The Things We Collect
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Dylan here. |
| 0:06.4 | So depending on your age, you will have gone through various collectible crazes. |
| 0:11.5 | As a kid, the Beanie Baby craze was like in full effect. |
| 0:16.4 | But, you know, before that, there was cabbage patch kids. |
| 0:20.5 | Right now, it's Labouble. |
| 0:23.7 | Little plush toys that have kind of an ugly, gremlin-like face. |
| 0:28.0 | They're cute. I like them. They're fun looking. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, people hang them on their purse, their book bag. |
| 0:32.6 | People also pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them? |
| 0:38.6 | There's something, there's a lesson about markets and the frothiness of markets in here and, |
| 0:44.7 | you know, whatever. |
| 0:46.1 | Anyway, here at Atlas Obscira, we do not really particularly want a Laboooobu, but we do |
| 0:53.1 | love collections. We love love collections and we love |
| 0:57.1 | collectors so we want to hear from you what you collect and why uh i personally we i have |
| 1:04.4 | my wife and i have a collection of of dice but we have my wife has a collection of tiny baskets |
| 1:10.4 | like baskets the size of a thimble. |
| 1:13.2 | I don't know why she has. |
| 1:14.6 | She just likes them and now she looks for them. |
| 1:16.6 | And when she sees one, she thinks there's a tiny basket that's going in my tiny basket collection. |
| 1:22.1 | Anyway, I want to hear from you about what you collect and why, maybe even what you would be willing to spend hundreds of |
| 1:29.1 | thousands or maybe just hundreds of dollars on. |
| 1:33.8 | Okay, tell me about your collections. |
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