Antiques Freaks

It's the first half of our two-part Christmas special, featuring Shiny Brite vintage ornaments and Kugel balls! Other talking points include Charles Dickens, witches, vampire lore, and Martin Luther. Happy Holidays!

What do the Salem Witch Trials and Benjamin Franklin have in common? A cool $2.4 million at Christie's. With special guest appearance by the Witch Bureau. Eat your heart out, Sabrina Spellman.

Antiques Freaks drops some pearls of wisdom just for you. About pearls! You have to bite them. (Don't bite them.)

Yet another occupational hazard of the antiques industry dating back to the age of antiquity! Join us as we explore which antiques contain lead and which glassware you should absolutely stop using for your nightcap. See also: Caravaggio, Beethoven, Ancient Rome, the most unlikely and least-safe artificial sweetener of all time, and Queen Elizabeth I. Apologies to Flea Market Flip. Begrudgingly.

It's not a gravy boat. It's a downward spiral into Victorian sanitation failure and ill-advised website names. (Apologies for sound quality - our microphone picked up literally everything on the TV in the next room and stripping that out gave us tin-can voices. Thank you for your patience!)

Everyone's favorite horrible little shifty-eyed gremlins! But did you know their secret history? Spoiler alert: it involves parachutes, burglary, and suffragettes. Not necessarily in that order.

Before we had Beanie Babies, we had Hummels. These cutesy collectible porcelain children pissed off Hitler something fierce. #hummelbrag

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To celebrate, we've brought out one of Dee's favorite collections: poison bottles. Please do not use them to serve spooky cocktails at your party. You will die.

What do you get when science and history collide? ODDITIES! We close out Goth Month with special guest Olivia, here to tell us all about what oddities are and where they came from. (Hint: it's all Napoleon's fault. Probably.)

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...and watch out for Lord of Thundertown coming this December from NineStar Press!

Sources:

Orientalism by Edward Said

Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice by David P. Silverman, John Baines, and Leonard H. Lesko

Distilling Knowledge by Bruce Moran

Dee's out-of-studio this week, so we put together an assortment of the best deleted scenes from our Patreon! Covering everything from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell to Drug Abuse Resistance Education to Singin' in the Rain, and so much more.