IR Interview: Rick Harrison For "Pawn Stars Do America" [History-S2]

The Inside Reel

Host/Subject/Cultural Icon Rick Harrison talks to The Inside Reel about trends, fame, finds and traveling to different parts of the country for the 2nd season of his "Pawn Stars" spin-off: "Pawn Stars Do America" on The History Channel.

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00:11 - The Pawn Stars are doing America again,

00:13 and it's twice as big.

00:15 - We're back. - We're back.

00:16 - We're doing Dallas. - Tampa.

00:17 - Louisville. - Minneapolis.

00:19 - Boston. - St. Petersburg.

00:20 - It's definitely an authentic Shaq suit.

00:22 Now here's the super big part.

00:24 How much you want for it?

00:24 - Only about 10 or 12 million to exist.

00:26 - What are you trying to get out of it?

00:27 - 300,000. - Wow.

00:28 - You just put it on backwards.

00:29 - That's because my style's different.

00:30 - For the entire collection,

00:32 I'm looking for about $1.4 million.

00:34 - I nailed it.

00:35 - Pawn Stars do America.

00:36 New season, Wednesday, October 25th,

00:38 only on The History Channel.

00:40 - I always love to play on words

00:41 like Pawn Stars do America, pornography.

00:44 There's all that kind of stuff.

00:46 I mean, there's some great inside jokes.

00:48 I mean, you guys sort of get it.

00:49 You always have.

00:50 Can you talk about sort of balancing

00:52 sort of your expertise with the humor and finding that?

00:56 - I mean, well, I joke around all the time here

00:59 'cause, you know, Pawn Stars was the highest rated premiere

01:02 in the history of,

01:04 sorry, okay.

01:05 Pawn Stars was the highest rated premiere

01:06 in the history of The History Channel.

01:08 And to this day, I mean, this was 2019 and I,

01:12 no, no, it was in 2009.

01:15 And I always say that like the reason why the premiere was,

01:18 you know, had so many viewers

01:19 is 'cause they were going through their cable guide

01:21 and they thought it said something besides Pawn Stars.

01:23 (laughing)

01:26 You know, like the game show was pornography.

01:29 We just can't stop it.

01:30 You know, it's just, you know,

01:32 we just can't stop it, you know what I mean?

01:33 But it's still fun.

01:35 - But the fact that the premiere episode,

01:38 Pawn Stars does Dallas.

01:39 - Yes.

01:42 - You know, I just love that.

01:43 That's just sort of, it's just the alliteration of all that.

01:46 - These are the tools that built America.

01:49 - Oh my God.

01:50 - Is this what heaven looks like?

01:53 - Over the years, we discovered some amazing stuff

01:55 outside the shop.

01:56 - So the price is?

01:58 - 27,000.

01:59 - Arr.

02:00 What else we got?

02:01 (laughing)

02:02 - So we're hitting the road again.

02:04 - Well, it was once owned by Steve McQueen.

02:06 - The only other known examples, they're all in museums.

02:09 - It's one of a kind and I've never seen anything like it.

02:13 - Each week, we'll go someplace different.

02:15 - Look what the cat drug in.

02:17 - Not made for a guy my size.

02:20 - And hold a public event over the course of three days.

02:23 - You know, it shows that every single section

02:25 of the country is its own beast.

02:28 I mean, Vegas is its own beast,

02:29 but you did West Coast more last season.

02:32 Sounds like you're going more

02:33 through the East Coast this season, partially.

02:35 Can you talk about that and how that changes

02:37 how you have to look at people, approach people,

02:39 do all these different things?

02:42 - I mean, no, I mean, it's just like,

02:43 well, different regions got more stuff.

02:45 I mean, like, I mean, there was so much car stuff

02:47 brought to the show in Detroit and Ann Arbor.

02:50 It was like, seemed like it was like 80%

02:53 of what I was saying was just car stuff.

02:55 You know, we go down to, you know, Kentucky

02:58 and it's all horses and bourbon.

02:59 (laughing)

03:01 But no, it really has been fun.

03:04 I really, really enjoy doing it.

03:06 It's a lot of work, 'cause it's like three weeks

03:08 on the road, two weeks home.

03:09 And we've been doing it for like eight months, but no,

03:12 I mean, every part of the country

03:13 is its own little microcosm.

03:15 You have some weird stuff that shows up

03:16 that shouldn't be there, but like,

03:18 I had an absolute fun.

03:20 And I also, you know, I get to do a lot of history

03:23 about every city I'm in, so I'm having a good time with it.

03:26 - Oh my God, Power Nine, oh wow.

03:30 - We want to meet lots of sellers.

03:31 - So how much do you look to get out of it?

03:32 - $490,000.

03:34 - $1.4 million.

03:35 - 10 million bucks.

03:36 (laughing)

03:38 - And lots of fans.

03:39 - Welcome to Far North Channel E!

03:41 - And with the help of our favorite experts.

03:43 - The paper looks right.

03:45 Those can go for tens of thousands of dollars.

03:47 - We're going to look for those cool treasures.

03:49 - My God, this one's real.

03:50 - That just might not make it to Vegas.

03:51 - Well, I mean, because, you know,

03:53 having you, you've always been a voracious reader,

03:55 but can you sort of talk about like looking,

03:58 when you go into a microcosm

03:59 of each of these different cities,

04:01 is it about sort of prepping before you go?

04:03 Obviously you have an idea of what might be coming in.

04:06 There's some advanced, a little bit advanced word on that,

04:08 but can you talk about approaching it

04:10 versus something like when you guys were in Vegas?

04:13 - Like, I didn't even know what cities were doing.

04:17 They just like plopped it down in front of me

04:18 and I'm going like, "Well, let's go."

04:20 But each city, I try and read up a little bit on them,

04:23 but, you know, I'm a guy with a lot of different businesses,

04:27 six kids, four grandkids,

04:29 and everything else going on in the world.

04:32 So, you know, I just feel like, just tell me where to go,

04:35 I'll figure it out, we'll have a fun time.

04:38 - So how do you, you know,

04:39 'cause you're dealing with so many things,

04:41 how do you multifunction in that?

04:42 How do you, how does Rick Harrison's mind work on most days?

04:47 - I'm kind of spastic, you know what I mean?

04:52 I can't sit still.

04:53 And like I said, I read a lot

04:57 and I have a lot of really good people

04:59 that's just like, when I go like, "What do I do now?"

05:01 They just point me in the right direction

05:02 and go like, "Go there."

05:04 - '68 Riviera GS.

05:08 - Oh, yes.

05:09 1968 Buick Riviera GS.

05:13 That means it had the Buick 430 in it.

05:15 It was just a great year.

05:17 A bunch of little things that are in cars today

05:19 that were originally on this car,

05:21 I mean, like the hidden windshield wipers.

05:22 Another super cool thing about this car is,

05:25 so you don't see no headlights, they flip up.

05:28 Super cool car.

05:30 So where did you get, I mean, did you do all the work on it?

05:33 - I bought it from the original estate.

05:35 I did a lot of work to it.

05:36 All the trim, the headlights, AC.

05:39 - You brought it back all factory,

05:40 there's no, yeah, nothing aftermarket.

05:42 - Everything in the interior you see is all original.

05:45 It's even got the eight track tape player in it

05:46 that was installed.

05:47 - If you can find an eight track.

05:49 - I got plenty.

05:50 - I mean, it's evolved, of course,

05:53 with your father, your father was awesome, we miss him.

05:56 But also, because with Big Hoss and with Chumlee,

05:59 I mean, their personalities have evolved over the years

06:01 as has yours.

06:03 Can you talk sort of about the reaction?

06:05 Because people, they know you now,

06:07 but do they really know you?

06:09 - It's odd because a lot of times,

06:13 like people, I'll be walking someone like,

06:14 "Rick, Rick," and I'm going like,

06:16 "Is it a fan or do they actually know me?"

06:18 And it is, I mean, the fame thing is kind of crazy.

06:23 I mean, like I've been, I mean, like,

06:25 I've been to Kuala Lumpur, they know where I'm at.

06:27 I mean, I've been in India, everyone knows who I am.

06:30 I've just, it's, you know, Japan,

06:34 all over Asia, all over Europe.

06:37 That's kind of weird, that's, but I deal with it, it's fun.

06:41 - All right, so give me an idea

06:44 of what you're looking to get for it.

06:46 - I'm asking $39,500.

06:47 - $39,500, okay, well, do you mind

06:50 if me and him take it for a ride?

06:51 - Absolutely, the key's in it.

06:53 - All right. - All right,

06:54 well, you can drive it.

06:55 - Okay. - Here you go.

06:56 - Bucket seats.

06:57 - There you go.

06:58 (laughing)

07:00 - Oh, look at this.

07:01 Like it, no headrest, so you can wear a cowboy hat.

07:06 - I do.

07:07 - You know, the thing is you can still haggle,

07:13 you can still do that.

07:13 I love like in the Dallas one,

07:15 you give up a little bit, you know, with Emmitt Smith,

07:17 you know, the fact that you can pull in certain people

07:19 that now you know, you know, it's sort of cool.

07:21 I mean, do you get starstruck at all anymore?

07:24 I mean, is it, or is it just sort of that

07:26 sort of yin-yang thing?

07:27 - No, I mean, not really star,

07:29 I never really got starstruck that often,

07:30 but like I've lived in Vegas my whole life.

07:32 I mean, you know, you would, in Vegas,

07:36 you go out to dinner, I mean, like,

07:37 especially back in the day,

07:38 and there'd be celebrities and just, you know,

07:39 any restaurant on the strip, so you sort of,

07:41 I sort of grew up being used to being around celebrities.

07:44 - So what you guys have here.

07:46 So the seat back, I mean,

07:47 it's got the Prova sticker on the front.

07:50 So I know that's legit, I know that's your signature.

07:53 And I'm 99% sure this is your signature right here,

07:56 but like, there's no paperwork with your signature,

07:59 no sticker, nothing.

08:01 - Well, this picture is one of my fondest memories

08:04 of the NFC Championship game,

08:06 the very first one, '92, '93 season.

08:09 We playing the 49ers out there in Camden State Park.

08:12 And we win this game to go to our very first Super Bowl

08:15 and go on to beat the Bills.

08:17 So that is a special picture.

08:19 Now, my signature has evolved over the years,

08:24 and this is what I ended up coming up with.

08:26 You got the Emmett and the Jay and the Smith there,

08:30 and then you have the double deuces.

08:31 Now, this is supposed to be a little star in the middle,

08:33 and every now and then that star is not quite there,

08:35 but it's there.

08:37 And so when I look at the signature,

08:38 the signature looks fine to me,

08:40 like a legit Emmett Smith signature.

08:43 - Yeah, and the last question I'll ask you

08:45 has to do with all these different,

08:46 like as you find so many different things,

08:48 I mean, there's the throwback to Steve McQueen

08:50 in this first episode, which is awesome in Dallas,

08:52 but so many different things from Elvis

08:56 to all this kind of stuff,

08:57 has the whole idea of what is valuable,

09:00 has that evolved in terms of pop culture?

09:03 - Oh yeah, it is, because what's hot one day,

09:07 today, five years from now, it might not be hot.

09:09 I mean, like 10 years ago, I mean, like a Fender Nocaster,

09:13 I could get 40 or $50,000 for it.

09:15 Right now they go for like $20,000.

09:16 I mean, people seem to think that like all collectibles

09:20 always go up in value.

09:21 Some go up in value, you know,

09:24 I mean, they're commodities, they go up in value.

09:25 I mean, like, you know, like a lot of things,

09:28 like the Elvis things,

09:29 like Elvis ain't as cool as he used to be.

09:31 And you know, the price reflects that.

09:33 - Is there anything that's sort of trending up

09:34 that you're sort of surprised by?

09:37 - Pokemon cards.

09:40 (laughing)

09:42 I mean, like the trading cards, game trading,

09:48 I don't know hardly anything about it.

09:49 Believe it or not, Chum knows everything

09:51 there is to know about all these card games.

09:54 And the price has gone kind of ballistic

09:57 over the past few years.

09:58 I mean, and it's still really, really hot.

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