The Picasso of Thieves: Secrets of an Art Heist Genius
00:00So how long were you painting and doing this?35 years.Are you serious?35 years?I mean, how often were you taking stuff?All the time.Right.The addiction got so bad, Matthew, and the thing is that when something becomes so easy,
00:18and I'm going to tell you, this is all psychological.This has nothing to do with whatever you may think it is.This is all psychological game.The planning, what you're going to pick out, the people.in the room, who could possibly get blamed, decides myself, because I'm a clean-cut guy.You put me up against an Irish guy that I was working with that's drinking all the timeand comes in Monday morning.It's obvious.
00:42He took it.You know what I'm saying?Hey, this is Matt Cox.I am going to be interviewing Picasso.He is an art thief that was tremendously successful and he did it in a really,interesting, unique way. And I'm actually going to be going to the premiere of a movie or a documentaryabout him. And so let's go ahead and check out the interview. Let's start at the, I mean,the beginning. Like, where were you, where were you born? I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
01:17sunset parks being back. And I mean, how were you raised, you know, middle class, lower middle class,We were below poverty level, specifically.My dad wasn't in my life, so it was just my mom.My mom had myself, my little brother, and my two older sisters.So it was, you know, she was on food stamps, but she worked.But, you know, we would wake up sometimes without food in the refrigerator.And it was hard.It wasn't easy.
01:50Okay.So what did you, so do you graduate high school or did you?you. I went straight from a high school, which was Fort Hamilton High School to Kingsborough Community College.And then I attended a business school at York Business School in Manhattan.Okay.You know, my thing was, my thing, Matthew, was that after my father left, I had a really traumatic incident with my father.My father was an alcoholic and he verbally and physically abused my mother.you know so after he left he left when I was sick but um at the age of 10 I realized that
02:30I couldn't let my mother you know struggle alone so I got a job with the Daily News as a paperboyyou know I did the hustle I learned really early in my life you know I think most of my educationwasn't in school it was on the street so you but eventually I mean eventually you graduatedhigh school you went on to try and you wanted to help help your mom on ayou wanted to make some money, help her out.Like, what was your plan to, what were you planning on doing for a living?As a kid, the whole time I went straight through junior high school and high school and college and even the business school I took accounting.But then I realized that I couldn't, I have a lot of anxiety.
03:18I suffer from severe anxiety.Like, you have no idea.So I figured I couldn't do a company.I can't sit behind a desk doing some numbers.So I got a job as a painter when I was 19.And that was it.I mean, I was on Park Avenue.My first real gig as a professional painter was right on Park Avenue for the 1% of America,
03:44the richest, the ultra wealthy of America.Well, when you say a painter, you mean what type of?of a painter.Just a regularhouseyou were paintingbuildingcommercial
03:57residentialall residentialall decorative finishesfull finishesgold leafingwood graininga lot ofexotic finishes
04:08like Marmarinowhere we put thefinish on the walland then we putsome micastones in itso that way it showslike diamondsout through your wall
04:19it's just beautifulfinishesall exoticstuff, stuff that comes from Paris.All the finishes that they have in Paris,we duplicate on sampleboard, and we do thison some of the highest
04:30grossing buildings in Manhattan.You know, 770 Park Avenue.You know, some of thebillionaires row,you name it, and we've done it.On day one, I walked into Park Avenue.This was a$250 million apartment.
04:48Gorgeous apartment. I mean,things in the windows from the floor literally from the floor to the ceiling you know68th floor of this building amazing building but anyway there was so much artwork that the artworkwas not only hanging on the wall but it was in boxing you know it was ready to go to whereit was going to go and at that point I felt in love I mean I've always loved art but not to thatextent like what it's one thing to see it from a distance in a museum that you can't touch ityou can't feel it but it literally is something else to be in front of it it's uh it's somethingthat'll change your life i mean if you if you can understand art art is not something that you
05:36just has not a guy with a brush it's zigzagging his thing and you know that's what he didyou know what i'm saying this is something that someone put a lot of passion and love into whenpeople follow the artwork.I mean, people followartwork all around the world for years.You know, there's followers.There's dedicated followers.Right.
05:59But on this job, that was it.That was the key.I got to Park Avenuewith all that artwork. How are you going to resistthat? You see, I've alwaysbeen a criminal. There's justbeen scales to it. You know what I'm saying?It's always been, you know,
06:17know since I was 10 I've always been a hustler so by the time I got to 19 forget about itbut you weren't an artist yourself like you didn't actually you didn't do art you justhad a passion for it and now you're watching but now I was walking in to um and with this companythat we did specialty finishes so if you translate the speciality finishes andSo let's say regular paintings, you know, it's the same language.There's no difference.What happened?Like what was the first time that you, you know, well, I guess what was the first time you actually took something?
07:07And what was the plan?Were you thinking, eh, these people have a lot of stuff.They're not going to miss this one thing?or were you thinking I can sell this or?No.No, you see, it was never a monetary thing because artwork,artwork is unlike anything else.Artwork is, there's no black market for artwork.
07:30Somebody tells you there is like, you know,I'm not going to call my cousin Louis and say,yo, Louis, what's the number for the black market again?You know, that doesn't exist.hard work I yeah it's meant to be appreciated and it would be an insult just to sell it to somerandom person it's just that's not what I did it for I did it for the thrill I did it forthe ability to see if I can do it and the plan came together on the very first job and I neverstopped after that well so what was the first job
08:07the very first job was the park avenue job when II saw this particular painting.It was a small painting.It wasn't that.It wasn't this extravagant painting.And at the beginning, I didn't know what the value of the painting was either.But I fell in love with the painting, and I decided that that painting was going to go with me.We spent two months on that job, and by the end of those two months, I had already duplicated it.
08:36It was a very simple duplication.It wasn't a complicated painting.It was one of those pencil etches, you know, I duplicated it myself on the call a copy.I couldn't tell you that.Okay.I was saying, you know, like, it's funny because I know that, you know, Picasso was, you know, Picasso was, so I don't know if you know this.I have a degree in fine arts from that.No, no, I didn't know that.
09:13Yeah, yeah, from the University of South Florida, which, so I'm actually an artist.So I don't know.Yeah, I, so, I mean, I, watch a couple of the things, but you don't mention that.You're always into the podcast, into the person you're interviewing.So I do that.I do YouTube.I wrote a bunch of books when I was in prison, a bunch of true crime books.I wrote a memoir about myself.
09:41And then I got out and, you know, I liked true crime.So I started also, I started doing a podcast when I got out.I didn't think I was actually, you know, I didn't really know how to do any of this.But I just kind of figured it out, you know, had some people help me.And now it's starting to come together.But in the meantime, I did artwork and people buy my artwork.And so, yeah, so that's why I was saying.Like, it's like, so I know.
10:05So when, you know, you say Picasso, like Picasso, Picasso was one of the few artists.that was famous during his lifetime.You know what I mean?Like most artists, they scraped by, you know, and then they, you know, they passed away.And then their artwork became worth something later in life.Like there wasn't a lot of artists, you know, Edward Munch was never, like, he sold likeone painting his whole life.Like, you know, now he's huge.
10:35Now, you know, they're huge paintings.But Picasso was famous in his lifetime.And one of the things I know that he did is I know that there are hundreds of little drawings he did.Like he would be at a restaurant, someone would recognize him.And they say, oh, can I get your, this is, these are the stories I heard.I'm sure you probably know more than I do.But one of the things I had always heard was the stories were that like he'd be at a restaurant and someone would come up to him and say, can I get your autograph?And he'd go, yeah, yeah, just let me finish and I'll give you an autograph.
11:14They'd go, okay.And then he'd finish up his meal and he would doodle something on a napkin or a piece of paper and sign his name and give it to him.You know, so they'd get this little thing that was, no, baby, it was just cute.But now they're selling for $35 and $45,000 and $100,000 for little doodles.And people have them.so that's why when you know i i heard that you know your story and i heard that you youyou know because i watched part of it where they you know i guess at some point you kind oflooked around and you realized like nobody's here nobody's watching me there's no cameras
11:55there's all this article that wasn't my thought process no that was the second time i've been thereYeah, that was the second time I was there.Oh, this was, I thought you ultimately, you did this, you did it, I thought you did it in several different places, though, right?You didn't look around and think nobody's watching?This particular, the very last time where I was, when the reality show was filmed, I had been to this particular mansion out in Kingspoint on a prior occasion a few years.ago. And everything that went missing on that time, let's just say 10% of it was reported missingand 90% was never reported missing. You know, so when I went back to the house the secondtime, you see, there's a lot of things that change from first time and second time.
13:01the second time I went back to the housewhen the house was fully buggedwith camerasand the SWAT was thereand they were everywhereI was highI had smoked two bluntsyou know to get to work that morning
13:15I smoked two bluntsI was calmyou know life was goodyou know I had nothing to worry aboutso all the red flagsI avoided the red flagyou knowthere was so many red flags
13:27there was a red flag thatthere was a hallway doorthat I had previouslyremember I was in thehouse before so there was ahallway door that goes from one sideto the other and thathallway door was locked
13:41and I knew what was on the otherside of the door because I already had beenon the other side of the doorbutI should have abandoned ship at that pointthat would have been a red flagthat would have been no gobut I was high, I was calm
13:56you know I got a littlemaybe a little sloppyyou knowAnd at that point, I felt that home.I was checking my signatures, validating the paintings, and I was taking what I wanted.That was it.Well, but this isn't the first time.This is further.
14:12No, this is the last.Okay.So the first time you take it, you swap out this piece of artwork.Yeah, because I didn't want to steal it.Right.And we just plan not feel it.If you see it's stolen, it's gone, obviously, if you take that pulse of it,Yeah, and me, I'll know it's going.
14:32Right.But if you swap it out,then you don't know anything is going on.Right.And so they didn't notice.They never noticed.And we took, this is over a span of,I believe the apartment took us,
14:49this was just an apartment.I believe it took us three monthsto paint the apartment.Okay.So it was in a fast three months,from the planning to the execution.For a limited time,I'm at McDonald's, enjoy the tasty breakfast trio.
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17:27And I mean a art collection,right, like 300, 400 pieces at the minimum.That's a collection.Yeah, that's insane.And are all these, is all this famous artwork or is some people are just collector?Some people, that's the thing is, you see, these people,I think you said it best.At the very beginning of the show, you said it best that,
17:57Most artists, when they put stuff out, they put it out, nobody cares, you know, who cares?So these people are just collecting things that they love, they admire, something that they want to decorate the house with,something that would look good on an architectural digest, because we've done that, too, is the architectural digest.We've done a couple of issues to architectural digest.So, you know, this is not about investment in artwork.You know, the artist is a blow.even Andy Warhol.Andy Warhol was his famous
18:29for Vietnam.All right.Yeah, I was going to saythat there's lots ofthere's lots of peoplethat are just the rich peoplethat they collectedjust because it's like,
18:42oh, I like that piece.And, you know,John and Mabel Ringling,you know, they collectedtons and tons of stuffand stuff they collectedwasn't, you know,they just collected
18:56because they liked, like I like this piece.You know, they'd have one piece that was worth, you know,$100,000 next to another piece that you could find practically in a garage sale.You know what I'm saying?It was worth virtually nothing, you know.But in the end, you know, almost everything ended up being,it ends up being worth something.But a lot of stuff that they collected, the artists weren't even,
19:18weren't even well known at the time.And then after their death, the collection became worth hundreds of millions of dollars.um so and i just i just always wonder if that's how it how it goes just in general so how longwere you painting you were you painting and so and over the span of this these things likeif the opportunity arises and there's something you see and you like and you think i can i can workthis out you you you took advantage of that situation correct and then other times there was justnothing there. Like you weren't interested in anything and I'm not interested.Because like you said, you're not selling it. You can't, you can't go look and steal a rimbra.
20:05The thing was, I was, I was supposedly happily married, you know, supposedly happily married, you know, great wife, great income, you know, the painting wasn't going to go anywhere and nobody's going to know where I got it from.you know, when I brought it home, I put it on a wall, you know,and nobody knew anything about value in my household.This wasn't, you know, so it just went on a regular wall and a regular house.But, you know, I appreciated it.It was always the centerpiece, something I can look at every single day and admire, you know.Have you ever heard of the Gardner Museum heist?Yes, the one that I believe still is not.
20:50solved yeah right yeah they you know like those paintings like i was think to myself like these guysstole a ton of paintings worth a hundred million dollars or 200 million they can't move like youcouldn't move those paintings no you can't sell those like what was in blue market right i was justassume i was thinking to myself like they're probably hanging on somebody's you know somebody's insomeone's garage sitting in a garage or they're hanging on somebody's wall and they have no ideawhat's even on their wall or they think it's uh it's it's a replica they probably don't evenrealize what they have um so did you ever come close to getting caught i got caught only thatlast time when they did the reality show and um that was the thing is you know that if you listen
21:41the name of the reality show is called the brooklyn d a and i'm featured in episode number oneand three.And if you listen to the detectiveand you listen to the BAin the reality show,they pretty much tell youif he doesn't take anything,you don't have him on anything.
22:00Right.But remember,I was already there.And I just told youthat 90% of the stuffwas never reported.So,you know,
22:10everything's on video.If you,if you go out,you can YouTube itand you can see it.You can hearthat comments and all that.but um dude i was coming out of there with something but the problem was once i if i wouldn't just
22:24listen to the inside the spider sense if i wouldn't have got arrested that day that still would havebeen out and about your intuition right like i always say that intuition like you got to listen toyour intuition you got to uh like you know it's funny too because intuition like people shrug it offBut the truth is, like, every chick I've ever dated, knew I was, or cheated on, knew I was eating before.Like, nothing's wrong.They just know.And you're like, nah, you're crazy.And I'm thinking, what, everything's fine.
22:56I didn't do anything.I came home at the same time.I did everything.How did she?Intuition.She knew.You know, if some girl you're dating, something's not right.Even if she comes home at the same time, everything's, but you know, you're like, nah, what's something's up.
23:11Can't put your finger on.Your intuition tells you something's wrong.You got to listen to it.When I came out of the mansion, I was in my Mercedes, and I stopped at a stop sign,and I look in the rear view of mirror, and I see a camera crew running across the roadwith a big light in a camera.And I was like, that's odd.That is odd.
23:39I was so high, and then SWAT came from everywhere.Dude, they executed two search warrants, one in Pennsylvania at my house, where my ex-wifewas pregnant, and then one at my, at the job site in Kingspoint, Long Island, at the sameexact time within seconds.So this reality TV show, what they, how to, tell me about that.I don't know even know what that is.The Brooklyn DA is a reality show about cases that were specifically taken on by the Brooklyn District Attorney.And it profiles my case as a case of a very prestigious spark collection that a painter walks into one day and walks out with paintings.
24:30And they show me in an episode number one and three.And they had the whole mansion rig.Not only the mansion, they had the, like I said,said the camera crew was running across the street.They had another camera crew in Pennsylvania, you know, for the SWAT team.You know, it was a whole reality show put together.And it led to some very strange and eerie circumstances throughout my case that, Matt, I could tell you, we're insane.You know what I'm saying?
25:00It was just crazy.You're saying reality TV show.I mean, it sounds more like a sting.It wasn't a thing, but it was.It was also reality.So they knew you had taken something.They thought.They thought.
25:14They rigged the whole place with cameras.They put a situation together that they knew you'd be in the mansion by yourself.And they just hoped you'd take something.Yes.Okay.What did you take?I took a Picasso painting.I took a Devo Fe and I took one other.
25:33I forgot the name of it.But the crazy thing is two of the paintings,were never recoveredand they still let me outisn't that weirdrightbecausemaybe they're hoping
25:49you would lead them to the paintingsyeahI should have enough of that onehow long agowhat year was thisthis waswe're going to go 10 years ago2011
26:052012somewhere around there.So how long were you painting and doing this?35 years.Are you fucking serious?35 years?I mean, how often were you taking stuff?All the time.
26:25Right.The addiction got so bad, Matthew.And the thing is that when something becomes so easy,that's the thing is, you know,and I'm going to tell youthis is all psychologicalthis has nothing to do withwhatever you may think it is
26:42this is all psychological gamethe planningwhat you're going to pick outthe people in the roomwho could possibly get blamedbesides myselfyou knowbecause I'm a clean cut guy
26:57you put me up against an Irish guythat I was working withthat's drinking all the timeand comes in Monday morninghalf drunkit's outobvious. He took it.You know what I was going to say? Yeah, you weren't selling them. So it's not like you, it's not like you looked like you needed them. You needed the money. So and you're and every, are you replacing them with duplicates every time? Yes. Well, uh, I'm going to say there's nine times that I can remember that I didn't replace them because I knew that it was it wasn't going to be met. You know, it was in a storage area somewhere.
27:35where when people put things in storage,especially on Park Avenue,Madison Avenue,storage is for your skateboard.It's not for a Monet.Right.It's not for a Costco.It's not for none of that.
27:49You know, you shouldn't be putting your digger faceinside the storage box in the basement.There's roaches down there.You're crazy?Um, okay,so this has been going on for a long time.Eventually, they catch up with you.how many paintings did you have on me
28:08well that they call you I thought youthey don't find the three that were in the car you know they only found the three thatwere in the car oh I thought they they didn't do a search like a go and search your houseoh yeah they did they weren't going to find anything thereall rightwhy would I put them in my house come on well I would think you would you wouldsaid like you wanted to enjoy them you said you liked them no not with this girl let me tell yousomething um my ex-wife my ex-wife she she she's a ride to die my ex-wife she i was married for a very
28:49long time 21 years got blessed you know but then i separated and then got hooked up with themother of my kids now this is the type of girl that she would we got pulled over one time in jerseyand I believe I took the charge for for DUI because I was driving.She wanted me to take a charge for a marijuana cigarette in the front of the car.And I'm thinking to myself, damn, she would wrap me out and sell my knee down the fucking river in a second, this one right here.You know, there was no way I would bring anything over there.Are you kidding me?Oh my God, she gets pissed off.
29:30should be called me a CIA arts division.All right.So they grab your stuff, they go to your house, they don't find anything.How do you end up doing the documentary?Did you write a book?Did you, were you approached?How did you end up with the documentary?This is a deal, Matthew.
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31:27globe. During the NBAFinal Four, they, in myjailhouse and Rancers and allthroughout my whole tier, OBCC,old boy, everybody was watchingthe show, the Brooklyn V.A.So I said to myself, when Igot out and I gave up everything,
31:43I gave it up for my two daughters.I have twodaughters, one of six and one is eight.And I gave up the lifeof crime for them. I couldn't give it upfor any other reason. I enjoyed it too much.So, you know, butI made an investment in myself.
32:00I made a financial investment.And I reached out to someone that I believe in,Adrian Mazone of Transmedia.And I said,I wanted to do a documentary about my life,and I want to confess.You know,I want to confess about everything.
32:17And I did.You even see it because I'm going to see you at the premiere.Yeah.So, okay.how long were you locked up 18 months 18 months yeah my my lawyer was Bruce CutlerJohn Gotti's lawyer okay my case is phenomenal man you write novels about it you'reI'm saying yeah how come you didn't how come you didn't write a book you had 18 monthsI was battling my case I that wasn't me you see for me writing a book would have meant
32:55that would have been a confession.You can't write a book.You just asked me,the first question you asked mehad to say no to me,what's the name of the answer?I mean, you know,there's a way to write around that.
33:09No, I mean, but you can't answer that.That's one of those questions.Listen, Matthew, when they arrested mein King's Point, this is,look at the scene.They arrest me in King's Point.And you could see it on the reality show,the Brooklyn D.A.
33:24It's phenomenal.But in the Pocasel, you heard the real story.They arrested me, and I was high.So I didn't know why.Why?You know, there's three old master paintings in the back of my bend, but why am I gettingcold over?You know what I'm right?
33:44I thought maybe they were mixed up.But they get me down to the station house in Kings Point, and there's this huge,giant like tons ofanarchy tablesyou know all those giantlong tableswith all these detectives around itall of them
34:01you knowchilling back therewith their badgeslike 35 of them25 of themfrom all over countieseverywhereyou know
34:10FBI I think was there tooand they thoughtI was coming in cryingbut I was likethey sat thereready for me to bleed outand I was likewhere's my lawyer
34:21that was the endthatThat, you know what I'm saying?It's still moved on, you know, and it was just more of a game, dude.It was just a game.You know, I was, I'd go to the DA's office, starved in, he'd have a table full of Chinese food for me.There's something out of some, some make-believe movie.Like, why?
34:43Why for me?And then I realized that it was because of the reality show.So they were trying to get that confession.They knew I hadn't eaten in a week.All right.Right. So how long did, how long, after you got out, how long did it take to put together the documentary?The documentary was just last year.I had some health issues, a lot of health issues, and I have two little girls.
35:15And this is not about other people, but this is about them.This is about, I want them to know who their father is.I mean, the real person, what made me who I am and why I am the way I am.You know, I'm not, I'm not embarrassed of who I am.I just want people to know, you know, this is me.I mean, I trust me, I understand that.Like, you know, most, it's funny because most of the guys that I know that were locked up,that were like con men or fraudsters or scammers, like, they're in prison trying to figure out,
35:50like, how to get out, change their,name how to keep anybody from knowing what they did how to start their life over and i was likethe only person who was like i'm telling everybody what i fucking did fuck them like you know i wouldsay listen there's there's two kinds of people in the world there are those people thatknow the things that i've done and the person i am today and are 100% accepted of it and there arethose people that can go fuck themselves and that's it there's only two so to me like you know i'm notgoing to be hiding and lying and dodging the rest of my life. Like, I'm not doing that. Like,this is what I did. And you're either okay with it or you're not. You don't have to be in my life.
36:32If you're not, well, kick rocks. There's lots of people out here. So, yeah, so I mean,I know exactly what you're saying. Like, I'm not going to, you know, I mean, obviously I wouldprefer not to go to prison. I could have missed the prison part. I'm okay. Yeah, I agree. Yeah.I see something, I see something, I read people.I read people, whether you're, wherever you're from, I could read straight through you.But there's something about respect that I see in you.Like, do you want to let somebody disrespect you?Am I right?
37:10That what?You want to let somebody disrespect you in jail?That I wouldn't?Wouldn't.Would you get into a fight if somebody.Like, if I had.had to get into a fight, to be honest with you, I would get into a fight if it came down toit. But let's face it, you know, if I'm not, if this guy's six foot fucking two and he's
37:31going to beat the fucking hell out of me or something, that's probably, probably not, I'm probablynot signing up for that. But luckily, you know, luckily, I did that, that didn't, you know,I didn't have to run into that issue. Yeah, listen, once I had been locked up a few years,Like, I got into a routine and I was okay and people knew who I was and, you know, I didn't, I never had any problems or anything.I think maybe two times I had an issue with a couple with a couple of guys.And it was just because I got a slick mouth, you know, I mouth off to somebody and, and I realized right away, I realized right away that, you know, either I'm going to say nothing and hold everything in until I'm, you know, until I leave here or I'm going to mouth off every once in while and I'm going to get punched.Somebody's going to smack me.These are big guys.
38:22These are not nice guys.And I'm not a big guy.I'm like five foot six.So, you know.Yeah, I'm tiny.I'm okay with it.Side doesn't matter.Let me tell you something.
38:37I was telling a friend of mine the other day that when I was inside, there was this dude.He was this huge monster of a man.And he had a mental.health issues but uh he was he got on me like this point like he was going to bother meand i knew if he took me he was going to beat the fuck out of me all right he would have draggedme so i had no commentary money so i couldn't pay anybody right and i didn't know anybody inthere so that wasn't going to happen so you know what i did is i figured out a plan the there was agang running our house right
39:19and he's not in the gameso there's a particulargang running in our houseso I played hismineyou know and themyou know and I saidto them you know my sister
39:33she's a hustlerwhat about if I get mysister into the visiting roomto pass you a half ounce ofweed and you giveme half and you take halfthis was allgoing, this was all like, check
39:49you out, listen, it was all goinglike that. Sothat happened in the morning.This nitwit got on meby lunchtime, just picking on meand I knew that, dude, I couldn't take itto the head with this guy because this guy would havefucked me up. He was a nut.
40:04So, I said to the guythat I was talking to, the head of the,you know, I think his name was gun, somethingor other. I said, yo, dude,I'm out of his house, bro. This guy'sfucking with me, man. How the fuck I'm going to dothis shit. I'm going to another house, bro.You know what he did? He got
40:21together the three guys andhe put a little bird in this guy's ear.Stop fucking with Picasso.Right. This guyslipped out.Slips out and he attackedthe CO, the correctionalofficer. They had to bring the turtles
40:39in to beat the fuck at him and get him out.See, so that's the point is, you know, it's not aboutsize because this guy would have taken me. He would havewrap my head around the fucking toilet you know it's about you know you gotta use the you got to usewhat you got you got brains you fucking get the bigger guy to beat the fuck out of that guy you knowI'm saying that's always a well there's a way there's a lot of guys in there with mental healthproblems oh you tell us I mean I didn't know there were so many you know I remember one timethis guy you came up to me and said listen he said can I talk to you for a second I was like
41:16yeah what's up and he goes listen man he said i'm taking anger management and and so and my firstthought was man and no conversation has ever been a good conversation that started with i'm takinganger management like i thought this conversation is about to go bad and it and i was like okay and i thoughtwhat what's happening what's and he goes you've been slamming your door every time you leave the cellAnd, you know, those doors are heavy.So, you know, you go to close them.Like, I'm just kind of pushing it.Not, I walk out and I kind of close and I know it'll close.
41:55But, of course, I'm 15 feet away by the time it goes, bam.And he lives in the cell next to me.Now, I didn't know this because I barely paid attention to anything that was going on.I didn't know really anybody in the unit.I went to my cell.I read all the first few years.I was in the medium security.And I looked at him and he goes, man, you slay in the door.
42:16time you leave the cell. And I looked at him and I go, are you in this unit? And he goes,man, I'm your, I'm your next door neighbor. I said, I'm in the cell next to you. And I went,did you just get here? He's, I've been here six months. He's, you've been, I've been here as longas you. And I went, I'm sorry, bro. I don't even pay attention. I, uh, okay, so go ahead.He's like, you know, I'm trying to work on my anger. And, and, and, and I'm supposed to talk to youbefore I do something, and I thought, well, thank God for anger management.You know, I was like, I said, well, listen, I'm going to make a valid effort to try andcorrect that. And I will close the door. You know, he's like, I feel like you're doing it on purpose.
42:59I'm like, bro, I don't even know who you are, man. Like, I hear you, but I don't even know,I didn't even know you were my, my neighbor, but I'm going to make an effort.Listen, I must, I kept slamming that door. Like, I would walk away just by accident. And finally,my Selly came to me, said, this dude's going to kill you. Do you understand? And I was like, and I was like, fuck, I keep fucking. I can't believe. You know, it's a hard, it's hard, it's a hard habit to break. So, yeah. But I did stop, I did stop slamming the door, you know, which was stupid. And luckily I didn't have to get, I'm sure if I got my ass beat, I'd have probably figured it out real quick. I'd probably never slap that door again. But, yeah, there's some real mental cases in that. And then I taught, listen, the GED, Itaught the SLD, GED.So I got the guys that can't even pass the GED.There's like the slow learning disabled guys that are like, you know, you're trying to teachthem like basic math and like they can't count change.
43:57And it's like, oh, wow, like this is bad.Like I'm like, look, you need to know how to count money.And they're like, you know, my bitch count that money.I'm like, yeah, I know I get it.You're going to go back.But when you go back out, then I'm going to sell drugs again.I'm like, yeah, but what if she doesn't count it?right. Like, what if she counts it wrong?
44:15And he's like, I put that pipehe goes, I put that pipe on if she countthat shit right. And I was like, that's probablytrue. But, you know,like,listen, thatI was not, that was not anenvironment I was really prepared for.
44:31So,yeah. When I went in,when I was in, and we were in the yard atRikers, and I waswalking the trackwith this dude. And II'm like, he's like, what are you in for?I said, I'm in here for artsy, you know, for stealing art.
44:48And I said, what are you in here for?I cut up the corrections off, and I murdered my wife.And he went on and on.I was like, oh, shit, you get to fuck out of you.You seem like such a nice guy.Listen, like, the guy I hung out with the most in prisonis in prison for murdering to FBI.I cooperate, you know, whatever, C-I's.
45:19Nicest guy.Niceest guy.Until you take the honey bun from the commissary.No.Like, you know, if you borrow something, you want to pay him back.Or you, you know, if it's, he says, get you, you know, can you get me a six-pack?Of course I can get you a six-pack.I'm embarrassed that you had to ask.
45:39I don't know why I don't already have the six-pack.Pierre Rossini in the 1990s was a 20-something-year-old Los Angeles-based drug trafficker of ecstasy and ice.He and his associates drove luxury European supercars, lived in Beverly Hills penthouses, and dated Playboy models while dodging federal indictments.Then two FBI officers with the organized crime drug enforcement task force entered the picture.Dirty agents willing to fix cases and identify informants.Suddenly, two of Racini's associates, confidential informants working with federal law enforcement, or murdered.Everyone pointed to Racini.As his co-defendants prepared for trial, U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller sat down to debrief Rossini at Leavenworth Penitentiary, and another story emerged.
46:35A tale of FBI corruption and complicity in murder.You see, Pierre Racine knew something that no one else knew.The truth.And Robert Mueller and the federal government have been covering it up to this very day.Devil Exposed.A twisted tale of drug trafficking, corruption, and murder in the city of angels.Available on Amazon and Audible.So it's funny, there's a lot of good guys in there.
47:02Actually, there's a lot of good guys that, but seriously, there are a lot of good guys.But there's a lot of people that you're just like, wow.Like, it bothers me that you're going to get out of here at some point.Dude, there was this guy that I remember I was at, you know, I was bored when I was in there.You know, once I got the good lawyer and things started going, right, there was this dude who said to me that he had been arrested 37 times or 67, I don't know what it was.And I was like, dude, after the first few times you didn't get the hint that you're not good at it, you know, and I'm like, you're stupid, damn.I figured I should probably be giving advice in jail.No.
47:41I stopped that.What do you do now?You don't want to know.Do you want to know?Do you still paint?What?I do high-end estates for the 11%.Listen, I mean, like this documentary might not be good.
48:08for your career.Well, that's the thing.Is a documentarysupposed to take a retirement road?You know what I'm saying?I want to confess.I want to give you the names you want, right?You want the names of the people that are missing, right?
48:25Right.That's what you want to give you.So this documentary has to leave me employment free.You know, I filled it all out.Like literally, if you watch this documentaryand you say to me, I'm lying.to you, an FBI informantthat's sitting next to you, you could ask
48:42him, they'll tell you that I'm telling the truth.Everything is a documentaryis 100% true.How long is the documentary?Approximately an hour.Okay. Where are you living now?Undisclosed location.Geez.
49:01If I give you that, man, that people are going to startlooking for me, man.Okay, there's not a lot you can answer.Hey, so where is the documentary going to be?Is it, is it, where is it being shown?We are doing a private screening for the media and the critics.Right.Like yourself.
49:27Right.In Fort Lord of April 30th.And hopefully once we find a platform that we're going to stream it on,And then we'll be able to let you know about that.And the name of the movie, the documentary is called the Picasso of D.And I tell you, when you watch the movie, it's, you can't, this is not acting.I'm not an actor.Right.
49:52You know, this is me spilling myself out, you know.And sometimes I think it might be for the adrenaline, but I'm retired now.So I don't have many forms of adrenaline anymore.You know, I got my two daughters.And when they come over, we go roller skating or it's a bond de noble.So for a retired I see, you might as well just throw me back on Rikis, you know, sometimes.It's like, you know, when I got in, you know, a lot of people make a big mistake, right?They go into jail and they get sad and they cry and they, I don't know what they do.
50:27When I went in, I'm confrontational.You know what I'm saying?If I had a bit, try to stop me, I dare you to try to stop me from getting that phone.at the end of the nightwhen you tell me that that phone belongsto somebody or it belongs tothis bird, the red, the blood,the crypts, or whatever,
50:46I dare you to try to stop me and take that phone.I'll crack you over there with that phone.I'll bust you ass becauseI want to feel better. I don't want tobe agitated like this guy bitched me out.You know what I'm saying? I'm always aboutthat confrontation. This is all about adrenaline.The feeling of painting
51:03is the same thing as you confrontingthis six foot,two dudes with fucking muscles.He told the same shit.Are you doing any more interview?I have another one on Thursday, five.But check this out, right?I want to give you this.
51:16It was this woman.She lived across the street from MoMA,the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.We were doing a six-month job.We were completely done with the job.We had taken the paintings off.We had put them away.Brought them back.
51:34And we're already done.There was not even a paintbrush inside the apartment.And she sees me carrying the painting to give it to her because she's going to hang it.And she looks at me and she says, please be careful.You have no idea what that thing caught.But she didn't realize that that thing was a fake.I already had replaced it.So, I mean, not only what it caused, because you see, there's two costs.
52:08There's the cost that you inflated for the insurance company, and there's the actual cost.Now, either way, I wasn't going to sell it, so it didn't matter.But I could tell you the actual cost.And, you know, some people, you know, you got to dumb it down sometimes, you know,to make them feel comfortable about themselves and rich people.They're a lot like that.So, okay, I'm, I'm, I'm, keep going back to, were you an art?Like, how are you replace, how are you duplicating these paintings?
52:39My best, you remember Kinkos?Yeah, yeah.My best thing and my easiest thing was always to duplicate it on a color copier, high digital,but then add layers to it, whether it be layers of latex paint or the bristles on to it.That was always the easiest.It was like painting by numbers.You know, it wasn't that complicated.And I already knew how to fall finish.
53:07I knew how to do gold leasing and Marmarino and all these other fine finishes.And at that point, you combined the two and it wasn't that complicated.And for these people, these aren't poor people like your everyday 99% of the country.We're talking about the 1%.That 1% on the top of the food.chain that they're nevergoing to miss that painting. They didn't buyit for an investment and
53:35it's in the basement and whenthey do find it, they'll put it back on the wallthen I'm going to knowit's not there, you know, and there's noif you go to a museum, there'speople like myself, I go to a museumand I scrutinizepictures. I go to a museum
53:51close by and I'll look at thefibers and I look at the layers of paintand the gold leafand I'll scrutinize every littlething. I could tell you if it's bake or not.There's professionals that go intoevery museum.The pieces I took, nobody's going
54:07to see them to stuff for the owner and his friends.Right. And he's going to walk byit. He's walking byit. It's 15 feet away.He glances over. He keeps walking. He's notscrutinizing the painting.Not at all. He's not even looking at the fibersor anything. Dude, down
54:24to the micrometeron the fibers of the brushes.They used to keep a million differentpaintbrushes and had a micrometer and I used to measure the original fiber in the paintingbecause there's always brush hairs inside the latex of the oil thing. I used to put them rightback where they came from, but it would be on a Kinko's copy, you know, and literally, if youlooked at it, you know. What is, this is, I was going to say, what is Kinko's now? It's now what,at UPS
54:58or FedExFedEx storesI think it's FedExYeah I think it is FedEx storeYeah I think it isYou can't do that nowadays thoughBecause now you've got cameras in thereAnd they won't let you put no
55:10Masterpiece on no print thatI got free commissariesI was in the newspaper every daySo out of respectInmates to bring me commissaryI had no commissaryI had no commissaryI didn't have shit
55:24I used to give it awaybecause I was too stressed outyou knowI'm always burning the candleyou knowso did you get out on bondat any pointno my bond
55:37my bail was set at$1.5 milliondollarsyeah there was no getting outif anyone let me outthere was going to happenand especially my lawyerwas in the newspaper every day
55:48every single daywho'sby the DA committed a classyfelony with some shitand they came out in the newspaper,and then every day that my lawyer was antagonizing them.So they didn't want to let me out.They were going to torture me.
56:02Until they said, you know what?We've had it.Let him out.If he pleads guilty now,they said,if you plead guilty now,you walk out today,I said, yeah,
56:13let's do this.And I pled guilty and I walked out.And that was how long,after how long?18 months?18 months.Which was nothing.There was nothing.
56:23I mean, come on.You were in.for 13 years, Jesus.Yeah, and you never, you said you never went to a prison.You did this in the county jail, right?Yeah, I did that in Rikers Island and Nassau County.And I actually, they transferred me from Rikers to Nassau County.And I begged my lawyer to have them transmit back
56:42because Rikers Island is like a tropical paradise compared to Nassau County.You know, at Rikers Island, you have bender drills if you want to wear your sleep,you want to smoke weed, whatever you want to do.You can make it happen.But in Nashville County, forget about it.It was like the third right there.At 6 a.m., I think it was 5 a.m.,they planned the metal doors to wake you up to let you know you're in jail.
57:06You know, county jails are the worst.Like, the whole time I was locked up in the county jail or the U.S.Marshall's holdover, because I was in a federal prison, but you're still being held in a county jail.You know, you're in the U.S. marshals holdover.Well, it's a county jail.So, but the whole time you're there, I remember all the guys kept saying, man, I can't wait to get sentenced and go to prison.I can't wait to go to prison.I was like, is prison better than that?
57:33And they were like, oh, prisons way better than this.Yeah.And it's just true.Like, as soon as I went to prison, I was like, oh, wow, this is, like, you could go work out.You can get a job.You can take classes.You can move around.Like, everything's nicer.
57:52you could actually like start like a little life not a great life but at least have a like a life you knowpeople aren't coming and going you can you can hang out with people have regular friendswatch movies you get ice cream at the commissary like you could do some stuff yeah couldn't do thatno no rather do two years I think I'd rather do two years in the federal prison than one year in the countyDude, when I was in Rikers, when I used to get bored and I wanted to take a field trip,I used to request to go to the DA's office.So I went to waste a whole thing going to the DA's office to say nothing.It was just a good time.
58:38You know, I got to see Brooklyn, you know, in the bus, you know, talks to friends.Dude, if they saw me in the hallway, he's like, yo, Picasso, what's up?I had a sally that said, that asked, said he wanted to talk to the U.S. attorney, said,you know what, I'm going to talk to the U.S. attorney.They brought them to the U.S. attorneys, said, listen, I'm starving.Can you all get me something?You know, well, and they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah.So they said, what do you want?
59:03Yeah, you know, wants like, you know, two McDonald's hamburgers and some fries.They were like, yeah, no problem.So they go and they get it and they come and he sits down and he eats the fries and everythingand eats the hamburg and sits there for a minute.And he goes, I just don't feel right about this.I need to go back.Can I go back to the prison?They were like, oh, no, no.
59:21Or go back to the jail and say, listen, you're never coming back here again.You understand?If you think you're fucking around, he's like, yeah, I know.I was never coming back to begin with.And I can't stand the food then.I know it's a fucked up thing.And they were like, okay, that you're playing.He said, in the end, he said it cost me like six extra month.
59:37Those two hamburgers cost them like six more months.Because they wouldn't give a deal.They wouldn't do anything.Dude, that is some cold hodge.I mean, you know, he thought people think they're being cute.They don't think it's cute.The biggest thing is that, you know, we write our own ticket, you know.I've always known like literally since I was a little kid, you know, I've always lived
01:00:01life looking over my shoulder for police or another bad person, you know, you alwaysif you take that ride, you write the ticket.So when I wrote that ticket and I got arrested, I expected what I expected.That wasn't, you know, if it wasn't for the fact that my girl was pregnant, that was the only missing factor, you know, that factor was something, you know, you don't play into when you commit crimes.Like, right now I have two daughters.I couldn't imagine being away from them for half a second, you know, so I couldn't do any of that anymore.You know, I'm retired.I'm done.
01:00:38I'm cooked.Is there like an official website or a link you want to give me to put in the description?Picasso, born in Brooklyn, on track.Facebook is the main page,but you could also find me under Picasso Vega on Facebook and on LinkedIn.I was to tell you that the film was actually filmed in Brooklyn.We are keeping to, I mean,the original title was going to be Picasso born in Brooklyn
01:01:06because, you know, The Daily News gave me the name Picasso.You know, I didn't make it up.It wasn't delusional.I made the fun cover of The Daily News.was with the name Picasso over my head.It wasn't a flattering Picasso.And I only tell you this, I only say it once.It was pick.
01:01:25It said Picasso as a whole word, but pick was white.Aso was black.Got it?Yeah.Picasso.So I kept it because I'm from Brooklyn and I'm like that.You know, who else makes the front cover of the New Yorker magazine?Come on, the Wall Street Journal?
01:01:44What?Are you crazy?come on i'm a nazi i'm not god i'm not bill gates and i'm in the wall street journal i thinkthey featured me like 10 times like you're like what did i do did i kill somebody i don't knowit's a sensational crime they love sensational they love sensational they love unique like you know if it'slike hey hey he's a crack dealer okay well there's thousands of them like that's not that's nothingspecial about that but to be an art thief that's extremely unique you know like who does thatthat's insane like you didn't meet i guarantee the whole time you were locked up you didn't meet
01:02:23anybody else with your charge there was another Picasso in there no yeah yeah it wasn't anotherguy stealing artwork they might have called them Picasso no that was nobody likedude i tell you that you know when i went in there and there's so much mediaon the news every day in the Riker's Island.I thought I killed somebody by mistake or something.Like, dude, if you look at one of the broadcasts,there's like 30 detectives behind this big platform,behind a microphone, and it's like, we got them.
01:03:01Like, what?Where's the body?I don't get it.I didn't think it was that big of the deal.Well, you got a document.I don't have a documentary.I mean,so somebody thinks it's a big deal
01:03:15I hope you think it's a big deal brotherbecause when you come see the movie dudeI mean the movie begins at the age of sixyou know that was when the monster was createdthat's when I saw the worldjust a little bit differentlyright you knowyou see as a kid you see the world
01:03:35just a little askewI mean for meI feel blessedlike literally Ifeel blessed for everything.When I was in Rikers, I felt blessed.You know, I felt like even though I was in there, dude, I had the best lawyer.Bruce Cutler's law firm representing me.
01:03:53I was in the newspaper every day.The guards knew who I were.Everybody knew who I was.Like, all of a sudden, it was like going into cheers.And they'd say norm.But they were like, Picasso.I was like, yo, I'm right here.You said you had not seen the trailer.
01:04:10Is there a trailer?No, not that I'm aware of it.Okay.I felt like there was supposed to be a trailer, but not that's going to say it'd be nice.If they were the trailer, we could throw it in here.Well, I was about to say that more than likely when we find a platform that they're going to stream it on, then the platform will cut the trailer for that.Yeah.Well, or they'll ask the director or the, the, they'll ask your editor of your director to, hey, can you guys do a 30-second trailer?
01:04:38All right, well, cool.And it's supposed to be animated.It's supposed to have specific songs.in there from an artist calledSteve Slim.I mean, it's supposed to bethis, and it's shot in 4K.There's not many documentaries
01:04:53out there shot in 4Kwhere you're going to get that nice crispand motion. What do you mean?It's supposed to be.Haven't you seen it?No. You see, thisis not like that.This is not like that.
01:05:07You see,for you to get the full pictureof anything, you have to havedifferent eyes on a product, all right?Right.Now, this is how I ensured the product is going to be put out properly.When I came up with the thought about putting this pictures together, I drove down to Florida to me, Adrian Nizone of Transmedia.You see, if I see you eye to eye, right now, even though we're on the podcast, you know, if I saw you eye to eye, I know if you're lying to me, I know if you're full of shit, I'd read you straight through.
01:05:42I met up with Adrian Mazzone.I met up with Carlos Siped us and Anna Siped us.I brought my daughters up there so we could all meet.We had a face-to-face conversation.I had already verified these people through my own sources.So I knew I was on a positive road.I made it very clear of them.This is not a Road to Redemption video.
01:06:06That's not what this is.Right.I mean, if you want that, you better go watch Charlie Brown or something,because that's not what this is.This is, you know, I was an art thief,and I'm retired now because my daughter isand I don't want to go to jail things.That's what this is.
01:06:20I'm saying, I was happy as an art thief.You know, it's something that makes me pleasure.You know, if you go to a museum with me, Matthew,you'll experience art in a different way.Art is not just that painting image from the wall.That's not what art is.Art is meant to be taken inin so many different things.
01:06:42you know what I'm saying it's just not just oh look it let's go you know that's not what the art is art haslight to it you know you feel me yeah so you haven't seen the film no I mean are youhave you seen pieces I made the film so I know exactly what's in the film well youwere you know you were in front of the cameraYeah.But you don't know what they...Tons of stuff doesn't make the cut.No, I know, but there's nothing that bad.
01:07:21Okay.You know what I'm saying?I'm an art thief.What's worse than that?And there's a lot worse than that.A lot worse than that, but...No, I just mean in the general sense of a movie.What are they going to get wrong?
01:07:34Oh, he was an art thieves that liked Salvation Army pictures.I wanted a different eyes.And I also wanted a woman's perspective,which is why Anna,Anna Siped us,she's one of the executive producersand directed the film.I didn't want my,
01:07:57this is not an ego trip to me.This is not,you know,if you think I'm a scumbag,say I'm a scumbag,but this is not an ego trip for me.This is a,you know,
01:08:08I'm fucked up and I know it.Right.What you want me to do about it?You know what I'm saying?Who are you talking to?Bro.Like I was, listen, I was on the run for three years, for four or five years before that.I was running scams.
01:08:26I was making fake people, stealing identities, you know.I mean, I've been caught in the bank by police, a handcuff, talked out my way out of, convinced them I hadn't done anything wrong.They had the wrong person.They let me go.chased by the U.S. Marshals.I mean, I, you know, I, trust me, I've done all kinds of stuff.It's, it's insane.So, I mean, I know what you're saying.
01:08:49Like, that's what I'm like, this is what I did.It's what it is.Like, you get to a point where it's like denying it's, it's just, there's no point in it.So you might as well lean into it.So I know what you're saying.It's like, I'm not going to deny it.So I might as well just tell you everything.I might as well just, this is what happened.
01:09:07Like, don't hold back.There's no reason to hold back at this point.there's too many articles about me there's too much stuff out there so you can't hide from it so youmight as well lean into it so i i thought everything you're saying makes sense to me dude and the thingis you know i don't see this as redemption but the monster that i am the monster that i feel i am wheni look in the mirror i see a fucking i see a monster that's what i see i know what i did nobody elseknows what i did you know and uh i couldcontinue my life
01:09:41doing what I'm doing or I couldbe there for my girls and changetheir lives. And we, you know,I take them to themuseum and I teachthem about art and we spend a lot oftime together. We do a lot of stuff together.They're my therapy. They're my
01:09:57everything. I could, like I said,I can't imagine the day without them.They, they, the way the sun risesand the sun sets is my girls.When they sleep, I watch thembecause they're a thing of beauty that you...I only get them on the weekend.So I have a very limited span of time
01:10:16that I could, you know, put memories in their head of me.You know, this movie is everything.It's part to finish.So are they got to go to the premiere too?No, they're not going to go to the premiere because I don't know...I don't know if there's an FBI agentgoing to be sitting next to you, Matthew Cox.let's just say the movie's real the movie ain't no bullshit right you know we're talking about the
01:10:43FBI has a whole division FBI has a whole division for art theft why wouldn't you send yourtop guy over there what what I have um what's the statute of limitations on art theftI don't think there's a statute of limitations on art there's got to be but you got to prove it no whywhy would they beI meanif they find the two paintif Iafter a certain amount of years
01:11:12if they find the two paintingsthat they say I stoleeven though I didn'tif they can'tthey can't charge you with themoh yeahbecause of the catch22 whatever you
01:11:26I guessthey're not going to saythey're yoursoh noyou're taking them backwe're just not going to chargeyou with them?I ain't giving them back.
01:11:38No.So,yeah,the only thingthat doesn't have a statute of limitationsis murder and espionage.Ooh.Yeah.
01:11:50Everything else has one.It may be 20 years,but there's a statute of limitationsto pretty much everything.Yeah.But I would always think,I mean,it would be a smart thing
01:12:01if you know that this movieabout our death,then you want to be.you're in law enforcement butbecome educatedI would think let me tell you somethingMatthew nolet me tell you something when they got to my house
01:12:15in eastern there was a Monet hanging in the toiletand they walked right by itand I was likehuh that's peculiarall right hey you know whathave you ever seen the moviethe good thiefno no
01:12:34That's with Adrian Brody?No.No, no.It's got Nick Nolte is in it.No, I got to watch that.Bro.Like, if you can watch it, like, if you can find it and watch it, you should watch it.It's good.
01:12:50It's about a con man, and he has a Picasso.Like, he won it from Picasso.But it's not a real Picasso.Like, he's got everybody believing it's a real Picasso.he borrows like a million dollars on the painting he's had it sitting in his house for like 20 years everybody's heard the story every and then so he when he finally needs some money he borrows against the Picasso and it turns out and of course it's it's not it's a fake and it's a whole scam the whole movie it's just this one scam after that's a great movie but wait there's a new movie that just came out too uh about an art thief that gets locked in an apartment just came out but it's an unlimitedrelease on AMC, AMC theaters.I was going to go check it out, but I didn't get a chance.I was too busy watching Super Manor Brothers with the Girls.
01:13:43Wow.That's a life change.William Defoe.William Defoe is in it.He's an artsy that gets locked in an apartment.William Defoe was great.And to live and die in L.A. when he was a, he's a counterfeiter.That's a good movie.
01:13:59Are you kidding me?Live and die in L.A.and it's a great movie.He's a counterfeiter.You like that one.He's an artist.Brother, after you watch the show,after you watch the movie,
01:14:09I want you to have me back on the showand tell me what you think,honestly.Don't, don't pull punches.Just be honest.You know,making me,we're in jail.
01:14:19I am in shockthat you haven't seen this thing.Look,I definitely want to talk,like right after.What do you expect?I don't know.They can't make me look bad,
01:14:30really.No, it's not that.It's that.think you're all people you're always shocked at what they cut like you know typically you see thesethings you're like i can't believe they didn't say this or they said that or they they took this andthat it's out of context i didn't mean it that way and you know but but i think you you sound likeyou're a lot like me where it's like i feel like i'm okay with what like if as long as it's truei'm okay with it if it makes me look bad i'm okay with it as long as it's what i did like you know
01:15:01don't say that I, you know, I did this when I didn't, when what I actually did was bad enough.You know, say what I did.I'll okay.I'll own up to what I did.But I'm not going to start.I'm not going to, don't make it look like I did this over here because I didn't.So I think you're the same way.I just, you know, it's, I also think that we don't always see ourselves the way we truly are.
01:15:26Oh, dude.You hit the nail in the head, bro.Yeah. So sometimes you'll see stuff and you're like, wow, is that really how people see me? Like, like, but you have to be okay with that. You know, because like I would say, listen, like, you know, if, if 20 people say you're an asshole, you're probably an asshole. You may not see it, but they're not all wrong. There's 20 people will say that you're an asshole. So, but I'm okay with that. And you seem like you're the same way. So, yeah.Dude, let me tell you, this is a true story.My son, I have a son, his name is Bobby, and he's 30 years old, and he's grown.But when he was young, I was a young father, and I didn't have a father, so I didn't know what it was like to be a father.You know, I didn't have vices.I didn't drink.
01:16:20I didn't smoke.I didn't do weed, none of that stuff.So I was full-blown anxiety, rage, all boiling together.I used to call her name.He was overweight.I used to, you know, agitate the situation.And my son doesn't talk to me.You know, I reached out to my son and my son, you know, there's no communication.
01:16:43And it's because I was an asshole.You took the words out of my mouth, you know, and I know I'm an asshole.When I look in the mirror, I know what I did to him.I can't forget about it because I see it.I feel it.You know, you know, you accept it.And then you know what?You just see it every day.
01:16:59you don't move on from it because I don't know how people say,oh, you know, let's stop beating yourself up on about itbecause you can never stop beating yourself.You did it, you know what I'm saying?You hurt somebody's feelings,and now he doesn't want to talk to me.I still love him.He knows I love him, you know.
01:17:14But I was an asshole, so that's the price I'm paying.My son doesn't talk to me either.You know, he's like 23 years old.He doesn't talk to me.He doesn't talk to me because obviously I,when he was three, I went on.the run. I get picked up three, four years later. All he knows about me is my dad's a bad person.So by the time I'm and, you know, he could have come to see me, you know, it's too, by that point,
01:17:44he's he's seven, eight years old, he's formed an opinion. I'm a bad person. He didn't want anything to dowith me. My ex-wife didn't help me out any. And by the time she realizes, okay, he's getting out soon.the kid's like 18, 19 years old.And she's saying, hey, you should go see your father in prison.You should build a relationship.And he's like, fuck that, dude.I'm done with that guy.I'm not fucking with him.
01:18:06He's a piece of shit.You know, and the problem is he's got a powerful argument.It's not like I can say, no, no, you're wrong.No, no, you hit it on the head.You know, but so, you know, and I've done the same thing.I've reached out to him.I text them, you know, we go back and forth a little bit.he says horrible mean angry things to me you know so i'm the same thing and i i feel like the same
01:18:30way like it's like i've done everything i should i can think to do but it's always on my mindif that makes sense yeah it never goes away yeah my failure you know you i mean they're men nowyou know i'm saying your son's 23 mine's 30 years old he's got house cars you knowand I failed himand I was supposed to be that personthat didn't fail himand the worst part isguys like you and I
01:19:05we keep it in our mindsso we don't do it againor so we alwaysit's a punishmentit's a self-portureright there's other people thatforgive and forget and let's just move onand blame it on the kid
01:19:17and blame it on everyonedon't take the, don't look in the mirrorand don't blame it on yourselfbecause that's the true personcause all the damageOh, I'm always in shock at guys that I know that have just been brutal, horrible to their children.Their children show up to prison.They're their every visit.
01:19:35They love them.They, and it's like, wow, like, you're, you were brutal to your kid.You were horrible to him.You were horrible to his mother to the, you know, and they show up.They, they, they.I'm shocked about that too.Yeah.Because I always feel like, you know, like when I was there, I was good.
01:19:54just disappeared. This is a horrible conversation. Let's end this. No, it's actually not a horribleconversation because it's a learning point, you know. And that's the whole point, though. That's thewhole point of the movie. You know, it's like I got fucked up at six years old, you know? Are youmad at me because at six years old, I saw some shit that I shouldn't have seen and I becamefucked up. I mean, I don't, I see life as normal for me, you know, just so you know,this movie has already cost me one jobbecause I was talking to a co-workeryou see I'm real
01:20:30I told the co-worker look I'm making a movieand this bastard went to theto the boss and ratted me outI expect when thisif this hits bigthat's you know I expect to get firedso you knowwe write our own check
01:20:47this check is writtenbut if this hits big I get firedthat means I made it big, right?So then who gives the shit?Yeah.It's the problem you should be able to handle at that point.Yeah, exactly.I mean, damn, you know, I've had worse, you know.
01:21:07I just want to be able to, you know what,I would like to be able to do something that I'd like to doand be able to spend as much time with my girlsuntil, you know, you bury me in the backyard or something.Oh, and Noah Charney is in the movie.I know he's not on this poster because this poster is one of the first ones.But Noah Charney is an author, and he writes a lot of books on art and theft of art.So he's in the movie.
01:21:38He makes a special appearance I'm so excited about.So please check him out.Hey, I appreciate you guys watching the video.Do me a favor and hit the subscribe button.Hit the bell so you get notified of videos just like.this. Also, I'm going to leave all of Picasso's social media links are going to be in thedescription. I'm going to try and figure out if we can get some kind of a link to the officialmovie, either the trailer or to the website for or some type of a link. And I appreciate you
01:22:07guys watching. I also, when I was locked up, I wrote a whole bunch of true crime books. Socheck out the trailers. And all right, see you.
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