Name: How Todd White Caught an International Art Fraud Ring
Uploaded: 2020-12-26T19:48:59.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Todd White Caught an International Art Fraud Ring' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-26. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Todd White Caught an International Art Fraud Ring' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-12-26. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience when things get you know someone's in my face barking
about something or you know you get in the art world you get these people that
are really big pants but they would cower if you stood up what do you mean in
the art world you know yeah publishers you get gallery owners that are gonna
bark at you and tell you the way it is and you're gonna do this oh yeah oh yeah
really or art world oh telling you man tell me just I've dealt with gallery
owners who are like super bullies who are like you're gonna do this I need this
now and you're gonna get it today tomorrow and you talk to you like all the
time and and you go mmm I'm probably not gonna do any of that and the thing is
I
like to I like to be super calm and it's almost like my jiu-jitsu where I go
all
that huffing and puffing you're doing doesn't affect me one bit mmm if you
want to go to sleep I can accommodate that but we're not gonna go down that
road and and you know I mean this that's interesting and I would never have
bothered
the art world it can be a dirty world I've had galleries that uh knocked me off
my
own galleries start ripping me off and producing work of mine out the back door
and signing my name like making prints of your shirt right that's right wow one
fake
signing your name yep yep yep yep caught him caught him and then they said oh
no we
got that from China and we're suing you and they come after me they got it from
China yeah they would make up shit it was all made up right we caught them and
where
was this gallery it was in Huntington Beach really and we we caught them and we
shut it down hard and then they flipped the script and now that's when it was
interesting because we were getting calls from a lot of media and press and
they
were they were asking me like oh you've been referred to as you and your band
of
thugs went down and took all your art right so what I did is I flipped it I
said I like that title I'm gonna do a painting called band of thugs and I did
this like old mobster 30s painting of all these dudes and thugs and band of thugs
and I'm gonna make money off that and and uh you know it was uh did you have to
go
down there and get your art oh yeah I went and took everything I've got my art
back I'm taking all of it out of here you're you're no longer a Todd White
gallery you're done and it's soon with it and died after that but uh it drug
out
illegal problems and legal cases and how long did it last about a year and a
half
there it is look at that that's it look at the guy missing an eye oh just that's
a
band of thugs right you want a band of thugs there it is that's great and uh
that's like some uh what's that fucking guy uh the butcher oh yeah bill the
butcher bill the butcher from gangs in New York gangs in New York yeah go to
that picture the butcher I mean that is kind of how they're they're they're
look
at that they're painted like old-timey bad people yeah yeah it was funny
because uh this vanity fair did an article on it and uh and and they totally it's
funny because vanity fair did an article on what the whole scam and the whole
bullshit yeah because it was it made a lot of you know she sold a couple
hundred
thousand dollars in fake art out there she sold it across international as a
woman
yeah it was a woman and international lines and and it it it went so she ripped
you off to the tune of a couple hundred thousand bucks oh yeah yeah wow and it
was
funny because uh you know when it all came out and it was all court cases and
stuff I had I had galleries calling me because I got scared like oh no I had
galleries calling me and they're like hey we want to carry you and this is two
thousand god twelve hey we want to carry you we want to and I thought what's
this
weird like all this bad stuff's happening but why so the guy calls me back up
art
publisher calls me and he goes let me get this right you're asking me how come
guys want to carry you when this is shit's going on she made you De Niro in a
Scorsese movie and you're wondering why and I was like he goes play it up live
up
to it go ahead go oh yeah you can carry me and you know what will happen if you
don't pay on time oh no and so it was just the ridiculousness and but it you
know
look truth prevailed and it worked out and they're gone and I'm still thriving
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