WEBVTT - Hey Paal! Did You Steal Edvard Munch's "The Scream"? 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:05.840 Ridiculous Crime. It's a production of Iheartradiobe. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.160 Sorry, Hi, So I have a question for you. Yeah, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:12.880 because I saw you walk in with this big smile 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:14.319 on your face. I don't want to ruin it, so 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.880 I'm just gonna ask you a question. Feels ridiculous, I do. 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:18.160 I knew it from the look. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.800 I know what's ridiculous. You like corn? Right? 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:22.600 Both the band? 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.800 Yeah, both the vegetable the edible treat and then with 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.760 a k the band. Do you like that the lead 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:32.000 singer Jonathan Davis. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.040 Oh, yeah, totally. He and I are both style kings 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.519 when it comes to the Didas tracksuit being our signature love. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.840 Yes. Well, here's another area in which he's a style king. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.400 He has a company called Freak on a Leash, which 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.000 is the name of the band's song, one of. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.440 The songs, one of their big hits. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.240 Freak on a Leash is a pet accessory company. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.520 That's right there. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.920 That's right there. And so he has a new collaboration 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:04.080 with some I don't know, some like celebrity stylist. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.400 Wait a minute, is give me the first mashup? I like? 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:12.640 I think so. Ashton Michael is Ashton Herona is a 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:18.679 I guess he's a stylist anyway, Ashton Heroda Ashton. He 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.039 has a company, Ashton Michael. They're doing a. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.000 Collab Ashton Michael. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.560 With freaking elish graphic bandanas, a ouigi plush toy, a 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.560 suede tug rope toy. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.039 Maybe say aigi board like the what do they call it? 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.400 A plank like the select type thing? 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.040 Yeah, what's that called it? Anyway? 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:40.640 You know, boards mouse. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.680 It's happened to me a couple of times in my 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.120 life where I have to remember what that word is. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.560 Plank at plank. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.520 Plantchett, planchet. Oh, that's what you're looking. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.200 For, Elizabeth, you did it again where you go? So, yeah, 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.639 you can see that they A'm showing you a picture 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.160 right now. Yes, huh. It's basically looks like those studded 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.560 punk belts. Yeah, kind of, you know, you know, full disclosure. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.080 I've got two dogs now, it's true, and I don't 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.639 think either of them would look appropriate in free condition. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.079 You don't think so. Even if I like split to 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.120 them and like, I like, try this on, they're less 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.760 corn your flesh Mama will love more. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.720 Like Grateful Dead seventy four. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.320 Mellows like you know they belong in like a. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.400 Garden, Yeah, like an Almond Brothers, like. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.320 A solo broken glass. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.240 No, no, they're not bad Boy Joneses. They're sweety pies. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.680 But yeah, so anyway, free condilish dog apparel. There's an 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.760 entire website. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.560 Of course, this is ridiculous. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.840 You got me to like, I know, I found a 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.720 mashup corn and dog collars. 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:50.680 Collars. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.720 Well, they have like a harness that looks like a 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.680 little like denim vest from the dirt bag, very fun 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.919 from the ice cell sing lit cigarettesleveless gas station parking lot. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:07.680 We freighted yet took a jacket and cut the slee patches. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.320 For like corn. And then you go up to the 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.280 dog and you're like, name three songs. You're not a 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.919 real corn fans. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.040 The owner's looking at me all strange. What's wrong with you? Man? 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.640 Hey man? You're your dog's always coming at me with this. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.040 You're the one with a freak on a leash. See, 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.040 there's so much right there right there. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.640 Well, I got a question for you. That's not that, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.080 do you know? 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:30.920 It's ridiculous? 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.000 You know how they say what made the Mona Lisa famous? 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.920 Isn't that it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.200 Is Leonardo DiCaprio. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 No, that not that either, Elizabeth. Yeah, you need to 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.040 go back to school, open the schools. And it isn't 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.800 because it's a priceless masterpiece. It is. I mean, it's 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.280 a priceless masterpiece. But that's not why it's famous. Apparently 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.760 it's famous because, as we've covered here on the show before, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.280 the Mona Lisa became famous when it was stolen. Yes, yes, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.080 I guess what, Elizabeth, that's also the reason that the 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.960 painting the Scream is famous. Oh really, at least that's 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.840 the guy who stole it, says. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.680 And he would say that, he would. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.680 This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous campers, 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:36.720 heist sands cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:42.960 and one hundred percent ridiculous. Baby is Elizabeth Darren today. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.880 I would like to start our story by reading from 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.960 a diary. I would, but don't worry, it's not my diary. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.039 I don't keep a diary. My Pops taught me you 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.120 don't keep notes on a criminal conspiracy. Wait wait, I'm 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.040 being told on my airpiece that was not my pops. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.040 Stringer Bell from the wire either way. I don't keep 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.120 a diary, but you know who does, or rather who did? 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.719 Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter. 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:04.200 Yeah. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.440 Do you know much about him? 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:06.120 No? 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.120 Okay, Well he was well and this is from the 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.800 New York Times description of him, and I quote a 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.200 troubled recluse who lived in only two rooms of a 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.760 large house in Oslo, the rest of which was filled 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.159 with storage boxes, clutter, and paintings that he refused to sell. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.080 When he died in nineteen forty four at age eighty, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.760 he willed his art to the city, which built the 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.480 Munch Museum house. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.320 It dream setup now sadly, as the Time. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.040 Also notes, quote, city officials have been criticized for spending 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.719 too little to protect and promote it. Oh yeah, so 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.920 what about his artwork though, well. 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:48.600 What about it? It's very very sensual, very not central 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.200 as it's troubled. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.360 Yeah, I would say, vivid colors, ving much like van 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.240 Go where he is working with heavy brushstrokes, yes, and 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.160 heavy mental heaviness. So yeah, he very much drew him 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.320 from his experience of life. Right. So, for instance, the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.279 inspiration of his most famous work came from a sunset 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.720 he saw one day. Story goes, he's out walking with 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.040 a pair of friends. The sun is setting. It's amazing. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:19.120 He's overcome. The mood was severe. It captivates his mind. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.240 Right the sky looks like blood Edvard Munch pauses a moment, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.240 tells his friends, I need to take this all in right. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.200 He sits down or whatever, like on a fence, leans 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.359 on it whatever. He's overcome by the beauty, the horror 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.159 of this blood red sky. He says, it's like tongues 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.400 of fire licking the heavens above a blue black fjord. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.520 Those are his words right now. We all know this 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.400 because he recorded in his diary. On January twenty second, 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.560 eighteen ninety two, Edvard Munch scribbled in his diary, and 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.560 I quote one in the evening, I was walking along 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.840 a path. The city was on one side and the 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.080 fjord below. I felt tired and ill, and I stopped 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.040 and looked out over the fjord. The sun was setting, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.720 and the clouds turning blood red, and a scream passing 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.800 through nature. It seemed to me that I heard the scream. 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.960 I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.600 The color shrieked. This became the scream, Elizabeth, I can 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.400 only assume that you were familiar with the painting the Scream. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:19.160 Do you like it? 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.680 Uh, it's not it's not that I don't like it. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.760 I don't have, you know, strong feelings either way. I 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.840 think it's hearing this story. It's really interesting because you 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.680 don't really think of sunsets, at least I don't in 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.600 that sort of sinister I mean, you can have it 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.120 in kind of a melancholy way, but a scream go 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.720 through nature. Yeah, it seems more urgent, and it's. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.520 Like we're in a Hertzog. Only he would hear the 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.680 scream in nature, in a sunset exactly. Now, there's some 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.160 theories that what Munch was experiencing that afternoon on his 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.480 walk with his friends we would now call a panic attack. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.880 The painting is an artist rendition of a panic attack. Now, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.160 I don't know if I agree with that or even 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.560 really like that theory. I mean, it's fun to contemplate, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.200 but I really this diagnosing things retroactively, even if it applies, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.320 And I'm like, but you know me, I'm not a 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.920 big fan of labels anyway. Edvard Munch he paints the 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.000 Scream in eighteen ninety three. In fact, he painted it 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.520 multiple times, twice in pastels, twice in oils, as if 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.400 you were seeking a way to capture what he experienced, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.720 that scream of nature. Right, there's another interesting theory about 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.880 the painting that Edvard Munch saw that day, the tongues 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.560 of fire licking the heavens over the blue black fjord 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.840 and those blood red skies, and there may have been 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:30.000 a meteorological cause for it. Okay, So some scholars suggested 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.400 Edvard Munch was so taken with the sky because of 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:37.280 the eruption of the supervolcano Krakatoa. Like it was huge, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.280 It was massive when it erupted. People nineteen hundred miles 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.520 away in Perth, Australia heard the explosion. People three thousand 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.680 miles away, and Mauritius they heard the explosion, three thousand 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.160 miles away heard the explosions. It destroyed seventy percent of 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.880 the island of Krakatoa when it went off, right, So 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.040 it turned sky's blood red with the ash and dust 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.840 all around the globe, right, just darken skies, including as 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.600 far away as Norway. Yeah, there's only one problem with 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.439 this theory though. Edvard Moons painted the scream in eighteen 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.679 ninety three, and Krakatoa erupted in eighteen eighty three, a 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.920 full decade earlier. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.000 Well, he could have been sitting on that idea for 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:11.600 a decade. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.800 Sure, the skies were not blood red for a decade though, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.959 So it's doubtful that the super volcano. But perhaps he did. Wait, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.800 but he makes it seem as if he painted it 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:20.720 very urgent. 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:25.000 Yes, remember when the wildfire's here. It was during COVID time, 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.640 so I think it was like what twenty. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:27.920 Twenty, Yeah, the Blade Runner Scots. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.920 Yeah, we're an entire day now that that is something 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:35.000 that kind of was panic inducing for you. Yeah, because 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:39.320 it was so unsettling. It was perpetual sunset all day long. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.520 Everything was orange and red. When he looked outside, that 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.120 the entire sky, everything. 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.800 It was gonna go away. So I love it, But. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.800 Then I kept thinking, what if it doesn't. That's the 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.720 worst case scenario. And it was really unsettling, and it was. 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.120 It was weird in terms of, you know, disrupting your 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.840 circadian of them, your sense of time of day. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.440 Yes, overcast guys do that too. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:03.480 Me. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.319 Yeah, I can't tell. But I used the sun to 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.400 mark time. Okay a lot. It's no I do. But 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.520 it's just a habit I got into as a house painter. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.920 You're outside all the time. You know exactly where the 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.880 sun's at this point, it means that suns at this point, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.800 it means that you use the sun just subtly to 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:19.120 kind of track your day. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:20.840 Yes, when it's overcast, you're just. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.600 Like, I'm screwed. I have no que They am, Yeah, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:25.520 I'm I'm like a guy with a sun dial. I'm like, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:26.840 I can't tell you what time. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.679 It is, but I mean I could see how that 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.920 kind of if it was Krakatoa, it would, you know, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.480 stay with you and then maybe. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.640 You know, five years from now you see it again. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:41.560 Really terrifying poem about this blade Runner Scott. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.080 There's another theory for what inspired the world famous painting. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.440 It's based on the view that the view of the 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.000 painting like actually what you see. People figured out where 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.120 he was standing for that picture. It was identified as 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.600 this road in Oslo that looks out from the hill 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.160 of Echaburg, and coincidentally, Edward Munch's sister Laura cap there 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.160 and lived at the base of the Echoburg hill, So 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.440 maybe he was visiting her. We don't know she lived 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.640 in a mental asylum one that was next door to 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:07.479 a slaughterhouse. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.640 Oh that's great place, right, So. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.520 Perhaps walking past where his sister was locked up in 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.040 a lunatic asylum next to a slaughterhouse. Overcame him and 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.679 the blood Red Skies were like, oh I hear the 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:16.640 scream of nature. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:21.440 Oh God in Dublin, isn't the I think the Guinness 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.680 factory is right by a hospital for alcoholics, is it really? Yeah? 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:26.720 But it doesn't smell good. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.280 Yeah, the war they used for the beer. It just 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.600 it really had the malts and everything. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:37.440 Ye say, but you know you got it. It's location location. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.000 I'm telling you a slaughterhouse next to an asylum. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:42.200 Some bad zoning. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.480 What we do know is that on August twenty second, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.040 two thousand and four, the scream was stolen. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:47.760 What. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.080 Yeah, out of all all these theories, Elizabeth, two thousand 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.360 and four, August twenty second, two thousand. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.680 And four, I don't think I knew that. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.360 Yeah, I want to tell you about that. So sit back, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.160 they're comfortable, and you know what, Elizabeth, closed your eyes. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.120 Wait, I want you to picture as you're pulling an 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:05.080 early one like me. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.760 It's August twenty second, two thousand and four. It's been 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.479 a quiet morning in the Moons Museum in Oslo, Norway. Elizabeth, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.160 you are a candy wrapper, one that was intended for 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.640 the trash but slipped from a child's hand and you 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.080 missed the waste receptacle. Now you sit on the museum floor, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.000 tucked up behind the trash band. Wrinkled and crinkled as 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.839 you are, you still have quite the view of the 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.000 museum's paintings on display, so you've been enjoying your day 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.920 as a museum Goers circulate past you. No one stoops 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.040 to pick you up. They're too focused on the artwork 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.079 to notice a discarded candy wrapper. Laughing children, past couples 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.839 on first dates, amble passed, engaged in that flirtatious appraisals 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.200 of art. For the last few hours, you've done some 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.800 people watching, but mostly you've been contemplating the pained anguish 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.640 of the figure in the world famous painting The Scream, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.920 by the namesake of the museum, Edvard Munch. As a 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.720 candy wrapper, you have little conception of the larger conversations 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.760 of the art world, nor are you familiar with the 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.720 developments of the expression movement of the late nineteenth century. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.679 But you know what you like, and you are captivated 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.040 by Munch's use of color to convey his interiority. The 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.120 emotional landscape becomes the physical landscape. If you could paint, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.880 you would like to paint like Edvard Munch. From your 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.839 vantage on the floor, you also have a view of 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.720 the front door to the museum. And around twenty minutes 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:24.120 after eleven am, your reverie of artistic contemplation is disturbed 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.520 when you see two men running up to the museum, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.439 right at the sliding glass door. And you know it's 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.599 trouble because both men are wearing dark hoodies and balaklava 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.000 face masks. They look like real criminals. You watch as 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.080 they race up to the museum and slam into the 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.720 sliding glass door. Both art thieves bounce off the glass, stunned. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.200 They pick themselves up like birds that have run into 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.920 a window. They wait for the sliding glass door to open, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.920 and then they charge into the museum. You watch them 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.199 start off to the right, but then they come back 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.320 and run. They go to the left, then a moment 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.480 later they come back into view. They look around a 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.280 moment then they go back to the left, and then 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.000 they finally come back into view and they locate what 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.160 they've come for. It's right in front of you. Right 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.400 there in the central room of the museum where you 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.520 are is Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, And then, as 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.160 if the painting itself has come alive, you hear a 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.240 piercing scream. The shriek is likely due to the fact 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.680 one of the art band it's is brandishing a hell 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.520 of a handgun, more like a hand cannon. It's a 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.760 nickel plated three fifty seven magnum pistols, and you don't 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.240 see many of those in Europe, especially not in an 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.280 art museum. Patrons shriek and scream. They gather up their children, 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.880 others shield their dates from danger, while others just flee. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.800 Being a candy wrapper, you have no other options than 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.240 to watch the art thieves get to work. One of 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.160 the thieves grabs Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. He grabs 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.240 hold of the paintings frame. It's wired to the wall, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.080 so the thief gives a good hard yank. The wires 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.080 go spraying and they give loose the painting. You spot 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.280 one of the security guards rush into the central room, 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.720 drawn in by the screens and the street, but he 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.640 stops running when he sees the art Bandit level his 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.080 three point fifty seven magnum at the unarmed security guard's head. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.280 The man freezes in place. He stares at the gun 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.720 pressed to his forehead. His eyes go cross. One of 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.680 the art thieves speaks Norwegian. You hear him tell everyone 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.600 to act cool and no one will get hurt. He 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.960 starts at the security guard whose head he's pressing the 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.160 barrel of his gun against. His second art thief starts 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.000 for the door. The one with the handcannon slowly backs 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.320 up and then follows him out, but as if he 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.360 doesn't want to leave without a souvenir of his own, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.560 one of the other Munch masterpieces catches his eye, so 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.800 he grabs hold of it with another hard yank. This 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.440 one doesn't give so easily, so he pulls wirecutters from 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.520 a pocket. Snip and the wires go scrying, and then 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.160 he runs off with the stolen painting. He doesn't make 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.120 it far before he stumbles drops the masterpiece. The other thief, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.280 the one with the scream, looks back to see what happens, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.080 and wouldn't you know what? He also trips and bails. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.000 Both art thieves are down, the masterpiece is on the floor. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.880 Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt. If you could laugh, you would. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.960 But the art thieves are quick to their feet. They 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.760 wave their handguns to remind the museum goers. Don't get 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.600 any big ideas. No one makes the move. As I've said, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.480 the burglars grabbed their stolen booty and race for the 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.000 sliding glass door. This time they don't run into the 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.960 glass door. They wait for it. The slide open, and 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.800 then the dawn. You spot a patron outside the museum 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.400 as she snaps a photo of the art bandits as 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.480 they flee. Meanwhile, back inside the museum, as museum goers 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.800 breathed a sigh of relief, you marvel that this all 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.520 happened in less than a minute and a half. Away, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.000 When it was all over and the art was heisted 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.080 and no one was hurt, the museum director went and 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.960 spoke to the press, because that's what they do. He 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.480 applauded the security guard for insuring everyone's safety. Yeah, he 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.400 made sure. As I said, nobody. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:47.440 Moved, nobody get hurt. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.280 Now the museum director even defended the guard's action, noting 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.840 that if you have a pistol or a revolver pointed 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.000 at your head, there is not much you can do 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.360 in Norway, not even the police carry guns. Once the 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.440 news broke, the nation was aghast. I mean, who steals 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.960 their national treasure? Why? 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:06.240 Yeah, like, who do they. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.760 Possibly think they can sell this painting to the city 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.600 Government's like sell it to us? So they offer a 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.760 reward for the state of return of the painting. The 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.480 reward was huge, big, two million Norwegian kroner. Wow, Elizabeth, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.760 I know you love to know exchange rates and monetary 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.880 conversions and inflation in this case, yes, so for this one, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.000 first I had to calculate the inflation of the Norwegian 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.320 kroner and then convert that into dollars. But I did 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.639 it for you. Thank two million Norwegian croners in two 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.480 thousand and four would be about thirty one million now 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:38.320 thirty million, six hundred and eighty six dollars. Yes, but 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.680 that's really that's nothing for these This painting is worth 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.399 an insane amount, So it's not it's like it sounds big, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.160 but it's worth hundreds of millions. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.200 So yeah, But if it's worth hundreds of millions, and 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.720 you think about how much gets shaved off, Yeah, by 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.159 fences and all this stuff. Like take a cool thirty 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.399 one mill in the city. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.560 Yeah, I take it now. To help sweeten the offered reward, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.879 the candy maker M and MS offered that they would 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.320 match that offer by the city of Oslo. Wait, yes, 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.440 but instead of Kroner, they'd pay out two million eminems. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.000 Where are they getting up in the business. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.600 They love the painting, they love the screen. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:12.840 Wait what I know? 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:13.159 All right? 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.920 They just just like, oh and we'll give you EM 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.480 and MS or like when nobody asked. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.640 For We're just needing some free advertising here, all right. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.600 We got a new account executive. He just really wanted 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:21.720 to move forward with this. We thought it was a 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.159 good idea. Mean, come on, guys, who doesn't love M 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:24.640 and MS. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.919 Why are you inserting yourself into a crime? 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.440 Melts in your hand, not in your mouth? 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:33.399 But I just don't understand. So yeah, like you're just 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.280 this random brand. You find out something's been sold, You're like, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.960 you know what, I'm gonna how about this, I'll give 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.000 you seven thousand tacos Taco Bell exactly do you hand 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.720 that back over? What is that? What's this got to 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.920 do midro business? Worry about yourself? No, no, no, I want 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.240 in on this. I want my name associated with it. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.280 What I mean, like, you see the scream is on 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:55.920 like socks dogs. 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.120 Oh yeah, and it's emoji. 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.800 I mean, it's whatever, but it's like Emine. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.400 There's a whole series of movies with it. But that's 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.080 the character the scream goes. 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:06.120 That's supposed to be that one? Is it? 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:06.480 I think? 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:06.560