Pawn Stars Review: January 2, 2014

Welcome to the first two new episodes of Pawn Stars and I hope everyone had a nice New Years and that your new year will be a good one.
I was off of work on one of my jobs and got to read Rick Harrison's book "A License To Pawn".  To sum it quickly, Rick, Corey and Chumlee were serous, very serious drug addicts with Corey and Chumlee on Meth.  Corey was supposedly thrown in jail for beating up a person while in a meth filled rage.
The Old Man always was a hustler and a workaholic.  Rick drops a few F-bombs in the book, though they were totally not needed.  The Old Man, Corey and Chumlee wrote a chapter in the book.  Chumlee was an assistant manager at a McDonalds, so his character is just a fake on the show, for the most part.  Corey and Rick both dropped out of school.
Rick wrote about some of the purchases on the show and talked about some of their customers.
The store has 47 employees including who job is to watch the security cameras to make sure the employees don't steal.
Finally, Rick, Corey, Chumlee and The Old Man do not work in the front of the store any more.  The reason they give is that because pawning is supposed to be confidential business, they could not conduct business themselves with all the cameras clicking in their face.  When they do the show, they clear out the store except for a few customers and they do the filming.
The story line of the day was that Chumlee and Corey had to clean the office.  They sold a picture of Fonzie of Happy Days to Davey deals, who is becoming a very irritating character on the show. (Maybe this is going to a spinoff show?)  Rick was pissed because the Old Man gave Rick that picture when he was much younger so it had sentimental value.  Eventually, Rick gets his picture back.


In the first episode, a guy brought in a signed picture and a poem written by Marilyn Monroe.  http://marilynmonroe.com/  and http://www.biography.com/people/marilyn-monroe-9412123
The poem was written to a Navy man who she supposedly met.  The guy had the picture and writing evaluated by 4 experts and thought it was worth about $48,000.  Corey called for an expert, Steve Grad. http://www.psacard.com/Articles/ArticleView/4830/steve-grad
He determined that the picture signed by Monroe was actually signed by her secretary and that the poem was not written by Monroe.  No sale.  So, who were the experts the seller went to?
The next guy brought in a hybrid rocket that was mounted in a suit case.  When fired, it looks like this:


The rocket gave out 5 pounds of thrust and used nitrous oxide to combust.  They took the rocket outside and it was started and work.  It really wasn't that impressive.  The guy wanted $3000 and Rick offered $100 and there was no deal.

The next lady brought in a silicone breast implant, a salesman sample and was made in 1964.  The lady wanted $1000 and Corey offered $500 and then $600 and that was the sale price for the boobie.
In the 2nd episode, the story line was that Chumlee was getting lazy, so they took him over to Danny's of Kustom Kounts to work in a real job. Of course Chumlee worked at a McDonalds as an assistant manager, so he has worked at real jobs before.  Chumlee was traded to Danny's and in return, Rick got an employee from Danny's who needed to work on customer service skills.
In the end, Danny kicked out Chumlee and Rollie did a good job.
The first guy brought in the National Registry from 1776, which included the Articles of Confederation/U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence in it.  A Register documents what was going on in the world for that year and the book was written from Great Britain's point of view. Rick was impressed but still needed help from Rebecca. Rebecca said the book was real and worth about $3000.  Rick offered $1500 and then $1600 and that was the deal.
 
The next lady brought in a wombat coat from the early 1900's.  http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wombat/
The coat was made in my hometown, Milwaukee, WI.  It was used by a farmer in Colorado.  There was no deal because Rick was politically correct and didn't buy furs.  No deal.



The next guy wanted to sell Old Nevada prison gambling tokens.  http://www.spinettisgaming.com/blog/?p=2961
The guy wanted $900 for about 8 of them.  Corey offered $400 and then $450 and finally $500 and that was the selling price.
That ends another 2 new episodes and next week there will be two more new episodes.
Thanks for stopping and again, happy new year.