RIP Old Man from Pawn Stars

Nazi stuff is in vogue.

Oak Island is shit. They should turn Discovery’s Gold Rush folks on that island, and dig the whole damn thing up before winter. Mystery solved or debunked. One season.

Aliens makes for great memes.

 

Hey, from my teens into my mid-20s I loved reading about a lot of that stuff:
'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' and Graham Hancock's 'Underworld' and 'Chariots of the Gods'
I ate it up and thought it was a kick.

The fact that so much of all of that junk is now mainstream kind of turned me off of it.
And I constantly grapple with the thought that what I was interested in as a goof, many people take seriously.

 

Exactly. Obviously several parts of the show were trying to build characters and stories but they did describe a lot of interesting historical items and brought in interesting people to explain their significance.

As shows about pawn shops go, it sets the bar.

 

Hard Core Pawn is much more, uh, real.

 

Yeah, a lot fewer Super Bowl rings, Elvis's personal bibles and 18th-century firearms and a lot more gold chains and TVs.

I did think it was cheating to re-use the pawn/porn joke in the title. (It did come after Pawn Stars, right? At least it did as far as I was aware.)

 

I feel like History Channel has put itself into making a serious historical effort a few times a year with special miniseries. (or it had. Maybe this strategy is dead at this point, too.)

Anyway, the real problem is I can't stand those either. They're so dumbed down they allow major mistakes or an absurd glossing over of history. The World Wars, on a few years ago, was laughably horrible, but it was shiny with high production values and it made the right nations and leaders look like heroes, so I'd guess many did enjoy it.

 

And wasn't WWI like 1/5 episodes?

 

Yes, it came later.

Supposedly, the Harrisons hated the "Pawn Stars" name when it was proposed.

 

Are you implying you'd like to see a version in which Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan are cast as the put-upon victims?

 

This is how I felt when I found out there were other men who watched the TV show "Scandal."

 

Yeah, it was cool in the beginning, but once they started taking up half the show with things like "today we're going to play a joke on the old man ... ," I lost interest.

 

There is a fine line between watching 'Scandal' and staring at Kerry Washington.