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And I like the guy who buys the shit storage rooms nobody wants. I can't remember his name.

barry, and yeah, he's the best thing about the show

Yep, Barry. Watching another in which he just rolled up in some ridic truck with a crazy person he's calling his "good luck charm". He's great.

s1ocki's right: he'd be a pain in the ass to kick it with

also i need more occasions wirl where its appropriate to say "YUUUUUUUP!"

like when they call out my coffee order to let me know its ready:

"YUUUUUUP!"

NOOOOOOOOOPE!

Watched a couple episodes of Storage Wars this morning (these shows are perfect for drinking coffee and lazing around on weekend mornings, IMO). I want to strangle the YUUUUUUUUUP guy. He's such a tool.

Jeff's idea on how to succeed at storage wars: find out where the auctions are and rob the buyers on the way to the storage facility.

Also, Brandi needs to divorce her idiot husband who doesn't listen to her and then gets angry and defensive when it turns out she was right.

Yeah she is way outta his league, maybe he's a nice guy when not on television.

everyone is a moron on that show, its the only reason worth watching it

as opposed to all the other shows which are only worth watching for cool/rare stuff

I think the Storage Wars people are going to break into Dave's house at night and beat him to death with socks full of soap.

i was thinking the other day that the storage wars guys and the auction hunters guys are covering so much of the same ground in so. cal that they have to run in to each other at some point. they should get it over with and do a crossover episode.

I thought about that too. Would be cool to have a crossover of any two storage shows iirc. Also would be cool to visit storage auctions when in Cali just to witness an episode in progress.

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I've been taping reruns of Storage Wars Texas and I guess there is new ones coming too (definitely not as good as the original). There's a guy named Doc that is a poor man's Barry.

I kind of like how former Dallas Cowboys player Roy Williams' life takes an unexpected turn when two fat storage locker cowboys come to his house to have his autograph verified. Roy's been added to the theme sequence this week. Also, we can now watch how well a rookie does in the storage locker business should we ever decide to visit some auctions ourselves.

did anyone see the LIVE episode of auction hunters? such a terrible idea.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/12/storage-wars-sued-dave-hester-show-faked

In a suit that is sure to cause ripples through the show and the network, Hester charges:

Producers staged entire units and enlisted the cooperation of owners of storage facilities to do so.
The show pays for storage lockers for “weaker” cast members as part of the manipulation
The show plants items in lockers after having them appraised weeks in advance
The show obtains items to be placed in the units from a business regularly featured on air

In addition, Hester charges that interviews with cast members are scripted and scenes of biding are faked to the extent that there are no auctions taking place while cast members and members of the public are shown bidding.

I must now look to the Tour de France for honesty in competition.

shocked

I watched a Storage Wars martathon the other weekend for the first time - I find these 'revelations' reassuring.

yeah not exactly a surprise

in another part of the article he says that around season 2 the network said they had to use locks provided by the network to secure the lockers they just bought (which the network would then open and stick stuff in there before they shot the "going through the locker" scenes)

lol

when Hester would examine a locker he bought, “production staff would prod him to ‘check out’ certain boxes or direct him to unload his unit in such a way that he would be certain to ‘discover’ particular items that Defendants clearly knew had been planted in the unit.”

Wonder if they said things like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOPE" to him if he went the wrong way.

the only thing I'm surprised about is that the salting was allegedly done without the cast members' knowledge.

part of me wonders if he just got his knickers in a knot because other people's lockers were getting salted with better stuff than his

i love this so much.

I can't stop watching Duck Dynasty.

Sorry - I don't know where else to admit that.

otm

i assumed all these things were a given but now i doubt them because the source is butthurt hester

my thread on Dave Hester and Trey Songz suing each other over the use of the catchphrase YUUUUUUUUP is lost to the sandbox so you'll just have to trust me that that happened.

I remember that thread.

smdh

I want to eat a pancake breakfast with Barry Weiss and figure out how to become him

Hester's character stopped even having an apparent interest in making a profit, so I'm not surprised. I just want to watch Barry all day anyway.

this is devastating news

yeah s1ocki dont get yr take, i would def kiw barry for at least an afternoon

― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:47 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can just tell he's high-maintenance irl

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:48 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like he would take forever to get out of the coffee shop or wtv

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:48 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^have come around to this take on barry

Wandering around a Toys R Us in Waco today and spotted this:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/25056_10151151406976596_1278996371_n.jpg

It was on the same shelf as the Jersey Shore trivia game. These are actual consumer products.

I saw my first episode of Storage Hunters the other night. Then today I walked through the park. Then I realised:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouPPVBBOODI

He's a wren

Nine years later, I raise a glass to WmC's shoutout to Junkin' With Val and Dave. An old buddy showed me an episode of that recently (the titular Dave has posted them all on YouTube) and it is SUCH a time capsule of circa 2004 chill southern hipsters and their relationship to thrift stores and flea markets. Also amazing in that they basically know nothing about any of the stuff they're looking at, and are really just goofing around, clearly amazed at their luck to get paid for this.

American Pickers used to drive me crazy with the idea that these dopes were driving seemingly hundreds of miles to root through a treasure trove barn and leave with like, two things.

Pawn Stars meanwhile has ascended to Shark Tank level of hotel-TV ubiquity; there are a million episodes and it's broadcast in like six-hour blocks, so it just plays and plays, one segment rolling into the next, "I'll just hang on until they come back and put a pricetag on this complete set of Jurassic Park POGs for which this dummy is expecting $750,000," etc. It seems that later episodes kinda phased out all the interpersonal drama and antics among the cast, which probably helps make it more bite-sized and binge-able. Apparently in its heyday it was the #2 rated reality show, behind Jersey Shore. Hopefully future history textbooks get comfortable using it as a shorthand for American culture circa 2010, like talking about the 50s via Leave it to Beaver.