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  • - You're hiding

  • freakin' van Goghs in a coal mine?

  • That's disrespectful.

  • And Rose would be like, "I'm gonna memorize this.

  • I'm memorinizing all of it."

  • (bold dramatic music)

  • Hi!

  • Hello.

  • (giggles)

  • I'm Tiffany Haddish,

  • and today, we're gonna talk about Rose Valland.

  • (Tiffany slurping)

  • She ready.

  • (soft accordion music) So, it's France.

  • October 1940

  • Rose Valland's Assistant Curator

  • at the Jeu de Paume Museum.

  • So she's like, "You know what I know? Art!"

  • Then, all of a sudden, there are boom!

  • Nazis everywhere!

  • They took over the museum like, "This our spot!

  • This where we gonna be at! Ah!"

  • (chuckling) Right?

  • She like, "Oh shoot, it's Germans everywhere."

  • And what they doing is robbing the French Jews.

  • And now they storing all this stolen art up in there.

  • And you know why? You know why?

  • Do you know why?

  • Let me tell you why.

  • Because Hitler was, like, a proclaimed artist,

  • and he tried to get into this school.

  • He was denied because he couldn't stay in the lines.

  • - [Derek] Uh-uh.

  • - He told his boys, "Y'all go out there,

  • and y'all get all the artwork.

  • Now, if it's German art, it's good.

  • But if it ain't German art, burn that shit up!"

  • 'Cause Hitler was mad

  • 'cause he didn't get to get into the university.

  • 'Cause you mad you didn't get to get into school,

  • my (beep) wet, don't worry about it.

  • (laughing)

  • But, Rose is like the dopest spy.

  • They up there talking (imitates speaking German).

  • They didn't know she spoke German.

  • She like this.

  • Taking notes, taking notes, taking notes. Okay?

  • So, different people that worked

  • under Hitler would show up to the museum often.

  • Like his main man, his name was Hermann Goring, right?

  • Now, Hermie, you know, he's so ratchet.

  • He like, "Give me! That's the best!

  • Run me that. Run me that right there.

  • Ooh, that's nice!

  • Hey, hey, give me something to drink.

  • Bring me some champagne up in here

  • while I'm in here picking the best art."

  • And Rose would be like,

  • "I don't know why these (beep) are here. He's so lazy.

  • Why you even want to tell me where you stole it from?

  • Do you know who I am?

  • I'm gonna tell everybody."

  • She'd go get the wine, and Hermann be like,

  • (drink slurping) "Ah, magnifique! This is,"

  • oh no, wait, no, he was German, he'd be like,

  • (imitates speaking German) (ice rattles)

  • "That was delicious!"

  • (Derek laughing)

  • Wait, hold up, I'm toasted.

  • I'm sorry.

  • - How you feel?

  • - I feel fantastic.

  • (Derek chuckling)

  • Anyways.

  • They would load these pieces of art up on the train.

  • The Nazis was putting a lot of stuff

  • down in these deep, dark caves.

  • You're hiding stuff in caves?

  • You're hiding

  • freaking van Goghs in a coal mine?

  • That's disrespectful.

  • And Rose would be like, "I'm gonna memorize this.

  • I'm memorinizing all of it!"

  • Sounding ghetto was hell.

  • (both laughing)

  • Did you know I was Jewish?

  • - I didn't until tonight.

  • - 'Cause my father is Jewish,

  • but my mom was a Jehovah Witness, so I'm a Jujo.

  • (both laughing)

  • So,

  • it's December 1944.

  • James Rorimer shows up trying to holler at Rose.

  • "Rose, I know you know everything.

  • I need you to give me all the information that you have.

  • Where are all the treasures?"

  • She's like, "I don't know you like that.

  • Who is you?"

  • He's like, "I'm James Rorimer.

  • I'm with The Monuments Men."

  • Now, these was a collection of men and womens

  • who went out to save the existence of their culture.

  • Rose, she was dope.

  • She was like, "Boom! I got these addresses right here.

  • Check this out."

  • They would stop trains.

  • They would go to salt mines.

  • They was knocking, knocking people out.

  • Some people died, some people lived, but the art was saved.

  • She saved, like, over 60,000 pieces of culture.

  • She's a heroine! (soft patriotic music)

  • And then, finally, Rose is like,

  • "Go to Hermann Goring's house."

  • Sent them over there. Boom!

  • $200 million worth of treasures!

  • Culture!

  • Art!

  • She hooked that up.

  • And Hermann Goring was pissed as hell at her.

  • Like, "I can't believe she snitched on me.

  • And when she was bringing me

  • all these glasses of champagne."

  • And then Rose does the Nae Nae.

  • Hey! (laughing) (deep hip hop music)

  • But he couldn't do nothing about it

  • 'cause now he a prisoner of war.

  • And Hitler killed himself.

  • They say.

  • I think he hanging out with Tupac.

  • (hip hop music deepens) (both laughing)

  • - Hello.

  • Today, we're gonna talk about Waties Waring.

  • Waties Waring was an eighth-generation Charleston guy.

  • He was a judge.

  • This was this guy's life.

  • "I'm in Charleston. I love it.

  • I make money. I have my beautiful wife.

  • We're rich people. Look at all our rich friends."

  • But he lived in this place

  • where segregation was the way that it was.

  • "I mean, we're fine with each other,

  • but black people go over there.

  • Right? That makes sense."

  • He and his wife started playing bridge

  • with this couple, the Hoffmans.

  • Elizabeth Hoffman, she was from Detroit.

  • She was incredibly smart,

  • and she was the life of the party.

  • He's never known a woman like this before

  • in his entire life,

  • and he's like, "What are you about?"

  • There's this thing that starts happening

  • where they're just flirting between bridge hands.

  • Like, "Elizabeth, it's your hand. You know what I mean?"

  • "Oh, Waties, you're so funny."

  • He realized he was in love with Elizabeth,

  • and he confronted his wife, Annie,

  • and he was like, "Hey, remember Elizabeth?

  • I'm sleeping with Elizabeth."

  • (belches)

  • Sorry, I'm getting, like, drunk now.

  • So, he married Elizabeth,

  • and they were ostracized from Charleston society.

  • "You're not Charleston anymore.

  • You're a Yankee.

  • You're an (beep). No one likes you."

  • And all they have left is each other.

  • And so Elizabeth starts going to Waties' court cases.

  • She starts going, "Oh (beep).

  • Maybe all these cases where the white people won,

  • some of the black people got screwed over, you know?"

  • And Waties was like, "Yeah,

  • but that's the way it always has been."

  • And she was like, "Yeah,

  • but black people are people, though.

  • And he was like, "Yeah, black people are people,

  • but, like, in like a different way."

  • And she said, "That's gross.