Interview · moment 12 of 26
The Cocaine Agents Are Gone: Hollywood's Lost Risk-Takers
from Trevor Wallace & The Nickelodeon Scandal | The Tim Dillon Show #385 · #385
4 min
Guest
Tim delivers an extended riff on how Hollywood used to be run by coke-addict psychopath agents with balls, and how the industry has been replaced by corporate, autistic, risk-averse executives, killing the town's energy.
- Tim describes modern Hollywood agents as fat, weird, and sexually pathetic compared to the old power brokers who actually made money.
- The current generation of agents represents the last crop of losers who will ever represent people in entertainment.
- Old-school risk-taker agents left Hollywood and are now trading Bitcoin in Miami because entertainment stopped being a business for people with balls.
- Hollywood filled with credentialed intellectuals who know corporate speak and office politics instead of actual risk-takers and cocaine-fueled producers.
- Everything in Hollywood is now corporate regurgitation and remakes; the industry has given up on originality.
- During the pandemic, TikTok kids became the new rulers of Hollywood because established actors retreated to avoid getting canceled.
- TikTok creators rose during the pandemic but never built anything of lasting value because the medium moves too fast.
- Young social media talent ages out quickly as their fans move on to college and relationships, creating diminishing returns for their careers.
- Tim questions whether pursuing television would slow down his career or help with longevity compared to podcasting and touring.