Pawn Stars s03e25 Episode Script
Honest Abe
On this episode of Pawn Stars What do we got here? A catholic relic.
Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Looks like it's got blood on it or something.
I'm not exactly sure.
I've got a letter.
The signature is "Winston Churchill.
" This would be really great if it's real, but there's a lot of fakes of these.
Got to be some value there.
It is 100% a gamble.
Got this rc car here.
This is a badass machine.
Can I start it? Nah.
I'll get it up and running in no time.
You don't even know how to work a screwdriver.
I know all about these things.
Come on.
[Bleep.]
.
I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop.
I work here with my old man and my son, big hoss.
Everything in here has a story and a price.
One thing I've learned after 21 years, you never know what is gonna come through that door.
Hey.
How's it going? Good.
How you doing today? What do we got? I've got a letter.
Okay.
And I think that this signature is Winston Churchill.
Okay.
"We will never surrender.
" That's a Winston Churchill quote.
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to sell my Winston Churchill letter.
The reason I'd like to sell this letter is so I can make some quick money to go have some fun in Las Vegas.
I'd like to sell the letter for $5,000.
The least I think I'll take is $2,000.
So where did you get this? That's pretty amazing.
"Thank you for your letter of November 3rd.
"General mark Clark has already sent me a copy "of his book calculated risk.
"I hope you will forgive me, but I do not feel "I can write a forward as you suggest.
"In this, I hope you will excuse and understand me.
Yours sincerely, Winston Churchill.
" That's a classy way to turn somebody down.
I know you wouldn't do it that way.
Not at all.
[Laughs.]
Winston Churchill was one of the toughest leaders of the 20th century.
And in his "never surrender" speech, he basically told Hitler, "go [Bleep.]
Yourself.
" All right, it's definitely done with a typewriter.
It's not done with a computer.
You can tell that by the spacing of the letters.
Earlier typewriters, there was just one space for each letter.
Modern computers, what happens is, they will space them proportionately to the letter size.
A good example is right where it says, "addition" right there.
See, small gaps in between the "d"s, a large gap in between the "I.
" That's not proportioned.
This would be really great if it's real.
I really love the guy.
You know, the guy drank a quart of whiskey a day and sometimes as many as 20 cigars, and he's still considered, like, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.
So it's got to be worth some money, then.
Uh A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Everything looks good to me, but, then again, I could be wrong.
I'm always on the lookout for anything from famous world war ii leaders.
And if this document is legit, I'll have no problem selling it to a collector.
But I have to be sure.
Let me get the thing looked at by somebody who does know, and then we'll talk money, all right? Sure.
I'll give you a call.
I think the letter looks real.
I'm looking forward to having an expert take a look at it.
Hey, how's it going? Good.
How you doing? Oh, pretty good.
Got this rc car here, a hummer.
I love hummers.
I love hummers too.
[Laughs.]
I came to the pawn shop today.
Decided to sell my radio-controlled hummer.
I've been into rc cars for a while, and I've had this one for a while like, racing 'em.
With everything I have in it, it's worth about $600, $650, but I'm hoping to walk away with about $350.
All right, so tell me about this thing.
It's four-wheel drive, dual shocks on each wheel, durable.
Some serious suspension on it.
Great suspension.
It's pretty fast too.
The thing goes about 80 miles an hour.
That thing is badass.
Can I start it? It needs a new glowplug.
Okay, so we can't start it right now? Nah.
Rc cars have been around since the '60s, and the modern ones are incredible.
Some will go over 100 miles an hour.
There's a huge market for complete cars and for the parts, so these things are definitely worth buying.
I mean, yeah, these are great and cool and everything.
But if I can't test it out and see if it works, I mean, I really don't want to buy it.
I don't know what I'm going to be getting.
Well, these things are easy to fix.
I could get it up and running in no time.
Uh, you really think you can get this thing running? Yeah.
All it needs is a glowplug.
Chum can barely tie his own shoes, so it might be worth it just to buy this thing to watch him play mechanic.
But even if he blows it, I can still sell it for parts, so it's a win-win situation.
How much do you want for it? $350.
$350 and it's not running? They're pretty expensive.
I know they're pretty expensive, but it's not running.
$350 is a good price, you know.
I want to buy a new one.
Yeah, I'm not going to give you the price of a new one for one that doesn't work.
I'll give you 100 bucks, 'cause the only reason I'm buying it I just want to see him actually work on something.
How about 250? Um Yeah, I'll give you 150 bucks.
Okay, I'll take 150 for it.
All right, 150 bucks.
Chum, go do the paperwork on it, and then do a little research so you know what you're doing when you work on it, all right? I mean, I wish I would have gotten more out of it, but I guess I can understand, with it not running, where he was a little skeptical.
But I'm happy to get $150.
So what do we got here? I got an old barbershop pole.
I don't think me and you have seen a barbershop in a long time, have we? I'll tell you what.
[Laughter.]
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to try to sell my barber pole.
The way I got the barber pole was, the old barber in town, he was finally getting out of business, retiring.
He was going to sell it, just get rid of it for scrap metal, and I decided, "don't get rid of it; I'll take it.
" This is neat.
Do you know anything about it? Who made it? That, I don't know.
I didn't see any specific significant markings on it, so It looks like "koker.
" I can't read the whole label here; It's almost worn out.
The candy stripe pole, that was in front of barbershops for hundreds of years because a few hundred years ago, most people couldn't read, and they saw this out in front of a store, they knew they could get a shave.
Barber poles date back to the 17th century.
That's when your local barber was also your local surgeon.
The red stripes represent the bloody rags that were hung out to dry.
Honesty in advertising, I guess.
I mean, this is definitely late 1800s.
Was it right around That's when they started coming up with the rotating one.
It caught your eye better.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, it looks like it was maybe modified to take a light bulb.
This is all cast iron.
This is all yeah, that's all porcelain on there.
Stained glass.
It's blown glass too.
This is neat.
This barber pole is a piece of art.
The craftsmanship and the materials used to make it are head and shoulders above anything made today.
If I can get this fully restored, it will be worth a pretty penny.
But the price has to make sense.
So what did you want to do with this? I'd like to sell it.
How much you want for it? I was looking for around $1,100.
Um I'd say $1,100's a fair price If it was in better shape.
Oh.
Okay? Well Um There's a lot of work that needs to be done to this porcelain.
It looks like someone's even tried to sand on it.
These need to be repainted.
I was doing some research, and I noticed that in this type of shape, they were going about $1,300.
I just don't see 1,300 bucks here.
I see 700 bucks here, because I'll probably get after I get it completely redone, and it's going to cost me 600, 700 bucks.
Would you go $800? [Sighs.]
I'll give you $750.
$800.
I have to have $800.
[Sighs.]
All right, I'll give you $800.
I gotta have it.
Thank you.
All right, let's go do some paperwork.
All righty.
I came to the shop today asking for $1,100.
I got $800.
I didn't pay a dime for the darn thing.
$800, I'm very happy.
I'm going home a happy man.
This letter's really cool.
It's talking about the youngest major general in world war ii.
Is it real? It appears to be on Churchill's stationery.
Unfortunately, that might be autopen.
What the [Bleep.]
'S the big deal back here? It smells like exhaust and gasoline.
Yeah, I've been running the car all morning.
You don't run a gasoline engine inside.
Earlier today, a guy came in with a letter signed by Winston Churchill.
I have no idea whether it's real or fake.
So I called in my buddy Dana to take a closer look.
Hey, Dana.
How you doing? Corey, how are you? All right.
Nice to see ya.
Is this the item that you have for me? That is the item.
I'm Dana, president of early American history auctions.
So, Rick, what are your concerns regarding this letter? Is it real? Okay, that's a very good concern.
What's it worth? Well, this letter's really cool, because it's talking about another military man, general mark Clark, the youngest major general in world war ii.
And apparently, he had written a boocalculated risk.
This indicates that he's asking Winston Churchill to write an introduction for that book.
And, unfortunately, they're being turned down.
The watermark in the paper is a high-quality British paper.
It appears to be on Winston Churchill's personal stationery.
So do you think it's real? Well, I'll take a little closer look at the signature.
It's a nice flowing signature.
There's no real hesitation.
It's not autopen.
So it looks like You have a real autographed signature here.
Good man.
Nice letter.
Okay, question two: What do you think that would go for? I think is letter would easily bring $1,500 to $2,000, maybe a little bit more because of the content.
Thanks a lot, Dana.
I really appreciate it.
You're welcome.
So how much do you want for it? Well, he said $1,500, right? He said $1,500 to $2,000, which means at an auction, it could go from, on a really, really bad day, 1,000 bucks; on a really, really good day, 2,500 bucks.
So I'm thinking $700 is a fair price.
Or you can take all the risk and maybe get paid a year from now.
Okay, how about $900? I'll meet you in the middle.
So you're talking 800 bucks? Okay, $800.
All right, it's a deal.
You want to write him up, Corey? Let's go do some paperwork, buddy.
I think 800's enough to get a good start in Vegas.
I'll probably need some more, but 800's a good start.
Today I got a call from a guy selling an old refrigerator, so chum and I are on our way to go check it out.
Okay, so what do you got here? We have a 1938 frigidaire fridge made by general motors.
Just a hint, dude: When you go to sell stuff, make sure you clean it up before the buyer shows up.
[Laughter.]
I decided to call the guys at the pawn shop to sell our 1938 frigidaire fridge.
It still works.
The reason why we want to sell it is just 'cause it's just taking up space in our garage.
And, really, we don't have no use for it anymore.
Well, it's been in our basement for 72 years, so it's a little dirty.
It was in our basement when we bought the house.
We kept it because general motors is an icon.
I thought general motors made cars.
General motors made everything.
Push this in and pull? Push it in and pull.
Yeah, it definitely looks old.
Still works.
Just got to flick the switch on.
It originally went for $189.
Yeah, that was a lot of money back then.
Frigidaire developed the first self-contained refrigerators back in 1918.
They went on to develop the first home freezers and room air conditioners.
It was one of the first fridges that actually had an icebox.
Yeah, back then, the icebox was so small, 'cause it was basically just for making ice.
They really didn't freeze stuff back then.
They also didn't have, like, tv dinners and prepackaged frozen foods.
It just wasn't then what would they eat? [Laughs.]
This fridge is in amazing condition.
People love old art deco appliances, especially when they work.
But they don't pay a whole lot for them, so I have to get this on the cheap.
So how much did you want for this thing? We're looking about $800 for it.
Yeah, that's just unfortunately, the ones that sell are the ones with the giant radiators on the top.
It was all circular and chromed out, and those are the ones people want.
You know, it'd be good for a man cave.
It's just one of the plain ones.
I mean, I can give you 200 bucks for it.
I mean, maybe I could sell it for parts.
so I think we're going to hold on to it.
All right, thanks for showing it to me, man.
Not a problem.
Have a good day.
I wish that thing had a bigger icebox.
It is what it is, and, you know, I understand what he was looking for.
Maybe somebody will eventually buy it down the line.
Chum? Yeah? What are you doing? Uh, fixing the flowback modulator.
There's no such thing as a flowback modulator.
Who told you that? I know all about these things.
All right, I'll tell you what.
You get the thing running, I'll give you 50 bucks.
Sweet! I'm going to have it up and running in no time.
[Laughs.]
[Bleep.]
.
How's it going? Good.
How about you? I'm pretty good.
What do we got here? A catholic relic.
It's Elizabeth Ann seton.
She was the first American-born person to be canonized by the catholic church.
And I have a certificate of authenticity.
I think it's in Italian.
I was hoping you might know some Italian or Latin or whatever that is.
This is in Latin.
I bought Latin for dummies once.
[Laughter.]
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to try to sell my catholic relic.
What makes this relic rare is, it comes with a certificate of authenticity.
I'm hoping to sell this relic today for around $300.
Maybe $200, I would take for it, but I hope to get more.
So what is this? What's the relic of? I believe it's a piece of her vestments, which would be a second-degree relic.
There are three types.
There's a first-degree relic, which is a bit of a Saint: Their finger bone or fingernails or skin or whatever.
Okay, that's creepy.
Yeah, it is.
I believe this is a second-degree relic, which is something that the Saint wore or was close to them.
Old religious items can be extremely valuable, especially when they're tied to a pope or a Saint.
But I've never seen anything like this before, and I just hope this is not a piece of human flesh, 'cause that would be really creepy.
So where did you get it? I got it in an estate sale from a priest's house after he passed away.
Okay.
I am not real familiar with seton.
I know a little bit about her.
I know she started a school or something like that.
You know why she was canonized? Her three miracles were all healing, but she's actually a patron Saint of education.
Do you have any idea what the certificate says or most relic certificates just give a description of who the Saint was, when the relic was created.
It's got a seal from the church.
You know, it just it's so hard to even tell what it is.
If it's part of her vestments, it looks like it's got blood on it or something.
You know, it's and you have no idea what that is? I don't.
This is my problem.
I'm assuming this tells us what it is.
Well, Rick, you know what "assume" means.
I know exactly.
I had a shop teacher too.
[Laughter.]
I would love to call in somebody who could maybe read this in Latin for us and maybe give us another clue.
Do you live here in town? No, I'm actually from out of town.
I'm leaving town today.
Okay.
How much did you want for it? Maybe 300 bucks.
You know what? I really don't normally do this, but if you want to leave it here, I can have it checked out.
Then we can, like, do this over the phone.
If we can't work it out, I'll send it back to you.
Um, yeah, I guess we could do that.
The guy is splitting town and leaving the item with me.
This is a first.
It's a hassle, to say the least, but I have the feeling this thing could be really valuable, so it just might be worth it.
All right, man.
Maybe we'll have a deal.
All right.
Hope so.
I'm kind of disappointed they didn't know what it was up front, but I'm pretty excited that they're hanging on to it, and hopefully they get some good information and come back with a good offer for me.
Sweet.
[Sighs.]
I think I did it.
[Engine buzzing.]
Yeah! Yeah! Come check this out.
What the [Bleep.]
'S the big deal back here this morning? I got this car up and running.
Congratulations, chum.
Here's your 50 bucks, chum.
Yeah.
Okay? All right, now, you need to open some doors in here, because it smells like exhaust and gasoline back here now.
Okay, whatever.
[Bleep.]
Damn it.
Everybody, get back to work.
à I'm going to get some chicken wings à get me some too.
Earlier, a guy brought in a religious relic.
I've never seen one before, and all the documentation is in Latin.
So I invited my friend Kristin down to come and take a look.
Hey, Kristin.
How's it going? Good.
How are you doing? All right.
I got this relic.
My name is Kristin slonsky, and I am a classical linguist at the university of Nevada at Las Vegas.
I love to teach, and I love to translate everything.
I spend a typical Friday night translating taeneid from Virgil.
Rick, do you have any questions? Yeah, what kind of relic that is.
I mean, we couldn't read this to find out what it was.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm hoping you can figure all this out for me.
Ooh.
"Universis et singulis praesentes litteras inspecturis.
" In the medieval ages, whenever you possessed a relic, that was considered a very important item, and they would only bring it out in very important events for blessings.
When you're dealing with relics, normally it would be some kind of bodily tissue.
It could be blood, hair, skin, tears, something like that, something that was directly on her person.
My best guess is that it's a piece of skin, or it could be ashes after she was cremated.
We really don't know for sure.
That's weird.
So what does it say? It says, "to all and each.
" Pretty much everyone in the world.
"We warn the faithful" and "warn" is a very strong word "into whose hands these sacred relics shall come to be "that they are permitted in no way, in the name of God, "to sell them, nor to exchange them "with such things which bear the presence or facade of marketing.
" That means if I buy it, I'm going to go to hell? Pretty much.
You're going there anyhow, son.
[Laughs.]
And even if you were going to buy it, there's no way of judging its monetary value, because these things are never sold.
There's no starting point.
I'm all creeped out by it now anyway, so I'm not going to buy it.
I really appreciate you coming in.
Anytime.
Thank you, young lady.
We really appreciate it.
Anytime.
Thank you very much.
If there's no monetary value to this thing, it's not something I'm interested in, plain and simple.
Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Looks like it's got blood on it or something.
I'm not exactly sure.
I've got a letter.
The signature is "Winston Churchill.
" This would be really great if it's real, but there's a lot of fakes of these.
Got to be some value there.
It is 100% a gamble.
Got this rc car here.
This is a badass machine.
Can I start it? Nah.
I'll get it up and running in no time.
You don't even know how to work a screwdriver.
I know all about these things.
Come on.
[Bleep.]
.
I'm Rick Harrison, and this is my pawn shop.
I work here with my old man and my son, big hoss.
Everything in here has a story and a price.
One thing I've learned after 21 years, you never know what is gonna come through that door.
Hey.
How's it going? Good.
How you doing today? What do we got? I've got a letter.
Okay.
And I think that this signature is Winston Churchill.
Okay.
"We will never surrender.
" That's a Winston Churchill quote.
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to sell my Winston Churchill letter.
The reason I'd like to sell this letter is so I can make some quick money to go have some fun in Las Vegas.
I'd like to sell the letter for $5,000.
The least I think I'll take is $2,000.
So where did you get this? That's pretty amazing.
"Thank you for your letter of November 3rd.
"General mark Clark has already sent me a copy "of his book calculated risk.
"I hope you will forgive me, but I do not feel "I can write a forward as you suggest.
"In this, I hope you will excuse and understand me.
Yours sincerely, Winston Churchill.
" That's a classy way to turn somebody down.
I know you wouldn't do it that way.
Not at all.
[Laughs.]
Winston Churchill was one of the toughest leaders of the 20th century.
And in his "never surrender" speech, he basically told Hitler, "go [Bleep.]
Yourself.
" All right, it's definitely done with a typewriter.
It's not done with a computer.
You can tell that by the spacing of the letters.
Earlier typewriters, there was just one space for each letter.
Modern computers, what happens is, they will space them proportionately to the letter size.
A good example is right where it says, "addition" right there.
See, small gaps in between the "d"s, a large gap in between the "I.
" That's not proportioned.
This would be really great if it's real.
I really love the guy.
You know, the guy drank a quart of whiskey a day and sometimes as many as 20 cigars, and he's still considered, like, one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.
So it's got to be worth some money, then.
Uh A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Everything looks good to me, but, then again, I could be wrong.
I'm always on the lookout for anything from famous world war ii leaders.
And if this document is legit, I'll have no problem selling it to a collector.
But I have to be sure.
Let me get the thing looked at by somebody who does know, and then we'll talk money, all right? Sure.
I'll give you a call.
I think the letter looks real.
I'm looking forward to having an expert take a look at it.
Hey, how's it going? Good.
How you doing? Oh, pretty good.
Got this rc car here, a hummer.
I love hummers.
I love hummers too.
[Laughs.]
I came to the pawn shop today.
Decided to sell my radio-controlled hummer.
I've been into rc cars for a while, and I've had this one for a while like, racing 'em.
With everything I have in it, it's worth about $600, $650, but I'm hoping to walk away with about $350.
All right, so tell me about this thing.
It's four-wheel drive, dual shocks on each wheel, durable.
Some serious suspension on it.
Great suspension.
It's pretty fast too.
The thing goes about 80 miles an hour.
That thing is badass.
Can I start it? It needs a new glowplug.
Okay, so we can't start it right now? Nah.
Rc cars have been around since the '60s, and the modern ones are incredible.
Some will go over 100 miles an hour.
There's a huge market for complete cars and for the parts, so these things are definitely worth buying.
I mean, yeah, these are great and cool and everything.
But if I can't test it out and see if it works, I mean, I really don't want to buy it.
I don't know what I'm going to be getting.
Well, these things are easy to fix.
I could get it up and running in no time.
Uh, you really think you can get this thing running? Yeah.
All it needs is a glowplug.
Chum can barely tie his own shoes, so it might be worth it just to buy this thing to watch him play mechanic.
But even if he blows it, I can still sell it for parts, so it's a win-win situation.
How much do you want for it? $350.
$350 and it's not running? They're pretty expensive.
I know they're pretty expensive, but it's not running.
$350 is a good price, you know.
I want to buy a new one.
Yeah, I'm not going to give you the price of a new one for one that doesn't work.
I'll give you 100 bucks, 'cause the only reason I'm buying it I just want to see him actually work on something.
How about 250? Um Yeah, I'll give you 150 bucks.
Okay, I'll take 150 for it.
All right, 150 bucks.
Chum, go do the paperwork on it, and then do a little research so you know what you're doing when you work on it, all right? I mean, I wish I would have gotten more out of it, but I guess I can understand, with it not running, where he was a little skeptical.
But I'm happy to get $150.
So what do we got here? I got an old barbershop pole.
I don't think me and you have seen a barbershop in a long time, have we? I'll tell you what.
[Laughter.]
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to try to sell my barber pole.
The way I got the barber pole was, the old barber in town, he was finally getting out of business, retiring.
He was going to sell it, just get rid of it for scrap metal, and I decided, "don't get rid of it; I'll take it.
" This is neat.
Do you know anything about it? Who made it? That, I don't know.
I didn't see any specific significant markings on it, so It looks like "koker.
" I can't read the whole label here; It's almost worn out.
The candy stripe pole, that was in front of barbershops for hundreds of years because a few hundred years ago, most people couldn't read, and they saw this out in front of a store, they knew they could get a shave.
Barber poles date back to the 17th century.
That's when your local barber was also your local surgeon.
The red stripes represent the bloody rags that were hung out to dry.
Honesty in advertising, I guess.
I mean, this is definitely late 1800s.
Was it right around That's when they started coming up with the rotating one.
It caught your eye better.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, it looks like it was maybe modified to take a light bulb.
This is all cast iron.
This is all yeah, that's all porcelain on there.
Stained glass.
It's blown glass too.
This is neat.
This barber pole is a piece of art.
The craftsmanship and the materials used to make it are head and shoulders above anything made today.
If I can get this fully restored, it will be worth a pretty penny.
But the price has to make sense.
So what did you want to do with this? I'd like to sell it.
How much you want for it? I was looking for around $1,100.
Um I'd say $1,100's a fair price If it was in better shape.
Oh.
Okay? Well Um There's a lot of work that needs to be done to this porcelain.
It looks like someone's even tried to sand on it.
These need to be repainted.
I was doing some research, and I noticed that in this type of shape, they were going about $1,300.
I just don't see 1,300 bucks here.
I see 700 bucks here, because I'll probably get after I get it completely redone, and it's going to cost me 600, 700 bucks.
Would you go $800? [Sighs.]
I'll give you $750.
$800.
I have to have $800.
[Sighs.]
All right, I'll give you $800.
I gotta have it.
Thank you.
All right, let's go do some paperwork.
All righty.
I came to the shop today asking for $1,100.
I got $800.
I didn't pay a dime for the darn thing.
$800, I'm very happy.
I'm going home a happy man.
This letter's really cool.
It's talking about the youngest major general in world war ii.
Is it real? It appears to be on Churchill's stationery.
Unfortunately, that might be autopen.
What the [Bleep.]
'S the big deal back here? It smells like exhaust and gasoline.
Yeah, I've been running the car all morning.
You don't run a gasoline engine inside.
Earlier today, a guy came in with a letter signed by Winston Churchill.
I have no idea whether it's real or fake.
So I called in my buddy Dana to take a closer look.
Hey, Dana.
How you doing? Corey, how are you? All right.
Nice to see ya.
Is this the item that you have for me? That is the item.
I'm Dana, president of early American history auctions.
So, Rick, what are your concerns regarding this letter? Is it real? Okay, that's a very good concern.
What's it worth? Well, this letter's really cool, because it's talking about another military man, general mark Clark, the youngest major general in world war ii.
And apparently, he had written a boocalculated risk.
This indicates that he's asking Winston Churchill to write an introduction for that book.
And, unfortunately, they're being turned down.
The watermark in the paper is a high-quality British paper.
It appears to be on Winston Churchill's personal stationery.
So do you think it's real? Well, I'll take a little closer look at the signature.
It's a nice flowing signature.
There's no real hesitation.
It's not autopen.
So it looks like You have a real autographed signature here.
Good man.
Nice letter.
Okay, question two: What do you think that would go for? I think is letter would easily bring $1,500 to $2,000, maybe a little bit more because of the content.
Thanks a lot, Dana.
I really appreciate it.
You're welcome.
So how much do you want for it? Well, he said $1,500, right? He said $1,500 to $2,000, which means at an auction, it could go from, on a really, really bad day, 1,000 bucks; on a really, really good day, 2,500 bucks.
So I'm thinking $700 is a fair price.
Or you can take all the risk and maybe get paid a year from now.
Okay, how about $900? I'll meet you in the middle.
So you're talking 800 bucks? Okay, $800.
All right, it's a deal.
You want to write him up, Corey? Let's go do some paperwork, buddy.
I think 800's enough to get a good start in Vegas.
I'll probably need some more, but 800's a good start.
Today I got a call from a guy selling an old refrigerator, so chum and I are on our way to go check it out.
Okay, so what do you got here? We have a 1938 frigidaire fridge made by general motors.
Just a hint, dude: When you go to sell stuff, make sure you clean it up before the buyer shows up.
[Laughter.]
I decided to call the guys at the pawn shop to sell our 1938 frigidaire fridge.
It still works.
The reason why we want to sell it is just 'cause it's just taking up space in our garage.
And, really, we don't have no use for it anymore.
Well, it's been in our basement for 72 years, so it's a little dirty.
It was in our basement when we bought the house.
We kept it because general motors is an icon.
I thought general motors made cars.
General motors made everything.
Push this in and pull? Push it in and pull.
Yeah, it definitely looks old.
Still works.
Just got to flick the switch on.
It originally went for $189.
Yeah, that was a lot of money back then.
Frigidaire developed the first self-contained refrigerators back in 1918.
They went on to develop the first home freezers and room air conditioners.
It was one of the first fridges that actually had an icebox.
Yeah, back then, the icebox was so small, 'cause it was basically just for making ice.
They really didn't freeze stuff back then.
They also didn't have, like, tv dinners and prepackaged frozen foods.
It just wasn't then what would they eat? [Laughs.]
This fridge is in amazing condition.
People love old art deco appliances, especially when they work.
But they don't pay a whole lot for them, so I have to get this on the cheap.
So how much did you want for this thing? We're looking about $800 for it.
Yeah, that's just unfortunately, the ones that sell are the ones with the giant radiators on the top.
It was all circular and chromed out, and those are the ones people want.
You know, it'd be good for a man cave.
It's just one of the plain ones.
I mean, I can give you 200 bucks for it.
I mean, maybe I could sell it for parts.
so I think we're going to hold on to it.
All right, thanks for showing it to me, man.
Not a problem.
Have a good day.
I wish that thing had a bigger icebox.
It is what it is, and, you know, I understand what he was looking for.
Maybe somebody will eventually buy it down the line.
Chum? Yeah? What are you doing? Uh, fixing the flowback modulator.
There's no such thing as a flowback modulator.
Who told you that? I know all about these things.
All right, I'll tell you what.
You get the thing running, I'll give you 50 bucks.
Sweet! I'm going to have it up and running in no time.
[Laughs.]
[Bleep.]
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How's it going? Good.
How about you? I'm pretty good.
What do we got here? A catholic relic.
It's Elizabeth Ann seton.
She was the first American-born person to be canonized by the catholic church.
And I have a certificate of authenticity.
I think it's in Italian.
I was hoping you might know some Italian or Latin or whatever that is.
This is in Latin.
I bought Latin for dummies once.
[Laughter.]
I decided to come to the pawn shop today to try to sell my catholic relic.
What makes this relic rare is, it comes with a certificate of authenticity.
I'm hoping to sell this relic today for around $300.
Maybe $200, I would take for it, but I hope to get more.
So what is this? What's the relic of? I believe it's a piece of her vestments, which would be a second-degree relic.
There are three types.
There's a first-degree relic, which is a bit of a Saint: Their finger bone or fingernails or skin or whatever.
Okay, that's creepy.
Yeah, it is.
I believe this is a second-degree relic, which is something that the Saint wore or was close to them.
Old religious items can be extremely valuable, especially when they're tied to a pope or a Saint.
But I've never seen anything like this before, and I just hope this is not a piece of human flesh, 'cause that would be really creepy.
So where did you get it? I got it in an estate sale from a priest's house after he passed away.
Okay.
I am not real familiar with seton.
I know a little bit about her.
I know she started a school or something like that.
You know why she was canonized? Her three miracles were all healing, but she's actually a patron Saint of education.
Do you have any idea what the certificate says or most relic certificates just give a description of who the Saint was, when the relic was created.
It's got a seal from the church.
You know, it just it's so hard to even tell what it is.
If it's part of her vestments, it looks like it's got blood on it or something.
You know, it's and you have no idea what that is? I don't.
This is my problem.
I'm assuming this tells us what it is.
Well, Rick, you know what "assume" means.
I know exactly.
I had a shop teacher too.
[Laughter.]
I would love to call in somebody who could maybe read this in Latin for us and maybe give us another clue.
Do you live here in town? No, I'm actually from out of town.
I'm leaving town today.
Okay.
How much did you want for it? Maybe 300 bucks.
You know what? I really don't normally do this, but if you want to leave it here, I can have it checked out.
Then we can, like, do this over the phone.
If we can't work it out, I'll send it back to you.
Um, yeah, I guess we could do that.
The guy is splitting town and leaving the item with me.
This is a first.
It's a hassle, to say the least, but I have the feeling this thing could be really valuable, so it just might be worth it.
All right, man.
Maybe we'll have a deal.
All right.
Hope so.
I'm kind of disappointed they didn't know what it was up front, but I'm pretty excited that they're hanging on to it, and hopefully they get some good information and come back with a good offer for me.
Sweet.
[Sighs.]
I think I did it.
[Engine buzzing.]
Yeah! Yeah! Come check this out.
What the [Bleep.]
'S the big deal back here this morning? I got this car up and running.
Congratulations, chum.
Here's your 50 bucks, chum.
Yeah.
Okay? All right, now, you need to open some doors in here, because it smells like exhaust and gasoline back here now.
Okay, whatever.
[Bleep.]
Damn it.
Everybody, get back to work.
à I'm going to get some chicken wings à get me some too.
Earlier, a guy brought in a religious relic.
I've never seen one before, and all the documentation is in Latin.
So I invited my friend Kristin down to come and take a look.
Hey, Kristin.
How's it going? Good.
How are you doing? All right.
I got this relic.
My name is Kristin slonsky, and I am a classical linguist at the university of Nevada at Las Vegas.
I love to teach, and I love to translate everything.
I spend a typical Friday night translating taeneid from Virgil.
Rick, do you have any questions? Yeah, what kind of relic that is.
I mean, we couldn't read this to find out what it was.
Mm-hmm.
So I'm hoping you can figure all this out for me.
Ooh.
"Universis et singulis praesentes litteras inspecturis.
" In the medieval ages, whenever you possessed a relic, that was considered a very important item, and they would only bring it out in very important events for blessings.
When you're dealing with relics, normally it would be some kind of bodily tissue.
It could be blood, hair, skin, tears, something like that, something that was directly on her person.
My best guess is that it's a piece of skin, or it could be ashes after she was cremated.
We really don't know for sure.
That's weird.
So what does it say? It says, "to all and each.
" Pretty much everyone in the world.
"We warn the faithful" and "warn" is a very strong word "into whose hands these sacred relics shall come to be "that they are permitted in no way, in the name of God, "to sell them, nor to exchange them "with such things which bear the presence or facade of marketing.
" That means if I buy it, I'm going to go to hell? Pretty much.
You're going there anyhow, son.
[Laughs.]
And even if you were going to buy it, there's no way of judging its monetary value, because these things are never sold.
There's no starting point.
I'm all creeped out by it now anyway, so I'm not going to buy it.
I really appreciate you coming in.
Anytime.
Thank you, young lady.
We really appreciate it.
Anytime.
Thank you very much.
If there's no monetary value to this thing, it's not something I'm interested in, plain and simple.