David and Ryan crack open Propstore's incredible The Boys auction (now live) and dive The Deep (get it) into all the insanity from the acclaimed and recently-ended Amazon Prime series. Join the guys for a head-popping bacchanalia of supe costumes, intimate squids, popped heads, superhero drinking glasses and other toy tie-ins, lots of normie wardrobe, V vials and - of course - dildos. Bid now at propstoreauction.com!

David and Ryan are back with another topic from Scott Brown's Downtown Brown book-collecting newsletter. But this one translates directly from collecting books to collecting props. Scott states, "Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) is the best description I’ve heard for the magpie sensibility of most booksellers. The accumulation of pretty things is essential for our businesses, and most of us struggle to rein it in." Swap "businesses" for "collections" and "booksellers" for "prop hounds" and you have yourself a topic! The guys were both individually inspired by this topic which has wide-ranging implications across all collecting avenues and they felt it worthy of an hour of discussion. So tuck in and enjoy--and thanks again to Scott Brown for the great topic (and episode title!)

Surely they can't be serious. In another coup for the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (our first comedy coup?), David and Ryan of Mandel, Condal and Taylor have a hilarious chat with comedy legend David Zucker. They talk all about Airplane! and the Naked Gun and Scary Movie sagas, what makes spoof work, casting for comedy, and of course, collecting. The guys also learn that Mr. Zucker kept an impressive amount of high-quality prop gags from Airplane!, has absolutely never seen or heard of House of the Dragon, and that he also has a very surprising (and rather serious) collection obsession of his own.

First, go download and listen to Part I at the Felix Comic Art Podcast for a great discussion about comic art collecting and Ryan's budding comic art collection. Then, join David and Ryan and Felix here for Part II where they talk even more comic art collecting before segueing to Felix and his budding prop collection. It's a comic-art-prop crossover! It's a Crisis on Infinite Collections!

David and Ryan are joined by Scott Brown of Downtown Brown Books to discuss -- you guessed it -- book collecting. A lifelong collector and enthusiast of rare books, Scott has also been a dealer for the last twenty-five years. He regales the guys with tales from the book trade, tries to tempt them into yet another collecting arena, and then recounts the bizarre and tragic story of one of the greatest science-fiction book collectors no one has heard of -- a man whose seventy-year-old, priceless collection was slowly looted from his home. Scott deputized himself a book detective and pledged to recover as much of the collection as he could with a good, old-fashioned collector's passion and tenacity. These are his stories. Duh-dun (Law and Order noises)!

David and Ryan tear open Newman's bag of undelivered mail to find all the listener questions that have stacked up over the past few months. They cover call sheet collecting, bidding strategies, selling their collections as very old men, fakes in general, fake Mandalorian helmets (is there any other kind?), comic art, Russian spies/collectors, buyer's remorse, sensory pleasures with props, Pokemon cards (so, fake market manipulation) and much more. It's a mixed bag for sure, but it's hopefully packed to the seams with fun!

David and Ryan are back and diving deep into another storied movie prop from the 1980s: Henry Jones' grail diary from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. For their quest, the guys are joined by multi-time Stuff guest and grail-diary-expert Tom Spina of Tom Spina Designs and Regal Robot. Ryan and Tom compare their individual grail diaries and discuss all the similarities and differences among these and all the other books made for the film. You may not find the holy grail itself, but you will find over an hour of nerdy entertainment and enlightenment! Only the penitent man will pass...

In this x-cellent edition of the podcast, David and Ryan are joined by x-traordinary model-maker, collector of x-acting taste and all-around ILM x-pert Jason Eaton to discuss everything about the legendary ILM model shop and, particularly, his lifelong obsession obsession with the X-Wing fighter. So grab your favorite astromech droid, hop in the cockpit, switch off your targeting computer and prepare to have all your x-pectations shattered... because it's time to make the jump to nerd hyperspace! X-celsior!

David and Ryan recap the March 2026 Propstore auction, their victories and defeats, what they observed about this strange day in collecting, what they sold, what they bought (!) — and then they discuss the year ahead and take a mutual oath of collecting celibacy… for now. /We admit that we are powerless over our collecting. We admit that life is unmanageable when we try to control it…/

It's a very special episode of The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of as David and Ryan are joined by the delightful Janet Snow who played "Assistant to Mr. Puzo" for arguably the greatest film of all time, The Godfather. Join us as Janet regales the guys with her well-recalled stories of that magical, bygone era when men were men, tuxedos were frilly, and Frank Sinatra was still a dick. Ms. Snow, the consignor of the famous Mario Puzo copy of the Godfather Notebook that sold through Heritage Auctions in 2025, talks about supporting both Copolla and Puzo, dealing with the studio, going to parties, making the famous notebooks, and yes -- she even tells that famous story about that fateful night at Chasen's when a certain legend took exception to a certain depiction of a certain singer in a certain movie about certain Italian-American men. Join us, but you bettah not be wearin' a wiyah.