American Pickers (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - 5 Acres of Junk - full transcript

MIKE: Whoa!

MIKE: It's almost impossible
to find stuff down south.

MIKE: Spiderman picker.

AL: I was thinking
a hundred dollars.

MIKE: Whoa!

FRANK: Al! Give us a deal!

PHIL: A couple of
thousand for both of them.

FRANK: Woo! I'm glad
I was hanging on here.

FRANK: How about a
hundred dollars? He went pick it!

PHIL: You got the sign.

MIKE: This is a hoarder.
Let's get this deal nailed.



FRANK: Done.

MIKE: Oh my god.
Oh it's a frickin' Isetta.

FRANK: Yeah.

MIKE: I think we died
and went to heaven.

MIKE: I'm Mike Wolfe.

FRANK: And I'm Frank Fritz.

MIKE: And we're pickers.

FRANK: We travel the back
roads of America looking

for rusty gold.

We're looking for amazing
things buried in people's

garages and barns.

MIKE: What most people see
as junk, we see as dollar signs.

FRANK: We'll buy anything
we think we can make a buck on.

MIKE: Each item we pick
has a history all its own



and the people we meet, well
they're a breed all their own.

[♪]

We make a living telling
the history of America one

piece at a time.

[♪]

[♪]

MIKE: When it gets too
cold in Iowa we head south.

Sometimes we'll
stay up to a month.

MIKE: All right Danielle.
Keep down the shop.

DANIELLE: Well be safe.

There's supposed to be
a storm heading your way.

DANIELLE: When it gets
cold out the guys get a

little sensitive and delicate.

DANIELLE: I packed some
vitamins so make sure you

guys take those because...

FRANK: Awesome

MIKE: Brain, brain food?

FRANK: Will they make me grow?

DANIELLE: Franky always
gets sick away from home.

Come here Rube!

FRANK: I know, I do.

MIKE: Send us any
lead that you get.

I don't care what it is.

I mean it's so hard to
find stuff down there.

DANIELLE: Duh!

DANIELLE: Picking in
the south is more difficult.

I'm gonna have to probably
work double time while the

guys are picking in
the beautiful sunshine.

MIKE: It's tough to
find things in the south.

The more people traveled
south, the less they brought.

There's a lot of
French influence.

A lot of stuff came
into the ports, a lot of

furniture and it's all been
distributed, you know?

It's almost
impossible to find stuff.

DANIELLE: Bring back
something pretty for me!

[♪]

MIKE: There's
nothing around at all.

FRANK: Yeah I wonder how
much time we spend on the

road together.

MIKE: We actually spend
more time together than my

girlfriend and I do.

I don't know but I never
get tired driving south.

FRANK: Yeah and you
never get tired of me huh?

MIKE: Yeah I think I do.

[laughter]

[♪]

What kind of picker do you
think the king would be man?

A good looking guy like
that coming up all up on

your porch, knocking on
your door and going hey baby.

Let me look around a little bit.

You think he'd
be better than us?

FRANK: Uh possibly.

MIKE: I think the king
would be the king of picking.

No matter what that
guy did, he touched it.

It turned to gold. You know
what I'm saying? The king's here.

We're here.

[♪]

FRANK: We're out
driving around freestyling.

MIKE: We're looking
through the trees and we

can see piles
and piles of stuff.

We just have to make a
contact with somebody.

MIKE: Nothing for
sale at all? All right.

Thank you so much.

FRANK: Most of our day
today was spent driving around,

we put up a bunch of fliers,
trying to find some stuff.

Who knows? Three people
might call us on those fliers.

MIKE: Look at this place.

FRANK: Look at that stuff.
He's got some motorcycles.

MIKE: Yeah.

FRANK: Hello!

MIKE: Hey, how ya doing?

FRANK: Hey. My name's
Frank. This is Mike.

MIKE: Hi.

MAN: How ya doing?

FRANK: We're just
down the road here.

We notice the guy had a
bunch of motorcycles and stuff.

Wanted to know did
you know those people?

MAN: Uh I don't know 'em.

MIKE: We're looking
for this kind of stuff.

Nothing like that?

FRANK: Nothing like that.

MAN: Nothing around here.

FRANK: All righty.

MAN: Maybe across
the river or something.

MIKE: We believe that
we're gonna find something

so we're gonna find it.

FRANK: That's
right. That's right.

[♪]

MIKE: Hold onto your whiskers.

FRANK: You know this
looks like a good road though.

MIKE: Is that a nineteen
ten Harley? That's a wild boar.

FRANK: Oh is it?

Anyway it's nice to be out
traveling the back roads.

Look at this big old place.

MIKE: This guy's got
some serious barnage.

We might be able
to stop at that place.

FRANK: Think so?

MIKE: There's the guy.
He's out, he's outside here.

FRANK: This place is awesome.

I like when people are
out though 'cause I mean

they're approachable.

Let's get on out and say hello.

AL: Shoo, shoo! You know
where they're heading for?

FRANK: Man, they look like
they know where they're going.

AL: They heading
for the cat food.

Al Atson, aka Gringo Al.

MIKE: When Al woke up
this morning, he had no idea

two guys from Iowa were
gonna stop and knock at his door.

AL: Oh I didn't really
know what to expect 'cause

they look a little bit like me.

Maybe a little uh I don't
know what the right word is.

I don't want to hurt their
feelings or nothing, you

know, but they are sort of
a little bit whacko like me.

AL: I like your sign on there.

I'm an archeologist too
and I've been buying and

selling antiques
for over thirty years.

When we moved over here
we got a smaller house and my

wife said now you aint
gonna tacky this house up

so you keep your
antiques and all out there.

FRANK: Hopefully by the
end of the day your wife

will like us because we're
gonna, we're gonna help,

we're gonna help you
get rid of some stuff.

MIKE: Yeah we're
gonna relieve some of the

pressure in your relationship.

AL: Yeah okay. Yeah.
Well she likes money.

AL: Ah let's head
to the uh big barn.

MIKE: Okay.

AL: Y'all ever heard of Katrina?

MIKE: Yeah we've
heard of that, yeah.

AL: Thirty-four thousand
dollars for that roof

after Katrina came through.

We had a hundred and
something sheets of metal

around off of it.

FRANK: Thirty-four thousand?

AL: You'll see I'm a
pack rat. Now this is.

MIKE: This is all top secret?

FRANK: This looks top
secret, Mike. [laughing]

I mean we're getting, we
got the padlock going on here.

AL: Okay. Follow me guys.

This is called my
little treasure room.

A lot of people come
in here and think it's all

junk but I'll
guarantee you it's not.

MIKE: You know who
that looks like, don't ya?

That kind of looks like Danielle
when she gets mad at us.

MIKE: We dug through a
building with tonnage in it.

AL: This is a flat iron.

Your mother used one of these.

MIKE: Oh yeah. She
used that across my hide.

MIKE: There was so
many things in there.

It was stacked up.

I mean the guy'd been
collecting since the seventies.

[bell ringing]

AL: Y'all come on
in from playground.

FRANK: What about your
cash register over here?

Is that something you'd sell?

AL: Yeah that. Well maybe
but I don't know if you'd want

to pay the price.

FRANK: That's a National
cash register. I mean.

AL: Yes it is.

FRANK: The small ones, those
are called candy store ones.

You know, drugstore,
candy store.

MIKE: Dollar machines.

FRANK: Dollar machines.

AL: It's copper.

FRANK: Oh yeah I know.

FRANK: Retail on those are
two seventy-five to four hundred.

It was a National.

Small is where you wanna
be. Big ones don't sell.

They're big paperweights.

FRANK: What, what, what
would you have to have for that?

AL: You're talking over,
over a thousand dollars.

FRANK: Okay.

AL: I don't, I don't
particularly want to

sell it but I would.

FRANK: All righty.

FRANK: He said I'd have to
have at least a thousand dollars.

Right there I went
uh oh. Here we go.

MIKE: Game over.

FRANK: I'm probably
gonna pass on that one.

MIKE: How much is
this bottle right here?

AL: Ten dollars?

MIKE: How about five?

FRANK: How about your
railroad lantern there?

AL: That's up in
the hundreds, aint it?

FRANK: Not in my book it's not.

MIKE: How about that
bicycle seat there right

in front of you?
Can you grab that?

AL: Yeah. Forty-five probably.

MIKE: Forty-five?

AL: Dollars. That's all. That
should be in a museum, right?

MIKE: It is. It is. It's
in the Al museum.

AL: Yeah. Our problem is
there's three-wheeler dealers

here, see?

MIKE: Yeah.

AL: I'm sure they know
already, like I do when I

buy something I pretty
well know what I can get

for it, you know?

MIKE: What are you thinking?

AL: Well I was thinking
a hundred dollars.

MIKE: Whoa!

FRANK: Al! Give us a deal!

MIKE: We gotta buy something.

We gotta sell something.
We're far away from home.

We're spending the money on gas.

We're spending
the money on food.

We're spending the
money on lodging.

We're spending,
spending, spending.

Now it's time to get
to work and try to find

something to buy.

AL: And look. You
know what this is?

FRANK: That's a toaster.

AL: That's a toaster.
That's exactly right.

FRANK: He put us under
pressure to name some items.

AL: This piece here. I
want y'all to guess what it is.

MIKE: This is for coffins.

AL: That's exactly right.

MIKE: You put your
coffin across there.

AL: Y'all are the first
ones, so help me god.

MIKE: He's like what is this?

MIKE: Cotton scale.

AL: That's exactly right.

MIKE: You know, what
is this? Well that's a saw.

AL: You know
what these are, huh?

MIKE: Oh yeah. Model T horn.

AL: What they call ooga horn.

MIKE: Yeah ooga horn.

AL: Ooga, ooga, ooga.

MIKE: I mean this kept going
on and on and on with him.

AL: But what is that?

FRANK: That's a Dutch shoe.

AL: That's right.

FRANK: But, you know,
a lot of times people like

to show their knowledge
and then, you know, that's

great for us because when
they start quizzing us and

we start telling them
about everything they're

quizzing, they know
we're knowledgeable.

FRANK: Al, do you
know what this is?

AL: Well it's a
time clock, isn't it?

FRANK: I'll tell
you what this is.

This is a Detex clock and
back in the days you had a

security guy.

These were hanging all
throughout the plant, okay?

So when he came by, he had
to put this in and he clicked it.

That means he had
made his rounds.

AL: Yeah.

MIKE: Wow.

AL: That interesting.

MIKE: Franky's one of
those guys that likes to

show his knowledge so when
he comes up with the other

guy that likes to show his
knowledge, boom, boom.

It's like a couple
rams going at it.

It was fun watching that.

AL: I think they were real
knowledgeable of what they

want to buy and
so forth, definitely.

They're my kind of fella.

A lot younger but
anyhow my kind.

FRANK: Here's another toaster?

AL: Yeah that's a toaster.

FRANK: You know, I really
like the toaster because

it's a European one.

It's not made in America.

[♪]

FRANK: You know, this
isn't real old because,

you know, it's
plug-in, you know?

AL: Give me thirty
dollars. That's good for you.

FRANK: How about twenty dollars?

AL: [laughs] Okay. My
wife will be proud of me.

FRANK: When he was at
thirty, I went down to twenty.

He said okay. I'll do it.

Um, you know, I got just
for a second there mmm...

I got that rush, you know?

FRANK: How much you
got on your visible mail pouch

thing here?

AL: That's the only one of
them we've ever had and

it's gotta be worth
forty-five dollars.

FRANK: Forty-five
dollars? That's not too bad.

AL: Cheap. Cheap.

FRANK: That visible mailbox,
they're really hard to find.

I mean they're early.

You know, everybody
broke them. Kids broke those.

[♪]

FRANK: How about thirty dollars?

AL: That's fine, yeah.

FRANK: All righty. Thank you.

AL: Bingo Al. Remember that.

FRANK: I got it.

FRANK: I'm ecstatic, you know?

I'm just, it's a fantastic
piece. It's great.

You know, it's a good piece.

MIKE: I can feel the
heat coming off ya.

FRANK: Hey. It's a good piece.

MIKE: Don't touch
the stove when it's hot.

MIKE: Daisy churn number forty.

FRANK: People love
to use this stuff for their

kitchen wares and stuff.

AL: They're highly collectible.

FRANK: This is
twenty-five dollars?

AL: Yeah.

FRANK: Okay. I'm gonna pop.

AL: You're gonna what?

FRANK: I'm purchasing it.

AL: Y'all gotta talk uh south.

FRANK: I'm fixin'
to buy this from you.

AL: Oh okay. That sounds good.

FRANK: I'm fixin' to get on
down and purchase this from you.

AL: I like that word, buy.

FRANK: All right. All right.

MIKE: Now we got some
cash flowing here, what about

this old magazine?

AL: See the
picture on the front?

MIKE: Yeah. She's hot.

FRANK: What is
that, thirties Mike?

MIKE: Yeah nineteen thirties.

AL: It'll have to
be twenty dollars.

MIKE: All right.

MIKE: I really like those
motor magazines that I bought.

They're from the thirties.

They got a lot of
airflow cars in them.

There's tons of ads and stuff.

[♪]

MIKE: All right
I'll pop on those.

AL: Y'all use that word
again. What does pop mean?

MIKE: That means we're
gonna pull the trigger and

when you pull the trigger, pop.

MIKE: Anything that was
new product that year is

in this magazine
so it was really rad.

FRANK: It goes to motor heads.

It goes to car enthusiasts.

It goes to
advertising collectors.

I mean that's the best.

FRANK: What do you
get on your little milk glass?

AL: Thirty-five is all right.

FRANK: Thirty-five?
That's a fair price. Very fair.

AL: Great. I'm
glad you said that.

MIKE: You know what
that's called Franky?

The Lincoln drape.

FRANK: 'Cause
of the drape there?

[♪]

AL: Follow me. You can make it.

FRANK: Oh I wish I
had this much storage.

If I had this much
space I'd have it full.

[♪]

AL: You never
know in this business.

One man's trash is
another man's treasure.

FRANK: You got that right.

AL: See all that, the bed
is all brass with mother

of pearl in it.

MIKE: I mean the mother
of pearl on it is just, it

goes all the way
around on these pieces.

It's beautiful.

AL: Yeah. Now this, the
story goes that it was made

for a madam in the late
Victorian period which was

around nineteen oh six or
somewhere in there so it's

a hundred years old by
now 'cause the madam of the

houses of ill repute,
as they call them or

whatever, would always
have the nicest bed in the

whole house you see
and her room would be all

decorated up in Victorian
type regalia and so forth

but I never was in one,
in one of the houses of ill

repute of course but it's uh...

MIKE: Of course.

AL: The girls...

ALL: [laughter]

AL: You either, right?

Is my wife looking?

[laughter]

FRANK: I'm hanging on here Al.

Hit me up with where we're
at today on something like this.

AL: I think the bed has got to
be worth ten thousand dollars.

MIKE: Wow.

FRANK: It's fantastic Al.

[♪]

AL: That's from North Alabama.

That's an old farm wagon.

MIKE: How about this
piece? That's a bicycle rack.

AL: Yeah. I bought
that in the States.

MIKE: Is that for sale?

AL: Uh I have to think
about it. I've had it for years.

MIKE: 'Cause I'm a bicycle guy.

AL: That's the only
one I've ever seen.

This is porcelain here.

MIKE: Yeah. I saw that.

MIKE: Uniform messenger
Western Union bicycle rack.

MIKE: It covers so
many different collectors.

Advertising collectors,
Western Union collectors,

transportation bicycle guys.

I mean it's so cool and I've
only ever seen one before.

FRANK: I've never seen
one so I was very excited to

see something like
that on a cold call.

I mean, you know,
cold calls can be, cold.

This ones hot when we walked in.

MIKE: How much is
as you can see there.

FRANK: Yes man.

AL: I can, I can remember
how the guys running

around town on bicycles,
you know, with the, with

the Western messages and
so forth and it's all original.

See the little guy
running. That's their...

MIKE: I see him. I see
him running around there.

[♪]

MIKE: What can you
tell me about this piece?

Where did you get it?

Do you know anything
about the history?

AL: It was used in the Western
Union shop in downtown Mobil.

I remember the street I
think was Dolphine Street.

It's a very unusual item
and there never was very

many of them you see so.

MIKE: So what would
it take to buy that?

AL: You know, you
caught me sort of off hand.

Can I think about
it for a while?

MIKE: All right hey.

FRANK: Hey. Think about it.

MIKE: Yeah you can.

FRANK: Looks like
the magnitude's Mike.

AL: We got some interesting
pieces that we can...

FRANK: Okay.

Looks like some neat stuff here.

MIKE: Wow ya look at that.

AL: Well this thing's
wrth fifty dollars isn't it?

FRANK: That's a Chevy.

That's a bow tie Chevy
and that came from uh,

MIKE: I think that's
pretty common.

AL: Is it?

FRANK: Ya.

AL: Is it common?
Ok well whatever?

MIKE: How about this
Al? Little, little tin here?

AL: Ten dollars? That's
an old one. Antique.

MIKE: You know what? I'd do ten.

AL: These are little
Victorian high class purses.

MIKE: Oh yeah.

FRANK: Little beaded
ones. How's thirty on this?

AL: Oh no, no, no.
We better not do that.

FRANK: How about forty?

AL: I already like ya but...

FRANK: All right. I'm just
trying. How about forty?

AL: That'll work.

FRANK: I bought the
purse and I think I've got the

ideal lady for that.

MIKE: Who? Danielle?

FRANK: I said lady.

MIKE: And I'm still
interested in the bicycle rack.

MIKE: I'm hoping at some
point he'll throw a number

out first.

MIKE: How much
is the bicycle rack?

AL: At least a five
hundred dollar piece.

MIKE: Three hundred
bucks. I got cash.

AL: Let me - I don't, I'm
not, I'm not gonna shake yet.

Let me think about it
as we, as we go around.

FRANK: He didn't say
no, Mike. He didn't say no.

AL: I didn't say no, yeah.

FRANK: He didn't say no.

FRANK: This little
clock thing here.

AL: Yeah. I think it dates
probably to the thirties

or the forties.

FRANK: Kinda neat.
There's no more hinges left.

It was but you know that's
how it would have, would

have opened up at one
time but possibly if you feel

how much weight that
bad boy had, that's probably

what had happened to it.

It fell backwards.

AL: Right. Exactly.
It may even work.

FRANK: I don't think so.

What would something
like that go for?

AL: Well I think
around forty-five dollars.

It's a little clock.

FRANK: How about thirty bucks?

AL: Okay. That's
fine. That's no problem.

MIKE: Yeah PEZ, man.

One of the first things
that I sold on eBay when I

first started doing it
was a PEZ machine.

[♪]

AL: Anything in here
is worth over a buck.

MIKE: How much is this?

AL: Three dollars, that's fine.

MIKE: Three dollars?

AL: No problem. Go ahead.

MIKE: How about two?

AL: How about - okay.

MIKE: I like when we're
walking this way 'cause

we're getting close
to the bicycle rack.

MIKE: I thought this
is a good opportunity.

Hey come on now.

He's really
starting to sell stuff.

He feels really comfortable.

Let's get this deal nailed.

FRANK: Done, yeah.

MIKE: Here we are,
back at the bicycle rack.

AL: What did we
agree on on that?

Wasn't it seven hundred?

MIKE: No, no, no, no. You
said five and I came back at ya

at three and then and
then you were, you were

like you know what?

I know I'm kinda at the
point where I might want

to start selling stuff.

FRANK: So here's where
we're at Al right now.

Me and Mike both spent a
couple hundred dollars so

we're, together we're
at about four hundred.

AL: Four hundred. Okay.

FRANK: Uh we'd like to be
leaving you seven hundred.

FRANK: My strategy with
Al today was trying to bundle

things together.

That's a real common
thing that pickers do.

MIKE: From one picker
to another, let's, let's,

let's not even mess
around anymore. Three fifty.

MIKE: We bought this,
we bought that, we bought

this, you know?

We're talking like seven
hundred and fifty bucks here, Al.

You know?

All of a sudden it's not
three hundred and fifty

for the rack.

It's seven fifty for everything.

AL: All right.
Seven fifty, let's go.

MIKE: All right. Skin, skin me.

AL: That's everything.

AL: The bicycle rack I
think is worth, you know,

between seven and
eight hundred dollars.

AL: Y'all need some help?

FRANK: No, we got her.

AL: I'm stronger than ya'll.

FRANK: I know that.

AL: I hope they'll enjoy
it and if they decide to

sell it I hope they
make a profit on it.

You never look back.
You keep going forward.

FRANK: Hey we love dusty stuff.

[♪]

MIKE: I got some
magazines in there still too.

AL: Oh okay.

[♪]

FRANK: And the little uh...

MIKE: The Lincoln drape.

FRANK: That was probably
my best purchase for us

today would be the lamp.

[♪]

MIKE: I feel, I feel
like we both did well.

Do you feel that way?

AL: I'm a happy
camper. No problem.

MIKE: Let's get this Franky.

FRANK: Yeah we got her.

AL: I can handle
that thing by myself.

[♪]

FRANK: We're gonna shove off.

Make sure we don't hit one
of your kitty cats here, all right?

AL: No, the cats
or the chickens.

[♪]

Goodbye.

[♪]

MIKE: Oh my god. That place
was frickin' awesome dude.

FRANK: Yeah it was.
That was a great stop.

MIKE: Let's call Danielle
and see what's going on.

[phone rings]

DANIELLE: Hey.

FRANK: What's up?

DANIELLE: I have
an interesting lead.

There's a dude that's
worth talking to and

everyone calls him Puddin'.

MIKE: The guy's
name is really Puddin'?

DANIELLE: Puddin' is
friends with his neighbour Phil.

He's got tons of cool
stuff but he is definitely

the quintessential town
eccentric so if you can

kind of schmooze Puddin'
and uh get over to Phil,

that would be awesome for you.

MIKE: Puddin' equals Phil.

DANIELLE: Right.

MIKE: Yeah and sell our stuff.

DANIELLE: Yeah. I
will be selling your stuff.

Let me do my thing here.

[♪]

FRANK: You know since
we're so close just to go

over the border to
Mississippi to go see

Puddin', it really worth
it cuz it's not that far

to go and it's
easy to come back.

MIKE: What's a guy
look like named Puddin'?

FRANK: This don't look
like Puddin' area to me.

MIKE: Oh there!

FRANK: Is that it?

MIKE: That's it. That's it.
Oh that place looks good.

FRANK: All right. Whip around.

MIKE: All right. Let's go
schmooze the Puddin'.

Which one of you guys is Puddin?

PUDDIN': That would be me.

FRANK: All right.

MIKE: I'm Mike. How ya doing?

PUDDIN': Hi Mike. How ya doing?

FRANK: I'm Frank.

MIKE: Who's this?

PUDDIN': My grandson Cameron.

MIKE: How ya doing buddy?

CAMERON: Good.

MIKE: Cameron? CAMERON: Yes.

MIKE: Nice to meet you.

FRANK: Yeah we uh
you talked to Danielle.

MIKE: She was saying
that uh you pulled a lot of

stuff out of the
river or something?

PUDDIN': Yeah. Ice age
bones I found in the river,

mastodon, wooly
mammoth, ground sloth.

FRANK: Wow.

MIKE: How long
you been doing that?

PUDDIN': About
twenty-five years.

FRANK: You got a vast
array of stuff here, you know?

A little bit of
everything. Mike.

Looks like you.

MIKE: He's got a dinosaur egg.

Puddin': I just
collect anything old.

I don't hunt
animals. I hunt relics.

PUDDIN': They did a CAT
scan at the hospital here.

I've got the x-ray where
you can see the yolk and

the embryo in it.

MIKE: Really?

PUDDIN': Now this is a
wooly mammoth tooth.

FRANK: Tooth?

MIKE: What's the
difference between a

mastodon and a wooly mammoth?

Anything? The same thing?

PUDDIN': Wooly, no.

FRANK: One had the spikes.

PUDDIN': Wooly mammoth
and then the mastodon, one's a

meat eater, one's a vegetarian.

MIKE: Okay, okay. This
is part of a human skull.

PUDDIN': A human skull. Right.

FRANK: That's a claw.

MIKE: This is a claw?

FRANK: That'd be a small tusk.

[laughter]

MIKE: You look good with that.

MIKE: Hey. What can you tell
me about this weathervane here?

What, was that a local piece?

It's very interesting to
me just because of the

simplicity of it.

It almost kinda, it's like
a folk art piece but it's

a weathervane, you
know? Somebody made it?

PUDDIN': Yeah.

MIKE: It's neat.

PUDDIN': It's early
nineteen hundred, late

eighteen hundreds.

[♪]

That weathervane was worth
from six to eight thousand

dollars up in New England.

MIKE: This one?

PUDDIN': That one right there.

MIKE: I could see it in his
eye. He was fishing, man.

MIKE: What's cash
money on it today?

PUDDIN': Cash money?

MIKE: Yeah.

PUDDIN': Four hundred.

MIKE: Four hundred
bucks? All right, done.

Let me give you some skin.

All right, we'll do that.

FRANK: Danielle
sent us to Puddin'.

We were able to buy one
thing from him and Puddin'

put us to Phil.

PUDDIN': He's right
around the corner.

FRANK: You knowing
Phil, what do you think our

chances are of being able
to buy something from him?

PUDDIN': Uh...

FRANK: One to ten.
Ten being we're buying.

One meaning we're getting
the door slammed in our face.

PUDDIN': Probably one.

FRANK: One? Doesn't
discourage me none.

You been over there?
Is the guy scary?

CAMERON: You could say that.

FRANK: You could
say that? All right.

PUDDIN': He's very peculiar.

He doesn't want to sell any
of his collection of antiques.

PUDDIN': Don't break about
two thousand dollars worth of art.

FRANK: I won't. I won't.

[♪]

MIKE: Thank you so much.

[♪]

MIKE: Oh my god, this
place. You know what?

FRANK: This looks insane.

MIKE: Danielle said this
is, she threw out the term

honey hole.

FRANK: Could be. Oh yeah
it's packed. Look, it's crammed.

MIKE: Puddin' said
we go. This is it.

We're gonna find
something smoking in here.

Hey Phil! How ya doing man?

Hey uh we were sent
over here from Puddin'.

PHIL: Come on in.

MIKE: Puddin' told us you're
the guy with all the stuff.

Nice to meet ya. This is Frank.

FRANK: How ya doing?

PHIL: Hey. Hey Frank.

FRANK: Pleasure.
Nice to meet ya.

PHIL: You look like Frank.

FRANK: I do. I'm a Frank.

FRANK: We heard that he
was unapproachable and we

didn't get that impression
whatsoever from him.

PHIL: I'm a
compulsive collector.

MIKE: I see that.

FRANK: It's all right.

MIKE: We like that.

FRANK: We like that. Yeah.

MIKE: How long you
been on this property?

PHIL: Uh about fifty years.

Almost forty-five
to fifty years.

FRANK: That's quite some time.

PHIL: I need to
get rid of some stuff.

MIKE: Now comes the fun part.

[♪]

MIKE: Oh my god. This is
what we've been looking for.

This is why we came south.

This is why we're
in Mississippi.

MIKE: What's this? Sewer drain.

Hey how bout, how bout
these old letters here?

PHIL: Yeah. You can get those.

MIKE: Twenty-five bucks.

PHIL: You bought 'em.

MIKE: All right.

MIKE: Letters are cool.
Everybody wants a letter to

hang on the wall.

They want a big number
to hang on the wall.

We sell the hell out of
those things, you know?

At fifty bucks a piece.

FRANK: People love them.

MIKE: Somebody's initials.

FRANK: Hey Phil,
this café sign up here.

Would this be
something you might sell?

PHIL: Yes. I'll sell
it for a price, yeah.

FRANK: All right. How
about a hundred dollars?

PHIL: You got it.

FRANK: All right.
That was easy enough.

PHIL: You got the sign.

FRANK: I told him a hundred
dollars and he snapped.

I mean he didn't
even go what, where?

He went pick it.

MIKE: How about these? What
can you tell me about these?

PHIL: Well all those,
those are from a

fireplace, they're
enamel and they're.

MIKE: They got
the tiles in them.

PHIL: Tile, enamel
tiles. They're beautiful.

They'd make nice bookends.

MIKE: Yeah. Those
are cool. Fifty bucks.

PHIL: You got it.

MIKE: What do you think?

PHIL: You got it.

MIKE: They were awesome, man.

The original white paint
on them and stuff, an

Italianate little piece.
It was oh it was so cool.

Those, those
tiles are beautiful.

Those women's faces in
them, they're really neat.

MIKE: We saw those.

PHIL: The gas pumps.

MIKE: Yeah, yeah.

MIKE: We both saw those
gas pumps. I mean boom!

We were like moths to
a flame with those things.

Visible gas pumps are almost
impossible to find nowadays.

They all rotted into the ground.

I can't even remember
the last time we saw two of

them in one place.

We snap these things
up everytime we see them.

MIKE: Puddin' said
you had the stuff, man.

Can you tell me anything
about these pumps?

Were they local
service station pumps?

PHIL: They all came
from local service stations,

country, country
service stations.

MIKE: The bases, from
what I can see, you know, the

bases don't look too bad.

This one, the globe looks good.

It doesn't have any
cracks in it or anything.

[♪]

MIKE: There's two of them
sitting there, not just one.

Two of them.

You know, so it's like we
gotta double down here and

buy both of these
things if we can.

MIKE: What are you
thinking on these?

What are you thinking
on these? Seriously.

FRANK: We're
already at a hundred.

PHIL: You're not gonna
get them for a hundred, that's

for sure.

MIKE: I know, hey.

FRANK: We didn't think that.

PHIL: Ah well what can I say?

Uh couple of thousand
for both of them.

FRANK: I don't...

MIKE: All right, let's.

FRANK: Woo. I'm glad, I'm
glad I was hanging on here.

MIKE: I think he knew he
wasn't gonna get two grand.

FRANK: Phil's an
old time collector.

He's been around the block.

He knows you gotta
start somewhere.

MIKE: Okay seriously,
you're really thinking two

grand on the pumps?

PHIL: Yeah.

MIKE: How about
a thousand bucks?

MIKE: We're only a
thousand apart, you know?

[laughing]

PHIL: Okay.

MIKE: All right.

MIKE: What's a
thousand between friends?

FRANK: Yeah.

MIKE: All right. I got ya.

FRANK: See what I mean?

MIKE: Yeah.

FRANK: Let me get it
out to the middle here.

MIKE: You ready?

FRANK: I'm ready.

MIKE: One, two, three. Oh!

FRANK: What's the matter?

MIKE: My foot.

FRANK: You all right?

MIKE: Yeah. Stop, stop.

FRANK: I know. Just
take it little by little 'cause

we only got one more
to do after this. Fantastic.

Now the next neat trick's
gonna be getting it in the van.

MIKE: Whoa. All right.

PHIL: I changed my mind.

MIKE: Oh man,
don't even go there.

PHIL: Put it, put it back.

MIKE: Oh lord.

FRANK: I think he felt good.

We felt good. Good day.

[♪]

PHIL: Both of ya.
I like both of you.

FRANK: All right. Thanks again.

PHIL: I still like you.

[♪]

FRANK: We'll come see you again.

PHIL: I wish you would.

FRANK: Okay, we will.

PHIL: We'll go get some pasta.

FRANK: That sounds
good. Yeah. Now ready, tilt.

Okay, tilt it down.

MIKE: Oh my back.

FRANK: For us to be down
here and to come on a guy

like that that says
nobody can pick him, he's

unpickable, you can't buy
nothing and for us to buy

something, we made it.

MIKE: We sold our
soul in the Delta.

FRANK: Yeah.

[♪]

FRANK: That's a major score.

MIKE: I think we could
do pretty good on them.

FRANK: Because you know
what would be the bomb is

if we already had a buyer
by the time we got home.

[♪]

[phone rings]

MIKE: Hey what's up?

DANIELLE: I called the
tourism board there and I

asked if there was
anybody around who's just

notorious for junkin' and
I think I have the perfect

guy for you.

He is a very
eccentric gentleman.

He has a self proclaimed
automotive graveyard and

motorcycle graveyard.

MIKE: I love digging
around old junkyards.

We'll ride on over there
and see what we can do.

FRANK: Uh huh.

[♪]

MIKE: This is the dude
right here. It's gotta be him.

FRANK: Yeah this is him.

MIKE: Oh look at that.

[♪]

This is like picker's paradise.

This is killer! Check
him out. There he is.

Hey Vic. Hey I'm
Mike. This is Frank.

FRANK: How ya doing?

VIC: Hello Frank.

FRANK: Nice to meet ya.

MIKE: We're here and
we're interested in looking

around and if you would
let us look around at all

man we would be completely
jacked up on doing that.

VIC: I see that.
It looks like it.

[♪]

MIKE: Look at this Franky.

FRANK: That's old school.

MIKE: That's like one
of the first Apples man.

FRANK: There's
so much stuff here.

Your mind is racing so much.

I mean there's so
much stuff to visualize.

It's just overload.

VIC: That's a CB one
thousand, nineteen

eighty-three Honda.

FRANK: Old Yamahas.
Old Yamaha...

MIKE: Oh yeah man.

FRANK: These were great
motorcycles back in their day.

VIC: Eighty-three I
believe or eighty-four.

FRANK: Mm hmm. They were
just great motorcycles, compression

release, great big single
cylinder five hundreds,

two-fifties and you could
ride them on the road and

off the road.

They were great
utilitarian bikes.

MIKE: So Vic, how
many motorcycles you got

laying around here?

VIC: About two thousand.

MIKE: Really?

FRANK: Two thousand! Wow.

VIC: I have two of everything.

MIKE: You're like, you're
building an ark huh?

MIKE: It's almost unbelievable.

We've been in a lot
of junkyards but to be

concentrated so much on
two wheel transportation,

it's incredible.

MIKE: How long you
been on this property?

VIC: Since
nineteen thirty-eight.

What is that? Seventy-one
or seventy-two years?

MIKE: Nineteen thirty-eight?

FRANK: Yeah.

VIC: I got stuff of
all ages all over.

FRANK: We're stoked on that.

VIC: There's five acres here.

MIKE: We're going that way.

FRANK: All right.

[♪]

MIKE: Whoa!

FRANK: You see a trail?

[♪]

MIKE: Here we go.
This thing's early.

FRANK: This is
real early. All right.

Let's go back the way we came.

MIKE: Listen, listen.

FRANK: Thought
you heard a warthog?

MIKE: I don't know man.

I hear something
walking around behind us.

FRANK: Hey there's probably
some spirits back here.

MIKE: It's one of those
Dodge trucks. It's in nice shape.

FRANK: I know it is.

MIKE: But how you
gonna get it out?

FRANK: Another
Dodge. Two of them.

MIKE: Which way do
you wanna go, man?

We might have to drop some
breadcrumbs so we can find

our way back.

I just heard, seriously I just
heard something over there.

I heard something
weird over there.

FRANK: Grab something,
man. These cars right here.

MIKE: Anything in there Franky?

FRANK: Car parts. How
come we're not finding anything?

MIKE: We will.
It's friggin - listen.

FRANK: Wild boar?

MIKE: I don't know, dude.
I keep hearing something.

[♪]

There's a lot of weird stuff
in the woods down here.

FRANK: I know.

MIKE: Oh my god.

FRANK: Dive in, Mike.
Look at the bicycles.

MIKE: Oh my god.

MIKE: This, this is everything
that we dream about.

It's, it's almost like a
mental marathon because

you're walking through here.

Your brain is not keeping
up with your eyes because

there's so much stuff.

MIKE: This is like the frickin'
motorcycle graveyard dude.

FRANK: I mean look at
everything here. It's incredible.

MIKE: They're everywhere.

FRANK: Let's go that way.

MIKE: This is awesome!

[♪]

MIKE: Oh. This is pretty rad.

I think we died
and went to heaven.

FRANK: I hear ya. I don't
know how long we were at Vic's

until you know until we
came across this ultimate spot,

the motorcycle graveyard.

Harley bars her.
Harley foot pegs.

Early Harley
motorcycle wheel, fifties.

MIKE: We're just trying to
go through some of these

layers and look through
these piles, these twisted

pieces of metal to see if
there's anything that we

can make a dollar on.

And we see one spot
of shining gold there.

Simplex was a company
in New Orleans that made

bikes starting in nineteen
thirty-five and they were

more of a smaller,
efficient bike and they

had this claim that they
could go a hundred miles

per gallon.

FRANK: They were
very light weight.

They were inexpensive to
run and they were a great

mode of transportation.

FRANK: Leave it in the
middle of the row here.

MIKE: Yeah we'll
leave it right here.

MIKE: The frame is
there, the fork is there.

The seat pan, the fenders.

There's a rear
rack, the footboards.

All that stuff, if you're
building a bike and you

need those parts, you
know, they reproduce a lot

of that stuff but guys don't
want to use reproductions.

They want real steel.

MIKE: Yeah there's
enough of it there to buy it, I

mean if he doesn't
want a bunch of money.

MIKE: These motorcycle
frames were really rare.

They were the only bike
ever made in the southern

states of America and when
we see them in a Louisiana

swamp man, I mean we gotta
bring those things back home.

MIKE: All right. See, I
told you we were gonna find

something in here.

Look at that little
car over there.

What the hell is
that? Look at that car.

Oh it's a frickin'
Isetta! It's an Isetta.

FRANK: Oh yeah.

MIKE: Look at this thing.

[♪]

FRANK: Oh my god.

MIKE: Oh it's roached. See
this thing. There's nothing.

FRANK: What'd it say?
Newcome? Where'd it come from?

MIKE: See? Here's the door.

That's the front end of it.

Oh there's another,
there's another Isetta.

The door's missing here.

FRANK: Oh yeah.

MIKE: You went
in from the front.

FRANK: Sat down.

MIKE: And then you sat in here.

See, see how the,
see the steering wheel?

It's on this pivot here?

FRANK: Oh yeah.

MIKE: This came out with
the door and then I'm like

what's up.

I'd like to have this just
sitting around the shop

but how the hell would
we get it out of here?

FRANK: These kind of
places, you keep on going.

You keep on going.

You think eventually you're
going to find something.

MIKE: What's that?

FRANK: So you go to anther barn.

You go to another barn.

You keep going, you keep going.

[laughs]

MIKE: Spiderman picker.

FRANK: I found my
first piece of advertising.

MIKE: What is it?

FRANK: Mikey.

MIKE: Oh that's killer, dude.

FRANK: Good piece.

MIKE: That's nice. That's nice.

FRANK: We'll ask him about that.

MIKE: Good eye. Look
at this. Here's a VL fork.

FRANK: Okay.

MIKE: It's got a
square leg to it.

I'm gonna ask him about this.

MIKE: It had I-beam fork legs.

It was for a RL motorcycle.

They used them to race
because they were stronger.

FRANK: In a perfect world,
he's never gonna use all this stuff.

MIKE: I'd say...

FRANK: You know what I mean?

MIKE: I'd say this
dude's a hoarder.

MIKE: You know what
my biggest fear is?

FRANK: What?

MIKE: We're gonna dig
all this stuff out of here and

then he's not gonna
want to sell it to us.

FRANK: Hoarders,
they don't sell.

They don't let go.

They can't even sell a pan.

FRANK: I think we should
take something out and see if

we can get the ball
rolling, if he's gonna sell it.

MIKE: Yeah 'cause we
could be digging out some

smokin' hot stuff in here
and he's gonna be like I

don't want to sell
any of that stuff.

FRANK: Vic has been a total
collector here his whole life.

MIKE: There is some
method to his madness.

I mean there's
the bicycle section.

Here's your Japanese
motorcycle section and

then you move on into over here.

This is the American
motorcycle section.

This is the nineteen
thirties car section.

So there's, there's a,
there's a little, I'm seeing it.

I'm seeing what he's
trying to do here or what

he tried to do here.

FRANK: I think where
we're at now is we're going to

have to figure out
if Vic is a seller.

MIKE: We have to
go up there, make that

pilgrimage and say
hey man, found this.

Is it for sale? Can we buy it?

MIKE: Vic!

VIC: Yeah?

MIKE: That's VL.

VIC: Let me look at it good.

This is a nineteen thirty-five.

These went down
in the top of the fork.

FRANK: Just like that, yeah.

VIC: This is a nineteen
thirty-eight forty-five

cubic inch special
made for the racetrack.

MIKE: There's a broken
piece on it but you know what?

To the right guy
five, six hundred.

MIKE: What are you
gonna do with this?

Are you ever gonna
do anything with this?

'Cause I'll do
something with it.

I'm interested in
buying this. You know?

VIC: I was interested in
using it, yes I sure was.

MIKE: You know, I'd pay
two hundred cash for this

and for these bars right
here I'd do fifty bucks.

I'd do two hundred
and fifty bucks cash.

VIC: I would sell it to
you but it's gonna take

more than that to get it.

MIKE: Well what
are you thinking?

VIC: About three fifty.

VIC: He's lucky I didn't
name a bigger price.

I really don't care
whether I sell it or not.

MIKE: Three hundred bucks.

I'll pay ya three
hundred bucks for it.

VIC: Hmm I told ya three fifty.

Don't let me change from
what I figured on something.

MIKE: All right. Then I'm
gonna have to think about it.

FRANK: This is one thing I
found that was by the trailer.

VIC: Yeah, I
know. I put it there.

FRANK: Advertising
is always great.

It was in great shape.
Real marketable.

FRANK: How about if I
gave ya thirty dollars for it?

MIKE: We're at
three thirty right now.

VIC: You'll have to find
something to see if we can

make it three fifty.

FRANK: We'll get
it into three fifty.

Is that one of your
motorcycle chasses right there?

VIC: It's made for a six
fifty Yamaha twin or a

seven fifty Honda.

FRANK: Okay. Would
that be something you'd

consider selling?

VIC: No. There's been
about a hundred and fifty

refrigerators, deep freezers,
washing machines, TVs.

People around this part
of the world hate junk.

FRANK: I noticed that
you're uh putting a fence,

looked like you
were starting a fence.

VIC: That's the police,
that's the police jury

getting on me to do that.

MIKE: Really?

VIC: Either move the junk,
clean the place off like a

middle of a high, big
highway, major highway, no

vehicles flashing
or put up a fence.

I worried very much
about it because they're

threatening to take
everything I have and destroy it.

They're threatening
to take all of everything

here with big machinery
and go to the dump with it.

About fifteen feet wide
and three hundred and

thirty-three feet long.

That's over four thousand,
five hundred square feet.

FRANK: Vic! Found
some more stuff.

Found some Simplex stuff here.

Mini bike stuff.

MIKE: Well remember that
package deal we talked about?

You know, I was trying
to buy the fork, I was trying

to buy the handle bars.

You know, we came back.
We found these two frames.

How about four hundred bucks?

That's a lot of fence posts.

VIC: Now uh I guess I
can go with ya on this.

VIC: I been trying to
figure out how I could raise

enough money to hire somebody
to help me put up a fence.

FRANK: Thank you.

FRANK: Perfect day.

FRANK: Let's make some
room for our new treasures.

[♪]

MIKE: Thank you so much
for letting us look around.

We very much appreciate it.

If you're in Iowa I'll
buy you a steak dinner.

[♪]

I think we did good.
Four hundred bucks?

FRANK: I think we did real good.

Heck, we almost
don't got enough room.

[♪]

MIKE: Come on, let's get
the hell out of here. Wait.

It's cold and flu season.

FRANK: All right.

MIKE: It's [♪]

DANIELLE: Hey.

MIKE: Hey. How ya doing?

DANIELLE: Well I wanted to
just kind of give you a heads up.

I found you uh somebody
for your gas pumps.

I sent him pictures of the pump.

He's really excited
to take a look at it.

MIKE: That's cool 'cause
they're taking up a lot of

room in the van, to
be honest with ya.

DANIELLE: He is really
knowledgeable about gas pumps.

He actually restores them.

Best case scenario, you
know, you guys head out

there and he loves
it and he'll pop on it.

FRANK: Hello.

[♪]

MIKE: All right. This
looks like our kind of place.

MIKE: Hey. How ya doing?

JACOBE: Hey. How ya guys doing?

FRANK: Good.

MIKE: We're doing very well.

JACOBE: Good.

MIKE: I'm Mike. Nice to meet ya.

JACOBE: I'm Jacobe.

FRANK: Frank.

MIKE: Who's this?

JACOBE: This is my son Jabron.

MIKE: Hey Jabron. What's
happening? How ya doing?

FRANK: What's happening buddy?

MIKE: This is cool. How
long you been working on this?

JACOBE: Man, we've
been working on this thing for

about six years.

Kinda play around with
old gas pumps and collect a

few signs and what have you.

FRANK: Signs are fun.

JACOBE: ya sign are fun.

We kinda go all over the
country picking this stuff up.

MIKE: Well did Danielle
tell you what we do?

I mean we've got these
gas pumps we found.

Frank and I are pickers.

These things are
farm fresh, man.

We'll show them to you
if you want to see them.

JACOBE: Yeah let's
take a look at them.

MIKE: Yeah. That's cool.

All right.

JACOBE: Man. These right
here are fresh off the farm.

MIKE: They're not bad, are they?

JACOBE: Yeah
they're not bad at all.

This one right here uh
looks to be a GaBarco, uh

a G&B pump.

One good thing about
it, it still has the cylinder

in it and this one right
here, I would say that

this pump right here
is a uh a Wayne.

This pump right here
is nineteen twenty-five,

dated in nineteen
twenty-five to nineteen

twenty-six and it also
still has the dial, the

indicators and stuff, you know?

It's a very unique,
unique pump. It really is.

MIKE: It's for sale.

JACOBE: And this
pump right here is also um

nineteen twenty-fives as well.

MIKE: I'm glad that
Danielle found you online

because we were so
close to you already.

Are you interested in
either of these pumps at all?

JACOBE: You know what?
There's a possibility I might

be interested in both of them.

MIKE: If you're interested
in both these pumps, you

know, we can throw out like
uh like seventeen on the pair.

JACOBE: When I saw the
condition of those pumps

and saw what those
pumps were, I was very

interested in them because
both of those pumps I

could have put
into my collection.

Don't get me wrong,
they're gonna take some

work to get them to look
nice but I think with some

hard work I think they
could turn out to be some

real nice pumps.

JACOBE: All right. So y'all
looking at say seventeen

on both of the pumps.

FRANK: That's, I'm pretty
well stuck on that. I mean.

JACOBE: You're stuck on that?

FRANK: Kinda. I mean.

MIKE: What are you
thinking? Sixteen seventy-five?

[laughter]

MIKE: We can do
this. We'll flip a coin.

If you win, you call
it, it's sixteen hundred.

If we win.

FRANK: It's seventeen hundred.

MIKE: Yeah and you can
even use your own coin.

FRANK: Can you do that?

JACOBE: That sounds fair.

FRANK: All right.
I'll flip, you call.

JACOBE: I'm calling heads.

FRANK: All righty.

JACOBE: Heads.

MIKE: It's heads.

FRANK: Sixteen.

MIKE: All right man. See?
That was easy, wasn't it?

FRANK: That was easy, wasn't it?

MIKE: That was easy.

JACOBE: It wasn't hard.

MIKE: All right.

JACOBE: All right.

JACOBE: Like dancing right here.

FRANK: Got it.

[♪]

All right. All right!

MIKE: It's all
about the quick flip.

FRANK: Ow!

[♪]

MIKE: The thing I love
about the south, man,

there's so many raw,
untapped areas, you know,

and it's like, you know,
there's so much history.

I mean there's, it's
like another planet.

They got their own food,
they got their own music,

they got their own language.

They got it all, man. This
is Bourbon Street, huh?

Franky, do the groundhog.

[big band music]

You know what?

We should probably get
Danielle a present here.

FRANK: Really?

MIKE: Is it Danielle's
speed? That's too expensive.

Those are twenty-six bucks.

FRANK: We could
have a Hurricane.

MIKE: Big ass beer, three bucks.

Oh yeah, check him
out. Look at that dude.

Looks like that guy
fell in a bucket of paint.

MIKE: We should get
our palm read just to see

where this trip's going, man.

PALM READER: Who's
first? Rocks, paper, scissors?

FRANK: Yeah.

PALM READER: Oh
this is good. Go ahead.

[laughter]

MIKE: I've been hanging
out with Frank since we

were in eighth grade so
we get to the point where

it's like we finish each
other's sentences.

[laughter]

It was really weird when
we did the rock, paper,

scissors and then we had
the same exact cards and

then even when we had the
same exact cards they were

in the same positions.

PALM READER: This is huge.

You could have grabbed
me any card that you wanted,

yet you grabbed me
similar cards that he just did,

matter of fact the same ones.

Well this is the queen
of swords and this is the

king of fenicle.

You sir will drive whoever
you love crazy for the

rest of your life.

You have the potential to
be an awesome marriage

partner but you'll spend
money sometimes on things

we shouldn't spend money on.

Whoever loves you might
want to rip your head off.

MIKE: Will that go for
just someone that I'm in a

relationship with or
can it go for a business

partner as well?

PALM READER: Oh yeah
that can be very much true.

You might take something
real little and blow it

out of proportion or maybe
make things more than they

should be.

FRANK: Occasionally.

MIKE: That is so you, man.

PALM READER:
That is a nine of cups.

That's material attainment
which means there's money

to be made for you
in a very large city.

FRANK: Hopefully this
is large enough. [laughter]

PALM READER: Huge. I hope so.

MIKE: I'm feeling better
about this trip, Franky.

Love this place.

I think we were
separated at birth.

We used to be
connected at the forehead.