I loved how staged some of them were. An absolute shitbox of 10x10, some clothes, an empty safe, and then at the back a signed Elvis guitar in mint condition.
That guitar was real I’ll tell you. There’s no way you can’t convince me the guy who couldn’t afford to pay for his unit didn’t think to sell a $10,000 guitar
I worked at a storage place that had auctions for 4 years. Best I've ever seen was a guy made a good 10 grand off unit packed with new tires nobody wanted to bid more then a couple hundred bucks on anything and the vast majority were flipping used thrift store furniture.
@@ARealPerson21Or anything else that was valuable. If I was behind in my payments I’d just take everything of value out of the unit before they locked me out.
@@TheOGNoName We were required to hire an independent Auctioneer who would only cut customers locks at time of auction, I hear ya though not every company played by the rules.
So you are taking the time to type this while your food gets cold? And instead of just watching a different video you would have just stared at the wall? Stop lying.
My ex from college got into this show then decided he too was going to be a storage war star. He ended up spending his life savings, and almost his college fund buying 6 units. One had nothing but old moldy magazines and salt rock lamps in it. The best one however, was just filled with tread mills and blenders. I got one as a Christmas gift, and before you ask which I got a treadmill or a blender. Yes.
Like seriously who thinks people are going to store their high value items in a storage locker? Like MAYBE 1 out of 100 would have something worth anything like a piece of antique furniture worth maybe a thousand bucks. But nobody is putting their 1800's Stradivarius violin in a storage locker.
I have this core memory with Storage Wars where one day my elementary school gym teacher lost his whistle and would just yell YUUUUUUP whenever he would usually use his whistle. Loved that guy he was awesome.
My grandpa lost his vision and during his time recovering would spend hours binging this show. I would join him time to time. Thanks for reminding me of a great memory!
My cousin had a reality tv show in Canada called "fools gold". He hated it because it was scripted and edited to make them look stupid, But then he went to Winnipeg to bid on storage lockers because for some reason "storage wars" was real and not scripted or edited...He filled his house with junk and spent Thousands, lost the house and moved to the gold mine area to live in a trailer...."Fool's Gold"!!
before the show storage wars, you could buy good stuff for cheap, and flip it for profit at storage places. The show just made everyone think they could spend thousands and make even more.
0:11 God I remember seeing that commercial as a kid in between shows like this. And I was really sitting there wondering, “why don’t my parents just get gold? that seems like cooler currency than paper”
@@rinoz47You're not wrong, but you'll never convince 99% of this shows target audience not to associate lock picking with illegal activity. Probably also don't wanna advertise how easy it can be, since a set of picks is like $50 online.
Nah, she's Canadian, we're all issued a regulation lumberjack outfit. Since I live in Alberta, mine also came with a cowboy hat 🤠 it's the little things.
I used to watch the original one back in the day with my dad. He passed away this past February. Awesome core memories came flooding in. Sure do miss that old man ❤
Actually, the Pawn Stars show may have sucked but the store is a real functioning pawn shop and is a nice place to visit. It's very small. The "stars" are never there and they have some expensive souvenirs but....I have purchased so very nice jewelry for very reasonable prices. I have been there several times.
The store they use for public and the store they film in are different, the people you see in the background are either extras or the people they brought in to sell on the show
@Seagull425 You're right, but I have been in the store when they were filming 🎥 an episode. They may do some editing, but they just asked us to step aside and stay quiet while they filmed a segment. I'm sure there's a lot more that goes into it.
It's horrible to visit. There is a line going around the block and they rush you through the store. They hardly expect anyone to buy anything even. I live in Vegas and drive by it everyday for work. Same thing every time I drive by. A bunch of disappointed tourists.
My dad does this, has my entire life. He often sells weird stuff to movie sets and makes an insane amount of money. It's definitely a craft you have to grow with to really see success.
I used to do these auctions like 20 years ago before the shows ruined it. Lockers like that first one you could get for like $50 if that. Sometimes no one shows up and basically get them for nothing. 99% of them are full of junk, clothes, kitchenware, always mattresses and other furniture you had to dispose of. Never really made any money it was just fun to go though the stuff and find a few things worth keeping along the way. Once storage wars came out people were bidding hundreds if not thousands for units full of nothing hoping for a bar of gold
The show ruined it. I have known people that used to do it and make a living off of it. But now people think they're gonna get rich off a few units, so they toss money at them.
@@knockout9446 never did a run to the dump. Usually if i had a ton of stuff i would just throw out what i could in my cans and then bring the rest to work as they had a big dumpster. Also my work had like this big fenced in lot at the time i could store excess stuff there til next week. There was always furniture and mattresses pretty much with every unit
Oh man, I used to watch Storage Wars religiously as a kid. I thought they were real and was like "I can't wait to get money when I grow up, so I can buy a storage unit of my own and find some sick treasures"
I think the angle grinder is just for the shows, as most if not all storage units make you use their locks, so they have the keys, and if you don't pay, they change the locks.
I rented from a storage unit a few years ago and I had to buy my own lock and put it on it, same with the storage unit my mom has now, but they will put their own lock next to the other lock if the bill isn't paid, so, the stuff in it can't be removed unless the bill is paid. I wouldn't rent from a storage unit that makes someone use their lock, that they have a key to.
When a storage unit gets repoed they have to cut the owner's lock off it and put their own lock on to prevent the previous owner's from stealing their shit back without pay. I only know this because it's happened to my mother before
They don’t make you use their locks. This is completely wrong and false information. You are completely allowed to bring and use your own lock if you want. If you don’t pay your bills, they simply cut yours off and replace it with theirs.
my dad LOVES storage wars for some reason. Never had interest before in it, but then one day he got an old samsung tv from a coworker and samsung has a bunch of channels that only air one show, and he picked storage wars. now its the only thing on the tv ever.
Man, I used to watch this on TV with my mom and it was really fun to see what stuff they would find and who would make the most profit at the end of the episode.
I’d like to see him cover parking wars. Ponytail who puts tickets in cars, the parking authority and garfield who boots the cars. People go insane because their car is ticketed.
I know this stuff is all fake but as someone who works in self storage I gotta say I’ve never seen someone cut a cylinder lock with an angle grinder like that… and without PPE, no less 😂 2:16
Same, I had a full face mask when I cut locks and wore gloves because those sparks burned when I worked in Storage Facilities. . . The way he's doing it looks like he had to have scratched the top of the hasp
My favorite storage wars fact is how they tried to screw over a local trading card shop nearby and selectively edited footage to pretty much make the owner look like a scumbag, drastically hurting his business.
I work for a moving and storage and when we do auctions it's one of the more entertaining days at least. I do see some people really make out just depends where you bid.
I worked for a storage facility. There was never anything good in the units that were auctioned off. And removing the lock with an angle grinder was exactly how we took them off, lol.
No one would keep valuable shit in a unit and then not pay it. People only don’t pay when they don’t give af about losing what’s inside… cuz it’s garbage
Whoa blast from the past. I was obsessed when it was out, and then I forgot about it until now lol I never got the attraction to Bret. He seemed much older than the contestants.
I'm not even joking, I've been to Jeff's store and there used to be an entire rack of those pants. Like an ungodly amount. They were there for atleast 2 years, I wouldn't be surprised if they're still there today.
Honestly, I heard from extras who were on the set that many of these storage units are completely fake. They don’t belong to anyone. They just fill these units with a bunch of random old junk and then pretend to bid on them. Real storage units do get liquidated, and sometimes they hold auctions, but it’s not as common as people think. The only lockers that show up on the show and are actually real are ones belonging to people who want their stuff to be featured.
My mom was on the OG show... they didn't have extras and they asked her to bid on a storage and told her not to worry they just need her to bid two or 3 times but she won't really have to buy it... now everytime I get reminded of this show I just remember my mom putting up her hand 😂
My favourite part of the show is when they make incredibly unrealistic predictions about how much money they can make off of each item. Leaving reality behind at the speed of light 😂
I really enjoy this channel really bringing back the memories of younger me watching late 2000-2010s. (Sometimes often modern day) highly live action scripted television both The Good, The bad and The strange.
My dad went to one of those auctions. He didn't bid. He offered a guy 10 bucks for a stereo on someone that did bid on a pod. That stereo worked for a couple of years.
Chris you 100% should go to a storage auction, your top tier when it comes to commiting to a bit haha would love to see a storage auction from ur perspective
former storage manager here: angle grinders are, in fact, the only way we were able to remove most of the high security locks. as for the cylinder locks (think filing cabinet lock), we had to drill them out directly through the series of inner workings. fuck my life.
One of the funniest things about this show is how they find that one item that they have to get appraised by an “expert”. Then that item is super profitable. I vaguely remember some guy who bought a storage full of newspapers for a few hundred and somehow it was worth 10x what he paid. Newspapers!!
Yes! I’m so glad you found this one 😂 I used to watch this show on TV years ago and I forgot this was also the episode with the mini stock cars. Everybody loses their minds.
I work at U-haul and when we auction these off, it's literally the same thing. They come in with a big grinder and cut into it because the locks are high security and can't be cut easily or quickly picked. We either grind it like that or drill out the center.
At a storage facility; when a locker goes into default and is going to be sold, The Storage Facility will cut the previous owners lock off. This keeps previous owners locked out so they can't get in and remove items after going into default. The lock cutting at the auctions is just for show.
lol my aunt & uncle did this briefly, well before the show. They were used book dealers, so it wasn’t a terrible idea, but reselling is a very labor intensive lifestyle & they ended up moving their shop online in like 96, and did very well in their retirement career, ended up a well known fixture at northwest USA sci fi cons & re-retired in their early 80s. I’m 54, and my uncle was still older than me when he started his dream career.
Another one of those war shows I like is “shipping wars” basically it’s just people who haul these huge items. It’s really interesting if you wanna give it a watch
My Sister and I met some of them at my storage building a few years ago. I really can't tell you which ones it was because I've never seen most of any show they've done. My sister asked me to take a photo of her and one of those dudes. Ohh, it was here in Huntington Beach, CA.
My mom would watch the US version of this sometimes. I'd always hear the guys going "YYYYYEP" during the bidding. Also doggone those incessant confessionals. They're as constant as the ones in Total Drama Island, and at least that's a cartoon.
Just found your channel. Even though I only wachted a few reality show growing up(one of them storage wars) I'm really enjoying your videos. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face
Its baffling and borderline infuriating that this man doesn't have like millions of subs at this point. Genuinely one of the funniest people on the internet. Clearly the algorithm is incredibly flawed bc youtube should be recommending this channel wayyyy more than it does.
Those inside out Hawai'ian shirts are copies of Reyn Spooner shirts. Those were only available in Hawai'i, and they marked you as a native back in the day. Now, every haole on the mainland wears them like when you drive through Iowa and see a salt life sticker on a minivan that's never been within 500 miles of a sea
Haole. *Lights cigarette* Bruddah, not heard dat since 2002. My little white ass used to be able to talk all the slang! I loved it there, so much. Idc, make fun of me, but lemme play in the ocean while auntie and unk makes food dat breaks dah mouth.
depends. here in the us, a track car would probably not have any registration or anything. so it could only be driven on private property, like a race track. those cars are usually built from scraps.
The two episodes with cars in them I'd seen of Storage Wars they always specifically stated to the audience the car is a separate option not for sale. Did the series stop doing that later on?
So i'm only a minute in and i have to say, Storage Wars is a guilty pleasure of mine. SW, Pawn Stars, and all those crazy shows...maybe i'm just old but it just makes me jimmy in my jammies (No, i dont know what that means but i just wanted to say it)
There was nothing more addicting back then compared to Storage Wars, Pimp My Ride, and Pawn Stars. You would literally just watch that shit all day in a hotel and 4 hours go by just like that.
Chris, I desperately need you to do an episode about the Doomsday Preppers episode where instead of stock piling, the guys prep and plan to be looters and marauders. It has lived rent free in my head for years.
lol, my coin collecting dad roped me into going to storage auctions. we ended up being in that business for two years. The top 2 things we found in every unit was trash and nudey mags
I loved how staged some of them were. An absolute shitbox of 10x10, some clothes, an empty safe, and then at the back a signed Elvis guitar in mint condition.
That guitar was real I’ll tell you. There’s no way you can’t convince me the guy who couldn’t afford to pay for his unit didn’t think to sell a $10,000 guitar
I worked at a storage place that had auctions for 4 years. Best I've ever seen was a guy made a good 10 grand off unit packed with new tires nobody wanted to bid more then a couple hundred bucks on anything and the vast majority were flipping used thrift store furniture.
@aaronbrandon2321 that's because employees take all the good stuff before the auctions. How much good stuff did you take ?
@@ARealPerson21Or anything else that was valuable. If I was behind in my payments I’d just take everything of value out of the unit before they locked me out.
@@TheOGNoName We were required to hire an independent Auctioneer who would only cut customers locks at time of auction, I hear ya though not every company played by the rules.
Oh thank god. I was about to have to eat something and just be left alone with my own thoughts
That is unacceptable. You can’t have that going on.
Same
Bro almost had to eat without TH-cam
Nightmare fuel.
So you are taking the time to type this while your food gets cold? And instead of just watching a different video you would have just stared at the wall? Stop lying.
My ex from college got into this show then decided he too was going to be a storage war star. He ended up spending his life savings, and almost his college fund buying 6 units. One had nothing but old moldy magazines and salt rock lamps in it. The best one however, was just filled with tread mills and blenders. I got one as a Christmas gift, and before you ask which I got a treadmill or a blender. Yes.
ugh😖
Ouch.
This is hilarious.
Like seriously who thinks people are going to store their high value items in a storage locker? Like MAYBE 1 out of 100 would have something worth anything like a piece of antique furniture worth maybe a thousand bucks. But nobody is putting their 1800's Stradivarius violin in a storage locker.
😂😂😂
I have this core memory with Storage Wars where one day my elementary school gym teacher lost his whistle and would just yell YUUUUUUP whenever he would usually use his whistle. Loved that guy he was awesome.
@@imthechompdidn’t notice till your comment and omfg the nostalgia 🥹 I LOVED jenny/my life as a teenage robot growing up
Your gym teacher was Dave Hester
Wait I had a gym teacher that did that too????
@@imthechomp lol ty it’s one of my fave cartoons
@@MrWIZ9000 close enough welcome back Dave Hester
PHEWWWWW the core memories with my grandpa came flooding back… Gotta watch the OG Storage Wars with Barry, Dave, and all of them😂
YUUUUUP!
My grandpa lost his vision and during his time recovering would spend hours binging this show. I would join him time to time. Thanks for reminding me of a great memory!
Imagine a storage unit stacked full of Babe VHS tapes.
Nice
They actually had an episode where that happened but all the VHS tapes were empty! 📼😂
That'll do bid... that'll do
Don't give me any ideas my good friend.
@@joemccandless1278 under-rated comment
You know what's an even stranger show? 2009's Discovery Channel show, "The Colony", which is about people role-playing life after the apocalypse.
I've never heard of that show before but it sounds like it would be great for him to cover.
I fucking love the colony 😭😭😭🫵🏾🫵🏾🫵🏾
I watched that and when I was 19 I had more sense than them "a SHOWER?? YOU HAVE A GAPING HOLE IN THE WALL YOU DUMB FUCKS!"
I think I watched the first episode, plus about 1/2 of a later one..I remember the warehouse/compound and a fake motorcycle gang of wasteland raiders.
Absolutely loved the colony!
The editing on this video is outstanding. Chris’s head on the character’s body and him getting impaled is even better than the jump cuts in the show.
Can we just take a second to appreciate?Chris has gotten so big now.He is getting doordash sponsors. You deserve it bro
Heeell yeah, brother.
He looks roughly the same size to me. Mayne even a Lil slimmer.
He's not that fat....holy shit....
Ouch
He definitely gained weight
My cousin had a reality tv show in Canada called "fools gold". He hated it because it was scripted and edited to make them look stupid, But then he went to Winnipeg to bid on storage lockers because for some reason "storage wars" was real and not scripted or edited...He filled his house with junk and spent Thousands, lost the house and moved to the gold mine area to live in a trailer...."Fool's Gold"!!
before the show storage wars, you could buy good stuff for cheap, and flip it for profit at storage places. The show just made everyone think they could spend thousands and make even more.
Whoa
@@lilithhawkins6454😂It’s funny cuz it’s true. But also sad because people wasted tens of thousands of dollars. 😢
Story time
0:11 God I remember seeing that commercial as a kid in between shows like this. And I was really sitting there wondering, “why don’t my parents just get gold? that seems like cooler currency than paper”
Believe me. It’s still being played. 🙄
please PLEASE cover an original episode with Dave, Darryl, Barry, Jarrod and Brandy. I’m begging you
please!!
Angle grinder is actually the best option for opening random padlocks if you just want to get it done without messing around and wasting time.
They are master locks and can be combed in half a second
For most of those shity locks you can just jiggle them hard enough
@@rinoz47You're not wrong, but you'll never convince 99% of this shows target audience not to associate lock picking with illegal activity.
Probably also don't wanna advertise how easy it can be, since a set of picks is like $50 online.
Just open the lock with another lock
@rinoz47 you have a masterlock series (insert number) it can be opened using a masterlock series (insert number).
Pretty sure Ursula spent that $125 on that killer lumberjack fit.
Nah, she's Canadian, we're all issued a regulation lumberjack outfit.
Since I live in Alberta, mine also came with a cowboy hat 🤠 it's the little things.
I used to watch the original one back in the day with my dad. He passed away this past February. Awesome core memories came flooding in. Sure do miss that old man ❤
ty for feeding us 🖤
I will do a racism
Feeding us black hearts
So humbled, and so well fed! 😂 yum! 😋 🖤
Feed us more! 😂
Actually, the Pawn Stars show may have sucked but the store is a real functioning pawn shop and is a nice place to visit. It's very small. The "stars" are never there and they have some expensive souvenirs but....I have purchased so very nice jewelry for very reasonable prices. I have been there several times.
I think they did expand the store at some point, so it's bigger than it was at first.
@Tsukuyomi28 They added some shops around it, but the store itself is still the same.
The store they use for public and the store they film in are different, the people you see in the background are either extras or the people they brought in to sell on the show
@Seagull425 You're right, but I have been in the store when they were filming 🎥 an episode. They may do some editing, but they just asked us to step aside and stay quiet while they filmed a segment. I'm sure there's a lot more that goes into it.
It's horrible to visit. There is a line going around the block and they rush you through the store. They hardly expect anyone to buy anything even.
I live in Vegas and drive by it everyday for work. Same thing every time I drive by. A bunch of disappointed tourists.
My dad does this, has my entire life. He often sells weird stuff to movie sets and makes an insane amount of money. It's definitely a craft you have to grow with to really see success.
This makes me want to see Chris cover the series of Storage Hunters, because it's somehow even more so-bad-its-good than Storage Wars!
now we need a video on the US version, you should also check out the show hardcore pawn. it like pawn stars but they are in Detroit instead of vegas
I used to do these auctions like 20 years ago before the shows ruined it. Lockers like that first one you could get for like $50 if that. Sometimes no one shows up and basically get them for nothing. 99% of them are full of junk, clothes, kitchenware, always mattresses and other furniture you had to dispose of. Never really made any money it was just fun to go though the stuff and find a few things worth keeping along the way. Once storage wars came out people were bidding hundreds if not thousands for units full of nothing hoping for a bar of gold
The show ruined it. I have known people that used to do it and make a living off of it. But now people think they're gonna get rich off a few units, so they toss money at them.
@@lilithhawkins6454 Social media and this ruined a lot. Cant thrift in peace anymore without shitty resellers.
How are the cleanup/dump run costs?
@@knockout9446 never did a run to the dump. Usually if i had a ton of stuff i would just throw out what i could in my cans and then bring the rest to work as they had a big dumpster. Also my work had like this big fenced in lot at the time i could store excess stuff there til next week. There was always furniture and mattresses pretty much with every unit
16:36 Chris saying what with a cowboy hat will never stop being funny
Can confirm. Still funny 2 days later lol
Can confirm. Still funny 2 days later lol
Thank goodness you uploaded. I was about to be responsible and do homework. Fawk that.
The *HWAAT* in the hat @11:10 absolutely sent me 😂 I had to rewatch it a few times
10/10! Editing on point this video 🔥
You are on FIRE with the last few videos. Loved the being impaled bit. Thanks.
Out of context this comment would be crazy lmao
Oh man, I used to watch Storage Wars religiously as a kid. I thought they were real and was like "I can't wait to get money when I grow up, so I can buy a storage unit of my own and find some sick treasures"
I think the angle grinder is just for the shows, as most if not all storage units make you use their locks, so they have the keys, and if you don't pay, they change the locks.
I rented from a storage unit a few years ago and I had to buy my own lock and put it on it, same with the storage unit my mom has now, but they will put their own lock next to the other lock if the bill isn't paid, so, the stuff in it can't be removed unless the bill is paid. I wouldn't rent from a storage unit that makes someone use their lock, that they have a key to.
When a storage unit gets repoed they have to cut the owner's lock off it and put their own lock on to prevent the previous owner's from stealing their shit back without pay. I only know this because it's happened to my mother before
They don’t make you use their locks. This is completely wrong and false information. You are completely allowed to bring and use your own lock if you want.
If you don’t pay your bills, they simply cut yours off and replace it with theirs.
my dad LOVES storage wars for some reason. Never had interest before in it, but then one day he got an old samsung tv from a coworker and samsung has a bunch of channels that only air one show, and he picked storage wars. now its the only thing on the tv ever.
Ahhh storage wars. Very much a guilty pleasure/background noise show for me..........
Man, I used to watch this on TV with my mom and it was really fun to see what stuff they would find and who would make the most profit at the end of the episode.
I’d like to see him cover parking wars. Ponytail who puts tickets in cars, the parking authority and garfield who boots the cars. People go insane because their car is ticketed.
The fact that this was uploaded 1 minute ago and i JUST clocked out for lunch. F yeaaaaaahhh!!!!
I know this stuff is all fake but as someone who works in self storage I gotta say I’ve never seen someone cut a cylinder lock with an angle grinder like that… and without PPE, no less 😂 2:16
All it takes is some misuse and that disk is going straight into the man's skull
Yall should know that unless OSHA is around anything flies on tv
Same, I had a full face mask when I cut locks and wore gloves because those sparks burned when I worked in Storage Facilities. . . The way he's doing it looks like he had to have scratched the top of the hasp
@@Tysandifer Tbf y’all should know that anything flies when OSHA ain’t around period lol
OSHA has no jurisdiction in Canada!
This is the reality show that you watch and have on in the background on a Saturday afternoon
I remember we would always do that with the original.
My favorite storage wars fact is how they tried to screw over a local trading card shop nearby and selectively edited footage to pretty much make the owner look like a scumbag, drastically hurting his business.
I work for a moving and storage and when we do auctions it's one of the more entertaining days at least. I do see some people really make out just depends where you bid.
2:10 hey man mountain monsters ain't just a show...its a whole experience
I worked for a storage facility. There was never anything good in the units that were auctioned off. And removing the lock with an angle grinder was exactly how we took them off, lol.
No one would keep valuable shit in a unit and then not pay it. People only don’t pay when they don’t give af about losing what’s inside… cuz it’s garbage
Has Chris watched that rock of love with Bret Michaels show yet? I can’t help but think that would make a awesome video
Whoa blast from the past. I was obsessed when it was out, and then I forgot about it until now lol I never got the attraction to Bret. He seemed much older than the contestants.
Chris you should cover that reality show that covered people shipping stuff across the united states. I forget the name of it though.
Shipping Wars?
@@audreys5651 yes thank you!
I'm not even joking, I've been to Jeff's store and there used to be an entire rack of those pants. Like an ungodly amount. They were there for atleast 2 years, I wouldn't be surprised if they're still there today.
Honestly, I heard from extras who were on the set that many of these storage units are completely fake. They don’t belong to anyone. They just fill these units with a bunch of random old junk and then pretend to bid on them. Real storage units do get liquidated, and sometimes they hold auctions, but it’s not as common as people think. The only lockers that show up on the show and are actually real are ones belonging to people who want their stuff to be featured.
I love rewatching some of the shows I'd see as a kid now as an adult on here. Man they are so much weirder than I remember lol
I heard that dogs got a spin off, but it only lasted one season
This sounds real considering how many storage war spin offs there is.
My mom was on the OG show... they didn't have extras and they asked her to bid on a storage and told her not to worry they just need her to bid two or 3 times but she won't really have to buy it... now everytime I get reminded of this show I just remember my mom putting up her hand 😂
My favourite part of the show is when they make incredibly unrealistic predictions about how much money they can make off of each item. Leaving reality behind at the speed of light 😂
Old bit of cardboard? That’s $100. Broken food processor? Easy $200? Unbranded ashtray from the 90s? That’s a $100 bill!
I really enjoy this channel really bringing back the memories of younger me watching late 2000-2010s. (Sometimes often modern day) highly live action scripted television both The Good, The bad and The strange.
Finally someone talks about this show.
My dad went to one of those auctions. He didn't bid. He offered a guy 10 bucks for a stereo on someone that did bid on a pod. That stereo worked for a couple of years.
Chris, you grew up as such a sweet and charming young man, I'm very proud of you.
lol wtf are yu his uncle?
Not a joke: 90% of my wardrobe is from dead friends and family. They just give to me, because they know I want it.
Great episode to watch while on my lunch break, 10/10. Much better than my original plan of going to bid on storage lockers
Chris you 100% should go to a storage auction, your top tier when it comes to commiting to a bit haha would love to see a storage auction from ur perspective
former storage manager here:
angle grinders are, in fact, the only way we were able to remove most of the high security locks. as for the cylinder locks (think filing cabinet lock), we had to drill them out directly through the series of inner workings. fuck my life.
You're telling me Canada actually exists? I live here and I don't even believe Canada is real
"They're so fucking tense because they're doing this on their lunch break." For some reason that idea has me cracking up! 😂😂
One of the funniest things about this show is how they find that one item that they have to get appraised by an “expert”. Then that item is super profitable. I vaguely remember some guy who bought a storage full of newspapers for a few hundred and somehow it was worth 10x what he paid. Newspapers!!
Yes! I’m so glad you found this one 😂 I used to watch this show on TV years ago and I forgot this was also the episode with the mini stock cars. Everybody loses their minds.
I used to watch Storage Wars cause i was like "Oh this sounds so cool. Hidden treasures in a storage unit~"
I work at U-haul and when we auction these off, it's literally the same thing. They come in with a big grinder and cut into it because the locks are high security and can't be cut easily or quickly picked. We either grind it like that or drill out the center.
At a storage facility; when a locker goes into default and is going to be sold, The Storage Facility will cut the previous owners lock off. This keeps previous owners locked out so they can't get in and remove items after going into default. The lock cutting at the auctions is just for show.
lol my aunt & uncle did this briefly, well before the show. They were used book dealers, so it wasn’t a terrible idea, but reselling is a very labor intensive lifestyle & they ended up moving their shop online in like 96, and did very well in their retirement career, ended up a well known fixture at northwest USA sci fi cons & re-retired in their early 80s. I’m 54, and my uncle was still older than me when he started his dream career.
I lived for this show (American version) when I was younger. This and Billy the Exterminator were my absolute favorites.
Another one of those war shows I like is “shipping wars” basically it’s just people who haul these huge items. It’s really interesting if you wanna give it a watch
My Sister and I met some of them at my storage building a few years ago. I really can't tell you which ones it was because I've never seen most of any show they've done. My sister asked me to take a photo of her and one of those dudes. Ohh, it was here in Huntington Beach, CA.
Chris don’t you dare disrespect the main storage wars that’s a comfort show
My mom would watch the US version of this sometimes. I'd always hear the guys going "YYYYYEP" during the bidding.
Also doggone those incessant confessionals. They're as constant as the ones in Total Drama Island, and at least that's a cartoon.
Just found your channel. Even though I only wachted a few reality show growing up(one of them storage wars) I'm really enjoying your videos. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face
At least on Pawn Stars you could learn some random things that at least *occasionally* was a little interesting.
Its baffling and borderline infuriating that this man doesn't have like millions of subs at this point. Genuinely one of the funniest people on the internet. Clearly the algorithm is incredibly flawed bc youtube should be recommending this channel wayyyy more than it does.
facts because i be lmao every video
YT has gone to poop with the live feeds.
I’m begging you please make longer videos! These 15-20 vids isn’t enough 😢
Those inside out Hawai'ian shirts are copies of Reyn Spooner shirts. Those were only available in Hawai'i, and they marked you as a native back in the day. Now, every haole on the mainland wears them like when you drive through Iowa and see a salt life sticker on a minivan that's never been within 500 miles of a sea
Haole.
*Lights cigarette*
Bruddah, not heard dat since 2002.
My little white ass used to be able to talk all the slang! I loved it there, so much. Idc, make fun of me, but lemme play in the ocean while auntie and unk makes food dat breaks dah mouth.
@@RealBradMiller shaka brah. I understand. I'm not making fun
Bring back the Joe Schmo show Eps! I’ve been waiting on that 😂
So u can’t obtain ownership of a vehicle in a storage locker. The auction is supposed to not include the vehicle in the auction
Yeah a lot of the storage bidders hate this show because they will just throw in a car and a trip to Hawaii in a locker for drama.
depends. here in the us, a track car would probably not have any registration or anything. so it could only be driven on private property, like a race track. those cars are usually built from scraps.
The two episodes with cars in them I'd seen of Storage Wars they always specifically stated to the audience the car is a separate option not for sale. Did the series stop doing that later on?
I love how they made Ursula dress up like a stereotypical lumberjack to go get some chainsaws appraised.
So i'm only a minute in and i have to say, Storage Wars is a guilty pleasure of mine. SW, Pawn Stars, and all those crazy shows...maybe i'm just old but it just makes me jimmy in my jammies (No, i dont know what that means but i just wanted to say it)
Chris i’ve been watching you nearly every day recently. Thank you ❤
I used to watch the original Storage Wars. Loved 2 things about that show, Barry and Brandi. Actually, make that 3 things..
There was nothing more addicting back then compared to Storage Wars, Pimp My Ride, and Pawn Stars.
You would literally just watch that shit all day in a hotel and 4 hours go by just like that.
That cut of the guy complaining about them getting food... I wasn't looking at the screen and I thought that was one of your bits until I did 😭
Chris, I desperately need you to do an episode about the Doomsday Preppers episode where instead of stock piling, the guys prep and plan to be looters and marauders. It has lived rent free in my head for years.
Thanks for working on the holiday weekend. God bless.
The red bar on your ad read was hilarious. Touche Good Sir
I appreciate you putting a visible timer on the ad reads, guess we're not even pretending anymore that anyone pays attention during those
All these shows about these professions is a very needed genre of turning your brain off TV.
Always a good day when Chris drops a vid
The outfits make a lot more sense when you realize they probably came from a storage locker.
11:13 Smooth, James. Very smooth!
watched youtube for nine yrs, thats the first doordash sponsor segment ive seen
11:33 I can’t wait to bid on my boys merch storage locker when he “goes missing” 👀👀
Can we do a series on storage wars? This is easily the best content
Working a storage place (Uhaul yes we had storage units lol) we would have to use bolt cutters, so an angle saw is a heaven sent
Chris, loving how you are putting your whole bussy into all the edits in this video😂
I like the bar that goes all the way around the screen, but moves way faster. makes me feel like we're getting through it quick.
I remember glimpses of this show seem to make a lot more sense when I was younger
I woulda loved finding those Stock Cars
Ppl say most content these days is slop and I agree but I appreciate that you take the time to feed us high quality slop❤
Ursela needs to shoot a corn scene with that outfit. Paul Bunghole
lol, my coin collecting dad roped me into going to storage auctions. we ended up being in that business for two years. The top 2 things we found in every unit was trash and nudey mags
My parents used to love watching this show for the attitude everyone kept throwing at each other.