Wednesday, December 17, 2014
American Picker Kids
Tonight I watched a portion of American Pickers on the History Channel. The show was a review of previous shows highlighting the characters they encountered on their hunts. The crew related how they met and how they developed their shop and how they picked up Danielle along the way. Near the beginning they mentioned that they came to realized their show affects their viewers in unexpected ways, particularly children. Mike said children are natural pickers, naturally curious about old things, and everything is old to children, that boys are basically pickers by nature. They showed a few brief clips of various videos of children pretending to be Mike and Frank and how amused they are by the whole phenomenon. Here is one such video from YouTube, there are others. The videos really are entertaining and charming. And it shows how the kids pay close attention and have Mike and Frank down to a tee.
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A buddy of mine hates these guys because he thinks they are taking advantage of gullible hoarders. I told him to lighten up - the hoarders are shrewd and savvy collectors in many cases.
How odd. You never know what somebody is going to think. What a very odd way to process that.
I think they're strange because they haggle over small things. $1.00 here, $5.00 there, then $10,000 for an old junky motorcycle in parts.
Horders cannot be taken advantage of, they can only be helped. And they are gracious about breaking through the hoarding psychology. they are are gracious about recognizing value in pure junk. They are of like mind, minus the, you know, actual hoarding. They're like-minded accumulators without the hoarding psychosis.
I quit watching the program. What didn't make any sense to me, is that the two guys are always on the road buying stuff, and then when you see the "store" it's too small to hold all of that stuff that they buy.
Plus you never see anybody parked at the store, or in the store to buy their junk.
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