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The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of, Bleav

From Kane’s Rosebud to Indy’s Whip to Captain America’s shield... Iconic treasures from the world of film and television are centerstage in this podcast hosted by collectors David Mandel (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Ryan Condal (Colony, House of the Dragon). Every week, the two writers share their love of Hollywood memorabilia, revealing unbelievable stories around some of the most famous and culturally important props, costumes, art, and ephemera in silver screen history.

tv & film film history

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01:23:42

The Nazi-Hunting Art Detective

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2026/10/07

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

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01:04:14

Auction Recaps and Auction Fu*kery

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2026/09/02

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

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01:03:48

Live (on Tape) from San Diego Comic Con - with Todd...

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2026/07/27

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.Email:

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01:41:04

Emergency Pod: Heritage's Summer Entertainment Auction

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2026/07/12

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

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00:58:07

Propstore's The Boys Auction

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2026/06/03

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!Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO - Instagram

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00:59:13

Shiny Object Syndrome (S.O.S.)

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2026/05/27

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

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01:01:13

David Zucker of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker

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2026/05/20

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

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01:00:12

The Felix Comic Art Podcast Crossover - Part II

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2026/05/13

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/ Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO -

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01:39:58

The Book Detective

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2026/05/06

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

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01:22:46

Hello, Newman - It's Mail Time!

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2026/04/29

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

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01:13:23

Deep Dive: The Indiana Jones Grail Diary

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2026/04/22

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

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01:30:28

Deep Dive: The ILM Studio Scale X-Wing Fighter

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2026/04/15

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

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01:05:20

An Auction Recap and a Vow of Collecting Celibacy

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2026/04/08

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…/Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/propspodcast/ SDAMO - Bluesky

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01:13:48

Leave the Gun, Take the Props

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2026/04/01

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

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01:26:31

Live from Los Angeles (and London), it's Propstore's...

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2026/03/25

It's auction week, baby! Join David and Ryan LIVE (or after the fact for those of you who aren't insane) to experience the March 2026 Propstore sale and all the things the guys are bidding on, not bidding on, should be bidding on, or are selling so they can bid on other things, or pay off their large Propstore debts. It's categories time! Which Mel Gibson prop is Dave going to talk about this time? And what /is/ the worst Prometheus prop?Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO - Instagram

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01:06:38

State of the Collection 2026

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2026/03/18

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of is back, David and Ryan are back, and so is their banter about collecting and collections. They talk about what's been up since December, what they have their minds on this year (besides warfighting), and what they're excited about coming down the pike. Ryan also gives the HOTD update we promised last week but never delivered on. It's chock full of auction talk, yacht talk, #PrivateDeal talk and, of course, #Fakes talk!Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO -

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01:11:29

I'll Be Back: The Propstore March 2026 EMLA-LA Sale!

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2026/03/11

The boys are back, ready to buy props and chew bubblegum -- and they're all out of bubblegum. David and Ryan dive into this brand-spanking-new season with a catalog episode, this one covering Propstore's March 25-27 Los Angeles auction. We've got HOTD updates and storage facility updates as well as all of the guys' Favorite Things from Day 1 of the auction, with everything from Black Panther helmets to the finest Terminator jacket ever to come to market. There are C-3P0 heads, shark-killing

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00:41:37

A Tribute to Rob Reiner and Bob Burns

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2025/12/22

In this (actually) final bonus episode of 2025, David and Ryan get back on the mics to pay tribute to the two legends we lost this week: director Rob Reiner and uber-collector Bob Burns. Join the guys as they say farewell to these two irreplaceable giants.Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/propspodcast/ SDAMO - Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/propspodcast.bsky.social SDAMO - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/propspodcast/ SDAMO - TikTok

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01:54:23

Maximum Auction Tonnage '25

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of ·

2025/12/17

That's a wrap on podcasting in 2025. After 44 (and when you reach the end of this one, 45) chock-full episodes, David and Ryan take stock of an eventful year of sales, ballooning growth in the hobby (and prices... and premiums...) and review both the Heritage December sale and the Propstore EMLA UK auction and all the resulting tea leaves regarding what lies ahead in 2026 and beyond. The guys are also joined briefly by Gary Kurtz's daughters Tiffany and Melissa to talk about their uber sale of Tom

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01:18:21

Once Upon a Time in the Tarantino-verse

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2025/12/10

It's book club week The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of! David and Ryan are joined by the prolific film book author Jay Glennie to discuss being the author-of-record for Quentin Tarantino himself. They discuss his previous (and upcoming) books, working for Q (Jay's words), and take an in-depth look at the first book in his one-a-year Tarantino series, the making of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Jay's okay, but the Hippies sure ain't!Email: dreamsaremadeofpodcast@gmail.com SDAMO - Instagram

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