The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

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The Nazi-Hunting Art Detective Oct 07, 2026

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Your favorite movie props podcast returns for another batch of episodes and a big old dose of class. So break out your brandy snifters because David and Ryan are joined by someone who is not only a fine art expert, but also a lady. Mari-Claudia Jimenez has had a fascinating career hunting down stolen Nazi art, appraising collections, working at Sotheby's, and most recently founding her own business in the fine art world. The guys chat with her about fine art, pop culture, and how everything in collecting these days seems to circle back to movie props--and what that means for the future.

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Auction Recaps and Auction Fu*kery Sep 02, 2026

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David and Ryan are back (sort of ) to review the August '26 Propstore auction. They discuss the auction results, winners (David) and losers (also David), trends, happenings, whether Mighty Joe Young will sell, and what's ahead for them and the hobby this year. And then the guys tuck in to discuss the fuckery they've noticed recently, with big props being bought for bigger amounts at one place (Propstore) only to be quickly relisted at another place (Heritage), often times for a loss. What is going on? Is Ryan still collecting celibate?

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Live (on Tape) from San Diego Comic Con - with Todd McFarlane! Jul 27, 2026

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In the podcast's first live broadcast (with an actual live audience), the Stuff Dreams Are Made Of pulls off another coup by welcoming 1980s and 1990s comic art legend, toymaker, and baseball collector, the great Todd McFarlane. As our guest is such a man in demand, he arrived a bit late... but not to worry, David and Ryan improv and vamp in the meantime with a Heritage auction review and plenty of self-inflicted interruptions. But trust us: Todd is worth the wait.

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Emergency Pod: Heritage's Summer Entertainment Auction Jul 12, 2026

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David and Ryan fire up the cameras and microphones to jump on the horn and break down Heritage Auctions' massive summer entertainment sale. The guys cover everything from antique (but screen-used!) Pirates of the Carribean hardware to historical documents and photos (Claude Monet!) to Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker clappers and Otto-pilots to Terminators to epic Kirk wardrobe to severed Hamill hands holding legendary lightsabers. This episode (and auction) has it all, including the official announcement of a live Stuff Dreams Are Made Of podcast at San Diego Comic Con... and an absolute coup of a special guest!

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Propstore's The Boys Auction Jun 03, 2026

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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!

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Shiny Object Syndrome (S.O.S.) May 27, 2026

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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!)

Scott Brown's website and Substack: https://www.downtownbrown.com/

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David Zucker of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker May 20, 2026

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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.

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The Felix Comic Art Podcast Crossover - Part II May 13, 2026

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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!

Listen to Part I here: https://felixcomicart.libsyn.com/

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The Book Detective May 06, 2026

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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)!

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Hello, Newman - It's Mail Time! Apr 29, 2026

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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!

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