THE REAL STORY BEHIND HOW HE GOT THIS EXPENSIVE AND WEIRD STATUE
Antiques Roadshow seems like a very simple premise: friendly, well-meaning people from all walks of life bring their knickknacks and heirlooms and trinkets to appraisers who tell them whether they've secretly owned something worth a small fortune this whole time, or if their imagined treasure is just a nice-looking object with no auction value. The people who appear on the program are perfectly ordinary. They tend to be on the older side, vary in terms of how informed they are about their antiques (some have done thorough research, while others can't tell you anything beyond "mother used this dish when we had company over"), and come off as politely enthusiastic.