Ruby Slippers Are For Sale

Melissa Forman talks about how ruby slippers are for sale. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got to talk about this.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm fascinated by the fact that the ruby red slippers
are out there. To buy the iconic ruby red slippers
worn by Judy Garland and the Wizard of Oz went
to the Heritage auction house in Dallas.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Remember there was a whole thing. I was just talking
about it.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
They were stolen and then they got them back, and
then they went into like somebody's hands.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
And then they were sold back to this softown. Yeah,
all right.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Anyway, the bottom line is that you can bid on
them until December the seventh, and right now they're up
to eight hundred and twelve five hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And I'm trying to think, now, do you know are
those are those the cause?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yes, question I have on that isn't There's several pair
pairs of them, and like, are those like the pair?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
So this is what I wanted to tell you.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, So what happened was they were they were worn
by Garland's character in the.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Movie for sure.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I think they were one of two. Others might be
at the Smithsonian. They were bought by this guy, gotcha,
they were bought by this guy. Michael Shawn nineteen seventy
and then they were stolen while on loan at a museum,
and then they were found in twenty eighteen in Minneapolis
while they were investigating a scheme to defraud some.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Corporation which owns the item.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Okay, so basically I think there's two of them, and
this is one. The others will be underglass forever, and
this is one that you could buy.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Like, Jim, could you imagine? What would you do?

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, I know you'd build a whole build a whole
room around him, right, you'd put it under glass.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I would have a room. The floor would be white.
With the walls it will be all white. I'd have
a light shining right down into the middle of them
in this glass case.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
And whenever you looked at them, I would have it
set so that like this music.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Would be like huh, like you know, like just this
great music. Oh, it would be this. But you made
it wrong. The floor has to be yellow. You need
a golden brick floor. Well, no, I want the red
to really stand out.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
But it will if you make a golden you know,
a yellow brick road. And then the walls are okay, Oh,
you can do your room, y'all. I'm doing mine white, fine, fine,
all right. I was trying to figure out what other
items like I would care this much about. Every time
we've done this, I've been like, all I want is
a ruby red slipper, except for maybe maybe the lightsaber
from Star Wars.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I might want that.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I know another one and it's and it's in Chicago
right now, I think, still.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
What what?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
What? The suit from Saturday Night Fevers owned it? Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I would like that. I would like that.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I would like the box of chocolates from Forrest Gump
that was.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Or the bench or the bench, Oh, the.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Bench would be soak, or the feather.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I would love that.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
The wand from Harry Potter. You gotta have the wand
from Harry Potter.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Or the hat maybe or the broom or oh, the broom.
The witch's broom would have been cool.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I would have taken the Witch's broom from the Wizard
of Oz Oh that too.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, I was seeking the room from Harry Potter.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
All the hat from Indiana Jones. A lot of people
wouldn't want that. What iconic movie item would you want
to own? Or TV show A five five ninth three
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