Do You Have What it Takes to be Popular? What’s your PQ? (Ladies' Home Journal, January 1949)

Wherein Varney's dastardly co-conspirator is revealed! Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian audience would do for the authentic 1840s coffeehouse experience. To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

Slather yourself in grease and break out your best butter-carving spoon for this, our butter molds episode, brought to you by Return to Cranford (aka The Cranford Christmas Special).

We discover Dee’s true Personality Quotient score at last, and along the way learn the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of middle school gin rummy tournaments.

Wherein Chillingworth is a miserable pile of secrets. Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian audience would do for the authentic 1840s coffeehouse experience. To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

The Antiques Freaks take a vintage quiz to determine our Personality Quotient, or PQ. Plus! Unsolicited opinions on Cats the Musical.

It’s like we always say: get hot and get glued.

Can you feel at ease when there is a slight pause in the conversation? Can you get in a “party mood” with last year’s best dress for this year’s big date? And what are your feelings on Hedy Lamarr? The Antiques Freaks dive into mid-century ephemera and take a vintage quiz to determine our Personality Quotient, or PQ.

And I said, "What about... breakfast at Varney's?" Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian audience would do for the authentic 1840s coffeehouse experience. To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

This week, Dee tells all about the Arts and Crafts ceramics artist that revived ancient glazing practices to create the longest-continually-operating pottery in America—plus, unsolicited financial advice.

From phone books to Civil War letters to ancient Kraft macaroni, Elizabeth McLeod of the Auction Waves podcast takes the Antiques Freaks on a journey through ephemera. Watch out for alligators. Elizabeth McLeod brings to Auction Waves over forty years of experience as an author, editor, journalist, broadcaster, audio producer, researcher, and collector, with a specialty in American culture of the first half of the 20th Century. She has appeared as a guest expert on television programs ranging from PBS's "History Detectives" to "The American Experience," as well as on NPR and the BBC. Over the past thirty years she has written over five thousand scripts for the daily CBS Radio Network feature "Sound*Bytes." When not engaged in deep dives of research, she has been known to take on acting roles, both in radio and on the stage, and is also accomplished in the preservation and use of antique electronics and audio equipment—including the gear she uses to record each episode of Auction Waves.