American Pickers (2010–…): Season 3, Episode 10 - The Possum Trot - full transcript
This time on American Pickers... The guys pick a South Carolina hardware store that's filled to the rafters with century-old inventory. With a missile on the lawn, a Georgia collector's property features building after building of awesome stuff, and for the first time ever, he says he's ready to part with some of his treasures! And, in backwoods Alabama, the guys are invited to a down-home country auction called the Possum Trot.
MIKE: This place is huge.
FRANK: Each step I
took was like going back
10 years, 20 years.
It was like walking
back into time.
MIKE: Yeah, look
at these are nice one.
MIKE: They were porcelain,
double sided, these were
early Shell signs.
BILL: Did you wash that hand?
MIKE: Yeah, no,
no why? Should I?
BILL: Well, thanks.
MIKE: What's up with this thing?
ED: This is Nike Ajax,
surface air missile.
MIKE: Think about how
passionate you have to be
to have a missile
in your front yard.
MAN-MISSILE: Most of
this stuff around here was
World War II.
MIKE: Incredible.
FRANK: I have never ever
seen a military collection
this large.
MIKE: This auction was intense.
All of a sudden I'm in
the middle of a chicken
wrestling match.
The only chicken I want
to get a hold of is grilled
with some BBQ sauce on it.
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: Alright, mind the store.
DANIELLE: I'm sending
the boys to South Carolina.
DANIELLE: Have
fun guys. Be safe.
DANIELLE: Mike and Frank
both love South Carolina.
So warm and people are
so friendly and they already
have these
relationships established.
DANIELLE: And these people
love to see Mike and Frank.
So it's going to be
a great trip for 'em.
[♪]
FRANK: Who do you
think would win a fight-
Rambo or Rocky?
Rocky can fight,
he knows how to...
MIKE: It's the same dude.
FRANK: No it's not,
Rambo is a Navy Seal.
Rocky is a fighter.
FRANK: Adrian!
MIKE: I'm going to go Navy Seal.
FRANK: That's what
I was going to go with.
MIKE: I think I'll
go with Navy Seal.
FRANK: He's got
knives and stuff.
MIKE: Oh yeah, man.
MIKE: Franky,
know where we're at?
FRANK: Where?
MIKE: We're in Robin Jones land.
FRANK: Robin Jones
was a guy that we visited
earlier this year and he
gave us a great lead before.
ROBIN: Yeah, I think you'll
really, really like this girl.
She's, she's very colorful.
WOMAN: Everybody tells me
I remind them of Dolly Parton.
FRANK: So we
thought, you know what?
Might as well call him now,
maybe he can help us out again.
FRANK: Robin!
ROBIN: Hey.
FRANK: Hey, this is
Frank and Mike here.
ROBIN: Good to hear from you.
FRANK: Yeah, man,
we just thought we'd, uh,
give you a buzz, see
if you had any leads.
ROBIN: Hey man. I've always
got a pick. You know that.
FRANK: That's why we're calling.
FRANK: Any time somebody
can give us some leads and
any time we can do some
networking, that's what
we're all about.
ROBIN: I'll tell
you a good spot.
His name is Bill Schull.
Bill's got a pretty cool place.
He is a owner of
a hardware store.
In his place he's got a
three-story building there
the top floor is packed
with stuff that probably
dates back to the 1800s.
MIKE: Wow.
MIKE: Alright, hey man.
We appreciate the lead.
If you're ever in our area.
We'll do the same for you.
ROBIN: Hey, I appreciate
it. Good luck, guys.
FRANK: Alright. Thanks Robin.
[♪]
MIKE: Look at this place.
FRANK: This place is
awesome. Look at that.
FRANK: When we pull
up in front of this spot,
I mean, the first thing
you can see is gas pumps,
advertisements, stuff in
the windows, I mean, this
place looks like you're
stepping back into 1912.
FRANK: Hit it.
FRANK: This is
awesome. Look at that.
MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: He's definitely oil.
MIKE: Oh my god, man.
This place is like a museum.
FRANK: It is cool.
MIKE: This place looked
open for business, but
nobody was there.
MIKE: And then out of
the corner of my eye, I see
this guy smoking a pipe.
MIKE: Hey.
FRANK: Are you Bill?
BILL: Yeah, I'm Bill.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. My friend Mike.
MIKE: Hey, what's going on?
BILL: Hey, how are you?
FRANK: You know, we
first walk in, I mean, Bill,
first impressions again,
he's got a black eye.
I mean, this guy looks a real
negotiator, a real scrapper.
MIKE: I got to ask.
BILL: No comment. No comment.
MIKE: We talked to Robin,
he was telling us all about you.
BILL: Yeah. Yeah.
MIKE: And, uh, he said
every once in a while,
you've been known
to sell something.
BILL: I mean, I'm
getting tired of it.
I've got so much.
And I'm getting up in
the years, you know,
maybe I want to retire.
MIKE: Yeah. I hear ya.
BILL: If you guys are
willing to buy, I might retire.
I might eat steak tonight.
MIKE: But we're
pickers from Iowa.
BILL: Uh huh.
MIKE: And we're looking
for like anything from
brass blade fans to oil cans.'
FRANK: Yeah.
BILL: Well, well I
literally have the history
of the oil business
in my possession.
Gas pumps, signs.
BILL: It's a hardware
store that I inherited
from my late mother.
I've been here since 1972.
My mother's grandparents
started it in 1884.
BILL: We got in
the old business,
the earliest record's 1913.
FRANK: Oh my god.
MIKE: That's incredible.
BILL: Literature and
pumps to prove it.
MIKE: So you salvaged
a lot of this stuff?
BILL: Yeah, yeah. Gas
station signs, furniture.
MIKE: Which way you want to
show us? You show us around.
FRANK: Yeah.
BILL: Well, we can go upstairs.
That's where all
the good stuff is.
FRANK: Ok. MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: As Bill was leading
us upstairs, I mean, each
step I took, was like
going back 10 years,
20 years, 30 years.
It was like walking
back into time.
MIKE: This place is huge.
BILL: This is where
all the good stuff is.
FRANK: Alright, that's
where we like to be.
MIKE: When we were
looking around this place, man,
it was so fun because
you could tell everything
in there had been there forever.
MIKE: What's this right here?
You have some old lighting here.
BILL: Yeah, those are
station gloats, it looks like.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I dig these.
Alright, can I look
up there too at those?
BILL: Yeah, here's a ladder.
MIKE: You got a
ladder or something?
MIKE: I come in to
lighting section of this
old hardware store
and there's tons of it.
MIKE: These are just pieces.
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: Some of it's broken.
Some of it's not in great
condition, but a lot of
people that are restoring
old homes, they want to
repurpose these old lights.
This stuff is killer.
MIKE: Oh here's another one.
Here's one more of those.
MIKE: What are you
thinking on the three of 'em?
BILL: Um...$20 a piece?
MIKE: 20 bucks a
piece? Uh, let me think.
How much is, how
much is the, the wire job?
They need to be rewired.
BILL: Oh that's minor.
MIKE: Alright, you know what?
BILL: What?
MIKE: This is the
point where you and
I get together
and break the ice.
I'm going, I'm going, I'm
going to pull the trigger on this.
BILL: Oh really? Did
you wash that hand?
MIKE: Yeah. No,
no, why? Should I?
BILL: Oh thanks. [laughs]
[♪]
MIKE: So this is a
plumbing section?
BILL: Uh, Hoosier cabinet.
MIKE: Yeah. I see
that. Yeah, Hoosier.
Look at all this
equipment in here, Franky.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: What about, hey,
what about these, uh...
BILL: Gas pump heads?
MIKE: These gas pump heads,
what's going on with those?
You got the pumps?
BILL: Oh I'm sure I do.
[♪]
MIKE: So each one of these
tops you have the whole pump for?
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: We got to
check that situation out.
BILL: I'll show you
guys the gas pumps.
MIKE: Oh, these are it, Franky.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Look at all these.
MIKE: So many pumps.
BILL: There's visible
pumps back in there, even
the dial face one.
MIKE: Oh man.
MIKE: The gas pumps
Bill had were really unique.
The best part of it was
they were sitting inside
for so many years, the
weather hadn't worn 'em down.
MIKE: Have you sold
any of the pumps ever?
BILL: Uh, no, I've only let
one out of my possession.
It's a permanent loaner.
MIKE: Bill had these all
to himself and I was like,
come on, man, share the wealth.
MIKE: This one's
pretty cool right here.
That's a clock face.
BILL: Yeah, that's
[Wynn?] I think, number one.
MIKE: Yeah. That's a neat
pump. It's a good piece.
I mean, what, what's
cool about it is the front
here, the sign
panel on the front.
BILL: Yeah, the Hi-Arc?
MIKE: What would you have to
have for that clock face pump?
BILL: I'm going to say in
the condition it is, $600.
MIKE: Yeah. That's about right.
MIKE: I appreciate
you pricing it, but that's
all the money on it.
BILL: Yeah. MIKE: You know.
MIKE: In the end, his oil
was way too rich for me
and Franky's blood.
MIKE: Frank, we were doing
better at the other building.
FRANK: Yeah.
MIKE: Normally at this
point in the pick, we're
feeling a little bruised,
but this time it was different.
Once we got away from
those gas pumps, it was
like an oil slick in there
and everything started
flying out the door.
MIKE: I found
this box of buttons.
BILL: Yeah.
FRANK: Bill, what do
you think about these two
ornaments here?
BILL: Uh, ok.
MIKE: 20 bucks.
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: Let's see that.
Oh yeah, look at that.
BILL: I'll do it.
MIKE: I got my pile going here.
FRANK: Bill. BILL: What?
FRANK: Here I noticed
some of these, some of these
globes over here.
MIKE: When Franky and
I are digging around this
old hardware store, one
of the things that we both
see kind of at the
same time is this box of
old glass panels.
BILL: Now that's glass.
That's all glass. There too.
FRANK: Mm hm.
MIKE: Ooh, look at these Franky.
MIKE: These are the panels
that went on the sides of
the globe that went on
top of the gas pumps.
[♪]
FRANK: How did you
get so many of these, Bill?
BILL: Well, we were an
oil distributer from 1913,
Gulf Oil, then Texaco,
then Shell, then Atlantic,
then Mobil, then
I got out of it.
FRANK: So you were selling
gasoline to service stations.
BILL: Yes. That's right.
MIKE: Oh wow.
BILL: We had service
stations and heating oil
accounts and...
FRANK: So I have to ask
ya, what do you get on these?
BILL: Uh, 75?
FRANK: $75 for the globe?
BILL: Yeah, with the
plate you know, yeah.
FRANK: Ok.
BILL: Yeah. Yeah.
FRANK: Ok. I'll
take this for 75.
BILL: Ok. That's fine.
FRANK: And then,
how much a piece?
BILL: So $10 a piece?
Does that sound reasonable?
FRANK: Alright.
[♪]
FRANK: This is regional stuff.
I can't find Atlantic
oil where I live.
I bought it all. It
was a great find.
MIKE: Didn't you say
you had oil can section?
BILL: Yeah, I've got it
over there by the elevator.
MIKE: And sign section?
Let's hit that, Franky.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: I like that.
Alright. Cool.
We're, I like how
he's got sections.
I was in the lighting
section, now we're in the
gas and oil section.
MIKE: Wow. Look at this place.
BILL: There's some more signs.
MIKE: Holey moley.
MIKE: I can see 'em
from a mile away, man.
That bright yellow red sign.
It was scalloped on the top.
MIKE: Look at
these are nice ones.
MIKE: They were porcelain,
they were double sided.
These were early Shell signs.
MIKE: I mean, I was
excited about 'em,
but I didn't want to show
too much excitement.
MIKE: How much, how much
are you thinking on these, Bill?
BILL: Uh, I'm going
to say... 300 apiece.
MIKE: Yeah. I can't do that.
MIKE: How about if I take
both of 'em-200 a piece?
BILL: That's 400.
MIKE: Yeah. Well you're at 6.
BILL: 500.
MIKE: How about 2 and
a quarter a piece? 450.
Where are you at?
BILL: No way. I was at 500.
MIKE: Alright so...
BILL: I started out at 600.
MIKE: I started out
at 400. I came up 50.
BILL: I'm getting closer
to the hot dogs tonight.
FRANK: No, no, no, you're...
MIKE: 475 for the pair?
Alright, I'd do that.
I'd do that. I'd
do it, my friend.
BILL: I got to shake
your hand again?
MIKE: Hell ya, you gotta
shake my hand on each deal.
BILL: It's got dirt on it.
FRANK: Alright, Bill, how
about this Atlantic sign here?
What would you do on this one?
BILL: 150?
FRANK: Well I'll tell
you what, look at this one.
This one's a different style.
MIKE: Woo, that's a wang-o.
FRANK: I'll tell
you what I'll do.
I would like to
stay in with the 150.
How about 100 and for
this one, I'd do 50 on it?
BILL: Yeah, I'll do it.
FRANK: You'd do that?
BILL: Yeah.
FRANK: Thank you.
FRANK: The Atlantic
signs that I bought for $150,
I think I can get
350 out of 'em.
MIKE: The two Shell
signs I bought for $475,
I think I can sell 'em
close to 1000 bucks.
BILL: Looks like I'm
going to have steak tonight.
FRANK: I bought the
Atlantic globe for $75.
I should be able to at least
double my money on that.
BILL: Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you. Thanks a lot.
We're back here
and we'll stop for sure.
FRANK: Alright, Bill.
BILL: Be careful on your trip.
FRANK: Thank you.
MIKE: Gas and oil was the
life blood of America back
in the day, so spending
time with somebody like
Bill that's experienced
so much of that history.
It was incredible.
BILL: Drive safe.
MIKE: Alright, thanks.
MIKE: How rare is that?
To get into a property
that's been in business
for like 4 generations, man.
FRANK: I mean it was
crazy being able to go up and,
and pick things off
the shelf that have been
there for, who knows,
40, 50, 60 years.
MIKE: What about
those Shell signs?
FRANK: The Shell
signs were great.
I'm surprised you
seen those Shell signs.
MIKE: What are you
talking about? They're huge.
FRANK: I notice, Mike,
you're doing a lot of
squinting lately dude.
I mean, you seriously...
MIKE: Frank, we're
in a dark building,
I got dust in my eye...
FRANK: I can see
fine. I can see fine.
MIKE: See these eyes?
They're perfectly fine.
Does it look like I
need glasses? No.
MIKE: I can see fine.
I bought more stuff.
FRANK: You know I'm
with Mike all the time.
I mean, I constantly
see him squinting.
[♪]
FRANK: I think he needs
to go to the doctor and
he needs glasses.
FRANK: Take my advice
and just get it checked out,
just see, so when the guy
goes, can you read that?
And you go, uh, e, e, e,
e, and... you realize that
there's f's and
g's in there, Mike.
MIKE: What's this right
here? Can you see that?
FRANK: That says loser.
MIKE: Yeah. Ok. Chill out.
FRANK: Mike's in denial
that his vision is bad.
I mean, it might be
a lost cause here,
but I'm not giving up.
MIKE: I don't need glasses.
[♪]
MIKE: Franky and I are
in Seal, Alabama and we
decide to give our old
buddy, Butch, a call.
He is the guy that made
Bigfoot feet and strapped
'em to his feet and was
trampling around the woods.
BUTCH: That night everybody
was so scared around there.
Somebody shot a big
old black angus cow.
MIKE: He's got a
great sense of humor.
He's an awesome artist.
[phone ringing]
BUTCH: Hello?
FRANK: Hey Butch.
MIKE: What's up, man?
FRANK: This is Frank and
Mike. You remember us?
We stopped by that one
time we bought that pig
head from ya.
BUTCH: Having fun.
MIKE: That's killer, dude.
MIKE: I love that
thing. I still got it.
FRANK: How y'all doing?
BUTCH: All right.
How are y'all doing?
FRANK: We're just talking
about you cause we're down
here in Alabama and
we thought we'd give you
a call and see what's shaking.
If you've got anything
new or what's happening.
BUTCH: Yeah, y'all can come by.
We got the Possum Trot going on.
FRANK: What's,
what's the Possum Trot?
BUTCH: That's a auction,
an old country auction we
have right up the hill
here about a half mile
from my house.
MIKE: Oh that sounds fun.
FRANK: That sounds
fun. Heck, we like auctions.
BUTCH: Here, y'all can
move y'all's stuff in with
mine and we can sell it.
MIKE: You know what?
We picked up a couple
pieces on the road.
We'll throw them in there.
MIKE: Alright. We'll be there.
BUTCH: We'll be looking for you.
FRANK: Alright,
my friend. Bye bye.
MIKE: Alright, stab
it and steer, baby.
FRANK: Just put the
pedal to the metal. Whoa.
MIKE: Woo!
MIKE: This auction
sounds really cool.
I want to go check this out.
He said pickers come
from all over the place.
MIKE: We're in the middle
of nowhere and we finally
arrive at Butch's place.
The Possum Trot auction.
And the history is that they
used to race possums there.
FRANK: Could you imagine
how hard it would be to
get a saddle on a possum?
MIKE: Hey Butch.
BUTCH: Alright.
Good to see you again.
MIKE: How are you doing, buddy?
FRANK: Told you
we'd make it down here.
BUTCH: Yeah.
MIKE: Good to see ya.
BUTCH: You made
it to the Possum Trot.
MIKE: This is the Possum Trot?
BUTCH: Yes.
Hard to find, ain't it?
MIKE: Is this like your shop?
BUTCH: Yeah, this is my
junk store and this was a
BBQ place back in the 70s.
My daddy started this,
it was a little juke joint
here and we used to
have possum races here.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh these are
the possum race t-shirts?
BUTCH: Mm hm.
MIKE: When did you guys
stop doing the possum races?
BUTCH: Oh in about 85, I guess.
MIKE: Oh, how come you stopped?
BUTCH: Uh, too many
people started coming.
It was like 5,000 people
back there racing possums.
FRANK: 5,000?
BUTCH: We would
draw a big circle out in this
pasture, out here and put
the possums in the middle
and the first one to run
out and you pick it up by
the tail was the winner.
FRANK: First one that a
person could pick up by the tail?
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Oh ok.
BUTCH: It like
ran out of the circle.
MIKE: It never ceases
to amaze me how people
entertain themselves on
the back roads of America.
FRANK: How'd you get 'em before?
BUTCH: Oh we'd ride
around at night and catch 'em.
FRANK: Shine 'em?
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Shine 'em and catch 'em.
BUTCH: We got an
auction going on every Friday
night right next door.
MIKE: Every Friday night?
BUTCH: Me and my dad
started the Possum Trot
auction back in 1989.
MIKE: So do
you sell stuff at it?
BUTCH: Yeah. I got a
whole pile back there.
MIKE: We got stuff
in the van, man.
BUTCH: Alright,
well get it out, let's go.
BUTCH: Every Friday
night at the Possum Trot,
everybody comes and
sells their truckload of stuff
that they've been
picking all week.
[♪]
MIKE: We've got auctions
in Iowa, but not like
this, I mean, this is a down
home backwoods auction, man.
I mean, this is like how
auctions used to be.
It's not just about
collectibles, but it's
a place where
people would gather.
AUCTIONEER: So
bring it on. Bring it on.
AUCTIONEER: Which
one of y'all is Mike?
I know one's Mike
and one's Frank.
MIKE: Hey. Hey.
[♪]
FRANK: Right away, Butch
pulls us up on stage and
puts us to work.
MIKE: What is that?
It's Rita Hayworth.
FRANK: Stretch it, Mike.
MIKE: Woo.
[♪]
AUCTIONEER: 20? Is there a 20?
22,22 and a half?
FRANK: 20, 30, 5, 40,
5, 50, 60, 70, and I was
like, wow, people
are really bidding.
FRANK: There we go.
AUCTIONEER: Have I got 70? 75?
MIKE: Now we're
cooking with gas.
AUCTIONEER: 100,
110, 120? 120? 125? 135?
Last call 135?
Last call. Sold.
717
MIKE: This auction
was intense, man.
I could see why people
loved to go to these things.
I mean, you could cut
the electricity in the air
with a knife.
CROWD: Ah!
BUTCH: Anything somebody
brings in here, we'll sell it.
BUTCH: This is the egg they lay!
MIKE: Look at that egg!
MIKE: All of a sudden I'm
in the middle of a chicken
wrestling match.
[♪]
MIKE: The only chicken
I want to get a hold of is
grilled with some
BBQ sauce on it.
MIKE: That's the
death grip you got.
FRANK: I did have
a death grip on it.
MIKE: This Possum Trot
auction is a really cool
place because basically
it's pickers, guys that
are out every week hunting
down the cool stuff and
then on Friday night,
they all bring it there and
they auction it off.
So me and Franky have
a few pieces ourself that
we're going to do that with.
MIKE: I want to sell
one of my things.
MIKE: I brought a leather
fire helmet and I brought
a old advertisement
thermometer, very cool.
MIKE: Buffalo Rock.
Buffalo Rock Ginger ale.
AUCTIONEER: Do I hear
15 dollars for the Buffalo
Rock for Mike...
FRANK: I think I
heard a pin drop.
AUCTIONEER: 15,
15, anyone, 15, 15,
25 dollars, 25, 25,
25, 25, 25, I got 25.
Now 30, 30, 30,
anyone 35, 30, 30, 30.
Do I hear 35? 35?
40 over here?
45 right here... sold.
To this lady right
here, 45 here.
MIKE: A lady bought
it for $45. I paid 15.
That's not bad for our first
time at the Possum Trot.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright. Come here.
WOMAN: Oh!
CROWD: Woo!
BUTCH: All these ladies
smooching on him over there.
They...
MIKE: Leather fireman's
helmet. Farm fresh.
AUCTIONEER: Farm fresh.
20 dollar farm, farm. 20...
MIKE: I brought the
vintage leather fireman's
helmet to the auction
because they're unique and
I think it should
bring a good price.
AUCTIONEER:
30, 30, do I hear 30?
30, 30, 35...
MIKE: When I looked over
at the auction crowd and
saw that it was a little
boy that was bidding,
I was rootin' for him, man.
AUCTIONEER: Last call... 45?
MIKE: He got it. Yeah!
FRANK: To see this kid's face
when he came up and got that.
AUCTIONEER: There you go.
MIKE: There you go, buddy. Yeah!
FRANK: Priceless.
[♪]
MIKE: That was so cool.
[♪]
BUTCH: How about an ant farm?
AUCTIONEER: Ant farm.
BUTCH: The ants escaped.
MIKE: The things that
they're auctioning off here,
I would never expect
somebody would buy and
it's bizarre to me and it's
so cool and it's enlightening.
MIKE: Here, how about this?
FRANK: Being in places
like this, that's what
keeps us on the road.
We're in the back
woods of Alabama here.
I mean, we're lucky that
me and Mike were able to
see this kind of stuff and
experience other people's ways.
BUTCH: That was
a good auction there.
Well, I'm glad y'all came.
Y'all got some good stuff.
FRANK: I had a good time.
MIKE: It was great
to see Butch again.
We hadn't seen him for a while.
We stopped by the
auction. We had a great time.
MIKE: When you busted
out the chickens, I was like,
ok, this is going
to be a good time.
BUTCH: Frank and Mike can
swing back through anytime.
We might even put them
on the auctioneer stage out
there and let 'em
try their hand at that.
FRANK: Great to see ya.
MIKE: So you're
here every Friday?
BUTCH: Every Friday night.
MIKE: Well, we know where
to find Butch every Friday.
FRANK: I hear ya.
BUTCH: Possum Trot.
MIKE: Alright.
Possum Trot, baby.
FRANK: Alrighty. See ya Butch.
MIKE: See ya later
Butch. BUTCH: See y'all.
[♪]
[phone ringing]
FRANK: Ok, Danielle's
on the phone here.
FRANK: Hello.
DANIELLE: Hello.
MIKE: What's up?
FRANK: What's happening?
DANIELLE: How are ya?
FRANK: We're doing great.
DANIELLE: Hey, I've got
a really cool lead for you
guys and I think you're
going to like this one.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Lay it on us.
FRANK: We're listening.
DANIELLE: Ed-he has a
huge warehouse building
filled with World War II stuff.
FRANK: I mean, that sounds good.
I mean, we're not real
big on military stuff.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah,
what else he got?
FRANK: What else he got?
DANIELLE: He also has
lots of literature on cars, and
engines, old photography.
FRANK & MIKE: That's good.
DANIELLE: Some cars and bikes.
MIKE: Bikes.
FRANK: Oh ok so it
sounds like, I mean, it sounds
like this guy's got a
little bit of everything.
DANIELE: Oh and he
also has a plane in his front
yard, so watch out for that.
FRANK: He's got a plane?
MIKE: If we can't find a
plane in the guy's front
yard, Franky, then
you need glasses.
FRANK: No doubt. Ha
ha. I think I can find that.
DANIELLE: Alright.
MIKE: Ok.
FRANK: Ok, so alright,
send us the coordinates,
send it big cause if Mike's
going to read it on the phone,
I don't know if he's
going to be able to see it.
MIKE: Whatever, man.
FRANK: Put it in capitals.
DANIELLE: Alright. Bye.
[♪]
FRANK: Today we're going
to a lead we got from Danielle.
This guy's name's Ed.
I mean, he used to fly
airplanes and he's an
industrial engineering.
MIKE: When we're on
the back roads of America,
we run into some amazing people.
I mean, this guy's got tonnage.
MIKE: Hey.
ED: Hi guys.
MIKE: I gotta ask right away,
what's up with this thing?
ED: Well, you need
that in your collection.
MIKE: I need that.
ED: You'd be the
only one with it.
FRANK: I tell ya.
MIKE: What year is that?
ED: Uh, 1951.
MIKE: Wow.
ED: It's a Nike Ajax.
First surface air
missile built for the US.
MIKE: When we meet
people like this on the road,
I mean, these people are
unique, they have really
diehard collections.
I mean, think about how
passionate you have to be
to have a missile
in your front yard.
MIKE: This plane is cool, man.
ED: It was an agricultural
airplane, a spray plane
and our local airport
bought 30 or 40 of 'em
from Poland.
MIKE: This is the
motor that came in it?
ED: No, I put that one on there.
That's the original propeller.
MIKE: Was it a radial
engine like this though?
ED: It was a
radial just like that.
[♪]
ED: If I ever live long
enough, I'm going to
finish the thing and paint
it American World War II
fighter plane colors.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
FRANK: This plane that
he brought over from Poland,
it was a really
very unique piece.
ED: This is really the
first time that I have
made up my mind
to sell anything.
Well, I just collected a
long time and I've got so
much of it and like,
my kids, they like it, but
they don't have time for it.
I'm just ready to let it go.
ED: Alright, we've got
a few more gadgets and
things in here.
MIKE: Wow.
[♪]
FRANK: We went to the
first building and I mean
it was just amazing.
It was packed full of all
types of different items.
MIKE: This is one of
those walls, man, that you
really got to study it, cause
there's so much stuff here.
MIKE: There's one wall we walk
into his machine shop and you,
you have to look at it like
10 times to see everything.
It's like a rusty spider web.
There's so many different
things hanging on the wall.
MIKE: This looks like the
honey hole room right here.
FRANK: So we're looking
at the wall of tools and off
to the side there
is a little room...
MIKE: Franky.
FRANK: It's just
packed full of stuff.
MIKE: What year is that grill?
ED: 1934 Ford.
MIKE: This '34 grill could
have went to a Sedan,
a Coupe, a Roadster, I
mean, think about this thing,
if you're a guy cruising
back in the day, this is what's
catching the wind, man.
MIKE: What do you
want for this grill?
ED: Ooh, I'd say
$100. It's a 34 Ford grill.
MIKE: Alright, 100
bucks, I'm into it.
ED: Alright.
MIKE: I'll do it for
100 bucks. I like it.
MIKE: This is all the
stuff that he's held near
and dear to himself
for all of these years,
so when you're looking
around, all of a sudden
you're looking at
somebody's life.
ED: There's my Hop Along
Cassidy lunch box from 1950.
MIKE: Oh!
MIKE: Hop Along Cassidy,
this guy was iconic, man,
I mean, think about all
the little kids tuned into
the radio, all the comic
books, everything.
ED: With the thermos bottle.
MIKE: Ooh, oh yeah.
[♪]
MIKE: That's a good piece. This
is yours when you were a kid?
ED: When I, when
I, in 1950, yeah.
MIKE: You got
sons though, right?
ED: Yeah, I got sons.
MIKE: They should have this.
ED: Oh yeah.
MIKE: I thought it meant
a lot more to him than it
would be to me, so I
didn't make an offer.
ED: Another one.
MIKE: This is actually
the Miss America Pageant.
ED: That's it.
MIKE: Right there. 1960.
MIKE: 1959. Miss America
Pageant. That's cool.
MIKE: Photography is
all about subject matter.
Think about it-Miss
America Pageant, back in
the late 50s, you can see
the big smiles, the gowns,
all of that stuff.
Anybody that collects Miss
America stuff, anybody that
likes hot chicks, anybody
that likes photography.
They're going to dive on this.
MIKE: What do you
got to have for those?
ED: Oh, 25 apiece.
MIKE: Man, those are cool.
ED: I'm pricing it just...
MIKE: Yeah, just blow out.
ED: Most of that stuff
they got, I've, you know,
I've had it long enough.
I'm not going
to miss it, really.
ED: They look good
hanging on your place.
FRANK: There might be
another one hanging up here too.
ED: I think that's
Eisenhower at the
Republican's convention.
MIKE: Ooh, check it
out, it is Franky. Check it.
There's your world.
ED: Yeah, General Eisenhower.
FRANK: Yeah, that's cool.
ED: Uh, 1945. Yeah, Ike
was in 'Nam, and he was an
American General hero,
what else could you want?
MIKE: General Dwight
Eisenhower, 1945,
addressing Joint
Session of Congress.
What do you have to
have for something like this?
ED: I'd probably like
to get 50 out of that one,
because it's, it's old...
MIKE: It's incredible.
ED: Yeah.
MIKE: You know what?
I'm going to take this.
I think it's
incredible. I really do.
I mean this is a, this is a huge
piece of American history here.
This is really neat.
MIKE: Ed was really
fair with his prices.
I mean, this guy
wasn't wasting our time.
He knew what his stuff was
worth, he wanted to bring
it back to market, he
wanted to put it in the
hands of somebody else
that cared for it just as
much as he did.
[♪]
ED: And there's a pair of
Winchester roller skates
in there too.
FRANK: How much are they?
ED: 50.
FRANK: I'll take 'em.
FRANK: Ed, what about these?
ED: 10 a set.
FRANK: We'll take 'em.
MIKE: Where's that from?
ED: Ethiopia.
MIKE: An Ethiopia license plate.
ED: $40 for the set.
MIKE: I'll take these.
ED: Ok.
MIKE: I'm like a friggin'
kid in a candy store here.
ED: I made up my mind
that it's time for it to go,
can't collect it all.
FRANK: Before we move
out of here, I got to ask you
about the propeller.
FRANK: I look
over in the corner,
he's got a wooden propeller.
It's just a great
collectible piece.
ED: That is a, uh, brand
new one, never bolted on.
MIKE: Oh never used.
ED: 7 foot, uh,
brass laden edges.
MIKE: So like what
year is that from?
ED: Probably World War II.
I think this probably
was a Steerman propeller.
FRANK: I'd put it up
as just like a decorator
piece or something.
MIKE: It's cool.
FRANK: How about 300?
ED: Well, let's put it,
put it in your pile. It's ok.
FRANK: 300?
ED: 300's alright.
FRANK: Good deal.
ED: Yessir.
FRANK: Alrighty.
FRANK: Great piece.
Many people love that and
I have many outlets for it.
MIKE: Tell you what, it'd be
hard to top that building, Ed.
FRANK: That was a good one.
FRANK: I mean each
building we go into has
just got more and more stuff.
ED: We've got a few more
odds and ends in this building.
MIKE: Uh oh.
FRANK: Uh oh Mike.
FRANK: Finally he takes
us into this silver building.
[♪]
MIKE: As we walk into this
building, Ed has got rows
and rows of stuff for as
far as the eye can see.
ED: Most of this
stuff around here is
World War II and
there's some Korean War.
MIKE: That's incredible.
ED: I've been
collecting since the 50s.
I just like the one
of a kind items.
MIKE: Wow, what's this off of?
ED: That's a J33 jet engine.
It went in the very first
P80 shooting star jet fighter.
[♪]
ED: And I run it.
I run the engine.
MIKE: That has to
be louder than hell.
MIKE: Ed was a
serious collector, man.
I'm talking serious enough
to have a J-33 jet engine.
This guy means business.
MIKE: I know you're
collecting military stuff,
did you serve in the military?
ED: Yeah, I was
in the Air Force.
MIKE: Ok.
ED: I was a jet engine mechanic.
MIKE: Oh so that's where
you're getting all this.
I was going to say cause
I mean, you ain't no shade
tree mechanic when you're
working on jet engines,
getting 'em running
and everything like that.
ED: I went in the
Air Force in 1958.
We worked on B-52s, AC 135s.
ED: I was in during the
Cuban missile crisis, that
was not a good time.
MIKE: Oh I bet.
ED: Not a good time at all.
MIKE: This is an
incredible collection.
You've been on this
property since what?
ED: '73. I think.
MIKE: 73. And you've
amassed this much stuff.
[♪]
ED: This is the World War II
Army Air Force Pilot's jacket.
ED: This is an ahooga horn.
FRANK: Hit it.
[horn sound]
ED: World War II
chaplain's organ.
MIKE: Wow.
ED: It's a pump organ
where you can have church
services in the field.
FRANK: I have never ever seen
a military collection this large.
ED: That has been up there
ever since I built the building.
FRANK: What's caught my
attention was your Victrolas.
The banner up there. Yeah.
ED: If every antique
dealer had that thing and
wanted it, it would long
be gone, but I didn't want
to get it down.
FRANK: Well it looks like
it could be kind of a hassle.
FRANK: The Victrola
banner is something that was
probably made in the 20s or 30s.
It might have been at a
store, it could have been
at a outlet place, places
where they sold the product.
ED: Yes. That, uh, has
been up there ever since
I built the building.
FRANK: What would
you value that at?
ED: Well... I don't know.
I'm going to say $100.
FRANK: Great piece. I
have never seen one before.
FRANK: Well I'll tell you
what, I know it's going to
be, might be kind of
a hassle to get, but I'll
take it for 100.
ED: Ok. Alright.
FRANK: I paid $100
for the Victrola banner.
I'm thinking at least
double my money.
MIKE: You bought that?
FRANK: Yeah.
MIKE: How are you
going to get it down?
FRANK: You're going
to help me, aren't you?
ED: Looks like
you've been elected.
FRANK: I'm looking around
this huge hangar and all
of a sudden I see
this whole shelf full of
airplane models.
[♪]
FRANK: Here's what
I've got, I've got these
balsa wood ones here.
ED: Yeah. Those are 1937.
ED: I like that one.
FRANK: That one right there.
ED: It's the Piper Cub.
FRANK: These are
1930s airplane models.
So rare to find
models that aren't built.
That's what collectors
want. I had to have 'em.
[♪]
FRANK: 75 for these 3?
ED: Uh, that's, that's fine.
FRANK: Ok.
ED: That'll be ok.
[♪]
MIKE: Ed, this is probably
the most bizarre wild
hugest shift knob
I've ever seen.
MIKE: Franky and I love
anything transportation.
I'm talking even
the smallest of items.
One of the things that I
found in Ed's place was
this really cool shift knob.
ED: Isn't that ridiculous?
MIKE: That thing is cool.
It's got the plane
in the top of it.
ED: Yeah. Yeah.
MIKE: And it's, you know, it's
threaded on the bottom here.
MIKE: A shift knob like
this is something that
completes the restoration.
This is the gravy on the
potatoes for somebody
that's got a car
that's smokin' cool.
ED: It would have
been a shift knob from,
from some aircraft lover.
MIKE: Ok, what do you...
ED: I paid 25.
MIKE: What'd you got to
have for something like that?
ED: Well, it's
something pretty nice.
It's unique. I'd say
about 75, maybe.
MIKE: Alright, at 75, I'd
do, uh, I'd do 50 bucks for it.
Would you do 50 bucks?
ED: Yeah, I guess. I guess so.
MIKE: Ok 50 bucks on that.
ED: It'll be ok.
MIKE: Very different piece.
For the money, I had to have it.
MIKE: Alright Franky,
you finding anything?
FRANK: I'm finding
these little model cars, Ed.
ED: Those were just put
together or painted and
they're all 1960 models,
if I remember right.
FRANK: They're called 3 in 1s.
And what they were is you
could make one model and
you could make three
different versions of it.
ED: Yeah.
FRANK: I like that one.
ED: Yeah, that one's
been roughly put together.
FRANK: I bought those
other models and stuff
from you over there.
ED: Mm hm.
FRANK: What would
you do on the whole shelf?
FRANK: I said, you know what?
Ed, how much do
you want for all of 'em?
FRANK: 27 of 'em.
ED: 27, uh...
FRANK: I'd say maybe some
are built, some haven't been built.
There's 27.
ED: I had a guy here
the other day offered me
600 for the shelf
and I didn't take it.
FRANK: Ok.
ED: And I, I don't
know why I didn't take it.
It's a wonder they're
still here, but...
FRANK: Would 400 buy 'em?
ED: Uh, 4...
FRANK: You know,
when I offered $400 for the
models to Ed, I was
losing him a little bit,
so I thought, you know what?
I'm going to have
to step up the offer.
FRANK: How about
with 20 apiece help you?
$20 apiece, that'd
be, that'd be 540.
ED: 540. I'll do that.
FRANK: Time to buy
something is when you see it.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Hey Ed.
ED: Yeah man.
MIKE: I found some cool
stuff over here in this cabinet.
MIKE: In Ed's warehouse
he had tons of shelves.
And everything was piled
up on 'em, but one thing
that he had in there that
I noticed right away was
these glass display cases
and when you look in these
cases, you can tell that
these were the things that
he thought were the coolest.
ED: That's where
the coolest stuff stays.
MIKE: This is where
all the cool stuff is?
ED: Yeah.
MIKE: Right here.
ED: That's a World War
II German flying helmet.
MIKE: One of the things
that I loved right away
was this German pilot
skull cap. Amazing.
MIKE: Ok, and I know
it's got a microphone on it.
ED: Yeah, that's the throat mic.
It went around, right
around your throat.
MIKE: Oh that don't
sound too comfortable.
ED: No it didn't.
And, uh, it's quite rare.
MIKE: I mean it had
the microphone that went
around the neck, it
was in great shape.
I mean this thing was
leather and if you think
about it, leather
deteriorated really easy.
This thing looked
like it was brand new.
MIKE: I've had some
World War II, um, American
leather skull caps, but
I've never seen a German
one, especially with
a mic system on it.
ED: Yeah, that's,
it's pretty unique.
MIKE: It's incredible.
MIKE: Ed, what are
you thinking on this?
ED: Ooh, I've had it
so long it's really kind of
a tough call to get
rid of it at all, but...
I'd take maybe about 350 for it.
It's, it's much scarcer than
the American counterpart
of it because, you know,
it is from Germany and...
MIKE: How about 300 bucks?
ED: I think that's fair.
That's fair enough.
MIKE: You want to do 300?
ED: I'll do that.
MIKE: Ok cool. Thank you.
ED: Ok man, you got it.
MIKE: Alright.
MIKE: I mean it was an
unusual piece, it was in
great condition.
He wanted 350, I
talked him down to 300.
MIKE: There was one
other piece I saw in here that
was very different.
MIKE: One of the things
that I gravitated towards
was this compass.
This thing was really cool.
It had oil on the top.
There was some electrical
wires coming off of it.
ED: That's a ship's
compass and it's from the
World War II era and you
could steer the ship by it.
You could set a magnetic
heading for the ship.
MIKE: Mm hm.
ED: And if the ship
wallowed around in the
seas or something,
that would correct for it.
MIKE: Remember
where you got this at?
ED: I had a friend over
in Savannah that collected
nautical antiques only.
MIKE: Ok.
ED: Just ship related stuff
and I think I got it from him.
MIKE: What'd you
have to pay back then?
ED: I think I gave
him about $250 for it.
Compasses were expensive,
pinnacles and ship...
MIKE: Yeah, I know. Anything.
I know, anything nautical
is good and I know that
with the significance of it
being from World War II,
it's probably even better.
MIKE: This is one of those
items I don't know a lot
about, but a lot of guys
collect nautical stuff,
World War II stuff's hot
right now, so it meets
both of those categories.
I loved it.
I wanted to buy it because
I thought it was different.
MIKE: Can I make
you an offer on it?
ED: Sure.
MIKE: Ed, would
you do 350 bucks.
ED: Yeah, I think
so. I think so.
MIKE: You can do that?
ED: Yeah I'd do that.
MIKE: I think it's cool man.
FRANK: I think it's cool too.
MIKE: You know,
you know how it is,
it's like some of this
stuff just speaks to ya.
MIKE: This was yelling at
me when I opened the case.
[♪]
FRANK: We had
a great time at Ed's.
I mean, he had an amazing
collection, but you know what?
Now it's time for me to
think about getting my
Victrola banner down.
FRANK: It looked
dangerous, but I had to have it.
FRANK: Alright, let me
see what I got going on up
here once I get up here.
[jaws theme plays]
ED: Have you got a pocket knife?
FRANK: I'm getting it.
MIKE: How are you doing,
Franky? You doing alright?
FRANK: Yeah, no problem.
MIKE: Need some help?
FRANK: Well I always need help.
MIKE: Alright, let me see
what I got going on here.
ED: Boy I tell you what...
FRANK: Yeah, he
doesn't need a ladder.
ED: We don't need a ladder.
FRANK: Go like this.
MIKE: Oh, like that?
FRANK: There you go.
MIKE: Holey moley.
[♪]
FRANK: This is awesome.
I love this propeller.
[♪]
MIKE: I love this
German piece, man.
This is cool, Ed.
MIKE: Ed's collection
was amazing.
This guy loved
World War II stuff.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright,
thank you so much.
ED: See ya.
MIKE: If we're in
the neighborhood,
we'll come back again.
ED: Yup. Do that. Be sure.
FRANK: Thanks
for your hospitality.
ED: I had a lot of fun.
I hope that they'll come
back the first chance they
get when they make
a trip down south.
There's just so
much more in there.
ED: You guys have a safe trip.
FRANK: Alrighty.
ED: See ya.
[♪]
MIKE: After 20 years of
being a picker and paying
my dues on the road, I've
learned, you know what?
Don't pass up something that's
really cool and really unusual.
When I saw that compass,
that item fits that bill.
I want to get it appraised.
MIKE: I am curious to see
what he says that thing's worth.
MIKE: Franky and I took
the compass to Zeff today
to see what he
thought it was worth.
MIKE: Alright, let me
get the door for ya.
MIKE: This is a great guy
because he can not just
appraise a stuffed horse.
MIKE: Have you seen
anything like this before?
ZEFF: I have.
MIKE: He can also do compasses.
FRANK: Hey Zeff.
ZEFF: Yeah.
MIKE: Zeff!
FRANK: Hey there
he is. MIKE: Hey.
FRANK: What's happening?
MIKE: What's up, man?
Good to see you again.
ZEFF: Hi how are you doing?
FRANK: Long time, no see, man.
MIKE: How you been?
ZEFF: Good. FRANK: Good.
FRANK: We got something
to test your knowledge on here.
ZEFF: Mm. That's,
that's a tricky one.
ZEFF: Let's set it over here.
FRANK: Alright. Good.
MIKE: We got this from a
guy that was a World War II
collector and Frank and
I thought this was cool,
you know, for the biggest
reason is we're always
having problems with our GPS
and we thought, you know what?
This would be a perfect backup.
ZEFF: Mike and Frank today
had a pretty unusual piece
of nautical equipment.
ZEFF: It's a great piece.
It's a ship's compass.
MIKE: Mm hm.
ZEFF: And it's called
a gyro compass.
MIKE: Ok.
ZEFF: The reason being
it uses true north instead of
magnetic north, which
the ship’s hull, the metals
and, uh, electric wiring
in the ship would have
interfered with the
magnetic compass, so this
was designed specifically
for use on a ship.
And actually designed by a
hero of mine, Elmer Sperry.
He designed a lot of things.
He did the searchlight. He
also did the electric trolley car.
FRANK: Ok cool.
MIKE: The history
with him was incredible.
ZEFF: This invention was so
valuable to the US Navy that
they named a ship after
the guy. Obviously the USS...
FRANK: Sperry, eh?
ZEFF: Sperry.
FRANK: Oh my gosh.
[♪]
ZEFF: The condition
of this is great.
It's, it's untouched and it's
really what you want to see.
FRANK: Want to see, sure.
ZEFF: Yeah.
FRANK: Alright.
FRANK: What's it worth?
ZEFF: This gyrocompass
in the condition it's in,
um, will bring $500.
MIKE: We did good.
FRANK: We did good. Yeah.
MIKE: We're not
losing money, buddy.
FRANK: Anytime we're not
losing money, we are doing good.
MIKE: Alright.
ZEFF: Having paid $350,
Mike and Frank did great.
ZEFF: Are you guys sure
how to get out of here?
MIKE: We'll figure it out.
FRANK: We'll figure it out.
MIKE: Let me see here. Alright.
FRANK: We'll figure it
out. Yeah. Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you.
ZEFF: Thank you.
MIKE: See you later.
FRANK: How many
fingers do I have up?
MIKE: Five.
FRANK: No. See, I have
four fingers up and one thumb.
So see, already, you're,
I mean, I'm just trying
to look out for you.
MIKE: I didn't know
it was a trick question.
FRANK: I'm just making
an outsider looking in
observation and I think
that you seriously need to
look into maybe
getting some glasses.
MIKE: When did Franky
become an optometrist?
I don't know, maybe
he's taking night classes or
something, some online
course, I don't know what
the heck he's talking about.
MIKE: How can I
pick with glasses on?
FRANK: I don't think you
have to worry about the
glasses, you know, they
make a thing called contacts.
MIKE: I don't want to
wear contacts, I mean,
that's what I want to do.
I want to stick my finger
in my eye every morning.
FRANK: I'm trying to
look at, for the longevity
of us as a team.
And if you start to break
down, then it'll be just
as you would put it-me.
MIKE: Ok. Alright,
well, you know what?
I cannot see this business
functioning with just you
and Danielle at the
helm, so that's scares me
enough to want
to go to the doctor.
FRANK: Ok, cause that's
the key part. I can't see.
Say that again.
MIKE: I'm not saying that.
FRANK: You just said it.
MIKE: Did I say that?
FRANK: You just
said I can't see.
You just literally said...
MIKE: You took
it out of context.
FRANK: I'm just listening
to what you said. I can't see.
MIKE: Ok, you're cut
off. No more coffee.
FRANK: Alright.
[♪]
MIKE: Just to shut Frank
up, I'm going to go to the
optometrist, get my test,
ace it, and be done with this.
[♪]
MIKE: I've never
needed glasses before.
Why would I need them now?
OPTOMETRIST: What
brings you in today?
MIKE: Well I have a
business associate named
Frank and he is
some reason under the
impression that I need glasses.
MIKE: The biggest thing for
me is to prove Frank wrong here.
I mean, obviously I'm
concerned with my health,
I mean, these are
my eyes, not his.
OPTOMETRIST: I'm going
to give you a couple choices,
just tell me which is best.
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: There's
the first way. The second.
MIKE: That way is good.
OPTOMETRIST: Can
you try the third row down?
MIKE: Are you serious?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Does anybody get that?
OPTOMETRIST: They do.
MIKE: Really?
OPTOMETRIST: Let's work on it.
Close your eyes for a second.
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Open
back up. Can you see it now?
MIKE: Oh yeah.
OPTOMETRIST: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Do you want the
good news or the bad news, Mike?
MIKE: Is there some bad news?
OPTOMETRIST: Well,
there's no bad, bad news, but...
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Mike,
we're going to have to talk
about the b word in here today.
MIKE: What's the b word? Bonus?
OPTOMETRIST: Bifocals.
MIKE: Bifocals.
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Are you serious? Bifocals?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Oh my god, I remember
my grandpa had bifocals.
MIKE: Are you
sure I need glasses?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes you do.
MIKE: Man.
MIKE: So you're
saying Frank's right?
MIKE: I needed
glasses. I'm getting older.
I'm falling apart.
MIKE: I'm just, I'm trying
to get over the shock.
Do you guys have anybody
that does any consultation
as far as like therapy
for me right now?
Let me have a moment
here for a second.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: What you got on?
MIKE: [laughing] I knew
you were going to say that.
FRANK: Glasses. I told
you you needed glasses.
FRANK: I know it's
killing him inside to have to
admit I was right.
FRANK: Aren't you glad
that you listened to me?
MIKE: I'm super
picker now. I can see.
You just threw
gas on the fire, son.
FRANK: We all need
a couple extra eyes
sometimes in life.
Four eyes.
MIKE: Now I'm going
to have the joy of dealing
with contacts
when I'm on a pick.
FRANK: How many
fingers I got up?
MIKE: Four and a thumb.
FRANK: See.
MIKE & FRANK: [laughing]
FRANK: Hee hee.
FRANK: Each step I
took was like going back
10 years, 20 years.
It was like walking
back into time.
MIKE: Yeah, look
at these are nice one.
MIKE: They were porcelain,
double sided, these were
early Shell signs.
BILL: Did you wash that hand?
MIKE: Yeah, no,
no why? Should I?
BILL: Well, thanks.
MIKE: What's up with this thing?
ED: This is Nike Ajax,
surface air missile.
MIKE: Think about how
passionate you have to be
to have a missile
in your front yard.
MAN-MISSILE: Most of
this stuff around here was
World War II.
MIKE: Incredible.
FRANK: I have never ever
seen a military collection
this large.
MIKE: This auction was intense.
All of a sudden I'm in
the middle of a chicken
wrestling match.
The only chicken I want
to get a hold of is grilled
with some BBQ sauce on it.
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: Alright, mind the store.
DANIELLE: I'm sending
the boys to South Carolina.
DANIELLE: Have
fun guys. Be safe.
DANIELLE: Mike and Frank
both love South Carolina.
So warm and people are
so friendly and they already
have these
relationships established.
DANIELLE: And these people
love to see Mike and Frank.
So it's going to be
a great trip for 'em.
[♪]
FRANK: Who do you
think would win a fight-
Rambo or Rocky?
Rocky can fight,
he knows how to...
MIKE: It's the same dude.
FRANK: No it's not,
Rambo is a Navy Seal.
Rocky is a fighter.
FRANK: Adrian!
MIKE: I'm going to go Navy Seal.
FRANK: That's what
I was going to go with.
MIKE: I think I'll
go with Navy Seal.
FRANK: He's got
knives and stuff.
MIKE: Oh yeah, man.
MIKE: Franky,
know where we're at?
FRANK: Where?
MIKE: We're in Robin Jones land.
FRANK: Robin Jones
was a guy that we visited
earlier this year and he
gave us a great lead before.
ROBIN: Yeah, I think you'll
really, really like this girl.
She's, she's very colorful.
WOMAN: Everybody tells me
I remind them of Dolly Parton.
FRANK: So we
thought, you know what?
Might as well call him now,
maybe he can help us out again.
FRANK: Robin!
ROBIN: Hey.
FRANK: Hey, this is
Frank and Mike here.
ROBIN: Good to hear from you.
FRANK: Yeah, man,
we just thought we'd, uh,
give you a buzz, see
if you had any leads.
ROBIN: Hey man. I've always
got a pick. You know that.
FRANK: That's why we're calling.
FRANK: Any time somebody
can give us some leads and
any time we can do some
networking, that's what
we're all about.
ROBIN: I'll tell
you a good spot.
His name is Bill Schull.
Bill's got a pretty cool place.
He is a owner of
a hardware store.
In his place he's got a
three-story building there
the top floor is packed
with stuff that probably
dates back to the 1800s.
MIKE: Wow.
MIKE: Alright, hey man.
We appreciate the lead.
If you're ever in our area.
We'll do the same for you.
ROBIN: Hey, I appreciate
it. Good luck, guys.
FRANK: Alright. Thanks Robin.
[♪]
MIKE: Look at this place.
FRANK: This place is
awesome. Look at that.
FRANK: When we pull
up in front of this spot,
I mean, the first thing
you can see is gas pumps,
advertisements, stuff in
the windows, I mean, this
place looks like you're
stepping back into 1912.
FRANK: Hit it.
FRANK: This is
awesome. Look at that.
MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: He's definitely oil.
MIKE: Oh my god, man.
This place is like a museum.
FRANK: It is cool.
MIKE: This place looked
open for business, but
nobody was there.
MIKE: And then out of
the corner of my eye, I see
this guy smoking a pipe.
MIKE: Hey.
FRANK: Are you Bill?
BILL: Yeah, I'm Bill.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. My friend Mike.
MIKE: Hey, what's going on?
BILL: Hey, how are you?
FRANK: You know, we
first walk in, I mean, Bill,
first impressions again,
he's got a black eye.
I mean, this guy looks a real
negotiator, a real scrapper.
MIKE: I got to ask.
BILL: No comment. No comment.
MIKE: We talked to Robin,
he was telling us all about you.
BILL: Yeah. Yeah.
MIKE: And, uh, he said
every once in a while,
you've been known
to sell something.
BILL: I mean, I'm
getting tired of it.
I've got so much.
And I'm getting up in
the years, you know,
maybe I want to retire.
MIKE: Yeah. I hear ya.
BILL: If you guys are
willing to buy, I might retire.
I might eat steak tonight.
MIKE: But we're
pickers from Iowa.
BILL: Uh huh.
MIKE: And we're looking
for like anything from
brass blade fans to oil cans.'
FRANK: Yeah.
BILL: Well, well I
literally have the history
of the oil business
in my possession.
Gas pumps, signs.
BILL: It's a hardware
store that I inherited
from my late mother.
I've been here since 1972.
My mother's grandparents
started it in 1884.
BILL: We got in
the old business,
the earliest record's 1913.
FRANK: Oh my god.
MIKE: That's incredible.
BILL: Literature and
pumps to prove it.
MIKE: So you salvaged
a lot of this stuff?
BILL: Yeah, yeah. Gas
station signs, furniture.
MIKE: Which way you want to
show us? You show us around.
FRANK: Yeah.
BILL: Well, we can go upstairs.
That's where all
the good stuff is.
FRANK: Ok. MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: As Bill was leading
us upstairs, I mean, each
step I took, was like
going back 10 years,
20 years, 30 years.
It was like walking
back into time.
MIKE: This place is huge.
BILL: This is where
all the good stuff is.
FRANK: Alright, that's
where we like to be.
MIKE: When we were
looking around this place, man,
it was so fun because
you could tell everything
in there had been there forever.
MIKE: What's this right here?
You have some old lighting here.
BILL: Yeah, those are
station gloats, it looks like.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I dig these.
Alright, can I look
up there too at those?
BILL: Yeah, here's a ladder.
MIKE: You got a
ladder or something?
MIKE: I come in to
lighting section of this
old hardware store
and there's tons of it.
MIKE: These are just pieces.
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: Some of it's broken.
Some of it's not in great
condition, but a lot of
people that are restoring
old homes, they want to
repurpose these old lights.
This stuff is killer.
MIKE: Oh here's another one.
Here's one more of those.
MIKE: What are you
thinking on the three of 'em?
BILL: Um...$20 a piece?
MIKE: 20 bucks a
piece? Uh, let me think.
How much is, how
much is the, the wire job?
They need to be rewired.
BILL: Oh that's minor.
MIKE: Alright, you know what?
BILL: What?
MIKE: This is the
point where you and
I get together
and break the ice.
I'm going, I'm going, I'm
going to pull the trigger on this.
BILL: Oh really? Did
you wash that hand?
MIKE: Yeah. No,
no, why? Should I?
BILL: Oh thanks. [laughs]
[♪]
MIKE: So this is a
plumbing section?
BILL: Uh, Hoosier cabinet.
MIKE: Yeah. I see
that. Yeah, Hoosier.
Look at all this
equipment in here, Franky.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: What about, hey,
what about these, uh...
BILL: Gas pump heads?
MIKE: These gas pump heads,
what's going on with those?
You got the pumps?
BILL: Oh I'm sure I do.
[♪]
MIKE: So each one of these
tops you have the whole pump for?
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: We got to
check that situation out.
BILL: I'll show you
guys the gas pumps.
MIKE: Oh, these are it, Franky.
FRANK: Oh yeah.
MIKE: Look at all these.
MIKE: So many pumps.
BILL: There's visible
pumps back in there, even
the dial face one.
MIKE: Oh man.
MIKE: The gas pumps
Bill had were really unique.
The best part of it was
they were sitting inside
for so many years, the
weather hadn't worn 'em down.
MIKE: Have you sold
any of the pumps ever?
BILL: Uh, no, I've only let
one out of my possession.
It's a permanent loaner.
MIKE: Bill had these all
to himself and I was like,
come on, man, share the wealth.
MIKE: This one's
pretty cool right here.
That's a clock face.
BILL: Yeah, that's
[Wynn?] I think, number one.
MIKE: Yeah. That's a neat
pump. It's a good piece.
I mean, what, what's
cool about it is the front
here, the sign
panel on the front.
BILL: Yeah, the Hi-Arc?
MIKE: What would you have to
have for that clock face pump?
BILL: I'm going to say in
the condition it is, $600.
MIKE: Yeah. That's about right.
MIKE: I appreciate
you pricing it, but that's
all the money on it.
BILL: Yeah. MIKE: You know.
MIKE: In the end, his oil
was way too rich for me
and Franky's blood.
MIKE: Frank, we were doing
better at the other building.
FRANK: Yeah.
MIKE: Normally at this
point in the pick, we're
feeling a little bruised,
but this time it was different.
Once we got away from
those gas pumps, it was
like an oil slick in there
and everything started
flying out the door.
MIKE: I found
this box of buttons.
BILL: Yeah.
FRANK: Bill, what do
you think about these two
ornaments here?
BILL: Uh, ok.
MIKE: 20 bucks.
BILL: Yeah.
MIKE: Let's see that.
Oh yeah, look at that.
BILL: I'll do it.
MIKE: I got my pile going here.
FRANK: Bill. BILL: What?
FRANK: Here I noticed
some of these, some of these
globes over here.
MIKE: When Franky and
I are digging around this
old hardware store, one
of the things that we both
see kind of at the
same time is this box of
old glass panels.
BILL: Now that's glass.
That's all glass. There too.
FRANK: Mm hm.
MIKE: Ooh, look at these Franky.
MIKE: These are the panels
that went on the sides of
the globe that went on
top of the gas pumps.
[♪]
FRANK: How did you
get so many of these, Bill?
BILL: Well, we were an
oil distributer from 1913,
Gulf Oil, then Texaco,
then Shell, then Atlantic,
then Mobil, then
I got out of it.
FRANK: So you were selling
gasoline to service stations.
BILL: Yes. That's right.
MIKE: Oh wow.
BILL: We had service
stations and heating oil
accounts and...
FRANK: So I have to ask
ya, what do you get on these?
BILL: Uh, 75?
FRANK: $75 for the globe?
BILL: Yeah, with the
plate you know, yeah.
FRANK: Ok.
BILL: Yeah. Yeah.
FRANK: Ok. I'll
take this for 75.
BILL: Ok. That's fine.
FRANK: And then,
how much a piece?
BILL: So $10 a piece?
Does that sound reasonable?
FRANK: Alright.
[♪]
FRANK: This is regional stuff.
I can't find Atlantic
oil where I live.
I bought it all. It
was a great find.
MIKE: Didn't you say
you had oil can section?
BILL: Yeah, I've got it
over there by the elevator.
MIKE: And sign section?
Let's hit that, Franky.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: I like that.
Alright. Cool.
We're, I like how
he's got sections.
I was in the lighting
section, now we're in the
gas and oil section.
MIKE: Wow. Look at this place.
BILL: There's some more signs.
MIKE: Holey moley.
MIKE: I can see 'em
from a mile away, man.
That bright yellow red sign.
It was scalloped on the top.
MIKE: Look at
these are nice ones.
MIKE: They were porcelain,
they were double sided.
These were early Shell signs.
MIKE: I mean, I was
excited about 'em,
but I didn't want to show
too much excitement.
MIKE: How much, how much
are you thinking on these, Bill?
BILL: Uh, I'm going
to say... 300 apiece.
MIKE: Yeah. I can't do that.
MIKE: How about if I take
both of 'em-200 a piece?
BILL: That's 400.
MIKE: Yeah. Well you're at 6.
BILL: 500.
MIKE: How about 2 and
a quarter a piece? 450.
Where are you at?
BILL: No way. I was at 500.
MIKE: Alright so...
BILL: I started out at 600.
MIKE: I started out
at 400. I came up 50.
BILL: I'm getting closer
to the hot dogs tonight.
FRANK: No, no, no, you're...
MIKE: 475 for the pair?
Alright, I'd do that.
I'd do that. I'd
do it, my friend.
BILL: I got to shake
your hand again?
MIKE: Hell ya, you gotta
shake my hand on each deal.
BILL: It's got dirt on it.
FRANK: Alright, Bill, how
about this Atlantic sign here?
What would you do on this one?
BILL: 150?
FRANK: Well I'll tell
you what, look at this one.
This one's a different style.
MIKE: Woo, that's a wang-o.
FRANK: I'll tell
you what I'll do.
I would like to
stay in with the 150.
How about 100 and for
this one, I'd do 50 on it?
BILL: Yeah, I'll do it.
FRANK: You'd do that?
BILL: Yeah.
FRANK: Thank you.
FRANK: The Atlantic
signs that I bought for $150,
I think I can get
350 out of 'em.
MIKE: The two Shell
signs I bought for $475,
I think I can sell 'em
close to 1000 bucks.
BILL: Looks like I'm
going to have steak tonight.
FRANK: I bought the
Atlantic globe for $75.
I should be able to at least
double my money on that.
BILL: Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you. Thanks a lot.
We're back here
and we'll stop for sure.
FRANK: Alright, Bill.
BILL: Be careful on your trip.
FRANK: Thank you.
MIKE: Gas and oil was the
life blood of America back
in the day, so spending
time with somebody like
Bill that's experienced
so much of that history.
It was incredible.
BILL: Drive safe.
MIKE: Alright, thanks.
MIKE: How rare is that?
To get into a property
that's been in business
for like 4 generations, man.
FRANK: I mean it was
crazy being able to go up and,
and pick things off
the shelf that have been
there for, who knows,
40, 50, 60 years.
MIKE: What about
those Shell signs?
FRANK: The Shell
signs were great.
I'm surprised you
seen those Shell signs.
MIKE: What are you
talking about? They're huge.
FRANK: I notice, Mike,
you're doing a lot of
squinting lately dude.
I mean, you seriously...
MIKE: Frank, we're
in a dark building,
I got dust in my eye...
FRANK: I can see
fine. I can see fine.
MIKE: See these eyes?
They're perfectly fine.
Does it look like I
need glasses? No.
MIKE: I can see fine.
I bought more stuff.
FRANK: You know I'm
with Mike all the time.
I mean, I constantly
see him squinting.
[♪]
FRANK: I think he needs
to go to the doctor and
he needs glasses.
FRANK: Take my advice
and just get it checked out,
just see, so when the guy
goes, can you read that?
And you go, uh, e, e, e,
e, and... you realize that
there's f's and
g's in there, Mike.
MIKE: What's this right
here? Can you see that?
FRANK: That says loser.
MIKE: Yeah. Ok. Chill out.
FRANK: Mike's in denial
that his vision is bad.
I mean, it might be
a lost cause here,
but I'm not giving up.
MIKE: I don't need glasses.
[♪]
MIKE: Franky and I are
in Seal, Alabama and we
decide to give our old
buddy, Butch, a call.
He is the guy that made
Bigfoot feet and strapped
'em to his feet and was
trampling around the woods.
BUTCH: That night everybody
was so scared around there.
Somebody shot a big
old black angus cow.
MIKE: He's got a
great sense of humor.
He's an awesome artist.
[phone ringing]
BUTCH: Hello?
FRANK: Hey Butch.
MIKE: What's up, man?
FRANK: This is Frank and
Mike. You remember us?
We stopped by that one
time we bought that pig
head from ya.
BUTCH: Having fun.
MIKE: That's killer, dude.
MIKE: I love that
thing. I still got it.
FRANK: How y'all doing?
BUTCH: All right.
How are y'all doing?
FRANK: We're just talking
about you cause we're down
here in Alabama and
we thought we'd give you
a call and see what's shaking.
If you've got anything
new or what's happening.
BUTCH: Yeah, y'all can come by.
We got the Possum Trot going on.
FRANK: What's,
what's the Possum Trot?
BUTCH: That's a auction,
an old country auction we
have right up the hill
here about a half mile
from my house.
MIKE: Oh that sounds fun.
FRANK: That sounds
fun. Heck, we like auctions.
BUTCH: Here, y'all can
move y'all's stuff in with
mine and we can sell it.
MIKE: You know what?
We picked up a couple
pieces on the road.
We'll throw them in there.
MIKE: Alright. We'll be there.
BUTCH: We'll be looking for you.
FRANK: Alright,
my friend. Bye bye.
MIKE: Alright, stab
it and steer, baby.
FRANK: Just put the
pedal to the metal. Whoa.
MIKE: Woo!
MIKE: This auction
sounds really cool.
I want to go check this out.
He said pickers come
from all over the place.
MIKE: We're in the middle
of nowhere and we finally
arrive at Butch's place.
The Possum Trot auction.
And the history is that they
used to race possums there.
FRANK: Could you imagine
how hard it would be to
get a saddle on a possum?
MIKE: Hey Butch.
BUTCH: Alright.
Good to see you again.
MIKE: How are you doing, buddy?
FRANK: Told you
we'd make it down here.
BUTCH: Yeah.
MIKE: Good to see ya.
BUTCH: You made
it to the Possum Trot.
MIKE: This is the Possum Trot?
BUTCH: Yes.
Hard to find, ain't it?
MIKE: Is this like your shop?
BUTCH: Yeah, this is my
junk store and this was a
BBQ place back in the 70s.
My daddy started this,
it was a little juke joint
here and we used to
have possum races here.
[♪]
MIKE: Oh these are
the possum race t-shirts?
BUTCH: Mm hm.
MIKE: When did you guys
stop doing the possum races?
BUTCH: Oh in about 85, I guess.
MIKE: Oh, how come you stopped?
BUTCH: Uh, too many
people started coming.
It was like 5,000 people
back there racing possums.
FRANK: 5,000?
BUTCH: We would
draw a big circle out in this
pasture, out here and put
the possums in the middle
and the first one to run
out and you pick it up by
the tail was the winner.
FRANK: First one that a
person could pick up by the tail?
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Oh ok.
BUTCH: It like
ran out of the circle.
MIKE: It never ceases
to amaze me how people
entertain themselves on
the back roads of America.
FRANK: How'd you get 'em before?
BUTCH: Oh we'd ride
around at night and catch 'em.
FRANK: Shine 'em?
BUTCH: Yeah.
FRANK: Shine 'em and catch 'em.
BUTCH: We got an
auction going on every Friday
night right next door.
MIKE: Every Friday night?
BUTCH: Me and my dad
started the Possum Trot
auction back in 1989.
MIKE: So do
you sell stuff at it?
BUTCH: Yeah. I got a
whole pile back there.
MIKE: We got stuff
in the van, man.
BUTCH: Alright,
well get it out, let's go.
BUTCH: Every Friday
night at the Possum Trot,
everybody comes and
sells their truckload of stuff
that they've been
picking all week.
[♪]
MIKE: We've got auctions
in Iowa, but not like
this, I mean, this is a down
home backwoods auction, man.
I mean, this is like how
auctions used to be.
It's not just about
collectibles, but it's
a place where
people would gather.
AUCTIONEER: So
bring it on. Bring it on.
AUCTIONEER: Which
one of y'all is Mike?
I know one's Mike
and one's Frank.
MIKE: Hey. Hey.
[♪]
FRANK: Right away, Butch
pulls us up on stage and
puts us to work.
MIKE: What is that?
It's Rita Hayworth.
FRANK: Stretch it, Mike.
MIKE: Woo.
[♪]
AUCTIONEER: 20? Is there a 20?
22,22 and a half?
FRANK: 20, 30, 5, 40,
5, 50, 60, 70, and I was
like, wow, people
are really bidding.
FRANK: There we go.
AUCTIONEER: Have I got 70? 75?
MIKE: Now we're
cooking with gas.
AUCTIONEER: 100,
110, 120? 120? 125? 135?
Last call 135?
Last call. Sold.
717
MIKE: This auction
was intense, man.
I could see why people
loved to go to these things.
I mean, you could cut
the electricity in the air
with a knife.
CROWD: Ah!
BUTCH: Anything somebody
brings in here, we'll sell it.
BUTCH: This is the egg they lay!
MIKE: Look at that egg!
MIKE: All of a sudden I'm
in the middle of a chicken
wrestling match.
[♪]
MIKE: The only chicken
I want to get a hold of is
grilled with some
BBQ sauce on it.
MIKE: That's the
death grip you got.
FRANK: I did have
a death grip on it.
MIKE: This Possum Trot
auction is a really cool
place because basically
it's pickers, guys that
are out every week hunting
down the cool stuff and
then on Friday night,
they all bring it there and
they auction it off.
So me and Franky have
a few pieces ourself that
we're going to do that with.
MIKE: I want to sell
one of my things.
MIKE: I brought a leather
fire helmet and I brought
a old advertisement
thermometer, very cool.
MIKE: Buffalo Rock.
Buffalo Rock Ginger ale.
AUCTIONEER: Do I hear
15 dollars for the Buffalo
Rock for Mike...
FRANK: I think I
heard a pin drop.
AUCTIONEER: 15,
15, anyone, 15, 15,
25 dollars, 25, 25,
25, 25, 25, I got 25.
Now 30, 30, 30,
anyone 35, 30, 30, 30.
Do I hear 35? 35?
40 over here?
45 right here... sold.
To this lady right
here, 45 here.
MIKE: A lady bought
it for $45. I paid 15.
That's not bad for our first
time at the Possum Trot.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright. Come here.
WOMAN: Oh!
CROWD: Woo!
BUTCH: All these ladies
smooching on him over there.
They...
MIKE: Leather fireman's
helmet. Farm fresh.
AUCTIONEER: Farm fresh.
20 dollar farm, farm. 20...
MIKE: I brought the
vintage leather fireman's
helmet to the auction
because they're unique and
I think it should
bring a good price.
AUCTIONEER:
30, 30, do I hear 30?
30, 30, 35...
MIKE: When I looked over
at the auction crowd and
saw that it was a little
boy that was bidding,
I was rootin' for him, man.
AUCTIONEER: Last call... 45?
MIKE: He got it. Yeah!
FRANK: To see this kid's face
when he came up and got that.
AUCTIONEER: There you go.
MIKE: There you go, buddy. Yeah!
FRANK: Priceless.
[♪]
MIKE: That was so cool.
[♪]
BUTCH: How about an ant farm?
AUCTIONEER: Ant farm.
BUTCH: The ants escaped.
MIKE: The things that
they're auctioning off here,
I would never expect
somebody would buy and
it's bizarre to me and it's
so cool and it's enlightening.
MIKE: Here, how about this?
FRANK: Being in places
like this, that's what
keeps us on the road.
We're in the back
woods of Alabama here.
I mean, we're lucky that
me and Mike were able to
see this kind of stuff and
experience other people's ways.
BUTCH: That was
a good auction there.
Well, I'm glad y'all came.
Y'all got some good stuff.
FRANK: I had a good time.
MIKE: It was great
to see Butch again.
We hadn't seen him for a while.
We stopped by the
auction. We had a great time.
MIKE: When you busted
out the chickens, I was like,
ok, this is going
to be a good time.
BUTCH: Frank and Mike can
swing back through anytime.
We might even put them
on the auctioneer stage out
there and let 'em
try their hand at that.
FRANK: Great to see ya.
MIKE: So you're
here every Friday?
BUTCH: Every Friday night.
MIKE: Well, we know where
to find Butch every Friday.
FRANK: I hear ya.
BUTCH: Possum Trot.
MIKE: Alright.
Possum Trot, baby.
FRANK: Alrighty. See ya Butch.
MIKE: See ya later
Butch. BUTCH: See y'all.
[♪]
[phone ringing]
FRANK: Ok, Danielle's
on the phone here.
FRANK: Hello.
DANIELLE: Hello.
MIKE: What's up?
FRANK: What's happening?
DANIELLE: How are ya?
FRANK: We're doing great.
DANIELLE: Hey, I've got
a really cool lead for you
guys and I think you're
going to like this one.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Lay it on us.
FRANK: We're listening.
DANIELLE: Ed-he has a
huge warehouse building
filled with World War II stuff.
FRANK: I mean, that sounds good.
I mean, we're not real
big on military stuff.
MIKE: Yeah, yeah,
what else he got?
FRANK: What else he got?
DANIELLE: He also has
lots of literature on cars, and
engines, old photography.
FRANK & MIKE: That's good.
DANIELLE: Some cars and bikes.
MIKE: Bikes.
FRANK: Oh ok so it
sounds like, I mean, it sounds
like this guy's got a
little bit of everything.
DANIELE: Oh and he
also has a plane in his front
yard, so watch out for that.
FRANK: He's got a plane?
MIKE: If we can't find a
plane in the guy's front
yard, Franky, then
you need glasses.
FRANK: No doubt. Ha
ha. I think I can find that.
DANIELLE: Alright.
MIKE: Ok.
FRANK: Ok, so alright,
send us the coordinates,
send it big cause if Mike's
going to read it on the phone,
I don't know if he's
going to be able to see it.
MIKE: Whatever, man.
FRANK: Put it in capitals.
DANIELLE: Alright. Bye.
[♪]
FRANK: Today we're going
to a lead we got from Danielle.
This guy's name's Ed.
I mean, he used to fly
airplanes and he's an
industrial engineering.
MIKE: When we're on
the back roads of America,
we run into some amazing people.
I mean, this guy's got tonnage.
MIKE: Hey.
ED: Hi guys.
MIKE: I gotta ask right away,
what's up with this thing?
ED: Well, you need
that in your collection.
MIKE: I need that.
ED: You'd be the
only one with it.
FRANK: I tell ya.
MIKE: What year is that?
ED: Uh, 1951.
MIKE: Wow.
ED: It's a Nike Ajax.
First surface air
missile built for the US.
MIKE: When we meet
people like this on the road,
I mean, these people are
unique, they have really
diehard collections.
I mean, think about how
passionate you have to be
to have a missile
in your front yard.
MIKE: This plane is cool, man.
ED: It was an agricultural
airplane, a spray plane
and our local airport
bought 30 or 40 of 'em
from Poland.
MIKE: This is the
motor that came in it?
ED: No, I put that one on there.
That's the original propeller.
MIKE: Was it a radial
engine like this though?
ED: It was a
radial just like that.
[♪]
ED: If I ever live long
enough, I'm going to
finish the thing and paint
it American World War II
fighter plane colors.
MIKE: Oh yeah.
FRANK: This plane that
he brought over from Poland,
it was a really
very unique piece.
ED: This is really the
first time that I have
made up my mind
to sell anything.
Well, I just collected a
long time and I've got so
much of it and like,
my kids, they like it, but
they don't have time for it.
I'm just ready to let it go.
ED: Alright, we've got
a few more gadgets and
things in here.
MIKE: Wow.
[♪]
FRANK: We went to the
first building and I mean
it was just amazing.
It was packed full of all
types of different items.
MIKE: This is one of
those walls, man, that you
really got to study it, cause
there's so much stuff here.
MIKE: There's one wall we walk
into his machine shop and you,
you have to look at it like
10 times to see everything.
It's like a rusty spider web.
There's so many different
things hanging on the wall.
MIKE: This looks like the
honey hole room right here.
FRANK: So we're looking
at the wall of tools and off
to the side there
is a little room...
MIKE: Franky.
FRANK: It's just
packed full of stuff.
MIKE: What year is that grill?
ED: 1934 Ford.
MIKE: This '34 grill could
have went to a Sedan,
a Coupe, a Roadster, I
mean, think about this thing,
if you're a guy cruising
back in the day, this is what's
catching the wind, man.
MIKE: What do you
want for this grill?
ED: Ooh, I'd say
$100. It's a 34 Ford grill.
MIKE: Alright, 100
bucks, I'm into it.
ED: Alright.
MIKE: I'll do it for
100 bucks. I like it.
MIKE: This is all the
stuff that he's held near
and dear to himself
for all of these years,
so when you're looking
around, all of a sudden
you're looking at
somebody's life.
ED: There's my Hop Along
Cassidy lunch box from 1950.
MIKE: Oh!
MIKE: Hop Along Cassidy,
this guy was iconic, man,
I mean, think about all
the little kids tuned into
the radio, all the comic
books, everything.
ED: With the thermos bottle.
MIKE: Ooh, oh yeah.
[♪]
MIKE: That's a good piece. This
is yours when you were a kid?
ED: When I, when
I, in 1950, yeah.
MIKE: You got
sons though, right?
ED: Yeah, I got sons.
MIKE: They should have this.
ED: Oh yeah.
MIKE: I thought it meant
a lot more to him than it
would be to me, so I
didn't make an offer.
ED: Another one.
MIKE: This is actually
the Miss America Pageant.
ED: That's it.
MIKE: Right there. 1960.
MIKE: 1959. Miss America
Pageant. That's cool.
MIKE: Photography is
all about subject matter.
Think about it-Miss
America Pageant, back in
the late 50s, you can see
the big smiles, the gowns,
all of that stuff.
Anybody that collects Miss
America stuff, anybody that
likes hot chicks, anybody
that likes photography.
They're going to dive on this.
MIKE: What do you
got to have for those?
ED: Oh, 25 apiece.
MIKE: Man, those are cool.
ED: I'm pricing it just...
MIKE: Yeah, just blow out.
ED: Most of that stuff
they got, I've, you know,
I've had it long enough.
I'm not going
to miss it, really.
ED: They look good
hanging on your place.
FRANK: There might be
another one hanging up here too.
ED: I think that's
Eisenhower at the
Republican's convention.
MIKE: Ooh, check it
out, it is Franky. Check it.
There's your world.
ED: Yeah, General Eisenhower.
FRANK: Yeah, that's cool.
ED: Uh, 1945. Yeah, Ike
was in 'Nam, and he was an
American General hero,
what else could you want?
MIKE: General Dwight
Eisenhower, 1945,
addressing Joint
Session of Congress.
What do you have to
have for something like this?
ED: I'd probably like
to get 50 out of that one,
because it's, it's old...
MIKE: It's incredible.
ED: Yeah.
MIKE: You know what?
I'm going to take this.
I think it's
incredible. I really do.
I mean this is a, this is a huge
piece of American history here.
This is really neat.
MIKE: Ed was really
fair with his prices.
I mean, this guy
wasn't wasting our time.
He knew what his stuff was
worth, he wanted to bring
it back to market, he
wanted to put it in the
hands of somebody else
that cared for it just as
much as he did.
[♪]
ED: And there's a pair of
Winchester roller skates
in there too.
FRANK: How much are they?
ED: 50.
FRANK: I'll take 'em.
FRANK: Ed, what about these?
ED: 10 a set.
FRANK: We'll take 'em.
MIKE: Where's that from?
ED: Ethiopia.
MIKE: An Ethiopia license plate.
ED: $40 for the set.
MIKE: I'll take these.
ED: Ok.
MIKE: I'm like a friggin'
kid in a candy store here.
ED: I made up my mind
that it's time for it to go,
can't collect it all.
FRANK: Before we move
out of here, I got to ask you
about the propeller.
FRANK: I look
over in the corner,
he's got a wooden propeller.
It's just a great
collectible piece.
ED: That is a, uh, brand
new one, never bolted on.
MIKE: Oh never used.
ED: 7 foot, uh,
brass laden edges.
MIKE: So like what
year is that from?
ED: Probably World War II.
I think this probably
was a Steerman propeller.
FRANK: I'd put it up
as just like a decorator
piece or something.
MIKE: It's cool.
FRANK: How about 300?
ED: Well, let's put it,
put it in your pile. It's ok.
FRANK: 300?
ED: 300's alright.
FRANK: Good deal.
ED: Yessir.
FRANK: Alrighty.
FRANK: Great piece.
Many people love that and
I have many outlets for it.
MIKE: Tell you what, it'd be
hard to top that building, Ed.
FRANK: That was a good one.
FRANK: I mean each
building we go into has
just got more and more stuff.
ED: We've got a few more
odds and ends in this building.
MIKE: Uh oh.
FRANK: Uh oh Mike.
FRANK: Finally he takes
us into this silver building.
[♪]
MIKE: As we walk into this
building, Ed has got rows
and rows of stuff for as
far as the eye can see.
ED: Most of this
stuff around here is
World War II and
there's some Korean War.
MIKE: That's incredible.
ED: I've been
collecting since the 50s.
I just like the one
of a kind items.
MIKE: Wow, what's this off of?
ED: That's a J33 jet engine.
It went in the very first
P80 shooting star jet fighter.
[♪]
ED: And I run it.
I run the engine.
MIKE: That has to
be louder than hell.
MIKE: Ed was a
serious collector, man.
I'm talking serious enough
to have a J-33 jet engine.
This guy means business.
MIKE: I know you're
collecting military stuff,
did you serve in the military?
ED: Yeah, I was
in the Air Force.
MIKE: Ok.
ED: I was a jet engine mechanic.
MIKE: Oh so that's where
you're getting all this.
I was going to say cause
I mean, you ain't no shade
tree mechanic when you're
working on jet engines,
getting 'em running
and everything like that.
ED: I went in the
Air Force in 1958.
We worked on B-52s, AC 135s.
ED: I was in during the
Cuban missile crisis, that
was not a good time.
MIKE: Oh I bet.
ED: Not a good time at all.
MIKE: This is an
incredible collection.
You've been on this
property since what?
ED: '73. I think.
MIKE: 73. And you've
amassed this much stuff.
[♪]
ED: This is the World War II
Army Air Force Pilot's jacket.
ED: This is an ahooga horn.
FRANK: Hit it.
[horn sound]
ED: World War II
chaplain's organ.
MIKE: Wow.
ED: It's a pump organ
where you can have church
services in the field.
FRANK: I have never ever seen
a military collection this large.
ED: That has been up there
ever since I built the building.
FRANK: What's caught my
attention was your Victrolas.
The banner up there. Yeah.
ED: If every antique
dealer had that thing and
wanted it, it would long
be gone, but I didn't want
to get it down.
FRANK: Well it looks like
it could be kind of a hassle.
FRANK: The Victrola
banner is something that was
probably made in the 20s or 30s.
It might have been at a
store, it could have been
at a outlet place, places
where they sold the product.
ED: Yes. That, uh, has
been up there ever since
I built the building.
FRANK: What would
you value that at?
ED: Well... I don't know.
I'm going to say $100.
FRANK: Great piece. I
have never seen one before.
FRANK: Well I'll tell you
what, I know it's going to
be, might be kind of
a hassle to get, but I'll
take it for 100.
ED: Ok. Alright.
FRANK: I paid $100
for the Victrola banner.
I'm thinking at least
double my money.
MIKE: You bought that?
FRANK: Yeah.
MIKE: How are you
going to get it down?
FRANK: You're going
to help me, aren't you?
ED: Looks like
you've been elected.
FRANK: I'm looking around
this huge hangar and all
of a sudden I see
this whole shelf full of
airplane models.
[♪]
FRANK: Here's what
I've got, I've got these
balsa wood ones here.
ED: Yeah. Those are 1937.
ED: I like that one.
FRANK: That one right there.
ED: It's the Piper Cub.
FRANK: These are
1930s airplane models.
So rare to find
models that aren't built.
That's what collectors
want. I had to have 'em.
[♪]
FRANK: 75 for these 3?
ED: Uh, that's, that's fine.
FRANK: Ok.
ED: That'll be ok.
[♪]
MIKE: Ed, this is probably
the most bizarre wild
hugest shift knob
I've ever seen.
MIKE: Franky and I love
anything transportation.
I'm talking even
the smallest of items.
One of the things that I
found in Ed's place was
this really cool shift knob.
ED: Isn't that ridiculous?
MIKE: That thing is cool.
It's got the plane
in the top of it.
ED: Yeah. Yeah.
MIKE: And it's, you know, it's
threaded on the bottom here.
MIKE: A shift knob like
this is something that
completes the restoration.
This is the gravy on the
potatoes for somebody
that's got a car
that's smokin' cool.
ED: It would have
been a shift knob from,
from some aircraft lover.
MIKE: Ok, what do you...
ED: I paid 25.
MIKE: What'd you got to
have for something like that?
ED: Well, it's
something pretty nice.
It's unique. I'd say
about 75, maybe.
MIKE: Alright, at 75, I'd
do, uh, I'd do 50 bucks for it.
Would you do 50 bucks?
ED: Yeah, I guess. I guess so.
MIKE: Ok 50 bucks on that.
ED: It'll be ok.
MIKE: Very different piece.
For the money, I had to have it.
MIKE: Alright Franky,
you finding anything?
FRANK: I'm finding
these little model cars, Ed.
ED: Those were just put
together or painted and
they're all 1960 models,
if I remember right.
FRANK: They're called 3 in 1s.
And what they were is you
could make one model and
you could make three
different versions of it.
ED: Yeah.
FRANK: I like that one.
ED: Yeah, that one's
been roughly put together.
FRANK: I bought those
other models and stuff
from you over there.
ED: Mm hm.
FRANK: What would
you do on the whole shelf?
FRANK: I said, you know what?
Ed, how much do
you want for all of 'em?
FRANK: 27 of 'em.
ED: 27, uh...
FRANK: I'd say maybe some
are built, some haven't been built.
There's 27.
ED: I had a guy here
the other day offered me
600 for the shelf
and I didn't take it.
FRANK: Ok.
ED: And I, I don't
know why I didn't take it.
It's a wonder they're
still here, but...
FRANK: Would 400 buy 'em?
ED: Uh, 4...
FRANK: You know,
when I offered $400 for the
models to Ed, I was
losing him a little bit,
so I thought, you know what?
I'm going to have
to step up the offer.
FRANK: How about
with 20 apiece help you?
$20 apiece, that'd
be, that'd be 540.
ED: 540. I'll do that.
FRANK: Time to buy
something is when you see it.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Hey Ed.
ED: Yeah man.
MIKE: I found some cool
stuff over here in this cabinet.
MIKE: In Ed's warehouse
he had tons of shelves.
And everything was piled
up on 'em, but one thing
that he had in there that
I noticed right away was
these glass display cases
and when you look in these
cases, you can tell that
these were the things that
he thought were the coolest.
ED: That's where
the coolest stuff stays.
MIKE: This is where
all the cool stuff is?
ED: Yeah.
MIKE: Right here.
ED: That's a World War
II German flying helmet.
MIKE: One of the things
that I loved right away
was this German pilot
skull cap. Amazing.
MIKE: Ok, and I know
it's got a microphone on it.
ED: Yeah, that's the throat mic.
It went around, right
around your throat.
MIKE: Oh that don't
sound too comfortable.
ED: No it didn't.
And, uh, it's quite rare.
MIKE: I mean it had
the microphone that went
around the neck, it
was in great shape.
I mean this thing was
leather and if you think
about it, leather
deteriorated really easy.
This thing looked
like it was brand new.
MIKE: I've had some
World War II, um, American
leather skull caps, but
I've never seen a German
one, especially with
a mic system on it.
ED: Yeah, that's,
it's pretty unique.
MIKE: It's incredible.
MIKE: Ed, what are
you thinking on this?
ED: Ooh, I've had it
so long it's really kind of
a tough call to get
rid of it at all, but...
I'd take maybe about 350 for it.
It's, it's much scarcer than
the American counterpart
of it because, you know,
it is from Germany and...
MIKE: How about 300 bucks?
ED: I think that's fair.
That's fair enough.
MIKE: You want to do 300?
ED: I'll do that.
MIKE: Ok cool. Thank you.
ED: Ok man, you got it.
MIKE: Alright.
MIKE: I mean it was an
unusual piece, it was in
great condition.
He wanted 350, I
talked him down to 300.
MIKE: There was one
other piece I saw in here that
was very different.
MIKE: One of the things
that I gravitated towards
was this compass.
This thing was really cool.
It had oil on the top.
There was some electrical
wires coming off of it.
ED: That's a ship's
compass and it's from the
World War II era and you
could steer the ship by it.
You could set a magnetic
heading for the ship.
MIKE: Mm hm.
ED: And if the ship
wallowed around in the
seas or something,
that would correct for it.
MIKE: Remember
where you got this at?
ED: I had a friend over
in Savannah that collected
nautical antiques only.
MIKE: Ok.
ED: Just ship related stuff
and I think I got it from him.
MIKE: What'd you
have to pay back then?
ED: I think I gave
him about $250 for it.
Compasses were expensive,
pinnacles and ship...
MIKE: Yeah, I know. Anything.
I know, anything nautical
is good and I know that
with the significance of it
being from World War II,
it's probably even better.
MIKE: This is one of those
items I don't know a lot
about, but a lot of guys
collect nautical stuff,
World War II stuff's hot
right now, so it meets
both of those categories.
I loved it.
I wanted to buy it because
I thought it was different.
MIKE: Can I make
you an offer on it?
ED: Sure.
MIKE: Ed, would
you do 350 bucks.
ED: Yeah, I think
so. I think so.
MIKE: You can do that?
ED: Yeah I'd do that.
MIKE: I think it's cool man.
FRANK: I think it's cool too.
MIKE: You know,
you know how it is,
it's like some of this
stuff just speaks to ya.
MIKE: This was yelling at
me when I opened the case.
[♪]
FRANK: We had
a great time at Ed's.
I mean, he had an amazing
collection, but you know what?
Now it's time for me to
think about getting my
Victrola banner down.
FRANK: It looked
dangerous, but I had to have it.
FRANK: Alright, let me
see what I got going on up
here once I get up here.
[jaws theme plays]
ED: Have you got a pocket knife?
FRANK: I'm getting it.
MIKE: How are you doing,
Franky? You doing alright?
FRANK: Yeah, no problem.
MIKE: Need some help?
FRANK: Well I always need help.
MIKE: Alright, let me see
what I got going on here.
ED: Boy I tell you what...
FRANK: Yeah, he
doesn't need a ladder.
ED: We don't need a ladder.
FRANK: Go like this.
MIKE: Oh, like that?
FRANK: There you go.
MIKE: Holey moley.
[♪]
FRANK: This is awesome.
I love this propeller.
[♪]
MIKE: I love this
German piece, man.
This is cool, Ed.
MIKE: Ed's collection
was amazing.
This guy loved
World War II stuff.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright,
thank you so much.
ED: See ya.
MIKE: If we're in
the neighborhood,
we'll come back again.
ED: Yup. Do that. Be sure.
FRANK: Thanks
for your hospitality.
ED: I had a lot of fun.
I hope that they'll come
back the first chance they
get when they make
a trip down south.
There's just so
much more in there.
ED: You guys have a safe trip.
FRANK: Alrighty.
ED: See ya.
[♪]
MIKE: After 20 years of
being a picker and paying
my dues on the road, I've
learned, you know what?
Don't pass up something that's
really cool and really unusual.
When I saw that compass,
that item fits that bill.
I want to get it appraised.
MIKE: I am curious to see
what he says that thing's worth.
MIKE: Franky and I took
the compass to Zeff today
to see what he
thought it was worth.
MIKE: Alright, let me
get the door for ya.
MIKE: This is a great guy
because he can not just
appraise a stuffed horse.
MIKE: Have you seen
anything like this before?
ZEFF: I have.
MIKE: He can also do compasses.
FRANK: Hey Zeff.
ZEFF: Yeah.
MIKE: Zeff!
FRANK: Hey there
he is. MIKE: Hey.
FRANK: What's happening?
MIKE: What's up, man?
Good to see you again.
ZEFF: Hi how are you doing?
FRANK: Long time, no see, man.
MIKE: How you been?
ZEFF: Good. FRANK: Good.
FRANK: We got something
to test your knowledge on here.
ZEFF: Mm. That's,
that's a tricky one.
ZEFF: Let's set it over here.
FRANK: Alright. Good.
MIKE: We got this from a
guy that was a World War II
collector and Frank and
I thought this was cool,
you know, for the biggest
reason is we're always
having problems with our GPS
and we thought, you know what?
This would be a perfect backup.
ZEFF: Mike and Frank today
had a pretty unusual piece
of nautical equipment.
ZEFF: It's a great piece.
It's a ship's compass.
MIKE: Mm hm.
ZEFF: And it's called
a gyro compass.
MIKE: Ok.
ZEFF: The reason being
it uses true north instead of
magnetic north, which
the ship’s hull, the metals
and, uh, electric wiring
in the ship would have
interfered with the
magnetic compass, so this
was designed specifically
for use on a ship.
And actually designed by a
hero of mine, Elmer Sperry.
He designed a lot of things.
He did the searchlight. He
also did the electric trolley car.
FRANK: Ok cool.
MIKE: The history
with him was incredible.
ZEFF: This invention was so
valuable to the US Navy that
they named a ship after
the guy. Obviously the USS...
FRANK: Sperry, eh?
ZEFF: Sperry.
FRANK: Oh my gosh.
[♪]
ZEFF: The condition
of this is great.
It's, it's untouched and it's
really what you want to see.
FRANK: Want to see, sure.
ZEFF: Yeah.
FRANK: Alright.
FRANK: What's it worth?
ZEFF: This gyrocompass
in the condition it's in,
um, will bring $500.
MIKE: We did good.
FRANK: We did good. Yeah.
MIKE: We're not
losing money, buddy.
FRANK: Anytime we're not
losing money, we are doing good.
MIKE: Alright.
ZEFF: Having paid $350,
Mike and Frank did great.
ZEFF: Are you guys sure
how to get out of here?
MIKE: We'll figure it out.
FRANK: We'll figure it out.
MIKE: Let me see here. Alright.
FRANK: We'll figure it
out. Yeah. Thank you.
MIKE: Thank you.
ZEFF: Thank you.
MIKE: See you later.
FRANK: How many
fingers do I have up?
MIKE: Five.
FRANK: No. See, I have
four fingers up and one thumb.
So see, already, you're,
I mean, I'm just trying
to look out for you.
MIKE: I didn't know
it was a trick question.
FRANK: I'm just making
an outsider looking in
observation and I think
that you seriously need to
look into maybe
getting some glasses.
MIKE: When did Franky
become an optometrist?
I don't know, maybe
he's taking night classes or
something, some online
course, I don't know what
the heck he's talking about.
MIKE: How can I
pick with glasses on?
FRANK: I don't think you
have to worry about the
glasses, you know, they
make a thing called contacts.
MIKE: I don't want to
wear contacts, I mean,
that's what I want to do.
I want to stick my finger
in my eye every morning.
FRANK: I'm trying to
look at, for the longevity
of us as a team.
And if you start to break
down, then it'll be just
as you would put it-me.
MIKE: Ok. Alright,
well, you know what?
I cannot see this business
functioning with just you
and Danielle at the
helm, so that's scares me
enough to want
to go to the doctor.
FRANK: Ok, cause that's
the key part. I can't see.
Say that again.
MIKE: I'm not saying that.
FRANK: You just said it.
MIKE: Did I say that?
FRANK: You just
said I can't see.
You just literally said...
MIKE: You took
it out of context.
FRANK: I'm just listening
to what you said. I can't see.
MIKE: Ok, you're cut
off. No more coffee.
FRANK: Alright.
[♪]
MIKE: Just to shut Frank
up, I'm going to go to the
optometrist, get my test,
ace it, and be done with this.
[♪]
MIKE: I've never
needed glasses before.
Why would I need them now?
OPTOMETRIST: What
brings you in today?
MIKE: Well I have a
business associate named
Frank and he is
some reason under the
impression that I need glasses.
MIKE: The biggest thing for
me is to prove Frank wrong here.
I mean, obviously I'm
concerned with my health,
I mean, these are
my eyes, not his.
OPTOMETRIST: I'm going
to give you a couple choices,
just tell me which is best.
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: There's
the first way. The second.
MIKE: That way is good.
OPTOMETRIST: Can
you try the third row down?
MIKE: Are you serious?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Does anybody get that?
OPTOMETRIST: They do.
MIKE: Really?
OPTOMETRIST: Let's work on it.
Close your eyes for a second.
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Open
back up. Can you see it now?
MIKE: Oh yeah.
OPTOMETRIST: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Do you want the
good news or the bad news, Mike?
MIKE: Is there some bad news?
OPTOMETRIST: Well,
there's no bad, bad news, but...
MIKE: Ok.
OPTOMETRIST: Mike,
we're going to have to talk
about the b word in here today.
MIKE: What's the b word? Bonus?
OPTOMETRIST: Bifocals.
MIKE: Bifocals.
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Are you serious? Bifocals?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes.
MIKE: Oh my god, I remember
my grandpa had bifocals.
MIKE: Are you
sure I need glasses?
OPTOMETRIST: Yes you do.
MIKE: Man.
MIKE: So you're
saying Frank's right?
MIKE: I needed
glasses. I'm getting older.
I'm falling apart.
MIKE: I'm just, I'm trying
to get over the shock.
Do you guys have anybody
that does any consultation
as far as like therapy
for me right now?
Let me have a moment
here for a second.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright.
FRANK: What you got on?
MIKE: [laughing] I knew
you were going to say that.
FRANK: Glasses. I told
you you needed glasses.
FRANK: I know it's
killing him inside to have to
admit I was right.
FRANK: Aren't you glad
that you listened to me?
MIKE: I'm super
picker now. I can see.
You just threw
gas on the fire, son.
FRANK: We all need
a couple extra eyes
sometimes in life.
Four eyes.
MIKE: Now I'm going
to have the joy of dealing
with contacts
when I'm on a pick.
FRANK: How many
fingers I got up?
MIKE: Four and a thumb.
FRANK: See.
MIKE & FRANK: [laughing]
FRANK: Hee hee.