American Pickers (2010–…): Season 3, Episode 7 - The Emu Chase - full transcript
This time on American Pickers... The guys pick a Kentucky farm where they end up cornered by a crazy red-eyed emu! Later, when one great pick leads to another, the guys find themselves touring Jerry's awesome collection of eclectic oversized curios where Mike spies a treasure he's spent a lifetime looking for! And finally, the guys surprise an old friend of Mike's - a famous Nashville set decorator named Ruby - and search her amazing hangar-sized warehouse of cool stuff.
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MIKE: Alright Charlie,
this is the barn right here?
CHARLIE: I'm not goin' down
there, y'all can help yourself.
MIKE: This is
good stuff, Frankie.
Then I realized that
something is stalking us.
Alright, here he comes, he's
gonna kick your ass, dude!
FRANK: I've been chased
by squirrels, I've been
chased by porcupines,
I've been chased by dogs.
MIKE: All I see is
this big bird, man!
I'm not talkin' a turkey,
I'm talkin' a big emu with
huge claws comin' at us.
FRANK: Oh man!
CHARLIE: Don't make him mad!
MIKE: The item that
I've been lookin' for for at
least 25 years.
Less than ten have been
found, that's how rare
this bicycle is.
Woo!
Is this something you'd sell?
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: We are freestylin'
in the great state of
Kentucky, and we are
swingin' for the fences.
FRANK: You know, we've
picked Kentucky before,
and Kentucky's been good to us.
MIKE: What about this place?
FRANK: No.
MIKE: What about that?
FRANK: No way.
MIKE: Check that right there.
FRANK: I already checked it.
MIKE: It's been prechecked?
The climate of buying
and selling in the south is
completely different
than where we're from.
I mean, every five miles,
there's a flea market down here.
People grow up buying
and selling; it's a social
thing, so there's a lot
of collectors down here.
If there's a lot of collectors,
there's a lot of stuff.
You know what I was
thinkin' about the other day?
FRANK: What?
MIKE: Okay, what if I
had a smokin' hot daughter,
and you had a son, and
he was like you, he was like
three years old and he
had a beard, he was always
tryin' to pick up my
daughter, so finally, I'm
like, listen, tell little
Frankie to lay off, man.
FRANK: Oh, I got it.
So after you told me that,
I turn to my son and I go,
hey, you can do better
than that, or, she's tall,
skinny, I mean, come on.
Ooh, check it out over there.
This looks good,
let's try this spot.
MIKE: Oh my god,
look at this place.
Oh yeah. Come to papa.
MIKE: Let's make it
happen. I'll handle this one.
FRANK: Okay, you handle it.
MIKE: I'll show
you how it's done.
FRANK: There he is right there.
MIKE: Hey, how you doin'?
CHARLIE: Hi, how y'all doin'?
MIKE: Hi, my name's Mike.
FRANK: Name's
Frank. How you doin'?
CHARLIE: I won't
hold it against you.
MIKE: Alright. Hey, we were
drivin' by and we saw all the
stuff you had in the yard,
and we're from Iowa, we buy
and sell a lot of stuff.
We like any kind of gas
and oil related stuff too,
I dunno if you
got stuff like that.
CHARLIE: Let's go
look, you can get more by
lookin' than makin'
me tell you about it.
MIKE: Alright, let's
go. I like your style.
FRANK: This is exactly
the kind of guy I dream of
when we're out there.
He's allowing us to jump
right into his jungle of junk.
How do you find
most of your stuff?
CHARLIE: I go to two or
three auctions a week and
I go to flea markets
and yard sales.
FRANK: Oh, you
go to a flea market?
How long have
you been doin' that?
CHARLIE: Last forty years.
MIKE: Forty years?
FRANK: Auctions, three
auctions every week?
CHARLIE: Sometimes four.
I started about forty,
45 years ago, buyin'
a fishin' pole now and
then, and then it just went on
and on to 1980.
I quit drinkin' and
cigarettes, and I had more
money so I could buy
more, and then it got real bad.
MIKE: Oh my god.
FRANK: Whoa!
MIKE: Look at this place, man.
You got some stuff in here, huh?
You got a lot of
tools and stuff.
I'm in frying pan land!
I noticed you have a
lot of the same thing, and
usually collectors gravitate
towards things they know,
but you've kind of taken
that to the next level.
You're on your own
planet with fishing gear.
What can you tell me about
why you've collected so
much of it.
CHARLIE: Well, I guess
I probably need to go to a
doctors where you lay
on the couch and talk,
but I can't afford it.
That'd probably help
me more than anything.
I used to fish with 'em, so
that's one reason I liked 'em.
Now I ain't fished in two
years, so I don't know why
I buy 'em.
CHARLIE: I mean, I
guess it's almost just like
being hooked on dope!
Can you help me get off?
I mean we'll quit today if
you've got some kind of fix.
I've been usin' that
for catchin' male fish.
FRANK: Oh yeah, that'd be
a nice one there. See that?
MIKE: That's awesome!
That's killer, I love that.
Is it for sale?
CHARLIE: Nuh-uh.
MIKE: Okay. How about the
trade stimulator, how much
is somethin' like that?
A trade stimulator was
an early form of gambling
that brought a potential
streak of luck to anybody
that was going about
their daily errands.
CHARLIE: It's up there pretty
good, you wanna sit down?
FRANK: Grab on this.
He's got a hold of
it, hit him, hit him.
MIKE: Alright, I'm
holding on, how much is it?
CHARLIE: Two and a half.
MIKE: Alright,
you're on the money.
FRANK: What do
you get for these?
CHARLIE: 65 for the top
and probably 75 for the bottom.
FRANK: Alrighty.
MIKE: How much
for the boxer bell?
CHARLIE: 175.
MIKE: Alright.
You're on the money.
This guy knows exactly
how much stuff is worth,
so me and Frankie got
our work cut out for us.
FRANK: Hey Charlie,
what's the story on these?
CHARLIE: Just old marbles.
FRANK: What'd you get for these?
CHARLIE: $75 each.
FRANK: $75 each? You know
when you're looking for marbles
the condition is everything.
They make a lot
of different kinds.
Clay ones are the earliest
and these are clay marbles.
Great collector piece.
[♪]
FRANK: That's fifty marbles,
how about a buck a piece?
CHARLIE: No.
FRANK: How about a
dollar and a quarter a piece?
CHARLIE: No.
Help me out. How
much if I buy both of 'em?
CHARLIE: Hundred
and fifty, I mean-
FRANK: That's not helpin' me!
We couldn't do a hundred
on both of 'em, fifty-fifty?
CHARLIE: No. No!
FRANK: You could
buy a couple more reels!
CHARLIE: I don't
need any more reels.
FRANK: Alright. I really
wanted the marble collection, but
it's apparent I have to take
a little break here because
Charlie is not budging.
[siren sound]
MIKE: How much is that?
CHARLIE: 75.
MIKE: 75?
FRANK: That's kinda high.
MIKE: One of the things I
saw right away that I was
really diggin' on
was this old siren.
Very cool, Charlie was at
75. How about fifty bucks?
CHARLIE: Lay off!
MIKE: Does that mean no?
We couldn't come
together on it, I moved on.
FRANK: I thought you
wanted to sell some stuff,
you told us!
CHARLIE: I did, we ain't done.
I want to sell it all,
but I ain't got a sign out
there, 'free!'.
FRANK: How much
is the lock with no key?
CHARLIE: Thirty dollars.
FRANK: How about 15?
'Cause I've got to make
a little money on it too.
CHARLIE: I feel sorry for you.
I mean, I like you, but
I like me better, so...
FRANK: Twenty buy it?
CHARLIE: 25.
FRANK: Let me think about it.
So I'm thinkin' to myself,
how am I gonna get these
marbles out of him?
Maybe a little tactical
buying will help.
I'll give you
thirty for the lock.
CHARLIE: What happened to you?
FRANK: I just feel
like buildin' a rapport.
I'm not at 25, I'm at thirty.
CHARLIE: Okay, I thought you
bumped your head or something.
FRANK: I think I did.
CHARLIE: But I'm
gonna take you on that.
FRANK: Alrighty. So I'm
zeroing in on my marble strategy.
I moved around, I
bought a few other things.
What'll you get for these?
CHARLIE: $15 for those.
FRANK: Charlie, I'll
take this set here. 15?
CHARLIE: Fair enough.
FRANK: Alrighty.
I thought, you know,
maybe he'll budge a little bit.
When we first
came in, Mike asked
about that trade stimulator.
If I pay 150 on these,
what's the best price
you could give me
on that machine?
CHARLIE: Two and a
quarter. I mean, that's it.
FRANK: So I was wrackin'
my brain, I was lookin' to
bundle anything.
I've gotta get my
hands on those marbles.
I'll give you 150 for the
marbles if you throw in
that little fishin' lure.
CHARLIE: Oh no.
FRANK: How about 160 for
the meat slicer and the marbles?
CHARLIE: No.
FRANK: He would not budge.
Cash!
CHARLIE: No. Well, I
ain't gonna take no cheque.
I'm gonna come
down ten dollars, 140.
I don't know why I done that.
FRANK: I thought, what the
heck, take a chance on it, Frank.
I'm gonna give you the
140 on the marbles. Deal?
CHARLIE: Deal.
FRANK: Deal. I bought
the marbles for 140 dollars.
You never know, some
of these could be a worth a
thousand dollars apiece.
MIKE: Charlie!
CHARLIE: What?
MIKE: You've got two of
these old motorcycle hats.
I come across two really
cool motorcycle hats.
MIKE: I mean this
is great memorabilia.
We sell anything
motorcycle related.
What are you
thinking on the hats?
CHARLIE: I want a hundred
and a half for the package.
MIKE: For what?
CHARLIE: All three.
MIKE: Two hats and the poster?
Well, the poster's not
old I don't want the poster.
How about 125 for the
hats without the poster,
you keep the poster.
CHARLIE: I don't
want the poster.
It's a hundred and a half
with it or without it, so-
MIKE: Alright, here.
Shake my hand.
Alright, I appreciate it.
[♪]
Oh man, an old fire hat?
CHARLIE: You ever see
one made out of leather?
MIKE: Yeah, I've
actually got one in leather
right now and mine's
missin' the badge too.
FRANK: Well, so is mine.
MIKE: Yeah, well,
how much is yours?
CHARLIE: Probably fifty dollars.
MIKE: A lot of people
collect fire equipment.
This is a great piece.
It's actually leather,
you can see the tooling,
the quality of the
construction of this thing.
It's very early; I
love that kind of stuff.
I've got clients that
will buy it in a heartbeat.
[♪]
MIKE: So you're at fifty
bucks, how about forty on this?
It's missin' the
badge up front here.
CHARLIE: That oughta
knock it off by five dollars.
MIKE: Yeah, well, I
think it should knock it off
about ten bucks!
You're at 45 on the fire helmet?
CHARLIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright,
I'll take it. Alright.
I paid 45 dollars for
the leather fire helmet,
I'm gonna ask 85.
So which way are we goin' next?
Back outside? Alright.
Charlie tells us he's got a
barn, so we stroll over there.
Alright Charlie, this
is the barn right here?
CHARLIE: I'm not
goin' down there,
y'all can help yourselves.
MIKE: How come you're
not comin' down there?
CHARLIE: I gotta walk back.
MIKE: Oh, you gotta
walk back. Alright.
FRANK: What's
down there, Charlie?
CHARLIE: You'll see.
MIKE: Any good stuff?
CHARLIE: I believe every piece.
MIKE: You believe
every piece? Alright.
See what you've got
down here, this is the
good stuff, Frankie.
Have at it, go anywhere
you want, check out the barn
all by yourself, I was like,
wow, this is awesome, man.
Oh, check out the buzzard,
the buzzards are already
circlin' us.
FRANK: Oh!
MIKE: And then I realize
that something is stalking us.
I hear it.
Here he comes, he's
gonna kick your ass, dude.
Those things are mean as [beep].
All I see is this big bird, man.
I'm not talkin' a big
chicken, I'm not talkin'
a big turkey, I'm
talkin' a big emu with
huge claws comin' at us.
CHARLIE: Don't make him mad!
[bird squawk]
FRANK: I've been chased
by squirrels, I've been
chased by porcupines,
I've been chased by dogs.
I don't know if I can get in!
MIKE: You're [beep].
[bird squawk]
FRANK: Oh man!
MIKE: This is the first
time I can actually say
that we're in a
barn to see refuge.
[bird squawk]
MIKE: Look at his eyeballs,
they're red, man. He's mean.
FRANK: No wonder Charlie
didn't wanna come down here!
CHARLIE: [laughs]
[♪]
[bird squawk]
MIKE: Man, Frank, we ain't
gonna be able to get out of here!
FRANK: We're trapped
in here. He's mad.
This thing is pacing back
and forth, he knows he's got us.
I'm in his backyard.
MIKE: Look at him now.
He's starting to peck at
himself 'cause he's so mad.
He wants to peck
your eyeballs out.
FRANK: No, he doesn't!
Hey Charlie, how
do I get outta here?
CHARLIE: I'd wait a while
'til that bird goes away.
FRANK: That bird's not goin'
away, he's got me cornered!
Let's get on the other side.
MIKE: I figure if we can
get on the other side of
the barn, then we can
get away from that bird.
I think he lives in here,
though, look at all this
poop and stuff in here.
FRANK: Dude, we're
probably in his house!
MIKE: That's I'm sayin'
that's why he wants to get us.
FRANK: Hold up, don't
be goin' so fast, I don't
wanna be left in here with-
MIKE: Here's a cool old
mantle, man, this mantle's cool.
Oh man, look at this thing.
I come across this amazing
cast iron fireplace mantle.
It's so cool, the patina,
the rust, I mean, this
thing is incredible.
Hey Charlie! How much
for this old iron mantle?
CHARLIE: If you can get
it out, you can have it for
forty dollars.
MIKE: Oh my God, I
gotta get this outta here.
Forty dollars on this mantle.
I mean, I could add
another zero at the shop
to this thing 400 dollar
piece for forty bucks.
We gotta get it outta here.
FRANK: How are you
gettin' that up to the car?
MIKE: My friend Frankie Fritz.
FRANK: Screw that noise.
MIKE: Let me see
how heavy it is.
FRANK: That thing's cast iron!
MIKE: I know, but let
me see how heavy it is.
My god!
So I'm checkin' out the
fireplace mantle, but I'm
also on the lookout
because the fireplace
mantle is sitting next
to a door of the barn.
Listen!
[bird squawk]
He's right outside.
[bird squawk]
I'm thinkin' to myself,
that emu is gonna think
the back of my neck is
like a pack of hot dogs or
somethin', he's
gonna be peckin' on it!
Oh my god!
FRANK: Watch out,
here comes that bird, he's
comin' back down!
MIKE: And then, all of
a sudden, all these other
animals are runnin' at us.
CHARLIE: Watch that wild boar!
MIKE: There's a wild
boar over here too now.
FRANK: Where?
MIKE: Right there!
CHARLIE: The pig's
worse than the bird!
Oh, here comes the mean one!
MIKE: Oh Jesus Christ.
I don't like bein' with my
back towards a donkey.
I'm thinkin' to myself,
Frankie, have you got some
kibbles and bits in the
back pocket of your pants?
What's goin' on,
let's get outta here!
MIKE: Alright, here he
comes, here he comes!
So we're runnin' with the
mantle, I look over, and
Charlie's laughin'.
I look over this way,
the emu's comin' at me.
The donkey's comin' at
me, the pig's comin' at me,
I'm like, oh my god!
This is like a weird,
bizarre episode of
Dr. Doolittle.
FRANK: Alright, set yours
down. Set yours down.
MIKE: Alright.
So we finally get to the
finish line, I'm standin'
there, I'm sweatin', I'm
exhausted, and Charlie is
laughin', I'm like,
what is so funny, man?
We almost died back there.
CHARLIE: It's a pet.
MIKE: Huh?
CHARLIE: It's a pet. All
the neighbors feed it cookies
and stuff and it eats
out of their hands.
MIKE: It's not mean?
CHARLIE: All it
got's a little beak.
MIKE: Oh, thanks
for tellin' us now.
He's got those little red
eyes and he's got the
claws on his feet.
CHARLIE: He ain't gonna
hurt you with his eyes!
Did he give you a dirty look?
I thought they have
just kiddin' I didn't think
they was afraid
of a little bird!
MIKE: What a
freestyle to roll up on.
I mean Charlie was great.
It's so cool to connect
with a guy that's been
doin' this twice as long
as Frankie and I have.
Alright, 1, 2, 3!
Really excited to own
this mantle, we paid forty
dollars for it, I'm gonna ask
400, incredible piece, man.
FRANK: Mike, I love marbles!
I bought the marbles for
140 dollars, I'm expecting
to get $250 a set.
MIKE: I'm the hat guy,
Frank, I bought three hats.
I bought the motorcycle
hats for 150, I'm gonna
ask 150 apiece.
MIKE: Charlie, thanks man,
so much, it was a pleasure
lookin' through your stuff.
FRANK: Thank you, thanks a lot.
CHARLIE: I didn't think
I'd see two men run across
my pasture from a little
bird and a donkey, I mean,
it's just hard to believe.
I wish I had a picture of it.
MIKE: Alright
Charlie, see you later!
FRANK: Catch you on the rebound!
MIKE: Yeah!
You're lucky you didn't
get hit by that emu, dude.
FRANK: I know that
thing was rough lookin'.
I mean, that thing looks
like-did you see his claws?
His claws were, he
could tear you apart.
MIKE: I saw his claws and
he had those devil eyes, man!
His eyes were red.
FRANK: I know. They
always look like that, though.
MIKE: Really? You know what
that emu reminded me of, though?
Danielle when she's mad at us.
[laughter]
[♪]
DANIELLE: A big part
of my job here at Antique
Archeology is
getting the stuff sold.
I can't just let it sit around.
I've got to circulate get
stuff out, get new stuff in.
Sometime it's me hunting
down a buyer, but sometime
the buyer come to me.
Hey, how you
doin'? I'm Danielle.
JOE: Hey, I'm Joe.
DANIELLE: Joe, nice to meet you.
CARRIE: I'm Carrie.
DANIELLE: Hi Carrie,
nice to meet you too.
What can I help you with?
JOE: We're openin' a bar
and restaurant, so we're
lookin' for a couple
nice items to put in there.
DANIELLE: What kind of feel?
JOE: Uh, it's more of
a rustic look, it's got a
lot of old, uh, rough cut
lumber, some old whiskey
barrels, that type of thing.
CARRIE: We're on
the search for a real
signature piece to
finish off the decor.
DANIELLE: Alright, are you
thinkin' signage pieces or-
JOE: Yeah, we're pretty
much open to anything, just-
DANIELLE: Okay, come on in.
[♪]
We do have some signage.
I do love this piece right
here, the Blue Ribbon
Cigar piece I
think is really cool.
JOE: Somethin' like that'd
probably be too small,
we're looking for
a gap filler kind of.
CARRIE: Yeah, we're
really looking for something,
'cause it's a bar
restaurant, but we want,
it to scream the bar.
It's all about the bar.
DANIELLE: Gotcha, perfect.
It's very important to
sell the stuff, otherwise,
we don't have money.
CARRIE: That is cool.
DANIELLE: Yeah, this is awesome.
JOE: It doesn't
light up, obviously.
DANIELLE: Well, you
can still have it worked on,
that's definitely not out of the
realm of possibility.
That liquor store is one of the
coolest pieces I've ever seen.
I want to put it up
in my living room.
JOE: What's the
history behind this thing?
DANIELLE: The history
of this piece is it's from
the fifties and it hung
outside this small town
liquor store in Wisconsin.
This piece is amazing
and I actually have a good
sign guy who works with
florescent so I can get
you in contact with him as well.
JOE: We might wanna
light it up, I think it would
look cool.
DANIELLE: Absolutely,
I think it's awesome.
525, I mean, it's a
steal. It's a good piece.
JOE: Works for me.
DANIELLE: Cool.
You good with it?
CARRIE: He writes the
checks and it works for me.
DANIELLE: Alright, alright.
[♪]
CARRIE: Thank you very
much, thank you so much.
DANIELLE: Thank you too, come
and check us out again, okay?
CARRIE: We will.
We are thrilled with
the piece that we have.
JOE: It'll look nice up
there, it'll fit in perfect.
CARRIE: We'll be
the talk of the town.
DANIELLE: Mission accomplished.
FRANK: Do you ever
use that Mennen stuff?
MIKE: Speedstick?
FRANK: No, I'm talkin'
about that just for men
where you put it in your beard.
'Cause you could use a
half gallon for your hair.
MIKE: What are you
talkin' about, I earned every
single one of these, bro.
FRANK: My god, you
look just like your dog.
You're greyer than your dog.
MIKE: You look just
like your antiques.
FRANK: What, old?
MIKE: Yeah, old,
dirty, dusty. Frumpy.
FRANK: I just
showered. I'm fresh.
MIKE: We're freestyling
Kentucky, we haven't had
anything big yet, and
we're tired of shopping
for fishin' poles.
FRANK: We need the big
ticket item and we need it quick.
Man, this is like,
there's nothin' around.
MIKE: This is suburban suburbia.
FRANK: We took a wrong
turn, now we're in, like,
super housing development
area, everything brand new.
MIKE: Why are we always lost?
We have a GPS,
but we're always lost.
FRANK: Hey, this is somethin'.
Right there, right there.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright, hit
him, bearded charmer.
JUNKMAN: Hey guys.
GUYS: Hey, how you doin'?
JUNKMAN: How y'all doin' today?
MIKE: Saw your gas pumps.
JUNKMAN: Like that old stuff?
MIKE: Oh yeah. I'm Mike.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. We're from Iowa.
We do a little bit of
pickin', we're out here
buyin' some stuff-
FRANK: This gives
you, like, a little general
line of some of the stuff
we're interested, you know?
We buy a little bit
of everything, and-
JUNKMAN: You know, I
think I got most of this stuff
in there.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Tell me when
you bought this car, man.
This is clean.
JUNKMAN This is a
1975 Chevy Impala.
FRANK: Original paint?
JUNKMAN: Yes, original
paint, never been wrecked.
MIKE: Oh ya, you know
you're in Kentucky when
you got white leather seats.
JUNKMAN: You guys
wanna look inside?
MIKE: Sure, hell yeah!
FRANK: That's
the kind of guy I like.
That's somebody
that's ready to sell.
JUNKMAN: Everything
in here's for sale.
FRANK: You got a little
bit of everything in here.
JUNKMAN: Yeah,
you gotta buy it right.
You buy it right,
you can sell it right.
I keep buyin' and
sellin', buyin' and sellin',
swappin' and tradin'.
You know, just enjoyin' it.
That's how I got the
nickname Junkman Woof.
FRANK: Oh, okay.
JUNKMAN: Y'all can get
in there and dig, jump on in!
MIKE: Alright. This is cool.
When we're lookin' around
through this stuff, we're
lookin' for anything
that's unusual and
different, something
you haven't seen before.
Hey Junkman Woof,
how about this duo horn?
And that came in the form
of a double headed horn.
I'm talkin' squeeze ball
blown out, but brass with
two horns, not one.
Very cool piece.
JUNKER: Tell me what you
think and we'll go from there.
Twenty bucks.
MIKE: Twenty bucks?
I was like, you know what,
this would be a great icebreaker.
I'll pop on twenty on this.
That's ten each horn, Frank.
FRANK: That looks good.
MIKE: Oh my god.
FRANK: Oh boy.
MIKE: We all have these
as collectors, they're called
curio cabinets, and
everybody fills 'em up
with all those little
special trinkets.
FRANK: We love smalls.
MIKE: Yeah, we like small stuff.
JUNKMAN: Do you really?
FRANK: Yeah. One thing
that was really cool that Frank
had was a 1950s
Modern Toys fire truck.
FRANK: See that little
trademark on it, Japan right here?
JUNKMAN: What year is that?
FRANK: This was
made in the fifties.
[♪]
FRANK: This one looks
like it's never been played
with, the friction drive
works great, usually the
bell's missin' on all of 'em,
This was in great condition.
Hey Frank, what do you
value this one at right here?
JUNKMAN: I'd say
fifty. What would you?
FRANK: I'd say, like, forty.
JUNKMAN: That'd
be cool, alright.
Deal. Yeah, that'll work.
FRANK: Great piece.
MIKE: Hey, what's up with this?
Is this like, a, fifty
years of Col. Sanders,
you get one of these pins?
JUNKMAN: Yeah,
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
MIKE: It's like Col. Sanders'
head with a blue jewel in it.
JUNKMAN: Yeah. He gave that
away for a service award, I think.
MIKE: It's a little tie clasp.
One thing about bein' a picker
is you find value in odd things.
MIKE: I thought
the Col. Sanders pin
was the coolest thing
in the whole cabinet.
[♪]
MIKE: This is real gold?
JUNKMAN: I think so.
MIKE: You think so?
How much is that?
JUNKMAN: Fifty.
MIKE: Fifty bucks!?
JUNKMAN: Yeah. Why,
where were you at on it?
MIKE: I dunno, I
was at, like, ten.
I mean, come at me.
Twenty bucks for a KFC head?
Alright Junkman
Woof, let's split it at 15.
JUNKMAN: Deal, we'll do that.
MIKE: 15 bucks, Frankie.
MIKE: There's a lot
of people that collect
Col. Sanders stuff.
I paid $15 for it, I think
it's worth about forty bucks.
[♪]
FRANK: I paid forty dollars
for a Modern Toys fire truck.
I think it's worth
at least 150 dollars.
MIKE: But at the end of
the day, we cannot make
a living doing this one
15, 20, 30 dollar items.
We've gotta have
a big ticket item.
Now that, you know, you
kind see the stuff me and
Frank are buyin', do you
have anybody else that
you could direct
us to down here?
Because, to be honest with
you, we've been down here
for days, and we really
haven't bought anything
substantial, man.
JUNKMAN: I do have a
guy, but you gotta step up.
His name's Jerry Lodge.
But he's real funny, I'll
have to take you there and
introduce you.
MIKE: Frank said, you
gotta meet my friend Jerry.
He said this is like the
Godfather of pickers.
Alright, stab it and steer.
And we appreciate
you showin' us this guy.
FRANK: Thank you.
JUNKMAN: No problem, guys.
FRANK: He hops in his
1975 Impala, and we're
followin' him down.
[♪]
JUNKMAN: Oh lord.
MIKE: Oh my god,
this place is crazy!
FRANK: I'm sure we
can find somethin' here.
I mean, we pull up,
this guy's got a boxcar,
a rooster, all kinds
of unusual stuff.
We were like, this
is gonna be killer.
MIKE: Nice to meet
you, I'm Mike Wolfe.
JERRY: Jerry Lodge.
FRANK: Frank Fritz. Pleasure.
MIKE: Junkman Woof
was sayin', you know, you've
been at this for a while.
JERRY: All my life.
MIKE: All your life?
JERRY: I'm 72 years
old and I've been doing
it since I was eight years old.
MIKE: Wow, that's cool.
It's a little bit intimidating,
he's kind of a big dude.
I mean, he's not tall, but
he's like a little fireplug.
JUNKMAN: Buddy, I
gotta get goin', so I'm gonna
leave these guys here with
you, you take care of 'em.
MIKE: Oh, are you leavin' us?
JUNKMAN: Yeah guys, I gotta go.
MIKE: Well thank you so much.
FRANK: Yeah, it was great.
JUNKMAN: Thanks
for the pleasure.
MIKE: Keep in touch.
Hey, would you mind if
we looked around a little bit?
JERRY: Let's go.
MIKE: Alright, let's do it.
So what do you specialize in?
JERRY: Whatever
moves me. I like big stuff.
MIKE: I see that. You
ain't afraid of heavy stuff.
[elephant sfx]
This is a bizarre, trippy place.
[rooster sfx]
JERRY: You guys, I've got
somethin' I wanna show ya.
Pretty good piece.
FRANK: Okay, the Beamer here?
MIKE: Oh yeah!
JERRY: This is from a '57 model.
A 750, has reversible,
a modern [inaudible]-
MIKE: We turn the corner, and
there's a 1957 BMW motorbike
with a sidecar, and this
thing is decked out for war.
JERRY: It's fifty caliber.
[gunfire sfx]
MIKE: When's the
last time this bike ran?
JERRY: Five years ago.
Everything's one
hundred percent.
FRANK: That's cool.
MIKE: That is cool. This
bike was in great shape.
He said it ran and I was
thinking this might be the
big ticket item we
need for this trip.
[♪]
FRANK: How much
is something like that?
JERRY: I'd take
nine thousand for it.
It is a 750 wood
reverse try to find one.
All this stuff is big money.
MIKE: We can't make any
money on that bike at nine grand.
I didn't wanna insult
him, so I walked away.
Alright, thanks
for showin' us that.
FRANK: That's cool.
MIKE: When Jerry said we
could go inside, I was like, okay.
This is gonna be a serious
man room. Woo hoo!
JERRY: Alright, aha.
[♪]
FRANK: Come to daddy.
MIKE: Jerry's collection
was so eclectic.
I mean, he had a stuffed
bear, he had a car, all the
kind of funky weird stuff
that we like, he had it all.
JERRY: My philosophy
is it's gotta be ornery,
unusually or different
or I won't buy it.
MIKE: Frankie, ornery, unusual
and different is what he buys.
JERRY: Ornery, unusual
or different, you could
always sell it.
If you see somethin' when
you walk by and it caught
your eyes, it has to be
ornery unusual or different.
MIKE: Ornery,
unusual or different.
This is one of those
places you gotta really
look around in.
[♪]
FRANK: Hey Jerry,
what about these?
I look down and here's two guns.
JERRY: These are BB,
but you'll never find another
one in your life.
MIKE: These are BB guns?
JERRY: These are BB guns.
I've had 'em probably
thirty five, forty years.
FRANK: When I
look at these BB guns,
these are not ones
that I've seen before.
A little closer inspection,
they were BSA,
Birmingham Small Arms.
These things are really cool.
MIKE: I've never
seen one, have you?
FRANK: Not with this
kind of mechanism on here.
[♪]
FRANK: What do you want on 'em?
JERRY: I'll have five
hundred for the pair.
FRANK: Five hundred?
MIKE: Are they
the original stocks?
JERRY: That's it.
FRANK: How about
four hundred for the pair?
JERRY: 450, I'll go
the difference that.
FRANK: 450's your best?
JERRY: That's it.
FRANK: 450? Time to
buy somethin' unusual
is when you see it.
I'll take 'em.
JERRY: You got 'em.
FRANK: Alright.
JERRY: They've been
around here long enough.
FRANK: This was an
icebreaker purchase for me.
Hopefully this will get
the money exchanging and
get the ball rolling.
MIKE: What about this here?
JERRY: I've had it for years.
MIKE: I look off in the
corner, there's a huge
wooden airplane propeller.
MIKE: It's got a crack
in the top, but it's got
a lot of patina.
Do you know anything,
where'd you get it?
Flea market or somethin'?
JERRY: Uh, some guy was
leavin' town years ago and
I bought it from him.
MIKE: How much is that one?
JERRY: 650 bucks.
MIKE: How about 500 bucks.
JERRY: Give me 500
and take it with you,
I've got more than that on me
MIKE: You're,
we're at five on this?
JERRY: Five on that.
MIKE: Alright. On it, baby.
The propeller's a step
in the right direction, but
we still need to find
that killer, big ticket item
for this trip.
[gasp]
I love this!
The item that I've been
lookin' for for at least 25 years.
Jerry, tell me
about this bike, man.
JERRY: This just came to
me about two weeks ago.
MIKE: Two weeks
ago?! That's fresh!
JERRY: Come out of a garage.
MIKE: No way. This
is a Schwinn Autocycle.
Schwinn started makin'
Autocycles in 1936,
this is a 1938.
It's got a double
duty front end on it.
MIKE: These front
ends, these forks, are
incredibly hard to find.
In 1938, they made that
front fork, but in 1939,
when you walked into the
bicycle shop, they had the
springer front end then.
Everybody wanted
that front shock, so these
double duty front ends
are extremely hard to find.
Less than ten have been found.
That's how rare this bicycle is.
Woo!
JERRY: And this year I
went and got my book out
and it blows my mind.
Everything is here but
the screen on the bar and-
MIKE: And the dual side lights.
JERRY: Yeah, the dual lights.
FRANK: Mike was doing such a
good job of hiding his emotions,
but I could see he had
a hungry look in his eyes.
I know that he
wanted this bicycle.
MIKE: To be honest
with you, I like 'em all dirty
lookin' and sweaty.
So you've got some
age to it. I love it.
I'm trying to keep my
poker face here, but
I mean, 25 years ago,
I started the search for
a bicycle like this, and
now I found it, it's sitting
in front of me.
Let me ask you this,
let me ask you this.
Now that we've got
some money flowin' here,
is this somethin' you'd sell?
I'm thinkin' to myself,
you know what, the way
Jerry's pricin' all this
stuff, he's gonna put some
crazy number on this thing
or he's not gonna wanna sell it.
JERRY: Thousand'd get
it, and I've got a guy that'd
spend over it three times.
He knows what it's worth.
MIKE: He's like, you know
what, I've got a standing
offer a thousand dollars on it.
The guy offered a thousand?
JERRY: He offered a thousand.
MIKE: I thought you said
a thousand would get it.
JERRY: A thousand would
get it, but he ain't got it yet.
MIKE: It's not a time to
negotiate, I was goin to
match that offer and
get it out of his hands.
Alright, Jerry, a thousand
bucks on the bike?
JERRY: Yeah.
MIKE: A thousand bucks cash?
JERRY: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright, I'm on it.
JERRY: You got it.
MIKE: Alright, I'm on
it. Alright, I love it, man.
Boom. Skinned him, it
was mine. It's incredible.
FRANK: You know what,
we're leavin' Kentucky
with more than just some
Kentucky Fried Chicken
and some bourbon.
I paid 450 dollars
for the BB guns,
and they're worth twice as much
[♪]
MIKE: Whoever's gonna
use this piece is gonna use it
as a decorator item, they're
gonna hang it on a wall,
it's gonna be in a den.
I got the propeller
for 500 dollars,
I value it at a thousand.
[♪]
MIKE: Frankie, man, you
would not believe how rare
this bike is.
FRANK: Good one,
I love the paint on it.
MIKE: Oh my god,
I'm freakin' out.
This was the big ticket item
that Frankie and I needed.
This bike, on a good
day, is worth $5000.
This is a good
day to be a picker.
MIKE: Alright, Jerry.
JERRY: Have a good one.
MIKE: Alright buddy,
thank you so much.
FRANK: Take care
of yourself, alright?
JERRY: I gave the guys
some good bargains.
They got into somethin'
they ain't never been into.
FRANK: Alright
Jer, see you later!
[♪]
MIKE: Are you as happy
me buying my 1938 Autocycle
original paint pre-war
with double duty front end?
FRANK: I'm happy.
MIKE: I don't think you're
that happy. I'm happy!
[♪]
MIKE: We're in Tennessee
and we're gonna slide into
a friend of mine's place,
her name's Ruby and she's
got amazing stuff.
She's a prop master
and she's got anything
from furniture to
advertising signs.
FRANK: Am I gonna
need my flashlight?
MIKE: You're gonna
definitely need your flashlight.
FRANK: Alright, good.
MIKE: The cool thing
about pickin' a business is
there's no emotional
attachment to the items,
so if Ruby used a piece
for a Trisha Yearwood
video, or a Hank William
Jr. video, this stuff is
inventory to her, she
makes a living renting it
out, so if we buy that
item, it's gonna be a
bigger connection for the
person that owns it again.
FRANK: I think it would
be a bigger connection if it
was in, like, a
LeAnn Rimes video.
She's hot.
This is all prop stuff?
MIKE: Ruby! [laughs]
RUBY: What are you doin' here?
MIKE: What am I doin',
we're pickin' Tennessee, man!
This is my buddy Frankie.
FRANK: How you doin'?
RUBY: Hey Frank,
nice to meet ya.
FRANK: A pleasure.
RUBY: Technically,
I'm a set decorator.
Music videos and movies,
TV commercials, photo shoots.
So that's why I hoard
all this stuff, so then I can
come in my own warehouse,
pick what I need, so then
I don't have to go shopping
for it and then can't find it.
MIKE: So uh, you been
finding anything cool?
RUBY: Yeah.
MIKE: She's always, she
buys as much as we do.
FRANK: It looks like
she's got a big place here.
I noticed right off the
bat, she's got a lot of
stuff here, it's
a lot of big stuff.
I thought, you know what,
this could be a great pick.
Oh wow, this place is big.
MIKE: Yeah.
We're wandering down
these aisles, man, and there's
anything from brass blade
fans to old chairs to old pottery.
I mean she's got
everything in there!
You made these?
RUBY: No-well, I
worked on the movie Basic
Instinct and there was a
couple left over, and they
were like, you can have
'em, and now I've used 'em
on a Freddy Kreuger movie.
We made this for-
FRANK: It's a wrecking ball!
RUBY: A Big & Rich photoshoot,
and they were swingin'
on it from the ceiling.
MIKE: Oh my god.
RUBY: Taylor Swift beds.
MIKE: That's her bed
right there? The white one?
FRANK: Look, Taylor
scratched the paint right there.
MIKE: What did you use the
grids there for with all the lights?
RUBY: Gwyneth Paltrow
doing a music video.
It was hot, it was
extremely hot.
MIKE: What was this in?
RUBY: It was in, um,
a LeAnn Rimes video.
[♪]
FRANK: I really like LeAnn
Rimes, I like her music,
and she showed us a
piece that was on one of her
sets, right, and I'm like
wow, that's really cool.
MIKE: He loves her.
FRANK: Would you be
able to possibly call her by
the end of the day for
me today, you think, or...
RUBY: Uh, no,
I'm sure she's busy.
MIKE: What about
this clown here?
How much is that, Ruby?
RUBY: Hundred bucks.
MIKE: A hundred bucks?
What do you think, Frank?
FRANK: That's big for a hundred.
MIKE: Brass blade fan, how much?
RUBY: There is no way I would
take less than 150 bucks for
that, and that'd be giving
it away if you ask me.
MIKE: Really? How about fifty?
RUBY: No.
MIKE: Tennessee is
pricy, isn't it, Frankie?
RUBY: I don't know what he
thought would happen when
he got here, like, I was
gonna get all batty eyed
'cause he's cute or
somethin', and let him
have whatever he wanted?
But I don't really
work that way.
I value this stuff.
Chandeliers!
MIKE: What's this,
chandelier, that's cool.
RUBY: I used it on a
Kelly Clarkson video.
[♪]
FRANK: What's
the ballpark on this?
RUBY: Uh, 300.
MIKE: It was way too high.
You know what, her
number one hit, My Life Would
Suck Without You, I'm
thinking to myself, you
know what, my life would
not suck without you if
I didn't buy this
chandelier. I moved on.
RUBY: I mean Mike was
pretty uppity about that light.
That is a way cool light.
That would be an
awesome light to have if your
house was a castle.
It wadn't good enough for Mike.
MIKE: Did you do that?
RUBY: I did not do
that. That came like that.
FRANK: That's awesome.
How much is that?
Oh man, I can't buy a light?
MIKE: I thought this
stuff was inventory!
FRANK: You know what
I don't understand is all
the way here, you're
like, it's just props, she
doesn't care
anything about nothin'.
MIKE: I was under the
assumption this is her business,
she's not gonna be
emotionally attached to this stuff.
I mean, I thought all
of this stuff in here was
like a big yard sale.
MIKE: How much is that
worn out old trunk right there?
RUBY: No! I'm not even
kiddin' you, I'm attached
to that sucker you don't
even wanna go there.
MIKE: You're attached
to every single thing here!
RUBY: -somethin' ugly
and stupid to ask me about!
MIKE: It's great to see
that passion in her face
when she talks about
some of these items?
RUBY: Things like me.
It's not just me I'm
not the only one with an
emotional attachment.
The things are
attached to me too.
I don't like to sell stuff,
but on occasion, I do it.
When I wanna make a house
payment, I'll sell something.
MIKE: Do you know
anything about the history of
this chair here?
It's an early primitive
piece, it's cool.
RUBY: It's a, uh,
shoeshine stand.
MIKE: Oh, so you just
put this chair on here?
FRANK: This is
like marriage to this?
RUBY: No, I did not.
GUYS: Yeah, she did.
RUBY: No, I didn't.
That I bought as is with
that chair on that box.
RUBY: I got a little
irritated with Mike, you
know, trying to negate
that it was the real deal.
I thought it was a
shame that he couldn't
see where it had
been for so many years.
MIKE: I like primitives,
I like things that are
unusual, but this thing
is really old, I mean, if you
look at where the guy
was to put his feet, it was
all worn black paint, I
mean, imagine some guy
just poppin' that shoeshine
rag, cleanin' off the shoes.
I mean this is full on
Johnny Cash shoeshine chair.
How much is this?
RUBY: About 300.
MIKE: I'd do 200.
RUBY: Ha! You've
gotta be kidding me!
MIKE: Ruby, make me feel
like I got a good deal, 275.
RUBY: How about 295?
And then I've lost five.
MIKE: Done. Done. Done.
RUBY: I almost didn't
want him to have it, but then
I'm not so attached to it
even though I appreciate
it because I've only had
it a couple years, I used
it for one movie.
MIKE: She's way more
emotionally attached to
things than I ever
thought she would be,
but you know what,
we did break the ice.
She sold me an item.
I think it's a cool piece,
and we got the money
rollin', we've gotten
over that hurdle.
FRANK: And I see there's
a lot more left to look
through, so I'm fired up, man.
[♪]
MIKE: Whoa!
[♪]
MIKE: Frank, you
see all these dolls?
Ah, here's a jointed teddy bear.
Ruby, what's up with this?
RUBY: When I was twenty
years old, I crawled up in
the loft of this log cabin
that nobody had lived in
for years, and
there was that bear.
MIKE: Would you do fifty?
RUBY: If you will promise
to sell it some somebody
that would take care of him.
MIKE: I mean, it was
a Steiff jointed bear, the
head was there, a lot of
people collect Steiff stuff.
[♪]
MIKE: Frank, look at that.
FRANK: Cute.
[♪]
MIKE: There you go. That
one's neat, with the writing on it.
FRANK: Mm-hmm. I think it was
like, when you got into the bus,
you put your money in it, it
dropped on through, you know?
It has 15 cents on
the outside, it's a great
collector item.
FRANK: We've seen a
bunch of these bad boys.
RUBY: Did you give
good money for 'em?
MIKE: We probably paid
twenty a piece for 'em.
They were a complete-
RUBY: Put that
back on that shelf.
FRANK: What would
you have to have for it?
RUBY: Well, it would
certainly be a lot more
than twenty dollars.
FRANK: Well, let's
see, does it work?
If it works, I'll pay you forty.
The thing is mechanical
you want to make sure it's
not frozen up.
I knew that by twisting
the lever and it was free,
it would be in good
working condition.
Deal.
I paid forty dollars for it.
I think it's a great piece.
Maybe to the right person, $75.
MIKE: I like this
chair right here.
It's kind of a different look.
FRANK: There
you go, it's a super-
MIKE: It's not a barber chair,
it's more of a - is this, like-
RUBY: The dental chair.
FRANK: The dental chair, yeah.
MIKE: I see that dental chair,
man, that thing is so cool.
Oh yeah, this thing's full on!
And then she's
got the whole thing.
Look at all those tools. Oh man!
[♪]
MIKE: The dental piece, the
mechanics and everything,
it looks like it came from a
Lady Gaga video that
Tim Burton directed.
FRANK: This is
awesome, this swivels.
MIKE: You spit in it,
that's where you spit.
You spit in there?
FRANK: I thought
you said spit in it!
MIKE: No, I said
that's where you spit!
Aw, you don't spit in it.
FRANK: Who cares?
MIKE: And the dental
stuff's off the table?
RUBY: Off the table,
no, it's not off the table.
I haven't used it in forever.
MIKE: So what are you
thinking on the chair and
all the stuff?
RUBY: 325
MIKE: This is the part where
I kick ya. How about 300?
RUBY: How about I
kick you back at 310?
MIKE: What do you think,
Frank, that's ten bucks,
that's a medium pizza.
FRANK: This is broke.
MIKE: Oh man, what's
the situation there.
RUBY: Alright, I'll
give it to you for 300.
MIKE: Um, you know
what, I'm gonna pop at 300.
[♪]
RUBY: Alright. I hope I
don't need that tomorrow.
MIKE: Dental
equipment is so cool.
What's great about this
stuff is it's all together
in one group.
I've seen this stuff
before, but broken up.
At 300 dollars, I think
I can at least triple my
money, I'm really happy.
I feel this item is worthy
of an appraisal before
I sell this thing.
FRANK: [inaudible]
Let's spin it around.
MIKE: My back hurts.
Mike: A lot of people
collect medical stuff,
you know, this has
a great look to it.
I mean, this thing is
awesome, I'm really
excited to see the value of it.
MIKE: That old bear.
You know it was in really
bad shape, but she had a
great story with it, she
only wanted fifty dollars for it.
MIKE: If somebody wants to
give me 150 for it, it's theirs.
FRANK: We should
carry one of these with us!
RUBY: Bye!
MIKE: The primitive
shoeshine chair, I paid
295 for, I think there's
a little bit of room,
250 left on it.
MIKE: Alright, are you
glad we stopped by, Ruby?
RUBY: Yes, thank you.
FRANK: Glad I metcha.
RUBY: Nice to meet
you too. Come back.
MIKE: It was really
cool to see Ruby again.
MIKE: I love seeing
the kind of stuff that she
buys, the way she
repurposes it, the way she
takes something and
makes it into something cool.
RUBY: Adios amigos!
I felt really good about it.
They picked interesting,
cool stuff. So I'm happy.
[♪]
MIKE: Danielle hooked
us up with an appraiser for
that dental chair that
we picked up at Ruby's.
We're really excited to
see what this thing's worth.
FRANK: I think it would
make a great display item.
MIKE: If you went to
your dentist walked in there
and saw that,
would you be scared.
FRANK: I'd just say
hey, you think it hurts now,
you want me to use that?
Quiet people down
right away, wouldn't it?
There's a guy right
here, I think this is it.
MIKE: This is it?
Alright, yeah, this is it.
This guy's named Scott.
He's suppose dot be
versed in this old dental piece,
it's gonna be cool to see
what he says it's worth.
Alright, Scott!
SCOTT: What's happenin'?
Boy, that looks lightweight.
MIKE: This thing's
just basically like a
big old paperweight.
I'm Mike.
SCOTT: I'm Scott Nussbaum.
MIKE: Nice to meet you.
Did you talk to Danielle?
SCOTT: I talked to
Danielle yesterday.
MIKE: Alright. We've
had the chairs before,
but never grouped together.
SCOTT: Right. Well,
this is made by Ritter.
The company that made
that chair and the operating
unit are still in business
today, so basically, if
you go into any dental
office in the world,
you're most likely gonna
see the name Ritter,
either on the chair
or on the machinery.
The unit itself is
probably 1917 to 1920s.
This was the first one made
with a disc on the bottom.
It had a round base, this
chair cannot turn over,
and it's made of iron, this
thing is extremely heavy.
MIKE: We know. [laughs]
[♪]
SCOTT: 1917, it came
with electricity, hydraulics,
gas and water.
This made a dentist into a
real doctor, 'cause he had
all the equipment he needed.
MIKE: I guess a
big question for us is,
you know, what's it worth?
SCOTT: That is a good question.
MIKE: You know, we got it
pretty reasonable, and the
thing with us is, we
don't just a lot to antique
dealers, we sell to
people like, you know,
art directors, people
that might use it for
something, a decorator.
SCOTT: Oh, I see. It's not
worth as much as you think.
MIKE: When he said the
dentist chair wasn't worth
as much as we might
think, all of a sudden,
I remembered why I didn't
like to go to the dentist.
SCOTT: I would say,
in this condition, and this
is pretty rough, this
chair is very rough, okay?
MIKE: Yeah, that's taped.
FRANK: It seems like this
would be a great decorator piece.
SCOTT: Oh, it would,
it'd be really neat, I mean,
it's almost all complete.
I'd say there's a very
slim market, but there is
some market for it.
So, together, I would say,
a fair market value so to
speak would only be a
thousand dollars in the
condition that they're in.
MIKE: Okay.
SCOTT: Um, of course,
if they were completely
restored, you'd have
something different.
FRANK: I mean, we paid
300 dollars for both pieces,
and he gave us a
thousand, we're doin' great.
Any time you can double
or even triple your money,
that's a good day.
MIKE: That's awesome.
SCOTT: Well thanks, thanks.
SCOTT: A lot of tattoo
artists today like those chairs,
because they're easy
to work, they're hydraulic,
they go up and down
and they can tilt them back.
MIKE: We're gonna take it
back, have Danielle do the
spit shine and put it on the
floor and hopefully it sells.
[♪]
FRANK: Ohoho, alright dude!
MIKE: See, we did alright.
FRANK: That is good.
We did alright, you know what,
we did better than I thought.
FRANK: Not only did we
make a few bucks, but we got
a education that we're gonna
put into the picker rolodex.
I mean, who knows when
we're ever gonna come
across some more
dental related items.
[♪]
FRANK: Hey, you know what,
the other day when we were
at that other
place, I got bit up.
I got bit up, did
you get bit up?
MIKE: No.
FRANK: Them bugs love me.
MIKE: You're lucky you
didn't get bit by that emu, dude.
MIKE: I think I had a
dream last night it ripped
your eyeballs out.
I was, like, goin' down
this dark hallway, and
there was, like, this emu
head and then all of a
sudden you were there,
and you had, like, no eyes,
you had no soul.
FRANK: You know, I think that
that poor bird is misunderstood.
MIKE: Like you are?
FRANK: Yeah.
---
MIKE: Alright Charlie,
this is the barn right here?
CHARLIE: I'm not goin' down
there, y'all can help yourself.
MIKE: This is
good stuff, Frankie.
Then I realized that
something is stalking us.
Alright, here he comes, he's
gonna kick your ass, dude!
FRANK: I've been chased
by squirrels, I've been
chased by porcupines,
I've been chased by dogs.
MIKE: All I see is
this big bird, man!
I'm not talkin' a turkey,
I'm talkin' a big emu with
huge claws comin' at us.
FRANK: Oh man!
CHARLIE: Don't make him mad!
MIKE: The item that
I've been lookin' for for at
least 25 years.
Less than ten have been
found, that's how rare
this bicycle is.
Woo!
Is this something you'd sell?
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: We are freestylin'
in the great state of
Kentucky, and we are
swingin' for the fences.
FRANK: You know, we've
picked Kentucky before,
and Kentucky's been good to us.
MIKE: What about this place?
FRANK: No.
MIKE: What about that?
FRANK: No way.
MIKE: Check that right there.
FRANK: I already checked it.
MIKE: It's been prechecked?
The climate of buying
and selling in the south is
completely different
than where we're from.
I mean, every five miles,
there's a flea market down here.
People grow up buying
and selling; it's a social
thing, so there's a lot
of collectors down here.
If there's a lot of collectors,
there's a lot of stuff.
You know what I was
thinkin' about the other day?
FRANK: What?
MIKE: Okay, what if I
had a smokin' hot daughter,
and you had a son, and
he was like you, he was like
three years old and he
had a beard, he was always
tryin' to pick up my
daughter, so finally, I'm
like, listen, tell little
Frankie to lay off, man.
FRANK: Oh, I got it.
So after you told me that,
I turn to my son and I go,
hey, you can do better
than that, or, she's tall,
skinny, I mean, come on.
Ooh, check it out over there.
This looks good,
let's try this spot.
MIKE: Oh my god,
look at this place.
Oh yeah. Come to papa.
MIKE: Let's make it
happen. I'll handle this one.
FRANK: Okay, you handle it.
MIKE: I'll show
you how it's done.
FRANK: There he is right there.
MIKE: Hey, how you doin'?
CHARLIE: Hi, how y'all doin'?
MIKE: Hi, my name's Mike.
FRANK: Name's
Frank. How you doin'?
CHARLIE: I won't
hold it against you.
MIKE: Alright. Hey, we were
drivin' by and we saw all the
stuff you had in the yard,
and we're from Iowa, we buy
and sell a lot of stuff.
We like any kind of gas
and oil related stuff too,
I dunno if you
got stuff like that.
CHARLIE: Let's go
look, you can get more by
lookin' than makin'
me tell you about it.
MIKE: Alright, let's
go. I like your style.
FRANK: This is exactly
the kind of guy I dream of
when we're out there.
He's allowing us to jump
right into his jungle of junk.
How do you find
most of your stuff?
CHARLIE: I go to two or
three auctions a week and
I go to flea markets
and yard sales.
FRANK: Oh, you
go to a flea market?
How long have
you been doin' that?
CHARLIE: Last forty years.
MIKE: Forty years?
FRANK: Auctions, three
auctions every week?
CHARLIE: Sometimes four.
I started about forty,
45 years ago, buyin'
a fishin' pole now and
then, and then it just went on
and on to 1980.
I quit drinkin' and
cigarettes, and I had more
money so I could buy
more, and then it got real bad.
MIKE: Oh my god.
FRANK: Whoa!
MIKE: Look at this place, man.
You got some stuff in here, huh?
You got a lot of
tools and stuff.
I'm in frying pan land!
I noticed you have a
lot of the same thing, and
usually collectors gravitate
towards things they know,
but you've kind of taken
that to the next level.
You're on your own
planet with fishing gear.
What can you tell me about
why you've collected so
much of it.
CHARLIE: Well, I guess
I probably need to go to a
doctors where you lay
on the couch and talk,
but I can't afford it.
That'd probably help
me more than anything.
I used to fish with 'em, so
that's one reason I liked 'em.
Now I ain't fished in two
years, so I don't know why
I buy 'em.
CHARLIE: I mean, I
guess it's almost just like
being hooked on dope!
Can you help me get off?
I mean we'll quit today if
you've got some kind of fix.
I've been usin' that
for catchin' male fish.
FRANK: Oh yeah, that'd be
a nice one there. See that?
MIKE: That's awesome!
That's killer, I love that.
Is it for sale?
CHARLIE: Nuh-uh.
MIKE: Okay. How about the
trade stimulator, how much
is somethin' like that?
A trade stimulator was
an early form of gambling
that brought a potential
streak of luck to anybody
that was going about
their daily errands.
CHARLIE: It's up there pretty
good, you wanna sit down?
FRANK: Grab on this.
He's got a hold of
it, hit him, hit him.
MIKE: Alright, I'm
holding on, how much is it?
CHARLIE: Two and a half.
MIKE: Alright,
you're on the money.
FRANK: What do
you get for these?
CHARLIE: 65 for the top
and probably 75 for the bottom.
FRANK: Alrighty.
MIKE: How much
for the boxer bell?
CHARLIE: 175.
MIKE: Alright.
You're on the money.
This guy knows exactly
how much stuff is worth,
so me and Frankie got
our work cut out for us.
FRANK: Hey Charlie,
what's the story on these?
CHARLIE: Just old marbles.
FRANK: What'd you get for these?
CHARLIE: $75 each.
FRANK: $75 each? You know
when you're looking for marbles
the condition is everything.
They make a lot
of different kinds.
Clay ones are the earliest
and these are clay marbles.
Great collector piece.
[♪]
FRANK: That's fifty marbles,
how about a buck a piece?
CHARLIE: No.
FRANK: How about a
dollar and a quarter a piece?
CHARLIE: No.
Help me out. How
much if I buy both of 'em?
CHARLIE: Hundred
and fifty, I mean-
FRANK: That's not helpin' me!
We couldn't do a hundred
on both of 'em, fifty-fifty?
CHARLIE: No. No!
FRANK: You could
buy a couple more reels!
CHARLIE: I don't
need any more reels.
FRANK: Alright. I really
wanted the marble collection, but
it's apparent I have to take
a little break here because
Charlie is not budging.
[siren sound]
MIKE: How much is that?
CHARLIE: 75.
MIKE: 75?
FRANK: That's kinda high.
MIKE: One of the things I
saw right away that I was
really diggin' on
was this old siren.
Very cool, Charlie was at
75. How about fifty bucks?
CHARLIE: Lay off!
MIKE: Does that mean no?
We couldn't come
together on it, I moved on.
FRANK: I thought you
wanted to sell some stuff,
you told us!
CHARLIE: I did, we ain't done.
I want to sell it all,
but I ain't got a sign out
there, 'free!'.
FRANK: How much
is the lock with no key?
CHARLIE: Thirty dollars.
FRANK: How about 15?
'Cause I've got to make
a little money on it too.
CHARLIE: I feel sorry for you.
I mean, I like you, but
I like me better, so...
FRANK: Twenty buy it?
CHARLIE: 25.
FRANK: Let me think about it.
So I'm thinkin' to myself,
how am I gonna get these
marbles out of him?
Maybe a little tactical
buying will help.
I'll give you
thirty for the lock.
CHARLIE: What happened to you?
FRANK: I just feel
like buildin' a rapport.
I'm not at 25, I'm at thirty.
CHARLIE: Okay, I thought you
bumped your head or something.
FRANK: I think I did.
CHARLIE: But I'm
gonna take you on that.
FRANK: Alrighty. So I'm
zeroing in on my marble strategy.
I moved around, I
bought a few other things.
What'll you get for these?
CHARLIE: $15 for those.
FRANK: Charlie, I'll
take this set here. 15?
CHARLIE: Fair enough.
FRANK: Alrighty.
I thought, you know,
maybe he'll budge a little bit.
When we first
came in, Mike asked
about that trade stimulator.
If I pay 150 on these,
what's the best price
you could give me
on that machine?
CHARLIE: Two and a
quarter. I mean, that's it.
FRANK: So I was wrackin'
my brain, I was lookin' to
bundle anything.
I've gotta get my
hands on those marbles.
I'll give you 150 for the
marbles if you throw in
that little fishin' lure.
CHARLIE: Oh no.
FRANK: How about 160 for
the meat slicer and the marbles?
CHARLIE: No.
FRANK: He would not budge.
Cash!
CHARLIE: No. Well, I
ain't gonna take no cheque.
I'm gonna come
down ten dollars, 140.
I don't know why I done that.
FRANK: I thought, what the
heck, take a chance on it, Frank.
I'm gonna give you the
140 on the marbles. Deal?
CHARLIE: Deal.
FRANK: Deal. I bought
the marbles for 140 dollars.
You never know, some
of these could be a worth a
thousand dollars apiece.
MIKE: Charlie!
CHARLIE: What?
MIKE: You've got two of
these old motorcycle hats.
I come across two really
cool motorcycle hats.
MIKE: I mean this
is great memorabilia.
We sell anything
motorcycle related.
What are you
thinking on the hats?
CHARLIE: I want a hundred
and a half for the package.
MIKE: For what?
CHARLIE: All three.
MIKE: Two hats and the poster?
Well, the poster's not
old I don't want the poster.
How about 125 for the
hats without the poster,
you keep the poster.
CHARLIE: I don't
want the poster.
It's a hundred and a half
with it or without it, so-
MIKE: Alright, here.
Shake my hand.
Alright, I appreciate it.
[♪]
Oh man, an old fire hat?
CHARLIE: You ever see
one made out of leather?
MIKE: Yeah, I've
actually got one in leather
right now and mine's
missin' the badge too.
FRANK: Well, so is mine.
MIKE: Yeah, well,
how much is yours?
CHARLIE: Probably fifty dollars.
MIKE: A lot of people
collect fire equipment.
This is a great piece.
It's actually leather,
you can see the tooling,
the quality of the
construction of this thing.
It's very early; I
love that kind of stuff.
I've got clients that
will buy it in a heartbeat.
[♪]
MIKE: So you're at fifty
bucks, how about forty on this?
It's missin' the
badge up front here.
CHARLIE: That oughta
knock it off by five dollars.
MIKE: Yeah, well, I
think it should knock it off
about ten bucks!
You're at 45 on the fire helmet?
CHARLIE: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright,
I'll take it. Alright.
I paid 45 dollars for
the leather fire helmet,
I'm gonna ask 85.
So which way are we goin' next?
Back outside? Alright.
Charlie tells us he's got a
barn, so we stroll over there.
Alright Charlie, this
is the barn right here?
CHARLIE: I'm not
goin' down there,
y'all can help yourselves.
MIKE: How come you're
not comin' down there?
CHARLIE: I gotta walk back.
MIKE: Oh, you gotta
walk back. Alright.
FRANK: What's
down there, Charlie?
CHARLIE: You'll see.
MIKE: Any good stuff?
CHARLIE: I believe every piece.
MIKE: You believe
every piece? Alright.
See what you've got
down here, this is the
good stuff, Frankie.
Have at it, go anywhere
you want, check out the barn
all by yourself, I was like,
wow, this is awesome, man.
Oh, check out the buzzard,
the buzzards are already
circlin' us.
FRANK: Oh!
MIKE: And then I realize
that something is stalking us.
I hear it.
Here he comes, he's
gonna kick your ass, dude.
Those things are mean as [beep].
All I see is this big bird, man.
I'm not talkin' a big
chicken, I'm not talkin'
a big turkey, I'm
talkin' a big emu with
huge claws comin' at us.
CHARLIE: Don't make him mad!
[bird squawk]
FRANK: I've been chased
by squirrels, I've been
chased by porcupines,
I've been chased by dogs.
I don't know if I can get in!
MIKE: You're [beep].
[bird squawk]
FRANK: Oh man!
MIKE: This is the first
time I can actually say
that we're in a
barn to see refuge.
[bird squawk]
MIKE: Look at his eyeballs,
they're red, man. He's mean.
FRANK: No wonder Charlie
didn't wanna come down here!
CHARLIE: [laughs]
[♪]
[bird squawk]
MIKE: Man, Frank, we ain't
gonna be able to get out of here!
FRANK: We're trapped
in here. He's mad.
This thing is pacing back
and forth, he knows he's got us.
I'm in his backyard.
MIKE: Look at him now.
He's starting to peck at
himself 'cause he's so mad.
He wants to peck
your eyeballs out.
FRANK: No, he doesn't!
Hey Charlie, how
do I get outta here?
CHARLIE: I'd wait a while
'til that bird goes away.
FRANK: That bird's not goin'
away, he's got me cornered!
Let's get on the other side.
MIKE: I figure if we can
get on the other side of
the barn, then we can
get away from that bird.
I think he lives in here,
though, look at all this
poop and stuff in here.
FRANK: Dude, we're
probably in his house!
MIKE: That's I'm sayin'
that's why he wants to get us.
FRANK: Hold up, don't
be goin' so fast, I don't
wanna be left in here with-
MIKE: Here's a cool old
mantle, man, this mantle's cool.
Oh man, look at this thing.
I come across this amazing
cast iron fireplace mantle.
It's so cool, the patina,
the rust, I mean, this
thing is incredible.
Hey Charlie! How much
for this old iron mantle?
CHARLIE: If you can get
it out, you can have it for
forty dollars.
MIKE: Oh my God, I
gotta get this outta here.
Forty dollars on this mantle.
I mean, I could add
another zero at the shop
to this thing 400 dollar
piece for forty bucks.
We gotta get it outta here.
FRANK: How are you
gettin' that up to the car?
MIKE: My friend Frankie Fritz.
FRANK: Screw that noise.
MIKE: Let me see
how heavy it is.
FRANK: That thing's cast iron!
MIKE: I know, but let
me see how heavy it is.
My god!
So I'm checkin' out the
fireplace mantle, but I'm
also on the lookout
because the fireplace
mantle is sitting next
to a door of the barn.
Listen!
[bird squawk]
He's right outside.
[bird squawk]
I'm thinkin' to myself,
that emu is gonna think
the back of my neck is
like a pack of hot dogs or
somethin', he's
gonna be peckin' on it!
Oh my god!
FRANK: Watch out,
here comes that bird, he's
comin' back down!
MIKE: And then, all of
a sudden, all these other
animals are runnin' at us.
CHARLIE: Watch that wild boar!
MIKE: There's a wild
boar over here too now.
FRANK: Where?
MIKE: Right there!
CHARLIE: The pig's
worse than the bird!
Oh, here comes the mean one!
MIKE: Oh Jesus Christ.
I don't like bein' with my
back towards a donkey.
I'm thinkin' to myself,
Frankie, have you got some
kibbles and bits in the
back pocket of your pants?
What's goin' on,
let's get outta here!
MIKE: Alright, here he
comes, here he comes!
So we're runnin' with the
mantle, I look over, and
Charlie's laughin'.
I look over this way,
the emu's comin' at me.
The donkey's comin' at
me, the pig's comin' at me,
I'm like, oh my god!
This is like a weird,
bizarre episode of
Dr. Doolittle.
FRANK: Alright, set yours
down. Set yours down.
MIKE: Alright.
So we finally get to the
finish line, I'm standin'
there, I'm sweatin', I'm
exhausted, and Charlie is
laughin', I'm like,
what is so funny, man?
We almost died back there.
CHARLIE: It's a pet.
MIKE: Huh?
CHARLIE: It's a pet. All
the neighbors feed it cookies
and stuff and it eats
out of their hands.
MIKE: It's not mean?
CHARLIE: All it
got's a little beak.
MIKE: Oh, thanks
for tellin' us now.
He's got those little red
eyes and he's got the
claws on his feet.
CHARLIE: He ain't gonna
hurt you with his eyes!
Did he give you a dirty look?
I thought they have
just kiddin' I didn't think
they was afraid
of a little bird!
MIKE: What a
freestyle to roll up on.
I mean Charlie was great.
It's so cool to connect
with a guy that's been
doin' this twice as long
as Frankie and I have.
Alright, 1, 2, 3!
Really excited to own
this mantle, we paid forty
dollars for it, I'm gonna ask
400, incredible piece, man.
FRANK: Mike, I love marbles!
I bought the marbles for
140 dollars, I'm expecting
to get $250 a set.
MIKE: I'm the hat guy,
Frank, I bought three hats.
I bought the motorcycle
hats for 150, I'm gonna
ask 150 apiece.
MIKE: Charlie, thanks man,
so much, it was a pleasure
lookin' through your stuff.
FRANK: Thank you, thanks a lot.
CHARLIE: I didn't think
I'd see two men run across
my pasture from a little
bird and a donkey, I mean,
it's just hard to believe.
I wish I had a picture of it.
MIKE: Alright
Charlie, see you later!
FRANK: Catch you on the rebound!
MIKE: Yeah!
You're lucky you didn't
get hit by that emu, dude.
FRANK: I know that
thing was rough lookin'.
I mean, that thing looks
like-did you see his claws?
His claws were, he
could tear you apart.
MIKE: I saw his claws and
he had those devil eyes, man!
His eyes were red.
FRANK: I know. They
always look like that, though.
MIKE: Really? You know what
that emu reminded me of, though?
Danielle when she's mad at us.
[laughter]
[♪]
DANIELLE: A big part
of my job here at Antique
Archeology is
getting the stuff sold.
I can't just let it sit around.
I've got to circulate get
stuff out, get new stuff in.
Sometime it's me hunting
down a buyer, but sometime
the buyer come to me.
Hey, how you
doin'? I'm Danielle.
JOE: Hey, I'm Joe.
DANIELLE: Joe, nice to meet you.
CARRIE: I'm Carrie.
DANIELLE: Hi Carrie,
nice to meet you too.
What can I help you with?
JOE: We're openin' a bar
and restaurant, so we're
lookin' for a couple
nice items to put in there.
DANIELLE: What kind of feel?
JOE: Uh, it's more of
a rustic look, it's got a
lot of old, uh, rough cut
lumber, some old whiskey
barrels, that type of thing.
CARRIE: We're on
the search for a real
signature piece to
finish off the decor.
DANIELLE: Alright, are you
thinkin' signage pieces or-
JOE: Yeah, we're pretty
much open to anything, just-
DANIELLE: Okay, come on in.
[♪]
We do have some signage.
I do love this piece right
here, the Blue Ribbon
Cigar piece I
think is really cool.
JOE: Somethin' like that'd
probably be too small,
we're looking for
a gap filler kind of.
CARRIE: Yeah, we're
really looking for something,
'cause it's a bar
restaurant, but we want,
it to scream the bar.
It's all about the bar.
DANIELLE: Gotcha, perfect.
It's very important to
sell the stuff, otherwise,
we don't have money.
CARRIE: That is cool.
DANIELLE: Yeah, this is awesome.
JOE: It doesn't
light up, obviously.
DANIELLE: Well, you
can still have it worked on,
that's definitely not out of the
realm of possibility.
That liquor store is one of the
coolest pieces I've ever seen.
I want to put it up
in my living room.
JOE: What's the
history behind this thing?
DANIELLE: The history
of this piece is it's from
the fifties and it hung
outside this small town
liquor store in Wisconsin.
This piece is amazing
and I actually have a good
sign guy who works with
florescent so I can get
you in contact with him as well.
JOE: We might wanna
light it up, I think it would
look cool.
DANIELLE: Absolutely,
I think it's awesome.
525, I mean, it's a
steal. It's a good piece.
JOE: Works for me.
DANIELLE: Cool.
You good with it?
CARRIE: He writes the
checks and it works for me.
DANIELLE: Alright, alright.
[♪]
CARRIE: Thank you very
much, thank you so much.
DANIELLE: Thank you too, come
and check us out again, okay?
CARRIE: We will.
We are thrilled with
the piece that we have.
JOE: It'll look nice up
there, it'll fit in perfect.
CARRIE: We'll be
the talk of the town.
DANIELLE: Mission accomplished.
FRANK: Do you ever
use that Mennen stuff?
MIKE: Speedstick?
FRANK: No, I'm talkin'
about that just for men
where you put it in your beard.
'Cause you could use a
half gallon for your hair.
MIKE: What are you
talkin' about, I earned every
single one of these, bro.
FRANK: My god, you
look just like your dog.
You're greyer than your dog.
MIKE: You look just
like your antiques.
FRANK: What, old?
MIKE: Yeah, old,
dirty, dusty. Frumpy.
FRANK: I just
showered. I'm fresh.
MIKE: We're freestyling
Kentucky, we haven't had
anything big yet, and
we're tired of shopping
for fishin' poles.
FRANK: We need the big
ticket item and we need it quick.
Man, this is like,
there's nothin' around.
MIKE: This is suburban suburbia.
FRANK: We took a wrong
turn, now we're in, like,
super housing development
area, everything brand new.
MIKE: Why are we always lost?
We have a GPS,
but we're always lost.
FRANK: Hey, this is somethin'.
Right there, right there.
[♪]
MIKE: Alright, hit
him, bearded charmer.
JUNKMAN: Hey guys.
GUYS: Hey, how you doin'?
JUNKMAN: How y'all doin' today?
MIKE: Saw your gas pumps.
JUNKMAN: Like that old stuff?
MIKE: Oh yeah. I'm Mike.
FRANK: My name's
Frank. We're from Iowa.
We do a little bit of
pickin', we're out here
buyin' some stuff-
FRANK: This gives
you, like, a little general
line of some of the stuff
we're interested, you know?
We buy a little bit
of everything, and-
JUNKMAN: You know, I
think I got most of this stuff
in there.
FRANK: Alright.
MIKE: Tell me when
you bought this car, man.
This is clean.
JUNKMAN This is a
1975 Chevy Impala.
FRANK: Original paint?
JUNKMAN: Yes, original
paint, never been wrecked.
MIKE: Oh ya, you know
you're in Kentucky when
you got white leather seats.
JUNKMAN: You guys
wanna look inside?
MIKE: Sure, hell yeah!
FRANK: That's
the kind of guy I like.
That's somebody
that's ready to sell.
JUNKMAN: Everything
in here's for sale.
FRANK: You got a little
bit of everything in here.
JUNKMAN: Yeah,
you gotta buy it right.
You buy it right,
you can sell it right.
I keep buyin' and
sellin', buyin' and sellin',
swappin' and tradin'.
You know, just enjoyin' it.
That's how I got the
nickname Junkman Woof.
FRANK: Oh, okay.
JUNKMAN: Y'all can get
in there and dig, jump on in!
MIKE: Alright. This is cool.
When we're lookin' around
through this stuff, we're
lookin' for anything
that's unusual and
different, something
you haven't seen before.
Hey Junkman Woof,
how about this duo horn?
And that came in the form
of a double headed horn.
I'm talkin' squeeze ball
blown out, but brass with
two horns, not one.
Very cool piece.
JUNKER: Tell me what you
think and we'll go from there.
Twenty bucks.
MIKE: Twenty bucks?
I was like, you know what,
this would be a great icebreaker.
I'll pop on twenty on this.
That's ten each horn, Frank.
FRANK: That looks good.
MIKE: Oh my god.
FRANK: Oh boy.
MIKE: We all have these
as collectors, they're called
curio cabinets, and
everybody fills 'em up
with all those little
special trinkets.
FRANK: We love smalls.
MIKE: Yeah, we like small stuff.
JUNKMAN: Do you really?
FRANK: Yeah. One thing
that was really cool that Frank
had was a 1950s
Modern Toys fire truck.
FRANK: See that little
trademark on it, Japan right here?
JUNKMAN: What year is that?
FRANK: This was
made in the fifties.
[♪]
FRANK: This one looks
like it's never been played
with, the friction drive
works great, usually the
bell's missin' on all of 'em,
This was in great condition.
Hey Frank, what do you
value this one at right here?
JUNKMAN: I'd say
fifty. What would you?
FRANK: I'd say, like, forty.
JUNKMAN: That'd
be cool, alright.
Deal. Yeah, that'll work.
FRANK: Great piece.
MIKE: Hey, what's up with this?
Is this like, a, fifty
years of Col. Sanders,
you get one of these pins?
JUNKMAN: Yeah,
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
MIKE: It's like Col. Sanders'
head with a blue jewel in it.
JUNKMAN: Yeah. He gave that
away for a service award, I think.
MIKE: It's a little tie clasp.
One thing about bein' a picker
is you find value in odd things.
MIKE: I thought
the Col. Sanders pin
was the coolest thing
in the whole cabinet.
[♪]
MIKE: This is real gold?
JUNKMAN: I think so.
MIKE: You think so?
How much is that?
JUNKMAN: Fifty.
MIKE: Fifty bucks!?
JUNKMAN: Yeah. Why,
where were you at on it?
MIKE: I dunno, I
was at, like, ten.
I mean, come at me.
Twenty bucks for a KFC head?
Alright Junkman
Woof, let's split it at 15.
JUNKMAN: Deal, we'll do that.
MIKE: 15 bucks, Frankie.
MIKE: There's a lot
of people that collect
Col. Sanders stuff.
I paid $15 for it, I think
it's worth about forty bucks.
[♪]
FRANK: I paid forty dollars
for a Modern Toys fire truck.
I think it's worth
at least 150 dollars.
MIKE: But at the end of
the day, we cannot make
a living doing this one
15, 20, 30 dollar items.
We've gotta have
a big ticket item.
Now that, you know, you
kind see the stuff me and
Frank are buyin', do you
have anybody else that
you could direct
us to down here?
Because, to be honest with
you, we've been down here
for days, and we really
haven't bought anything
substantial, man.
JUNKMAN: I do have a
guy, but you gotta step up.
His name's Jerry Lodge.
But he's real funny, I'll
have to take you there and
introduce you.
MIKE: Frank said, you
gotta meet my friend Jerry.
He said this is like the
Godfather of pickers.
Alright, stab it and steer.
And we appreciate
you showin' us this guy.
FRANK: Thank you.
JUNKMAN: No problem, guys.
FRANK: He hops in his
1975 Impala, and we're
followin' him down.
[♪]
JUNKMAN: Oh lord.
MIKE: Oh my god,
this place is crazy!
FRANK: I'm sure we
can find somethin' here.
I mean, we pull up,
this guy's got a boxcar,
a rooster, all kinds
of unusual stuff.
We were like, this
is gonna be killer.
MIKE: Nice to meet
you, I'm Mike Wolfe.
JERRY: Jerry Lodge.
FRANK: Frank Fritz. Pleasure.
MIKE: Junkman Woof
was sayin', you know, you've
been at this for a while.
JERRY: All my life.
MIKE: All your life?
JERRY: I'm 72 years
old and I've been doing
it since I was eight years old.
MIKE: Wow, that's cool.
It's a little bit intimidating,
he's kind of a big dude.
I mean, he's not tall, but
he's like a little fireplug.
JUNKMAN: Buddy, I
gotta get goin', so I'm gonna
leave these guys here with
you, you take care of 'em.
MIKE: Oh, are you leavin' us?
JUNKMAN: Yeah guys, I gotta go.
MIKE: Well thank you so much.
FRANK: Yeah, it was great.
JUNKMAN: Thanks
for the pleasure.
MIKE: Keep in touch.
Hey, would you mind if
we looked around a little bit?
JERRY: Let's go.
MIKE: Alright, let's do it.
So what do you specialize in?
JERRY: Whatever
moves me. I like big stuff.
MIKE: I see that. You
ain't afraid of heavy stuff.
[elephant sfx]
This is a bizarre, trippy place.
[rooster sfx]
JERRY: You guys, I've got
somethin' I wanna show ya.
Pretty good piece.
FRANK: Okay, the Beamer here?
MIKE: Oh yeah!
JERRY: This is from a '57 model.
A 750, has reversible,
a modern [inaudible]-
MIKE: We turn the corner, and
there's a 1957 BMW motorbike
with a sidecar, and this
thing is decked out for war.
JERRY: It's fifty caliber.
[gunfire sfx]
MIKE: When's the
last time this bike ran?
JERRY: Five years ago.
Everything's one
hundred percent.
FRANK: That's cool.
MIKE: That is cool. This
bike was in great shape.
He said it ran and I was
thinking this might be the
big ticket item we
need for this trip.
[♪]
FRANK: How much
is something like that?
JERRY: I'd take
nine thousand for it.
It is a 750 wood
reverse try to find one.
All this stuff is big money.
MIKE: We can't make any
money on that bike at nine grand.
I didn't wanna insult
him, so I walked away.
Alright, thanks
for showin' us that.
FRANK: That's cool.
MIKE: When Jerry said we
could go inside, I was like, okay.
This is gonna be a serious
man room. Woo hoo!
JERRY: Alright, aha.
[♪]
FRANK: Come to daddy.
MIKE: Jerry's collection
was so eclectic.
I mean, he had a stuffed
bear, he had a car, all the
kind of funky weird stuff
that we like, he had it all.
JERRY: My philosophy
is it's gotta be ornery,
unusually or different
or I won't buy it.
MIKE: Frankie, ornery, unusual
and different is what he buys.
JERRY: Ornery, unusual
or different, you could
always sell it.
If you see somethin' when
you walk by and it caught
your eyes, it has to be
ornery unusual or different.
MIKE: Ornery,
unusual or different.
This is one of those
places you gotta really
look around in.
[♪]
FRANK: Hey Jerry,
what about these?
I look down and here's two guns.
JERRY: These are BB,
but you'll never find another
one in your life.
MIKE: These are BB guns?
JERRY: These are BB guns.
I've had 'em probably
thirty five, forty years.
FRANK: When I
look at these BB guns,
these are not ones
that I've seen before.
A little closer inspection,
they were BSA,
Birmingham Small Arms.
These things are really cool.
MIKE: I've never
seen one, have you?
FRANK: Not with this
kind of mechanism on here.
[♪]
FRANK: What do you want on 'em?
JERRY: I'll have five
hundred for the pair.
FRANK: Five hundred?
MIKE: Are they
the original stocks?
JERRY: That's it.
FRANK: How about
four hundred for the pair?
JERRY: 450, I'll go
the difference that.
FRANK: 450's your best?
JERRY: That's it.
FRANK: 450? Time to
buy somethin' unusual
is when you see it.
I'll take 'em.
JERRY: You got 'em.
FRANK: Alright.
JERRY: They've been
around here long enough.
FRANK: This was an
icebreaker purchase for me.
Hopefully this will get
the money exchanging and
get the ball rolling.
MIKE: What about this here?
JERRY: I've had it for years.
MIKE: I look off in the
corner, there's a huge
wooden airplane propeller.
MIKE: It's got a crack
in the top, but it's got
a lot of patina.
Do you know anything,
where'd you get it?
Flea market or somethin'?
JERRY: Uh, some guy was
leavin' town years ago and
I bought it from him.
MIKE: How much is that one?
JERRY: 650 bucks.
MIKE: How about 500 bucks.
JERRY: Give me 500
and take it with you,
I've got more than that on me
MIKE: You're,
we're at five on this?
JERRY: Five on that.
MIKE: Alright. On it, baby.
The propeller's a step
in the right direction, but
we still need to find
that killer, big ticket item
for this trip.
[gasp]
I love this!
The item that I've been
lookin' for for at least 25 years.
Jerry, tell me
about this bike, man.
JERRY: This just came to
me about two weeks ago.
MIKE: Two weeks
ago?! That's fresh!
JERRY: Come out of a garage.
MIKE: No way. This
is a Schwinn Autocycle.
Schwinn started makin'
Autocycles in 1936,
this is a 1938.
It's got a double
duty front end on it.
MIKE: These front
ends, these forks, are
incredibly hard to find.
In 1938, they made that
front fork, but in 1939,
when you walked into the
bicycle shop, they had the
springer front end then.
Everybody wanted
that front shock, so these
double duty front ends
are extremely hard to find.
Less than ten have been found.
That's how rare this bicycle is.
Woo!
JERRY: And this year I
went and got my book out
and it blows my mind.
Everything is here but
the screen on the bar and-
MIKE: And the dual side lights.
JERRY: Yeah, the dual lights.
FRANK: Mike was doing such a
good job of hiding his emotions,
but I could see he had
a hungry look in his eyes.
I know that he
wanted this bicycle.
MIKE: To be honest
with you, I like 'em all dirty
lookin' and sweaty.
So you've got some
age to it. I love it.
I'm trying to keep my
poker face here, but
I mean, 25 years ago,
I started the search for
a bicycle like this, and
now I found it, it's sitting
in front of me.
Let me ask you this,
let me ask you this.
Now that we've got
some money flowin' here,
is this somethin' you'd sell?
I'm thinkin' to myself,
you know what, the way
Jerry's pricin' all this
stuff, he's gonna put some
crazy number on this thing
or he's not gonna wanna sell it.
JERRY: Thousand'd get
it, and I've got a guy that'd
spend over it three times.
He knows what it's worth.
MIKE: He's like, you know
what, I've got a standing
offer a thousand dollars on it.
The guy offered a thousand?
JERRY: He offered a thousand.
MIKE: I thought you said
a thousand would get it.
JERRY: A thousand would
get it, but he ain't got it yet.
MIKE: It's not a time to
negotiate, I was goin to
match that offer and
get it out of his hands.
Alright, Jerry, a thousand
bucks on the bike?
JERRY: Yeah.
MIKE: A thousand bucks cash?
JERRY: Yeah.
MIKE: Alright, I'm on it.
JERRY: You got it.
MIKE: Alright, I'm on
it. Alright, I love it, man.
Boom. Skinned him, it
was mine. It's incredible.
FRANK: You know what,
we're leavin' Kentucky
with more than just some
Kentucky Fried Chicken
and some bourbon.
I paid 450 dollars
for the BB guns,
and they're worth twice as much
[♪]
MIKE: Whoever's gonna
use this piece is gonna use it
as a decorator item, they're
gonna hang it on a wall,
it's gonna be in a den.
I got the propeller
for 500 dollars,
I value it at a thousand.
[♪]
MIKE: Frankie, man, you
would not believe how rare
this bike is.
FRANK: Good one,
I love the paint on it.
MIKE: Oh my god,
I'm freakin' out.
This was the big ticket item
that Frankie and I needed.
This bike, on a good
day, is worth $5000.
This is a good
day to be a picker.
MIKE: Alright, Jerry.
JERRY: Have a good one.
MIKE: Alright buddy,
thank you so much.
FRANK: Take care
of yourself, alright?
JERRY: I gave the guys
some good bargains.
They got into somethin'
they ain't never been into.
FRANK: Alright
Jer, see you later!
[♪]
MIKE: Are you as happy
me buying my 1938 Autocycle
original paint pre-war
with double duty front end?
FRANK: I'm happy.
MIKE: I don't think you're
that happy. I'm happy!
[♪]
MIKE: We're in Tennessee
and we're gonna slide into
a friend of mine's place,
her name's Ruby and she's
got amazing stuff.
She's a prop master
and she's got anything
from furniture to
advertising signs.
FRANK: Am I gonna
need my flashlight?
MIKE: You're gonna
definitely need your flashlight.
FRANK: Alright, good.
MIKE: The cool thing
about pickin' a business is
there's no emotional
attachment to the items,
so if Ruby used a piece
for a Trisha Yearwood
video, or a Hank William
Jr. video, this stuff is
inventory to her, she
makes a living renting it
out, so if we buy that
item, it's gonna be a
bigger connection for the
person that owns it again.
FRANK: I think it would
be a bigger connection if it
was in, like, a
LeAnn Rimes video.
She's hot.
This is all prop stuff?
MIKE: Ruby! [laughs]
RUBY: What are you doin' here?
MIKE: What am I doin',
we're pickin' Tennessee, man!
This is my buddy Frankie.
FRANK: How you doin'?
RUBY: Hey Frank,
nice to meet ya.
FRANK: A pleasure.
RUBY: Technically,
I'm a set decorator.
Music videos and movies,
TV commercials, photo shoots.
So that's why I hoard
all this stuff, so then I can
come in my own warehouse,
pick what I need, so then
I don't have to go shopping
for it and then can't find it.
MIKE: So uh, you been
finding anything cool?
RUBY: Yeah.
MIKE: She's always, she
buys as much as we do.
FRANK: It looks like
she's got a big place here.
I noticed right off the
bat, she's got a lot of
stuff here, it's
a lot of big stuff.
I thought, you know what,
this could be a great pick.
Oh wow, this place is big.
MIKE: Yeah.
We're wandering down
these aisles, man, and there's
anything from brass blade
fans to old chairs to old pottery.
I mean she's got
everything in there!
You made these?
RUBY: No-well, I
worked on the movie Basic
Instinct and there was a
couple left over, and they
were like, you can have
'em, and now I've used 'em
on a Freddy Kreuger movie.
We made this for-
FRANK: It's a wrecking ball!
RUBY: A Big & Rich photoshoot,
and they were swingin'
on it from the ceiling.
MIKE: Oh my god.
RUBY: Taylor Swift beds.
MIKE: That's her bed
right there? The white one?
FRANK: Look, Taylor
scratched the paint right there.
MIKE: What did you use the
grids there for with all the lights?
RUBY: Gwyneth Paltrow
doing a music video.
It was hot, it was
extremely hot.
MIKE: What was this in?
RUBY: It was in, um,
a LeAnn Rimes video.
[♪]
FRANK: I really like LeAnn
Rimes, I like her music,
and she showed us a
piece that was on one of her
sets, right, and I'm like
wow, that's really cool.
MIKE: He loves her.
FRANK: Would you be
able to possibly call her by
the end of the day for
me today, you think, or...
RUBY: Uh, no,
I'm sure she's busy.
MIKE: What about
this clown here?
How much is that, Ruby?
RUBY: Hundred bucks.
MIKE: A hundred bucks?
What do you think, Frank?
FRANK: That's big for a hundred.
MIKE: Brass blade fan, how much?
RUBY: There is no way I would
take less than 150 bucks for
that, and that'd be giving
it away if you ask me.
MIKE: Really? How about fifty?
RUBY: No.
MIKE: Tennessee is
pricy, isn't it, Frankie?
RUBY: I don't know what he
thought would happen when
he got here, like, I was
gonna get all batty eyed
'cause he's cute or
somethin', and let him
have whatever he wanted?
But I don't really
work that way.
I value this stuff.
Chandeliers!
MIKE: What's this,
chandelier, that's cool.
RUBY: I used it on a
Kelly Clarkson video.
[♪]
FRANK: What's
the ballpark on this?
RUBY: Uh, 300.
MIKE: It was way too high.
You know what, her
number one hit, My Life Would
Suck Without You, I'm
thinking to myself, you
know what, my life would
not suck without you if
I didn't buy this
chandelier. I moved on.
RUBY: I mean Mike was
pretty uppity about that light.
That is a way cool light.
That would be an
awesome light to have if your
house was a castle.
It wadn't good enough for Mike.
MIKE: Did you do that?
RUBY: I did not do
that. That came like that.
FRANK: That's awesome.
How much is that?
Oh man, I can't buy a light?
MIKE: I thought this
stuff was inventory!
FRANK: You know what
I don't understand is all
the way here, you're
like, it's just props, she
doesn't care
anything about nothin'.
MIKE: I was under the
assumption this is her business,
she's not gonna be
emotionally attached to this stuff.
I mean, I thought all
of this stuff in here was
like a big yard sale.
MIKE: How much is that
worn out old trunk right there?
RUBY: No! I'm not even
kiddin' you, I'm attached
to that sucker you don't
even wanna go there.
MIKE: You're attached
to every single thing here!
RUBY: -somethin' ugly
and stupid to ask me about!
MIKE: It's great to see
that passion in her face
when she talks about
some of these items?
RUBY: Things like me.
It's not just me I'm
not the only one with an
emotional attachment.
The things are
attached to me too.
I don't like to sell stuff,
but on occasion, I do it.
When I wanna make a house
payment, I'll sell something.
MIKE: Do you know
anything about the history of
this chair here?
It's an early primitive
piece, it's cool.
RUBY: It's a, uh,
shoeshine stand.
MIKE: Oh, so you just
put this chair on here?
FRANK: This is
like marriage to this?
RUBY: No, I did not.
GUYS: Yeah, she did.
RUBY: No, I didn't.
That I bought as is with
that chair on that box.
RUBY: I got a little
irritated with Mike, you
know, trying to negate
that it was the real deal.
I thought it was a
shame that he couldn't
see where it had
been for so many years.
MIKE: I like primitives,
I like things that are
unusual, but this thing
is really old, I mean, if you
look at where the guy
was to put his feet, it was
all worn black paint, I
mean, imagine some guy
just poppin' that shoeshine
rag, cleanin' off the shoes.
I mean this is full on
Johnny Cash shoeshine chair.
How much is this?
RUBY: About 300.
MIKE: I'd do 200.
RUBY: Ha! You've
gotta be kidding me!
MIKE: Ruby, make me feel
like I got a good deal, 275.
RUBY: How about 295?
And then I've lost five.
MIKE: Done. Done. Done.
RUBY: I almost didn't
want him to have it, but then
I'm not so attached to it
even though I appreciate
it because I've only had
it a couple years, I used
it for one movie.
MIKE: She's way more
emotionally attached to
things than I ever
thought she would be,
but you know what,
we did break the ice.
She sold me an item.
I think it's a cool piece,
and we got the money
rollin', we've gotten
over that hurdle.
FRANK: And I see there's
a lot more left to look
through, so I'm fired up, man.
[♪]
MIKE: Whoa!
[♪]
MIKE: Frank, you
see all these dolls?
Ah, here's a jointed teddy bear.
Ruby, what's up with this?
RUBY: When I was twenty
years old, I crawled up in
the loft of this log cabin
that nobody had lived in
for years, and
there was that bear.
MIKE: Would you do fifty?
RUBY: If you will promise
to sell it some somebody
that would take care of him.
MIKE: I mean, it was
a Steiff jointed bear, the
head was there, a lot of
people collect Steiff stuff.
[♪]
MIKE: Frank, look at that.
FRANK: Cute.
[♪]
MIKE: There you go. That
one's neat, with the writing on it.
FRANK: Mm-hmm. I think it was
like, when you got into the bus,
you put your money in it, it
dropped on through, you know?
It has 15 cents on
the outside, it's a great
collector item.
FRANK: We've seen a
bunch of these bad boys.
RUBY: Did you give
good money for 'em?
MIKE: We probably paid
twenty a piece for 'em.
They were a complete-
RUBY: Put that
back on that shelf.
FRANK: What would
you have to have for it?
RUBY: Well, it would
certainly be a lot more
than twenty dollars.
FRANK: Well, let's
see, does it work?
If it works, I'll pay you forty.
The thing is mechanical
you want to make sure it's
not frozen up.
I knew that by twisting
the lever and it was free,
it would be in good
working condition.
Deal.
I paid forty dollars for it.
I think it's a great piece.
Maybe to the right person, $75.
MIKE: I like this
chair right here.
It's kind of a different look.
FRANK: There
you go, it's a super-
MIKE: It's not a barber chair,
it's more of a - is this, like-
RUBY: The dental chair.
FRANK: The dental chair, yeah.
MIKE: I see that dental chair,
man, that thing is so cool.
Oh yeah, this thing's full on!
And then she's
got the whole thing.
Look at all those tools. Oh man!
[♪]
MIKE: The dental piece, the
mechanics and everything,
it looks like it came from a
Lady Gaga video that
Tim Burton directed.
FRANK: This is
awesome, this swivels.
MIKE: You spit in it,
that's where you spit.
You spit in there?
FRANK: I thought
you said spit in it!
MIKE: No, I said
that's where you spit!
Aw, you don't spit in it.
FRANK: Who cares?
MIKE: And the dental
stuff's off the table?
RUBY: Off the table,
no, it's not off the table.
I haven't used it in forever.
MIKE: So what are you
thinking on the chair and
all the stuff?
RUBY: 325
MIKE: This is the part where
I kick ya. How about 300?
RUBY: How about I
kick you back at 310?
MIKE: What do you think,
Frank, that's ten bucks,
that's a medium pizza.
FRANK: This is broke.
MIKE: Oh man, what's
the situation there.
RUBY: Alright, I'll
give it to you for 300.
MIKE: Um, you know
what, I'm gonna pop at 300.
[♪]
RUBY: Alright. I hope I
don't need that tomorrow.
MIKE: Dental
equipment is so cool.
What's great about this
stuff is it's all together
in one group.
I've seen this stuff
before, but broken up.
At 300 dollars, I think
I can at least triple my
money, I'm really happy.
I feel this item is worthy
of an appraisal before
I sell this thing.
FRANK: [inaudible]
Let's spin it around.
MIKE: My back hurts.
Mike: A lot of people
collect medical stuff,
you know, this has
a great look to it.
I mean, this thing is
awesome, I'm really
excited to see the value of it.
MIKE: That old bear.
You know it was in really
bad shape, but she had a
great story with it, she
only wanted fifty dollars for it.
MIKE: If somebody wants to
give me 150 for it, it's theirs.
FRANK: We should
carry one of these with us!
RUBY: Bye!
MIKE: The primitive
shoeshine chair, I paid
295 for, I think there's
a little bit of room,
250 left on it.
MIKE: Alright, are you
glad we stopped by, Ruby?
RUBY: Yes, thank you.
FRANK: Glad I metcha.
RUBY: Nice to meet
you too. Come back.
MIKE: It was really
cool to see Ruby again.
MIKE: I love seeing
the kind of stuff that she
buys, the way she
repurposes it, the way she
takes something and
makes it into something cool.
RUBY: Adios amigos!
I felt really good about it.
They picked interesting,
cool stuff. So I'm happy.
[♪]
MIKE: Danielle hooked
us up with an appraiser for
that dental chair that
we picked up at Ruby's.
We're really excited to
see what this thing's worth.
FRANK: I think it would
make a great display item.
MIKE: If you went to
your dentist walked in there
and saw that,
would you be scared.
FRANK: I'd just say
hey, you think it hurts now,
you want me to use that?
Quiet people down
right away, wouldn't it?
There's a guy right
here, I think this is it.
MIKE: This is it?
Alright, yeah, this is it.
This guy's named Scott.
He's suppose dot be
versed in this old dental piece,
it's gonna be cool to see
what he says it's worth.
Alright, Scott!
SCOTT: What's happenin'?
Boy, that looks lightweight.
MIKE: This thing's
just basically like a
big old paperweight.
I'm Mike.
SCOTT: I'm Scott Nussbaum.
MIKE: Nice to meet you.
Did you talk to Danielle?
SCOTT: I talked to
Danielle yesterday.
MIKE: Alright. We've
had the chairs before,
but never grouped together.
SCOTT: Right. Well,
this is made by Ritter.
The company that made
that chair and the operating
unit are still in business
today, so basically, if
you go into any dental
office in the world,
you're most likely gonna
see the name Ritter,
either on the chair
or on the machinery.
The unit itself is
probably 1917 to 1920s.
This was the first one made
with a disc on the bottom.
It had a round base, this
chair cannot turn over,
and it's made of iron, this
thing is extremely heavy.
MIKE: We know. [laughs]
[♪]
SCOTT: 1917, it came
with electricity, hydraulics,
gas and water.
This made a dentist into a
real doctor, 'cause he had
all the equipment he needed.
MIKE: I guess a
big question for us is,
you know, what's it worth?
SCOTT: That is a good question.
MIKE: You know, we got it
pretty reasonable, and the
thing with us is, we
don't just a lot to antique
dealers, we sell to
people like, you know,
art directors, people
that might use it for
something, a decorator.
SCOTT: Oh, I see. It's not
worth as much as you think.
MIKE: When he said the
dentist chair wasn't worth
as much as we might
think, all of a sudden,
I remembered why I didn't
like to go to the dentist.
SCOTT: I would say,
in this condition, and this
is pretty rough, this
chair is very rough, okay?
MIKE: Yeah, that's taped.
FRANK: It seems like this
would be a great decorator piece.
SCOTT: Oh, it would,
it'd be really neat, I mean,
it's almost all complete.
I'd say there's a very
slim market, but there is
some market for it.
So, together, I would say,
a fair market value so to
speak would only be a
thousand dollars in the
condition that they're in.
MIKE: Okay.
SCOTT: Um, of course,
if they were completely
restored, you'd have
something different.
FRANK: I mean, we paid
300 dollars for both pieces,
and he gave us a
thousand, we're doin' great.
Any time you can double
or even triple your money,
that's a good day.
MIKE: That's awesome.
SCOTT: Well thanks, thanks.
SCOTT: A lot of tattoo
artists today like those chairs,
because they're easy
to work, they're hydraulic,
they go up and down
and they can tilt them back.
MIKE: We're gonna take it
back, have Danielle do the
spit shine and put it on the
floor and hopefully it sells.
[♪]
FRANK: Ohoho, alright dude!
MIKE: See, we did alright.
FRANK: That is good.
We did alright, you know what,
we did better than I thought.
FRANK: Not only did we
make a few bucks, but we got
a education that we're gonna
put into the picker rolodex.
I mean, who knows when
we're ever gonna come
across some more
dental related items.
[♪]
FRANK: Hey, you know what,
the other day when we were
at that other
place, I got bit up.
I got bit up, did
you get bit up?
MIKE: No.
FRANK: Them bugs love me.
MIKE: You're lucky you
didn't get bit by that emu, dude.
MIKE: I think I had a
dream last night it ripped
your eyeballs out.
I was, like, goin' down
this dark hallway, and
there was, like, this emu
head and then all of a
sudden you were there,
and you had, like, no eyes,
you had no soul.
FRANK: You know, I think that
that poor bird is misunderstood.
MIKE: Like you are?
FRANK: Yeah.