[woman] All right, here we go, folks!
Oh, boy.
I went to Dan and Laura's house one time,
and the bathroom looked like this.
This ain't for me.
How much money? Where? What's your pleasure? How much?
[mumbles]
What? I think that was a thousand.
-Oh, no, I didn't say that. -Oh, okay.
The mask gonna get you in trouble.
Twenty going once. Highest bid, 20.
Now 30. Now 40.
Now 50.
Fifty bucks. Who wants to bid 60?
Sixty? Seventy? Eighty bucks?
Eighty bucks. Eighty-five.
Ninety bucks. Ninety, both out.
-Ninety bucks, is that you? -Yeah.
One hundred bucks? One-twenty?
Thirty? Forty? Fifty, 150.
Shaking his head, "no."
One-fifty going once, going twice.
Last call, $150.
[indistinct]
-140 big bucks. -America!
[woman] "Kenny do it?", baby!
Somebody's trash is another man's treasure.
But this one got the gold. I can feel it.
Let's see what we got right here.
You know you did good when you spent less
than the number of the unit.
[grunts]
What do we got here?
Got a baseball glove.
Ten dollars.
What do we got?
Some clothes with tags on them.
Ten-dollar box, man.
[grunts]
Jackets, clothes.
Ten-dollar suitcase.
Oh, this is one of these lawn chairs.
You sit on the corner, drink your Budweiser.
Five dollars.
Used clothes.
I'd say about $20
container right here.
All that little money adding up there.
Joe Montana, $30 jersey.
Little printer... Hey!
[laughs] Here's some cash.
Look at the quarters, man!
Whoo-whee!
Look at that, boy.
Good $8 right there.
What do we got? Christmas straws.
Look at this, little third-grade-ass scissors.
About $8 on here.
What do we got?
[gasps]
M-O-N-E-Y, boy!
This [bleep] is crazy, man. I can't believe this [bleep].
22, 23, 24, 25, 26 big ones.
Kenny done hit the jackpot.
Look at this. Gold coin. Susan B. Anthony. That's $5.
[rattling]
More quarters, boy! Another $3.50.
[gasps]
Damn!
Five dollars.
Stripper money.
[laughs]
♪ I got the jingle in my pocket ♪
♪ The money in my pocket ♪
What?
What's going on? For real?
Lucky $2.
Whoo!
Damn! America, I'm telling y'all,
Get your ass out your seat
and carry your ass to the nearest street
and get a storage locker.
We gotta check all these envelopes right here.
What the [bleep]?
Look at all these quarters.
[rattling]
Oh!
Cha-ching! I love this job.
You can wash clothes for about two months.
Look here.
Five dollars of dimes.
And guess what?
Ten dollars.
Twenty dollars.
Thirty dollars.
[snickers]
Damn!
Another $2.
[laughs]
My pants are falling off 'cause I got so much money
in my pockets.
Oh, [bleep].
Look at this right here, America.
Pickleball set.
Ain't never heard of no daggone pickleball.
This is a pain off somebody's ass with this.
I never heard of this thing. I gotta get this checked out.
It don't even look green. It's yellow.
Should be called "bananas."
Oh, no.
The bride porcelain.
This is the kind of stuff you don't keep in your house.
This [bleep] comes to life at night
and walks around in your living room while you sleeping
and watching CNN by yourself.
She could go for $20, and I could find you
a nice home, girl.
I will put on that bench 20 bucks.
That's it, America.
Don't even underestimate a dusty old locker.
You never know what kind of hidden gems or candy wrappers
you might find.
Yeah, yeah, boy.
-Yo, Steve! -Hey, how you doing?
-I'm all right. How you doing? -Good. Good to meet you.
[Kenny]
who was a professional pickleball player.
Maybe he could tell me what's the deal with these pickles.
Pickleball was created in 1965.
There were some families that would get together every summer.
So one summer,
they took their badminton court, lowered the net,
cut out some wooden paddles, took a plastic ball,
and just started hitting the ball back and forth.
One of those families had a dog named Pickles.
The dog would chase the ball,
take it, not bring it back,
and they would say, "Well, that's Pickles' ball."
Unfortunately, the name does not do the sport justice.
Ooh-wee, look at this.
Got a net. It's a little tangled.
Maybe I could catch a profit with this.
-Two official pickleballs. -Yeah.
These pickleballs look like wiffle balls, but they're not.
They're actually like a dense plastic these are made out of.
Now, these paddles here are made out of wood.
And to be honest, you're not gonna see
any of the professionals playing with wooden paddles.
What's yours made out of?
Mine's a professional-grade paddle,
and it's made out of graphite.
This is a professional sport.
It's one of the fastest-growing sports in the country.
-For real? -For real.
How much is this pickle set worth?
Kenny, you're looking at about $40.
-That's it? Forty dollars? -About $40.
Forty dollars? I could get 20 cheeseburgers with this.
Hold the pickles.
Thousand dollars going twice.
[indistinct]
Coming your way, Darrell. You got it for 950 big bucks.
[Darrell]
[imitating guitar solo]
Whoo!
I think this locker's gonna pay off big.
I got a tingling feeling about it.
Got a brand-new little weed eater.
That's a hundred bucks right there.
Brand-new cord too.
-Oh. -Xbox?
A beat-up one.
Probably 20 bucks right there, though.
Seventy-five bucks' worth of clubs right here.
-That's a float tube, bro. -Yeah.
That float tube for fishing.
That thing's worth 200 bucks.
I'm sure we got another 50 bucks on the freezer,
and another 100 bucks on the washer.
This is one of them sleeping cots.
That's an easy 50 bucks.
We got some money here, Brando.
Seven light bulbs. Look at that.
The thing about these light bulbs
is they are the garden variety.
They're for growing green stuff.
-Fifty bucks apiece? -Easy.
-HDTV. -[Darrell] Oh, yeah!
I'll get 300 bucks out of the TV, bro.
That's a good one. You put a little tiny keg in,
and it serves up the beer.
[Darrell] What do you think it's worth?
-There's 100 bucks. -But there's something here.
Look at this.
Oh, boy!
This is a Japanese board game.
-Mario Brothers. -[Brandon] Oh!
[Darrell] 1986 Nintendo. That is cool.
Well, wait a minute.
We got all kinds of little collectible Marios and stuff.
-Look at this, dude. -Let me see.
It's just gobs and gobs of the little Mario dudes.
-Look at that. -[Brandon] Yeah.
You don't want to open these up, they're taped.
Lookit, see they're taped on the ends.
Whoo! Mint in the box.
We need to get that checked out.
[Brandon] This is big-time.
Boy, I came quite a while ago with that Nintendo game,
and the guy pretty much seems to know his stuff.
My Nintendo connection, he's gonna geek out
when he sees this Mario Brothers game.
-Hey, what's up, buddy? -[Jason] Hey, how you doing?
This is my son, Brandon. This is Jason.
-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, sir.
I recognize this.
These are board games based off
of the Super Mario franchise.
This particular board is Super Mario Bros. 2.
It was the second game in the series.
The players would build like an environment
that they would play in the game.
This is fantastic. I have seen 1 and 3,
but not 2.
The one you have right here is, in my opinion,
-one of the rarest. -[Darrell]
So I have a rare number 2.
Just absolutely amazing.
What do you got in the case?
Well, first, I want to point out,
that is an old vinyl Nintendo case.
[Jason] Yeah, look at that. Nintendo.
I like what's in here.
These are fantastic.
God, you got a ton of them.
Well, this one looks open.
-Let me see what's in here. -Right.
Oh, there you go.
These are little dioramas
It looks like you have Luigi in there.
-[Brandon] A small Luigi, yeah. -And behind him looks to be...
Is that a mushroom man? A toadstool?
-[Brandon] Looks like Mario. -[Jason] It's a toadstool.
I don't have the foggiest-ass clue to what you guys
are even talking about.
You need to play video games with your kid.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
You know, the bottom line for me is,
what's all this worth, Jason?
Um...
I know that you're looking
at a sizable chunk.
I think what you've got here...
You're looking at 700 here, easily, today.
A thousand here.
Nice.
Thank you, Mario and linguine.
[Barry]
Jay and I sneak back to the unit that we bought
and start uncovering stuff.
During the auction, Jay used these night-vision goggles,
and he swore that he saw something shiny
in the back of the unit.
So we took a gamble,
and we laid out $850,
and we got the unit.
I don't know, man. Grab this stuff off it.
Whoa!
What is this?
It's a BMW Isetta.
-Really? -Yeah, in really awful shape.
But nonetheless, this car is 50, 60 years old.
At first, I thought we had like a large aquarium on our hands.
But we find this [bleep] Isetta.
Rarely am I speechless.
You know, you get in through the front, I think.
-This the door? Whoa. -Hang on. Jump in.
Check it out. Check this out.
You really did well.
I don't know what this is worth in its present condition,
because it obviously needs a major, major restoration.
I've got a good friend of mine that's an expert
in these micro cars, and I'll take it to him,
and he'll be able to tell me what it's worth in a heartbeat.
-Let's go. -All right.
The other guys thought this unit was just boxes.
Guess who had the last laugh on this one?
-Good job. -All right.
[Barry]
over to the Petersen Auto Museum
and speak with the director who's a friend, Dick Messer.
And find out what it's worth.
Well, the Petersen Museum
is one of the preeminent car museums in the country.
They've got like a collection of over 350 automobiles.
And the great thing is,
it turns out that Petersen Museum
has a restored Isetta of its own.
[Dick] So, here it is.
Fancy two-tone paint job,
which a lot of them were two-toned.
-Were they? -This is a mid-1950s car.
They're about-- Micro car-wise,
there's about 100 manufacturers.
This is the unique feature of the car...
is the front opens up,
and, uh, the steering wheel comes out,
-and you get in that way. -I see.
[Dick] Now, what happens, though,
if you have a front-end collision
in this automobile,
you can't get out, right?
So now you got your sunroof.
The misunderstanding most people have about these cars
is, oh, this one's got a sunroof.
There's a fancy little after-market thing.
No, that was the escape hatch.
So if you had a front-end collision,
you'd just open the top up and you crawled out.
I don't mind the history lesson Dick's giving me on Isettas,
but what I really need to know is how much is the one
that Jay and myself brought?
In the overall scheme of things, the value runs anywhere
from 35, 40,000, up to $60,000 at auction, yeah.
Really? Well, I tell you, what we uncovered yesterday is--
I thought you could give us an idea of how much it would cost
-to get it to look like this. -Sure.
[Barry] I'm afraid of what you're gonna tell me now.
Let's go do that.
Dick's probably gonna laugh us out of here
when he sees this pile of
Dick, this is it.
-Uh... -[Dick] Yeah. Wow.
Uh...
Ridden hard and put away wet.
This thing's had some miles put on it.
I know the car's not in great condition,
but the fact that these cars are very rare,
that's gotta mean something.
I'm almost afraid to ask you what it would cost
to sort of make this one look like the one we just visited.
[Dick] You know, it's...
The car needs a lot of work.
I mean, I wouldn't...
Personally, I wouldn't undertake
a restoration of this automobile.
At this point, I'm starting to think to myself,
how much is it gonna take to get this Isetta
to a junkyard and get it crushed?
What is this car worth as it is?
Uh...
I'd give them 3 or 4 grand for it.
Oh. Well, that's not too bad.
I mean, we paid 800 bucks.
Eight hundred bucks for this? Oh, that's a buy.
That's a heck of a buy, absolutely.
Dick thought we paid a lot of money for this thing.
But when I told him we only paid 850 bucks,
his whole mood changed.
Thank you so much.
Even if we don't do a full restoration on this car,
it's still worth three times what we paid for it.
And that was a hell of a day.
[woman] All right, who's feeling it?
Yes, baby! Oh! That's what we're talking about!
Thank you, Moreno Valley.
[Ivy] Plastic bowling ball. Dresser.
Look at those hats. I wish they weren't clip-ons.
Hey, shoes are worth a lot if you get the right ones.
-I know shoes. -Oh yeah.
I can tell you know shoes.
[Rene] Jumpman logo, Jordan logo back there.
Number 23 up there.
All the boxes have Jordans on them.
If the trunk is full of Jordans,
that can be a couple thousand dollars.
All right, don't act so interested.
Okay, I don't know.
All right, if you're ready to go, I'm ready to go.
Number 20, what's your pleasure? What are you gonna pay?
And how much money where? Look at me, 35...
Yeah!
Damn.
Scaring people.
I got 50 bucks here. Sixty bucks now.
Turn that volume down.
Seventy bucks, yes. Seventy-five?
-Yeah! -Whoo-hoo!
[auctioneer] 105.
Yeah!
Blowing her eardrum out.
115 there, 120 there, 125...
Yeah!
[laughs]
[auctioneer] 130, 130.
130, 135.
130? 135.
-135... -Yeah!
[auctioneer] 140 going once.
140 going twice, 140 bucks.
Sold at your way, $135 to Rene.
Whoo!
-[auctioneer]
That's how you win a locker.
Let's see if the Jordans are in there.
If they are, you made some money.
It's a 50/50 shot.
[Rene]
You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take.
[woman] I want to see if the Jordan...
[Rene] Oh, not in there?
[woman] That's not good.
That's not good.
All right, let's do this.
I told you not to buy this locker.
[grunts]
Okay, a rug. Ten bucks on the rug.
[woman] The hats are good.
It'll be 40 bucks in hats.
-Bowling ball. -Ten bucks on the bowling ball.
This one's nice.
[Rene] Forty bucks.
That's damaged. That's 20 bucks.
The pillows are 5 bucks apiece.
I've been killing it at auctions until I took you, just saying.
Oh, these are nice.
[Rene] Let's see what this is in here.
-This is more cool. -[woman] Ooh!
-Look at how pretty the blue is. -All right, look,
this unit is terrible, but in reality,
we got those three things we can have somebody look at.
-Maybe we'll get lucky. -Maybe.
This sums it all up.
He looks.
He shoots.
And he misses!
I'm done with this unit.
[woman] Hi, Phil, we spoke on the phone?
-Oh, hey. -Hi.
[Rene]
at King Richard's Antiques.
Let's hope we don't end up royally screwed.
I know a lot about a lot of different antiques,
but this is one of my weaknesses.
And I know that they can be literally
four bucks or 400 bucks, depending.
[Phil] These are what we call trinket boxes.
Trinket boxes have been around, you know,
since Egyptian civilization.
Women have always used them
to put their jewelry,
and whatever we don't want to lose.
Things that are important to us.
Now, this is what we call bohemian glass.
In the area that's now the Czech Republic,
Prague, up to Vienna,
that was the area known as Bohemia in the 19th century.
-Oh, it's that old? -Yeah. Absolutely.
It's an antique for sure.
So this little bronze piece is also a trinket box.
About from the same time period, the same area.
Art nouveau is the style here,
with the organic flower shapes.
Now, I'm sure we've all heard of the term "cloisonne."
-Yeah. -Okay, well, cloisonne
is a process where you start with the metal base,
and you have little wires
that you hand-solder to the piece.
This would be about the same time period.
1880s or so, 1890s.
Uh, there's a lot missing from here
as far as the enamel goes.
So it's not as spectacular as it could have been.
But it's still got a great patina.
[inhaling deeply]
That came out of storage and you're sniffing it that hard?
That's gross.
I've licked stuff out of storage before.
And you kiss me? Ew!
I was gonna say, you're the one who kisses him.
I should think twice about that.
Sometimes, you just have to evaluate what you have.
[Phil] So this is actually Thai Benjarong porcelain.
Benjarong is a type of porcelain from Thailand
that is done for the royals.
Now, Benjarong literally means "five colors."
And there are five colors here.
You've got your pink and green and red and yellow and blue.
-That's five. -But it's always applied
with gold gilt, like you see here.
One of the things that tips me that this is a Benjarong piece
is the top here.
This little finial is something that they always put
on Benjarong pieces.
So how much would you say it is for the whole lot?
Well, uh...
I'd say...
600 bucks.
That's awesome. That's really nice profit.
So 600 in trade, right?
[laughs]
Let us do some shopping right now.
In trade? Uh-uh. This is gonna get expensive.
-For me, maybe. -[both laugh]