[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, thrilled to be on my latest adventure, here in San Francisco. The woman at the heart of this story also loved to travel and took home the smallest of souvenirs from every place she visited. Those tiny keepsakes could add up to abigpayday for her heirs. My name is lise mousel. For over half a century, my glamorous aunt naomi traveled the world in style. She always had a surprise for us, but the biggest one came after she passed away. [ knock on door ] i want to know more about those surprises, so i meet lise and her mother, carol, at the condo where aunt naomi lived for more than 30 years. Lise now calls the place home. Oh, i love the way its decorated minimalist. It wasnt always true, when naomi was here. Really . Yes, there was stuff everywhere. There was furniture and there were antiquities, and then there were the beads. Beads everywhere. Beads . Beads. Naomi lindstroms story begins in a tiny logging town in british columbia, canada, where shes born in
Im jamie colby, and today, im in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. Its an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one mans strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. My names barry martin. I inherited a tiny, hundredyearold house from a little old lady. If there ever was a realestate niche, this is one. Hi, barry. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Nice to meet you. I meet barry in front of this little house. Yep, this is it his strange inheritance. Its just 600 square feet, and its now surrounded by a huge Shopping Mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. Who leaves this to somebody . Well, edith left it to me. Edith . Yep. Love to learn more. Okay. Come on. Barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shinglemill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. There was fishing on elliot bay there, and the shinglemill indu
Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention
Im jamie colby on a beautiful, snowy day about 40 miles east of telluride, colorado, here to meet a man determined to set the record straight with his strange inheritance, a legendary dragracing hot rod. My name is danny thompson. When my father was killed, he left me a car named challenger 2 plus a big piece of Unfinished Business. Danny, im jamie. So nice to meet you. Welcome to colorado. Inside dannys garage, i get my first look at his strange inheritance. This is challenger 2. This is the beast. Oh challenger 2, a 50yearold supercharged, pistonpowered racecar all i can say is. God bless america and racing, danny kind of looks more like a spaceship than a car. Kind of like a spaceship, trying to make it be as aerodynamic as possible. The story of this racecar starts with this little traffic cop, Mickey Thompson, dannys dad, born in 1928 in alhambra, california, a boy who loves tools more than toys. He took apart the family washing machine because it had a gasolinepowered engine. Fox
For his views on yeah, yeah that humans were you know human that we are a species that is subject to the laws of evolution in in the same way. That is other animals still. I think its um, you still see a lot of Popular Science books and a lot of articles and even scientific articles starting the claim that darwin you know thought that emotional expressions were functional in humans and which just leads me to think that you know, people should probably go back and read that book, but i was a really i found it really refreshing that your book didnt do that. And i also thought it was kind of brave thing to do to take darwin on and darwin really had this idea right as you write about that. He had this old idea of a mind at war with itself right that youre that your behavior is this constant struggle between cognition and emotion between rationality and feeling and thinking and feeling and you know, if rationality wins your ethical and healthy and if emotion when our instincts when then you