Tony Tetro: The Art Forger's Forger

Ridiculous Crime

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True Crime, Comedy, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tony Tetro wasn't the kind of artist who felt the call of inspiration. Instead, he used his talents to forge the masterpieces of great artists. But he really found his way when he started doing forgeries of the great forger, Elmyr de Hory. Come for the art crimes, stay for fact this crimer can tell one helluva story, in his inimitable Tony Tetro way.

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0:00.5	Ridiculous crime is a production of I Heart Radio.
0:03.7	Zaren.
0:04.6	Elizabeth.
0:05.4	What's up?
0:06.2	How you doing girl?
0:07.1	Good.
0:07.9	You know what's ridiculous.
0:08.9	Yes, do I?
0:09.9	You ever heard of Betty Penrose?
0:10.9	No.
0:11.9	She was a secretary.
0:12.9	Her boss was a lawyer in Oakland.
0:13.9	Okay.
0:14.9	Your hometown.
0:15.9	Good for her.
0:16.9	He filed a lawsuit on behalf of his secretary, and that's how Betty Penrose sued God.
0:21.4	Why God Elizabeth?
0:22.7	Because God had struck her house with lightning nine years earlier, and so Betty Penrose sued
0:26.4	God for, quote, negligence.
0:28.4	She filed her lawsuit in a California court, even though the lightning strike had occurred
0:32.4	in Arizona.
0:33.4	I was going to say we don't have a little lightning strike.
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