- RPV--Rancho Palos Verdes.
- Yeah.
- It's a little beach town, it's beautiful.
It's a really good opportunity that these few units
we have in Rancho Palos Verdes
is gonna be full of treasures, Dan.
- You never know. - You never know.
- If they don't produce here, then they can just
follow us to Garden Grove.
- That's right. - Right?
- Yeah.
We have two auctions today, and I'm excited for a little DP--
Double Profit, baby.
- That's how it works.
The buyers flow where the merchandise goes.
Right? - That's a good one.
- Thank you.
Twice the auctions, twice the fun.
- Twice the commission.
- That's right.
[echoing slam]
[country rock music]
announcer: When storage units are abandoned...
- Take a good look at this one.
- Whoo-hoo! - Nice one!
announcer: The treasures within...
- [laughs] - Ooh!
announcer: Are put up for auction.
- Think I scored on this. - Sold it your way!
- Whoo! - 400!
- Woof! - [laughs]
- ♪ Money owns this town ♪
- M-O-N-E-Y!
- Are you ready? [people cheering]
- Well, guess where we headed at today.
We headed to Rancho Palos Verdes.
And "verde" means "green."
And you know I'm all about my green, America.
Money is the universal language,
so I'm gonna get my verde, boy.
I'm gonna get my verde.
Kenny been sharpening up on his dadgone Spam-ish.
See, "machaca con huevo" means "snack."
"Cerveza" means "beer."
And "burrito" means "delicious."
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
I hope one of these lockers knows what I'm talking about
so I can make me some dinero.
Show me the verde, boy.
[laughs]
Oh, I gave myself a rush.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Here we go ♪
♪ I got my Kerri with me today ♪
♪ Yay! ♪
♪ I got my Kerri with me today ♪
♪ Yay! ♪ Is that a thrift store?
- Lisa-- - Should we stop?
- Lisa, focus on the road.
- Oh.
I think we can all agree that focusing isn't
necessarily my strong suit.
- Well, you said it. I didn't.
- But that's why I love it when you can come with me.
Because you're my squirrel tamer,
the squirrel that's in my head.
- Herding the squirrels in Lisa's head.
Yes, I'm here to keep you focused, efficient, on task.
- Kerri, what would I do without you?
I am really glad Kerri's here to help me
stay laser focused today because--
actually, you have a little something on your collar.
Let me get that for you.
- Lisa, sit. We'll do it later.
Don't worry about it.
- Okay.
I mean, it's kind of obvious.
Okay.
Here we go.
Crack the whip. [imitates whip cracking]
Oh, is that an animal shelter?
I didn't know they had an animal shelter out here.
- It'll be there later, Lisa.
♪ ♪
- I've got all things going for me today.
Got my road dogs with me.
Got my cash in my pocket.
And I'm heading to Palos Verdes.
This facility is known for having big rooms.
I'm gonna buy a big room in a beautiful area
and make a big, beautiful profit.
It's as simple as that.
The competition's a little bit stiff.
They're gonna try to give me a run for my money,
but that doesn't intimidate me.
I've just gotta let them know the Yup man is here.
There's only one GOAT in this business.
[bleating]
♪ ♪
This seems to be a higher income neighborhood.
- Why, 'cause it's called "Palla Berbes"?
- Palos Verdes.
They even have a golf course around here.
- A golf course?
- "Palace" in it.
That's a good sign.
It's not really spelled like "palace," but still.
- Yeah.
It's Spanish.
- What does verdes mean? Green.
- Verdes mean Green.
I know about the verde.
I know tres leches.
- Tres leches is good.
- Three different milks.
- That's great.
Yes.
- I've got that one memorized.
- "Machaca con huevos." - What?
- Qué. - [bleep]
- What? - What?
- Oh, not "caca" con huevos?
- Caca--what? - Caca con huevos.
- Caca? - Caca?
That [bleep].
- Always comes back to caca.
- It always comes back to caca.
- Everything comes back to caca.
- We can all agree that no one wants a caca locka' today.
- Nobody want no caca locker.
- Always the poet.
- I am proud to announce that I just got myself
a bougie new client in the beautiful city
of Rancho Palos Verdes.
And they just happen to have an auction this morning.
So I'm gonna head out there, enjoy the ocean breeze,
and hopefully get something nice.
I'm always looking for fancy, upscale items,
and Rancho Palos Verdes is just the place to find them.
Wish me luck.
- Welcome to the auction.
We're Dan and Laura Dotson.
Before you go through these doors,
you need to know the rules.
We're gonna go to the unit, remove the lock, open the door,
give you five minutes to take a look around.
You can't go inside the unit, can't open any boxes.
And whoever's got the most money in their pocket
can own it today. Are you ready?
[cheering] Let's go, let's go, let's go!
- Come on.
Let's go, let's go.
This way, folks.
- All right.
[suspenseful music]
- Oh, man, they cheating. We're going in the elevator.
[grinder whirring]
- This is a 10x12.
It's gotta be an odd shape.
Okay.
♪ ♪
- Let me get my light in there, light it up.
We got a little of this, a little of that.
Fans, chain-back chair.
Lots of boxes, fragile, something blue.
I like it, super clean.
I might have to go for this one.
- This is actually probably the best unit here today.
- Yeah? - Yeah. Yeah.
Just letting you know.
We're in the basement,
subterranean auction extravaganza.
The cornucopia.
I feel it.
- I got about 17 of them wheelchair things.
Boxes, neatly packed.
This must be a miniature pool table or something.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
It's nicely packed, so they cared about their stuff.
I might bid on this one.
Hey, what's "black" in Spam-ish?
- Hmm.
Well, I pray that the man in negro don't want it,
'cause I see a lot of verde in that unit.
- What you looking for today?
- My sanity. - Okay.
That's--you know what?
Start small.
One thing at a time. - Baby steps.
- Well, there's a lot of stuff in here.
Looks like a lot of household items.
I could probably find something worth buying in here.
It's probably gonna go for a lot.
We'll see.
I'll try it.
- We've got some furniture with some age on it.
- Yeah, it looks like, maybe, a whole house.
So it could be like a lifetime of belongings.
- We have, like, neatly boxed.
I like that, like-- - Clothing, pajamas.
- As they say, pride of ownership.
Don't act too excited.
Or do.
I'm not sure which approach is better.
- Whoo.
Hurry up, man, it's hot as hell out here.
We by the devil.
No, not you the devil, I said we by the devil, not you.
- Yes, that's what he said. - No, I didn't.
- Yes, you did. I heard you.
- No, I said it's hot down here.
- He meant it. He meant it.
- I heard it.
- Great.
Now the devil--I mean, Dave--
he ain't gonna let me have this unit.
- Nice, big 10x12 unit full of boxes.
And it's a mystery unit. Here we go, number 21.
What's your pleasure? What are you gonna pay?
And how much, how much, how much money, where?
They give me 100, 100, 200, 100, 200, 200 there.
Looking for 300 where.
I got 300, 300, 400, 400.
500. And 600 and 700.
Wanna bid 600, 700. 700, 800.
Wanna bid 900? 1,000.
1,000, 1,100. Now 1,200.
1,300, 1,400, 1,500, 1,600, 1,700.
1,700, 1,800. What about 1,800, 1,900?
2,000. 2,100, 2,200, now 2,300.
What about 2,300, 2,400.
2,500, 2,600.
2,500, 2,600
2,600, going once, twice.
- Yup!
- Oh, Lord!
- Here we go.
- [bleep].
- Yep, you knew it was coming. - 2,700.
Bid 2,700. 2,800.
- Yup! - 2,800, 2,900.
- [mockingly] Yup. - Yup!
- 3,000 there. - Yes.
- And 3,100, and 3,200, 3,200.
- Yup! - 3,200, 3,300.
I got 3,200.
- 'Bout to own this.
- And 3,300 going once, twice.
$3,300. Got it cooking for him.
That's sold it your way, Dave.
You got it for 3,200, Dave.
Winner. Lock it up.
- You got it, Dave.
- I love stealing lockers.
It really makes me smile.
[grinder whirring]
- Okay, here we go.
10x10.
Oh, gosh. Lookit, it goes to the side.
10x20, folks.
[suspenseful music]
- Nice box.
- That's a nice empty box.
- Yeah, it is pretty nice.
They got StickEms and stuff. - StickEms?
- Yeah.
Yeah, this is worth some money right here.
About 10, 15, 20, 35, 50.
[laughter]
- You'll auction this thing--
- Those are about 100 bucks new, so.
[laughter]
- Oh, my.
This is the coolest dreamhouse I have ever seen.
I mean, honestly, I can use these racks.
I gotta organize all my staging stuff.
And I always wanted a dreamhouse.
That one's kinda awesome.
- Empty boxes.
- There's a place to put things, but no things to put.
- Yes, it's been a lot of displaying, not a lot of items.
- Yeah, but there's a beach ball and a dollhouse.
- In terms of reeling you in, I feel like this
is not a good use of our time.
- Right.
Don't let the shiny beach ball
distract you from the fact that this is an empty locker.
Thank you, Kerri.
- They took a lot out of this one,
but they left some stuff behind.
PlayStation boxes.
Huh, look at that.
Oh, my God. Monitors.
I might be involved if it's cheap,
just to have a peek at those three boxes.
- All right, we got a big ol' 20-foot unit here,
and it's full of shelving
and something else.
Whoop, what's that?
I'll never tell. Here we go.
How much money? What's your pleasure?
- $5. - And I got 5 right there.
And I got 5, $5.
You give me 10? $10.
I got 5 here.
Now 10, 10, where?
And 10 here, what about 20 there?
30 now, 40 now, 40 there.
50 now.
60 now. What about 70 now?
70, 80 bucks.
Now 90 bucks. Now 100 bucks.
110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 175 now.
200.
And 225, and 250.
225.
What about 250?
Going once, 250, 250, going twice.
Last and final call. - Yup!
- Oh, Lord!
- 250, 250, going twice. Last and final call.
- Yup! - Oh, Lord!
- Ah, what?
Come on, Dave.
- 250, 275--275.
- Yes. - Now 300.
- Nope! - What about 300?
Going once, 275, going twice.
[auctioneering]
Sold it your way, Brandi.
- You got it, Brandi! - 275.
- All right, baby.
- That's how it's done, America.
- All right, that's the end of our sale, babe.
- Come one, folks, follow us to the next auction.
Let's go, let's go.
♪ ♪
- I'm staying behind to check out my locker.
If I make good money here,
maybe I won't even go to Garden Grove.
Bookcases, $25 each.
$25 shower chair, and a $20 chain-back chair.
We've got--what do they call these? 8 millimeter?
I would probably get, like, 40 bucks for all that.
Purses. All right, here we go.
Pretty cool. Haven't heard of her.
♪ ♪
$40 worth of purses.
♪ ♪
This, my friend, is tossing eight.
This is done through, like, an 8-layer
process of wire and stuff.
Nice piece.
I wanna say about 300 bucks right there.
Oh, jewelry box, baby.
Let's see what we got in here.
Nice and empty.
Still a nice $10 box.
Another jewelry box with no jewelry.
It's $10.
It gives me hope, though.
Maybe the jewelry will be around somewhere loose.
40 bucks of clothes.
Fragile, living room vase. I like that.
Beautiful vase.
Also, Somerset, 400 bucks.
Stereo, Kenwood and Pioneer.
I'm gonna say 350.
Everything is clean, sellable stuff,
but there's nothing super home run yet.
Makeup stuff.
Uh-oh. You know what that looks like?
Oh, my gosh. Cartier.
Too bad this is not a nice watch.
Nonetheless, probably expensive.
I think it has perfumes in it.
I would imagine that's probably about 300 bucks.
Here we go.
Another 45 bucks in perfumes.
Ooh, Wedgewood. We love Wedgewood.
Beautiful Wedgewood.
Gold rimmed glasses.
Definitely 200 bucks in here.
That's a big old gravy bowl or something.
Easy 50 bucks in here.
Oh, my God, look at this.
Look at this beautiful Venetian mirror.
I love it.
It's a heart too. $250 on that.
Is it weird that I don't see my reflection?
♪ ♪
Let's see what we got in here.
Ooh, look at this.
Mother of pearl inlaid box.
That's all wood too.
♪ ♪
Ooh, we got something in there.
This is an old box too.
It's very nice.
Old silver ring, I think.
Little silver ring in there.
What appears to be an old silver bracelet, I think.
And then you have this fancy thing,
that you push this button, and it pops this drawer open.
Voilà, look at that.
You have a beautiful little necklace there.
I think the box, myself, is beautiful.
So I think I'm gonna take all the jewelry to my jewelry guy.
Because it's a very beautiful box, and it's got--
there's lots of jewelry in there.
Later, I'll dig around and find the best
pieces to get appraised.
But hopefully this locker turns out to be a real gem.
All right, let's get through this.
Money, money.
Plastic kitchenware, $10.
Candles and coffee pots and this and that
and kitchen items, $20.
Just clean stuff.
There we go.
Another $20 in there.
Those 20 or so boxes, 700 bucks.
That was disappointing.
Garden Grove, here I come.
[upbeat music]
- Rancho Palos Verdes was not necessarily a jackpot.
- It was disappointing.
- It was. - But you did stay focused.
We didn't--you didn't get distracted.
- Thanks to you.
- Aw, I know.
- We have to get a locker. - Don't worry.
Together--I have a good feeling about this.
♪ ♪
- Let's see if that bathroom's open.
There's always a line.
- A line for what?
- The bathroom.
- You got a number. You got your number?
- Only number one.
- Oh, stand by the door.
- Oh, I thought you meant the number that I had to do.
♪ ♪
- Here we are.
Okay, get a good look, folks.
[suspenseful music]
- There's a lot of stuff in here.
It's not packed very well, and it looks
like it's mostly clothes.
Nothing jumping out for my clients.
I don't--I don't think there's anything--
I don't like wicker, either.
That's where the bedbugs are.
Let somebody else get this that sells clothes.
- They got a $0.99 basket on the front of the bike.
They got a $0.99 basket on the front of the bike.
It's a female's unit.
Pink hangers, pink sweater.
I've seen too much "rosa" and not enough "verde."
Rosa is pink in "Spamish."
- Girly, girly, girly.
You got a girl's bike.
You got a bunch of boxes and tubs and purses
and hanging clothes.
Every woman's dream.
If the price is right, I'm in.
- What do we have here?
That beach cruiser is actually vintage beach cruiser, I think.
- Yeah, I like--
- I-- - I like all this stuff.
- This is good.
Yeah, this looks like it'll be fun to go through.
- It goes back. - Yeah.
A lot of boxes. - Okay.
- All right, let's just not act too overly excited.
- Gotcha.
- Come on, Lisa, tell me what you think about it.
- It's all right.
- Oh, you can't keep the grin off your face.
- I'm always smiling.
What are you talking about?
- Everybody's got a little tell there, Lisa.
- He's really trying to make you unfocused and distracted.
But you're not. - No, I'm not.
- Eyes here. - Eyes here.
- And eyes there. - Okay.
Will you bid on this one for me?
- You want me to do it? - I want you to do it.
- Okay. - Okay.
By having Kerri bid, I'm hoping that Dave
doesn't realize we're a team.
Shh.
- All right, here we go.
Number 20, what's your pleasure?
What are you gonna pay? How much?
How much money, where?
I've got $50 right there to start it.
$75 where? 75 here.
125.
150. 150 there.
- Yessy. - 175. 175 from the back.
Wanna bid 200? 200 where?
You're ready. 200 there. - Yessy.
- 225, 225.
250. 275 now.
Looking for 300 there. And 350.
- Yep.
- 400. 350, 400.
400 where?
- Give me 400. - You're at 350.
[auctioneering] - [moans]
- 400 going once, 375 going twice.
- Yup! - 375.
- 375 going twice - Yup!
- I'm not sure why I thought having
Kerri bid would confuse Dave.
He's clearly seen us together all day.
I'm gonna blame the squirrel for that idea.
- Now 400.
Looking for 425 now. 425.
I got 425 here. 450, where?
- Yup! - 450, 475.
475, 525 now.
500, 525.
550, 550. 525.
550 going once, 550 going twice.
Last and final call at 550,
and sold it your way, ladies.
- Whoo-hoo!
- Yes, girl, yes, girl!
- Kerri and Lisa, winner.
- I mean cool. - Sorry.
- We mean cool. - Sorry, Dave.
- Cool, cool. - Cool, cool, cool.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great.
[grinder whirring]
- All right.
Two doors to this unit, folks, so it's easy access.
- All right, both doors are open.
Take your time and take a look.
- Get a good look, folks.
- Oh, this thing goes all the way through here?
- Double the door, double the score.
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- Yeah, I like the totes.
I'll bid on the totes.
They got--what they call that [bleep] you put into the wall?
- Insulation?
- No, but they call it something else.
- Fiberglass. - Him, yeah.
They got that fiberglass.
- Yeah, I'm already itchy thinking about it.
The critter poop hangs out...
- Oh, they do? - In that insulation.
Yeah. - In the fiberglass?
- They love that [bleep].
- Fiberglass. You know?
Yeah.
- You know. - Fiber.
- Oh, [bleep].
I feel like I come out of the swimming pools right now.
- I know.
- And I can't even swim.
- I'm dripping.
- Oh, I hate it.
♪ ♪
But it's lovely for someone else, for sure.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Somebody who needs fiber. More fiber.
- Somebody--their bins are nice, you know, for someone.
- Yeah.
- Maybe somebody named Ben.
- Quick blow.
What do we got here?
- We got some tub--
black and yellow tubs, smaller ones.
Furniture.
- A big--a big chunk of insulation--
formaldehyde-free, though. That's good.
- I know.
- There's, like, some crafting stuff in there.
- Fold away guest bed.
I think we need to focus our way this way.
- Bin city.
♪ ♪
- We've got Halloween and junk furniture.
That's an easy nope!
- I like them totes, though.
- Totes my goats.
- All right, we got a big ol' nice unit here.
When you're ready to go, I'm ready to go, and here we go.
And how much money would you bid?
- Tell us, folks. - I got 5 here.
- Thank you. - And 10 where?
And 10 there. What about 15 now?
What about 15? - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- Wanna bid 25? - Yoo-hoo!
- 20. Wanna bid 30?
- Right up front. - You wanna bid 35?
Who bid 35? Looking for 40.
What about 40 there?
- Big Kenny, 45. - 45?
- 5? - [auctioneering]
50, where? I got 45.
Winning bid 50 going once.
Winning bid $50 going twice.
[auctioneering]
[Laura] You got it, baby!
[Man] There we go. [Dan] Sold it your way!
You got it, Kenny. $45. [Laura] Whoo!
You got it, Kenny.
[Dan] Lock it up.
- Got the dineros.
- That is the end of the auction, folks,
and don't forget to pay the lady.
Thank you, everyone!
Whoo-hoo!
[suspenseful music]
- All right.
- Cute, cute. - Nice.
Let's make a plan.
Stay focused. - Strategize.
Start here. Move stuff.
Make a little space. Use that as a table.
- With a plan in place and a Kerri by my side,
this locker is gonna be easy peasy city.
I like those shopping baskets taped to the handlebars.
50 bucks? - 50 bucks.
- All right. Great.
♪ ♪
This little plastic unit of drawers are 15 bucks.
What is this?
Is this a fan or a filter?
- Air purifier.
Good brand, so 50 bucks? - Okay.
- Ooh, speakers.
- This is a portable grill.
- Nice little tapestry.
- Oh, that's a really pretty tapestry.
- Yeah.
This whole box--75 bucks.
- That's kind of fun.
It's like, kind of like, fortune teller vibes.
- Yeah. - 30 bucks for the pair.
♪ ♪
Excuse me.
Hang on. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Ooh, this one's very Y2K.
This is what we want.
- That is Y2K, which is just so weird that that's what...
- I know. - People wanna buy.
- $60 worth of clothing. - Nice. Okay.
- We love the Y2K.
- I'll sell the Y2K. I won't wear it, but--
- You'll sell it. - I'll sell it.
♪ ♪
Hello.
Little fringy fringe fringe.
Ooh!
Gross.
- What is that? Velvet?
I think it is.
- Ooh, that's fun.
- $15. - Yeah.
What do you think, 30 bucks
for the one with the rhinestones?
- Y2-okay!
♪ ♪
Oh, wait, more Y2K.
- Oh, oh, oh.
- We gotta be Y2-careful. - Yeah.
[laughs]
- Oh, I love the--the belting.
- Can you explain to me again, why is Y2K popular?
- You know, it's just like, you know,
the '70s were back, '80s were back, what's next?
'90s, 2000s.
- The early aughts.
- Yeah, that's what the young girls want.
- So strange. - 40 bucks.
- There's a window unit. - What is this?
- That looks like a clean-- - Oh, that's some money.
- Y2-cool.
This is about an $85 unit.
- Ooh, an exercise trampoline.
- Yes! See if it works, Kerri.
- 40 bucks?
- Oh, yeah, let's get--
- Oh, look at that spring.
- [laughs] I heard a crack.
And lesson learned.
You lose focus, you get hurt.
Yowch.
- We got some leopard prints.
- Okay. Some plaids, some florals.
- Some more corsets. These are good.
I'd say--ooh, this gown's great.
Okay, I think with all this, 175.
- I'm gonna say this box of vintage china, $50.
- Jewelry box, $25.
Ooh, silk kimono.
- Oh, that is fantastic.
- Look at these colors.
This is 100 bucks, Lisa.
More vintage. I mean, '90s, but--
25 bucks.
- Oh, yeah, all day.
- This is very good. It's a duster.
It's floor length. $50.
- Yeah, look, this also vintage.
- 25 bucks.
- Let me just put it up here real quick.
Oi!
both: Ooh!
- This is cool.
- Oi!
both: Oh!
- This is cool.
Wow.
This took a while.
I tried to macrame once.
Did not last very long.
- Same. Same. Same.
Oh, here's another little piece.
People are into this macrame right now too.
You put your plants there.
- This guy took hours.
- This one is--this one is the grandpa of all macrame.
I'm not--I'm not like, super knowledgeable
in the woven arts, but... - No.
- What do you think I-- maybe someone--
we could find someone who could tell us the value of this?
- Yeah.
Oh, wait a minute.
- Wait a minute. - We've got more macrame.
Lisa, this looks amazing.
- Wow.
- I've never seen one like this.
I've only seen the ones that are rope.
- I've never seen it with the wood.
- Man.
- Oh, God, which way does it go?
Okay, so here's the top.
- Wait. I think--gosh, this is amazing.
- Okay, wait. Did we get it? No.
- No. I know.
We're gonna need somebody to help us even just untangle it.
- I'm gonna find a macra-master.
That's a thing, isn't it?
All right.
- I think we need the master.
- I'm kind of obsessed with this.
Can you even imagine the amount of focus and concentration
that it would take to macrame like that?
'Cause I cannot.
Here, Kerri, some clothing.
- Oh!
- Get in there, girl.
- I hope it's from the era of the early 2000s.
Ooh, God, more velvet.
Whimsy goth box.
This is 175 bucks.
- You know, even though there's been a lot of poppycock,
we've still definitely made our money back.
But I'm just not exactly sure how
we're gonna get out of here, Kerri.
- I don't know either.
[suspenseful music]
- Come on, Garden Grove.
Let's help Kenny grow some verdes around here.
♪ ♪
Let's do this right chere.
Hey, America, where did you go?
Oh, you right here.
♪ ♪
Look at that right chere.
It looks so presentable on the box, don't it?
Good 45 bucks right here, boy.
Just made my money back right chere.
What do we got?
[groans]
♪ ♪
The hell is this?
Merry Chris--nope.
Let's get wild.
♪ ♪
Hey, kids, what sound does a rhino make?
That's right.
I don't know neither.
This here about a good $10 for this right chere.
End table.
I say about $10 a piece.
All right, this is called fiberglass, America.
You don't want food with this.
This is very dangerous.
Your ass will be itching for two weeks,
so this ain't no money.
Oh, this a purse.
Look at this [bleep], boy, with the gold trimmings.
You can look sexy right chere.
You know what could make it even sexier?
Put some grilled ham and cheeses in here.
45 big ones.
We got another one, another 45 big ones right cthere.
♪ ♪
Please let there be some good [bleep] in here.
I mean, some good stuff in here.
♪ ♪
Dog food, bruh.
Man, it's a ball feeder.
This is a dog's Rubik Cube.
That boy, he'd probably be mad.
Why the [bleep] you put the pebbles in here,
you stupid ass?
Zoo food.
And here what they gonna feed that rhinoceros--
some exotic-ass dog food to get him all sexied up
so the other one could say, oh, girl,
I love your materials.
♪ ♪
- Well, my bad, America. I'm sorry.
I didn't read the whole fine print.
But I don't think he'll play with this [bleep].
I don't think he play with this.
Let me see.
What animal you think would play with this?
'Cause ain't no "hipno-potamus" gonna do this.
I think this is something I would really
like to get this looked at right here
and see what kind of exotic animal
that's gonna eat this stinky-ass food right here.
♪ ♪
Okay.
This here--claw marks?
Look at that.
This has got all kind of claw marks on here.
♪ ♪
Nice kitty.
Nice pretty kitty.
I wonder what kind of animal would
get so mad that he wanna beat up this piece of plastic
like this.
Now see this, I'm putting two and two together, America.
See, the tiger barracuda,
he probably was pissed off 'cause of the food in here,
and he was scratching all this [bleep] up.
See, I'm a detectives--
animal detective.
We gonna see what animal these toys go to.
Anybody got Ace Ventura number?
He probably know.
- All right, I guess this is the place.
- Yeah.
Oh, my gosh, look at these knit stair railing.
- I'm off to see Courtney Freemyer,
one of the finest craft teachers
at Remainders Creative Reuse.
She's gonna help me weave some money
out of all this macrame.
♪ ♪
Okay, we got a gigantic pile of knots.
- Yeah. - Knots.
- Yes.
- So what exactly is macrame?
- Yarn art? What is it called?
- Fiber arts. Yes.
So macrame is sequences of knots,
but is actually considered a type of lace.
- Is it really?
- Yeah, lace at its core is like, anything that the design
is based on the spaces between the thread,
versus knitting or something that, you know,
it's all the threads themselves.
You use either a hook for crochet.
You use the needles for knitting.
For macrame, you're just using your hands.
- All hands, baby.
- Yeah.
- Ooh, so macrame is like, the sexy version of knitting.
Nice.
- So we have a small one here.
- It's twisted up. - Let's see.
Oh, I think it's a little twisted through here.
- It's like a woven Rubik's Cube.
- I think maybe it's inside out, 'cause this is--
- I think--same.
- I can do this. We can do this.
- Oh, yeah. There we go.
[cheering]
- The macrame wizard over here.
- All right. It's nice.
It feels like a genuine cotton cord.
It's got a bunch of half double hitches.
- Oh, the ole-- ye old double hitch?
Yeah.
- But it's really well--it's well done.
- How long would, like, these take?
- It could take like, five, six hours.
You know, as you get more proficient,
you get a lot faster with these.
But--
- How old do you think that is?
- I would--I would guess this is from the '70s.
- So am I. [laughs]
So is macrame usually to make
things to put things in or...? - Yeah.
So these are examples of things to hold plants.
Like, you can put two plants in here.
Sometimes something like this could be
used as like, a fruit basket.
- Oh, that's cute.
- You could put your bananas in here or something like that.
- I love that. - Hang it in your kitchen.
This is definitely the most intricate.
- So crazy.
- I've never seen one that big.
- This one feels like it's made out of acrylic,
probably to make it weatherproof for outdoors.
- Oh.
- It is very elaborate.
You just have so many layers of...
- It's dense. - Knots.
Yeah, yeah.
You have this whole thing of the alternating
half knots in between.
I would guess this could take 100 hours.
- Wow.
- This would not be a one day project.
- Yeah.
That's--someone's really gotta love the art.
Right? - Yeah.
This one is--oh, wow.
[Courtney] This one is-- oh, wow.
- Yeah.
- Very unique.
I don't think I've seen one like this before.
Can I-- [Lisa] Okay.
Do you need help? - Hold it all the way up.
Yeah, if you could hold this--
- This is a three man job.
- Wow. - Okay.
Right? - Look at this.
It has, like, the beadwork and then the trivets
that have like, a woven design.
- Mm-hmm.
- These would be square knots.
And here, you can see there's a sinnet of square knots.
Sinnets are when you have a row of them.
But half knots, which is just one part of the square knot--
when you do a sinnet of half knots,
you get this effect where it starts to twist.
- A little spiral.
- But yeah, I'm guessing this one would take 20 hours.
- All right, so not to be materialistic,
but how about let's get to the macra-money.
What do you think these are worth?
- Yeah, this does look vintage, but it is one that I could
see being just a home project.
But I could see you selling this for like 30.
- All right.
- So this one, I'm sure, took a lot of time,
the most of any of these three.
But one thing to note is that
it does have some wear and tear.
You can see some fraying on some of the ends.
You can see some rust stains.
But otherwise, it's in really good condition.
So I would say 350 for this one.
- Ooh. Now we're talking.
- This one, it is definitely the most unique of your lot.
There are not many others like this
that I think are on the market.
I think you could get...
♪ ♪
420 for this.
- 420. - Wow.
- Great number, Courtney. [laughs]
Looks like I just macra-made myself a nice profit.
I am "knot" mad about that, Courtney.
- You're welcome.
[laughter]
[Brandi] All right.
[Man] What you got?
- Racks on racks on racks on racks.
- Hmm. All right. Now I'm intrigued.
♪ ♪
You weren't kidding. - Yeah.
- Lots and lots of racks. Yeah. - I know.
- Definitely gonna work for storage.
- The way I see it, I need to make 275 on this unit
to get those racks for free.
Let's do it. - Okay.
- I just bought it for the dreamhouse, to be honest.
♪ ♪
- I didn't do it. I swear.
[chuckles]
- Well, there's some empty boxes.
- Perfect.
- Well, you know, we could always use some boxes.
- What have you got there?
- I don't know what this is for.
Like, it goes on your belt.
♪ ♪
- What is that?
- Oh, it's a lightsaber belt clip.
- Come again? - Badass.
- Do you have a lightsaber?
- I do. [laughs]
As a matter of fact--
- You do? - Yes.
These are unique.
- Oh, those are cool.
- Some Darth Vader sneakers.
- Some Vader lover will get--like this.
- I don't know what kind of sneakers these are.
Look at these bad boys.
- What?
Wait. What size are those?
- [laughs]
- I was kind of--oh, hold on.
- Oh, wait. - They are my size.
Oh, a little too big.
- Oh, they're too big? No.
- A little too--maybe.
- I don't think they're too big.
- They're too big on the ankle.
- You got some pretty sturdy ankles.
- That's what I mean. - Yeah.
- Yeah, these are cool.
- Somebody will think that they're cool.
- Exactly, and they'll pay for it.
- And they'll pay for 'em. Custom sneakers, I don't know.
- I say at least 50 bucks a pop on them.
- All right. - Yeah.
- Oh, look at this. - What, you got more?
- Shut your mouth.
It's a PS5, and I can't--
- Oh. - Yup.
- Winner. - Yep.
- I mean, I think this pays for the unit right here, right?
- You think you can get 300 bucks for that?
- Yeah, probably.
- All right, 300 bucks for that.
Unit's paid for.
Most women pay good money for their racks, but not me.
I just got mine for free.
- All right, is there actual Halloween costumes in here?
- Well, put it right here.
- I'm gonna make a mock table right here.
- Yep.
- Ooh, look at those. - Oh, that's sturdy.
- I've always wanted those for when I go to the dump.
'Cause you have to wear a hard hat.
- [laughs] - No price on that.
That's mine.
These are some cool costumes. Oh.
♪ ♪
- Here, scallywag.
- No, no, not the hair. Don't mess the hair up.
It's already done.
- Costumes. They're not awesome.
- I'd say 50 bucks on that. - Okay.
All right, let's get this [bleep] in the car.
- Okay. - Let's get on out of here.
- Well, wanna keep the racks?
Which ones? - All of them.
We're gonna put-- - Racks on racks on racks on--
- Yes.
We're gonna put everything. Come on.
- Rack on rack on rack?
- Bozek, come on!
- All right, all right.
[upbeat music]
- Where the hell are we at, man?
♪ ♪
That's a big-ass dog.
I'm at the Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary
to meet with its founder, Joel Almquist,
to see if any wild beasts wanna play with my toys.
Rawr.
What is this place, bruh?
- So this is Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary.
We rescue exotic animals that are--
either need to be, you know, rehomed
or animals that were illegally owned, things like that.
And we take 'em in and give 'em a safe place to live
for the rest of their life.
- Hey, there, boy, what you doing?
You about to open that cage? - No.
We're just gonna feed her underneath.
[tiger roars] - Oh, [bleep] no.
- You about to open that cage? - No.
We're just gonna feed her underneath.
[tiger roars] - Ooh, [bleep] no.
- He's looking at you like lunch.
- On that note, I's gots to go.
I don't wanna be nobody's lunch,
but I'm not gonna leave here until I see
how much my stuff is worth.
Come on, Kenny, be brave.
I don't know what I found, but I thought
this was a drum at first.
That's what I thought it was.
- Well, it's not quite a drum.
This right here is a boomer toy.
They come in different shapes and things like that.
This is built of a, you know, very high density plastic.
- I see some scratchies on here.
- Yeah, yeah.
But it's pretty thick plastic, and we give 'em to,
you know, the lions.
We give 'em to tigers.
The animals can, you know, play with it.
- But I bought some more toys and stuff.
It's like a torture ball, right?
- Yeah, so this right here is like, an enrichment feeder.
So we'll put fruit, meat, things like that,
and give it to the animal.
And they'll roll it around, food will come out of it.
You know, it keeps their minds moving.
We'll use these a lot for the different primates.
So what else have you got here?
- All right, we got kibbles and bits.
I thought it was exotic stuff for the animals.
- Yes. Yeah. So this--
- Sexual chocolate.
- Sexual chocolate. [laughs]
This is actually, like,
a dry food for small, exotic felines like bobcats, servals--
- I see him over there.
Is this, like, for vegan animals?
- No, it's--it's--it's actually
a meat-based diet that's in there.
It's just freeze-dried and, you know, things like that.
- Freeze-dried? - Yeah.
- Break this down to let me know how much
all this babalu toy stuff is.
- [laughs]
Well, the freeze-dried exotic feline diet
is probably a $25 bag.
- For real? - Yup.
- All that healthy nutritional stuff?
- Yup.
- All right, let's get to the--
the volleyball and the drum right chere.
- So the--the ball feeder, 40 bucks.
- Yeah? For real? - Yeah.
- Let's get to the big enchi-ma-lada.
- Yep. [laughs]
- The tom-tom.
- So the big one--
and this one is literally brand-new.
- Really?
With all them scratches on it?
- To me, this is brand-new.
There's not bite marks through it.
You're probably looking at...
[animals growl]
♪ ♪
130 bucks.
- Get out of here.
That's a lot of scratch for some tore up plastic.
You know, I don't have no use of it,
but I'm thinking about giving it to your foundation.
- I really appreciate that.
That is awesome.
See if we can end up giving this
to either one of the tigers or the lions or bears.
- Lions, tigers, leopards, oh, my.
- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- I know that movie. - [laughs]
♪ ♪
- Mike, how are ya?
- Hey, Dave. - Long time no see.
Good to see you.
I'm bringing a jewelry box and some choice pieces
that I found to my local gemologist, Mike,
at Michael Moses Jewelers.
I found this beautiful, cool little box.
- Great.
- And then there was a box of jewelry in there.
I picked a few pieces that I thought
might be diamonds and gold.
- So first off, what we're looking at
is obviously a jewelry vanity.
The condition could be better, but it's all original.
And of course, we see some wear down in this area here,
but it's still a great piece.
Obviously, we're missing the hidden compartment drawer here.
I'm noticing this mother of pearl inlay here.
It's got some wear, and it looks like
it's been refurbished once in the past,
quite some time ago.
So it's already had its life.
It's still a great piece.
So we're gonna start with this ring here.
- Okay.
- What we have here is a marcasite inlay
mother of pearl ring.
This is a period correct 1920s, hand-fabricated--most of it--
on the back, you can see how the plate's
been added separately.
What really makes this ring great
is that it's all original.
The condition of the ring is a 10.
There's no question about that.
It's over a hundred years old.
It is actually pretty special to still have one
of these in this condition.
Very cool ring.
So now let's move on to this lipstick
compact or vanity--whatever you like to call it.
This piece dates to circa 1920,
just like the other marcasite ring you had.
So the springs are both working,
which make it, in terms of condition,
pretty darn good, right?
Pretty great.
The mirror, not cracked, not broken,
appears to be the original mirror in here.
Great piece.
This is a piece I really like.
I really like this piece for a couple of reasons--
the condition and I love the patina.
It still has the original patina.
The style is screaming 1920s.
So for someone who really likes that style,
I would imagine that they would be really excited
to see something like this.
I think this is a really great piece.
A lot of deco pieces we have here.
As far as styling, it's the winner.
The stones in here are paste.
- What does it mean when the stones are paste?
- They are stones that were developed
in the 18th century to emulate a diamond, right?
You can get this really big look for not a lot of money.
People have this idea that costume jewelry is inexpensive.
I've seen paste necklaces get into the thousands of dollars.
In fact, there's a big collectibility
for those necklaces.
- Collectibility?
That means money.
- All right, the earring.
Dave, just like the other pieces, the condition
is really great and from the 1920s.
Everything we're looking at in here is all diamonds.
Quality-wise, on a scale from 1 to 10,
these are a 9, maybe a 10.
And that's what's great about older jewelry.
Typically, you're seeing higher quality diamonds
being used, better color.
Just everything's just a little bit better.
- There's a better craftsmanship.
- Absolutely.
So this type of setting for--that the stone is in
is called a buttercup setting.
'Cause you have this metal that surrounds the stone
and it makes the stone look larger.
Quality is really high.
I think they're great.
Now, moving on to the last item that we have,
this bracelet here--
it's not as old as these pieces.
- Okay.
- But quality--the weight of this, Dave,
you can feel the weight of this.
Lots of diamonds.
Lots of diamonds in there.
- Little diamonds in here, and little diamonds in there.
You got diamonds everywhere in that little thing.
Diamonds are a man's best friend.
- It's all been hand-fabricated.
You can see that there's just a lot of work
to make this rivets.
Today, you have these that are mass manufactured
and then assembled.
It's very heavy.
You wouldn't get a bracelet today that looks like this
and expect it to weigh this much.
It's very unusual.
- Mike, what do you think the total value of everything
I have here is?
- Dave, you have some great pieces.
After we spent the time going through it,
I think pretty well in detail, Dave, no question about it...
[suspenseful music]
$10,000 on what you have here.
- I don't like to cuss, but I would say that's effing great.
I'm a little bit embarrassed that I let my emotions
get out of control like that.
Love it.
- [laughs]
announcer: Dave Hester saw that diamonds
really are a man's best friend,
making a sparkly 9,600 stones.
Lisa Delarios stayed focused, weaving together
a profit of 1,400 knots.
Brandi Passante proved she still has
the best racks in the game.
While Kenny Crossley survived an el tigre attack...
[tiger roars]
And walked away with 120 in cold hard verde.
- Actually-- - Uh-oh.
- Straight through. - Oh, no.
Did I do those wrong?
- I mean, I wouldn't worry about it.
- Oh.
This is how I like it.
I like when the teacher, like, shows you what to do
and then she ends up doing it for you.
I need some elbow room.
- You guys, I might need to separate you two.
- That wouldn't be the first time we've heard that.
- [laughs] - I'm getting it.
I think I'm getting-- I'm get--oh.
- Let's pretend like we're kind of done with that section.
- Let's just--let's do that.
Let's pretend.
Courtney, are we your best students you've ever had?
- They may not be the best macrame students I've ever had.
This project is supposed to go for just a half hour,
but we may be here a little longer.
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