Pawn Stars (2009–…): Season 18, Episode 8 - The Need for Speed - full transcript
- WHY ARE YOU
KICKING OLD PEOPLE?
- 'CAUSE I KNOW KUNG FU.
- ON TONIGHT'S EPISODE,
A "HARRY POTTER" BOOK
SIGNED BY J.K.
ROWLING CASTS A SPELL.
- I CAN EVEN TELL, JUST
LOOKING AT IT FROM HERE,
YOU KNOW, THIS IS ACTUAL
GOLD, WHICH IS WHAT YOU WANT
FOR A BOOK LIKE THIS.
- SAMMY HAGAR
SPEEDS INTO THE SHOP.
- THAT IS A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR GOT.
- WHAT KIND OF COP GIVES
SAMMY HAGAR A TICKET?
- I MEAN, AFTER THAT SONG,
YOU'D THINK YOU HAVE A LICENSE
FOR IT, RIGHT?
- RIGHT, EXACTLY.
- AND CHUM ENTERS
THE WORLD OF GAMING.
- SO YOU MADE A VIDEO GAME.
- YEAH, THIS IS THE
"ADVENTURES OF CHUMLEE:
THE QUEST FOR PINKY."
- IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE YOU?
- OBVIOUSLY. DOESN'T
IT LOOK LIKE ME?
- AND YOU'RE BEATING UP
CUSTOMERS IN THE PAWN SHOP?
♪ ♪
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
- I HAVE AN ITEM THAT YOU... I
THINK YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN.
- WHAT IS THIS?
- THAT IS A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR
GOT GOING 80 IN A 55.
OKAY.
I'M ASSUMING HE GOT A
LOT OF TICKETS, THOUGH,
BECAUSE HE COULDN'T DRIVE 55.
- I HAVE A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR GOT
DRIVING 80 IN A 55 THAT
I'M LOOKING TO SELL TODAY.
I GOT THE SPEEDING TICKET
FROM A FAMILY MEMBER
WHEN SAM'S MOM DIED AND
THEY FOUND IT IN HER ESTATE.
I WANNA SELL THE
TICKET TODAY FOR $5,000.
- THIS IS PRETTY AMAZING.
IT'S, UH, SAMMY HAGAR
WITH A SPEEDING TICKET.
YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS
SO SIGNIFICANT, RIGHT?
- I'M ASSUMING THE
SONG "I CAN'T DRIVE 55"?
- THAT IS CORRECT. YOU
WERE ONE YEARS OLD WHEN,
LIKE, THE VIDEO CAME OUT.
BUT THIS IS, LIKE, THE VERY
BEGINNING OF MUSIC
VIDEOS AND EVERYTHING.
AND THIS WAS REALLY ICONIC
ONE. THIS IS... IT'S SO '80S.
IT WAS SO COOL WHEN
I WAS 19 YEARS OLD.
GUY HAD A HUGE CAREER... I MEAN,
HE'S GOING ON, WHAT, 50 YEARS
OF BEING A ROCK STAR, RIGHT?
- HE WAS THE LEAD SINGER
FOR THE BAND MONTROSE.
- CORRECT.
- YOU KNOW, UH, IN THE '80S,
HE HAD BECOME A LEAD SINGER
FOR VAN HALEN, AND THIS
WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL
COOL IN 1984.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY FADED.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S SIGNED
BY SAMMY HAGAR, THOUGH.
- LET ME SEE IT.
♪ ♪
NOVEMBER 24TH,
1990. SAM ROY HAGAR.
'84. - FERRARI.
TWO-DOOR. BLACK.
I MEAN, IT... IT'S AMAZING. I
MEAN, A SPEEDING TICKET BY
ANYBODY ELSE WOULD
SORT OF SUCK, BUT THIS IS, UH,
SAMMY HAGAR.
- I'M JUST SAYING,
WHAT KIND OF COP GIVES
SAMMY HAGAR A TICKET?
- I MEAN, AFTER THAT SONG,
YOU'D THINK YOU HAVE
A LICENSE FOR IT, RIGHT?
RIGHT, EXACTLY.
OKAY, NOW...
WHO LAMINATED IT?
- I'M SURE THAT EITHER
HE DID OR HIS MOM DID.
- THIS IS THE WORST
THING YOU CAN DO.
YOU SHOULDN'T
LAMINATE ANY AUTOGRAPH.
IT'S VERY HARD TO
AUTHENTICATE IT.
THAT'S ONE PROBLEM.
AND THE OTHER THING IS,
IT'S SORT OF A CARBON COPY.
IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A SIGNATURE,
'CAUSE IT'S NOT
REALLY IN INK OR PENCIL.
♪ ♪
UM, HOW MUCH DO YOU
WANT FOR THIS THING?
- $5,000.
- OKAY.
THERE'S A FEW THINGS I HAVE
TO HAVE CHECKED OUT FIRST.
DO YOU MIND IF I HAVE SOMEONE
LOOK AT IT, LIKE...
- YEAH, I'M CONFIDENT
IT'S REAL. IT'S FINE,
YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
- SO LET... LET ME GO GIVE
SOMEBODY A CALL, AND, UM,
WE'LL GO FROM THERE, OKAY?
- SURE.
- ALL RIGHT, I'LL
GIVE STEVE A CALL.
- I'M COMPLETELY OKAY
WITH AN EXPERT COMING IN.
I'M ABSOLUTELY
CERTAIN THAT IT'S REAL.
♪ ♪
- HEY, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- HEY.
A 1957 ANATOMICAL POSTER.
♪ ♪
- ALL RIGHT.
I DO REMEMBER, LIKE, IN
SCIENCE CLASS, IN, LIKE, UH,
MIDDLE SCHOOL, THEY'D PULL
DOWN THESE POSTERS LIKE THIS.
YEAH, I'VE HAD SO MANY
SURGERIES IN MY LIFETIME,
I'M MISSING, LIKE,
HALF THESE THINGS.
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY 1957
PULL-DOWN ANATOMICAL CHART.
THIS CHART IS ALMOST LIFE-SIZE
AND IT DISPLAYS THE
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM.
I BOUGHT A COLLECTION OF
THEM OUT OF A JUNIOR COLLEGE.
I BOUGHT THE WHOLE
ANATOMICAL SYSTEM... 25 CHARTS.
AND I'VE SOLD MOST OF
THEM, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
REMAINING FEW, AND I'D LIKE
TO SELL THE CHART FOR $300.
♪ ♪
- THIS IS DEFINITELY COOL.
THIS IS THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM,
WHICH IS THAT WEIRD THING THAT
MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE VEINS
AND ARTERIES, YOU ALSO HAVE LITTLE
TUBES THAT CARRY
FLUID EVERYWHERE.
SO WHEN YOU GO TO THE DOCTOR
AND THEY SAY YOUR LYMPH NODES
ARE SWELLING UP... THESE
ARE ALL WHERE YOUR
LYMPH NODES ARE; YOU
GOT 'EM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO DENOYER-GEPPERT
SCIENCE COMPANY.
IN THE 19-TEENS,
THEY MADE ALL THESE
DIFFERENT POSTERS... EVERYTHING
FROM YOUR SKELETON TO YOUR
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, YOUR
HEART... EVENTUALLY MOVED ON
TO THOSE 3D MODELS THAT
ARE IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE,
AND, UH, IN YOUR SCIENCE
CLASS AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THE NEAT THING ABOUT THESE
THINGS, THOUGH, RIGHT HERE IS
THESE ARE HAND-DRAWN.
A GUY HAD TO DRAW THIS.
AND HE HAD TO DRAW
IT SEVERAL TIMES.
THERE WOULD BE ONE
PRINTING JUST WITH THE BLUE,
ONE WITH THE RED,
ONE WITH THIS COLOR.
SO THIS HAD TO GO THROUGH
A PRINTING PRESS, LIKE,
PROBABLY SIX OR SEVEN TIMES.
BUT THIS WAS IN EVERY CLASSROOM
FOR WELL OVER A HUNDRED
YEARS. UH, THEY STILL ACTUALLY
HAVE THEM TODAY.
SO ARE YOU LOOKING TO SELL IT?
- UM, YEAH.
- HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR THIS?
- I WOULD LIKE 300.
IT'S PRETTY CLEAN.
- I'LL GIVE YOU THAT,
IT'S IN GREAT SHAPE.
- VERY GOOD CONDITION.
THERE'S NO TEARS, NO
STAINS OR ANYTHING.
- I'LL GIVE YOU 100.
- OOH.
UH, I THINK THE BEST
I'D DO WOULD BE 250.
- I CAN'T DO 250. I'D
PROBABLY GO 125 ON IT.
- HMM, I THINK 225 IS
THE LOWEST I'D GO.
- 130?
- HMM.
I THINK I'LL PROBABLY
HANG ON TO IT AT THAT PRICE.
- ALL RIGHT, IF YOU CHANGE
YOUR MIND, COME AND SEE ME.
- OKAY, THANK YOU.
- ALL RIGHT?
IT'S SUPER COOL, THOUGH.
BRINGS YOU BACK, DOESN'T IT?
- YUP.
NO DEAL WAS MADE TODAY.
I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED,
BUT I THINK I'LL PUT IT UP
ONLINE AND SEE IF I CAN GET
CLOSER TO 300 FOR IT.
♪ ♪
- HOW YOU DOING, BROTHER?
- PRETTY GOOD,
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
- I HAVE A, UH,
DUNES SHOE PHONE.
- "SHOE'VE" GOT
TO BE KIDDING ME.
BAD JOKE, I KNOW.
I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY
DUNES SHOE PHONE.
I'VE NEVER REALLY SEEN
A DUNES SHOE PHONE BEFORE,
SO IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS
QUITE AN ANTIQUE, SINCE THE
DUNES IS NO LONGER AROUND.
I'M HOPING TO GET
200 OUT OF THE PHONE.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL. SO
IT WAS MADE BY THE DUNES.
THE DUNES WAS AN
ICONIC CASINO BUILT IN 1955.
THE DOORS OPENED UP, AND IT
WAS ON LAS VEGAS BOULEVARD
AND FLAMINGO. AT THE
TIME, THAT WAS A CRAZY
LOCATION FOR A CASINO, SINCE
THEY'RE SO FAR OFF THE STRIP.
SO THEY DID A LOT OF THINGS
TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE IN.
THE DUNES IS THE FIRST CASINOS
TO HAVE A BIG NEON SIGN
TO DRAW PEOPLE IN TO SAY,
"HEY, THIS IS WHERE
MY CASINO IS."
AND ACTUALLY, WHEN YOU
WOULD DRIVE IN FROM CALIFORNIA,
THE DUNES WOULD BE THE FIRST
CASINO THAT YOU COULD SEE.
IT WAS NICKNAMED "THE
MIRACLE IN THE DESERT."
THEY HAD TO DO BIG PROMOTIONS
TO GET PEOPLE'S BUSINESS,
AND THEY WOULD GIVE AWAY PRIZES.
THIS COULD'VE BEEN A
PROMOTIONAL ITEM THAT THEY
GAVE OUT, IT COULD'VE
BEEN IN A HOTEL ROOM.
UH, THERE'S REALLY
NO TELLING, EXACTLY.
♪ ♪
LOOKS LIKE A SHOE
FROM FIRST GLANCE.
BASICALLY, THIS WOULD WORK
EXACTLY LIKE A REGULAR PHONE.
AS LONG AS IT WAS
PLUGGED INTO A PHONE JACK,
YOU COULD HEAR
THROUGH THE SPEAKER
AND YOU COULD TALK
THROUGH THE MICROPHONE.
THE SHOE PHONE WAS MADE
POPULAR BY THE TV SHOW "GET SMART,"
WHICH ALSO HAD A MOVIE LATER ON.
AND IT WAS JUST A STAPLE
OF EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
WHERE DID YOU GET IT?
- I WAS CLEANING OUT MY
GRANDPARENTS' GARAGE.
ENDED UP COMING ACROSS IT.
SO REALIZED THE DUNES
IS NO LONGER WITH US, SO...
MAYBE IT WAS WORTH SOMETHING.
- THERE'S A PRETTY BIG
COLLECTIBLE MARKET
FOR ITEMS FROM CASINOS
THAT DON'T EXIST ANYMORE. I
MEAN, PEOPLE COLLECT STUFF
EVEN FROM CASINOS
THAT ARE STILL AROUND.
WHAT ARE YOU
LOOKING TO DO WITH IT?
- I WAS HOPING TO, UH,
GET A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY.
- OKAY, HOW MUCH
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
- I WAS THINKING MAYBE 200.
- THAT'S A LITTLE PRICEY.
I'D PROBABLY BE LOOKING
TO SELL IT A LOT CHEAPER.
- SO HOW ABOUT 100?
- MOST I CAN DO ON THIS IS 45,
BECAUSE I GOTTA LEAVE SOME
ROOM TO MAKE SOME MONEY FOR ME.
- I UNDERSTAND THAT.
I GUESS IT WORKS.
I DID GET IT OUT OF MY
GRANDPARENTS' GARAGE, SO...
GET A LITTLE
SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
- ALL RIGHT, IT'S A DEAL.
- ALL RIGHT.
- LET'S GO WRITE IT UP.
- YEAH, I THINK I'M
GONNA TAKE MY $45
AND GET A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIZZA.
♪ ♪
SO WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
OR WHAT IS THE BOX?
- IT'S AN OLD INDIAN
DOWRY CHEST.
OKAY, AND WHERE'D YOU GET IT?
ON THE CURB, WITH
A "FREE" SIGN ON IT.
OKAY.
- I'M AT THE PAWN SHOP TODAY
TO SELL MY INDIAN DOWRY CHEST.
I THINK THIS INDIAN DOWRY
CHEST IS 225 YEARS OLD.
I WOULD LIKE TO SELL THIS
DOWRY CHEST TODAY BECAUSE, UH,
IT'S JUST TAKING
UP TOO MUCH SPACE.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL, MAN.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
ARRANGED MARRIAGES HAVE
BEEN A PART OF INDIAN CULTURE.
YOU KNOW, A FAMILY WOULD
GIVE MONEY TO THE FAMILY
TAKING THE DAUGHTER.
IT WAS TRADITION.
IT WENT ON FOREVER, BUT
I'M ASSUMING IT'S SOMETHING
MORE OF A HOPE CHEST
THAN IT IS A DOWRY CHEST,
BECAUSE A DOWRY IS GENERALLY
MORE MONETARY, OKAY?
- OKAY.
- A HOPE CHEST IS A CHEST WHERE
A YOUNG GIRL STARTS
COLLECTING ALL THESE THINGS
FOR WHEN SHE GETS MARRIED.
SO SHE'LL HAVE, LIKE, LINENS,
AND SHE'LL HAVE, LIKE,
SILVERWARE, AND SHE'LL DISHES.
SHE BRINGS THOSE
THINGS WITH HER,
AND THAT'S WHAT A HOPE CHEST IS.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY
REAL WAY TO DETERMINE THAT IT'S
A HOPE CHEST OR A DOWRY
CHEST. IT'S JUST A CHEST.
CAN I LOOK INSIDE?
- YEAH.
IT'S WELL OVER 100 YEARS
OLD... JUST LOOK AT THE WAY
THIS IS ALL OXIDIZED,
AND THE STAINING IS
GOING INTO THE WOOD.
THEY SAID IT'S...
PROBABLY IS INDIA, THAT'S
WHERE, LIKE, THE STYLE
ON THE FRONT OF
IT. IT'S BARE COPPER,
AND OVER THE YEARS
IT TURNS GREEN.
IT'S GOT A PRETTY SIMPLE
LOCKING MECHANISM
ON IT THAT DOESN'T
SEEM TO WORK ANYMORE.
♪ ♪
WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR IT?
- 7,000.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, I'M NOT BEING MEAN
OR ANYTHING... JUST SEEMS LIKE
AN INSANE NUMBER TO ME.
I KNOW I CAN PICK THIS STUFF UP
REALLY, REALLY INEXPENSIVELY.
THIS IS JUST AN OLD CHEST,
AND I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'RE
GONNA GET THAT KIND OF MONEY
OUT OF IT.
- WELL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
300 BUCKS.
GIVE ME 500.
- NO, I'LL GIVE YOU 300 BUCKS.
I'M BEING A REALLY
NICE GUY AT 300 BUCKS.
- ALL RIGHT, 300 BUCKS.
ALL RIGHT, WE GOT A DEAL.
I'LL MEET YOU RIGHT
OVER THERE, AND, UM,
WE'LL DO SOME PAPERWORK.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GREAT.
LITTLE APARTMENT FOR CHUM?
♪ ♪
- SO A CUSTOMER CAME IN
THE SHOP WITH THIS SIGNED
SPEEDING TICKET MADE
OUT TO SAMMY HAGAR,
WHICH IS BASICALLY ONE OF
THE COOLEST THINGS EVER.
IF THIS THING IS REAL,
I WOULD LOVE TO OWN
IT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY,
THERE'S JUST A COUPLE
RED FLAGS FOR ME.
SO BEFORE I DRIVE
THIS DEAL HOME,
I GOT STEVE GRAD COMING BY
TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS.
SO WE HAVE A SPEEDING TICKET
ISSUED TO SAM ROY HAGAR.
- KIND OF APPROPRIATE, ISN'T IT?
- YEAH, I MEAN, AS FAR
AS, LIKE, SPEEDING TICKETS,
IT'S, LIKE, PROBABLY THE HOLY
GRAIL OF SPEEDING TICKETS.
- THE GREAT THING ABOUT HAGAR
IS HE'S BEEN AROUND FOREVER.
YOU KNOW, HE WAS
IN VAN HALEN FOREVER,
AND REALLY ONE OF THE NICER
GUYS YOU COULD EVER MEET.
KIND OF A, YOU KNOW,
BIG, FLOWING AUTOGRAPH,
AND, UH, KIND OF
LIKE HIS PERSONALITY.
- SO THAT'S THE
TICKET RIGHT THERE.
I'VE ALREADY CHASTISED
HIM OVER THIS THING BEING...
BEING LAMINATED.
RIGHT.
- EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T DO IT.
- YEAH, I SEE THAT
RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
WHEN YOU LAMINATE SOMETHING,
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO IT, A,
BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST NOT SURE.
YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT
SOMETHING THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS
ANY VALUE, IT'S-
SOMETHING THAT'S
TATTERED OR TORN, WELL,
I'LL JUST LAMINATE
IT TO PROTECT IT.
THEY THINK THAT'S THE
BETTER THING TO DO.
BUT SOMETIMES, IN
MY BUSINESS, TOO,
IT MEANS SOMEONE'S
TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING.
ONCE YOU LAMINATE SOMETHING,
IT'S DIFFICULT AT TIMES
TO TELL IF IT'S ACTUALLY
SIGNED OR NOT SIGNED, YOU
KNOW, OR IF IT'S A GENUINE ARTICLE.
- AND THE OTHER WEIRD THING
IS, IT'S, LIKE, THE SECOND OR THIRD
PAGE OF A MULTI-PAGE FORM.
- RIGHT.
- CAN YOU DETERMINE IF
HE SIGNED THE TOP COPY,
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE CARBONS?
- WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
I'LL PUT IT ON THE PRO SCOPE
AND JUST MAGNIFY THIS THING.
YOU KNOW, HIS AUTOGRAPH...
IT'S A PRETTY VERY
SIMPLE AUTOGRAPH.
HE'S HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL
"SAMMY HAGAR"...
KIND OF ALL FLOWS TOGETHER.
I'VE GOT TWO EXAMPLES.
YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THIS RIGHT
IN HERE, IT'S VERY FLOURISHY,
YOU KNOW, BIG "S,"
DOMINATED BY THE "S"
AND THE "H," SO.
UM, I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT, RICK,
THAT THAT'S NOT
PRINTED, BUT, YOU KNOW.
I MEAN, THAT'S... THE END OF
THE DAY, THAT'S JUST A COPY
OF HIS AUTOGRAPH, SO...
- IT'S A CARBON COPY, BUT...
- YEAH, THE ORIGINAL,
HE PROBABLY DID SIGN,
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, AND
EVERYTHING I CAN SEE HERE
I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT THIS
IS AN ORIGINAL, BUT AGAIN, RICK,
YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET
THE LAMINATION ON THERE,
IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO TELL.
♪ ♪
- SO WHAT DO YOU
THINK IT'S WORTH?
WELL, IT'S GOT SIGNIFICANCE
'CAUSE OF THE... THE
SPEEDING, "I CAN'T DRIVE 55."
THE PROBLEM IS, RICK, IT'S
NOT REALLY AN AUTOGRAPH.
IT'S A CARBON COPY.
SO AUTOGRAPH-WISE, IT
REALLY DOESN'T HAVE VALUE.
♪ ♪
IT'S MORE OF A PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA.
- SO I SHOULD CALL,
LIKE, WARWICK STONE
AND GET HIM TO FIGURE IT OUT?
- I WOULD HAVE HIM
FIGURE IT OUT.
STILL A COOL PIECE.
- SORRY I COULDN'T
HELP YOU MORE.
GOOD SEEING YOU, COREY.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GOOD SEEING YOU.
- HANG OUT JUST FOR
A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
BUT LET ME CALL
MY BUDDY WARWICK.
HE'LL KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
- OKAY.
- GIVE HIM A CALL RIGHT NOW.
- I'M ABSOLUTELY THRILLED THAT
THEY'RE BRINGING IN ANOTHER
EXPERT TO LOOK AT IT,
BECAUSE HE WILL DETERMINE
THE ITEM AS A PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA
RATHER THAN A SIGNATURE.
♪ ♪
- WHY ARE YOU WEARING
HOUSE SLIPPERS AGAIN?
- I'M NOT WEARING
HOUSE SLIPPERS.
THESE ARE A MIX BETWEEN
MOCCASINS AND HOUSE SLIPPERS.
BUSINESS ON THE
BOTTOM, PARTY ON THE TOP.
HEY, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
- THIS IS CALLED AN M82 UNIT
THAT IS A NINTENDO
NES DEMO KIOSK.
SO IT WAS PLACED
IN RETAIL STORES,
AND YOU COULD DEMO
12 DIFFERENT GAMES ON IT.
- SO, UM, IN SIMPLER TERMS,
YOU PLAY NINTENDO ON IT?
- YOU CAN PLAY NINTENDO ON IT.
- OKAY.
- I'M HERE TODAY TO
SELL MY M82 DEMO UNIT...
A NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT CENTER.
THE M82 WAS DISTRIBUTED
TO RETAILERS BACK IN THE '80S
SO THAT PEOPLE COULD COME
IN AND PLAY 12 DIFFERENT GAMES
AND TRY THEM BEFORE
THEY BOUGHT THEM.
I AM A LITTLE BIT OF
A VIDEO GAME NERD;
I'M A VIDEO GAME COLLECTOR.
TODAY I'M LOOKING TO GET ABOUT
4,500 FOR THE NINTENDO.
- IT IS REALLY INTERESTING.
I MEAN, NINTENDO...
IN 1983 IT CAME
OUT WITH A FAMICOM.
IT WAS BASICALLY AN ACRONYM
FOR THE "FAMILY COMPUTER."
IT WAS RELEASED IN JAPAN.
IN 1985, THEY CAME OUT WITH
THE NINTENDO
ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
THEY DID NOT WANT TO
CALL IT A VIDEO GAME.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- UM, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT,
HOME VIDEO GAMES WERE
BASICALLY DEAD IN THE UNITED STATES
BECAUSE EVERYONE GOT
BURNED OUT ON THE ATARI 2600.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- UM, SO NINTENDO DID SOMETHING
THAT REALLY WASN'T DONE
VERY OFTEN BACK THEN,
AND EVEN ISN'T... IS
NOT EVEN DONE TODAY.
THEY TOLD ALL THE
RETAILERS IN NEW YORK,
"IF YOU CAN'T SELL THEM,
WE'LL BUY THEM ALL BACK,"
WHICH WOULD'VE PROBABLY
BANKRUPTED THE COMPANY.
- THAT'S WHY YOU WOULD'VE
NEEDED SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
BECAUSE IF YOU WERE ABLE
TO PLAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS
FULL OF DIFFERENT GAMES, IT
MIGHT CONVINCE YOU TO BUY
A NINTENDO RIGHT THERE.
- THIS WAS ONLY
AT A RETAIL CENTER,
ONLY SENT TO
RETAILERS THEMSELVES.
SO TO GET ONE OF THESE IS
PRETTY... PRETTY DARN RARE.
THERE'S BASICALLY 12
NINTENDOS IN THIS THING.
- SO HOW DID YOU GET THIS?
- SOMEBODY WHO, UH,
WAS FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE
WHO WORKED AT A RETAIL CENTER,
UH, BOUGHT IT, AND
THEN RESOLD IT TO ME.
- SO IT WORKS JUST
LIKE A NINTENDO?
- JUST LIKE A STANDARD NES.
YOU CAN JUST PLAY 12 GAMES,
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
- SO YOU HAVE TO BLOW
THE CARTRIDGE OUT
BEFORE YOU PLAY IT?
- ABSOLUTELY.
- OKAY, UM,
HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- UH, I'M LOOKING
FOR 4,500 FOR IT.
- IT'S SUPER COOL,
I'LL GIVE YOU THAT.
ANYTHING EARLY NINTENDO AND
CERTAIN RARE NINTENDO THINGS
ARE GOING FOR INSANE MONEY.
I'M TALKING, LIKE, HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
- YEAH.
- BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS
WORTH MONEY, I JUST DON'T.
- YEAH.
- I ACTUALLY HAVE A GUY
THAT IS IN THE VIDEO
GAME BUSINESS,
LIKE, HE DEALS IN ALL
THIS VINTAGE STUFF.
- SURE.
- IF I CAN CALL HIM UP
AND HAVE HIM TAKE A LOOK AT
IT, UM, WE CAN GO FROM THERE.
- YEAH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
- ALL RIGHT.
I'M GONNA GO GIVE HIM A
CALL. HANG OUT, AND UM...
DON'T BREAK IT, CHUM.
- I'M GONNA GO FIND A TV.
WE'LL TEST THIS THING OUT.
- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
- GOOD, WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?
- UH, I'VE GOT A HOWARD HUGHES
GAMING LICENSE, THE LAST
ONE THAT WAS EVER PRODUCED,
BEFORE HE DIED.
- OKAY, WHERE'D YOU GET THIS?
- SO I GOT IT FROM THE
EXECUTIVE HOST AT THE TIME
WHO BECAME THE KEY
EMPLOYEE AND CASINO MANAGER,
MIKE BONFIGLIO.
- OKAY, WELL, TOO BAD IT'S NOT,
UH, HIS WILL.
- YEAH. RIGHT.
YEAH, WELL, HOWARD HUGHES,
HE WAS THIS CRAZY,
INSANE FIGURE IN VEGAS.
NOT ONLY WAS HE A MOVIE
PRODUCER AND A, YOU KNOW,
A BILLIONAIRE AND EVERYTHING,
HOW HE GOT THIS WHOLE THING
STARTED IN VEGAS WAS
IN, THE '60S HE RENTED OUT
THE TOP FLOOR OF THE
DESERT INN FOR A MONTH.
AT THE END OF THE MONTH,
HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE CALLED
DOWNSTAIRS AND
HE... "I WANNA RENT FOR
ANOTHER MONTH." AND THEY GO,
"SORRY, MR. HUGHES, WE
WOULD LOVE TO DO IT FOR YOU,
"BUT A REALLY GOOD CUSTOMER'S
ALREADY RENTED IT OUT
FOR THE NEXT MONTH."
AND THEN HE GOES,
"LET ME TALK TO THE OWNER."
SO HE CALLED UP THE OWNER
OF THE DESERT INN AND SAYS,
"HOW MUCH FOR THE HOTEL?"
- RIGHT.
- HE DIDN'T MOVE OUT, YEAH.
- WOW.
- OKAY, SO HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT
FOR THIS THING?
- SO I'M LOOKING FOR 20,000.
OKAY, IT'S A GAMING LICENSE;
IT'S NOT SIGNED BY HOWARD HUGHES
OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
- SURE.
- SO YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET
THAT KIND OF CRAZY MONEY.
- OKAY.
- AND AS A MATTER OF FACT,
YOU'RE NOT GONNA
GET ANYTHING FOR THIS
BECAUSE THIS IS
JUST A PHOTOCOPY.
♪ ♪
- REAL GAMING LICENSE...
SEE RIGHT HERE,
"ENDING QUARTER MARCH 31ST."
THOSE ARE COLORED STICKERS.
YOU GET ONE EVERY QUARTER
FOR YOUR GAMING LICENSE,
AND YOU PASTE IT TO
YOUR GAMING LICENSE.
- OKAY.
- OKAY?
YOU CAN SEE THE BLACK
MARKS FROM A PHOTOCOPY
ALL OVER THIS THING.
SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE HAD A COPY
OF IT HANGING IN THEIR OFFICE.
- THAT'S INTERESTING.
- BUT THIS IS NOT A
REAL GAMING LICENSE.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
NOTHING WORTH A DIME.
- I SEE THAT, YEAH. I
DON'T... I DON'T BLAME YOU.
- OKAY.
- MAYBE NEXT TIME WE'LL FIND
SOMETHING ELSE.
- MAYBE NEXT TIME.
- I APPRECIATE YOU, THANKS.
- HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- YUP.
♪ ♪
- LIKE, LITERALLY, HE
WAS A BILLIONAIRE,
AND DIDN'T HAVE A WILL.
♪ ♪
- EARLIER TODAY, A CUSTOMER
CAME IN WITH A SPEEDING TICKET
MADE OUT TO AND SIGNED BY
ROCK LEGEND SAMMY HAGAR.
STEVE SAID THAT THE SIGNATURE
IS REAL, BUT IT'S A CARBON COPY
OF THE TICKET, WHICH REALLY
COMPLICATES THE VALUE.
SO NOW IT'S UP TO MY MUSIC MAN
WARWICK STONE TO SEE IF
SAMMY'S TICKET DESERVES THE CASH.
♪ ♪
A TICKET GIVEN TO SAMMY
HAGAR FOR DOING 80 IN A 55
IN HIS 1984 BLACK FERRARI.
- THAT'S GOOD.
I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT.
- UM, IT'S SORT OF WEIRD,
BECAUSE IT'S NOT HIS AUTOGRAPH,
IT'S, LIKE, THE
CARBON COPY OF IT.
- YEAH, YOU DON'T GET THE
ORIGINAL, POLICEMAN KEEPS THAT.
- YEAH.
- SO YOU WANT ME TO GIVE YOU
AN OPINION ON WHAT IS THIS AS
AN OBJECT, NOT AS AN AUTOGRAPH?
- YES.
- WELL, LET'S TALK
ABOUT SAMMY HIMSELF.
NOW, I'M SURE YOU'VE ALREADY,
SAID THAT SAMMY HAS BEEN
IN THIS BAND AND
THAT BAND, BUT IF YOU...
IF YOU BROUGHT
SAMMY OUT AS A SINGLE,
YOU WOULD WANT THIS
SONG, "I CAN'T DRIVE 55."
IT'S, UH, INDICATIVE OF AN ERA.
♪ ♪
IT'S A GREAT PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA.
IT TELLS A STORY. AND
MY FAVORITE PIECES
OF MEMORABILIA ANCHOR TO A TIME.
AND THIS... THIS DOES.
YOU KNOW, THE 55 BAN CAME
IN, WHAT, IN THE REAGAN ERA.
AND THEN THE GAS CRISIS
CAME ALONG, AND FOR A DECADE
WE COULDN'T GET A LOT
OF GAS FOR OUR CARS,
AND THEY DOWNSIZED
THE CAR. AND BY THE '80S,
IT'S GETTING BETTER, AND WE
WANNA DRIVE MORE THAN 55.
IT'S A SYMBOL OF THE ERA.
- YEAH.
- YOU WANNA FRAME THIS UP
AND HANG IT ON THE WALL
IN YOUR FERRARI GARAGE.
BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF A KIND,
THERE'S REALLY NO
SET VALUE ON THIS.
IF I WAS BIDDING ON THIS
AT AN AUCTION, UH, I'D
GET COLD FEET AT 2,000.
- OKAY. SO YOU'RE SAYING, LIKE,
2,000, FRAMED UP?
- YEAH.
- WARWICK, I APPRECIATE
YOU COMING DOWN.
- MY PLEASURE.
- ALL RIGHT, HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- THAT WAS GOOD, AND GOOD LUCK.
- THANK YOU.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, WHAT'S
YOUR BEST PRICE ON IT?
- I CAN'T GO ANY
LOWER THAN 4,000.
- MY TOP DOLLAR WOULD
BE, LIKE, 1,500 BUCKS.
MAYBE SELL IT OR
KEEP IT FOR MYSELF.
I MEAN, UH, 1,500 BUCKS IS
MORE THAN A FAIR OFFER ON IT.
LIKE I SAID, IT'S... IT'S REALLY
COOL AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT,
BUT...
YEAH, I'M GONNA GO
WITH WHAT WARWICK SAID.
YOU KNOW, HE'S THE
EXPERT IN THIS, YOU KNOW.
- YEAH, I'M GONNA
HAVE TO KEEP IT, THEN.
- OKAY. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND,
COME AND SEE ME.
- I WILL.
- TAKE CARE.
- ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
NO DEAL FOR ME
TODAY, UNFORTUNATELY.
I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BACK HOME
AND HANG IT BACK ON THE WALL
WHERE IT WAS.
- SO I HAVE A PERSON IN THE
STORE RIGHT NOW WITH A REALLY
EARLY NINTENDO NES
DEMONSTRATION UNIT.
AND ANYTHING EARLY NINTENDO
IS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY
AND IS VERY COLLECTIBLE.
BUT I'M GONNA NEED A LOT MORE
INFO ON THIS, SO I CALLED UP
MY VIDEO GAME GURU, DENIZ.
I GOT HIM COMING DOWN...
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
SO IT'S A M82 NES.
- YOU DON'T SEE THESE EVERY DAY.
I LOVE THIS KIND OF STUFF.
AS A PRESERVATIONIST
OR SOMEONE WHO LOVES
THE HISTORY OF THIS...
THIS... THIS IS REALLY
SOMETHING COOL.
BACK IN THE DAY, STORES THAT
WERE SELLING NINTENDO GAMES
WOULD HAVE TO LOOK
THROUGH THESE THINGS CALLED
MERCHANDISE MANUALS.
AND THEY WOULD PICK, UM,
DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT THEY
WOULD WANNA PUT IN THEIR STORES
TO HELP SELL THEIR
GAMES, ESSENTIALLY.
SOMETHING LIKE THIS COST A
STORE OWNER A LOT OF MONEY.
AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS ONE
IS THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU
JUST LOOK AT. THIS FUNCTIONS.
- OKAY, COOL. LET'S TEST IT OUT.
- IS IT ALL PLUGGED IN, CHUM?
- YEAH, IT'S PLUGGED IN.
YOU PROBABLY DON'T
KNOW HOW TO DO IT,
BUT YOU HAVE TO
TURN THE POWER ON.
♪ ♪
- WHAT GAME IS THIS?
- SO THIS IS ACTUALLY
REALLY COOL, TOO.
THIS IS KINDA
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
THIS IS CALLED THE HOMEBREW.
PEOPLE WHO LOVED NES GAMES
AND ALSO KNEW HOW TO PROGRAM
STUFF, THEY STARTED PROGRAMMING
THEIR OWN NES GAMES. IT'S
SOMETHING SOMEONE CRAFTED
IN THEIR OWN GARAGE
OR THEIR BASEMENT.
THEY WEREN'T
LICENSED BY NINTENDO
OR ANY OFFICIAL COMPANY.
IT'S JUST A PASSION PROJECT.
- SOMEONE JUST MADE THIS?
- YEAH, THIS GUY, KEVIN HANLEY,
PROGRAMMED THIS GAME,
AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER
FANTASTIC GAMES.
I THINK THIS ONE'S
CALLED "NESCAPE."
AND YOU GOTTA KINDA GO
THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ROOMS,
YOU GOTTA JUST KINDA
FIGURE YOUR WAY OUT.
THIS IS COOL.
- THERE IS A VERY NICHE KIND
OF ASPECT TO THE VIDEO GAME
COLLECTING, WHERE IT'S
NOT JUST ABOUT THE GAMES.
IT'S ABOUT ALL THE PERIPHERALS;
IT'S ABOUT THE DISPLAY UNITS.
BASICALLY, IF IT WASN'T
MEANT TO BE COLLECTED,
IT'S COLLECTIBLE.
- OKAY, UM...
SO WHAT'S IT WORTH? I
MEAN, IS IT IN GOOD SHAPE?
IS IT, YOU KNOW...
- YEAH, SURPRISINGLY, IT IS.
ON THE OPEN MARKET, YOU
KNOW, THESE USED TO SELL FOR
$1,500, $2,000.
SO THEY'VE BEEN
VALUABLE FOR A LONG TIME.
BUT GIVEN THAT ONE HASN'T
COME UP IN A WHILE, AND
THAT THEY'RE... THEY'RE HARDER
AND HARDER TO FIND,
I'D SAY THIS IS PROBABLY
CLOSER TO 3,000 IF IT CAME
UP ON THE OPEN MARKET TODAY.
- ALL RIGHT. THANKS
MAN, I APPRECIATE IT.
- ALWAYS HAPPY
TO HELP. TAKE CARE.
- ALL RIGHT, SEE YOU LATER.
- THANKS.
- HE SAYS I CAN PROBABLY
GET 3 GRAND OUT OF IT.
I'LL GIVE YOU 2.
♪ ♪
- I CAN GO TO 3,500.
- IT WOULD MAKE ZERO ECONOMIC
SENSE FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS
A CURRENT RETAIL VALUE
OF $3,000 TO PAY 3,500.
I UNDERSTAND.
I THINK THE MARKET'S
HIGHER THAN THAT.
- OKAY.
ANYWAY, THANKS FOR BRINGING
IT IN, MAN, IT'S REALLY COOL.
- THANK YOU.
- AND, UH...
HELP HIM OUT HERE, CHUM.
HERE YOU GO, SORRY
MY BOSS IS A CHEAP-ASS.
- NO WORRIES.
- I NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
THESE HOMEBREW GAMES.
- THEY'RE COOL.
THEY'RE FUN. I DIDN'T
MAKE A SALE TODAY,
BUT I STILL HAVE A COUPLE
LIVES LEFT, AND I THINK I'M GONNA
HIT THE RESET BUTTON AND
MAKE A SALE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
- THAT WAS PRETTY COOL. I
DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU COULD
GET A HOMEBREW GAME MADE.
- YEAH, THESE ARE, LIKE,
THE NEXT BIG THING.
HOMEBREWED NINTENDO GAMES.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
OF HOMEBREWED GAMES,
LIKE, FOR NINTENDO AND STUFF?
- LIKE, WITH BEER, OR...
- NO, LIKE, YOU KNOW HOW
THERE'S NINTENDO GAMES
LICENSED BY NINTENDO?
WELL, THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE
THAT MAKE GAMES IN A
NINTENDO CARTRIDGE,
BUT THEY JUST MAKE IT AT HOME.
- SO PEOPLE CAN MAKE
A NINTENDO GAME NOW
AND PLAY IT IN THE
OLD-SCHOOL NES'S.
♪ ♪
- LIKE, IF I MADE A GAME,
I'D BE THE CHARACTER,
AND YOU CAN SELL IT
HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP.
- YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT YOURSELF?
- SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
- A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
THAT DOES NOTHING
WOULD NOT BE A GOOD CHARACTER.
- I ACTUALLY KNOW KUNG FU.
- OKAY, YOU DON'T KNOW KUNG FU.
- ARE YOU GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT NAPPING?
- NO, MAYBE ABOUT, YOU
KNOW, GETTING RID OF MY BOSS,
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
TAKING OVER HIS EMPIRE.
- NO ONE WOULD EVER BUY THAT.
- I'D BE, LIKE, A KUNG FU
MASTER AND I'D COME IN,
AND I'D TAKE OVER THE PAWN SHOP.
FIRST LEVEL, I'D WHUP COREY.
SECOND LEVEL, I'D RUN RIGHT
THROUGH YOU, AND THEN YOU WOULD
NO LONGER BE A
PART OF MY DYNASTY.
- THAT SOUNDS LIKE
YOU HAVE SOME ISSUES.
- COREY, YOU LISTENING TO THIS?
- NOPE, TUNED OUT A MINUTE AGO.
- NO ONE'S GONNA WANT
A CHUMLEE VIDEO GAME.
- WHY NOT? I'M BADASS.
- THERE'S POINTLESS
CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE HEARD,
BUT THIS IS PROBABLY
THE MOST POINTLESS.
- YOU KNOW WHAT, THE MORE I
THINK ABOUT A HOMEBREWED GAME,
THE BETTER IDEA I THINK IT IS.
I'M GONNA GO DRAW
UP A STORY PLAN.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- HI, I'M FINE.
I GOT THIS RELATIVELY
RARE "HARRY POTTER" BOOK,
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
- OKAY.
"HARRY POTTER AND THE
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
J.K. ROWLING... SHE WROTE
MOST OF IT IN A COFFEE SHOP,
AND SHE BECAME
A MULTI-BILLIONAIRE
ABOUT A STORY WITH A KID
THAT CARRIES AROUND A STICK.
♪ ♪
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP
TODAY TO SELL A FIRST EDITION
OF "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
IT'S A FIRST PRINTING
AND IS SIGNED BY
J.K. ROWLING, THE AUTHOR.
I'M HOPING TO SELL THE
BOOK TODAY FOR $10,000.
♪ ♪
- "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
IT'S A STORY ABOUT A
YOUNG BOY, HE'S, UH...
WHEN HE TURNS 11 YEARS OLD,
HE FINDS OUT THAT HE'S ACTUALLY
A WIZARD AND NEEDS TO
GO TO A WIZARD SCHOOL.
AFTER THE BOOK WAS RELEASED
IN 1997, KIDS FELL IN LOVE WITH IT
AND IT JUST WENT VIRAL
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THEY'VE DONE, LIKE, I
THINK EIGHT MOVIES,
PLUS THERE WAS, LIKE,
SOME SPIN-OFF MOVIES,
AND IT'S AMAZING HOW
WELL THIS HAS DONE.
♪ ♪
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS?
- I BOUGHT IT FROM A
DEALER IN ENGLAND.
- OKAY, UM, LOOKS
LIKE IT'S SIGNED HERE.
- YUP.
- AND YOU GOT A CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICITY.
"HARRY POTTER AND THE
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
SIGNED BY J.K. ROWLING. SO...
LOOKS IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE.
OKAY. HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- WELL, I THOUGHT IT
MIGHT BE WORTH 10,000.
- OKAY.
UH, MAYBE IT IS, MAYBE
IT'S NOT, I HAVE NO IDEA.
- YEAH.
- UM, BUT I HAVE A VERY GOOD
FRIEND THAT WILL KNOW
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
SHE WILL PROBABLY BE REALLY
GOOD WITH THE SIGNATURE,
SHE'LL KNOW IF
IT'S FIRST EDITION.
- YEAH.
- WHICH PRINTING,
AND EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
- YEAH.
- SO JUST HANG TO FOR A
FEW MINUTES, I WILL GET HER
DOWN HERE, AND HAVE
HER TAKE A LOOK AT IT, OKAY?
- GREAT.
- I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
- SO WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- SO WHAT THIS IS
IS A MEDALLION, UH, ON A STRAP
THAT I BELIEVE WOULD'VE BEEN
WRAPPED AROUND THE 1,000,000TH
CASE OF JOHNNIE WALKER
SOLD TO THE U.S.
- OKAY.
1934 TO 1971.
1,000,000TH CASE SHIPPED.
PRETTY COOL. I'D
MUCH RATHER HAVE
THE JOHNNIE WALKER.
- YEAH, ME TOO, RIGHT NOW.
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP
TODAY TO SELL MY 1,000,000TH
CASE JOHNNIE WALKER
WHISKEY STRAP.
I BOUGHT IT IN AN ESTATE SALE,
AND JUST WAS IMMEDIATELY DRAWN
TO IT, JUST SEEING THAT JOHNNIE
WALKER LOGO AND KNOWING THAT
THAT BRAND IS SO POPULAR.
YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD THIS FOR
A COUPLE YEARS AND KEPT
IT, UH, OVER MY FIREPLACE,
WHERE I LOVE TO LOOK AT
IT. I'M HOPING TO SELL TODAY
FOR $5,000.
- JOHNNIE WALKER. THE
HISTORY OF THE COMPANY
IS PRETTY... PRETTY AMAZING.
JOHN WALKER, OR JOHNNIE WALKER,
HE WAS, LIKE, THE 1820S... HE
HAD A LITTLE GROCERY STORE.
- OKAY.
- AND HE MADE HIS OWN BRANDS
OF RUM AND WHISKEY AND
EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
BUT WHEN IT REALLY TOOK
OFF WAS WHEN HE PASSED AWAY
AND HANDED IT DOWN TO HIS KIDS.
- MM.
- THEY STARTED DOING
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
THEY CAME UP WITH
A SQUARE BOTTLE.
THE REASON THEY HAD THE SQUARE
BOTTLE IS BASICALLY THEY CAN
MAKE SMALLER CASES. AND
WITH THAT, FIT MORE WHISKEY
AND THE BOTTLES WERE STRONGER.
THEY WOULDN'T GET AS MUCH
DAMAGE IN TRANSPORT.
- SURE.
- SO BY THE 1950S, JOHNNIE
WALKER WAS THE NUMBER ONE
SELLING WHISKEY IN THE WORLD.
- WOW.
- AND TO THIS DAY, I THINK
THEY SELL, LIKE, 20,000,000 CASES
A YEAR.
- WOW.
- YEAH, BUT THEY ALWAYS
ARE COMING UP WITH
INNOVATIVE THINGS. UM,
THEY CAME UP WITH THE, UM,
THE "STRIDING MAN."
THEY CREATED JOHNNIE WALKER RED,
JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE,
JOHNNIE WALKER BLACK.
EVENTUALLY, THEY CAME UP
WITH GOLD AND PLATINUM AND
EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
- YEAH.
- THEY WERE JUST REALLY, REALLY
BRILLIANT, AND THIS WAS ANOTHER
GREAT PROMOTIONAL
THING I BET THEY HAD.
- I'M SURE, YEAH.
- SO JUST READING
THE LABEL HERE,
"1934 TO 1971.1,000,000TH
CASE SHIPPED FROM,
UH, KILMARNOCK."
THIS WAS PROBABLY
A BIG PUBLICITY EVENT.
SO HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- YEAH, SO I WAS
HOPING TO GET, UH, 5,000.
- UM...
YOU KNOW THE BOTTLES OF
WHISKEY YOU COULD GET FOR $5,000?
WHAT WOULD YOU
RATHER HAVE IN YOUR BAR?
LIKE, YOU KNOW, UM,
IT'S A REALLY, REALLY
INTERESTING ITEM.
I MEAN, I'D GIVE YOU,
LIKE, 500 BUCKS FOR IT.
OOH, IT'S... YEAH.
LIKE I SAID, IT'S
INTERESTING, BUT...
LIKE, IN THE WORLD
OF COLLECTIBLES, THERE'S
SO MUCH OUT THERE
THAT YOU CAN BUY.
- RIGHT.
WOW, INTERESTING. YEAH, I
WOULD'VE THOUGHT MORE,
I MEAN...
- IT'S NOT $5,000 COOL.
- OKAY.
- I... I COULD RETAIL IT FOR,
LIKE, A $1,000 COOL.
- UH, SO THERE'S NO WAY
YOU COULD EVEN MEET
ME IN THE MIDDLE, I GUESS?
- NOPE.
- YEAH.
- OH, I DON'T KNOW. UH, I
THINK I'M PROBABLY GONNA
HAVE TO TAKE IT HOME.
- ALL RIGHT, WELL,
HAVE A GOOD DAY, MAN.
- THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- YUP, I THINK I'M
GONNA GO HAVE A DRINK.
JOHNNIE, JACK, JIM. THESE
DAYS A LOT OF US ARE ON
FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH
OUR FAVORITE WHISKEYS.
BUT IT TURNS OUT THIS STUFF
HAS BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES.
AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING IT
FOR A LOT MORE THAN SOMETHING
TO SIP ON AT THE
END OF A LONG DAY.
WHISKEY WAS FIRST DISTILLED
FROM FERMENTED GRAINS
IN ANCIENT BABYLON
AND MESOPOTAMIA.
RELIGIOUS MONKS EVENTUALLY
BROUGHT THE DISTILLING
TECHNIQUES TO
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
AND THE ACTUAL WORD
"WHISKEY" ORIGINATED IN IRELAND.
IT WAS GAELIC FOR
"WATER OF LIFE."
THE FIRST KNOWN IRISH
DISTILLERY, BUSHMILLS,
OPENED ITS DOORS IN 1608.
AND IT'S STILL GOING STRONG
MORE THAN FOUR CENTURIES LATER.
SOMETIMES AFTER WHISKEY
MADE ITS WAY TO THE GOOD OLD
U.S.A., IT GOT A RE-ENDORSEMENT
FROM ONE OF OUR
FOUNDING FATHERS.
OUR FIRST PRESIDENT GEORGE
WASHINGTON OPENED A DISTILLERY,
AND BY 1799, HE WAS THE
LARGEST PRODUCER OF WHISKEY
IN THE COUNTRY.
BY 1830, IT FELT LIKE
EVERYONE IN THE U.S.
WAS DRINKING THE STUFF.
THAT YEAR, 88 BOTTLES OF
WHISKEY WERE CONSUMED
FOR EVERY U.S. CITIZEN.
NOW THAT'S A WHOLE
LOT OF DRUNK FOLK.
NEARLY TWO CENTURIES LATER,
WHISKEY IS NUMBER ONE WORLDWIDE,
WORTH NEARLY $60,000,000,000.
IT ALSO HAPPENS TO BE
NUMBER ONE IN THE HEART OF THIS
PAWN SHOP OWNER.
♪ ♪
- SO I HAVE A PERSON IN THE
STORE RIGHT NOW WITH A DELUXE
EDITION "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE"
THAT'S SIGNED BY J.K. ROWLING.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT
THE BOOK'S WORTH,
SO I'VE CALLED IN REBECCA,
SHE'S GONNA TAKE A LOOK AT
IT, AND DO ALL OF HER MAGIC.
♪ ♪
HARRY POTTER. THE
KID WITH THE STICK.
OH.
- DOPPELGANGER. YOU
TOLD ME YOU WANTED ME
TO LOOK AT A SIGNED
COPY, SO I THOUGHT,
"I HAVE A SIGNED COPY FOR
PURPOSES OF ACTUALLY COMPARING
THE SIGNATURE."
THE BEST THING TO DO
IS TO COMPARE IT WITH ONE
THAT IS ACTUALLY KNOWN
TO BE CORRECT.
- THIS YOUNG MAN BOUGHT
THIS, UM, 18, 19 YEARS AGO,
AND, UM, THIS WAS SOME SPECIAL
PRINTING THEY CAME OUT WITH?
- YES. IN 1999, WHEN
IT HAD ALREADY
STARTED GETTING THE
MOMENTUM FOR WHICH IT'S FAMOUS,
THEY PUBLISHED DELUXE
EDITIONS OF THE WORKS.
AND THERE ARE A FEW THINGS
THAT MAKE THESE DELUXE.
A LOT OF THIS GILT... YOU
KNOW, THIS IS ACTUAL GOLD.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THAT
THE TEXT BLOCK EDGES HERE
ARE ALSO GILT. THESE
ARE ALL INDICATIONS
OF A TYPICAL DELUXE PRODUCTION.
- OKAY.
- I CAN EVEN TELL JUST
LOOKING AT IT FROM HERE,
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL COPY,
WHICH IS WHAT YOU WANT
FOR A BOOK LIKE THIS.
BUT ROWLING IS INFAMOUS
FOR HAVING MANY,
MANY, MANY FORGERIES.
IT'S JUST, LIKE, A
HORNET'S NEST.
IT'S ALWAYS A PROBLEM.
- OKAY, WELL, LOOK
INSIDE. DO YOUR MAGIC.
♪ ♪
- SO I'M ACTUALLY GOING
TO COMPARE IT FIRST,
JUST TO DOUBLE CHECK.
UM, YOU CAN SEE IT
HAS THE GENERAL SHAPE,
BUT FIRST OF ALL, SOME
OF THESE LINES HAVE BEEN
DOUBLE CROSSED, RIGHT?
SO HERE, YOU CAN SEE
THIS HAS GONE OVER
MORE THAN ONCE.
THERE'S SOME
SHAKINESS RIGHT HERE.
THE OTHER THING TOO, IS YOU'RE
ACTUALLY SEEING IT'S SQUISHED.
YOU SEE IT'S ACTUALLY
A LOT THINNER.
AND THAT'S IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE IT'S VERY TYPICAL
WITH FORGERIES
FOR SIGNATURES TO BE
SLIGHTLY SMALLER
AND MORE SQUISHED.
- SO NOT A REAL SIGNATURE?
- I'M SORRY TO SAY,
I DON'T THINK THAT
THIS IS REAL SIGNATURE.
♪ ♪
- I HAD NO IDEA THAT
IT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.
- WHAT'S THE BOOK WORTH?
- THIS BOOK, UNSIGNED,
ISN'T A VERY EXPENSIVE BOOK.
UM, BUT MOREOVER,
IN MY OPINION, THIS IS ACTUALLY
NOT EVEN WORTH WHAT IT WOULD BE
IF IT WERE UNSIGNED,
BECAUSE THIS, IN MY OPINION,
SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET.
SO AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED,
THE VALUE ON THIS IS ZERO.
- OKAY. YOU'RE AMAZING.
- YEAH, THANKS.
- THANK YOU, I GUESS.
YEAH.
- ALL RIGHT, UM, IT'S NOT
REAL, SO IT'S NOT FOR ME.
BUT THANKS FOR BRINGING IT IN.
- WELL, ALL RIGHT.
- HAVE A GREAT DAY.
- THANK YOU.
WELL, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED.
I PROBABLY WILL JUST GIVE IT
TO ONE OF MY
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, AND YOURSELF?
- GOOD. WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- IT'S AN EXEMPT CERTIFICATE
FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
- THIS IS AN EXEMPT
CERTIFICATE SAYING,
"HE'S A FIREMAN, YOU CAN'T
CALL HIM INTO JURY DUTY,
OR YOU CAN'T DRAFT
HIM IN THE ARMY"?
- CORRECT.
- I MEAN, I WISH THEY HAD THESE
THINGS FOR PAWN BROKERS SO
WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO JURY DUTY.
YEAH.
I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY FDNY
EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE.
I GOT THIS CERTIFICATE
FROM AN ANTIQUE DEALER.
I PURCHASED IT BECAUSE
IT WAS FROM 1836, AND I'D
NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE.
I'M HOPING TO GET $15,000
FOR THE CERTIFICATE TODAY.
- IT'S SUPER COOL. IT'S A
GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE PROFESSIONAL
FIREFIGHTERS TILL 1865.
BUT BEFORE THAT, FIREFIGHTERS
WERE ALL VOLUNTEERS.
A VOLUNTEER GUY WAS
BASICALLY AT HIS JOB, EVERYTHING...
THERE WAS AN
ALARM THAT WENT OFF.
HE RAN TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
AS SOON AS HE COULD.
THEY'D LOAD UP THEIR EQUIPMENT,
WENT TO THE FIRE, YOU KNOW.
BUT THEN, 1865 WE GET
PROFESSIONALS WHO CAN ACTUALLY
STAY AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
AND ARE MUCH BETTER TRAINED.
UM...
- CORRECT.
- ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE FIRE
DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK.
"IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT
HENRY GRAND IS EXEMPTED
"FROM SERVING AS A JUROR IN
ANY OF THE COURTS OF THIS STATE,
AND FROM ALL MILITIA DUTY."
DEFINITELY CANNOT TELL
WHO THE CHIEF ENGINEER IS,
AND SOMETHING
"MORTON" IS THE CLERK.
NOW, UM, DO WE KNOW
IF ANY OF THESE PEOPLE
ENDED UP BEING MAYOR OR...
- NO, NO, NONE OF THEM
BECAME MAYOR OR GOVERNOR, NO.
- ALL RIGHT.
- SO HOW MUCH YOU
WANT FOR THIS THING?
15,000.
FOR $15,000, I CAN GET YOU
A FULL FIRE SUIT, A HELMET,
UM, AN AXE, AND A BUNCH OF
OTHER STUFF ALL COMBINED.
UM...
WHERE DID YOU COME
UP WITH THAT FIGURE?
- FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,
DOCUMENTS FROM THIS PERIOD
AREN'T READILY AVAILABLE.
- UM, DOCUMENTS FROM THIS
PERIOD ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE.
- REALLY?
- LITERALLY DOCUMENTS LIKE THIS
GO FOR, LIKE, 40, 50 BUCKS.
- REALLY, OKAY.
- OKAY, SO I'M GONNA PASS.
- OKAY, THANK YOU.
- HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- THANK YOU.
UNFORTUNATELY, NO DEAL WAS
MADE TODAY, BUT I'M JUST GONNA TAKE
THIS CERTIFICATE BACK AND
I'M GOING TO PUT IT IN A FRAME
AND ENJOY IT.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU DOING, MAN?
- GOOD, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- SO I HAVE A 1822
GENERAL STORE DAY BOOK.
- ALL RIGHT, UM...
- HAVE YOU EVER
SEEN ONE OF THESE?
- NO, I'M NOT THAT OLD.
- YEAH.
- I'M SELLING AN 1822
GENERAL STORE DAY BOOK.
I LOVE HISTORICAL THINGS
THAT TIE TO AN ORIGIN,
AND I SEE THIS AS TYING TO
THE ORIGIN OF GENERAL STORES
IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND.
IF I'M ABLE TO
MAKE A SALE TODAY,
I'M JUST GONNA PUT THAT
TOWARDS A FIELD TRIP FUND
FOR MY DAUGHTER THAT WAS
JUST RECENTLY BORN, AND I'M SURE
WE'LL DO SOMETHING PRETTY EPIC.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL, MAN.
THE GENERAL STORE
SOLD EVERYTHING.
THEY WERE THE WALMART
OF THE DAY, PRETTY MUCH.
IN 1822, WE WERE A NEW COUNTRY.
IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BUILD A
COUNTRY AND A MONETARY SYSTEM,
ESPECIALLY ONE
THAT PEOPLE TRUST.
AND YOU SEE THAT THEY'RE USING
ALL THESE DIFFERENT
TYPES OF CURRENCY.
YOU HAVE POUNDS,
YOU HAVE DOLLARS,
AND THEY TOOK GOLD, THEY
BARTERED, THEY USED, UM,
BRITISH CURRENCY.
- RIGHT.
- BUT IT WAS SOMETHING
COMPLETELY COMMON AND NORMAL
FOR THE DAY. I DON'T
CARE WHAT BUSINESS
YOU ARE IN THE WORLD... IF
YOU DON'T KEEP GOOD RECORDS
AND GOOD BOOKS, YOU'RE
NOT GONNA MAKE A DIME.
- RIGHT.
- THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS.
THIS WAS BASICALLY THE
ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
OF, YOU KNOW, 1822.
♪ ♪
MIND IF I TAKE A LOOK AT IT?
- SURE.
- WHERE IN THE WORLD
DID YOU GET THIS?
- SO I GOT THIS AT
AN ESTATE AUCTION.
UH, FROM ARIZONA.
THAT'S WHERE I'M FROM.
- OKAY. EVERY GENERAL STORE
IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY,
THIS IS WHAT THEY USED
BACK IN 1822. BACK IN THE DAY,
PENMANSHIP MATTERED.
- RIGHT.
- THE TAX GUY WOULD COME
ALONG, AND HE WOULD COME CHECK
THESE BOOKS, AND DECIDE HOW
MUCH MONEY YOU HAD TO PAY HIM.
SO IF HE COULDN'T READ YOUR
HANDWRITING, YOU WERE KIND OF
SCREWED, RIGHT?
- RIGHT.
- SO WHAT ARE YOU
LOOKING TO DO WITH IT?
- I'M LOOKING TO SELL IT.
- OKAY.
AND HOW MUCH YOU TRYING TO GET?
- I'M LOOKING FOR 500.
♪ ♪
- YEAH, I GET WHAT YOU'RE
SAYING, BECAUSE TO ME,
IT'S COOL.
- YEAH.
- AS A BUSINESS GUY,
THERE'S NOTHING I
CAN DO WITH THIS.
I DON'T REALLY SEE
ANY KIND OF VALUE HERE.
YOU CAN BUY HUNDREDS AND
THOUSANDS OF THESE THINGS
IF YOU WANT TO. THEY'RE
NOT REALLY WORTH MUCH.
AND I THINK IT'S COOL, BUT
I'M JUST NOT GONNA BE ABLE
TO DO ANYTHING WITH IT.
- I UNDERSTAND.
- I APPRECIATE IT. THANKS
FOR COMING DOWN.
- THANK YOU.
- YEAH.
- SO I'M JUST GONNA
TAKE THE DAY BOOK.
I'LL PROBABLY JUST
KEEP IT DISPLAYED
IN MY OWN HOUSE, 'CAUSE IT'S
ALWAYS A GREAT CONVERSATION
PIECE FOR THE GUESTS
THAT WE HAVE OVER.
- SO THIS IS CALLED A WHAT?
- THIS IS A HOMEBREW GAME.
- AND YOU BREWED IT?
- I HAD IT MADE, YEAH.
- WHAT'S THE THING IT'S
DOING TO THE STOMACH?
- IT'S TRYING TO, LIKE,
ATTACK ME WITH THE STOMACH.
YOU KNOW, THAT MOVE YOU
USED TO DO WHEN YOU WERE FAT.
- OH. BELLY BUSTER.
IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT?
- THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL IT.
- RIGHT. THIS IS COOL.
- AFTER TALKING TO RICK AND
COREY ABOUT HOMEBREW GAMES...
- YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT YOURSELF?
- SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
- A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
THAT DOES NOTHING
WOULD NOT BE A GOOD CHARACTER.
- I WANTED TO SHOW THEM JUST
HOW COOL THESE GAMES COULD BE.
AND WHAT CAN BE COOLER
THAN A GAME ABOUT US,
RIGHT HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP?
- THIS IS WHERE
YOU GUYS WERE AT.
- YUP.
- WHAT IS THIS?
- THIS IS THE BEST INVENTION
KNOWN TO MANKIND.
- SO YOU MADE A VIDEO GAME?
- YEAH, THIS IS THE
"ADVENTURES OF CHUMLEE:
THE QUEST FOR PINKY."
- WHY ARE YOU
KICKING OLD PEOPLE?
♪ ♪
- 'CAUSE I KNOW KUNG FU.
- CHUM...
- AND I'M IN IT TOO.
WAIT TILL YOU GET TO ME.
- WHAT'S THE WHOLE
CONCEPT HERE, THOUGH?
- IT'S A GAME ABOUT A PRINCE
WHO HAS TO SAVE HIS BEAUTIFUL
BELOVED PUP FROM
EVIL, EVIL, BAD, BAD, BOSS
WHO RUNS A PAWN
SHOP IN LAS VEGAS.
THE BOSS IS BALD AND OVERWEIGHT.
- SO THE... THIS
EVIL BOSS... IS IT ME?
♪ ♪
- IT DOES HAVE A RESEMBLANCE
TO YOU, BUT, YOU KNOW...
WE DON'T WANNA PAY
LICENSING AGREEMENTS,
SO IT'S NOT YOU.
- IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE YOU?
- OBVIOUSLY.
DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE ME?
- AND YOU'RE BEATING UP
CUSTOMERS IN THE PAWN SHOP?
- THESE AREN'T CUSTOMERS,
THESE ARE YOUR GOONS.
- LOOK, THERE I AM.
- THERE'S YOUR NUMBER
ONE GOON RIGHT THERE.
SEE THAT?
YOU SEE THAT THRUST I'M DOING?
IT'S CALLED THE "BELLY BUSTER."
- COREY, CAN YOU
PLEASE JUST GET THEM
BACK TO WORK?
- I WANNA SEE WHAT I LOOK
LIKE IN THE GAME.
- RIGHT.
- YOU LOOK LIKE A BADASS.
♪ ♪
- POPS, GO TO WORK.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
YOU NEVER WORK.
- JUST GO TO WORK, DAD.
- GET YOUR FIVE MINUTES,
AND GET OVER THIS, ALL RIGHT?
- MM-HMM.
- THIS IS EPIC.
- LET ME SEE WHAT
MY DAD LOOKS LIKE.
- I GAVE HIM A BLACK GOATEE
INSTEAD OF A GRAY ONE.
SO HE ACTUALLY LOOKS YOUNGER.
KICKING OLD PEOPLE?
- 'CAUSE I KNOW KUNG FU.
- ON TONIGHT'S EPISODE,
A "HARRY POTTER" BOOK
SIGNED BY J.K.
ROWLING CASTS A SPELL.
- I CAN EVEN TELL, JUST
LOOKING AT IT FROM HERE,
YOU KNOW, THIS IS ACTUAL
GOLD, WHICH IS WHAT YOU WANT
FOR A BOOK LIKE THIS.
- SAMMY HAGAR
SPEEDS INTO THE SHOP.
- THAT IS A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR GOT.
- WHAT KIND OF COP GIVES
SAMMY HAGAR A TICKET?
- I MEAN, AFTER THAT SONG,
YOU'D THINK YOU HAVE A LICENSE
FOR IT, RIGHT?
- RIGHT, EXACTLY.
- AND CHUM ENTERS
THE WORLD OF GAMING.
- SO YOU MADE A VIDEO GAME.
- YEAH, THIS IS THE
"ADVENTURES OF CHUMLEE:
THE QUEST FOR PINKY."
- IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE YOU?
- OBVIOUSLY. DOESN'T
IT LOOK LIKE ME?
- AND YOU'RE BEATING UP
CUSTOMERS IN THE PAWN SHOP?
♪ ♪
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
- I HAVE AN ITEM THAT YOU... I
THINK YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN.
- WHAT IS THIS?
- THAT IS A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR
GOT GOING 80 IN A 55.
OKAY.
I'M ASSUMING HE GOT A
LOT OF TICKETS, THOUGH,
BECAUSE HE COULDN'T DRIVE 55.
- I HAVE A SPEEDING TICKET
THAT SAMMY HAGAR GOT
DRIVING 80 IN A 55 THAT
I'M LOOKING TO SELL TODAY.
I GOT THE SPEEDING TICKET
FROM A FAMILY MEMBER
WHEN SAM'S MOM DIED AND
THEY FOUND IT IN HER ESTATE.
I WANNA SELL THE
TICKET TODAY FOR $5,000.
- THIS IS PRETTY AMAZING.
IT'S, UH, SAMMY HAGAR
WITH A SPEEDING TICKET.
YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS
SO SIGNIFICANT, RIGHT?
- I'M ASSUMING THE
SONG "I CAN'T DRIVE 55"?
- THAT IS CORRECT. YOU
WERE ONE YEARS OLD WHEN,
LIKE, THE VIDEO CAME OUT.
BUT THIS IS, LIKE, THE VERY
BEGINNING OF MUSIC
VIDEOS AND EVERYTHING.
AND THIS WAS REALLY ICONIC
ONE. THIS IS... IT'S SO '80S.
IT WAS SO COOL WHEN
I WAS 19 YEARS OLD.
GUY HAD A HUGE CAREER... I MEAN,
HE'S GOING ON, WHAT, 50 YEARS
OF BEING A ROCK STAR, RIGHT?
- HE WAS THE LEAD SINGER
FOR THE BAND MONTROSE.
- CORRECT.
- YOU KNOW, UH, IN THE '80S,
HE HAD BECOME A LEAD SINGER
FOR VAN HALEN, AND THIS
WAS THE QUINTESSENTIAL
COOL IN 1984.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY FADED.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S SIGNED
BY SAMMY HAGAR, THOUGH.
- LET ME SEE IT.
♪ ♪
NOVEMBER 24TH,
1990. SAM ROY HAGAR.
'84. - FERRARI.
TWO-DOOR. BLACK.
I MEAN, IT... IT'S AMAZING. I
MEAN, A SPEEDING TICKET BY
ANYBODY ELSE WOULD
SORT OF SUCK, BUT THIS IS, UH,
SAMMY HAGAR.
- I'M JUST SAYING,
WHAT KIND OF COP GIVES
SAMMY HAGAR A TICKET?
- I MEAN, AFTER THAT SONG,
YOU'D THINK YOU HAVE
A LICENSE FOR IT, RIGHT?
RIGHT, EXACTLY.
OKAY, NOW...
WHO LAMINATED IT?
- I'M SURE THAT EITHER
HE DID OR HIS MOM DID.
- THIS IS THE WORST
THING YOU CAN DO.
YOU SHOULDN'T
LAMINATE ANY AUTOGRAPH.
IT'S VERY HARD TO
AUTHENTICATE IT.
THAT'S ONE PROBLEM.
AND THE OTHER THING IS,
IT'S SORT OF A CARBON COPY.
IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A SIGNATURE,
'CAUSE IT'S NOT
REALLY IN INK OR PENCIL.
♪ ♪
UM, HOW MUCH DO YOU
WANT FOR THIS THING?
- $5,000.
- OKAY.
THERE'S A FEW THINGS I HAVE
TO HAVE CHECKED OUT FIRST.
DO YOU MIND IF I HAVE SOMEONE
LOOK AT IT, LIKE...
- YEAH, I'M CONFIDENT
IT'S REAL. IT'S FINE,
YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
- SO LET... LET ME GO GIVE
SOMEBODY A CALL, AND, UM,
WE'LL GO FROM THERE, OKAY?
- SURE.
- ALL RIGHT, I'LL
GIVE STEVE A CALL.
- I'M COMPLETELY OKAY
WITH AN EXPERT COMING IN.
I'M ABSOLUTELY
CERTAIN THAT IT'S REAL.
♪ ♪
- HEY, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- HEY.
A 1957 ANATOMICAL POSTER.
♪ ♪
- ALL RIGHT.
I DO REMEMBER, LIKE, IN
SCIENCE CLASS, IN, LIKE, UH,
MIDDLE SCHOOL, THEY'D PULL
DOWN THESE POSTERS LIKE THIS.
YEAH, I'VE HAD SO MANY
SURGERIES IN MY LIFETIME,
I'M MISSING, LIKE,
HALF THESE THINGS.
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY 1957
PULL-DOWN ANATOMICAL CHART.
THIS CHART IS ALMOST LIFE-SIZE
AND IT DISPLAYS THE
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM.
I BOUGHT A COLLECTION OF
THEM OUT OF A JUNIOR COLLEGE.
I BOUGHT THE WHOLE
ANATOMICAL SYSTEM... 25 CHARTS.
AND I'VE SOLD MOST OF
THEM, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE
REMAINING FEW, AND I'D LIKE
TO SELL THE CHART FOR $300.
♪ ♪
- THIS IS DEFINITELY COOL.
THIS IS THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM,
WHICH IS THAT WEIRD THING THAT
MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
NOT ONLY DO YOU HAVE VEINS
AND ARTERIES, YOU ALSO HAVE LITTLE
TUBES THAT CARRY
FLUID EVERYWHERE.
SO WHEN YOU GO TO THE DOCTOR
AND THEY SAY YOUR LYMPH NODES
ARE SWELLING UP... THESE
ARE ALL WHERE YOUR
LYMPH NODES ARE; YOU
GOT 'EM ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO DENOYER-GEPPERT
SCIENCE COMPANY.
IN THE 19-TEENS,
THEY MADE ALL THESE
DIFFERENT POSTERS... EVERYTHING
FROM YOUR SKELETON TO YOUR
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, YOUR
HEART... EVENTUALLY MOVED ON
TO THOSE 3D MODELS THAT
ARE IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE,
AND, UH, IN YOUR SCIENCE
CLASS AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THE NEAT THING ABOUT THESE
THINGS, THOUGH, RIGHT HERE IS
THESE ARE HAND-DRAWN.
A GUY HAD TO DRAW THIS.
AND HE HAD TO DRAW
IT SEVERAL TIMES.
THERE WOULD BE ONE
PRINTING JUST WITH THE BLUE,
ONE WITH THE RED,
ONE WITH THIS COLOR.
SO THIS HAD TO GO THROUGH
A PRINTING PRESS, LIKE,
PROBABLY SIX OR SEVEN TIMES.
BUT THIS WAS IN EVERY CLASSROOM
FOR WELL OVER A HUNDRED
YEARS. UH, THEY STILL ACTUALLY
HAVE THEM TODAY.
SO ARE YOU LOOKING TO SELL IT?
- UM, YEAH.
- HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR THIS?
- I WOULD LIKE 300.
IT'S PRETTY CLEAN.
- I'LL GIVE YOU THAT,
IT'S IN GREAT SHAPE.
- VERY GOOD CONDITION.
THERE'S NO TEARS, NO
STAINS OR ANYTHING.
- I'LL GIVE YOU 100.
- OOH.
UH, I THINK THE BEST
I'D DO WOULD BE 250.
- I CAN'T DO 250. I'D
PROBABLY GO 125 ON IT.
- HMM, I THINK 225 IS
THE LOWEST I'D GO.
- 130?
- HMM.
I THINK I'LL PROBABLY
HANG ON TO IT AT THAT PRICE.
- ALL RIGHT, IF YOU CHANGE
YOUR MIND, COME AND SEE ME.
- OKAY, THANK YOU.
- ALL RIGHT?
IT'S SUPER COOL, THOUGH.
BRINGS YOU BACK, DOESN'T IT?
- YUP.
NO DEAL WAS MADE TODAY.
I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED,
BUT I THINK I'LL PUT IT UP
ONLINE AND SEE IF I CAN GET
CLOSER TO 300 FOR IT.
♪ ♪
- HOW YOU DOING, BROTHER?
- PRETTY GOOD,
WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
- I HAVE A, UH,
DUNES SHOE PHONE.
- "SHOE'VE" GOT
TO BE KIDDING ME.
BAD JOKE, I KNOW.
I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY
DUNES SHOE PHONE.
I'VE NEVER REALLY SEEN
A DUNES SHOE PHONE BEFORE,
SO IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS
QUITE AN ANTIQUE, SINCE THE
DUNES IS NO LONGER AROUND.
I'M HOPING TO GET
200 OUT OF THE PHONE.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL. SO
IT WAS MADE BY THE DUNES.
THE DUNES WAS AN
ICONIC CASINO BUILT IN 1955.
THE DOORS OPENED UP, AND IT
WAS ON LAS VEGAS BOULEVARD
AND FLAMINGO. AT THE
TIME, THAT WAS A CRAZY
LOCATION FOR A CASINO, SINCE
THEY'RE SO FAR OFF THE STRIP.
SO THEY DID A LOT OF THINGS
TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE IN.
THE DUNES IS THE FIRST CASINOS
TO HAVE A BIG NEON SIGN
TO DRAW PEOPLE IN TO SAY,
"HEY, THIS IS WHERE
MY CASINO IS."
AND ACTUALLY, WHEN YOU
WOULD DRIVE IN FROM CALIFORNIA,
THE DUNES WOULD BE THE FIRST
CASINO THAT YOU COULD SEE.
IT WAS NICKNAMED "THE
MIRACLE IN THE DESERT."
THEY HAD TO DO BIG PROMOTIONS
TO GET PEOPLE'S BUSINESS,
AND THEY WOULD GIVE AWAY PRIZES.
THIS COULD'VE BEEN A
PROMOTIONAL ITEM THAT THEY
GAVE OUT, IT COULD'VE
BEEN IN A HOTEL ROOM.
UH, THERE'S REALLY
NO TELLING, EXACTLY.
♪ ♪
LOOKS LIKE A SHOE
FROM FIRST GLANCE.
BASICALLY, THIS WOULD WORK
EXACTLY LIKE A REGULAR PHONE.
AS LONG AS IT WAS
PLUGGED INTO A PHONE JACK,
YOU COULD HEAR
THROUGH THE SPEAKER
AND YOU COULD TALK
THROUGH THE MICROPHONE.
THE SHOE PHONE WAS MADE
POPULAR BY THE TV SHOW "GET SMART,"
WHICH ALSO HAD A MOVIE LATER ON.
AND IT WAS JUST A STAPLE
OF EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.
WHERE DID YOU GET IT?
- I WAS CLEANING OUT MY
GRANDPARENTS' GARAGE.
ENDED UP COMING ACROSS IT.
SO REALIZED THE DUNES
IS NO LONGER WITH US, SO...
MAYBE IT WAS WORTH SOMETHING.
- THERE'S A PRETTY BIG
COLLECTIBLE MARKET
FOR ITEMS FROM CASINOS
THAT DON'T EXIST ANYMORE. I
MEAN, PEOPLE COLLECT STUFF
EVEN FROM CASINOS
THAT ARE STILL AROUND.
WHAT ARE YOU
LOOKING TO DO WITH IT?
- I WAS HOPING TO, UH,
GET A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY.
- OKAY, HOW MUCH
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
- I WAS THINKING MAYBE 200.
- THAT'S A LITTLE PRICEY.
I'D PROBABLY BE LOOKING
TO SELL IT A LOT CHEAPER.
- SO HOW ABOUT 100?
- MOST I CAN DO ON THIS IS 45,
BECAUSE I GOTTA LEAVE SOME
ROOM TO MAKE SOME MONEY FOR ME.
- I UNDERSTAND THAT.
I GUESS IT WORKS.
I DID GET IT OUT OF MY
GRANDPARENTS' GARAGE, SO...
GET A LITTLE
SOMETHING OUT OF IT.
- ALL RIGHT, IT'S A DEAL.
- ALL RIGHT.
- LET'S GO WRITE IT UP.
- YEAH, I THINK I'M
GONNA TAKE MY $45
AND GET A WHOLE BUNCH OF PIZZA.
♪ ♪
SO WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
OR WHAT IS THE BOX?
- IT'S AN OLD INDIAN
DOWRY CHEST.
OKAY, AND WHERE'D YOU GET IT?
ON THE CURB, WITH
A "FREE" SIGN ON IT.
OKAY.
- I'M AT THE PAWN SHOP TODAY
TO SELL MY INDIAN DOWRY CHEST.
I THINK THIS INDIAN DOWRY
CHEST IS 225 YEARS OLD.
I WOULD LIKE TO SELL THIS
DOWRY CHEST TODAY BECAUSE, UH,
IT'S JUST TAKING
UP TOO MUCH SPACE.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL, MAN.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,
ARRANGED MARRIAGES HAVE
BEEN A PART OF INDIAN CULTURE.
YOU KNOW, A FAMILY WOULD
GIVE MONEY TO THE FAMILY
TAKING THE DAUGHTER.
IT WAS TRADITION.
IT WENT ON FOREVER, BUT
I'M ASSUMING IT'S SOMETHING
MORE OF A HOPE CHEST
THAN IT IS A DOWRY CHEST,
BECAUSE A DOWRY IS GENERALLY
MORE MONETARY, OKAY?
- OKAY.
- A HOPE CHEST IS A CHEST WHERE
A YOUNG GIRL STARTS
COLLECTING ALL THESE THINGS
FOR WHEN SHE GETS MARRIED.
SO SHE'LL HAVE, LIKE, LINENS,
AND SHE'LL HAVE, LIKE,
SILVERWARE, AND SHE'LL DISHES.
SHE BRINGS THOSE
THINGS WITH HER,
AND THAT'S WHAT A HOPE CHEST IS.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY
REAL WAY TO DETERMINE THAT IT'S
A HOPE CHEST OR A DOWRY
CHEST. IT'S JUST A CHEST.
CAN I LOOK INSIDE?
- YEAH.
IT'S WELL OVER 100 YEARS
OLD... JUST LOOK AT THE WAY
THIS IS ALL OXIDIZED,
AND THE STAINING IS
GOING INTO THE WOOD.
THEY SAID IT'S...
PROBABLY IS INDIA, THAT'S
WHERE, LIKE, THE STYLE
ON THE FRONT OF
IT. IT'S BARE COPPER,
AND OVER THE YEARS
IT TURNS GREEN.
IT'S GOT A PRETTY SIMPLE
LOCKING MECHANISM
ON IT THAT DOESN'T
SEEM TO WORK ANYMORE.
♪ ♪
WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR IT?
- 7,000.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, I'M NOT BEING MEAN
OR ANYTHING... JUST SEEMS LIKE
AN INSANE NUMBER TO ME.
I KNOW I CAN PICK THIS STUFF UP
REALLY, REALLY INEXPENSIVELY.
THIS IS JUST AN OLD CHEST,
AND I DON'T SEE HOW YOU'RE
GONNA GET THAT KIND OF MONEY
OUT OF IT.
- WELL, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?
300 BUCKS.
GIVE ME 500.
- NO, I'LL GIVE YOU 300 BUCKS.
I'M BEING A REALLY
NICE GUY AT 300 BUCKS.
- ALL RIGHT, 300 BUCKS.
ALL RIGHT, WE GOT A DEAL.
I'LL MEET YOU RIGHT
OVER THERE, AND, UM,
WE'LL DO SOME PAPERWORK.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GREAT.
LITTLE APARTMENT FOR CHUM?
♪ ♪
- SO A CUSTOMER CAME IN
THE SHOP WITH THIS SIGNED
SPEEDING TICKET MADE
OUT TO SAMMY HAGAR,
WHICH IS BASICALLY ONE OF
THE COOLEST THINGS EVER.
IF THIS THING IS REAL,
I WOULD LOVE TO OWN
IT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY,
THERE'S JUST A COUPLE
RED FLAGS FOR ME.
SO BEFORE I DRIVE
THIS DEAL HOME,
I GOT STEVE GRAD COMING BY
TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS.
SO WE HAVE A SPEEDING TICKET
ISSUED TO SAM ROY HAGAR.
- KIND OF APPROPRIATE, ISN'T IT?
- YEAH, I MEAN, AS FAR
AS, LIKE, SPEEDING TICKETS,
IT'S, LIKE, PROBABLY THE HOLY
GRAIL OF SPEEDING TICKETS.
- THE GREAT THING ABOUT HAGAR
IS HE'S BEEN AROUND FOREVER.
YOU KNOW, HE WAS
IN VAN HALEN FOREVER,
AND REALLY ONE OF THE NICER
GUYS YOU COULD EVER MEET.
KIND OF A, YOU KNOW,
BIG, FLOWING AUTOGRAPH,
AND, UH, KIND OF
LIKE HIS PERSONALITY.
- SO THAT'S THE
TICKET RIGHT THERE.
I'VE ALREADY CHASTISED
HIM OVER THIS THING BEING...
BEING LAMINATED.
RIGHT.
- EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T DO IT.
- YEAH, I SEE THAT
RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
WHEN YOU LAMINATE SOMETHING,
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO IT, A,
BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST NOT SURE.
YOU KNOW, THEY'VE GOT
SOMETHING THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS
ANY VALUE, IT'S-
SOMETHING THAT'S
TATTERED OR TORN, WELL,
I'LL JUST LAMINATE
IT TO PROTECT IT.
THEY THINK THAT'S THE
BETTER THING TO DO.
BUT SOMETIMES, IN
MY BUSINESS, TOO,
IT MEANS SOMEONE'S
TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING.
ONCE YOU LAMINATE SOMETHING,
IT'S DIFFICULT AT TIMES
TO TELL IF IT'S ACTUALLY
SIGNED OR NOT SIGNED, YOU
KNOW, OR IF IT'S A GENUINE ARTICLE.
- AND THE OTHER WEIRD THING
IS, IT'S, LIKE, THE SECOND OR THIRD
PAGE OF A MULTI-PAGE FORM.
- RIGHT.
- CAN YOU DETERMINE IF
HE SIGNED THE TOP COPY,
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE CARBONS?
- WELL, LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
I'LL PUT IT ON THE PRO SCOPE
AND JUST MAGNIFY THIS THING.
YOU KNOW, HIS AUTOGRAPH...
IT'S A PRETTY VERY
SIMPLE AUTOGRAPH.
HE'S HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL
"SAMMY HAGAR"...
KIND OF ALL FLOWS TOGETHER.
I'VE GOT TWO EXAMPLES.
YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THIS RIGHT
IN HERE, IT'S VERY FLOURISHY,
YOU KNOW, BIG "S,"
DOMINATED BY THE "S"
AND THE "H," SO.
UM, I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT, RICK,
THAT THAT'S NOT
PRINTED, BUT, YOU KNOW.
I MEAN, THAT'S... THE END OF
THE DAY, THAT'S JUST A COPY
OF HIS AUTOGRAPH, SO...
- IT'S A CARBON COPY, BUT...
- YEAH, THE ORIGINAL,
HE PROBABLY DID SIGN,
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, AND
EVERYTHING I CAN SEE HERE
I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT THIS
IS AN ORIGINAL, BUT AGAIN, RICK,
YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET
THE LAMINATION ON THERE,
IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO TELL.
♪ ♪
- SO WHAT DO YOU
THINK IT'S WORTH?
WELL, IT'S GOT SIGNIFICANCE
'CAUSE OF THE... THE
SPEEDING, "I CAN'T DRIVE 55."
THE PROBLEM IS, RICK, IT'S
NOT REALLY AN AUTOGRAPH.
IT'S A CARBON COPY.
SO AUTOGRAPH-WISE, IT
REALLY DOESN'T HAVE VALUE.
♪ ♪
IT'S MORE OF A PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA.
- SO I SHOULD CALL,
LIKE, WARWICK STONE
AND GET HIM TO FIGURE IT OUT?
- I WOULD HAVE HIM
FIGURE IT OUT.
STILL A COOL PIECE.
- SORRY I COULDN'T
HELP YOU MORE.
GOOD SEEING YOU, COREY.
- ALL RIGHT.
- GOOD SEEING YOU.
- HANG OUT JUST FOR
A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
BUT LET ME CALL
MY BUDDY WARWICK.
HE'LL KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
- OKAY.
- GIVE HIM A CALL RIGHT NOW.
- I'M ABSOLUTELY THRILLED THAT
THEY'RE BRINGING IN ANOTHER
EXPERT TO LOOK AT IT,
BECAUSE HE WILL DETERMINE
THE ITEM AS A PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA
RATHER THAN A SIGNATURE.
♪ ♪
- WHY ARE YOU WEARING
HOUSE SLIPPERS AGAIN?
- I'M NOT WEARING
HOUSE SLIPPERS.
THESE ARE A MIX BETWEEN
MOCCASINS AND HOUSE SLIPPERS.
BUSINESS ON THE
BOTTOM, PARTY ON THE TOP.
HEY, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?
- THIS IS CALLED AN M82 UNIT
THAT IS A NINTENDO
NES DEMO KIOSK.
SO IT WAS PLACED
IN RETAIL STORES,
AND YOU COULD DEMO
12 DIFFERENT GAMES ON IT.
- SO, UM, IN SIMPLER TERMS,
YOU PLAY NINTENDO ON IT?
- YOU CAN PLAY NINTENDO ON IT.
- OKAY.
- I'M HERE TODAY TO
SELL MY M82 DEMO UNIT...
A NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT CENTER.
THE M82 WAS DISTRIBUTED
TO RETAILERS BACK IN THE '80S
SO THAT PEOPLE COULD COME
IN AND PLAY 12 DIFFERENT GAMES
AND TRY THEM BEFORE
THEY BOUGHT THEM.
I AM A LITTLE BIT OF
A VIDEO GAME NERD;
I'M A VIDEO GAME COLLECTOR.
TODAY I'M LOOKING TO GET ABOUT
4,500 FOR THE NINTENDO.
- IT IS REALLY INTERESTING.
I MEAN, NINTENDO...
IN 1983 IT CAME
OUT WITH A FAMICOM.
IT WAS BASICALLY AN ACRONYM
FOR THE "FAMILY COMPUTER."
IT WAS RELEASED IN JAPAN.
IN 1985, THEY CAME OUT WITH
THE NINTENDO
ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM.
THEY DID NOT WANT TO
CALL IT A VIDEO GAME.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- UM, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT,
HOME VIDEO GAMES WERE
BASICALLY DEAD IN THE UNITED STATES
BECAUSE EVERYONE GOT
BURNED OUT ON THE ATARI 2600.
- THAT'S RIGHT.
- UM, SO NINTENDO DID SOMETHING
THAT REALLY WASN'T DONE
VERY OFTEN BACK THEN,
AND EVEN ISN'T... IS
NOT EVEN DONE TODAY.
THEY TOLD ALL THE
RETAILERS IN NEW YORK,
"IF YOU CAN'T SELL THEM,
WE'LL BUY THEM ALL BACK,"
WHICH WOULD'VE PROBABLY
BANKRUPTED THE COMPANY.
- THAT'S WHY YOU WOULD'VE
NEEDED SOMETHING LIKE THIS,
BECAUSE IF YOU WERE ABLE
TO PLAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS
FULL OF DIFFERENT GAMES, IT
MIGHT CONVINCE YOU TO BUY
A NINTENDO RIGHT THERE.
- THIS WAS ONLY
AT A RETAIL CENTER,
ONLY SENT TO
RETAILERS THEMSELVES.
SO TO GET ONE OF THESE IS
PRETTY... PRETTY DARN RARE.
THERE'S BASICALLY 12
NINTENDOS IN THIS THING.
- SO HOW DID YOU GET THIS?
- SOMEBODY WHO, UH,
WAS FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE
WHO WORKED AT A RETAIL CENTER,
UH, BOUGHT IT, AND
THEN RESOLD IT TO ME.
- SO IT WORKS JUST
LIKE A NINTENDO?
- JUST LIKE A STANDARD NES.
YOU CAN JUST PLAY 12 GAMES,
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
- SO YOU HAVE TO BLOW
THE CARTRIDGE OUT
BEFORE YOU PLAY IT?
- ABSOLUTELY.
- OKAY, UM,
HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- UH, I'M LOOKING
FOR 4,500 FOR IT.
- IT'S SUPER COOL,
I'LL GIVE YOU THAT.
ANYTHING EARLY NINTENDO AND
CERTAIN RARE NINTENDO THINGS
ARE GOING FOR INSANE MONEY.
I'M TALKING, LIKE, HUNDREDS
OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
- YEAH.
- BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS
WORTH MONEY, I JUST DON'T.
- YEAH.
- I ACTUALLY HAVE A GUY
THAT IS IN THE VIDEO
GAME BUSINESS,
LIKE, HE DEALS IN ALL
THIS VINTAGE STUFF.
- SURE.
- IF I CAN CALL HIM UP
AND HAVE HIM TAKE A LOOK AT
IT, UM, WE CAN GO FROM THERE.
- YEAH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
- ALL RIGHT.
I'M GONNA GO GIVE HIM A
CALL. HANG OUT, AND UM...
DON'T BREAK IT, CHUM.
- I'M GONNA GO FIND A TV.
WE'LL TEST THIS THING OUT.
- YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
- GOOD, WHAT HAVE WE GOT HERE?
- UH, I'VE GOT A HOWARD HUGHES
GAMING LICENSE, THE LAST
ONE THAT WAS EVER PRODUCED,
BEFORE HE DIED.
- OKAY, WHERE'D YOU GET THIS?
- SO I GOT IT FROM THE
EXECUTIVE HOST AT THE TIME
WHO BECAME THE KEY
EMPLOYEE AND CASINO MANAGER,
MIKE BONFIGLIO.
- OKAY, WELL, TOO BAD IT'S NOT,
UH, HIS WILL.
- YEAH. RIGHT.
YEAH, WELL, HOWARD HUGHES,
HE WAS THIS CRAZY,
INSANE FIGURE IN VEGAS.
NOT ONLY WAS HE A MOVIE
PRODUCER AND A, YOU KNOW,
A BILLIONAIRE AND EVERYTHING,
HOW HE GOT THIS WHOLE THING
STARTED IN VEGAS WAS
IN, THE '60S HE RENTED OUT
THE TOP FLOOR OF THE
DESERT INN FOR A MONTH.
AT THE END OF THE MONTH,
HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE CALLED
DOWNSTAIRS AND
HE... "I WANNA RENT FOR
ANOTHER MONTH." AND THEY GO,
"SORRY, MR. HUGHES, WE
WOULD LOVE TO DO IT FOR YOU,
"BUT A REALLY GOOD CUSTOMER'S
ALREADY RENTED IT OUT
FOR THE NEXT MONTH."
AND THEN HE GOES,
"LET ME TALK TO THE OWNER."
SO HE CALLED UP THE OWNER
OF THE DESERT INN AND SAYS,
"HOW MUCH FOR THE HOTEL?"
- RIGHT.
- HE DIDN'T MOVE OUT, YEAH.
- WOW.
- OKAY, SO HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT
FOR THIS THING?
- SO I'M LOOKING FOR 20,000.
OKAY, IT'S A GAMING LICENSE;
IT'S NOT SIGNED BY HOWARD HUGHES
OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
- SURE.
- SO YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET
THAT KIND OF CRAZY MONEY.
- OKAY.
- AND AS A MATTER OF FACT,
YOU'RE NOT GONNA
GET ANYTHING FOR THIS
BECAUSE THIS IS
JUST A PHOTOCOPY.
♪ ♪
- REAL GAMING LICENSE...
SEE RIGHT HERE,
"ENDING QUARTER MARCH 31ST."
THOSE ARE COLORED STICKERS.
YOU GET ONE EVERY QUARTER
FOR YOUR GAMING LICENSE,
AND YOU PASTE IT TO
YOUR GAMING LICENSE.
- OKAY.
- OKAY?
YOU CAN SEE THE BLACK
MARKS FROM A PHOTOCOPY
ALL OVER THIS THING.
SOMEONE MIGHT HAVE HAD A COPY
OF IT HANGING IN THEIR OFFICE.
- THAT'S INTERESTING.
- BUT THIS IS NOT A
REAL GAMING LICENSE.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
NOTHING WORTH A DIME.
- I SEE THAT, YEAH. I
DON'T... I DON'T BLAME YOU.
- OKAY.
- MAYBE NEXT TIME WE'LL FIND
SOMETHING ELSE.
- MAYBE NEXT TIME.
- I APPRECIATE YOU, THANKS.
- HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- YUP.
♪ ♪
- LIKE, LITERALLY, HE
WAS A BILLIONAIRE,
AND DIDN'T HAVE A WILL.
♪ ♪
- EARLIER TODAY, A CUSTOMER
CAME IN WITH A SPEEDING TICKET
MADE OUT TO AND SIGNED BY
ROCK LEGEND SAMMY HAGAR.
STEVE SAID THAT THE SIGNATURE
IS REAL, BUT IT'S A CARBON COPY
OF THE TICKET, WHICH REALLY
COMPLICATES THE VALUE.
SO NOW IT'S UP TO MY MUSIC MAN
WARWICK STONE TO SEE IF
SAMMY'S TICKET DESERVES THE CASH.
♪ ♪
A TICKET GIVEN TO SAMMY
HAGAR FOR DOING 80 IN A 55
IN HIS 1984 BLACK FERRARI.
- THAT'S GOOD.
I LIKE IT, I LIKE IT.
- UM, IT'S SORT OF WEIRD,
BECAUSE IT'S NOT HIS AUTOGRAPH,
IT'S, LIKE, THE
CARBON COPY OF IT.
- YEAH, YOU DON'T GET THE
ORIGINAL, POLICEMAN KEEPS THAT.
- YEAH.
- SO YOU WANT ME TO GIVE YOU
AN OPINION ON WHAT IS THIS AS
AN OBJECT, NOT AS AN AUTOGRAPH?
- YES.
- WELL, LET'S TALK
ABOUT SAMMY HIMSELF.
NOW, I'M SURE YOU'VE ALREADY,
SAID THAT SAMMY HAS BEEN
IN THIS BAND AND
THAT BAND, BUT IF YOU...
IF YOU BROUGHT
SAMMY OUT AS A SINGLE,
YOU WOULD WANT THIS
SONG, "I CAN'T DRIVE 55."
IT'S, UH, INDICATIVE OF AN ERA.
♪ ♪
IT'S A GREAT PIECE
OF MEMORABILIA.
IT TELLS A STORY. AND
MY FAVORITE PIECES
OF MEMORABILIA ANCHOR TO A TIME.
AND THIS... THIS DOES.
YOU KNOW, THE 55 BAN CAME
IN, WHAT, IN THE REAGAN ERA.
AND THEN THE GAS CRISIS
CAME ALONG, AND FOR A DECADE
WE COULDN'T GET A LOT
OF GAS FOR OUR CARS,
AND THEY DOWNSIZED
THE CAR. AND BY THE '80S,
IT'S GETTING BETTER, AND WE
WANNA DRIVE MORE THAN 55.
IT'S A SYMBOL OF THE ERA.
- YEAH.
- YOU WANNA FRAME THIS UP
AND HANG IT ON THE WALL
IN YOUR FERRARI GARAGE.
BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF A KIND,
THERE'S REALLY NO
SET VALUE ON THIS.
IF I WAS BIDDING ON THIS
AT AN AUCTION, UH, I'D
GET COLD FEET AT 2,000.
- OKAY. SO YOU'RE SAYING, LIKE,
2,000, FRAMED UP?
- YEAH.
- WARWICK, I APPRECIATE
YOU COMING DOWN.
- MY PLEASURE.
- ALL RIGHT, HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- THAT WAS GOOD, AND GOOD LUCK.
- THANK YOU.
♪ ♪
- I MEAN, WHAT'S
YOUR BEST PRICE ON IT?
- I CAN'T GO ANY
LOWER THAN 4,000.
- MY TOP DOLLAR WOULD
BE, LIKE, 1,500 BUCKS.
MAYBE SELL IT OR
KEEP IT FOR MYSELF.
I MEAN, UH, 1,500 BUCKS IS
MORE THAN A FAIR OFFER ON IT.
LIKE I SAID, IT'S... IT'S REALLY
COOL AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT,
BUT...
YEAH, I'M GONNA GO
WITH WHAT WARWICK SAID.
YOU KNOW, HE'S THE
EXPERT IN THIS, YOU KNOW.
- YEAH, I'M GONNA
HAVE TO KEEP IT, THEN.
- OKAY. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND,
COME AND SEE ME.
- I WILL.
- TAKE CARE.
- ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
NO DEAL FOR ME
TODAY, UNFORTUNATELY.
I'M GOING TO TAKE IT BACK HOME
AND HANG IT BACK ON THE WALL
WHERE IT WAS.
- SO I HAVE A PERSON IN THE
STORE RIGHT NOW WITH A REALLY
EARLY NINTENDO NES
DEMONSTRATION UNIT.
AND ANYTHING EARLY NINTENDO
IS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY
AND IS VERY COLLECTIBLE.
BUT I'M GONNA NEED A LOT MORE
INFO ON THIS, SO I CALLED UP
MY VIDEO GAME GURU, DENIZ.
I GOT HIM COMING DOWN...
SEE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
SO IT'S A M82 NES.
- YOU DON'T SEE THESE EVERY DAY.
I LOVE THIS KIND OF STUFF.
AS A PRESERVATIONIST
OR SOMEONE WHO LOVES
THE HISTORY OF THIS...
THIS... THIS IS REALLY
SOMETHING COOL.
BACK IN THE DAY, STORES THAT
WERE SELLING NINTENDO GAMES
WOULD HAVE TO LOOK
THROUGH THESE THINGS CALLED
MERCHANDISE MANUALS.
AND THEY WOULD PICK, UM,
DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT THEY
WOULD WANNA PUT IN THEIR STORES
TO HELP SELL THEIR
GAMES, ESSENTIALLY.
SOMETHING LIKE THIS COST A
STORE OWNER A LOT OF MONEY.
AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS ONE
IS THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU
JUST LOOK AT. THIS FUNCTIONS.
- OKAY, COOL. LET'S TEST IT OUT.
- IS IT ALL PLUGGED IN, CHUM?
- YEAH, IT'S PLUGGED IN.
YOU PROBABLY DON'T
KNOW HOW TO DO IT,
BUT YOU HAVE TO
TURN THE POWER ON.
♪ ♪
- WHAT GAME IS THIS?
- SO THIS IS ACTUALLY
REALLY COOL, TOO.
THIS IS KINDA
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
THIS IS CALLED THE HOMEBREW.
PEOPLE WHO LOVED NES GAMES
AND ALSO KNEW HOW TO PROGRAM
STUFF, THEY STARTED PROGRAMMING
THEIR OWN NES GAMES. IT'S
SOMETHING SOMEONE CRAFTED
IN THEIR OWN GARAGE
OR THEIR BASEMENT.
THEY WEREN'T
LICENSED BY NINTENDO
OR ANY OFFICIAL COMPANY.
IT'S JUST A PASSION PROJECT.
- SOMEONE JUST MADE THIS?
- YEAH, THIS GUY, KEVIN HANLEY,
PROGRAMMED THIS GAME,
AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER
FANTASTIC GAMES.
I THINK THIS ONE'S
CALLED "NESCAPE."
AND YOU GOTTA KINDA GO
THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ROOMS,
YOU GOTTA JUST KINDA
FIGURE YOUR WAY OUT.
THIS IS COOL.
- THERE IS A VERY NICHE KIND
OF ASPECT TO THE VIDEO GAME
COLLECTING, WHERE IT'S
NOT JUST ABOUT THE GAMES.
IT'S ABOUT ALL THE PERIPHERALS;
IT'S ABOUT THE DISPLAY UNITS.
BASICALLY, IF IT WASN'T
MEANT TO BE COLLECTED,
IT'S COLLECTIBLE.
- OKAY, UM...
SO WHAT'S IT WORTH? I
MEAN, IS IT IN GOOD SHAPE?
IS IT, YOU KNOW...
- YEAH, SURPRISINGLY, IT IS.
ON THE OPEN MARKET, YOU
KNOW, THESE USED TO SELL FOR
$1,500, $2,000.
SO THEY'VE BEEN
VALUABLE FOR A LONG TIME.
BUT GIVEN THAT ONE HASN'T
COME UP IN A WHILE, AND
THAT THEY'RE... THEY'RE HARDER
AND HARDER TO FIND,
I'D SAY THIS IS PROBABLY
CLOSER TO 3,000 IF IT CAME
UP ON THE OPEN MARKET TODAY.
- ALL RIGHT. THANKS
MAN, I APPRECIATE IT.
- ALWAYS HAPPY
TO HELP. TAKE CARE.
- ALL RIGHT, SEE YOU LATER.
- THANKS.
- HE SAYS I CAN PROBABLY
GET 3 GRAND OUT OF IT.
I'LL GIVE YOU 2.
♪ ♪
- I CAN GO TO 3,500.
- IT WOULD MAKE ZERO ECONOMIC
SENSE FOR SOMETHING THAT HAS
A CURRENT RETAIL VALUE
OF $3,000 TO PAY 3,500.
I UNDERSTAND.
I THINK THE MARKET'S
HIGHER THAN THAT.
- OKAY.
ANYWAY, THANKS FOR BRINGING
IT IN, MAN, IT'S REALLY COOL.
- THANK YOU.
- AND, UH...
HELP HIM OUT HERE, CHUM.
HERE YOU GO, SORRY
MY BOSS IS A CHEAP-ASS.
- NO WORRIES.
- I NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
THESE HOMEBREW GAMES.
- THEY'RE COOL.
THEY'RE FUN. I DIDN'T
MAKE A SALE TODAY,
BUT I STILL HAVE A COUPLE
LIVES LEFT, AND I THINK I'M GONNA
HIT THE RESET BUTTON AND
MAKE A SALE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
- THAT WAS PRETTY COOL. I
DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU COULD
GET A HOMEBREW GAME MADE.
- YEAH, THESE ARE, LIKE,
THE NEXT BIG THING.
HOMEBREWED NINTENDO GAMES.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD
OF HOMEBREWED GAMES,
LIKE, FOR NINTENDO AND STUFF?
- LIKE, WITH BEER, OR...
- NO, LIKE, YOU KNOW HOW
THERE'S NINTENDO GAMES
LICENSED BY NINTENDO?
WELL, THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE
THAT MAKE GAMES IN A
NINTENDO CARTRIDGE,
BUT THEY JUST MAKE IT AT HOME.
- SO PEOPLE CAN MAKE
A NINTENDO GAME NOW
AND PLAY IT IN THE
OLD-SCHOOL NES'S.
♪ ♪
- LIKE, IF I MADE A GAME,
I'D BE THE CHARACTER,
AND YOU CAN SELL IT
HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP.
- YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT YOURSELF?
- SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
- A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
THAT DOES NOTHING
WOULD NOT BE A GOOD CHARACTER.
- I ACTUALLY KNOW KUNG FU.
- OKAY, YOU DON'T KNOW KUNG FU.
- ARE YOU GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT NAPPING?
- NO, MAYBE ABOUT, YOU
KNOW, GETTING RID OF MY BOSS,
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
TAKING OVER HIS EMPIRE.
- NO ONE WOULD EVER BUY THAT.
- I'D BE, LIKE, A KUNG FU
MASTER AND I'D COME IN,
AND I'D TAKE OVER THE PAWN SHOP.
FIRST LEVEL, I'D WHUP COREY.
SECOND LEVEL, I'D RUN RIGHT
THROUGH YOU, AND THEN YOU WOULD
NO LONGER BE A
PART OF MY DYNASTY.
- THAT SOUNDS LIKE
YOU HAVE SOME ISSUES.
- COREY, YOU LISTENING TO THIS?
- NOPE, TUNED OUT A MINUTE AGO.
- NO ONE'S GONNA WANT
A CHUMLEE VIDEO GAME.
- WHY NOT? I'M BADASS.
- THERE'S POINTLESS
CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE HEARD,
BUT THIS IS PROBABLY
THE MOST POINTLESS.
- YOU KNOW WHAT, THE MORE I
THINK ABOUT A HOMEBREWED GAME,
THE BETTER IDEA I THINK IT IS.
I'M GONNA GO DRAW
UP A STORY PLAN.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- HI, I'M FINE.
I GOT THIS RELATIVELY
RARE "HARRY POTTER" BOOK,
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.
- OKAY.
"HARRY POTTER AND THE
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
J.K. ROWLING... SHE WROTE
MOST OF IT IN A COFFEE SHOP,
AND SHE BECAME
A MULTI-BILLIONAIRE
ABOUT A STORY WITH A KID
THAT CARRIES AROUND A STICK.
♪ ♪
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP
TODAY TO SELL A FIRST EDITION
OF "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
IT'S A FIRST PRINTING
AND IS SIGNED BY
J.K. ROWLING, THE AUTHOR.
I'M HOPING TO SELL THE
BOOK TODAY FOR $10,000.
♪ ♪
- "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
IT'S A STORY ABOUT A
YOUNG BOY, HE'S, UH...
WHEN HE TURNS 11 YEARS OLD,
HE FINDS OUT THAT HE'S ACTUALLY
A WIZARD AND NEEDS TO
GO TO A WIZARD SCHOOL.
AFTER THE BOOK WAS RELEASED
IN 1997, KIDS FELL IN LOVE WITH IT
AND IT JUST WENT VIRAL
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THEY'VE DONE, LIKE, I
THINK EIGHT MOVIES,
PLUS THERE WAS, LIKE,
SOME SPIN-OFF MOVIES,
AND IT'S AMAZING HOW
WELL THIS HAS DONE.
♪ ♪
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS?
- I BOUGHT IT FROM A
DEALER IN ENGLAND.
- OKAY, UM, LOOKS
LIKE IT'S SIGNED HERE.
- YUP.
- AND YOU GOT A CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICITY.
"HARRY POTTER AND THE
PHILOSOPHER'S STONE."
SIGNED BY J.K. ROWLING. SO...
LOOKS IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE.
OKAY. HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- WELL, I THOUGHT IT
MIGHT BE WORTH 10,000.
- OKAY.
UH, MAYBE IT IS, MAYBE
IT'S NOT, I HAVE NO IDEA.
- YEAH.
- UM, BUT I HAVE A VERY GOOD
FRIEND THAT WILL KNOW
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
SHE WILL PROBABLY BE REALLY
GOOD WITH THE SIGNATURE,
SHE'LL KNOW IF
IT'S FIRST EDITION.
- YEAH.
- WHICH PRINTING,
AND EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
- YEAH.
- SO JUST HANG TO FOR A
FEW MINUTES, I WILL GET HER
DOWN HERE, AND HAVE
HER TAKE A LOOK AT IT, OKAY?
- GREAT.
- I'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU?
- SO WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- SO WHAT THIS IS
IS A MEDALLION, UH, ON A STRAP
THAT I BELIEVE WOULD'VE BEEN
WRAPPED AROUND THE 1,000,000TH
CASE OF JOHNNIE WALKER
SOLD TO THE U.S.
- OKAY.
1934 TO 1971.
1,000,000TH CASE SHIPPED.
PRETTY COOL. I'D
MUCH RATHER HAVE
THE JOHNNIE WALKER.
- YEAH, ME TOO, RIGHT NOW.
- I'M HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP
TODAY TO SELL MY 1,000,000TH
CASE JOHNNIE WALKER
WHISKEY STRAP.
I BOUGHT IT IN AN ESTATE SALE,
AND JUST WAS IMMEDIATELY DRAWN
TO IT, JUST SEEING THAT JOHNNIE
WALKER LOGO AND KNOWING THAT
THAT BRAND IS SO POPULAR.
YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD THIS FOR
A COUPLE YEARS AND KEPT
IT, UH, OVER MY FIREPLACE,
WHERE I LOVE TO LOOK AT
IT. I'M HOPING TO SELL TODAY
FOR $5,000.
- JOHNNIE WALKER. THE
HISTORY OF THE COMPANY
IS PRETTY... PRETTY AMAZING.
JOHN WALKER, OR JOHNNIE WALKER,
HE WAS, LIKE, THE 1820S... HE
HAD A LITTLE GROCERY STORE.
- OKAY.
- AND HE MADE HIS OWN BRANDS
OF RUM AND WHISKEY AND
EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
BUT WHEN IT REALLY TOOK
OFF WAS WHEN HE PASSED AWAY
AND HANDED IT DOWN TO HIS KIDS.
- MM.
- THEY STARTED DOING
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
THEY CAME UP WITH
A SQUARE BOTTLE.
THE REASON THEY HAD THE SQUARE
BOTTLE IS BASICALLY THEY CAN
MAKE SMALLER CASES. AND
WITH THAT, FIT MORE WHISKEY
AND THE BOTTLES WERE STRONGER.
THEY WOULDN'T GET AS MUCH
DAMAGE IN TRANSPORT.
- SURE.
- SO BY THE 1950S, JOHNNIE
WALKER WAS THE NUMBER ONE
SELLING WHISKEY IN THE WORLD.
- WOW.
- AND TO THIS DAY, I THINK
THEY SELL, LIKE, 20,000,000 CASES
A YEAR.
- WOW.
- YEAH, BUT THEY ALWAYS
ARE COMING UP WITH
INNOVATIVE THINGS. UM,
THEY CAME UP WITH THE, UM,
THE "STRIDING MAN."
THEY CREATED JOHNNIE WALKER RED,
JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE,
JOHNNIE WALKER BLACK.
EVENTUALLY, THEY CAME UP
WITH GOLD AND PLATINUM AND
EVERYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT.
- YEAH.
- THEY WERE JUST REALLY, REALLY
BRILLIANT, AND THIS WAS ANOTHER
GREAT PROMOTIONAL
THING I BET THEY HAD.
- I'M SURE, YEAH.
- SO JUST READING
THE LABEL HERE,
"1934 TO 1971.1,000,000TH
CASE SHIPPED FROM,
UH, KILMARNOCK."
THIS WAS PROBABLY
A BIG PUBLICITY EVENT.
SO HOW MUCH YOU WANT FOR IT?
- YEAH, SO I WAS
HOPING TO GET, UH, 5,000.
- UM...
YOU KNOW THE BOTTLES OF
WHISKEY YOU COULD GET FOR $5,000?
WHAT WOULD YOU
RATHER HAVE IN YOUR BAR?
LIKE, YOU KNOW, UM,
IT'S A REALLY, REALLY
INTERESTING ITEM.
I MEAN, I'D GIVE YOU,
LIKE, 500 BUCKS FOR IT.
OOH, IT'S... YEAH.
LIKE I SAID, IT'S
INTERESTING, BUT...
LIKE, IN THE WORLD
OF COLLECTIBLES, THERE'S
SO MUCH OUT THERE
THAT YOU CAN BUY.
- RIGHT.
WOW, INTERESTING. YEAH, I
WOULD'VE THOUGHT MORE,
I MEAN...
- IT'S NOT $5,000 COOL.
- OKAY.
- I... I COULD RETAIL IT FOR,
LIKE, A $1,000 COOL.
- UH, SO THERE'S NO WAY
YOU COULD EVEN MEET
ME IN THE MIDDLE, I GUESS?
- NOPE.
- YEAH.
- OH, I DON'T KNOW. UH, I
THINK I'M PROBABLY GONNA
HAVE TO TAKE IT HOME.
- ALL RIGHT, WELL,
HAVE A GOOD DAY, MAN.
- THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
- YUP, I THINK I'M
GONNA GO HAVE A DRINK.
JOHNNIE, JACK, JIM. THESE
DAYS A LOT OF US ARE ON
FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH
OUR FAVORITE WHISKEYS.
BUT IT TURNS OUT THIS STUFF
HAS BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES.
AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING IT
FOR A LOT MORE THAN SOMETHING
TO SIP ON AT THE
END OF A LONG DAY.
WHISKEY WAS FIRST DISTILLED
FROM FERMENTED GRAINS
IN ANCIENT BABYLON
AND MESOPOTAMIA.
RELIGIOUS MONKS EVENTUALLY
BROUGHT THE DISTILLING
TECHNIQUES TO
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
AND THE ACTUAL WORD
"WHISKEY" ORIGINATED IN IRELAND.
IT WAS GAELIC FOR
"WATER OF LIFE."
THE FIRST KNOWN IRISH
DISTILLERY, BUSHMILLS,
OPENED ITS DOORS IN 1608.
AND IT'S STILL GOING STRONG
MORE THAN FOUR CENTURIES LATER.
SOMETIMES AFTER WHISKEY
MADE ITS WAY TO THE GOOD OLD
U.S.A., IT GOT A RE-ENDORSEMENT
FROM ONE OF OUR
FOUNDING FATHERS.
OUR FIRST PRESIDENT GEORGE
WASHINGTON OPENED A DISTILLERY,
AND BY 1799, HE WAS THE
LARGEST PRODUCER OF WHISKEY
IN THE COUNTRY.
BY 1830, IT FELT LIKE
EVERYONE IN THE U.S.
WAS DRINKING THE STUFF.
THAT YEAR, 88 BOTTLES OF
WHISKEY WERE CONSUMED
FOR EVERY U.S. CITIZEN.
NOW THAT'S A WHOLE
LOT OF DRUNK FOLK.
NEARLY TWO CENTURIES LATER,
WHISKEY IS NUMBER ONE WORLDWIDE,
WORTH NEARLY $60,000,000,000.
IT ALSO HAPPENS TO BE
NUMBER ONE IN THE HEART OF THIS
PAWN SHOP OWNER.
♪ ♪
- SO I HAVE A PERSON IN THE
STORE RIGHT NOW WITH A DELUXE
EDITION "HARRY POTTER AND
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE"
THAT'S SIGNED BY J.K. ROWLING.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT
THE BOOK'S WORTH,
SO I'VE CALLED IN REBECCA,
SHE'S GONNA TAKE A LOOK AT
IT, AND DO ALL OF HER MAGIC.
♪ ♪
HARRY POTTER. THE
KID WITH THE STICK.
OH.
- DOPPELGANGER. YOU
TOLD ME YOU WANTED ME
TO LOOK AT A SIGNED
COPY, SO I THOUGHT,
"I HAVE A SIGNED COPY FOR
PURPOSES OF ACTUALLY COMPARING
THE SIGNATURE."
THE BEST THING TO DO
IS TO COMPARE IT WITH ONE
THAT IS ACTUALLY KNOWN
TO BE CORRECT.
- THIS YOUNG MAN BOUGHT
THIS, UM, 18, 19 YEARS AGO,
AND, UM, THIS WAS SOME SPECIAL
PRINTING THEY CAME OUT WITH?
- YES. IN 1999, WHEN
IT HAD ALREADY
STARTED GETTING THE
MOMENTUM FOR WHICH IT'S FAMOUS,
THEY PUBLISHED DELUXE
EDITIONS OF THE WORKS.
AND THERE ARE A FEW THINGS
THAT MAKE THESE DELUXE.
A LOT OF THIS GILT... YOU
KNOW, THIS IS ACTUAL GOLD.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THAT
THE TEXT BLOCK EDGES HERE
ARE ALSO GILT. THESE
ARE ALL INDICATIONS
OF A TYPICAL DELUXE PRODUCTION.
- OKAY.
- I CAN EVEN TELL JUST
LOOKING AT IT FROM HERE,
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL COPY,
WHICH IS WHAT YOU WANT
FOR A BOOK LIKE THIS.
BUT ROWLING IS INFAMOUS
FOR HAVING MANY,
MANY, MANY FORGERIES.
IT'S JUST, LIKE, A
HORNET'S NEST.
IT'S ALWAYS A PROBLEM.
- OKAY, WELL, LOOK
INSIDE. DO YOUR MAGIC.
♪ ♪
- SO I'M ACTUALLY GOING
TO COMPARE IT FIRST,
JUST TO DOUBLE CHECK.
UM, YOU CAN SEE IT
HAS THE GENERAL SHAPE,
BUT FIRST OF ALL, SOME
OF THESE LINES HAVE BEEN
DOUBLE CROSSED, RIGHT?
SO HERE, YOU CAN SEE
THIS HAS GONE OVER
MORE THAN ONCE.
THERE'S SOME
SHAKINESS RIGHT HERE.
THE OTHER THING TOO, IS YOU'RE
ACTUALLY SEEING IT'S SQUISHED.
YOU SEE IT'S ACTUALLY
A LOT THINNER.
AND THAT'S IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE IT'S VERY TYPICAL
WITH FORGERIES
FOR SIGNATURES TO BE
SLIGHTLY SMALLER
AND MORE SQUISHED.
- SO NOT A REAL SIGNATURE?
- I'M SORRY TO SAY,
I DON'T THINK THAT
THIS IS REAL SIGNATURE.
♪ ♪
- I HAD NO IDEA THAT
IT MIGHT BE DIFFERENT.
- WHAT'S THE BOOK WORTH?
- THIS BOOK, UNSIGNED,
ISN'T A VERY EXPENSIVE BOOK.
UM, BUT MOREOVER,
IN MY OPINION, THIS IS ACTUALLY
NOT EVEN WORTH WHAT IT WOULD BE
IF IT WERE UNSIGNED,
BECAUSE THIS, IN MY OPINION,
SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET.
SO AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED,
THE VALUE ON THIS IS ZERO.
- OKAY. YOU'RE AMAZING.
- YEAH, THANKS.
- THANK YOU, I GUESS.
YEAH.
- ALL RIGHT, UM, IT'S NOT
REAL, SO IT'S NOT FOR ME.
BUT THANKS FOR BRINGING IT IN.
- WELL, ALL RIGHT.
- HAVE A GREAT DAY.
- THANK YOU.
WELL, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED.
I PROBABLY WILL JUST GIVE IT
TO ONE OF MY
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, AND YOURSELF?
- GOOD. WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- IT'S AN EXEMPT CERTIFICATE
FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
- THIS IS AN EXEMPT
CERTIFICATE SAYING,
"HE'S A FIREMAN, YOU CAN'T
CALL HIM INTO JURY DUTY,
OR YOU CAN'T DRAFT
HIM IN THE ARMY"?
- CORRECT.
- I MEAN, I WISH THEY HAD THESE
THINGS FOR PAWN BROKERS SO
WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO JURY DUTY.
YEAH.
I'M HERE AT THE PAWN
SHOP TODAY TO SELL MY FDNY
EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE.
I GOT THIS CERTIFICATE
FROM AN ANTIQUE DEALER.
I PURCHASED IT BECAUSE
IT WAS FROM 1836, AND I'D
NEVER SEEN ONE BEFORE.
I'M HOPING TO GET $15,000
FOR THE CERTIFICATE TODAY.
- IT'S SUPER COOL. IT'S A
GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE PROFESSIONAL
FIREFIGHTERS TILL 1865.
BUT BEFORE THAT, FIREFIGHTERS
WERE ALL VOLUNTEERS.
A VOLUNTEER GUY WAS
BASICALLY AT HIS JOB, EVERYTHING...
THERE WAS AN
ALARM THAT WENT OFF.
HE RAN TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
AS SOON AS HE COULD.
THEY'D LOAD UP THEIR EQUIPMENT,
WENT TO THE FIRE, YOU KNOW.
BUT THEN, 1865 WE GET
PROFESSIONALS WHO CAN ACTUALLY
STAY AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
AND ARE MUCH BETTER TRAINED.
UM...
- CORRECT.
- ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE FIRE
DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK.
"IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT
HENRY GRAND IS EXEMPTED
"FROM SERVING AS A JUROR IN
ANY OF THE COURTS OF THIS STATE,
AND FROM ALL MILITIA DUTY."
DEFINITELY CANNOT TELL
WHO THE CHIEF ENGINEER IS,
AND SOMETHING
"MORTON" IS THE CLERK.
NOW, UM, DO WE KNOW
IF ANY OF THESE PEOPLE
ENDED UP BEING MAYOR OR...
- NO, NO, NONE OF THEM
BECAME MAYOR OR GOVERNOR, NO.
- ALL RIGHT.
- SO HOW MUCH YOU
WANT FOR THIS THING?
15,000.
FOR $15,000, I CAN GET YOU
A FULL FIRE SUIT, A HELMET,
UM, AN AXE, AND A BUNCH OF
OTHER STUFF ALL COMBINED.
UM...
WHERE DID YOU COME
UP WITH THAT FIGURE?
- FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND,
DOCUMENTS FROM THIS PERIOD
AREN'T READILY AVAILABLE.
- UM, DOCUMENTS FROM THIS
PERIOD ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE.
- REALLY?
- LITERALLY DOCUMENTS LIKE THIS
GO FOR, LIKE, 40, 50 BUCKS.
- REALLY, OKAY.
- OKAY, SO I'M GONNA PASS.
- OKAY, THANK YOU.
- HAVE A GOOD ONE.
- THANK YOU.
UNFORTUNATELY, NO DEAL WAS
MADE TODAY, BUT I'M JUST GONNA TAKE
THIS CERTIFICATE BACK AND
I'M GOING TO PUT IT IN A FRAME
AND ENJOY IT.
♪ ♪
- HEY, HOW'S IT GOING?
- GOOD, HOW ARE YOU DOING, MAN?
- GOOD, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
- SO I HAVE A 1822
GENERAL STORE DAY BOOK.
- ALL RIGHT, UM...
- HAVE YOU EVER
SEEN ONE OF THESE?
- NO, I'M NOT THAT OLD.
- YEAH.
- I'M SELLING AN 1822
GENERAL STORE DAY BOOK.
I LOVE HISTORICAL THINGS
THAT TIE TO AN ORIGIN,
AND I SEE THIS AS TYING TO
THE ORIGIN OF GENERAL STORES
IN EARLY NEW ENGLAND.
IF I'M ABLE TO
MAKE A SALE TODAY,
I'M JUST GONNA PUT THAT
TOWARDS A FIELD TRIP FUND
FOR MY DAUGHTER THAT WAS
JUST RECENTLY BORN, AND I'M SURE
WE'LL DO SOMETHING PRETTY EPIC.
- THIS IS PRETTY COOL, MAN.
THE GENERAL STORE
SOLD EVERYTHING.
THEY WERE THE WALMART
OF THE DAY, PRETTY MUCH.
IN 1822, WE WERE A NEW COUNTRY.
IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BUILD A
COUNTRY AND A MONETARY SYSTEM,
ESPECIALLY ONE
THAT PEOPLE TRUST.
AND YOU SEE THAT THEY'RE USING
ALL THESE DIFFERENT
TYPES OF CURRENCY.
YOU HAVE POUNDS,
YOU HAVE DOLLARS,
AND THEY TOOK GOLD, THEY
BARTERED, THEY USED, UM,
BRITISH CURRENCY.
- RIGHT.
- BUT IT WAS SOMETHING
COMPLETELY COMMON AND NORMAL
FOR THE DAY. I DON'T
CARE WHAT BUSINESS
YOU ARE IN THE WORLD... IF
YOU DON'T KEEP GOOD RECORDS
AND GOOD BOOKS, YOU'RE
NOT GONNA MAKE A DIME.
- RIGHT.
- THAT'S WHAT THIS WAS.
THIS WAS BASICALLY THE
ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
OF, YOU KNOW, 1822.
♪ ♪
MIND IF I TAKE A LOOK AT IT?
- SURE.
- WHERE IN THE WORLD
DID YOU GET THIS?
- SO I GOT THIS AT
AN ESTATE AUCTION.
UH, FROM ARIZONA.
THAT'S WHERE I'M FROM.
- OKAY. EVERY GENERAL STORE
IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY,
THIS IS WHAT THEY USED
BACK IN 1822. BACK IN THE DAY,
PENMANSHIP MATTERED.
- RIGHT.
- THE TAX GUY WOULD COME
ALONG, AND HE WOULD COME CHECK
THESE BOOKS, AND DECIDE HOW
MUCH MONEY YOU HAD TO PAY HIM.
SO IF HE COULDN'T READ YOUR
HANDWRITING, YOU WERE KIND OF
SCREWED, RIGHT?
- RIGHT.
- SO WHAT ARE YOU
LOOKING TO DO WITH IT?
- I'M LOOKING TO SELL IT.
- OKAY.
AND HOW MUCH YOU TRYING TO GET?
- I'M LOOKING FOR 500.
♪ ♪
- YEAH, I GET WHAT YOU'RE
SAYING, BECAUSE TO ME,
IT'S COOL.
- YEAH.
- AS A BUSINESS GUY,
THERE'S NOTHING I
CAN DO WITH THIS.
I DON'T REALLY SEE
ANY KIND OF VALUE HERE.
YOU CAN BUY HUNDREDS AND
THOUSANDS OF THESE THINGS
IF YOU WANT TO. THEY'RE
NOT REALLY WORTH MUCH.
AND I THINK IT'S COOL, BUT
I'M JUST NOT GONNA BE ABLE
TO DO ANYTHING WITH IT.
- I UNDERSTAND.
- I APPRECIATE IT. THANKS
FOR COMING DOWN.
- THANK YOU.
- YEAH.
- SO I'M JUST GONNA
TAKE THE DAY BOOK.
I'LL PROBABLY JUST
KEEP IT DISPLAYED
IN MY OWN HOUSE, 'CAUSE IT'S
ALWAYS A GREAT CONVERSATION
PIECE FOR THE GUESTS
THAT WE HAVE OVER.
- SO THIS IS CALLED A WHAT?
- THIS IS A HOMEBREW GAME.
- AND YOU BREWED IT?
- I HAD IT MADE, YEAH.
- WHAT'S THE THING IT'S
DOING TO THE STOMACH?
- IT'S TRYING TO, LIKE,
ATTACK ME WITH THE STOMACH.
YOU KNOW, THAT MOVE YOU
USED TO DO WHEN YOU WERE FAT.
- OH. BELLY BUSTER.
IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT?
- THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL IT.
- RIGHT. THIS IS COOL.
- AFTER TALKING TO RICK AND
COREY ABOUT HOMEBREW GAMES...
- YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A
VIDEO GAME ABOUT YOURSELF?
- SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME.
- A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER
THAT DOES NOTHING
WOULD NOT BE A GOOD CHARACTER.
- I WANTED TO SHOW THEM JUST
HOW COOL THESE GAMES COULD BE.
AND WHAT CAN BE COOLER
THAN A GAME ABOUT US,
RIGHT HERE AT THE PAWN SHOP?
- THIS IS WHERE
YOU GUYS WERE AT.
- YUP.
- WHAT IS THIS?
- THIS IS THE BEST INVENTION
KNOWN TO MANKIND.
- SO YOU MADE A VIDEO GAME?
- YEAH, THIS IS THE
"ADVENTURES OF CHUMLEE:
THE QUEST FOR PINKY."
- WHY ARE YOU
KICKING OLD PEOPLE?
♪ ♪
- 'CAUSE I KNOW KUNG FU.
- CHUM...
- AND I'M IN IT TOO.
WAIT TILL YOU GET TO ME.
- WHAT'S THE WHOLE
CONCEPT HERE, THOUGH?
- IT'S A GAME ABOUT A PRINCE
WHO HAS TO SAVE HIS BEAUTIFUL
BELOVED PUP FROM
EVIL, EVIL, BAD, BAD, BOSS
WHO RUNS A PAWN
SHOP IN LAS VEGAS.
THE BOSS IS BALD AND OVERWEIGHT.
- SO THE... THIS
EVIL BOSS... IS IT ME?
♪ ♪
- IT DOES HAVE A RESEMBLANCE
TO YOU, BUT, YOU KNOW...
WE DON'T WANNA PAY
LICENSING AGREEMENTS,
SO IT'S NOT YOU.
- IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE YOU?
- OBVIOUSLY.
DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE ME?
- AND YOU'RE BEATING UP
CUSTOMERS IN THE PAWN SHOP?
- THESE AREN'T CUSTOMERS,
THESE ARE YOUR GOONS.
- LOOK, THERE I AM.
- THERE'S YOUR NUMBER
ONE GOON RIGHT THERE.
SEE THAT?
YOU SEE THAT THRUST I'M DOING?
IT'S CALLED THE "BELLY BUSTER."
- COREY, CAN YOU
PLEASE JUST GET THEM
BACK TO WORK?
- I WANNA SEE WHAT I LOOK
LIKE IN THE GAME.
- RIGHT.
- YOU LOOK LIKE A BADASS.
♪ ♪
- POPS, GO TO WORK.
YOU KNOW WHAT?
YOU NEVER WORK.
- JUST GO TO WORK, DAD.
- GET YOUR FIVE MINUTES,
AND GET OVER THIS, ALL RIGHT?
- MM-HMM.
- THIS IS EPIC.
- LET ME SEE WHAT
MY DAD LOOKS LIKE.
- I GAVE HIM A BLACK GOATEE
INSTEAD OF A GRAY ONE.
SO HE ACTUALLY LOOKS YOUNGER.