August 10, 2021 • 46 mins
In the ninth episode of Truth Hounds, Anna and Kyle don’t have an investigation, so they both decide to grill - separately. However, things change when they receive a tip on the tip-line about a … curious object. Will they be able to grill in peace?
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Hosted by Anna Seregina @cashmoneygranpa & Kyle Mizono @jylemizono.
Edited by Adam Wand @Adam_Wand.
Produced by Anna Hossnieh & Miles Gray.
Special thanks to Whitney.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
(00:21):
makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much, but what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
(00:42):
are ready to sniff around? We are the truth Hounds.
Oh hey, Kyle, Hi, Hey, it's s Annah. Hi, Hi,
(01:02):
Hi are you? Are you busy right now? Yeah? Actually,
I'm just in the middle of a doulah class and
I can barely hold the phone because I'm using my
dominant hand to hold Arissa's hand. What. Who's Larissa? She's
a new friend. Um, she's got a really strong grip.
What's up? Oh? Um, I'm so sorry. I just um,
(01:25):
we really need to talk. Okay, I'll be right there.
Thank you so much for meeting me here. It's so beautiful.
It's so beautiful, and the water today is coming. You
remember where it was last time I used to be
over there, it was like way out there. Now it's
(01:46):
all the way out here. That the way. Honestly, it
feels like it used to be. I like, all the
way out of the horizon and that it's right under
I mean, look at that, that's inches away. Then the
next time we come, I feel like it's going to
be all the way here. That's what I'm saying. Our
heads are just gonna be sticking. We're gonna have to
meet underwater. Yeah, we go come meet me in in
my exclusive meeting room in the water and have to
(02:08):
get your score. You come here to talk about um, yeah,
that's just a voice. Wow, it seems like we don't
really have a investigation. I guess we actually don't. I yeah,
that's funny. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I guess.
(02:31):
Uh no, I thought I had an idea that I don't.
So what do you? What are you gonna do? Um? Honestly,
it's so hot. I was just thinking I could maybe grill.
Oh yeah, I think it's definitely like grilling Season's grilling season.
(02:51):
I just got a grill. You did. Yeah, I think
I want a grill too. That's great. You know what,
I think sounds so good on a hot day. Call
me crazy. Full fish, Yes, full fish, Yes, everything in there. Yes,
your whole meal is just that fish. That fish. I mean,
if you throw a potato and the girl, I'm not
(03:13):
gonna be mad at you. No, but yeah, not a
problem with that. I don't have a problem with that.
I guess, um man, let's go do that. Okay, that
sounds great. Yeah, let's go. Episode nine. We don't know yet.
(03:33):
I'm not really sure, so we didn't really have a
plan for this week. Me Anna, I guess I would
go to the store and check out their fish selection,
maybe trout or branzino. I did see a good mackerel recipe,
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but it had heavy whipping cream in it, which defeats
the purpose. I mean, I wanted to eat fish to
keep it light and me, Kyle, I might toss something
on the grill. I'm not above that couple cecs corn
on the cobs. Hey, I might even make myself a
(04:17):
virgin mohito if I'm feeling grandto virgin mohito. I'm sorry
if you're feeling grandieto. Kyle, what does that even mean? Anna?
You told me to say that. Now I look like
a damn fool. I love this crazy episode anyway. It
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seemed like, just for once, all was right in the universe.
No one had any pressing questions. There were no undotted eyes,
no one crossed tees. Everything was as it should be, chill.
(05:03):
But then something happened. In between taking some dogs up
the grill and putting the buns on the grill, I
noticed there was a new voice message on our tip line.
(05:23):
All right, don't funk it up. Okay, don't funk up
my grill. I'm watching you. Peace and quiet. Once I
could trust that the grill would be properly manned, I
went into my room, shut the door behind me, and
listened to the tip Here's what I heard, Hello sounds.
(05:45):
My name is Whitney, and I have a little squation
that I think I need your help with. Um. I
was gifted a little model set that was used for
the film The Aviator. I'm not sure in what capacity
it was you it's special, I mean it was very
(06:05):
close to Scorsese's I don't know what to do with it.
I need help, all right, chow whoa. I couldn't believe
what I was hearing. This woman Whitney needed our help,
and she sounded gorgeous. I mean, sorry, it sounded urgent.
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I knew Anna was at her place also grilling separately,
so I gave Anna alcohol. Hello. Hi, hey, Sorry, I'm
in the middle of grilling and I'm just trying to
figure this. Uh oh crap, sorry, oh what is that?
(06:55):
He there? We go? Hello? Hi, Hi, Hi? Sorry, this
grill is easy? Yeah, yeah, okay, what's up? Um? Your
grill has buttons? Uh? Yeah, yourd model? What's um? What's up? Oh?
(07:18):
I was I was just gonna let you know that
we got a tip on the tip line, and so
maybe we should meet and talk about it. Um. Yeah,
do you want to meet at the beach? Yeah, I'll
be right there. Okay, I'll actually you know what, I'll
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do this later, I'll do it. O. Hi, Hi, thank
you so much for meeting me here. Of course, again,
any explasure is all mine. It's just it's specifically a
really beautiful day. I mean, honestly, if you could not
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you could not even create a more beautiful day if
you tried. Yeah, I mean, there's this boat there in
the ocean. Do you see it right there? No? Wait
where that ship? Or god? Yes, beautiful kind of looks
like the Prates of the Caribbean or something. Oh, I
was gonna say Titanic. Okay, Oh interesting, Yeah, I don't know. Wow,
(08:25):
I mean it's a boat. So it's so interesting this investigation.
I don't know, I don't really know what to say
about it because the object just sounds really confusing, like
she doesn't know what to do with it. Yeah, she
has no idea, and I think she wants us to help. Yeah,
(08:48):
I mean, in my opinion, it really sounds like a
piece of art, like we should find something to honor it. Really,
that's really interesting because to me it sounds like it's
not art at all. Oh. Yeah, Like I don't know.
(09:08):
I guess that kind of presents an interesting question though,
Like I think, really, what we're both kind of asking,
uha it is what is our Yeah, that's a really
good way of putting it. So episode nine, what is art?
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So we came up with a new plan. We would
put our drilling equipment away and help out this Whitney
person with their object from the movie The Aviator, and
in the process we would try to decide what art
is anyway, and who decide that? This wasn't like one
(10:03):
of our typical investigations. We honestly didn't know if this
would lead us to a definite, scientifically bound conclusion. But
there was something about this question that was intriguing to us.
It felt more like a philosophical quandary, or I guess,
(10:25):
a rhetorical question, which actually it was pretty cool. To
start off the investigation. We needed to talk to this
tipster Whitney. We wanted to find out more about this
object she had, and asked her how she thought we
could help or why she thought we could help her
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at all. We set up a time to talk to her.
It was a little confusing to begin with Hello, why Hi,
thank you so much for leaving a tip Um. We
were just so curious. Yeah, I mean, I just don't
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know what to do with this object that I have.
It's actually two objects. Um, it's actually maybe three objects
if you count like a piece broke off, so that
I guess that would be one more object. Lady, can
you get to it? My corn is literally still in
the grill. You mean microwave Kyle get off my job. Seriously,
(11:37):
we asked Whitney to recalibrate. So what are you hoping
to have happened? Someone gave it to me, I think
just because I'm kind of like crafty, and she was like, oh,
maybe you're going to do something with this, and I
was like, okay. But when I think about it, it's
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like an act, a piece of history, so I feel
uncomfortable changing it into something else. So I'm like, what
do I do with this? The big question that I
think and and I are wondering is why did you
contact us? I think it's a timing thing. Just I
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was like, I need some answers. It's taken up some space.
I saw the phone number. It was like fate, I guess, So,
I guess in your perfect world you kind of want
us to figure out what to do with it. Yeah,
(12:48):
I'm struggling with that. Bingo. She was struggling with that.
Before we set our goodbyes, we arranged in time to
pick up the object from her. I know things are
(13:09):
getting really good, but we have to take a break
for some ads, and the ad break is over. We
were for sure going to take on the investigation. Ultimately,
that meant we'd have to see the object in person.
There was no two ways about it. We would have
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to go pick it up, and that meant going to
her house where she lived. I was busy admiring my grill,
so I couldn't tag along for the pickup. Anna went
on her own. Take a listen, Hi, okay, yeah, let's see. Wow.
(13:56):
Let me describe Whitney's object really briefly. It was a
model of some rooms, almost like a little dollhouse, but
with no roof or paint or any of the fun stuff.
And my first impression is like, this is amazing, and
then my second impression is like, huh right, it's like cool.
(14:16):
Because Marty sat down and probably was like, yeah, this
will work right, Like he probably like saw this right.
Maybe I don't know, maybe he doesn't micromanage, and maybe
just the lead production designer side, I think it would
have had to at least fly by, and someone would
have had to at least bring it by and get
an Okay, well, I'll definitely be in touch. I'll let
(14:40):
you know. No, of course, thank you so much for
trusting us. Um I really hope we can help and
um all right, okay, oh bye bye, thank you. I
brought the object over to aisles so that we could
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both take a look at it together. We know this
is audio and we can't show the object to you,
so we're going to try to be really descriptive about
what it was that we were seeing. Four walls enclose
an interior, barricading it from the elements, slabs of styrofoam
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crudely choke a miniature hallway as though we its audience
are confronted with a high end fashion show whose theme
for the evening is total dystopia, nameless chateau ruins which
represent an entry to another time, a time when things
(15:50):
were symbol All you needed was a bed to sleep
on and a water source somewhere nearby, light fire, a
window for a pigeon to perch on. Maybe it'll carry
away your messages. Maybe it'll die right there. That is
(16:14):
all to say. I had a pretty good idea of
what we should do with this object. Toss it in
the trash. Annah, We're not going to toss it in
the trash. This is a piece of history. And also
this is the investigation. Whitney hired us for a job. Oh,
(16:39):
I mean no offense at all to the object, Whitney
or the job. I just want to get back to grilling.
You mean using your microwave? Kyle? What did I tell
you earlier? Um, to get off your jock exactly? So
why just now did I look down at my jaw
(17:04):
and see that you are climbing all over it? I
don't know. It's just said. Do you say you use
your grill but you're not a girl master. You use
your microwave to girl corn? Do you know what, Kyle?
Why don't you take a walk around the blocky? Pretty serious? Right? Yes?
(17:24):
Go walk? Yeah around the block. No, keep walking, you
go walking. You're doing a good job. I'll be back.
I'm not seen walking, I'm seen standing. Okay, well your
(17:47):
rock star. After Kyle took a walk around the block
and thought long and hard about what she did, she
came back to the house where I was waiting for
her and not thinking about what I had done because
I did nothing wrong. Welcome back, I want to not Okay,
(18:14):
she needs a vomer. That's okay. She hates me for
it now, but she'll thank me for it later. It's
just it's just probably a room in the movie. But
we you haven't seen a movie, so we don't know
what it looks like. That's exactly what it. Oh you're
on my face though, huh. Kyle's description actually made it
(18:38):
a lot less confusing for me, and that got me
to thinking, what if we got more people to describe
the object after looking at it? That would probably make
things really clear. But whom should we talk to? You
can't just ask anyone. You can't tell a guy on
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the shoulder in the street and say, hey, look at
this thing. Oh, it's actually in the back of my car.
It's too big for me to carry mine walking over
there with me? Are you kidding? That's a sure fire
way to get your ass beat in the city. We
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needed people with relevant experience, people who knew what was what,
people who knew art, people who knew the price of things,
people with good taste. So we came up with an
official plan. We would find a few experts and show
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them Whitney's object, and hopefully they would tell us its value, importance,
and frankly, whether it was cool. We tripped over ourselves,
running over to Instagram and put out a called the Action.
This one said, do you or someone you know work
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in art appraisal? Alternatively, do you or someone you know
work at a pawn shop, a vintage store, et cetera,
where a part of your job is to check something
out and determine its price. We also encourage people to
reach out if they had particularly good taste. This basically
(20:26):
feels redundant at this point, but Kyle made another amazing graphic.
You should see this thing. A gorgeous shade of blue
reminiscent of a Danish sky, sits as a canvas to
three eclectic images, the theme I Am not what I see.
(20:51):
A USB flash drive disguised as a hamburger, a baby
mutated reimagined as a vehicle, a sort of nod to
the rich, well respected aesthetic of steampunk. And finally, what
looks like two bananas which they are laced up and
(21:12):
down their torsos with crisp white shoelaces, disrupting the very
notion of both snacks and footwear. I speak wholly without hyperbole.
Kyle should have a dedicated wing at Versailles. I know
they typically don't do modern, but first of all, that's
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how good she is, And second of all, she's so
good that you should have to sit on a long
train ride back after seeing her art so that you
can think about what you just saw the responses came
flooding in. We narrowed it down to five exceptional people.
(21:57):
We arranged separate zoom calls with all of them. First,
we had them introduced themselves. My name is Grace, my
name is Kristen Um, my name is Melissa, my name's
alexis Hi, my name is Kaylee. We asked them, what
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makes you so special? By that we you just mean
that we asked for their qualifications. I'm currently a doctoral
student in the history of art at Johns Hopkins University.
But um I actually worked as a research assistant for
a fine art appraiser in Chicago for about two and
(22:42):
a half years. I have a vintage store in San
Francisco called Vacation, So I'm pretty good at trash pricing trash.
I've been appraising fine arts for about twelve years now,
and I'm have an accreditation through the American Society of Appraisers.
I'm an art consultant and curator based in Los Angeles, California.
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I have impeccable taste. Before we really kick things off,
one of our experts had a disclaimer. Yeah, so, because
the appraisal business is kind of funny about accountability, and
like being on the hook for opinions given, I would
just like to officially give a disclaimer that I am not, now,
(23:26):
nor have I ever been, a certified appraiser. I'm not
used pop certified. That's like this whole thing within the
appraisal business um, and therefore, any any thoughts I have
on a value of something is like fully ridiculous and
should not be taken as any counsel or anything like that. WHOA,
The art world is harsh, but Grace didn't sound like
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a ridiculous person. Grace, it sounded really smart. We didn't
really care and moved on. Kyle created a slide show
with aerial photographs that she took of the object in question.
She did this out of necessity, really, we thought that
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this would be the most efficient way of showing the
object to the participants. The photos, however, turned out to
be really cool. Obviously, you know that Kyle isn't a
stranger to art, but she really outdid herself this time. Damn.
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Move over, Bobby Mabelthorpe. There's a new talent in town.
I think next, I'm going to share my screen and
I'm going to show you the object. Absolutely Okay, can
you guys see that. Okay, Um, I'm just gonna sort
of move through the images. If you want to closer
look at it, I'll stop on it. I actually can't
(24:55):
zoom in, but i'll stop h m hm. And that's
the end, but I'll go back. Everyone got to look
(25:27):
at the object and gave their first impressions. Oh, I
think really it's kind of the shambles, isn't it. It
seems like there was a lot of potential there. Um.
It looks like it might have gotten dropped. It looks old.
I think it's been through some stuff because it looks
like an architectural model that got dropped. The responses were buried,
(25:54):
but the real star of the show's actually Kyle's photographs
of the object. They were really good, and everybody really
seemed to like them. This looks like it's in a gallery. Oh,
really good photography. I actually took these photos, and I
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was really proud of how good I took them. They're
very like clear. So we got down to it. We
asked them, in their professional opinion, how much would something
like this be worth? In your professional opinion, how much
(26:37):
do you think it's worth. I think it would probably
depend on what the fan community is like willing to
pay for this. Celebrity prevenence and ownership is definitely a
positive value characteristic um and it gets associated with a
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film and people collect that stuff. So let's see how
somebody who loves the movie Les Leo, loves Smartin you know,
or something like that could probably pay. Might have been
a money for that. The value could probably go pretty high.
If you had to uh Scorsese freaks, huh. Maybe there
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was something there. If you were a fan of the
movie The Aviator, this probably meant more than if you
weren't a fan of the movie The Aviator. Then we
asked them, in their non professional opinion, how much was
this object worth. What I'm talking about is when you're
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clocked out of work, you've tossed over your tie, your
purses on backward, you've left your door with your name
on it, caught a lift cross town to the local
watering hole. You've taken your first shot, and now you're
sitting with the second one, just sipping on it. You're
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just waiting around for your onion rings to drive from
next door. They don't share the same staff, the bar
and the onion ring place, but they're old friends. That's
the opinion. We were looking for um in your personal opinion,
Like you're just out um with a couple of friends
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and conversations flowing, and you guys are showing each other
the whole stuff and going, I pay that much for
that thing you're showing me. You're definitely tipsy too, and
for whatever you. Me and Kyle are really good friends
and we're just out doing our thing, and I go,
I got something really crazy. It is a fiscale model
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of Martin Scorsese The Aviator, and we're such good friends.
I'm just gonna how you know? And then how much
would you? Yeah? I mean I would try to get
it as cheap as possible. Maybe I would be like,
what do you want for it? Like, oh, you're selling it,
Like what do you want? You know? Oh, if one
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of my friends started to sell me this, I would
tell them they're full of ship and I would not
buy it. I would say, you have to pay me
to take it off your hands. I think I probably
take a picture of it and put it on the
gram maybe not the main page, but like it would
definitely merit a story. Finally, we asked them the seemingly
simple yet most complicated question of all was this art?
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I mean, I really think that that depends on your
perception of what art is, art a process or as
art a product. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Just answer
the question, is it art or not? Yeah? I would say,
I would say in its own way, as its allot,
(30:05):
I'm sure, yeah, yeah yeah. We had talked to our experts,
and the majority decided that this object was in fact
art barely but at least it was something for us
to work with. But what would come next? We thought
(30:26):
about what we had heard. I think it would probably
depend on what the fan party is willing to pay
for this That's right. One of our experts seemed to
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believe that this thing's value depended on the spectator's relationship
to the movie the aviator. More simply, this thing's value
was determined to buy the viewer. Wait, Kyle, First of all,
you sound really smart. Second of all, are you saying
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what I think you're saying? That beauty is in the
eye of the beholder? Um? Not at all? Oh uh okay, cool, um.
I love the shirt that you're wearing. Who whose is it?
It's mine? Okay, moving on, we figured out that if
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you were a fan of the movie The Aviator, this
thing would be a huge deal to you, and that
got us thinking maybe the reason why Anna and I
were so confused by this object was because both of
us had never seen the movie. And I'm going to
be brutally honest with you, we had no interest in
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doing so. Me, Kyle, I like movies with big booms.
You know, the type of movie where there's only twenty
four minutes left in this world and the only person
who can save us is a troubled, handsome marine with
a checkered past, and his catchphrase is boom baby, boom. Motherfucker.
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And that's also the name of the movie. So every
time he says it, you whisper to your friend, Yeah,
that's the name of the movie, motherfucker. And me, Anna,
I like a movie that's about three and a half
hours long. An elderly European couple sit across a table
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from one another and stare at their last potato, each
not daring to be the first one to reach for it.
What will we eat tonight? One asks in Romanian, That
is the question. The other response in French. The Romanian
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one doesn't understand the French one, and therein lies the
plot of the movie. It's simple, it's moving, It's an
immediate palm deor. I had a hypothesis and I decided
to look into it. Whitney, our tipster, also didn't know
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the value of the object in her possession. My guess
was that she also had not seen the Aviator. I
sent her a text, Hey, it's Anna the truth Hound.
Quick question, have you actually seen the Aviator? She responded
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immediately nope. I doubled down. Any does ire to see
it again? She responded immediately nope. We were onto something
(34:16):
and now an ad break. The ad break is over. Whitney,
Anna and I didn't care at all about this movie. Therefore,
we didn't care at all about this object. So we
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came up with another plan. Rent out a movie theater
and host a private screening of the Aviator for me,
Anna and Whitney, just us girls. We thought it would
be a good idea to do the screening at a
the dirt because we wanted to give ourselves the magical
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movie going experience. There's nothing like seeing a movie at
a theater, and we wanted to keep it private because
we were doing a job and we didn't want distractions. Plus,
I didn't think it was going to be playing in theaters.
I mean, it came out in two thousand four, no offense.
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How would we get ahold of a movie theater? I
had an idea. I had a connection in Hollywood. One connection.
It was this guy. In the interest of protecting his
professional reputation, I'm just going to call him Beef. Did
(35:50):
you just say beef? No, beaf b E v E.
I don't know, it's us to his actual name or something. Anyways,
this guy loved going around town talking a big game
about how he once took a general meeting at Seth
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Rogan's production company. Generals are meetings to get your face
in front of someone important in the business, to be
like I'm here, f y I and they go, we'll
be in touch. To me, that sounded awesome. Well, this guy,
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who I knew my only Hollywood connection, not only did
he take his general at Seth Rogan's production company, but
he also said that it went really well. Wow, So
I asked him. I thought it might have been a
bit of a long shot, but he totally came through
(36:54):
and hooked us up with a theater all to ourselves.
The theater was rented out just for ourselves, and it
was fully operation, every part of it, not just the screen,
the concession stand, the bathrooms, our very own screening guy, Dax.
(37:19):
The screening day was set. You were excited, I mean
not for the movie, but for the experience and to
hang out with Whitney. She seemed really cool there she
hi before. Yeah, this is a huge door. Come in.
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Not that it was about this, but Whitney was gorgeous,
And not that it was about this, but it really
was a big door. Anyway, we did what we do best.
We showered Whitney with compliments. And those shoes are fabulous.
(38:08):
Shoes are fabulous, comble. We walked through the lobby, past
the concession stand, our very own forbidden playground, armed with
heaving bags of popcorn, smiles as wide as the Mississippi River.
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We took our seats. Before we would start the movie,
we asked our private projectionist, Dax, if he would give
us a little speech. It wasn't necessarily in his job description,
but I just really like when movie theaters do that.
Thank you for coming to Dynasty typewriter theaters. Today's movie
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is The Aviator. Please silence your cell phones. And there
is no recording in Enjoy the Fell, Thank you, thank you. Yeah,
(39:12):
dude like to talk in the movies or now yeah, okay,
good Okay. I think normally I don't, but because it's
just us, I think to me, it's okay, okay, so
we can have a good time. We should still whisper perspective.
Good movie, Yeah, we can have a good time. Okay.
(39:34):
Music is pretty good. Okay. It kind of look, doesn't
it look like a marble movie thing. We had to
keep our eye on the prize. Whitney's object was a
model of some room in this movie. We didn't know
when it would show up, but we hoped when it
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did we would recognize it immediately. And and we thought
that it might even feel like spotting a friend in
a movie. You know, you probably have that friend that's
been pursuing acting for a long time and you finally
get to see his portrayal of Guard number two in
some summer blockbuster and you're like, there's David. Wow, he's
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really doing it, you know what. He's pretty good as
Guard number two. We thought it would be like that,
and then it happened we spotted the room and it
wasn't just a room. It was the screening room or
Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes watches the movie because there's the chairs.
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Dollars a day. So now I'm thinking they probably they
had all these medals because it's like a period piece.
They want to make sure everything was like something. It's beautiful,
disconsins are actually really it's really pop this time. I
don't know that it's a good model because we could
recognize it there. It was right in front of us.
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In the movie kept going and our friend the rooms
kept appearing. It really seemed like a main focal point.
There's chairs, look igentical, the little production model. So that's
that's kind of nice to see that kind it's so
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far into the movie. It wasn't like a first draft.
It's like, this is the final draft. Totally cool this
you know what it is? Cool? Alright? That is just beautiful. Agree,
And that was that. Two and a half hours later
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we were done with the movie. It was great to
see our friend the screening room, but to be brutally
honest and keep in mind no offense, it was one
of the most boring movies that any of us had
ever watched. It kept going and going and going and
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sh thank you, thank you. Wow. Well, I I gotta say,
I'm pretty excited to get out of here. I don't
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think I can watch anything for a while. Yeah, it
was really boring, but even so, we asked Atney if
it felt like seeing a friend in a movie. Was
it kind of like seeing a friend in a movie
or something like that. We then asked Whitney if it
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made her appreciate her object more. I think that the
pieces mean more to me. Now what do I do
with them? It's like I just can't throw them away.
We were hoping that watching the movie would make her
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appreciate the object more, but realistically it seemed to just
make her feel guilty for wanting to get rid of it.
That is to say, we were actually left with a
lot of questions. We ditched Whitney at the movie theater
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and headed to the beach right there and then in
the middle of our Hollywood night, Oh oh my lord,
so dark. Yeah, I can't see anything, you know what.
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I actually wonder if we should be a little quiet
because we're under a house. Hou some people are probably sleeping. Um. Wow.
You The funny thing about coming to the beach at
night is you really can't. It just looks like nothing
like I can hear it. Yeah, it sounds beautiful. We
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might as well be in like my closet. Yeah, I
might as well be in my bed listening to audio
of the pace. That's what I'm saying exact, because it
looks just like darkness. Well that anyway, that literally, that
was awful. It sucks. I'm sorry, no offense like it
made me want to scorn any movie I ever see. Again,
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I have never heard you use more strict words. I
want to go to the person who makes movies and say,
you know, maybe you should rethink what you're doing. You
want to go up to Martin Scorsese and say, you
know what, I get a second opinion, don't quit your
day job, Scorcy Scorse. I like that. Well, the thing is,
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it's crazy that we had to sit through that and
then we still are no farther in our investigation than
we were before we saw it. So really it added nothing,
and it took away like four to five hours of
our time. It feels like that's what it felt like.
It felt like a four to five hour movie. I'm
at a loss. I don't really know what we're gonna do.
You know what I think we have to do and
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I'm sorry, I think we have to make this episode
of two parter oh no yeah, to be continued. Sniff sniff.
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Welcome to Truth Hounds, a production of I Heart Radio.
I'm Anna and I've been unemployed for about a year now,
so I really have nothing going on. And I'm Kyle.
In middle school, I received the award most Enthusiastic to Learn,
so that makes me pretty special. And that is what
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makes us the perfect investigative duo. We are two friends
who love each other very much, but what we love
even more is getting to the bottom of mysteries. All mysteries, sure,
but small mysteries specifically. Trust me, No mystery is too small. No, no, no,
Why don't you trust me when I tell you we
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are ready to sniff around? We are the truth Hounds.
Oh hey, Kyle, Hi, Hey, it's s Annah. Hi, Hi,
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Hi are you? Are you busy right now? Yeah? Actually,
I'm just in the middle of a doulah class and
I can barely hold the phone because I'm using my
dominant hand to hold Arissa's hand. What. Who's Larissa? She's
a new friend. Um, she's got a really strong grip.
What's up? Oh? Um, I'm so sorry. I just um,
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we really need to talk. Okay, I'll be right there.
Thank you so much for meeting me here. It's so beautiful.
It's so beautiful, and the water today is coming. You
remember where it was last time I used to be
over there, it was like way out there. Now it's
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all the way out here. That the way. Honestly, it
feels like it used to be. I like, all the
way out of the horizon and that it's right under
I mean, look at that, that's inches away. Then the
next time we come, I feel like it's going to
be all the way here. That's what I'm saying. Our
heads are just gonna be sticking. We're gonna have to
meet underwater. Yeah, we go come meet me in in
my exclusive meeting room in the water and have to
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get your score. You come here to talk about um, yeah,
that's just a voice. Wow, it seems like we don't
really have a investigation. I guess we actually don't. I yeah,
that's funny. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I guess.
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Uh no, I thought I had an idea that I don't.
So what do you? What are you gonna do? Um? Honestly,
it's so hot. I was just thinking I could maybe grill.
Oh yeah, I think it's definitely like grilling Season's grilling season.
(02:51):
I just got a grill. You did. Yeah, I think
I want a grill too. That's great. You know what,
I think sounds so good on a hot day. Call
me crazy. Full fish, Yes, full fish, Yes, everything in there. Yes,
your whole meal is just that fish. That fish. I mean,
if you throw a potato and the girl, I'm not
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gonna be mad at you. No, but yeah, not a
problem with that. I don't have a problem with that.
I guess, um man, let's go do that. Okay, that
sounds great. Yeah, let's go. Episode nine. We don't know yet.
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I'm not really sure, so we didn't really have a
plan for this week. Me Anna, I guess I would
go to the store and check out their fish selection,
maybe trout or branzino. I did see a good mackerel recipe,
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but it had heavy whipping cream in it, which defeats
the purpose. I mean, I wanted to eat fish to
keep it light and me, Kyle, I might toss something
on the grill. I'm not above that couple cecs corn
on the cobs. Hey, I might even make myself a
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virgin mohito if I'm feeling grandto virgin mohito. I'm sorry
if you're feeling grandieto. Kyle, what does that even mean? Anna?
You told me to say that. Now I look like
a damn fool. I love this crazy episode anyway. It
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seemed like, just for once, all was right in the universe.
No one had any pressing questions. There were no undotted eyes,
no one crossed tees. Everything was as it should be, chill.
(05:03):
But then something happened. In between taking some dogs up
the grill and putting the buns on the grill, I
noticed there was a new voice message on our tip line.
(05:23):
All right, don't funk it up. Okay, don't funk up
my grill. I'm watching you. Peace and quiet. Once I
could trust that the grill would be properly manned, I
went into my room, shut the door behind me, and
listened to the tip Here's what I heard, Hello sounds.
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My name is Whitney, and I have a little squation
that I think I need your help with. Um. I
was gifted a little model set that was used for
the film The Aviator. I'm not sure in what capacity
it was you it's special, I mean it was very
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close to Scorsese's I don't know what to do with it.
I need help, all right, chow whoa. I couldn't believe
what I was hearing. This woman Whitney needed our help,
and she sounded gorgeous. I mean, sorry, it sounded urgent.
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I knew Anna was at her place also grilling separately,
so I gave Anna alcohol. Hello. Hi, hey, Sorry, I'm
in the middle of grilling and I'm just trying to
figure this. Uh oh crap, sorry, oh what is that?
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He there? We go? Hello? Hi, Hi, Hi? Sorry, this
grill is easy? Yeah, yeah, okay, what's up? Um? Your
grill has buttons? Uh? Yeah, yourd model? What's um? What's up? Oh?
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I was I was just gonna let you know that
we got a tip on the tip line, and so
maybe we should meet and talk about it. Um. Yeah,
do you want to meet at the beach? Yeah, I'll
be right there. Okay, I'll actually you know what, I'll
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do this later, I'll do it. O. Hi, Hi, thank
you so much for meeting me here. Of course, again,
any explasure is all mine. It's just it's specifically a
really beautiful day. I mean, honestly, if you could not
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you could not even create a more beautiful day if
you tried. Yeah, I mean, there's this boat there in
the ocean. Do you see it right there? No? Wait
where that ship? Or god? Yes, beautiful kind of looks
like the Prates of the Caribbean or something. Oh, I
was gonna say Titanic. Okay, Oh interesting, Yeah, I don't know. Wow,
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I mean it's a boat. So it's so interesting this investigation.
I don't know, I don't really know what to say
about it because the object just sounds really confusing, like
she doesn't know what to do with it. Yeah, she
has no idea, and I think she wants us to help. Yeah,
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I mean, in my opinion, it really sounds like a
piece of art, like we should find something to honor it. Really,
that's really interesting because to me it sounds like it's
not art at all. Oh. Yeah, Like I don't know.
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I guess that kind of presents an interesting question though,
Like I think, really, what we're both kind of asking,
uha it is what is our Yeah, that's a really
good way of putting it. So episode nine, what is art?
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So we came up with a new plan. We would
put our drilling equipment away and help out this Whitney
person with their object from the movie The Aviator, and
in the process we would try to decide what art
is anyway, and who decide that? This wasn't like one
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of our typical investigations. We honestly didn't know if this
would lead us to a definite, scientifically bound conclusion. But
there was something about this question that was intriguing to us.
It felt more like a philosophical quandary, or I guess,
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a rhetorical question, which actually it was pretty cool. To
start off the investigation. We needed to talk to this
tipster Whitney. We wanted to find out more about this
object she had, and asked her how she thought we
could help or why she thought we could help her
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at all. We set up a time to talk to her.
It was a little confusing to begin with Hello, why Hi,
thank you so much for leaving a tip Um. We
were just so curious. Yeah, I mean, I just don't
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know what to do with this object that I have.
It's actually two objects. Um, it's actually maybe three objects
if you count like a piece broke off, so that
I guess that would be one more object. Lady, can
you get to it? My corn is literally still in
the grill. You mean microwave Kyle get off my job. Seriously,
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we asked Whitney to recalibrate. So what are you hoping
to have happened? Someone gave it to me, I think
just because I'm kind of like crafty, and she was like, oh,
maybe you're going to do something with this, and I
was like, okay. But when I think about it, it's
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like an act, a piece of history, so I feel
uncomfortable changing it into something else. So I'm like, what
do I do with this? The big question that I
think and and I are wondering is why did you
contact us? I think it's a timing thing. Just I
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was like, I need some answers. It's taken up some space.
I saw the phone number. It was like fate, I guess, So,
I guess in your perfect world you kind of want
us to figure out what to do with it. Yeah,
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I'm struggling with that. Bingo. She was struggling with that.
Before we set our goodbyes, we arranged in time to
pick up the object from her. I know things are
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getting really good, but we have to take a break
for some ads, and the ad break is over. We
were for sure going to take on the investigation. Ultimately,
that meant we'd have to see the object in person.
There was no two ways about it. We would have
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to go pick it up, and that meant going to
her house where she lived. I was busy admiring my grill,
so I couldn't tag along for the pickup. Anna went
on her own. Take a listen, Hi, okay, yeah, let's see. Wow.
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Let me describe Whitney's object really briefly. It was a
model of some rooms, almost like a little dollhouse, but
with no roof or paint or any of the fun stuff.
And my first impression is like, this is amazing, and
then my second impression is like, huh right, it's like cool.
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Because Marty sat down and probably was like, yeah, this
will work right, Like he probably like saw this right.
Maybe I don't know, maybe he doesn't micromanage, and maybe
just the lead production designer side, I think it would
have had to at least fly by, and someone would
have had to at least bring it by and get
an Okay, well, I'll definitely be in touch. I'll let
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you know. No, of course, thank you so much for
trusting us. Um I really hope we can help and
um all right, okay, oh bye bye, thank you. I
brought the object over to aisles so that we could
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both take a look at it together. We know this
is audio and we can't show the object to you,
so we're going to try to be really descriptive about
what it was that we were seeing. Four walls enclose
an interior, barricading it from the elements, slabs of styrofoam
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crudely choke a miniature hallway as though we its audience
are confronted with a high end fashion show whose theme
for the evening is total dystopia, nameless chateau ruins which
represent an entry to another time, a time when things
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were symbol All you needed was a bed to sleep
on and a water source somewhere nearby, light fire, a
window for a pigeon to perch on. Maybe it'll carry
away your messages. Maybe it'll die right there. That is
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all to say. I had a pretty good idea of
what we should do with this object. Toss it in
the trash. Annah, We're not going to toss it in
the trash. This is a piece of history. And also
this is the investigation. Whitney hired us for a job. Oh,
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I mean no offense at all to the object, Whitney
or the job. I just want to get back to grilling.
You mean using your microwave? Kyle? What did I tell
you earlier? Um, to get off your jock exactly? So
why just now did I look down at my jaw
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and see that you are climbing all over it? I
don't know. It's just said. Do you say you use
your grill but you're not a girl master. You use
your microwave to girl corn? Do you know what, Kyle?
Why don't you take a walk around the blocky? Pretty serious? Right? Yes?
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Go walk? Yeah around the block. No, keep walking, you
go walking. You're doing a good job. I'll be back.
I'm not seen walking, I'm seen standing. Okay, well your
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rock star. After Kyle took a walk around the block
and thought long and hard about what she did, she
came back to the house where I was waiting for
her and not thinking about what I had done because
I did nothing wrong. Welcome back, I want to not Okay,
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she needs a vomer. That's okay. She hates me for
it now, but she'll thank me for it later. It's
just it's just probably a room in the movie. But
we you haven't seen a movie, so we don't know
what it looks like. That's exactly what it. Oh you're
on my face though, huh. Kyle's description actually made it
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a lot less confusing for me, and that got me
to thinking, what if we got more people to describe
the object after looking at it? That would probably make
things really clear. But whom should we talk to? You
can't just ask anyone. You can't tell a guy on
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the shoulder in the street and say, hey, look at
this thing. Oh, it's actually in the back of my car.
It's too big for me to carry mine walking over
there with me? Are you kidding? That's a sure fire
way to get your ass beat in the city. We
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needed people with relevant experience, people who knew what was what,
people who knew art, people who knew the price of things,
people with good taste. So we came up with an
official plan. We would find a few experts and show
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them Whitney's object, and hopefully they would tell us its value, importance,
and frankly, whether it was cool. We tripped over ourselves,
running over to Instagram and put out a called the Action.
This one said, do you or someone you know work
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in art appraisal? Alternatively, do you or someone you know
work at a pawn shop, a vintage store, et cetera,
where a part of your job is to check something
out and determine its price. We also encourage people to
reach out if they had particularly good taste. This basically
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feels redundant at this point, but Kyle made another amazing graphic.
You should see this thing. A gorgeous shade of blue
reminiscent of a Danish sky, sits as a canvas to
three eclectic images, the theme I Am not what I see.
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A USB flash drive disguised as a hamburger, a baby
mutated reimagined as a vehicle, a sort of nod to
the rich, well respected aesthetic of steampunk. And finally, what
looks like two bananas which they are laced up and
(21:12):
down their torsos with crisp white shoelaces, disrupting the very
notion of both snacks and footwear. I speak wholly without hyperbole.
Kyle should have a dedicated wing at Versailles. I know
they typically don't do modern, but first of all, that's
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how good she is, And second of all, she's so
good that you should have to sit on a long
train ride back after seeing her art so that you
can think about what you just saw the responses came
flooding in. We narrowed it down to five exceptional people.
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We arranged separate zoom calls with all of them. First,
we had them introduced themselves. My name is Grace, my
name is Kristen Um, my name is Melissa, my name's
alexis Hi, my name is Kaylee. We asked them, what
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makes you so special? By that we you just mean
that we asked for their qualifications. I'm currently a doctoral
student in the history of art at Johns Hopkins University.
But um I actually worked as a research assistant for
a fine art appraiser in Chicago for about two and
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a half years. I have a vintage store in San
Francisco called Vacation, So I'm pretty good at trash pricing trash.
I've been appraising fine arts for about twelve years now,
and I'm have an accreditation through the American Society of Appraisers.
I'm an art consultant and curator based in Los Angeles, California.
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I have impeccable taste. Before we really kick things off,
one of our experts had a disclaimer. Yeah, so, because
the appraisal business is kind of funny about accountability, and
like being on the hook for opinions given, I would
just like to officially give a disclaimer that I am not, now,
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nor have I ever been, a certified appraiser. I'm not
used pop certified. That's like this whole thing within the
appraisal business um, and therefore, any any thoughts I have
on a value of something is like fully ridiculous and
should not be taken as any counsel or anything like that. WHOA,
The art world is harsh, but Grace didn't sound like
(23:49):
a ridiculous person. Grace, it sounded really smart. We didn't
really care and moved on. Kyle created a slide show
with aerial photographs that she took of the object in question.
She did this out of necessity, really, we thought that
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this would be the most efficient way of showing the
object to the participants. The photos, however, turned out to
be really cool. Obviously, you know that Kyle isn't a
stranger to art, but she really outdid herself this time. Damn.
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Move over, Bobby Mabelthorpe. There's a new talent in town.
I think next, I'm going to share my screen and
I'm going to show you the object. Absolutely Okay, can
you guys see that. Okay, Um, I'm just gonna sort
of move through the images. If you want to closer
look at it, I'll stop on it. I actually can't
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zoom in, but i'll stop h m hm. And that's
the end, but I'll go back. Everyone got to look
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at the object and gave their first impressions. Oh, I
think really it's kind of the shambles, isn't it. It
seems like there was a lot of potential there. Um.
It looks like it might have gotten dropped. It looks old.
I think it's been through some stuff because it looks
like an architectural model that got dropped. The responses were buried,
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but the real star of the show's actually Kyle's photographs
of the object. They were really good, and everybody really
seemed to like them. This looks like it's in a gallery. Oh,
really good photography. I actually took these photos, and I
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was really proud of how good I took them. They're
very like clear. So we got down to it. We
asked them, in their professional opinion, how much would something
like this be worth? In your professional opinion, how much
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do you think it's worth. I think it would probably
depend on what the fan community is like willing to
pay for this. Celebrity prevenence and ownership is definitely a
positive value characteristic um and it gets associated with a
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film and people collect that stuff. So let's see how
somebody who loves the movie Les Leo, loves Smartin you know,
or something like that could probably pay. Might have been
a money for that. The value could probably go pretty high.
If you had to uh Scorsese freaks, huh. Maybe there
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was something there. If you were a fan of the
movie The Aviator, this probably meant more than if you
weren't a fan of the movie The Aviator. Then we
asked them, in their non professional opinion, how much was
this object worth. What I'm talking about is when you're
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clocked out of work, you've tossed over your tie, your
purses on backward, you've left your door with your name
on it, caught a lift cross town to the local
watering hole. You've taken your first shot, and now you're
sitting with the second one, just sipping on it. You're
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just waiting around for your onion rings to drive from
next door. They don't share the same staff, the bar
and the onion ring place, but they're old friends. That's
the opinion. We were looking for um in your personal opinion,
Like you're just out um with a couple of friends
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and conversations flowing, and you guys are showing each other
the whole stuff and going, I pay that much for
that thing you're showing me. You're definitely tipsy too, and
for whatever you. Me and Kyle are really good friends
and we're just out doing our thing, and I go,
I got something really crazy. It is a fiscale model
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of Martin Scorsese The Aviator, and we're such good friends.
I'm just gonna how you know? And then how much
would you? Yeah? I mean I would try to get
it as cheap as possible. Maybe I would be like,
what do you want for it? Like, oh, you're selling it,
Like what do you want? You know? Oh, if one
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of my friends started to sell me this, I would
tell them they're full of ship and I would not
buy it. I would say, you have to pay me
to take it off your hands. I think I probably
take a picture of it and put it on the
gram maybe not the main page, but like it would
definitely merit a story. Finally, we asked them the seemingly
simple yet most complicated question of all was this art?
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I mean, I really think that that depends on your
perception of what art is, art a process or as
art a product. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Just answer
the question, is it art or not? Yeah? I would say,
I would say in its own way, as its allot,
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I'm sure, yeah, yeah yeah. We had talked to our experts,
and the majority decided that this object was in fact
art barely but at least it was something for us
to work with. But what would come next? We thought
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about what we had heard. I think it would probably
depend on what the fan party is willing to pay
for this That's right. One of our experts seemed to
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believe that this thing's value depended on the spectator's relationship
to the movie the aviator. More simply, this thing's value
was determined to buy the viewer. Wait, Kyle, First of all,
you sound really smart. Second of all, are you saying
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what I think you're saying? That beauty is in the
eye of the beholder? Um? Not at all? Oh uh okay, cool, um.
I love the shirt that you're wearing. Who whose is it?
It's mine? Okay, moving on, we figured out that if
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you were a fan of the movie The Aviator, this
thing would be a huge deal to you, and that
got us thinking maybe the reason why Anna and I
were so confused by this object was because both of
us had never seen the movie. And I'm going to
be brutally honest with you, we had no interest in
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doing so. Me, Kyle, I like movies with big booms.
You know, the type of movie where there's only twenty
four minutes left in this world and the only person
who can save us is a troubled, handsome marine with
a checkered past, and his catchphrase is boom baby, boom. Motherfucker.
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And that's also the name of the movie. So every
time he says it, you whisper to your friend, Yeah,
that's the name of the movie, motherfucker. And me, Anna,
I like a movie that's about three and a half
hours long. An elderly European couple sit across a table
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from one another and stare at their last potato, each
not daring to be the first one to reach for it.
What will we eat tonight? One asks in Romanian, That
is the question. The other response in French. The Romanian
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one doesn't understand the French one, and therein lies the
plot of the movie. It's simple, it's moving, It's an
immediate palm deor. I had a hypothesis and I decided
to look into it. Whitney, our tipster, also didn't know
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the value of the object in her possession. My guess
was that she also had not seen the Aviator. I
sent her a text, Hey, it's Anna the truth Hound.
Quick question, have you actually seen the Aviator? She responded
(33:53):
immediately nope. I doubled down. Any does ire to see
it again? She responded immediately nope. We were onto something
(34:16):
and now an ad break. The ad break is over. Whitney,
Anna and I didn't care at all about this movie. Therefore,
we didn't care at all about this object. So we
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came up with another plan. Rent out a movie theater
and host a private screening of the Aviator for me,
Anna and Whitney, just us girls. We thought it would
be a good idea to do the screening at a
the dirt because we wanted to give ourselves the magical
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movie going experience. There's nothing like seeing a movie at
a theater, and we wanted to keep it private because
we were doing a job and we didn't want distractions. Plus,
I didn't think it was going to be playing in theaters.
I mean, it came out in two thousand four, no offense.
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How would we get ahold of a movie theater? I
had an idea. I had a connection in Hollywood. One connection.
It was this guy. In the interest of protecting his
professional reputation, I'm just going to call him Beef. Did
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you just say beef? No, beaf b E v E.
I don't know, it's us to his actual name or something. Anyways,
this guy loved going around town talking a big game
about how he once took a general meeting at Seth
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Rogan's production company. Generals are meetings to get your face
in front of someone important in the business, to be
like I'm here, f y I and they go, we'll
be in touch. To me, that sounded awesome. Well, this guy,
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who I knew my only Hollywood connection, not only did
he take his general at Seth Rogan's production company, but
he also said that it went really well. Wow, So
I asked him. I thought it might have been a
bit of a long shot, but he totally came through
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and hooked us up with a theater all to ourselves.
The theater was rented out just for ourselves, and it
was fully operation, every part of it, not just the screen,
the concession stand, the bathrooms, our very own screening guy, Dax.
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The screening day was set. You were excited, I mean
not for the movie, but for the experience and to
hang out with Whitney. She seemed really cool there she
hi before. Yeah, this is a huge door. Come in.
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Not that it was about this, but Whitney was gorgeous,
And not that it was about this, but it really
was a big door. Anyway, we did what we do best.
We showered Whitney with compliments. And those shoes are fabulous.
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Shoes are fabulous, comble. We walked through the lobby, past
the concession stand, our very own forbidden playground, armed with
heaving bags of popcorn, smiles as wide as the Mississippi River.
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We took our seats. Before we would start the movie,
we asked our private projectionist, Dax, if he would give
us a little speech. It wasn't necessarily in his job description,
but I just really like when movie theaters do that.
Thank you for coming to Dynasty typewriter theaters. Today's movie
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is The Aviator. Please silence your cell phones. And there
is no recording in Enjoy the Fell, Thank you, thank you. Yeah,
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dude like to talk in the movies or now yeah, okay,
good Okay. I think normally I don't, but because it's
just us, I think to me, it's okay, okay, so
we can have a good time. We should still whisper perspective.
Good movie, Yeah, we can have a good time. Okay.
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Music is pretty good. Okay. It kind of look, doesn't
it look like a marble movie thing. We had to
keep our eye on the prize. Whitney's object was a
model of some room in this movie. We didn't know
when it would show up, but we hoped when it
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did we would recognize it immediately. And and we thought
that it might even feel like spotting a friend in
a movie. You know, you probably have that friend that's
been pursuing acting for a long time and you finally
get to see his portrayal of Guard number two in
some summer blockbuster and you're like, there's David. Wow, he's
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really doing it, you know what. He's pretty good as
Guard number two. We thought it would be like that,
and then it happened we spotted the room and it
wasn't just a room. It was the screening room or
Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes watches the movie because there's the chairs.
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Dollars a day. So now I'm thinking they probably they
had all these medals because it's like a period piece.
They want to make sure everything was like something. It's beautiful,
disconsins are actually really it's really pop this time. I
don't know that it's a good model because we could
recognize it there. It was right in front of us.
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In the movie kept going and our friend the rooms
kept appearing. It really seemed like a main focal point.
There's chairs, look igentical, the little production model. So that's
that's kind of nice to see that kind it's so
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far into the movie. It wasn't like a first draft.
It's like, this is the final draft. Totally cool this
you know what it is? Cool? Alright? That is just beautiful. Agree,
And that was that. Two and a half hours later
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we were done with the movie. It was great to
see our friend the screening room, but to be brutally
honest and keep in mind no offense, it was one
of the most boring movies that any of us had
ever watched. It kept going and going and going and
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sh thank you, thank you. Wow. Well, I I gotta say,
I'm pretty excited to get out of here. I don't
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think I can watch anything for a while. Yeah, it
was really boring, but even so, we asked Atney if
it felt like seeing a friend in a movie. Was
it kind of like seeing a friend in a movie
or something like that. We then asked Whitney if it
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made her appreciate her object more. I think that the
pieces mean more to me. Now what do I do
with them? It's like I just can't throw them away.
We were hoping that watching the movie would make her
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appreciate the object more, but realistically it seemed to just
make her feel guilty for wanting to get rid of it.
That is to say, we were actually left with a
lot of questions. We ditched Whitney at the movie theater
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and headed to the beach right there and then in
the middle of our Hollywood night, Oh oh my lord,
so dark. Yeah, I can't see anything, you know what.
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I actually wonder if we should be a little quiet
because we're under a house. Hou some people are probably sleeping. Um. Wow.
You The funny thing about coming to the beach at
night is you really can't. It just looks like nothing
like I can hear it. Yeah, it sounds beautiful. We
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might as well be in like my closet. Yeah, I
might as well be in my bed listening to audio
of the pace. That's what I'm saying exact, because it
looks just like darkness. Well that anyway, that literally, that
was awful. It sucks. I'm sorry, no offense like it
made me want to scorn any movie I ever see. Again,
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I have never heard you use more strict words. I
want to go to the person who makes movies and say,
you know, maybe you should rethink what you're doing. You
want to go up to Martin Scorsese and say, you
know what, I get a second opinion, don't quit your
day job, Scorcy Scorse. I like that. Well, the thing is,
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it's crazy that we had to sit through that and
then we still are no farther in our investigation than
we were before we saw it. So really it added nothing,
and it took away like four to five hours of
our time. It feels like that's what it felt like.
It felt like a four to five hour movie. I'm
at a loss. I don't really know what we're gonna do.
You know what I think we have to do and
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I'm sorry, I think we have to make this episode
of two parter oh no yeah, to be continued. Sniff sniff.
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