"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
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I mean in real life.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
I watch on occassion Storage Wars, Storage Hunters, both Oddities and Restaurant Stakeout. I have seen Restaurant Impossible, but Irvine gets on my nerves, and Mystery Diners, which is so staged that it makes professional wrestling look legit.
Storage Wars and Storage Hunters are interesting because of the stuff found in the lockers, although I know some of the lockers are staged (you have a storage unit with no climate control in a desert. they throw open the door and there's stuff WITH NO DUST ON IT. I have a storage unit near a field and there's dust on everything.). The biggest annoyances on these are the fake ass trash talking and near brawls that go on, especially from the couple on Storage Hunters. On Storage Wars, Barry was added to provide color and humor because watching a bunch of scavengers go at each other over the crap deadbeats leave behind (seriously-you think people find the good crap you see on these shows as a norm? bet in reality for every storage unit that has a vintage motorcycle or a cache of valuable collectibles, there's a dozen or more full of broken furniture, dirt encrusted artificial trees and wreaths and outright trash) is like watching paint dry. Barry was originally an owner of a California produce chain that he sold when he retired. The guys who created the show knew him and added him in-that's why he can do the crazy shit he does.
Mystery Diners seems to oddly stumble upon the weirdest damn problems going on in a eatery. Restaurant Stakeout must be doing something wrong because all they find are arguing chefs and waiters and the occassional flame dancing bartender or busboy busting a move in the middle of the dining area. How many damn restaurants have their chief bartenders or their managers running "secret businesses" after the restaurant closed for the night or conduct "secret tex mex nights" without SOME evidence shit is going down? Plus, there are tie ins to other reality shows-one Mystery Diners took place at the Full Throttle Saloon (of Tru notariety).
I watched Operation Repo once in a while, usually out of boredom, just to see how many collection laws were broken. Most of these reality shows are not realities-they are fantasies of what the folks in that field wish they could do. For example, in a real repossession, you cannot grab the person out of the vehicle if they jump in to protest the repossession, damage personal property, curse at them or misrepresent yourself, especially as a lawyer or law enforcement, but all those things go on in the repo reality shows.
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Yea, I agree it is illegal, which is why I am not sure how he got away with it. He was basically stealing. Never anything big, but sometimes he ended up with stuff in his possession that I am pretty sure he did not purchase at the auction. He eventually got fired from the job......maybe that is why. He never talked about it, I just remember having to move him and his wife out of their apartment (on site) in the middle of a very bad blizzard.
Without any opinion on her credibility, if I get a chance & it's on, I'll pop on Long Island Medium w/Theresa Caputo. Growing up very close to Long Island, I watch it just to hear her (and most of her clients) tauwk the way they tauwk (fuggetaboutit!). I hate stereotyping/profiling as a rule, but this show is so laughable to me because all the Italian-Americans in it (about 80% of everybody on the show, at least) sound just like all the Italians I grew up with in New Yauck City in a mixed Irish-Italian-Jewish neighborhood in Queens that is now almost completely Middle Eastern & Asian.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Oddities is very fun. It is probably largely staged, but you get the sense that that's the kind of people and items that they typically do get in the shop. The couple that run the place would be a blast to hang out with.
the San Francisco one is funny-I don't know how they exist, as half the stuff people bring in is "illegal under California law". One guy brought in a walrus skull, which was illegal-until they found Eskimo drawing carved into it. Then it was a-okay!
But Oddities has two stores I would definitely shop at! I alsi like Wednesday and Ryan in both
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"Alienated-so alien I go!"
I've seen Oddities a few times and it's pretty cool. I've only seen it on very late at night, though.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
It doesn't have that awkward scripted feel that a lot of the other shows have, but I gotta believe that there's some preparation way before they just walk up to someone's house and knock on the door. I know Danielle at the office calls the sellers ahead of time and all that, but when these guys claim that they go on "freestyle" cold calls I still think that the sellers have to have some advanced notice. By now you'd think people with all this junk stored away know who these pickers are. Just imagine, two strangers show up on your farm with a camera crew in tow.
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Danielle was specifically cast for the show btw. She was part of a Portland burlesque troop (iirc) and didn't work at the shop prior to the show being made. I don't know if she actually "works" for them or is just portraying her alleged job for the show... and they definitely prearrange the "freestyling" picks, even though it probably represents what they really did back in the day.
I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me. She's too hot, and too tatted up. Somehow I just don't see her as this down home girl from small town Iowa . Damn she's hot. The tattoos are a bit overkill but what a body.Danielle was specifically cast for the show btw. She was part of a Portland burlesque troop (iirc) and didn't work at the shop prior to the show being made.
Oh, well, you were referring to the history lessons, as was I.
but, certainly, they need to get permission and releases before they film anyone. It's clear that the intros are not fresh ones. Hell, they sometimes have cameras inside the place when they knock. So, yes, the introductions are faked. I do think their knowledge is pretty genuine.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I do find it annoying that Mike or Audra get this person who is a hard core collector of weird shit such as cannibalistic tribal ritual art and they are telling HIM what it is, but that does not remove the utter coolness of seeing cannibalistic tribal ritual art. Although I do find it plausible Ryan and Wednesday are that knowledgable (in fact, Wednesday is a genetic oddity in and of herself).
"We can tell Stephen Wilson exactly why the Raven refuses to sing."
Last edited by Rune Blackwings; 08-11-2014 at 09:31 PM. Reason: they still look more normal than Giorgio on Ancient Aliens
"Alienated-so alien I go!"
Oh man, I've just discovered my new favourite, I'm watching episode 1 right now - Deals From The Dark Side. Creepy, spooky, and sometimes disgusting.
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Does baseball or an occasional Jeopardy count?
Roger Daltry was on one episode of Pawn Stars yesterday. For Rick's birthday they got him a chance to sing with Roger Daltry in one of those Rock and Roll "camp" type things. Normally this type of fluffy nonsense doesn't interest me (the stuff on the show that has nothing to do with the "business") but in this eppy it was funny. So Rick gets a voice lesson from Kip Winger and then he sings "My Generation" with Daltry. At the end of the segment "old man" asks "who in the hell is Roger Daltry?"
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