barry needs his own spin-off
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
Kickin' It With Barry
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
this is actually my father's job. Is it like UK antique shows where they paint this nice ideal of antiques and auctions when in reality antique dealers are pretty much scum drunks?
― owenf, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Barry is apparently independently wealthy (he ran a food distributor?), and only is on the lookout for stuff he can personally collect. Allegedly, everything else he buys he donates to charity.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
One thing I don't get on this show is why you almost never see anyone else outside of the core "stars" bidding.
thats prob just basic reality-tv-editing-room-floor stuff
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if someone could do a gut-punch type reality show (like intervention or hoarders) abt ppl who abandon these storage units
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
I have only seen pawn stars but I love it.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Which should I watch next.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
i would say storage wars is the least like pawn stars
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
but go for auction hunters or american pickers for "neat stuff"
K, thank u
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
There was a Southern low-budget version of this sort of thing on Turner South a few years ago called "Junkin'" featuring an aspiring standup comedian and a, I dunno, a Zooey Deschanel wannabe I guess. It was pretty bad.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
xpost That's the thing, these aren't all "abandoned." Right? I think storage facilities are pretty hardcore, in the sense that once you miss a payment they don't give you much of a chance and immediately put stuff up for auction. That said, I would be curious to know to whom this crap belongs.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah sometimes its a business that goes bankrupt but the sad fact is that a lot of times its people who are deciding to eat or pay rent instead of pay the storage locker bill that month.
this episode of This American Life aired before any of these shows were on the air, and among others, features a guy who grew up w/ drug addict parents and had to watch a lot of his childhood possessions get bid on by strangers:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/399/contents-unknown?act=1
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
...and now he makes a living bidding on other people's abandoned storage lockers DO YOU SEE?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
You forgot Pawn Queens.
― svend, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
xpost to myself: lol when the guy kind of gets hopeful at finding an unopened bottle of charles shaw wine in a locker
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
My Mom likes to watch these shows and now she'll rummage through her house asking me what I think certain things are worth! It was kind of funny at first but after sorting through five boxes of comics taken down from the attic which I know nothing about, looking up other shit I know nothing about, I told her I don't know anything about antiques!!!
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
the place I have stuff stored lets u go 3 months I think before the pickers swarm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
lagoon what would be the most tv-worthy item in your storage locker
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
well theres a tv in there haw haw
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
― svend
good call. that's a big one
― rubber belly hand necker (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
Oddities is way better than all these. Giant gallstones, Amy Sedaris, Genesis P-Orridge, Victorian hair sculptures, skull collections...
Also, no Cash in the Attic on this poll? I guess only American TV counts, huh?
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
Pawn Stars is my favorite on the list... the Old Man and Chumlee really make it something *extra special*
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
also the Kount - he always seems so stoked to work on any fucking project they give him. They wheel in any ol peice of shit and he's like "Oh man we're gonna make this POP!! Its gonna look AWESOME!!"
He obviously really loves his job, its refreshing.
― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
I voted Pawn Stars but just as easily could've gone with American Pickers.
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
Really, it's the "history unearthed" and "everyday junk of yesteryear and tge value it somehow contains in contrast to the present's ephemerility" that facinates me. Or something.
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
The next series will totally be called "Estate Sale"
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
i'm watching storage wars now and if you watch it w/ the understanding that its one actual pro and three weirdos who got talked in to faking it to be on a reality tv show its way funnier
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
ha since my last post i watched maybe the single fakest episode of this show i have yet seen - three units full of total junk except for i. a professional magic trick ii. an antique telescope iii. a miniature track car worth several thousand dollars
i'm still not sure i buy your version tho - who's the actual pro, hester?
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBfRWRe9Ag
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
re: ppl who abandon storage units, had an interesting talk with a co-worker about this. Some years back, his mom got out of a bad marriage in California. Put her part of the household in an inexpensive storage unit there and headed to Arkansas. Paid like $30 a month for it or something. One month, the check bounces. It was a tiny hiccup in her account and she never noticed. Things rolled on. The storage people never told her. A year later she inquires about getting her stuff. They had auctioned it off a year earlier without telling her. She had zero recourse. What a racket! Worse than the impound lot!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
What about a show like "Hey, That's My Shit!" and they show up at one of the stores in Hester's empire of stores full of worthless shit and make a scene
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
every episode starts with a guy watching Storage Wars, btw
xposts
My wife lost a lot of her possessions in similar fashion when her previous relationship ended, he'd put a lot of (both of their) stuff in storage while they were sorting out moving out of their house, didn't keep up the payments, gone. She still watches the show so I guess she's over it now, well it was 9 years ago. Occasionally she'll think she still has an LP she used to have and I have to tell her no we don't have that :(
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAomVYXQGb0
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 20 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
i watched a few episodes of oddities and holy shit that dude is annoying
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
Watched a couple eps of Storage Wars today. I hate the Yuuuuuuuuup! guy already.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
And I like the guy who buys the shit storage rooms nobody wants. I can't remember his name.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
barry, and yeah, he's the best thing about the show
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 20 February 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, Barry. Watching another in which he just rolled up in some ridic truck with a crazy person he's calling his "good luck charm". He's great.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
s1ocki's right: he'd be a pain in the ass to kick it with
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
also i need more occasions wirl where its appropriate to say "YUUUUUUUP!"
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
like when they call out my coffee order to let me know its ready:
"YUUUUUUP!"
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOPE!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 20 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Watched a couple episodes of Storage Wars this morning (these shows are perfect for drinking coffee and lazing around on weekend mornings, IMO). I want to strangle the YUUUUUUUUUP guy. He's such a tool.
Jeff's idea on how to succeed at storage wars: find out where the auctions are and rob the buyers on the way to the storage facility.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 4 March 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Also, Brandi needs to divorce her idiot husband who doesn't listen to her and then gets angry and defensive when it turns out she was right.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 4 March 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link