[Ivy] Man. Hustling, it ain't easy.
While these others were asleep, I bought a room this morning.
- What about 375? All in?
All through? All through with that one.
Bid 375? 350.
Sold it your way, Ivy, $350.
[Laura] You got it, Ivy!
- I don't ever, ever, ever stop hustling.
That's how you become the best, guaranteed to outdo the rest.
Now, I heard there was another auction across town.
I'm gonna go over there and dominate that one too.
They say the early bird gets the worm.
But today, the afternoon bird gonna also get some worms.
Man, it's a great day to be the best.
[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]
[Singer] ♪ Money owns this town ♪
- M-O-N-E-Y!
[Dan] Are you ready? [people cheering]
[upbeat music]
[Emily] You know, I've been doing pretty good,
but the recent locker that I had was just
full of trash, full of food.
♪ ♪
No.
More food.
And it made me realize that I have to be more strategic
on, like, the lockers that I'm buying
so I can actually make profit.
Purchasing storage lockers costs a lot more money
than I was expecting.
I gotta hire some muscle, and then I gotta get a truck,
and then I have to have a place to store it
before I sell it.
It all adds up.
One thing's for sure--
if it's got food in it, I'm not buying it.
♪ ♪
[Lisa] Whew!
I am really exhausted today,
'cause I got a puppy.
I don't know if anyone knew this,
but raising a puppy is really, really hard.
My brain is mush.
I don't know my up from down, left from right.
Everyone talks about baby brain,
but no one talks about puppy brain,
and puppy brain is real.
I've gotta get my brain out of puppy mode
and get into work mode,
because I've gotta make some money.
I don't know if anyone out there has priced
a dog bed lately, but they're not cheap.
♪ ♪
[Brandi] I feel like my lockers have been really stale lately,
and I feel like I am better than this.
My goal today is to get the best locker--
not a good locker.
The best one of the day.
At this point, I've got more experience
than almost everyone else in the game.
I should be able to sniff out the best locker
and get it.
Focus.
I just need to focus.
Eff everything else.
♪ ♪
[Laura] What you dragging? [Lisa] Hey.
- Hey, honey. - What do you mean?
- No, you've got-- you're just--
I thought maybe it was toilet paper.
- Oh, God.
- [laughs] - Oh. Oh, man.
- What is it?
What's going on?
- It's poop bags, Laura.
- Oh! - Oh, God.
You know what happens is, my puppy grabs it
and then... - And pulls it.
- Runs off with it.
I'm a tired puppy mom.
- Oh, honey.
- I'm frazzled.
But it's OK, it's OK. I'm gonna be OK.
- At least it wasn't, like, toilet paper, you know?
[laughter]
- Told ya--puppy brain is real.
- You got a lot of money in that little thing?
- Let's see, do I-- did I remember money?
- [laughs] - I got...
[squeaking]
Squeaker toys.
[Laura] Oh, she's got doggy on her mind.
Yeah. - I've got my clicker.
[clicks]
Good job.
There's your cookie.
[laughs]
- I'm still waiting on that cookie.
- You ready to buy a unit today?
- I'm ready.
I'm ready to find one that's not heavy.
- You haven't got, like, a fridge yet
that's just got, like, a bunch of food in it
that wasn't supposed to be in it or anything?
[Emily] Well, the thing is,
on the outside, it looks beautiful.
The fridge looks like it's nice and clean,
and then you open the door, and it's just...
- I had a cousin like that once.
Perfectly good from the outside,
till you got to looking inside.
Stank.
- I honestly don't know how to respond to that.
[Lisa] Oh, my gosh. - What's up, Ivy?
Who's this? - New girl.
Oh, new girl. - New girl?
What does that mean?
- Oh, her name is Emily.
Want me do the introduction?
- Was she coming around a lot?
- Like, three times. [Brandi] Is she problematic?
- Leave the claws in. She cool.
- OK, all right. - Claws in.
- Just checking. I'm just checking.
- Claws in. Brandi, Emily.
Emily, Brandi. - Hi.
- Hi - Watch her, Emily.
[Brandi] Yeah.
[Ivy] And that's Dan. - What's up, Dan?
- How you doing? - I'm all right.
- Brandi, you're one of my favorite bidders.
I tell her that all the time.
- Wait, what? - Nothing.
- Oh.
- Welcome to the auction.
We're Dan and Laura Dotson with American Auctioneers.
Before you go through these gates,
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.
Can't go inside the unit, can't open any boxes,
and who's ever got the most money
in their pocket can own it today.
Are you ready? [cheers]
Yeah! Let's go, let's go, let's go!
[Laura] All right, follow me, folks.
Let's go.
[Lisa] Dan really brought it there.
- I know. - Thanks.
[Lisa] Damn fine job, Dan.
[Dan] Dan brings it.
[Laura] All right, folks, we're gonna go for a walk.
All the way down to the end, folks.
We're going indoors.
It's gonna be a little cooler inside.
[buzzing]
All right, here we go.
Little door, big score.
♪ ♪
[Lisa] Sorry. Didn't mean to cut.
Didn't mean to cut.
- You're good.
- I've never really gotten that mad at people cutting.
[Emily] Me, neither.
I'm like, go ahead.
Even with cars, I'm like, go on.
- Yeah, same. [Emily] And then I just wait.
- Yeah. I'm like, you know what?
If it's that important to you--
- Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me.
- Oh. - Look.
- That's why it's always OK to cut in front of a dude.
- Yeah.
- Ooh.
Anytime you see a boom box, that's a good sign.
I don't know why. It just is.
But I kind of like this room,
just the way everything's thrown in there.
When people throw stuff in there,
they sometimes throw good stuff in there.
That's what I've heard.
[Laura] It's a five by six, Ivy.
- Ooh, and it's small?
[Laura] It's small, five by six.
- OK. I like it.
- All right, good deal.
[Brandi] That's where the money is,
right there in that suitcase, right?
- Yeah, sometimes the money--
- Yeah, that's where they hide the cash.
- The old people. [Brandi] I mean, there's boxes.
Nothing's jumping out at me
like this is the best one of the day.
I'm not feeling it.
[Lisa] I don't love this, but at least it's small.
It'll probably be within my budget.
And they're boxes. There's mystery.
- Very small unit, easy to clean.
- Small, yeah. - Five by six.
- Small and petite, just like her.
- All right.
Aw.
Small--this is a small unit.
OK, we've got a stereo,
got some wrapping paper, a lot of boxes.
Nothing too heavy.
I like this one.
- All right, I got a big old nice five by six unit.
Here we go. How much money?
I got 100 bucks right here with Magic.
Got 125 where? 125, 125.
150 there. 175 now.
150, 175. 150, 175.
175? That's you.
175, that's you. 200? What about 200?
What about 200? Now there.
I got 225, Lisa.
250 right there. 250?
275, now 300. What about 300?
300? 300 there, 325.
325, 350 behind you.
375 now. What about 400?
400 to the red hat.
425, 425. 425. 450.
450, 450, 450 and the red hat, you're out.
- OK, OK, OK. [Dan] What about 450?
475. - Tell us, Lisa!
- 500? 500? 500 where?
500? What about 500, 500? 500 where?
- Squeak that toy.
- All right, I'll do 500.
[Laura] Whoo! - 500 there.
I've got 500. 525?
525, 525 where?
500, 525? Going once. 525 going twice.
Last and final call!
500, 525, 525, 550.
Sold it your way, Lisa. $500.
[Laura] $500, Lisa!
[squeaking]
- [growls]
- Give me some skin.
Give me some skin.
- Guess every dog does have its day.
- All right. Next unit, folks, this way.
[suspenseful music]
[Lisa] All right, you know what?
One thing that'll get my head back into the game,
cleaning out a locker.
♪ ♪
Where'd everybody go?
[buzzing]
- Nice, easy access hallway unit, folks.
Whoa! [Ivy] Oh, whoa.
[Laura] OK.
Well, it's not loaded, but it'll be easy to haul.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Yes, we're--
- Ooh.
This is like a creepy torture dungeon.
Get these tall, young men out of my way.
They can be behind me.
I take that back.
A lot of empty space, but I like
that little briefcase and the bins.
OK.
[Laura] What a sweet guy, right?
- Interesting.
[indistinct chatter]
- Some totes of mystery.
- OK, more mystery to--
you know what I like about--ooh.
Wait, is there maybe some cameras in that?
[Laura] Ooh.
[Emily] I don't know, but I--actually,
I love it, because I really need a dolly.
And there's not much to carry, and it looks like a mystery.
And I love a good mystery, as long as there's no food.
- Brandi, Brandi.
- And to the stage is Brandi.
- Nope.
[record scratches]
This is as far from the stripper stage
as you can be.
- Brandi.
I just like saying it.
[suspenseful music]
[Brandi] There's a couple of totes and boxes.
Looks like a little bit of garbage.
I don't know.
[blows raspberry]
[Dan] You're ready.
- Eh, maybe.
It doesn't look like the best one of the day, though.
- I think my lesson here is to pretend like
I don't want anything, because then nobody else will.
- That's smart, that's smart.
[Emily] I'm learning. - Very good.
- Don't look. Don't smile.
No emotion. Poker face.
[Laura] Oh, I like that.
- Poker glasses too.
- Ooh, big unit with a lot of little stuff.
Oh, I love the chair.
Little laundry basket.
Ooh, might be a nice little briefcase, gun case there.
OK.
Not much, but curious-looking unit.
- Alrighty, we got a big old nice unit here.
Here we go. - 10 by 10.
- Little mystery unit. 50.
I've got 50 there. And 75 now.
100 there, 125. I got 125.
150, 175. Now 200.
Are you 200, 200? 225 now.
I got 200 bucks. 225? 250.
What about 250, 275?
250, 275. What about 300?
What about 300, sir? 325.
350, what about 350?
What about 375?
375, now 400.
What about 400? 400 now.
400 there, 425, 425, 450.
What about 450 now?
425, 450.
What about 450?
450, 450 going once.
475 is all.
500 bucks, your turn. What about 500?
Do you wanna go 500? Says no.
You're at 475. What about 500?
Going once, twice.
What about 500 bucks, guy?
- Whoo-hoo!
- Sold it your way. $475, Emily.
[Emily] I Played it cool,
and now the mystery locker is mine.
And since it's pretty small,
I'm gonna go through it right now.
[suspenseful music]
Let's see.
Oh, this always comes in handy, little stepladder.
I'll give it $15.
Let's see what we got in here.
Uh, junk, junk, junk.
Portable kettle.
OK, for tea.
This is nice. 20 bucks.
Got a little thermal bag.
It's 5 bucks.
LED flashlight. I can get 10 bucks for this.
Oh, a telescope.
I got 20 bucks right here.
Another one, 20 bucks.
They look brand-new.
Come on, money.
Cool.
Got a little boom box right here.
I give this 15 bucks.
Some really old speakers. $10.
A lot of old junk.
Junk, junk.
Come on, at least, let there be a camera.
Is this a camera?
♪ ♪
Please be a camera.
What is this? Is it?
Yeah, it literally says "camera" on the bag.
But is there a camera inside?
Please be a camera.
Yes!
Kind of lightweight.
I'd say $20 right here.
Let's see. What's in here?
Shoes.
This is 20.
♪ ♪
Junk, junk.
I have a feeling it's just more junk.
I thought I made a good choice picking this locker,
but I'm nowhere near making my money back.
What is this? Oh, nice.
Solar phone chargers.
Those sell, 20 bucks.
Tools, maybe?
♪ ♪
$10.
♪ ♪
I just gotta get some money out of here.
Oh, nice.
Film. More film.
Four rolls of film, 40 bucks.
Old Canon.
Whoa, this is cool. $50.
Oh, a bunch of knives in here.
$60, they're brand-new.
That's good.
[suspenseful music]
We got some blades right here, 20 bucks.
Let's see what I got in here.
♪ ♪
Got a iPad Mini.
Let's see.
And it's in there.
Oh, $50.
Glassware.
This is all new. 20 bucks.
♪ ♪
Please be gold. Please be gold.
All right, let me be careful,
'cause I can't see what I'm grabbing.
Ah, it's headphones.
What?
Wha--what?
I'm getting bamboozled here.
Car wash tokens.
No cash value.
I'm so irritated.
This just not how I saw my day going.
A car air bed. 50 bucks.
Another one, 50 bucks.
What do I got here?
♪ ♪
OK, another dolly, $40.
♪ ♪
Got iPhone cases, $5.
Another telescope, 20 bucks.
Flash drive, $5. iPhone, zoom mount, 5 bucks.
Instant translator.
That's cool.
20 bucks.
Uh, this chair's a bit too busted to even sell.
[buzzer blares] Good news.
I don't have to hire anybody to move this stuff,
because bad news, there's nothing worth moving.
That is my sign to get back to the auction.
[buzzing]
[suspenseful music]
- All right, let's let the magic begin.
Come on, folks.
Totes, totes, and more totes.
♪ ♪
[Brandi] Totes are always good.
It's clean.
There's a vacuum, punching bag.
I mean, it's mystery, but it could be good.
I'm not sure it's the best locker of the day,
but it's definitely not the worst.
[Emily] I really wanted your locker.
- Sorry. Them's the breaks, kid.
- Are you gonna go through it today?
- Yeah, I'll go through it after the auction.
- OK. - You want to help me?
- Yeah, I was--I was putting the offer on the table.
[Lisa] Let's do it. That's a win-win, I think.
- Let's do it. - OK, I'll meet you after.
- All right, cool.
- Hey, baby!
How are you today?
♪ ♪
- Your kids help you too?
- Yeah, they did, starting at that age.
- Oh, look at this.
We've got a bunch of bins in here.
- What? [Lisa] What?
[Ivy] And I made a deal with them.
You help me load from beginning to end,
I give you every toy that's in there.
Oh, man, they'd load every dang thing in there.
- I don't know, this-- it's kind of intriguing.
What's that?
That's, like, some sort of boxing thing?
Maybe Ivy would like that.
I don't know, it's kind of mysterious.
[Ivy] Alrighty.
One, two, three, four, five, six totes,
a keyboard stand,
weights, and a little light heavy bag,
and some disinfectant.
What more could you want? Alrighty.
Hopefully, those totes are full with about $100 each.
Makes a quick 600 and move on.
Worth a gamble, if it goes the right price.
- I like this.
Nice and clean locker, just totes.
Don't know what's in there,
but something I can easily move.
- All right, I got a nice little magic tote unit.
- Five by five! - And I got 50 right here.
75 right there. 75, now 100.
What about 100? Got 100 there, 125, 125.
150, what about 175?
150, 175, what about 200?
225, 225.
At 225, 250. What about 250 now?
What about 275? 250. 275?
275? Going once, twice.
275, what about 300? What about 300?
325, 325. And 350.
375, 375.
[Brandi] I mean this in the nicest possible way.
Back off, new girl.
[Dan] 375, now 400. What about 400 there?
425, 425. 425, now 450. What about 450?
450, and 475, 475.
475, now 500. 500?
What about 500? What about 500? 500, now 500.
500? 500, 500, 525.
500, 525, 525.
500, 525.
525 going once, twice.
What about 525 now?
Sold it your way, Brandi.
Got it for $500. [Laura] Aw, you got it, Brandi.
[Dan] If looks could kill.
- She can have the mystery.
[Brandi] New girl's gonna learn today, isn't she?
Go up against me.
[Laura] All right, folks, that's the end of the auction,
and don't forget to pay the lady.
See you in the office, everyone.
[Ivy] So the afternoon bird did not get no worm,
but that's OK, 'cause the early bird did.
Well, I guess I know what I'm doing now.
So it's back to Orange for me.
♪ ♪
[echoing slam]
- Great.
Let's see what this $500 investment gets me.
[suspenseful music]
Love a nice, clean door.
Let's just get in here.
[rustling]
Ooh. Huh, strange.
Strange odor.
♪ ♪
Looks like glass.
I don't need this.
Um, if I don't break this by the time I get home,
I'm gonna say that's a $15 terrarium box.
♪ ♪
Ugh, underwear.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my cue to glove it up.
♪ ♪
Metal tray. That's kind of nice.
Fake gold tray, real $5.
OK, this looks like a wet box, so...
♪ ♪
Wouldn't be my first soggy box.
[record scratches]
[laughs]
I didn't even mean that in the gross way.
Actually, I don't know that there is a non-gross way.
Well, it's just spilled liquids, surprisingly.
Trash.
♪ ♪
Ew!
Too many liquids in this locker.
Trash.
Maybe I should have let Emily have this locker.
♪ ♪
Well, there's a cordless vacuum.
15 bucks.
And...what?
Wow, look at this thing.
[laughs]
It's like a polishing tool--
that's what I feel like, like buffing.
It's a buffer, you know.
It's definitely vintage. 20 bucks.
This looks like a brand-new rice cooker.
Ew, that one's very dirty and used.
No money. [Emily] Hey.
[Lisa] Oh, Emily, you got here just in time.
- Oh, nice.
You got food in your locker, my favorite.
- I feel like you might actually be glad
that you didn't buy this locker, but we'll see.
That's what I'm here for.
- It's OK, mine wasn't any better.
- It wasn't?
- We both had that kind of luck today, I guess.
Wait a minute.
You're barely-- - I know, I know.
- You still have so much.
[Lisa] Let's be optimistic. That's a good idea.
- All right.
Now that I'm here, we're gonna--
- Things are gonna-- things are looking up already.
- Yes. - OK.
♪ ♪
What do we got here?
Christmas décor.
$50 worth of Christmas decorations here.
Oh, ooh, look.
- Wait, what is that?
- Stamps?
Uh, this is kind of a cool stamp album.
I feel like these are probably kind of valuable,
so I'm gonna say $75 for the book.
- OK.
[Lisa] Thank goodness you're here, Emily.
- Back up.
- Let's just put it on top of the floor.
OK, down. Going down, going down.
OK.
[Emily] A little muscle, there we go.
- We did it. - We did it.
- Oh, OK. - Nice.
[Lisa] That's an Apple.
[Emily] Wait, it's a old Apple too.
[Lisa] It's a vintage Macintosh.
Cool, we've got two vintage Apple monitors
with the granddaddy central processing unit.
$300, easy.
OK. [Emily] Whoa.
[Lisa] Oh.
[Emily] But what is this?
[Lisa] Well, that's a vintage compact.
Sweet, look at this.
[Emily] Yeah, that's... [Lisa] Yeah.
[Emily] Nice.
[Lisa] These are sweet little vintage compacts.
It's got the actual blush in it.
[Emily] Blush in there.
- I would say for the three of these, 60.
All right, the rest is all Christmas.
40 bucks.
Should we get into the Samsonite?
♪ ♪
- Please let there be money.
[Emily] That's OK, a little bonus.
- OK.
[suitcase clicks]
Come on, down payment.
Mm. There's a keyboard.
Looks totally new.
I'm gonna say $75.
Actually, this suitcase is in good shape.
It's pretty clean. 25 bucks.
- OK, that's--yeah - Oh, Tumi.
[Lisa] That's a good brand of suitcase.
[Emily] I was just gonna say that, yeah.
Good condition too.
[Lisa] $30.
Says Ralph Lauren.
Wallet.
- Money?
[Lisa] There's a price tag.
It says $90 on the price tag.
- OK, that's good.
- I'm gonna say $50.
We haven't opened that, OK.
"Please handle with care."
Breakaway glass?
What does that mean?
Doesn't all glass break away?
Hmm.
[rustling]
- What?
[Lisa] What?
Huh.
They're beer bottles, it looks like.
It's really light.
I think it's made out of sugar.
I think it must be some celebratory thing.
[Emily] Prop? [Lisa] Oh, maybe prop glass.
It's probably like some--
- I'm gonna test this.
- Ooh, test it.
- For when I'm angry.
- Yeah.
Emily, I need you to quit--
[crash]
--talking back
- You got me. [laughs]
[Lisa] Whoa!
- I was not expecting that.
- Well, they work.
They break away.
[Emily] How much do you think?
[Lisa] This is definitely something
I have never come across, so maybe we should find
a breakaway glass enthusiast.
- Yeah, I that's a good idea. - OK.
- You got me.
I was not expecting you to actually throw it and break it.
- You never know when you might gotta cut a bitch.
We're hitting that point.
[Emily] OK.
- We're hitting our breakaway point in this locker.
Trash, trash, more trash.
Trash.
- I'm just hearing trash, trash, trash.
No cash. [Lisa] Yep.
[Emily] You know, honestly,
I'm kinda glad that I didn't get this locker.
- But you got to enjoy the work of it,
and get none of the money, so that's kind of cool, right?
- Yeah, no.
No.
[echoing slam]
[upbeat music]
[Ivy] I'm back in Orange to go through the locker
I bought this morning.
It's a big one, so I called in some backup.
♪ ♪
- What's going on, old man?
- Nothing, son.
- All right, what'd you get?
- You don't want to know.
- Oh, it's one of those? [Ivy] Yep.
- All right.
[Ivy] Let's do it.
I ain't gonna lie, I'm glad you were free.
[rattling]
- Oh!
- Hope you warmed up.
- Cool bike.
Coolest thing out first.
- You guys call these what?
- Street bike. - Oh, got some good tires.
- It's not a fixie, 'cause it has gears.
[Ivy] 50 bucks.
Oh, this is not a bad piece.
Looks to be intact and complete.
Small motor, Craftsman.
I'd say 70 bucks.
- All right.
- And it's heavy too.
- Canister paint sprayer?
[Ivy] 80 bucks.
Oh, this is all on wheels.
All righty. Well...
- Display cabinet.
- All right.
Cushy chair for me to rest
when you start working hard.
Well, it's arms, legs, everything in here.
That ain't no money.
The chair ain't no money.
The dolly underneath is 10 bucks.
[Ivy Jr] This thing has drawers,
but you can't open them.
This is a project unfinished, is what it is.
- Oh, half done? [Ivy Jr] Yeah.
- OK.
No money, then.
You got a match?
I think I can just solve our problem now.
I thought this was a locker filled with furniture,
but now I'm worried it's just all unfinished projects.
[suspenseful music]
Well, a hexagon without glass is worth how much?
[Ivy Jr] Nothing.
[buzzer blares]
Ooh, crate.
Crate full of more wood.
Grab that paint sprayer, right there, towards me.
♪ ♪
- A little bit of money there. 15 bucks.
- Yep.
- No money, no money.
All of that right there, the only thing I see
in here that's even kind of cool is a rake.
Now, that's a unique-looking rake.
- Isn't that a broom?
- Is there a difference?
No money.
[Ivy Jr] Chair.
- Definitely no money in that chair.
[Ivy Jr] Yeah.
- Ooh, this is a nice looking table.
Now this--this is the best-looking piece
so far to me--look at this.
I like this piece.
- That's the first usable
piece of furniture we got.
- Look here, I'll get 40 bucks for this piece.
♪ ♪
- That's all gonna come down, 'cause of that one.
[Ivy] Uh-oh. - Be careful of that one.
[Ivy] Let it come. Hey, guess what.
We're halfway. Aren't you happy?
- Yeah. - You don't sound too happy.
[Ivy Jr] 'Cause I'm not.
[Ivy laughs]
You gotta learn to fake it better.
Watch your head, coming down.
Way up top.
[Ivy Jr] I know, but I'm not tall enough.
Treat me like I'm little.
Pick me up.
- Yeah, uh-huh.
- [laughs]
- Uh-huh.
I say just pull it.
[Ivy Jr] All right, watch out.
[dramatic music]
Avalanche!
Whoo! - Whoo!
[Ivy Jr] I saw something cool.
[Ivy] You saw something cool?
- It's a boomerang!
- Ooh, Crocodile Dundee in the house.
- This is why we buy wood units.
- I don't know a lot, but I know one thing.
You don't see boomerangs every day.
- No, especially this many.
- Hell, I don't see boomerangs every week.
When's the last time you seen a boomerang?
- It's been a long time since I've seen a boomerang.
- Hell, that means that we could have
some real money here.
Guess what we gotta do.
- We get them checked out.
- Good idea.
[Australian accent] Well, call me a kangaroo.
These might be worth some dollarydoos.
- Koala.
[Ivy Jr] I'm not gonna lie. I want the milk crate.
I don't know what's in it.
I'll show you my Calvin ingenuity.
[intense music]
[Ivy] There it is.
[Ivy Jr] Hands.
[groans] There we go.
Heck, yeah.
- OK.
Not a bad find up there. [Ivy Jr] No.
[Ivy] Got some tools.
Staple, sander,
drill, another sander.
Well, you've probably got 60 bucks in here.
- Heck yeah.
[Ivy] Not bad.
Good find.
Whoo! This table--
- Oh, it's a art table.
- Is that what it is?
Well, it's got stuff on it at the bottom.
[Ivy Jr] It folds out into a bigger table.
It's a art table.
- Oh, wow.
- This is cool. [Ivy] I agree.
- And that's where all the leaves came from.
- Yep.
- I thought they just stole a bunch of tables.
- So did I. 25 bucks.
[Ivy Jr] That's the coolest piece of furniture
we got so far. [Ivy] I agree.
I think these are all the same.
[Ivy Jr] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
That one looks like 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12 in the back.
13 this way, 14 this way.
15, that one.
And then this one doesn't look like it slides,
but it's a big table too. And then that one--
[Ivy] That's 17.
- 17 tables at 25 bucks a table?
That's pretty good.
[Ivy] And we got the rad boomerangs.
- Yeah.
It's fair to say this locker
turned over a new leaf.
- Ah, that is fair.
[laughter]
[echoing slam]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[Brandi] I bought a locker for 500 bucks.
I'm not sure it's the best one, but a girl can dream.
♪ ♪
All right, let's get in here.
Punching bag.
That's what I feel like these days.
I could probably get $40 for that.
[grunts]
She is heavy.
♪ ♪
All right, is this just full of DVDs--ah, Kung Fu.
"How to Defend Yourself From a Knife Attack,"
definitely watching that.
"Protect Yourself Against Weapons."
Kung Fu, Kung Fu.
A dollar each in here.
I probably got 100 bucks in this thing.
Sweet.
Look at this.
That is a knife.
45 bucks for this.
Ah, vacuum, 20.
OK.
Ooh, let's see.
What do we got?
Incapable of opening-- oh, a little heat gun.
$15 for this guy.
OK.
♪ ♪
All right.
♪ ♪
Oh, dirty laundry.
[buzzer blares]
♪ ♪
And more dirty laundry.
[buzzer blares]
There is just nothing but garbage in this.
[buzzer blares]
So apparently, instead of the best,
I bought the worst.
All right, two more left in here.
[laughs] OK.
♪ ♪
More dirty laundry.
[buzzer blares]
♪ ♪
Yeah, that's about it.
[buzzer blares]
And then I don't know what the hell this [bleep] is.
I don't know.
Is this skeet?
All right, well, that's kind of fun.
I don't know if that's-- how much that's worth,
but I'll have to shoot some skeet.
I'm down. Oh.
[laughs] Whoops!
Oh, my God.
One down, a bunch to go.
I don't know what these little contraptions are, though.
I wonder if they're worth any money.
That would be good.
Oh, look at this.
Looks like a bear trap.
It says "Blue Rock Trap" on here.
I think this is--this thing flings the skeet.
I don't know.
All right, I'm gonna call somebody,
find somebody to tell me this is
worth a whole bunch of money,
and today's gonna be worth it.
Last but not least, there's gonna be something--
one more good one.
One more good one, come on.
Ready?
♪ ♪
Why you gotta hurt my feelings, man?
Well, I did not make my money back,
but hopefully this skeet stuff will bring me to profit.
And if not, at least I get to shoot some [bleep],
so there's that.
[suspenseful music]
[Ivy] I think this is where he told us to meet him.
- Yeah, but where's the dude at?
♪ ♪
- Big-ass park.
- He could be anywhere.
[whooshing]
- Maybe he's hiding, like--
ooh.
- Ah!
- I think that's him.
- I think it's him. [laughter]
[Ivy] We brought our boomerangs to Balboa Park
to meet with Kevin Barker, boomerang extraordinaire.
- Let's see what you got in there.
- Check 'em out.
- Nice, dudes!
These look like some old Australian boomerangs.
And then you've got some cool collectible ones,
it looks like, in here.
Like any of these, definitely Australian.
- Ooh, let me see that one.
- Yeah, that one's nice, right?
I like the artwork.
And then, this is more of a returning boomerang.
You can tell.
You can tell. They're lighter.
Check that out, Ivy.
See how light that is?
And then when you get to, like, a throwing stick, like,
feel that one compared.
- Oh, wow. That's lighter.
- You know which one you don't want to get hit with.
- Well, being that you got all these different shapes,
I'm gonna assume it has something to do
with how it flies.
- Definitely.
So the more curved ones are for returning,
and the straighter ones are for hunting.
You can throw them straight up and down vertical,
but that's more for something that's close to you.
For the farther target,
you want to throw them sideways,
because they will travel with the wind.
- So you hit with this part?
- Yeah, you hit with any part you can.
[Ivy] Ah. - You know what I mean?
Hopefully, you hit them.
And if you don't hit them with that one,
you bust out the next one.
[Ivy] I didn't realize boomerangs
are straight-up weapons.
I thought they were just Australian Frisbees.
And I'm looking at these.
I can see that it's been sanded.
Like, right here it's flat.
That's rounded.
So obviously, all that means something.
[Kevin] It all means something important.
So what this is, this would be a right-handed boomerang.
So what you would want to do is sand the trailing edge.
So if you throw it like this,
this is gonna be your trailing edge.
Here's your leading edge, and here's your trailing edge.
So you'll notice, as you can see it in the ply,
that this has been sanded, and this edge has been sanded.
- So I know, just off my knowledge,
that boomerangs come mostly from Australia,
but where were before they made it to Australia?
- Yeah, well, boomerangs have actually been found
on all of the continents.
OK?
The oldest boomerang ever discovered was found in Poland,
and it's about 23,000 years old.
[Ivy] Oh, my God. - Made from mammoth tusk.
Even King Tut had some of these in his tomb.
[Ivy Jr] Wow.
- Yeah, made out of ivory,
and it had gold tips on it.
- That's what we need to find.
[Kevin] That's what we got to do, with ivory,
'cause that's made to do some damage.
[Ivy] Yeah. - Right?
- Speaking of damage,
who's ready to throw some boomerangs?
Ooh. [Kevin] You wanna try it?
It's a vertical toss,
and you're gonna throw it pretty hard.
[upbeat music]
Oh, come on.
Look at this guy, a natural.
It's a ringer.
- I'm a little surprised.
[laughter]
- You see my face.
I didn't think it was gonna work that good.
[Ivy] OK.
- I see you keeping this one, dude.
♪ ♪
[Ivy Jr] Oh, come on, baby. [Ivy] It's coming.
[Kevin] I'm seeing it, you guys.
I'm seeing it right here, dude.
Come on.
- [grunts]
- Oh! [laughter]
- Like father, like son.
- Well, it's clear that they work, and I got 14 of them.
How much money do we got?
- OK, they definitely work,
and they're definitely in good shape.
I would say that these, all total,
are worth somewhere around...
mm...
♪ ♪
I'm gonna say $400.
- Hey, that's what I call returns.
- That's a return on your investment.
- Yes, it is.
[Kevin] That's what we're talking about.
[echoing slam]
[upbeat music]
[Brandi] I brought my skeet stuff to the Oaktree Gun Club,
where I'm meeting expert shooter Kim Rhode.
- Pull.
♪ ♪
Pull.
♪ ♪
[Brandi] Oh, did I forget to mention?
She's a six-time Olympic medalist.
No big deal.
[bird screeches]
- What have you got?
- Oh. Look at this...
[Kim] Oh, my gosh.
- Contraption.
[grunts]
- OK, I know what this is.
[Brandi] Hoping you can tell me all about this,
because I don't know anything about skeet.
All right.
- Looks like you got some Black Diamond clays.
Oh, here's some Blue Rock clays.
These are really old. - OK.
I mean, is skeet, like--
was it just predominantly a sport,
or is it--was it meant to teach you how to shoot,
like, flying objects?
[Kim] Well, it was-- - Like birds.
[Kim] It was meant to--to teach you
how to hit a moving target. [Brandi] OK.
- Whether that's a clay target or a live bird,
it was a way for people to get together and socialize.
- How did you get started?
- Well, my dad was taught by his dad,
and my mom and dad taught me,
and it was just a thing we did as a family.
[Brandi] And you excelled.
- And I excelled, yeah. - Yeah.
[Kim] I went out-- my first Olympics,
I was 16 when I went in Atlanta in 1996
and turned 17 five days before my event,
and ended up walking away
with my first Olympic gold medal, so--
- Badass.
- Let's focus on some of these targets.
[Brandi] OK.
- So in the old days,
we used to shoot glass balls.
- Oh.
- And we would throw the glass balls up.
Sometimes they had feathers or little things in them,
and then we would shoot them.
But they were kind of dangerous--
you know, glass breaking, glass going everywhere.
So they developed the clay targets,
which is what we still shoot today,
which is basically what I have here.
As you can see, not much has changed
when you look at the modern White Flyer target.
Except now, ours are a little bit more biodegradable
and things like that.
But the Blue Rock
and the Black Diamond clay targets are very old,
very sought after.
You know, they're made to be destroyed.
- Right.
[Kim] So not a lot of them survive over the years,
so they are... - They're rare.
- Rarer.
[Brandi] OK, I like that. - OK?
- So far, she's saying all of my favorite words.
- These are two hand throwers.
Basically, this looks like--
and you can see right here,
it says, "Winchester Western Division."
It's a company that makes ammunition.
This one doesn't seem like it's fully operational,
as it's kind of stuck,
but I would guess probably 1930-ish...
- OK. [Kim] On this piece.
This one's a little more modern, probably 1940s.
This is a Remington.
The target would literally go in here like this,
and then they would flick it out,
and then the shooter would then shoot the target.
- OK.
[Kim] And as you can see,
this one is in very good working order.
Super cool, but these were like the portable versions
of what you have here.
[Brandi] OK.
- So this is the Blue Rock trap.
The machine would have been bolted down.
See how this moves? - Oh.
- To adjust the target to go any direction,
high or low, that you wanted.
And basically, it would have had a string here
that gone off the back.
The puller would then pull the string,
which would then make this arm fly,
and the target would sit up in here.
[Brandi] OK. [Kim] On the machine.
[Brandi] Just toss it.
- And it would toss it out.
I'm guessing probably 1930s.
These would have been used in, like, a trap house.
Basically, what you see out there,
that little green box. [Brandi] Mm-hmm.
[Kim] In the old days, there would have been
a trapper in there,
a single guy reloading and pulling it.
And the arm would come around, and he would cock it again
and pull it for every shooter.
Now we don't have a trapper in the house.
We have the targets stacked.
It automatically feeds,
so things in technology have changed--
[Brandi] It's safer and more efficient.
- Safer, more efficient. - OK.
So, like, as a lot, with everything here,
how much do you think I have?
- Um...
you got the targets, the hand throwers,
the Blue Rock trap.
I mean, it's a really cool collection.
I would say...
$900.
- What?
- [laughs]
- I thought I was losing my touch.
Nope.
[blows] Still got it.
- Well, you want to try shooting,
since you're here? - Obviously, yes.
[Kim] OK, so this is the station.
The bird's gonna come out of this hole right here.
[Brandi] OK.
[Kim] So why don't you go ahead
and step up here on the station?
You got your ear plugs in, glasses on?
[Brandi] Glasses on.
- Safety first, right? - [laughs]
- Bring your elbow up, rotate it forward,
and you'll feel there's a pocket in here.
OK, that's where you want the gun to go.
- OK. - So you can grip it here.
Grip it here with this hand.
I'm gonna help you hold it.
Call "pull" when you're ready.
[Brandi] Pull.
[gunfire]
Ugh.
- OK, you were a little off to the right.
- Right, yeah. - OK?
- OK.
- So you want to try it again.
OK, head down, nice and tight.
Call "pull" when you're ready.
[Brandi] Pull.
[gunfire] [Kim] Whoo!
- Ah! I got it.
Son of a bitch. - Nice work!
[echoing slam]
[Lisa] All right. I think this is the spot.
Emily and I found some breakaway glass in my locker,
so we are carefully bringing it to New Rule FX,
where we are meeting with the president, Ryan Johnson.
- And honestly, I'm just here to break some [bleep].
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So we have, from, you know,
instantly just taking a look at it,
definitely, these are breakaway bottles.
- Yeah. We were right.
- These are old breakaway bottles.
This kind of gives you a sense of breakaway bottles, right?
[Lisa] Yeah, OK.
[Ryan] 'Cause there's some that are broken.
[Lisa] All right.
- They're super thick.
Yeah, so breakaway bottles are a prop
that we use in the movie industry
anytime we need to have a fight scene.
You've seen it, right?
A Western scene, they get a bottle smashed
over their head, or somebody does
one of those gags where they throw everything
off the edge of the table.
- Yeah, I'm just so mad. - Yeah.
A long time ago, they actually used to make this out of sugar,
and so they would call it sugar glass.
And a lot of people still do call it sugar glass.
You can make them out of sugars,
but this isn't sugar glass.
I can tell, just by the way it looks.
And I don't really-- [Emily] Don't wanna taste it?
- Wanna taste it, but--
[crunch] [Lisa] Oh.
- [spits]
- Ryan!
- Yeah, definitely not sugar glass.
It's made from a combination of plastic resins,
and they're usually poured by hand, one at a time,
into hot molds, then dumped out,
and then they cool down.
And then you carefully take them off
and you trim off the little edge.
- So when did people start using breakaway glass?
- Well, I mean, even into the 1900s,
theater productions were using props like this to create
those dramatic moments for their plays,
and those were probably all made from
sugar or something similar.
You know, in the '20s, when the silent films came in,
that was very visual media, right?
You had the Charlie Chaplins and the Harold Lloyds,
all that--a lot of physical comedy.
So they very quickly figured out,
we can't use the real thing,
because that'll really shut down production quick.
So they started figuring out
all these interesting techniques,
and a lot of them, we still use today.
And, you know, sugar glass is great,
but you can't really put liquid in it,
because the liquid would start, you know,
decomposing the sugar. - Right.
- And of course, all the little pieces that are left over
are gonna be sticky, and then the ants start coming,
the bugs start coming.
None of the stages want that going on
on their stage floor. - Makes sense.
So no food in lockers or on set.
Got it.
- They're--they're very thick and heavy.
Like, these bottles are--
are pretty heavy.
[Lisa] Those are heavy? 'Cause this feels--
[Ryan] Grab one of mine. - This feels super lightweight.
- So... [Lisa] Although, I guess--
- Here's one of ours.
So if you compare the size, this one's a little bit bigger,
but you can--
I think--well, they're probably a--they're
a little bit lighter than-- - Oh, wow.
[Ryan] Than-- - They're lighter?
- Much lighter. [Ryan] And so--
- Ooh, whoa!
[Ryan] Yeah, you can see how thick this is.
Like, you know, 3/16 of an inch versus this one here.
- Whoa! - It's a little bit thinner.
- Always gets me.
- She did that earlier.
I was like--
- So--but they're super fun, right?
I mean-- [Lisa] Yeah, it is!
- Who doesn't want to have a breakaway bottle
smashed over their head?
It's an experience you definitely
want to try at least once.
- But can it hurt you? I mean--
[Ryan] Yeah, absolutely, sure.
- You can still have sharp edges here.
[Ryan] So there's sharp edges.
But mostly, they're gonna crack.
And it's brittle, so they'll break before it's gonna
probably pierce the skin.
But there's no pain associated with it, right?
It's like somebody flicking you on the head,
because this plastic is held together
by a very weak molecular bond, so those molecules are just
barely hanging on to each other,
and that's what makes it so brittle
that you can break it very easily.
- OK.
I hate to break it to you,
but I am here for the money.
So how much would you say these bottles are worth?
- Well, these green ones are definitely bigger
than the brown ones, right?
They're--they're a little bit larger.
How many brown ones do we have left?
[Lisa] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight brown ones.
- And this lovely clear one, and the rest of this is all--
- Yeah, those are--
- Broken shards. - Those ones didn't make it.
- OK, I think that the value of these is about...
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
270 bucks.
- Great. - OK.
- That's way more than I was expecting.
- Same.
- You nailed it.
- No, Emily, I smashed it.
- Well, let's break some more stuff.
What do you say? - Yeah.
[Ryan] Yeah? - I'm into it.
- I need it. [Ryan] All right, let's see.
[suspenseful music]
[Announcer] Ivy Calvin boomeranged his way
to $825 dollarydoos.
Brandi Passante aimed high and pulled out 620 bucks.
Lisa Delarios bottled up a profit of 530 smackers,
while Emily Pokoj was just happy to not find food.
- Lisa, look.
[Lisa] What?
Oh!
[laughs] Oh, my God.
That wasn't bad. [Emily] That felt great.
- I'm really--yeah.
Did you see all of his trophies?
Oh! I'm sorry.
Did that hurt?
- You did so good.
You got the real reaction.
That was a real--she got me.
- This is beginning to be
a little bit of a "pane" for me.
- Oh, my God!
[crashes]
[laughter]
Well, this has been really fun.
Thank you so much, Ryan.
Cheers. - Cheers.
[crashing]
♪ ♪
[echoing slam]