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The back of the studio encompasses two rooms: one for equipment, and this one, for props. “This is a bunch of random stuff that we end up using a lot, like any food-related wares, or football helmets,” says Voorhes. “We did some work for ESPN and got a bunch of them, and any time any other magazine is doing something about football, they come out. The plastic brain we only used once, but it’s still there, I don’t know why."