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five years pass...
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.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link