent the era of fake business Tim warned about—selling nothing with no actual value.
- Kings of Leon sold an album as an NFT for six million dollars.
- Tim questions what ownership means if everyone can still listen to an album he supposedly owns.
- The tax scam mechanism: sell one NFT at a set price, donate the rest, write off the loss as a charitable deduction.
- Tim wonders if canceled celebrities like Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein could use NFTs to rehabilitate their images.
- He imagines owning Morgan Wallen's N-word slur as an NFT that he could brag about to friends.
- Tim compares old robber barons building bridges and railroads to modern billionaires like Mark Cuban selling dancing GIFs and Elon Musk blowing up spaceships.
- Neon Cat, a pop-tart cat GIF, sold as an NFT for $477,000.
- Tim jokes that the CIA should sell NFTs of torture and 9/11 conspiracy content for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
- Tim views NFTs as an interesting but absurd development in the economic cycle of America.
Lindsay LohanMark CubanBrett Easton EllisDave PortnoyElon MuskGhislaine MaxwellKings of LeonSave the ChildrenMorgan WallenNeon CatSoulja BoyFake business