Oh, hello, old uncle Wallyward here, back with another episode of Oligies. Now this one, well,

it's something to write home about. We're talking

Deltiology, which is the study or just the collection

of postcards. Yes, kiddos. There is an Oligie for that. I wanted to know what in the frickin' Frick that was about.

So I was outside of Detroit shooting the CBS show Innovation Nation at the Henry Ford Museum.

I was like, hey, hey, you guys got any ins with the

Deltiologist and they were like, what is that? Is that a word? And I had to be like, well,

according to some dude named Randall Rhodes of Ohio, who coined this term in

1945 based on the Greek for Deltion, meaning little tablets. Yes!

Yeah, it's a word. And they were like, oh, okay, cool. Cause yeah, we have a museum curator who studies and collects

who cherishes and archives and displays postcards. And I was like, let's get it on. Let's do this. Also,

sorry, the Henry Ford. Sometimes there's swear words in my podcast. I think I kept them to him and

I'm just me, me and me, but I'm pretty sure it's pretty clean. But before we get into

what is according to Wikipedia, the third most popular hobby worldwide, I guess people like

stamp and coin collecting more. And I'm not sure if by coin, they just mean money like a

massing wealth, but whatever. Before we get into it, let's say thank you to the patrons for their coin

that they toss at the podcast in exchange for getting to ask theologist questions. 25 cents

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that you leave because I want you to feel seen. And I'm kind of thirsty. So this week, Mallard the

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