I didn’t mean it bro pls don’t think that I was just being an ass jokingly I’d hate to think my comment actually made u question urself dude. Ur awesome
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.
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.
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 ❤
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 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 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.
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.
@@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.
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"
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”
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
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.
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 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.
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'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.
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.
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.
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’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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
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 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
My boss owns storage units and I can tell you from experience that no, there is in fact not a better way to open the lock than taking an angle grinder to it. Often times bolt cutters don't work, and drilling them out takes forever.
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 😂
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!!
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
the canadian one is fire (as a canadian) seeing all these places i’ve been to around ontario each episode, and the characters are goated no matter how scripted it is 😭
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.
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 😂
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 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.
You really need to do shipping wars. That show aggravates me so hard. The things they make the “shippers” do is so I’m unrealistic and no way a real shipper would ever put up with. One of the few shows I call bS so fast it makes my own head spin.
Hey Chris, thanks for posting today, we were on a binge watch of your episodes, so perfect timing! 😃 Also, don't let your dreams be just dreams, bedazzled your jeans so that you too can have a pair of sick ass jeans
Hi Chris! Love the channel, I discovered it a couple of weeks ago and I'm working my way through your back catalogue. But please man, stop trying to make me cook dinner. It's 9:30pm and I'm at work on a night shift. Keep up the good work though
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.
So i worked in storage for bout a year. 2:29 the only other way to get in would be the Tenet’s key. Most tenets who go into Auction normally are Deceased or avoiding payment. If there was an easier way they would, but the storage facilities have those angle grinders for any type of lock cutting situations (tenet loses key, door repairs ect.)
8:14 Also with the Cars (yes ik they are race cars) but most of the time if the facility doesn’t have the title they cant sell em but dont quote me when it comes to race cars as well that could be a different ball game lol
So glad I've never watched a staged storage show. Most the shows our dear Chris posts I've never watched but I can when Chris posts about it Edit; that's literally a mini stock car. It's not real and they're acting like it's real and worth big bucks
Those locks aren't from the storage facility, they're occupant provided usually and you can take a crowbar to them but that could damage the storage unit so the angle grinder is the quickest and easiest way.
For the rest of the 20 schlubs who show up for the auction: The regular cast of the show are only allowed to bid on pre-authorized units. Those units may or may not be set up by the show beforehand. The rando's get to bid on other units in unfilmed segments.
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.
Chris I have the best idea/suggestion!! You should do a series (similar to the milf manor one how each episode is a video) reacting to the old vh1 reality shows 😂 they're so hilarious. I recommend starting with Flavor of Love 1, bc thats arguably the best/craziest one and it kinda kicked off those shows. But there are sooo many other good ones.. I Love New York, Rock of Love, Charm School, I Love Money, the Ray J one I forget what its called, etc. Please it would be so perfect! First off.. its all comedy gold. And second.. its similar to the 00s mtv shows in the sense that there are constant reminders of how different the world was back then, but it doesnt feel scripted at all lol prime has most of them for free, and the ones that cost money are all on Pluto 😂 just plz consider it!!
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
When Chris said about Ursula going to see a buyer and hoping it’s Jeff in a moustache I thought of one of the Smiths in American Dad going to see someone and finding out its Rodger in a disguise
You should do commentary on some old unhinged British shows like Secret Eaters, Rich kids go skint, and the crossover with Worlds strictest parents, they are hilariously unhinged and old enough to be somewhat obscure 😅
I’ve been working at storage facilities for 2 years now and I can vouch that it’s not as exciting as this. All the auctions are online these days thanks to Covid.
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I can’t imagine talking to u daily. I’d hate ur face after a week or so.
I didn’t mean it bro pls don’t think that I was just being an ass jokingly I’d hate to think my comment actually made u question urself dude. Ur awesome
pin on shame
@ ur mom is pinned on shame
Me in the mirror
Dang you really checking this man’s out 😂
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.
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
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 ❤
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 RUclips
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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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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
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).
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"
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. 🙄
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
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.
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 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.
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!
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.
You are on FIRE with the last few videos. Loved the being impaled bit. Thanks.
Out of context this comment would be crazy lmao
Damn... he's on fire _and_ being impaled, are we sure Chris isn't a medieval peasant accused of heresy?
Thank goodness you uploaded. I was about to be responsible and do homework. Fawk that.
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'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.
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.
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.
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
Ahhh storage wars. Very much a guilty pleasure/background noise show for me..........
The fact that this was uploaded 1 minute ago and i JUST clocked out for lunch. F yeaaaaaahhh!!!!
please PLEASE cover an original episode with Dave, Darryl, Barry, Jarrod and Brandy. I’m begging you
please!!
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.
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.
ty for feeding us 🖤
I will do a racism
Feeding us black hearts
So humbled, and so well fed! 😂 yum! 😋 🖤
Feed us more! 😂
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.
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 🔥
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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
Chris, you grew up as such a sweet and charming young man, I'm very proud of you.
lol wtf are yu his uncle?
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
My boss owns storage units and I can tell you from experience that no, there is in fact not a better way to open the lock than taking an angle grinder to it. Often times bolt cutters don't work, and drilling them out takes forever.
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 😂
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!!
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.
2:10 hey man mountain monsters ain't just a show...its a whole experience
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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
the canadian one is fire (as a canadian) seeing all these places i’ve been to around ontario each episode, and the characters are goated no matter how scripted it is 😭
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.
Finally someone talks about this show.
I used to watch the original Storage Wars. Loved 2 things about that show, Barry and Brandi. Actually, make that 3 things..
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❤
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 used to watch Storage Wars cause i was like "Oh this sounds so cool. Hidden treasures in a storage unit~"
I lived for this show (American version) when I was younger. This and Billy the Exterminator were my absolute favorites.
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 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.
You really need to do shipping wars. That show aggravates me so hard. The things they make the “shippers” do is so I’m unrealistic and no way a real shipper would ever put up with. One of the few shows I call bS so fast it makes my own head spin.
You're telling me Canada actually exists? I live here and I don't even believe Canada is real
At least on Pawn Stars you could learn some random things that at least *occasionally* was a little interesting.
Please catch up on mountain monsters, it’s even more insane now. Also, thanks for the little ad bar. Always appreciate quality of life upgrades.
Hey Chris, thanks for posting today, we were on a binge watch of your episodes, so perfect timing! 😃
Also, don't let your dreams be just dreams, bedazzled your jeans so that you too can have a pair of sick ass jeans
Hi Chris! Love the channel, I discovered it a couple of weeks ago and I'm working my way through your back catalogue. But please man, stop trying to make me cook dinner. It's 9:30pm and I'm at work on a night shift.
Keep up the good work though
"They're so fucking tense because they're doing this on their lunch break." For some reason that idea has me cracking up! 😂😂
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.
So i worked in storage for bout a year. 2:29 the only other way to get in would be the Tenet’s key. Most tenets who go into Auction normally are Deceased or avoiding payment. If there was an easier way they would, but the storage facilities have those angle grinders for any type of lock cutting situations (tenet loses key, door repairs ect.)
8:14 Also with the Cars (yes ik they are race cars) but most of the time if the facility doesn’t have the title they cant sell em but dont quote me when it comes to race cars as well that could be a different ball game lol
Just saw they were sims 😂
So glad I've never watched a staged storage show. Most the shows our dear Chris posts I've never watched but I can when Chris posts about it
Edit; that's literally a mini stock car. It's not real and they're acting like it's real and worth big bucks
Those locks aren't from the storage facility, they're occupant provided usually and you can take a crowbar to them but that could damage the storage unit so the angle grinder is the quickest and easiest way.
I genuinely enjoyed storage wars while it was on, I remember they'd be on back to back on a channel like A&E on a Sunday with Duck Dynasty lol
For the rest of the 20 schlubs who show up for the auction: The regular cast of the show are only allowed to bid on pre-authorized units. Those units may or may not be set up by the show beforehand.
The rando's get to bid on other units in unfilmed segments.
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.
Ursela needs to shoot a corn scene with that outfit. Paul Bunghole
Chris I have the best idea/suggestion!!
You should do a series (similar to the milf manor one how each episode is a video) reacting to the old vh1 reality shows 😂 they're so hilarious. I recommend starting with Flavor of Love 1, bc thats arguably the best/craziest one and it kinda kicked off those shows.
But there are sooo many other good ones.. I Love New York, Rock of Love, Charm School, I Love Money, the Ray J one I forget what its called, etc. Please it would be so perfect! First off.. its all comedy gold. And second.. its similar to the 00s mtv shows in the sense that there are constant reminders of how different the world was back then, but it doesnt feel scripted at all lol prime has most of them for free, and the ones that cost money are all on Pluto 😂 just plz consider it!!
This Harvey Davidson I'm going to say ten bucks. Um this cardboard box is worth day $100. It's like they have no concept of value
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
Bring back the Joe Schmo show Eps! I’ve been waiting on that 😂
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 appreciate you putting a visible timer on the ad reads, guess we're not even pretending anymore that anyone pays attention during those
When Chris said about Ursula going to see a buyer and hoping it’s Jeff in a moustache I thought of one of the Smiths in American Dad going to see someone and finding out its Rodger in a disguise
I’m begging you please make longer videos! These 15-20 vids isn’t enough 😢
You should do commentary on some old unhinged British shows like Secret Eaters, Rich kids go skint, and the crossover with Worlds strictest parents, they are hilariously unhinged and old enough to be somewhat obscure 😅
Chris don’t you dare disrespect the main storage wars that’s a comfort show
I’ve been working at storage facilities for 2 years now and I can vouch that it’s not as exciting as this. All the auctions are online these days thanks to Covid.
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