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David Mandel, the famed showrunner ofVeepand writer onSeinfeldandCurb Your Enthusiasm,has a well-documented love for movie memorabilia.
So Im generally unfamiliar with the movie-memorabilia or prop-collecting community.
Is that an accurate interpretation?
David Mandel:Its definitely bigger than you would think, as they say.
Its always surprising when someone reveals themselves to be a collector, you know?
Guillermo del Toro is a big one.
Peter Jackson is another collector.
The late Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft,built an entire museum.
And thats just on the high-end side.
In terms of intensity: absolutely.
Thereve been insane moments.
But, also, Ive made a lot of friends through collecting, including Ryan.
We met through this.
We wouldnt be friends in real life; we wouldnt know each others families if it wasnt for collecting.
You get the good and the bad.
Ryan Condal:People dont tend to be casual collectors of this stuff.
But thats what I love about it as a community.
Its this shared passion.
What are the topics that you were more excited to talk about on the podcast?
Who had them all?
He was really the original collector.
So he took them out of the dumpster, saved them, and preserved them.
We were able to get a wonderful interview with him.
What do you feel that Im not feeling?
Its really hard to explain.
It puts a smile on your face.
You walk by, you look at it, you remember, you smile.
Its that, I dont know, pure nostalgia injection that just puts a smile on my face.
:The pieces that I have the strongest connection with are things I loved in my childhood.
Movies are not tangible objects, right?
What proportion of your collections are stuff you swiped from your own shows?
:I have a ridiculous amount ofVeepstuff.
I have moreVeepstuff than anyone should possibly have.
ForSeinfeld, I have a set of plates and a coffee cup from Monks Cafe.
They look like nothing.
I kept a lot of stuff fromColony.
As it went along, I would pick key pieces out.
Nothing huge, but things that happened along that would be significant plot points.
So I had to debase myself and go back and actually buy things from my own movies.
Have you called dibs on anything from theGame of Thronesprequel yet?
:I havent … but I have.
Ill just say that I will very much enjoy the last day of shooting.
Do you guys have any white whales when it comes to props?
:I feel like it would be an honest-to-gosh, scratch-built X-wing or TIE fighter.
Preferably from the originalStar Wars, like an Industrial Light & Magic model.
And then he allegedly kept it and took it home from production.
So I would say: Viggo Mortensens personal Strider sword fromTheLord of the Rings.
Thats all Im saying.
:Unless hes found crushed under a Millennium Falcon, I might be okay.
The Stuff Dreams Are Made Ofdrops its first episode on Thursday, October 22.
