Interview · moment 7 of 23
Selling Fake Art Made From His Schizophrenic Mother's Paintings
from The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363 · #363
5 min
Guest
Dan describes his plan to touch up paintings made by his late schizophrenic mother and sell them to rich idiots, leading into a story about a con man who posed as a Rothschild in a Soho townhouse and got away with it for years.
- Tim's schizophrenic mother just died, and he's planning to fix up her paintings and sell them to rich people by renting a gallery.
- Rich people get scammed as often as poor people do, Tim argues.
- The fake art would sell to a 24-year-old kid whose dad runs BlackRock or similar.
- Driving back from a gig years ago, Tim casually pointed at a mental hospital and said that's where his mother was.
- Tim's success caught him up to his tastes—he used to go to fancy restaurants despite living in broke, legendary New York comedy apartments.
- The infamous fifth-floor walk-up apartment had a shower in the kitchen, steam heat pipes that burned you, rats, bed bugs, and roaches.
- Rich people have all this money sitting around and need to get rid of it, which is the premise of every documentary about scams.
- A guy pretended to be a Rothschild, rented a SoHo townhouse, and hung out with Leo DiCaprio and finance nepo babies doing coke until he was outed as a schlubby Orthodox Jew from New Jersey.
- That New York scene should only last a couple of years and be intense—you have to do it and then get out of it.
- The scene is like a drug dealer movie: you need to leave before it gets boring, like the part where the dealer walks away.
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