Rock Paper Scissors - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

When the two greatest auction houses in the world - Christie’s and Sotheby’s - vied for the privilege of auctioning off $20 million worth of art in 2004, little did they know that they would be forced to engage in an ancient form of ritualized combat known as... rock paper scissors.

Be sure to check out Carol Vogel’s original New York Times article.

Produced by Joe Rosenberg, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 12 - Episode 18 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:10.4	Snap Classic
0:18.1	Today on Snap Judgment, the story about vibrations and what happens, you're extremely sensitive
0:25.8	and when you're not.
0:27.3	Snap Judgment's Joe Rosenberg brings us priceless works of art, a mysterious Japanese
0:33.1	businessman, 20 million dollars on the line and the most ancient and honorable form of
0:39.9	ritualized combat.
0:47.9	So our story is going to start with this guy.
0:49.9	That's Lord, I'm practically making love to this microphone now.
0:53.8	His name is Jonathan Randall.
0:55.1	I'm a deputy chairman of Christy's in America who spent a lot of his time in the late 80s,
1:02.6	early 90s selling material to Japan.
1:05.8	Material meaning art.
1:07.8	And in the mid 90s to the mid 2000s going back to Japan to get everything back that
1:13.6	I'd sold to them 10 years before.
1:15.4	The extraordinary thing was you'd go to a trunk room.
1:22.3	Which looks like that last scene in the Raiders of the Last Ark.
1:25.2	There's things in boxes going on forever and open a box and in the box would be a work
1:32.3	of art or several works of art and you'd pick the object up and you'd look on the back
1:36.8	of it and you'd find your handwriting from 10 years ago.
1:40.1	That's so surreal.
1:41.1	It really is like kind of this weird ebb and flow of prestige between people and so long
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