Calling an expert is the only reason they are on the history channel, the expert comes in and tells the history of whatever the object is, teaching the viewers a thing or two
@@jcmartinez7527 yup and if the customer ask $300 and it really value at $50k Rick tells the professional the customer asking $300 then the professional says it cost $600 and baaam they got the deal lol always stealing from ppl
@@Sluicey They still deal like this all the time. My dad's side of the family has lived in Vegas since the 80's and my dad has been to this shop on a couple occasions when they weren't filming. They only put the good stuff on TV; you have to email them to explain what you have, send pictures, and if they think it's worth having on the show they'll invite you in when they're filming but you have to pay your own way and everything. Otherwise, the place functions like a normal pawn shop in the off-season.
Things I learned in this video: •Rick’s fake laugh has always been his real laugh •This show could have been WAY different and more like a depressing HBO series •The Old Man was 100% legit Thanks for posting this all those years ago, random UA-camr!
Cool thing is. I work at a pawnshop in Detroit that was approached by HBO way back in mid 2000s probably a bit before this pawn stars pitch. They were very similar to Hardcore pawn back then and that's the way the show was gonna be, but the mother of the family didn't want them to do it since she thought it would make them look bad. And then rest is history when they went to vegas and they started their show and made millions.
Saw in another video rick was close to make a deal with hbo before history but because of creative differences between rick and the tv channel the deal didn’t last
@@silverkitty2503 I was a Broker in my early twenties in the High Desert of CA. Decent job some honest customers looking to make some extra cash with shit they don't need. Then you would have the ones with three teeth left trying to sell their shoes and a half empty bottle of mouth wash for 50 cents.
@@silverkitty2503 Good people can certainly shop there though. Pawn shops are a great place to track down cheap gear that can be stripped for hard to find parts. Electronics, instruments and the like. Lots of cool hidden treasures too. I just try not the think about the circumstances that led to those items being in a pawn shop in the first place. That can be a downer.
Honestly, I agree. It's certain that Pawn Stars cherry picks what they show on the show, but even from this pitch video alone, everyone feels very authentic to who they are, and the Gold and Silver pawnshop still feels like a "wow" place to be. They didn't even need to exaggerate too much to make the pawnshop shine--its already in Vegas and sees a ton of strange characters pass by that would make for interesting TV. Either way, its brilliant to see what History Channel did in steering the direction of the show.
Agreed, even if the drama is scripted as hell, it really is a fascinating show for the historical aspect. The concept's pretty much like a more hip, updated version of Antiques Roadshow.
The entire evolution was several different groups of ppl.. Leftfield Pictures originally pitched an idea to HBO, which wanted it to be based on what happens at the night window.. ppl at the History Channel changed the format to what it became, while Leftfield ended up then pitching the name “Pawn Stars” for appeal, there was no single genius person..
"Gambling can be a disease just like alcohol or some ahh drug addiction, I don't gamble. (long heavy sigh) With my dysfunctional family and running this place that's enough of a gamble for me" - The Old Man Richard Harrison. Rest in peace sir, your honesty is a quality that is becoming pretty rare.
@@J_Caban its the persistent nostalgia of a bygone era that never existed. People said the same thing 100 years ago and will say the same thing 100 years from now and beyond
not depressing to me it seems fine the show has hanged its got a little more scripted i bet but this doesn't seem that bad either i still love the show either way
The story of the guy pawning stuff from Walmart, making 50k that night and coming back for his TVs all because his mom was in the hospital with no insurance is one of the best stories I've heard in over 10 years of watching this show.
The reason Pawn Stars works and has stayed on while Hardcore Pawn fizzled out is variety. Every episode has something different so it never gets old, even if the act itself feels old.
To the person who steered this series into an actual historical show deserves an award, because instead of going down the easy route of showcasing the depressing parts of desperate Americans we get to see really interesting historical artifacts and not someones silver grill they are selling to pay child support or their drug habbit. We go to Hardcore pawn for that hot mess.
Pawnstars almost became one of those depressing Vice and BBC documentaries. Cant believe Corey really said the only way he moves up is if one of his family members dies. Cold as ice
Ways to preserve yourself..don’t cook yourself in the sun.. wear sunscreen to prevent sun damage and wrinkles.. seems like rick never tanned.. and if you have some money, you can get mini facelifts.. eye lifts.. neck sculpting, fat removal, Botox.. etc.. not to mention a lot of bald people look younger if they were always bald.. because hair thinning/ greying isn’t evident.
If pawn stars was like this would watch it every single day. I knida wish we could've seen a little more R rated version of The Old Man on Paw Stars, he was an absolute sound byte machine! R.I.P
@@senatuspopulusqueromanus5626 I'm exaggerating a little. This kind of raw show where they show a real pawn shop probably wouldn't work as a TV show but as a documentary it would have been quite interesting. Something like the Canadian documentary Broke which is about a pawn broker would have been good.
@@senatuspopulusqueromanus5626 No joke, I also wanted to see a TV show with meth addict moms pawning their kid's Wii to get their next fix because they're too old and damaged to work on the streets. That would have been hilarious 😂
@@alainportant6412 it would be fun for a season of two maybe but if has its limits and is depressing. I like how they make an enjoyable show with more of a showcase on old items and the history and it overall feels like a lot more variety thats overall better
Well yeah, when your desensitized to the candy-coated fake shit that they put out, and see the RAW dealings of a pawn operation. It would be "weird". 💁♂️
@@mesofius your thinking about meth heads, those are some fuckin t-800 batshit crazy shells of human beings, crackheads are usually just tryna find a way to hide that there on crack
It would get old after awhile, maybe a few episodes would be definitely be cool. But once you’ve seen one crackhead sell stolen items, you’ve seen them all. But going into the history of those different unique items, that’s a show you can build 20 seasons of
"By 1989 the city's population reached that number and after some legal struggles, the Harrisons obtained their pawn license. That year Harrison and his father opened the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. By 2005, Harrison and his father were loaning out about $3 million annually, which brought them about $700,000 in interest income."
Nobody nobody at all me 14 years after this video came out laying on the floor in my room and scroll across this lmao to know how far this show has gone and rip old man crazy how time flys was 4 when this came out I'm 18 now it's crazy
When Corey said it’s hard to go to work everyday with your dad and grandpa lol I laughed because it’s so true I worked with my dad and grandpa doing construction we had our own business and let me tell ya things got messy and now I work in a ware house lol
I can see why they originally thought it would be an HBO show... Man.. i would love to see the HBO version. I bet it would be as sad and depressing as this video was.
lol the crap rick said at the beginning would have killed this show in todays world, personally I think people should be able to say whatever they want.
I wish the Harrisons the best... my favorite History Channel Show... and honestly, Like the sons... I will miss they're ol man... they made that man very proud before he left this earth... Im sure...
Before the show started they were raking in 700,000 dollars of interest payments apart from the stuff that people wouldn’t come back to reclaim/ flat out sold to them that they would resell for profit.. old man and Rick had a 50/50 stake in the business so they probably made 150-250k each while Corey probably made 60-100k
They should do a spinoff like that. I really wanted to see a TV show with meth addict moms pawning their kid's Wii to get their next fix because they're too old and damaged to work on the streets. That would have been hilarious 😂
I mean the pitch was golden. A 24/7 Pawn Shop on the Strip? The Content would basically write itself. People coming all over the world who need money instantly, just imagine the crazy shit you'd see, without having to script it.
When was this filmed? I went to the window one at night when I lived in Vegas back in 2005. Pawned some cheap jewelry lol. Saw it on TV years later and was like hey I know that place 😂
Damn this is back when the shop had Grit and Character. Damn this would have been a better tv show, now its been completely pussified and made for families, seeing drug addicts come in at 4 am would have been better than a 50 year old with a rolex
You must be from the suburbs, I know those people have a hard on for anything gritty. I'd rather hear a history lesson on a 1740s cabinet than watch crackpots
Before the show started they were raking in 700,000 dollars of interest payments apart from the stuff that people wouldn’t come back to reclaim/ flat out sold to them that they would resell for profit.. old man and Rick had a 50/50 stake in the business so they probably made 175-250k each while Corey probably made 60-100k
What's weird is that niece is hot, but you can still see the Harrison in her face. You wouldn't think it'd be possible for a chic to look vaguely like Rick and be anywhere near cute.
The only episode where you dont hear "Let me call a buddy of mine..."
Yeah, instead you get to watch them check ebay lol.
Calling an expert is the only reason they are on the history channel, the expert comes in and tells the history of whatever the object is, teaching the viewers a thing or two
I'm taking all the risks
@@yjzep9922 I swear they did a lot more of this in the first season and then they changed into more of a historian driven pawn show
@@jcmartinez7527 yup and if the customer ask $300 and it really value at $50k Rick tells the professional the customer asking $300 then the professional says it cost $600 and baaam they got the deal lol always stealing from ppl
This is what the pawn shop actually is... more pregnant woman pawning Wii and electronics and less high class book dealers with fine art.
I think the show is what brought the book deals and stuff. People want to be on tv.
It's the history channel. That turned a pawn shop in vegas into a show with alot of history coming thru it. Pretty crazy
@@Sluicey They still deal like this all the time. My dad's side of the family has lived in Vegas since the 80's and my dad has been to this shop on a couple occasions when they weren't filming. They only put the good stuff on TV; you have to email them to explain what you have, send pictures, and if they think it's worth having on the show they'll invite you in when they're filming but you have to pay your own way and everything. Otherwise, the place functions like a normal pawn shop in the off-season.
That wasn't a Wii, it was some shitty clone console called the "iWin".
Dustin Farnum although there was some history items in there
Things I learned in this video:
•Rick’s fake laugh has always been his real laugh
•This show could have been WAY different and more like a depressing HBO series
•The Old Man was 100% legit
Thanks for posting this all those years ago, random UA-camr!
dolfanchambers84 it was suppose to be like Taxicab confessions but with a Pawn Shop
Cool thing is. I work at a pawnshop in Detroit that was approached by HBO way back in mid 2000s probably a bit before this pawn stars pitch. They were very similar to Hardcore pawn back then and that's the way the show was gonna be, but the mother of the family didn't want them to do it since she thought it would make them look bad. And then rest is history when they went to vegas and they started their show and made millions.
Saw in another video rick was close to make a deal with hbo before history but because of creative differences between rick and the tv channel the deal didn’t last
dolfanchambers84 it was suppose to be a HBO show like Taxicab Confessions.
I love depressing HBO series
This is real pawn life. If you've ever been to a pawn shop you already know what kind of people that business really attracts, never mind in Vegas.
@@silverkitty2503 I was a Broker in my early twenties in the High Desert of CA. Decent job some honest customers looking to make some extra cash with shit they don't need. Then you would have the ones with three teeth left trying to sell their shoes and a half empty bottle of mouth wash for 50 cents.
@@silverkitty2503 Good people can certainly shop there though. Pawn shops are a great place to track down cheap gear that can be stripped for hard to find parts. Electronics, instruments and the like. Lots of cool hidden treasures too. I just try not the think about the circumstances that led to those items being in a pawn shop in the first place. That can be a downer.
@Tim not judging those people
@T im sorry i didn't mean to judge i am just too pass remarkable at times ..forgive me ..i should not judge
@T yes i know ty x
Whoever took this pitch and turned it into a family friendly, addictive to watch, and educational show that it is today... is a damn genius
Honestly, I agree. It's certain that Pawn Stars cherry picks what they show on the show, but even from this pitch video alone, everyone feels very authentic to who they are, and the Gold and Silver pawnshop still feels like a "wow" place to be.
They didn't even need to exaggerate too much to make the pawnshop shine--its already in Vegas and sees a ton of strange characters pass by that would make for interesting TV. Either way, its brilliant to see what History Channel did in steering the direction of the show.
Agreed, even if the drama is scripted as hell, it really is a fascinating show for the historical aspect. The concept's pretty much like a more hip, updated version of Antiques Roadshow.
"Hardcore Pawn" wasn't family friendly?? lol.
The entire evolution was several different groups of ppl.. Leftfield Pictures originally pitched an idea to HBO, which wanted it to be based on what happens at the night window.. ppl at the History Channel changed the format to what it became, while Leftfield ended up then pitching the name “Pawn Stars” for appeal, there was no single genius person..
“Educational” 😂
4:06 imagine being a Japanese soldier in WWII, managing to survive the war and get home only to find out some GI stole your only porn mag
Lmao
Wholry shit!! Noooo!!! The exclamation marks make it ok lol 2020
Jewwy Jones You added the “L” and the “R”. Interesting.
@@gromitpesley I had just watched Trey Parker doing the voice of the Chinese fella
@@jewwyjones9760 city wok
Oh man, rick had hair, Corey was big as hell, and the old man hasn't changed a bit.
jason buonocore don’t forget the fact that Corey has a “LOTSA LUCK” tattoo in the dead center of his chest 😂😂
Also Corey's arms look normal
Idk man he looks a whole lot more dead now
@@swaglordthe1th597 damn that caught me off Guard 😂
@@swaglordthe1th597 rip
"Gambling can be a disease just like alcohol or some ahh drug addiction, I don't gamble. (long heavy sigh) With my dysfunctional family and running this place that's enough of a gamble for me" - The Old Man Richard Harrison. Rest in peace sir, your honesty is a quality that is becoming pretty rare.
I hope to have a gamble like that one day
when tf were people honest though? youre gonna tell me people were more honest in the 60's and 70's? lmao hell no
Epic answer
@@J_Caban its the persistent nostalgia of a bygone era that never existed. People said the same thing 100 years ago and will say the same thing 100 years from now and beyond
@@jess_n_atxwell put
So the the original pitch for the show was something more like Hardcore Pawn. Interesting . . .
Nexus Verbal The History side is better than the family drama and average low lives
This is what vegas used to be crazy to see how it's all changed
Yep. Except Hardcore Pawn is a bunch of pieces of human shit garbage so fuck them.
It’s mostly the same chemistry honestly.
twitchosx it’s very entertaining
This is way more depressing then I thought
not depressing to me it seems fine the show has hanged its got a little more scripted i bet but this doesn't seem that bad either i still love the show either way
That' what pawn shops are...a bunch of opportunistic scumbags ripping off desperate people...
@@johnnylebay2059 so the desperate people would be better off without pawn shops?
its a pawn shop what do you expect
@@johnnylebay2059 they are business men not a charity they have their own families to look after its mostly the clientele who are opportunistic
The story of the guy pawning stuff from Walmart, making 50k that night and coming back for his TVs all because his mom was in the hospital with no insurance is one of the best stories I've heard in over 10 years of watching this show.
More of a orphancrushingmachine tbh
Not what I expected. Rick has a more Vegas-like personality than what is on TV.
The reason Pawn Stars works and has stayed on while Hardcore Pawn fizzled out is variety. Every episode has something different so it never gets old, even if the act itself feels old.
Hardcore pawn was TOO scripted
@@shootem5568 Hardcore pawn had those 2 snobby dooshbag kids thats why it didn't work..
To the person who steered this series into an actual historical show deserves an award, because instead of going down the easy route of showcasing the depressing parts of desperate Americans we get to see really interesting historical artifacts and not someones silver grill they are selling to pay child support or their drug habbit. We go to Hardcore pawn for that hot mess.
Lol
I hate them mfers so bad tho lol
Ty
Maturing is realizing Hardcore pawn was better and more authentic the entire time
I’d rather see actual reality TV than the scriped BS but to each his own.
well the niece would've been a popular character lol
Too slutty for history at the time i guess haha
Looks like she did paper work. Also you see a kid behind the desk in one scene, relative of one of them?
@@mikedawolf95 that was the younger brother Jake who recently got introduced as a teen workin at the shop
where is she now?
Ikr
Seems like a good show, maybe it will get picked up one day.
I sure hope so
I dont think it will
Let’s pitch this pitch maybe they’ll take notice. Long shot
The best I can do for you is 20 seasons of quality television, take it or leave it.
@@TheKrillWillRule First, let me call a proffessional.
Man,i knew already that the old man had attained a state of wisdom i can only hope to attain,but this proves it even more. Rest in peace
Holy crap! This could be an awesome depressing series. The style reminded me a lot of Jackass and many other 90s home video recording.
Not even depressing.. just real
Damn this is gold!! :D
UA-cam only took 14 years to recommend it out of the blue :)
Things that never changed is the Old Man, Corey's banter about his dad and Rick's iconic laugh!!!🤣
Pawnstars almost became one of those depressing Vice and BBC documentaries. Cant believe Corey really said the only way he moves up is if one of his family members dies. Cold as ice
Holy shit, rick hasn't changed at all in over 14 years.
Yeah, that's very impressive. No one in the world would recognize me from 14 years ago 🤣
Ways to preserve yourself..don’t cook yourself in the sun.. wear sunscreen to prevent sun damage and wrinkles.. seems like rick never tanned.. and if you have some money, you can get mini facelifts.. eye lifts.. neck sculpting, fat removal, Botox.. etc.. not to mention a lot of bald people look younger if they were always bald.. because hair thinning/ greying isn’t evident.
Yea, he’s looked like shit for 15 years
@@elijahgreybosh7882 You can't get a tan if you have sunscreen on
Uhhh, yes, he has.
One of those interesting times that a show became more wholesome rather than going thr darker route.
And it was in Vegas. What a trip
Wow, they've come a long way since then. Would love to see a gritty series like this.
Same. This would be way more interesting. Think of all the crazy things crackheads could’ve brought in, all the genuine arguments…
“I don’t gamble. With my dysfunctional family and running this place. That’s enough of a gamble for me.” 😂
Now that's a real pawn shop. Armpits of the world
I miss the old man 😢 rest easy mr. Harrison🙏
100%
He was a riot! RIP
See you in Heaven old man
This video just got recommended to me again and i don’t remember this comment😂
Gotta love Ricks smokers laugh, never gets old.
inspirational to see how far they took it.
If pawn stars was like this would watch it every single day. I knida wish we could've seen a little more R rated version of The Old Man on Paw Stars, he was an absolute sound byte machine! R.I.P
Holy shit, Corey used to be bigger than my car.
when he was born he was the size of a bus, but he's slowly turning into a human scale man
Why do you think he needed two harleys?
“Wanna pawn the grill?” Lmao dead
I'd rather watch this than that candy coated scripted crap they air on TV now. Strippers? Cory with CIGARETTES? Now that's Vegas.
I think he probably gave it up or stopped smoking on screen when they got green lit.
Bro just watch hard core pawn the show is great the way it is
@@mikedawolf95 nah they still smoke when I went to Vegas to visit the place they were smoking inside before they opened
They got hardcore pawn for People that like drama like my wife & you
Yeah hardcore pawn is for all of the alt high dropouts lol
This would have been such a good show. I want more!
Plorx was that a joke
@@senatuspopulusqueromanus5626 I'm exaggerating a little. This kind of raw show where they show a real pawn shop probably wouldn't work as a TV show but as a documentary it would have been quite interesting. Something like the Canadian documentary Broke which is about a pawn broker would have been good.
@@senatuspopulusqueromanus5626
No joke, I also wanted to see a TV show with meth addict moms pawning their kid's Wii to get their next fix because they're too old and damaged to work on the streets.
That would have been hilarious 😂
@@alainportant6412 that's hardcore pawn you wanna watch
@@alainportant6412 it would be fun for a season of two maybe but if has its limits and is depressing. I like how they make an enjoyable show with more of a showcase on old items and the history and it overall feels like a lot more variety thats overall better
After watching over 100 episodes on tv, it feels so weird to watch this lol
Well yeah, when your desensitized to the candy-coated fake shit that they put out, and see the RAW dealings of a pawn operation.
It would be "weird". 💁♂️
Wow the raw cut of people really needing some money and pawning some old stuff is much more documentary than the entire tv show run.
I love pawn stars but if it were actually like this I’d love it even more
you'd love watching crackheads selling stolen tvs? yeah, super exciting
@@mesofius of course ,since when aren't crackhead funny?
@@artemiocortes8556 I bet you're from the suburbs
@@mesofius your thinking about meth heads, those are some fuckin t-800 batshit crazy shells of human beings, crackheads are usually just tryna find a way to hide that there on crack
It would get old after awhile, maybe a few episodes would be definitely be cool. But once you’ve seen one crackhead sell stolen items, you’ve seen them all. But going into the history of those different unique items, that’s a show you can build 20 seasons of
That was the BEST episode for sure!
Bro.
I would definitely watch this Trailer Park Boys style show but based in Vegas in a Pawn Shop.
Rick, Corey, and Old man were already rich and I wonder how much richer the show made them.
"By 1989 the city's population reached that number and after some legal struggles, the Harrisons obtained their pawn license. That year Harrison and his father opened the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. By 2005, Harrison and his father were loaning out about $3 million annually, which brought them about $700,000 in interest income."
Love the dead Kennedys track in the intro, wish the actual show was more like this; the rawness is palpable
This is us still growing into what we will become
Ss
this is like the adult version of this show, and i love it
Wow. This made me love the show even more.
I wish they had a raw version of this show, would be freakin awesome!
I'll give you 500 for the niece and im taking all the risk here
LMAO
And I still got to pay to have it framed and restored I won't go a dollar over $500
Need a buddy to come check her out too...
Understand she's gonna take a lot of real estate.
$500 is the best I can do
can I come to check her out first?
The music selection is also really good in this. I wonder what year this was filmed. Has more of a 2001 feel to me than 2007.
The old man is such a G for real
He is, shame his son and grandson are so hateable
I wish they kept the little crackhead window for midnight pawns in the show
Some network should pick this up and make a TV show out of this. It is very interesting and I believe it would do well.
I miss old man. He came to PA and was playing poker at the Mt Airy Casino when they had an appearance there. Played with him for about an hour
5:44 wow, that guy is a legend
Corey looks older here than he does in the show now
at 23 he looked 48
Nobody nobody at all me 14 years after this video came out laying on the floor in my room and scroll across this lmao to know how far this show has gone and rip old man crazy how time flys was 4 when this came out I'm 18 now it's crazy
The part with the pregnant mother was heartbreaking
dont get knocked up if you arent stable enough to afford to raise a child
@@StukaSteven you have no idea what her story is
I just made a statment, i see this shit happen all the time
@A.A.Ron Davis you ever hear of rape or emotional abuse?
@A.A.Ron Davis you're a fucking idiot.
2:55, hopefully that lady is doing much better nearly 20 years later
When Corey said it’s hard to go to work everyday with your dad and grandpa lol I laughed because it’s so true I worked with my dad and grandpa doing construction we had our own business and let me tell ya things got messy and now I work in a ware house lol
I can see why they originally thought it would be an HBO show...
Man.. i would love to see the HBO version.
I bet it would be as sad and depressing as this video was.
Rick's laugh will never change....
Damn, you would think Pawn Stars has been on TV since the early 90's from the looks of this.
You gotta respect how comftorable Rick is in front of a camera
Rip old man
The Old Man's voice sounded different here than the way he sounded later in the show and GOD DAMN Rick's got a smoking hot niece! 😍❤️
This is the pawn stars we all wanted
lol the crap rick said at the beginning would have killed this show in todays world, personally I think people should be able to say whatever they want.
@@Carl_McMelvin Are you gonna kill people Gary
It was Corey, not rick
People can say whatever they want but there can be consequences. As long as you understand that say what’s in your heart.
These pawn shops are paying people's rent, mortgages and Bill's oh my.
God bless everyone there.
This is the pawn stars we need. Real stuff, real people and all the Las Vegas weirdos you can handle.
I wish the Harrisons the best... my favorite History Channel Show... and honestly, Like the sons... I will miss they're ol man... they made that man very proud before he left this earth... Im sure...
Dang, these guys where already making serious money before it was made into a show
That’s what running your own business does. You’ll never get rich working for somebody else.
Before the show started they were raking in 700,000 dollars of interest payments apart from the stuff that people wouldn’t come back to reclaim/ flat out sold to them that they would resell for profit.. old man and Rick had a 50/50 stake in the business so they probably made 150-250k each while Corey probably made 60-100k
I cant get over the Kennedys intro
Just watched the pawn shop a Canadian documentary. Very real well worth a watch
Ok we DEFINITELY need "Pawn Stars: After Dark" haha
They used The Dead Kennedys vein of Viva Las Vegas! That's awesome!
They should do a spinoff like that.
I really wanted to see a TV show with meth addict moms pawning their kid's Wii to get their next fix because they're too old and damaged to work on the streets.
That would have been hilarious 😂
thats dark and mostly sad , I shoudln't hve typed that
THE NIGHTSHIFT segment looked VERY interesting!
That's really cool they used the dead kennedy's cover of Viva Las Vegas.
these dudes were set up nice before they even got famous. i wish the show would have stayed like this, a real look into a real pawn shop
I mean the pitch was golden. A 24/7 Pawn Shop on the Strip? The Content would basically write itself. People coming all over the world who need money instantly, just imagine the crazy shit you'd see, without having to script it.
5:45 damn that is balsy! Glad for the guy who made 50k
Rick: let me call a friend of mine
Rick James: yeah…that’s pure crack cocaine
The scripted Pawn Stars is basically the Antiques Road Show meets low ball negotiation tactics.
They don’t really lowball
@@markusbonnet439 Wtf are you watching? They're total thieves
This was so cool to see them before fame 😌
Pawn Stars Now: George Washingtons Suit
*Pawn Stars then: 200 year old hentai **4:05*
Old man “I don’t gamble with my dysfunctional family that’s enough gambling” 😂😂
He was the real OG
used to go into the shop as a kid before they had a show the old man gave me some xbox games
The old man just TOSSING money lmao
*Mr Brown And I Got Along Famously*
When was this filmed? I went to the window one at night when I lived in Vegas back in 2005. Pawned some cheap jewelry lol. Saw it on TV years later and was like hey I know that place 😂
This was filmed in 2006. The show aired in 2009 I think
All I noticed is the little boy who called Rick daddy, and the Niece who I've never seen before... where did they go?
I’m assume the little boy is his youngest son who’s now on the current season
Damn this is back when the shop had Grit and Character. Damn this would have been a better tv show, now its been completely pussified and made for families, seeing drug addicts come in at 4 am would have been better than a 50 year old with a rolex
To each their own. I prefer the bright family friendly stuff to watching crackheads pawn their moms vcr.
You must be from the suburbs, I know those people have a hard on for anything gritty. I'd rather hear a history lesson on a 1740s cabinet than watch crackpots
@@kylekyger7735 you prefer mind numbing feel good TV programming 🐑 📺 congrats
@@mesofius nah fam people just don’t want obviously staged actors in a soundstage recreation of the real store lol
So all the hype from this show was like 5-6 years ago. And just NOW youtube it's recommending this to me?
this is what $40,000 a year to $40,000 an episode looks like
Before the show started they were raking in 700,000 dollars of interest payments apart from the stuff that people wouldn’t come back to reclaim/ flat out sold to them that they would resell for profit.. old man and Rick had a 50/50 stake in the business so they probably made 175-250k each while Corey probably made 60-100k
Man this is very cool hope they will get lots of buddies along the way.
What's weird is that niece is hot, but you can still see the Harrison in her face. You wouldn't think it'd be possible for a chic to look vaguely like Rick and be anywhere near cute.
yeah they have the exact same face 🤣
I could watch the early REAL stuff allday long this was dope even if it’s the pitch
Chumlee sigthing ay 6:24; far right :)
Shit! U are right!
Senior Harrison was always a real OG i miss him . Rest in peace old man ❤️
Imagine if true tv picked this up instead of that Detroit pawn show
Fuuuck dude if they kept the show like this🤩
This show's never gonna catch on.
Oh I get it , because it did .
Interesting to see how they started