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AzraelBrown542 karma

It may just be my impression, but in more recent episodes it feels like the featured items are generally "I'm related to or know a famous or historically important person, and I know this is a valuable item, just not how valuable", and there's a lot less "I'm just some person off the street and got this at a rummage sale for a buck". What are your thoughts on this, am I off-base, or has AR become such a big deal you just see more of the famous-adjacent people, or is it harder to find the "dollar at a garage sale" stuff now?

(Edit: I should just add, thank you for coming to Fargo, ND -- I'm an antique dealer and we saw a lot of people from around the US come in to the antique mall shopping after they went to Antiques Roadshow earlier that day!)

AzraelBrown15 karma

This -- the Catholic orders that set up Catholic schools believe in education, including science and broad humanities courses make society better, regardless of dogma. However, evangelicals are getting their hooks in Catholic schools now, so it's not a good determination of quality anymore.

AzraelBrown12 karma

Well, celeb-worshipping in a way that you can make a celeb do a relatively boring Tik-Tok like video, wearing their schlubby everyday clothes, in their messy apartment, with a garbage truck backing up BEEP BEEP BEEP in the background, thoroughly ruining the idea that celebs are worth worshiping, and showing they're just as lame on the internet as the rest of us.

AzraelBrown2 karma

My wife and I stopped bothering to figure out which is which and just refer to either of them as "Natalie Knightley". That actually has a better ring to it, like a comic-book superhero's secret identity, than either of their names individually.