i m jamie colby here in port orange, florida, just south of daytona beach. i m here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in west virginia. when her grandson finds it, he s convinced it s a valuable piece of history. my name is betty bland. for more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. my husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. i m john buell. i knew my great-great-grandfather was a famous artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. i had no idea i d end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. i meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this strange inheritance tale is born in belfast, ireland, in 1836. his name is harry mcardle. as a child, harry s a whiz with a paintbrush or sketch pad. would we describe him as a prodigy? i mean, probably. he was a very prolific painter. as a teenager, he immig
in port orange, florida, just south of daytona beach. i m here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in west virginia. when her grandson finds it, he s convinced it s a valuable piece of history. my name is betty bland. for more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. my husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. i m john buell. i knew my great-great-grandfather was a famous artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. i had no idea i d end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. i meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this strange inheritance tale is born in belfast, ireland, in 1836. his name is harry mcardle. as a child, harry s a whiz with a paintbrush or sketch pad. would we describe him as a prodigy? i mean, probably. he was a very prolific painter. as a teenager, he immigrates to america and at
just south of daytona beach. i m here to meet a retiree who had a curious relic hidden among the rafters of her home in west virginia. when her grandson finds it, he s convinced it s a valuable piece of history. my name is betty bland. for more than a century, a strange inheritance collected dust in the attic. my husband and i thought it was worthless, until our grandson john surprised us all. i m john buell. i knew my great-great-grandfather was a famous artist renowned for his epic murals of texas battles. i had no idea i d end up solving a mystery surrounding one of them. i meet betty and john at the family home, where they explain that the benefactor in this strange inheritance tale is born in belfast, ireland, in 1836. his name is harry mcardle. as a child, harry s a whiz with a paintbrush or sketch pad. would we describe him as a prodigy? i mean, probably. he was a very prolific painter. as a teenager, he immigrates to america and attends the maryland instit
[ bird caws ] i m jamie colby, heading toward the garden state parkway. i m meeting a couple of jersey boys who had an old painting in the basement. could it really be a rembrandt? think you re heard a stranger inheritance story? forget about it! i m ned landau. neither i, nor my brothers, roger, and steven, had any idea that our mother had left us something so valuable. neither did the auction guy up the highway. but people around the world were watching. hi. how are you guys? i m jamie. hi, jamie.e to new jersey. thanks for coming out on such a rainy day. ned, steven, and roger landau grew up here in north jersey, just outside of new york city. two parents, three boys, on a street where there s lots of other kids. our father had a small chemical company. they made coatings and industrial finishes. three boys can t be easy for your mom. what was she like? she was an expert yoga professional, and this was well before yoga was a thing. my mother was a
democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s