The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

Auction Recaps and Auction Fu*kery

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, happenin

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

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, t

Emergency Pod: Heritage's Summer Entertainment Auction

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

Propstore's The Boys Auction

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

Shiny Object Syndrome (S.O.S.)

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 collect

David Zucker of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker

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

The Felix Comic Art Podcast Crossover - Part II

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, jo

The Book Detective

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

Hello, Newman - It's Mail Time!

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 collecti

Deep Dive: The Indiana Jones Grail Diary

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,

Deep Dive: The ILM Studio Scale X-Wing Fighter

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 dis

An Auction Recap and a Vow of Collecting Celibacy

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 bou

Leave the Gun, Take the Props

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

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

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 th

State of the Collection 2026

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, wha

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

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 episo

A Tribute to Rob Reiner and Bob Burns

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-coll

Maximum Auction Tonnage '25

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, ba

Once Upon a Time in the Tarantino-verse

It's book club week on 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 Quen

Live on Tape: The December 2025 Propstore EMLA-UK

David and Ryan get on the blower to cover the categories and days 2 and 3 of the Propstore auction, which kicks off today, December 5th! They cover their tried and true '