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mister Mike Wolf?
Speaker 2: I am a hang in there. I am in LEAPERSPT, Tennessee.
Where are you?
Speaker 1: I'm here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Come on over. We
have better barbecue, dude.
Speaker 3: Uh you know what, No one has better barbecue than
Memphis or Austin.
Speaker 1: Those are fighting, however, fighting org Man, I'll tell you
what we all heard about the gold Rush of eighteen
forty nine. I believe that you are the creator of
the great junk Rush because all of a sudden in
my life, when you first appeared on the scene, everybody
started paying attention would what they had stuffed a weigh
in gigantic boxes. So I want to thank you for that,
because that, to me is where the family story exists.
Speaker 2: You're exactly right. It's hands on history.
Speaker 3: We learn about world history, we learn about national history,
we learn about our community history if we're lucky.
Speaker 2: But sometimes, you know, we don't learn.
Speaker 3: About why we have all these things that have been
passed down. Unfortunately, that story fades away and then we
just have the items. So every once in a while
we're lucky to where that story has been documented with
these pieces.
Speaker 2: And here's a deal, man.
Speaker 3: I mean, me and Frank were never very good students,
but we loved to dig for things and we love
to research things.
Speaker 2: So it's hands on history.
Speaker 1: Well see, that's why we call it junking. We'll go
into a place where we're not supposed to be and
I'm in there because I'm junking, So go ahead and
arrest me, but I'm going to find something. And you
know where I got that is because my father used
to tear down houses and the crap that people would
hide behind their walls. That's what I was in search of.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah, that's epic, man. No, I understand
that completely because I had a grandfather and Joliet, Illinois
that tore down buildings and I can remember the first
time I ever went over his house. I was walking
through like doors and bathtubs and toilets and stuff.
Speaker 2: In the yard.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what is this place? I can remember it
just like it was yesterday. I was fascinated by it.
Speaker 1: So now when you do get that email or that
phone call that says I've got something you need to see,
I mean, do you. I mean it's like I would
be the naysayer. I'd be going, Eh, I've seen it all,
blah blah blah blah blah. Just tell me a little
bit more. What is it that you have to feel
inside your soul to get in that car and take
a ride.
Speaker 3: Well, to be honest with you, I mean filming American Pickers,
a lot of times people didn't really have anything that
was super historic or like epic interesting. It was really
the space, you know, it was a space and it
was their story. I can remember filming a New Mexico
one time, a place that we chose. There was a guy,
young guy that an artist that had acquired bought this
little town and there were all these really interesting adobe
structures that were falling down, and there were a couple
pieces that Danielle and I bought. But at the end
of the day, man, when you're sitting at home on
a seventy two inch television and it's high death and
you're seeing POV shots of walking through these old adobe
structures and the sunlights coming through the roof, and you're
just like, whoa in the colors, they're like Georgia o'keef
painted a painting man.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh my god, this is epic.
Speaker 3: So to answer your question, person, place and peace, all
of those came into play with where we were going. Well.
Speaker 1: One of the things that my wife and I talked
about all the way back to your beginning on television.
We used to sit there and say, you know what,
He's going to come across turntables one day in giganttic
Pioneer speakers. Damn if that didn't come back into life.
It's like, how am I supposed to get Mike to
look at this if we're liking albums again?
Speaker 3: WHENNY say that, because I was at Jack riishouse the
other day and he's got the most epic Macintosh, you know,
speak and then he's got to be being w speakers
or something in the most bizarre looking turntable I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: But I grew up in a time period when when
speakers were furniture. Man, I had RTR towers, you know,
I had four those in my room. I mean when
I was a kid, it was all about your stereo
and your.
Speaker 2: Bicycle yep, and how loud it god. So I'm glad
to see all that stuff come around.
Speaker 1: Was that and how loud of God? Because you wanted
the neighbors to get pissed off at you because it
was so loud.
Speaker 3: Well, that was back when they were building speakers to
be loud, like the clips, the clip beaters.
Speaker 2: Man. Remember people used to.
Speaker 3: Hang them from fish nets from the ceiling, you know,
the magna planes and the freaking acuo eb four forties
or whatever in the boz acts. You know, it was
just it was a great time, man. Remember King, Remember
King Biscuit Flower.
Speaker 1: Ou of course I do, My God, I would love
to get my hands back on that kind of gym.
When it comes to radio broadcasting, I.
Speaker 2: Know, it was just so good.
Speaker 3: You'd sit there and you'd be like waiting, you know,
anticipating when they were going to start playing whatever band
it was, and then you push record on your.
Speaker 2: TDK or Matt s ELF's Maxwell tape.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's me. Yeah, I mean it's all about all
these all these shows. The common thread is what we're
talking about is nostalgia. Even if it's not ours, it's
someone else's, it's still interesting to us.
Speaker 1: Aren't you and everybody that's part of your team. Aren't
you guys pretty much responsible for gluing history back together?
Because it seems like as the family gets older and
we transition, things fall apart, they go their own direction,
but it's you that's bringing it all back together.
Speaker 3: Well, sometimes you know, when we're when we're on a
property and we're talking to somebody, I mean, if we
know more about the item than they do, then they
can kind of paint a picture of maybe who who
used it, you know, and then they understand what time
period the item is from and then they're like, okay,
well that has to be my great grandfathers and my grandfathers.
Speaker 2: I mean, the.
Speaker 3: Interesting about the interesting thing about this new show is
that you're not going to see me pick. All you're
going to see me do is introduce stories about other pickers.
Speaker 2: So I'm talking like people.
Speaker 3: That are weekend garage sailors or maybe they're professionals, you know,
but a lot of them, I mean are people that
found something in the dirt, found something in the garbage,
found something on the curb, found it in a storage locker.
I mean, there's tons of different stories of like how
these items were discovered. But what I like about this
show is is it's about the picker itself, you know,
the person that found it.
Speaker 2: But it's also going to tell you.
Speaker 3: What the value is at the end, which we never
did on American Pickers. We never said, hey, at the
end of every episode, here's what this item was worth.
This one's going to do that, and I think that
really pulls pulls more people into the interest of it.
Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more win Mike Wolfe Coming
up next, the History Channel has a brand new show,
History's Greatest Picks and it's starring the greatest ever, mister
Mike Wolfe. Oh my god. To be a part of
your research team that has got to be so exciting,
because I mean, it's like the new project comes in
and we all jump in it and go find something unique.
Because to me, that's what connection is all about. Give
me something that will create a conversation when I'm at
the grocery store or a football game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, here's the deal.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, with with the way things are
in America right now, as far as us being also
angry and separated, I think they're things that disarm that
and kind of drop all those magnets that stick to
us through life. And it really is the common ground
of collecting. I mean, I can tell you that I've
been to flea markets before, where you know, you can
tell that two people are on the different sides of
the aisle when they're talking about a piece of folk car,
talking about a piece of folk art or a piece
of pottery or an advertising sign, everything fades the way
way and they find common ground with this. And that's
what I want people to take away from the show
is like, this is American history, this is our history.
Speaker 2: We own this.
Speaker 3: But also I want them to, you know, next time
they drive by a garage sale, I want them to
do a U turn man and go, hey, there could
be something cool there.
Speaker 2: You know. The best question to ask at a garage
sale not.
Speaker 1: How much it is, tell me the story, What is
the connection? Who did it come from? Am I wrong
or right?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No? The best question to ask at a garage sale
is what's.
Speaker 2: In the house?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, so true? What else you got
for me? This is just the start. That's like, when
people have these vintage cars, I want to know what
else is in that garage or inside that basement, because
there's something else that they're hoarding, and that's what I
want to go look at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because if you think about it, if somebody's had
the same car for you know, forty fifty years, what
else have they kept if it's that significant to them?
You know, most people don't do that when they when
they you know, when they wore their Dodge charger out,
they sold it, you know, or traded it off for
the next thing, you know.
Speaker 2: So they're they're special people, man, I mean they really are.
Speaker 3: I mean they you know, they worked hard for the
items that they had, and even though there was an
expiration date on them, they still remember how hard they
worked for it, and they don't want to turn it loose.
Speaker 1: In essence, aren't you creating the moment? Because when when
I got all of my Michael Jordan baseball cards, not
basketball but baseball cards, all twenty six of them, that
was a moment. I don't know who to share that with,
because it's not going to be the same moment that
I got when I got them all.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I guess in some ways we are
sharing a moment of you know, to the world of like, hey,
what is it like to be a collector?
Speaker 2: Why are these things significant? What? What? What lens are
they looking through that I'm not?
Speaker 3: And but you know, I got a young a lot
of young people coming up to me now. They're like, Hey,
I'm in the antique business because.
Speaker 2: Of your show.
Speaker 3: I watched it as a kid or you know, I
have so many memories of watching the show with my
grandparents who or my family. You know, it was a
show that we had all come together with in bond with,
you know, again generations watching the same show. But because
of the treasure hunting aspect, the hands on history, and
then also story, I mean, think about it.
Speaker 2: We were read story as soon as we came out
of the shoot. We were read.
Speaker 3: Story to be to fall asleep, you know, and so
we it's ingrained in our DNA story.
Speaker 1: Story story where can people go to find out more
about you?
Speaker 2: Mike?
Speaker 1: Because it's more than just a TV show for you,
This is a lifestyle.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm on all social media channels, TikTok, freacking, Instagram, Facebook.
Speaker 2: But I'm just.
Speaker 3: Excited about this, This History's Greatest Picks that's gonna air
on Sunday because I'm just it's just gonna it's a
new adventure for me to be honest with you and
I and I'm gonna be It's gonna be interesting to
see how the audience, you know, kind of consumes it
because they're used to seeing me doing these things that
were showcasing. But you know, at the end of the day,
I am always the conduit for the story and that's
exactly what I'm doing with this.
Speaker 2: I mean, we were able to shoot.
Speaker 3: Eight episodes in four days, where eight episodes on American
Pickers would have took six months.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, I do love where your heart is. And
I'm very excited about your brand new journey, your your
brand new step to a brand new beginning. It's just
going to be exciting.
Speaker 2: Oh man, thank you so much for saying that. God
bless you well.
Speaker 1: You please come back to this show anytime, and when
you want some good barbecue, come to Carolina.
Speaker 2: Mike. I love Caroline. I used to have them. I
used to have a cabin in Maggie Valley.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, oh hell yes, that's a great place.
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you for the opportunity.
Speaker 1: You bet. Thank you