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The $6.50 art heist 

Lateral with Tom Scott
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@copycat2696
@copycat2696 Год назад
From wikipedia: In 2006, 10 years after Eileen was stolen, MOBA was contacted by the purported thief demanding a $5,000 ransom for the painting; no ransom was paid, but it was returned anyway.
@MyRegardsToTheDodo
@MyRegardsToTheDodo Год назад
So somebody actually stored it for 10 years in hopes of getting some money, but then decided to give it back just to get rid of it? Nice.
@jannetteberends8730
@jannetteberends8730 Год назад
The thief probably couldn’t stand the painting one minute longer, and give it back
@oinkymomo
@oinkymomo Год назад
if the reward offered was 6.50, i dont know why they thought they would get thousands for it
@VonOzbourne
@VonOzbourne Год назад
@@oinkymomo Or why this person returned it for free when there was $6.50 on the table.
@lorenzoblum868
@lorenzoblum868 Год назад
This story might add some value to the painting.
@TomLumPerson
@TomLumPerson Год назад
I'm learning that you can tell how funny I think something is by what percentage of me is out of frame hahaha
@lateralcast
@lateralcast Год назад
We're going to make "Mirth Protractor" for the next time you're with us.
@BodyMusicification
@BodyMusicification Год назад
Tom: 🤣
@byeguyssry
@byeguyssry Год назад
The reason for it being $6.50 is, according to Wikipedia, because "Occasionally a painting [from MOBA] may be purchased; at one time MOBA's policy was not to spend more than $6.50 on any piece. More recently, twice and even three times that amount has been paid for an exceptional work."
@einootspork
@einootspork Год назад
Oh man, EVEN three times?! Someone on Wikipedia's got a sense of humor
@user-sl6gn1ss8p
@user-sl6gn1ss8p Год назад
exceptional as in exceptionally bad?
@alveolate
@alveolate Год назад
the idea of spending 6.50 is itself an artistic statement on badness
@ninjasuperman9538
@ninjasuperman9538 Год назад
Wouldn’t surprise me if the person who painted it stole it. Either because they wanted it back or because they thought they could Mona Lisa the painting into being famous. Which kinda worked
@hebl47
@hebl47 Год назад
Doesn't make it any less atrocious, though. But you're right: it is famous now.
@peteface24
@peteface24 11 месяцев назад
Wait, is the Mona Lisa not just famous for how it looks?
@ninjasuperman9538
@ninjasuperman9538 11 месяцев назад
@@peteface24 As i understand the story it was just another paining in the Louvre until it was stolen and then it became famous because it was returned/recovered
@JonathonBarton
@JonathonBarton Год назад
2:02 Just HEARING ABOUT this artwork is also heartbreaking. I saw a thing the other day about "Normalize Men Crying!" and they asked a bunch of college-age dudes "when was the last time you cried, and why?" and it ranged from "last night" to "a very long time ago", and there were a lot lot lot of "because my dog died" answers... But for me? It was "Just now, hearing about an artwork installation in Los Angeles..."
@techno1561
@techno1561 7 месяцев назад
A lot of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-era artwork are quite sad. One that gets to me is "Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers)" by John Boskovitch. You look at it, and it's a small box fan, but the story is that when his boyfriend died of AIDS, his family swept in and took everything. The box fan was all that was left of him. Strangely enough, also in LA, in the Museum of Contemporary Art.
@fifinoir
@fifinoir Год назад
The fact that Tom Lum’s first sentence after the question was finished was jokingly “really didn’t like that painting. Not a good painting” but was pretty much the answer is amazing. Especially as it wasn’t brought up again to once the answer was revealed.
@alextemplemusic
@alextemplemusic Год назад
I've been to MOBA - it's just a room in the basement of a movie theater in a suburb of Boston. Great (awful) stuff.
@StephandaSilva
@StephandaSilva Год назад
Not the basement. Is in the toilet. (Or at least it was when I visited in 1999.)
@dee5tank
@dee5tank 4 месяца назад
Can confirm. It's in the basement in the Somerville Theater in Davis Square
@alextemplemusic
@alextemplemusic 4 месяца назад
When I went there it was in their previous location in Dedham!
@uplink-on-yt
@uplink-on-yt Год назад
"We offer a reward of $6.50 to not bring that painting back."
@deebea6364
@deebea6364 Год назад
My first thought was maybe the gallery had an exhibit where guests were meant to steal a specific painting and maybe got part of their admission fee back for its return as some sort of conceptual art piece… if the painting was actually just a reproduction people could either keep it as a souvenir (and it could be replaced as many times a day as needed) , or get the slight ticket discount 😂
@danwigodsky2612
@danwigodsky2612 Год назад
In the 90s, a radio ad in the Boston area used to mention the MOBA comically. My wife and I decided to visit. Let's just say the museum collection matched the art. But back then, you could catch a movie after your visit.
@loddude5706
@loddude5706 Год назад
'Eraser head' or 'Barbie'? : )
@ljphoenix4341
@ljphoenix4341 Год назад
Thanks Lateral for introducing me to Caroline, Ella and Tom, I really enjoy listening to LLE! My new favourite pod, alongside Lateral
@robertk1701
@robertk1701 Год назад
I thought it'd be something like "it was stolen on accident and $6.50 was the cost of postage." Oh well.
@nachorzeszut1857
@nachorzeszut1857 Год назад
It'd be really cool if you released the full podcasts on video after some time
@adamsbja
@adamsbja Год назад
Editing and all the bits and bobs in video production is a much larger amount of work when you're setting up for podcast/clips.
@davidshi451
@davidshi451 Год назад
Tom has an explanation on his website
@invention64
@invention64 Год назад
Yeah, I never listen to the podcasts anymore cause seeing the reactions are the best part.
@NeonDripKitty
@NeonDripKitty Год назад
@@adamsbja but if its just the raw podcast with just the zoomed out shot then its less editing for the whole podcast then it is for one clip
@lucbloom
@lucbloom Год назад
Aaaaaand now it’s worth money. Because that is how Art works.
@57thorns
@57thorns Год назад
It happened to Mona Lisa, so it literally happens to (some of) the best as well. Before the theft Mona Lisa was just another remarkable (but at the same time unremarkable) portrait.
@SylviaRustyFae
@SylviaRustyFae Год назад
Was gonna mention, that just makes Eileen a modern day Mona Lisa
@SylviaRustyFae
@SylviaRustyFae Год назад
​@@57thornsI mean, except Mona Lisa wasnt even remarkable, so its even more similar. Mona Lisa was considered a bad example of good art at the time, tho it did at least fit in the good art category; it was just considered bottom of the rung until post thievin and the exposure it gained from that
@JimC
@JimC Год назад
"There's a sucker born every minute."
@88porpoise
@88porpoise Год назад
I know this is completely random, but wanted to say, I just found this a week ago and I also randomly started watching some Only Connect episodes. I watched one episode in Season 3 thinking "this random English bloke sounds weirdly familiar" and only in the quarterfinals I realized it is a much younger Tom Scott from Lateral. I would absolutely never have realized it was the same Tom Scott if not for the voice.
@ljphoenix4341
@ljphoenix4341 Год назад
Love that this amazing trio were willing to come back on Lateral again, LLE is a great podcast!
@safaiaryu12
@safaiaryu12 Год назад
My first thought was a conversion error? I've also seen that candy artwork. I agree, it's heartbreaking.
@vaclav_fejt
@vaclav_fejt Год назад
Ah, so not "Massive Online Battle Arena".
@Geraki0n
@Geraki0n Год назад
I had a very similar experience to Tom here. Where eventually I realized it was the museum of bad art, which I had heard about before given I used to go to college in somerville mass (where the MOBA was physically located at the time, though I never paid it a visit).
@jiteshvora86
@jiteshvora86 Месяц назад
I just looked at the painting, and to me it's not bad. I like it
@moomoo_01
@moomoo_01 Год назад
liked this episode so much!
@BleuSquid
@BleuSquid Год назад
The MOBA is a small room, in the basement of a movie theatre in Somerville. It's a funny neat little quirk of Boston, but I don't think it'd have been worth filming.
@GohTakeshita
@GohTakeshita Год назад
If it was a painting of the Loch Ness Monster, the reward would have been $3.50....
@morthaug
@morthaug Год назад
MOBA is like the worst museum to do an art heist in
@donkfail1
@donkfail1 Год назад
I like how MOBA puts it: Art too bad to be ignored.
@leumas75
@leumas75 Год назад
5:14 I totally expected the very last word of this episode to be… not ‘art.’
@plzletmebefrank
@plzletmebefrank Год назад
"Keep it light, guys..." On THIS show?
@mostlysondheim1930
@mostlysondheim1930 Год назад
This is actually one that I was able to solve immediately, having been to the MOBA many times. Fun clue!
@DrewQuinton
@DrewQuinton Месяц назад
It's not in Boston, it's in Somerville
@noenken
@noenken Год назад
Dammit, I thought maybe it is the entrance fee for the museum and they effectively wanted to allow the thief to return it for free.
@usmh
@usmh Год назад
My first thought was that the theft was part of a performance art project.
@violet_broregarde
@violet_broregarde Год назад
lol I thought the theft was part of the art. Like it was a "steal this painting" thing.
@mojosbigsticks
@mojosbigsticks Год назад
Superb!
@q00u
@q00u Год назад
I want to see the painting! But I can't find images of it online, just stories about it being stolen.
@grandetaco4416
@grandetaco4416 Год назад
Oh come on Eileen!
@bellaf5684
@bellaf5684 Год назад
damn i was waiting for them to address the $6.50 price point, a different comment here said moba had a policy not to spend more than $6.50 on a piece but while watching i was thinking maybe that was just the price of public transport, gas or an uber for the thief to get back to the museum
@SylviaRustyFae
@SylviaRustyFae Год назад
TIL Enuf MOBAs existed in 96 that they were able to make a whole gallery of art based on them
@panda4247
@panda4247 Год назад
So the question is, did the price go up after this? It seems that artwork is valued by its perception (if somebody wants it, it goes up, if it has something interesting, it goes up...). Even Mona Lisa was a cheap painting until it was stolen, only after that it became more famous and expensive...
@donutella38
@donutella38 Год назад
I hear MOBA has acquired most of Tracy Emin's back catalogue.....
@Ken.-
@Ken.- 8 месяцев назад
Is there a episode where Tom doesn't remember reading something somewhere about the very thing they're asking about?
@tonypang83
@tonypang83 Год назад
I couldn't stop thinking about gaming and NFTs... 😅
@dcltdw
@dcltdw Год назад
I live a few blocks away from MOBA, and while it'd be sick to have Tom filming here in Somerville, no, it'd probably make for a terrible video, alas. :)
@florian3183
@florian3183 Год назад
I assume Tom remembered this, cause the MOBA was in a University Challenge question recently.
@antonm_
@antonm_ Год назад
MOBA + $6.50 = it's a DOTA skin 😅
@martinlaak
@martinlaak Год назад
The reward was later increased to $36.73 - wikipedia
@sophiamarchildon3998
@sophiamarchildon3998 Год назад
Initial thoughts: the painting was on a postage stamp worth 6.50.
@duncanurquhart5278
@duncanurquhart5278 Год назад
Now i genuinely want to see tom visit MOBA.
@piranha031091
@piranha031091 Год назад
So... what does the painting look like?
@boy638
@boy638 Год назад
I bet any of the "bad" art they have is just a good marketing away from being worth millions.
@Cossieuk
@Cossieuk Год назад
What is the threshold for the art to be classified as bad. Given that art is so subjective anything can be bad or good
@NeonDripKitty
@NeonDripKitty Год назад
hearing about art that is just instructions reminds me of the stupid duct tape banana that was replaced every night by the stuff, not the "artist"
@NewlandJ987
@NewlandJ987 Год назад
I’ve been to MOBA, so I got it even before I played the video. That’s a first for me.
@dublerrking5123
@dublerrking5123 Год назад
I really don't have a eye for art because after looking for the painting it is just underwhelming not even that bad .
@erictaylor5462
@erictaylor5462 6 месяцев назад
The painting was worth $5
@TheGreatSteve
@TheGreatSteve Год назад
Moba might be able to buy all the NFT's for $6.50?
@Kostyurik
@Kostyurik Год назад
About 98% of them, yes. 2% of the NFT are still worth something even in the year 2023
@ecchikitty1395
@ecchikitty1395 Год назад
....I don't think it's that bad. Certainly not great, but better than I could make.
@dezoksiribon
@dezoksiribon Год назад
the question remains, was it returned for the 6,50 reward or for free
@raphaelnikolaus0486
@raphaelnikolaus0486 Год назад
Have you heard of the German artist Joseph Beuys? Some of his art pieces tend to be legendary: for example, one piece was a bathtub smeared in butter. However, this didn't last really long. (I'll keep the rest for myself, so you can find out yourselves or the team can use it in an upcoming episode.)
@raphaelnikolaus0486
@raphaelnikolaus0486 Год назад
"Beuys" is pronounced like "boys", by the way
@FilmscoreMetaler
@FilmscoreMetaler Год назад
He's also the most overrated """"artist""" in the entire world.
@trolek367
@trolek367 Год назад
Do a collab with answer in progress and her friends, it would be could
@lateralcast
@lateralcast Год назад
They've already been on the show! See episodes 15, 21, 28 and 34 - and they'll be back for more soon.
@trolek367
@trolek367 Год назад
Okay, thanks i will check them out
@bigsarge2085
@bigsarge2085 Год назад
👍👍
@anonnymowse
@anonnymowse Год назад
We have a piece of art in the house that looks like a terrible piece of art. I call it kindergarten art but one person thinks it is wonderful. There is a lot of bad art that gets sold for millions. No accounting for taste.
@alveolate
@alveolate Год назад
MOBA games are also bad art :D
@pincushionllama
@pincushionllama Год назад
*iS PATEIENTLY WAITING IMPATIENTLY*
@SnailArcade
@SnailArcade Год назад
IS PATEIENTLY WAITING IMPATIENTLY
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