Hi proof fans, it's Bridget here and today I'm really excited to share a special

preview episode of a new podcast called Detours from our friends at GBH.

Anyone a fan of GBH's Antiques Roadshow?

Well Detours is a podcast about what happens to all of that stuff on America's favorite antiques

TV show after the cameras leave town. Join host Adam Monaghan, a longtime

producer for G. B. H.'s Antiques Road Show on a journey of discovery with stories of record-breaking

sales, fakes, and, yep, even federal crimes.

This first episode that you're about to hear is a mystery about an American flag from the storied PT 109.

That was JFK torpedo boat in World War II.

Now, the flag from the boat was brought to a road show event, but it never made it onto the TV show.

Why not? Let's listen. From detours, The Hardest Fact I Ever Check.

If you've ever watched WGBH's Antiques Roadshow on PBS, the show with all the old junk that turns out to be worth a lot of money.

At least $15,000.

The one with the excited guests like this.

I'm gonna faint.

Did you hear that, Betty?

I know I heard him, I heard him.

You'll see a whole bunch of stuff

and learn some things to make you dangerous

on any given trivia night.

What you probably don't know is that each of the facts uttered about each of those objects is checked by someone on staff, oftentimes me. I'm Adam Onahand, a producer on the show for many years now and this is the story of the hardest fact I ever checked. We'd

even fold most of that underneath.

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