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Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Pitch 2

Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Doug Ellin

Tv & Film

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Doug pitches new show for 2nd time Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, I'm back trying to record myself. Just a quick. You know, I'll do a few minutes. I don't even know who's listening. I don't even how to check the numbers. If anyone is listening, but, you know, I got some good DMs so people appreciate it, which is cool.

0:13.9

But anyway, if you like it, just write a review on Apple, forward it to somebody who's interested in the business and we'll get into more stuff.

0:21.7

All my text messages do not stop even though I am on Do Not Disturb, which is really annoying.

0:26.8

But anyway, I just had my second pitch on this new show. Zoom with Europe, had a guy in a

0:33.6

castle in France and a good friend of mine in New Orleans who has a big production company and the pitch couldn't have gone better. And interestingly enough, I mean, it's funny. And this is, again, I'm just telling you what the reality is. I'm not giving you anything trying to make myself look good because it actually, in fact, makes me look bad. But two of the people on the call both said they got into this business because of entourage. And, you know, obviously you could say anybody could say anything, but I don't think they were lying. And I do hear that a lot. And that is fascinating and interesting. But the words part about it is both of them are wildly successful in working all the time. And I'm not. And again, I just want to reiterate to the guy who likes to fucking attack me online all the time.

1:11.5

I am not working because anyone does not like me.

1:14.5

I am not working because I just haven't put in the grind.

1:18.7

I just haven't, you know, and I've got friends all day.

1:21.0

You're like, what are you doing?

1:22.2

And the truth is, it takes a lot out of me.

1:24.7

And even though I pretty much go through a pitch and make up like I do a podcast, as I go, I just keep adding things and doing different things the same way I write. It just sucks an enormous amount of energy out of me. That's not to ask for empathy for that. That's what work is, and that's what you got to do. But, you know, I didn't sleep last night, and then I get up, and it's just, you know, you're

1:46.1

anxious and you do this.

1:47.5

And I don't even know what I'm talking to. So it's not like I'm anxious because I so desperately want this show to get on the air and I want to be doing this. I'm anxious just because, you know, I don't know. You want to sound good when you spend the time and the effort and you want people to go,

2:01.8

we like what you're saying.

2:02.7

And anyway, they did like what I was saying very much. So two people like it very much. I can definitely get paid to write a script, which I again will say I am very grateful for. But I just, I want to be on the set. And I wish I could figure out and you don't have to send me

2:18.6

DMs that you'll write my scripts for me. It just doesn't work for me. For whatever reason,

2:23.1

it's not that I think I'm better than anybody else. I just, I like to direct what I write and

2:28.2

I like to be in control, but at the same time, I hate to write. So it's a terrible, awful scenario

2:33.8

to be in, but it is, in fact,

2:36.5

the scenario I'm in. So, um, but maybe we'll get back. The weird thing is, is, you know, because people call me up all the time about, you know, how do I get an agent? And it's not that I don't have a lot of friends in the business that I can call right now, but it's weird. The call and go, I don't have an agent right now.

2:50.6

It's weird.

2:51.0

But anyway, I'm going to talk to my lawyer who I haven't spoken to him in like six months.

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