WEBVTT - Always on my Mind: The Theft of Albert Einstein’s Brain 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.520 Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hey 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:08.319 Elizabeth Dutton, saren you know what's ridiculous? Yes, I do know. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:14.240 It's ridiculous. People who comment on recipes online with stuff 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:18.840 like that looks good, can't wait to make it? Well, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.880 I don't care. I mean only say it if like, oh, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.599 this actually works. If you've made the recipe, you can comment. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.200 You don't want to hear enthusiasm. I don't care. I 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.280 don't care, like I don't care what you think it 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.239 might be. I want to I want I wanna results. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.400 I want to work with something that's going to help 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.240 me get there. But what if that's like feedback of enthusiasm. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.560 You can see how many people are excited to try it. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.479 I wasn't too excited, but everybody seems so excited. I'm 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.400 going to give it a go. Their excitement doesn't make 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.600 me excited. You know. The other thing that I don't 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.280 like is when people comment, well, I didn't like this recipe, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.000 but then again I substituted, and then they list like, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.720 instead of turkey, I used fellow, and then it's just 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.880 one thing after another. Well, of course it's not going 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:06.880 to turn out it asked for two cups of flour, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.040 but I only had four tablespoons used us that. But 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.760 it didn't really come out negative reviews. That is ridiculous. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.720 It's ridiculous, and my my opinions on it are ridiculous. Well, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.080 I kind of got it will be in a bonnet. Yeah, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.840 well I like that one. Actually it is. I don't 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.800 really follow the recipe scene. It feels ridiculous. You're not 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.240 recipe corps. No, no, well, I don't even know how 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.319 to read a recipe? Is all that stuff in the beginning, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.840 I'm like, when do we get to the rescipe words? Well, no, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.080 I mean that's the story. I read the whole story 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.360 before I can get to like you. But you don't 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.240 because now they a lot of times online they'll have 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.760 jumped to recipe and I hit that so fast that 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.520 I don't care about their journey. I just want the recipe. Yeah, 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.160 I like that. Are you ready for the story? Have 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.840 a stolen Brain? No? Not really? Well this was That's 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.120 what I got for you, So it's a good one. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.440 It also has a rep recipe. This features a great 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.480 American road trip, stolen brain from a very famous person 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.200 and the trip to reunite it with that man's granddaughter. Okay, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.000 so you're ready for part three of our trilogy of 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:39.800 the stories of famous stolen body. So ready. This is 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:44.320 Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. He 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:52.680 and cons. It's always murder free and one ridiculous Elizabeth. Today, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.640 I would like to tell you the story of a 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.280 man and his stolen brain. And that man's name is 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.760 Albert Einstein. That's a brain right there, that's quite a 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.240 big brain. Yeah. Now, just to get us started, have 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.440 you ever thought about how much you're worth? I mean 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.600 your your body, not like your like sense of like value, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:15.000 the street value of my body exactly. Look, yeah, I'll 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.920 run it down. What you have, what you're working with? 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.320 All right, You've got a body. It's sixty oxygen carbon, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:28.799 ten percent hydrogen, nitrogen, and calcium by percent phosphorus. Then 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:35.360 you've got some trace elements potassium, sulfur, odium, chlorine, magnesium, iron, iodine, silicone, 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.920 a bunch of manganese, fluorine, copper, zinc, arsenic, aluminum, just 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.240 a bunch of stuff. Right now, if we set the 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.040 prices for all these minerals, and we ignore the recent 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.360 spike in rare earth mineral prices and inflation prices, and 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:51.280 we just go off of like nas your body would 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.320 be worth five dollars. That's generous. Yeah, not just your body, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.119 my body. Anybody's body is about worth five dollars. Mine 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.040 might be worth a little more because I've all those percentages, 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:08.040 but attitude, like a T shirt, does the gold or 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.240 silver in my mouth count? Because I have gold and silver? 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.400 So I guess bump up. Like but when I asked 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.719 all that, I don't really mean what is your body's worth? 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.680 But like, let's just consider well, I mean we do 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.560 put a price tag on body part, like you are 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:30.800 walking fine like a black market kidney. Okay, I'm thinking 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.200 living body. No, no, no, I mean, like you know, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.360 like individual you can put it on a scale body parts. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.479 So look at kidney, Like what will that run you 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.480 about a couple of grands on the black market? Right? Yeah, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.520 I would imagine it seems about right. I don't really 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.080 know the prices. I don't talk to people who like 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.560 harvest kidneys, but I read some new stories. I see 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.840 the prices. Well, they're supply chain issues now and for 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.640 are and with inflation, the prices have got have been 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.919 going up. So Let's say you have, um, just one kidney, right, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.719 how much would one kidney be worth? Because you know 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.800 it's gonna be very valuable to the person who's waiting 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.159 for the transplant, right right, right, And we typically sell 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:07.240 functional organs on the black market. So basically the price 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.880 and the value of that organ depends on how useful 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.560 it is, right well, and how clean it is, how 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.240 clean it is, So someone who doesn't really drink a 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.200 lot of water and holds their p in a lot, 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.719 their kidneys are not going to be very valuable. Are 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.279 you looking at me? I feel like you're looking at me. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.440 Let's just say sometimes I run a little dark. I 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.520 think you're telling on yourself here. So let's just say 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 you go like, there's a four day old kidney, right, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.760 the four day old kiddy. No nobody wants a four 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.720 day o kiddy. You need a fresh kid You need 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.200 a fransplant. Right. So after a couple of days, no 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.280 matter how good the kidney is, how about how clean 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.039 the person is, how much water they drink, it doesn't 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.600 matter because the kidney is going to go bad after 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.520 a couple of days of the body right spoil, which 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.680 we'll call it right now, let's flip it and let's 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.560 say it doesn't matter we're not using the kidney for transplant. 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.080 Let's just say we want to own the kidney because 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.479 it once belonged to Prince. It's Prince's kidney. How much 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.640 for Prince his kidney on the open market right now? 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.359 That totally changes thing. Even though it's just one kidney, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.320 it's still more valuable because of whose it was, right right, Okay? 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.440 Essentially how much you think prince is kidney would be worth? 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.160 I don't know. I think like it depends, I suppose 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.280 on on what people want it for. Yeah, I think 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.599 that's very key. Is it going to be sort of 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.839 like freeze dried and then crushed pulverized into a dust 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.479 that people could snort? Is it going to be used? 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.360 I was thinking, like you're going to crush it up 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.120 and they give away a little pieces like the True Cross, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.520 and like the fans could all get a piece of 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.640 their kidney. Oh yeah, they could sell that as a 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.120 commemorative or you could blend that dust into like some 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:49.640 purple paint and then paint your Chevy shovel Prince is 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:56.360 kidney purple paint your Ford Taurus Prince Purple, Prince Kidney Purple, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.040 I like that likes going with I, you know, to 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.320 be on Shark Tank. You really should. I mean the 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.680 business center you have, it's amazing. It's amazing. So now 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.280 let's just go to our man of the hour, Albert Einstein. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.320 That's right. What do you think the value of, say, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.240 his brain would be on the open market. Now that's 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:17.400 interesting because I would think that for research purposes that 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.520 people are you laughing at me? I think that's honey. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.440 Research purposes are like we can just unlock the brain 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.120 and find the stuff. Well, I mean, like, what if 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.360 go with me on this one here, seatbelt it go on. 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.360 But if you look at Einstein's brain and then you 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:38.080 cut it open and there's like gems inside, special brain 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.080 gems that we didn't know existed. Oh snap, what if 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.440 other people have the brain gems? How do we activate them? 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.520 What if you cut it open and then a little 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.560 man jumps out? This, by the way, would love this too. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.920 The cart is a little man who jumps out of 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.240 the brain. See where I'm going with this. It makes 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:58.800 so much sense. I'm just waiting for you to get 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.720 to the pineal gland and the seat of the soul 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.920 and we'll just have all. Well, the issue of Albert 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.200 Einstein's brain and what it's worth has actually been a 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.480 debate for about almost a century. I found this out 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.720 when I was researching. It turns out that the world 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.280 famous Jewish physicist was a target of the Nazis, and 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 they had designs on his head. In fact, so much 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:24.040 they put a price on his head. Now, according to 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.960 the journalist Michael Patternettie or Paternity He and I quote, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.400 in nineteen thirty three, a German newspaper reported that Theme 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.800 and Extreme Nationals organization had put a bounty of five 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.760 thousand dollars on Einstein's head. When he heard the news, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.640 Einstein touched his hair and said, I did not know 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.079 what was worth so much. Then he fled first to 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.360 Britain and onto the United States to Princeton. We're in 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.400 nineteen forty he became an American citizen. Five thousand dollars 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.719 on Einstein's head back then. This is why when you 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.440 see a Nazi, you punch a Nazi completely, like no question. Yeah, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.320 this is of mindset. This is what we have to 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.440 stamp out. YEA. So Einstein big fan of America. He 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.400 gets to America flees the Germans. They don't get to 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.760 put a price on his head. Now when he gets here, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.680 his head is still super valuable. And I don't just 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.199 mean that the theory of relativity and the photo electric 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.120 effect and all the various things that he gave to 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.760 the world of science, but also by this time, and 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.040 we're now after after World War Two, we're into the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.959 fifties and Israel has been formed, and Israel says, you 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.360 know what his head is worth it as the leader 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.880 of a new state. We could have Einstein be the 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.800 first prime minister of Israel. So they go to him, 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.120 they go, hey, Albi, he want to be a prime 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:36.400 minister and he's like, no, I'm working on the world 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.319 peace right now. I swear to God this is his thing. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.240 He turns down being the leader of the newly founded 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.840 Israel because he was really worried about the atomic age. Now, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.200 I I don't know about you, but I just kind 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.720 of imagine his father sitting there like Senator Einstein, Governor Einstein, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.160 I had such hopes for you think he I think 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.679 he's surpassed all that. Well, no, it's the whole Godfather. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.480 I was just picturing, like, you know, He's family would 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.240 be so upset to him not to be the leader 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.680 of Israel. I'm just guessing. I don't have no idea. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.280 Maybe his father didn't care about world politics. But the 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.520 point is that Einstein, he wades into world politics, decides 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.720 it's not for him. He finds that the world leaders 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.720 are resistant to change. So by the fifties, he's pretty 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.160 much just focusing on his gravity research and trying to 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.720 get the last bit of his theory relativity all like 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.680 worked out, so you can include gravity because he's over 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.719 the Earth. He's just like by nine five, Einstein is 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.880 now seventy six years old. Okay, he feels worn out. Einstein, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.120 he remarks to a friend in the weeks that leading 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.280 up to him getting a hospitalized. He says, I finished 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.200 my task here. He's just done right now. At the 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.560 same time, his doctors are warning him like, hey, Albert, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.840 we need to perform surgery. You got this condition and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.559 your body. Your a orta is hardening, You got issues 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.600 with your arteries. You can suffer a fatal aneurysm. So Einstein, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.640 when here's this from his docks, he tells them, lets 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.280 it burst. I don't know why my Einstein is so 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.160 all over the place, but there you go. So dude's 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.400 done with you. Ear if he's like just all the 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.240 way over what I've said? Right. So, as his health 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.559 is deteriorated, he's admitted to Princeton Hospital. His son Hans Albert, 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.520 flies out to from Berkeley, California, where he's a professor, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.880 and his stepdaughter, Margot, she's there by his bedside. Everyone 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.880 wants to succeed him for his last moments, and on 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.360 a Sunday night, the attending doctor checks on Einstein. He 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.199 seems to be fine. His son should be there in 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.640 the morning. Sometime after midnight, the nurse, a woman named 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.839 Alberta Rosel. She comes into Einstein's room to check on him. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.000 She finds him labored breathing. He's just struggling to breathe. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.320 He looks real pale, He's thin from not eating, and 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.720 at this moment he's just sitting there muttering in his 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.839 native German. The nurse listening to Einstein, she doesn't speak German. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.199 It's totally lost on her. Whatever she's saying. He then 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.359 kind of sits up, takes in two big inhales, exhales, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.240 and passes away. His final words are lost to time 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.680 because the German is misunderstood by the nurse. It's like 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.080 the curse of a genius. He's last words are misunderstood. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.120 So the next morning, the world learns of Einstein's passing. Right, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.040 so this news conference is hastily announced by Princeton Hospital. Meanwhile, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.800 around this same time, in the basement, there's a crime 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.560 going down. Yes, hospital pathologist Dr Thomas Harvey is scheduled 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.520 performing autopsy of Einstein's body. His mentor couldn't make it, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.360 so the task fell to him. So time to meet 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.880 our anti hero of sorts, Thomas Harvey. Now, I want 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.160 you to just try to get you into the mind 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.400 of this Guy's a forty two year old doctor. He's 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.080 a husband, father of two. He was raised by Quaker 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.360 parents in a Louisville community. He would later attend Yale, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.160 then he would go to med school. There, he gets 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.480 a job at Princeton Hospital, where he's now working as 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.480 a pathologist. Up and commerce striver. Good career in front 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.760 of him right now. Before he performs the autopsy on Einstein, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.520 Dr Harvey had met Einstein a few times. He knows 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.360 the guy had gone to his house to take blood 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:57.120 work and I quote Dr harveystead of Einstein. He was 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.360 very informal and cordial, a very kind sort of man. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.440 Right now, he hadn't, as I said, he had not 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.400 expected to be the one to cut open Einstein's body. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.800 He was supposed to be his mentor, doctor Harry Zimmerman, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.160 who was a neuro anatomist at Yale. Right. But as 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:18.240 Dr Harvey recalled from and I quote a fellow up 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.800 in New York, my former teacher, Dr Harry Zimmerman, he 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.640 was going to do the autopsy, but then he couldn't 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.800 get away. He rang me up and we agreed that 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:31.480 I'd do it. Imagine my surprise cast them into this role, right, Okay, Elizabeth, 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.760 We're going to take a trip back in time to April, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.200 to the fateful Princeton Hospital, and I want you to 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:42.319 picture it. I'm there, okay, the day April eighteenth, nine 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.280 fifty five, in the Princeton Hospital morgue lies the body 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.320 of the world's most famous scientist. It's near eight am 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.280 in the morning and Dr Harvey arrives at the morgue. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.920 It's a green tiled room, well lit, quiet as a crypt. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.040 You see that there are all sorts of hoses and 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.959 vacuum tube, as well as silver bowls, stainless steel hand tools. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.160 There's a scale for weighing organs, as the operating tables, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.680 and of course there's that really big refrigerator unit for 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.600 all the dead bodies. Now you watch the scene as 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.600 it plays out before you. Now for the rest of us, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.720 I'll read from the account from journalists Michael Praternity. Quote. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.400 Harvey says he took a scalpel in his fingers and 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.000 sliced Albert Einstein open with a y incision, tracing down 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.480 from each collar bone and scoring the belly, the skin 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.840 giving away like cellophane. Now, after the skin is peeled open, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.120 you marvel at the glistening organs revealed. It's like looking 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.040 at slim good body. Except for slim good body, it's 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:40.280 a seventy six year old German American physicists exactly that. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.760 Doctor Harvey reaches into the cadaver and you see him 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.400 as he quote pulled back two heavy slaps of skin 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.200 like drapes. He took a saw on his right hand 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.280 and cut open Einstein's chest. Inside the wet wonderland of 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.680 the body, his wet his body is a wet wind 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.520 and he like that, So the smell were, at least 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.640 from this wet wonderland was just as intoxicating and intense 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.680 as you can imagine. Right. So, You're watching Dr Harvey 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.880 route around in Einstein's chest cavity, and as Paternity puts 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.520 suit quote, he remembers fingering Einstein's heart and then then 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.160 the stomach. Then a criminal temptation sets in. You watch 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.120 as the doctor decides and then axe on his plan 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.400 to steal the brain of the genius quote. Working quickly 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.240 with a knife, Harvey taunsered the scalp, slicing from below 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.480 one of Einstein's ears, around the back of the head 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.200 to the other ear, and then up and over the 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.120 crown of the skull in an arcing motion. The skin 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.040 peeled back from the bone with a ripping sound like 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.080 masking tape being pulled away from a surface. Harvey again 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.000 shocked to the skin on the face side, so that 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.680 now the dome of vanilla white skull was revealed in 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.360 its entirety. Bearing down on a bus saw, he cut 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.000 through Einstein's head. He cracked the skull like a coconut. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.600 He removed a cap of bone, peeled back to the 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.520 viscus menengus and snipped the connecting blood vessels and nerve 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.880 bundles and spinal cord. And then at last, and there 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.760 it was a huge, rough pearl. He reached with his 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.400 fingers into the chalice of the man's creatium and removed 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.640 the glistening brain. I am so queasy right now. I'm 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:12.040 so sorry. That was Oh so pathologists. You watch him, 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.680 is he secrets away of the brain? You know, I 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.800 love a gross out, but yeah, that's a bit much. So. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.800 Dr Harvey's sitting there with you know, Einstein's brain in 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.560 his hand, playing like you know, York with York. He decides, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.760 I'm gonna keep this thing for myself. I gotta have this, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.400 and so he's secrets away the stolen brain. He fills 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.000 out the death certificate, official cause rusher of the arterial 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.920 sclerotic puts in birthplace OLM, Germany, citizen of USA, occupation scientist. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.200 And that wasn't like that. It would take a while 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.760 for the world to learn the brain of Albert Einstein 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.200 had just been stolen, grabbed like a cat burglar snatching 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.840 up crown jewels. And after this break, we'll get into 0:16:52.880 --> 0:17:16.240 what happened to Einstein's wet calculator. Welcome back, Elizabeth. You 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.240 have a chance to towel off and kind of recollect yourself. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.160 I got some fresh air, I drank some water, blinked 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.040 really hard. Okay, Okay, I'll be okay. I got no 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.919 more gross outs for you. All right, this is just 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.320 pure narrative now. Okay. Now we have a brainless Albert 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.280 Einstein and a press conference coming up to announce his passing. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.399 The Princeton hospital is all abuzz. Oh, and a press 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.679 conference that they said, and they're going to wheel him out. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.879 We can. We did, had convertible lines. It took like 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.280 an old sweater and shoved it in the cavity where 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.440 his brain was. Oh look what I'm doing. Now, where 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:53.000 is today's newspaper? Because the intrigue is just beginning. Okay, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.760 we have the this press conference, and down in the 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.560 basement is brainless Albert Einstein. Things are about to go 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.600 off the rail for Domino to check on. For of course, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.600 Dr Harvey he claims he never stole Einstein's brain. He 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.399 hasn't been his story forever. He always claims. Look, it 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.520 was just the big misunderstanding. Sure, you know, like hops 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.120 I was like, oh, I meant to put it back, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.600 he got stuck in. I took it home in my 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.680 car keys I was like, oh, I should bring this back. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.560 I hate when that happens. And then I didn't have 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.639 anything to put it in. So anyway, the idea is 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.920 unlike to say, the wrong briefcase he tooks home, it 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.240 is actually he's very aware that he took Einstein's brain him. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.360 Come on, dude, you know you took a brain home 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.359 with you. I mean, unless his house is riddled with 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.040 other random brains, no, actually know it is like his 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.640 only one. Only it's the beginning of his brain collection. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.639 His home brain locker is empty save Einstein's brain. He 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.400 just has one very important brain. So Dr Harvey explains, 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.040 and I quote from told us to the Miami Herald quote. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.200 I was the one who removed the brain, of course, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.359 and had it. The family knew that I knew some 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.639 good neuropathologists, and so I guess asked me to keep it. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.200 They thought it might throw some light on his genius. 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.000 I guess, so he's of your mind. There just there 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.720 may be some brain gems in there. We can find crystals, 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.080 brain crystals, power crystals, you know all the various head 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.000 crystals that have possibly up there. Now, he also wasn't alone. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.160 I pointed out that you were there for the most 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.359 But then also there was Dr Otto Nathan, who was 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.480 a colleague and a friend of his and also was 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.240 the executor of the Einstein literary estate, so he had 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.840 the family's blessing somewhat, and he was just there as 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:33.400 a spectator, like an emotional support, a sandwich and a drink, 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.800 going yeah, cut in and then I'm like up in 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:40.040 the eaves, dry heaving now. But he's he's a doctor, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:41.800 he's a little more familiar. He'd gone through all of 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.680 the like desensitization necessary for these guys. It must have 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.080 been like hot tickets, like I'm gonna cut Einstein, open 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:50.920 you one in on this. He's like, oh, yeah, you 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.120 want to see the wet wonderland of ees. He's wearing 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:58.560 his Einstein T shirt. He's going to the concert. Dr Nathan, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.320 He's apparent he was fully aware of what everything was 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.160 going on. And this is what Dr Harvey says. Now, 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.520 there was another doctor there, Dr Dean, who he was 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.560 the one who signed the official death certificate. So two 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.280 other doctors are there to apparently see this theft go down, 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.680 if it indeed went down. After the autopsy, they take 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.840 Einstein's body over to a funeral home, then over to 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:22.440 a crematorium. So he was he was cremated, and the 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.080 family sprinkled his ashes in the river, and they basically 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.840 freedom from his earthly existence except for the brain. The 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.120 brain remained here, and so he had people in there 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.359 as witnesses. He would he used like a sleight of hand, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.480 shove it in his pocket. Look over there. He wasn't. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.280 He was by himself for a few minutes. So there 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.960 was an opportunity, and you know what that means. Opportunity 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:50.280 pants part of motive. So news leaks about this stolen brain. 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.679 It somehow gets out. Turns out the news story is 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:55.560 such that it makes all the way up to the 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.280 New York Times, and New York Times writes about it, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.679 and they run with the headline, key saw it in 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.960 Einstein brain, which is a great headline. I like that one. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.920 So the news story spoke about Einstein's brain. Quote may 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.880 shed light on one of nature's greatest mysteries, the secret 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.840 of genius. So everybody's right there with you on this 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.199 idea that Einstein's brain must be able to reveal to 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.560 us something about how he constructed the reality he did. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:19.280 They want to talk to the little man who lives 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.520 in there exactly. Knock knock. Can we talk to day Card? 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.359 You know who's in there? Buzz the animatronic. That's what 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.919 it's all coming together. Now, he's making connections all like this. 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.160 So there's a second press conference scheduled for a couple 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.080 of weeks to announce like what they're gonna do with 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:39.520 the brain. The second press conference doesn't materialize because the 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.000