Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison talks retro tech live from CES – Video

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Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison talks retro tech live from CES - Video

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Welcome back to CES 2020.
I’m Patrick Caulin.
And next up, we’re going to speak about some classic innovation.
And we have actually the most certified individual to do so.
You understand him as the owner of the Golden Silver pawn store here in Las Vegas.
And the star at the popular TELEVISION series Pawnstars.
So put your hands together and welcome Rick Harrison.
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Yeah.
I need to state, do you like the t-shirt?
Yeah I like the t-shirt.
All right there we go.
You purchased it in my giftshop, right?
Yeah, we can speak about that.
I got a bargain on it.
[LAUGH] So we remained in your shop the other day and I believe perhaps it does not occur to a great deal of individuals that you are in fact running an organisation in the shop while likewise recording a TELEVISION program.
How do you stabilize both the physical requirements of that however likewise like the psychological requirements of that?
Well, it resembles a great deal of times it’s 12-13 hours a day.
But Well, no, I suggest, it’s sort of like this odd cooperative relationship.
I suggest, I get countless individuals a day at the pawn store.
It’s the top non video gaming and traveler destination in Las Vegas.
I get more visitors than Hoover Dam.
But if I do not feel the TELEVISION program and shut down the store to movie, I do not get the travelers.
So like it.
In completion, it exercises.
And then where’s that?
And we remained in the yesterday we saw the area that you initially shot in the early season and it was very little larger than our phase here.
How did that exercise in those early days?
It was difficult and insane.
But with that, budget plans got a little larger once we were on TELEVISION, and I believe we’re on today.
150 nations 38 languages.
And we’re recording Season 17 today.
So the other day we got to speak about some retrotech.
And you had a couple various products for us.
And I question if we might talk a bit about what makes a piece of innovation, whether it’s old or brand-new, important.
Or what are-
Yeah I suggest like the other day when we were recording, like there was this little individual printing press from the 1890s.
So that resembled the very first individual printer.
But it was high tech.
It wasn’t up until the 1890s that you might standardize actually accuracy cast iron pieces.
Before that whatever needed to be hand ended up, hand machined, whatever like that.
But the innovation for casting iron by the 1890s, it was the plastic of the late.
19th century whatever was constructed out of cast iron.
If you went to Chicago in 1900, there was 1000 smokestacks going and they were all casting something in iron.
And that’s the actually cool aspect of it.
Yeah.
And like I stated, speaking to you, it’s.
You understand, every, you understand, every years, individuals go What a remarkable world we’re residing in and 1890 they were stating can you think the, the amazing innovation that we have now we can cross the Atlantic Ocean in 4 days.
You understand, they actually believed they were residing in this amazingly high tech society.
Okay?
Our kids will be chuckling about us 30 years from now about the 2020 CES program.
I go, they’ll be a little, actually?
[LAUGH]
[LAUGH] What’s a collapsible screen?
Yeah.
[LAUGH] But I’m likewise questioning like, I suggest when you take a look at these products, what is naturally important about something like that old printing press?
Or you had like a wood telephone that was, you stated the compact variation, however I swear it’s larger than my head.
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Well, yeah, I suggest individuals.
People like the past.
People like history.
People like the stories.
If you’re your dad was a printer, perhaps you desire this little printing press.
If you’re offering high tech printers, it’s quite cool to have an old printer.
in your workplace I have a pal who has a truly big production business He’s got a 1915 35mm motion picture electronic camera in his workplace.
Whoa.
It’s ginarmous.
It’s got a crank on the side to end up the spring that runs it.
And there is no view finder.
[LAUGH]
[LAUGH] Which is most likely why the ->> But it was extremely high tech for the time.
But I’d state that’s most likely why a great deal of those relocations were carried out in one shot.
[LAUGH]
Right.
But then I wished to like, I believe part of the appeal for the program for me.
There’s one there’s a great deal of appeal, however among the greatest ones is the stories behind the items, those histories.
And so you have a cool occasion showing up this spring called history cons.
The initially one, he discusses that, yeah, sort of like Comic Con however its history con.
So there’s gonna be a great deal of individuals there from history channel and.
Gonna have a great deal of lectures that’s gonna make it, speak about history and things like that and attempt and make it enjoyable and not be Professor like which’s one of the reasons that I believe individuals like my TELEVISION program.
It’s your find out history from your uncle not a teacher.
Yeah, and I wished to like so Comic Con and a few of these conferences individuals cosplay.
I suggest, I may be cosplaying a bit as Yeah.
As a Pawn Star today.
But what sort of cosplay would individuals be doing at a history con, do you believe?
It would be odd.
[LAUGH]
Yeah, I simply never ever.
[LAUGH]
No, I suggest it’s actually odd being a star and things like that.
You understand what I suggest?
I simply take a look at like #RickHarrison on Instagram and after that like, on Halloween, there resembles countless individuals dressed up, like me for Halloween.
It’s sort of odd.
You understand?
You ever see like a kid dressed up as you?
Yeah, there’s youngsters.
There’s old.
It’s It’s simply odd, I never ever ended up being well-known till i was 40 years,in my 40s.
And I’m simply still like a typical person, I still deal with vehicles.
And then the entire star thing is wierd.
[LAUGH] Also something I questioned the other day after I left the discussion was, like I matured I had like Star Wars toys however i had fun with them.
And they deserve absolutely nothing now since I had fun with Star Wars toys.
Yeah.
But I am likewise questioning if I had actually conserved them and never ever played them as a kid and left them in their initial product packaging, they may be worth something now.
i marvel, how do you stabilize the requirement for something being a useful thing as a collectible and utilizing it versus a screen product.
People get Nikon cams and never ever take a single picture since it deserves something Well I suggest it’s the various, that’s loud.
Yeah well you got a loud.
It’s the distinction, purchasing something for a financial investment or purchasing something to utilize.
I’m gonna be purchasing a Nikon electronic camera this weekend.
I’m not gonna keep it in the plan I’m gonna be utilizing all of it the time.
But odd things occur every from time to time.
It’s the things you believe is never ever gonna deserve something.
That it might be worth something.
Who I suggest?
I like comics when I was a kid, we never ever looked after, we utilized to clip baseball cards to the frames on our bike.
So they go click, click, click, click, click, we seem like a motorbike.
So those odd things you’ll never ever understand.
It’s here’s sort of a guideline of double wall.
What will be collectible, what was actually cool for a man when he was 16 18 years of ages.
What he’s 50 years of ages, got some cash and wishes to relive his youth.
That’s what that things goes nuts cost.
That’s why like today, computer game Going for like it.
They turn up all over the location of, specifically if they’re brand-new, they’re sealed still sealed in package from like Nintendo for the early days.
I provided a man $100,000 one for one, a couple of months earlier would take it.
For a computer game.
It was the very first.
First Edition of Mario Brothers sealed in package.
Wow.
Well then it makes you question if that person’s a weirdo since he never ever played the video game right?
It’s among those things where it was most likely like the system got included a closet someplace and never ever got utilized and after that Someone recognized I most likely should not pull this apart.
Maybe I must have a look at see what it deserves.
So the other day, something else we were speaking about a bit was another amusing part of the program is the bargain the offer, the mediator, and you are called a skillful mediator.
I’m questioning what makes a bargain for you, when did it click in your head that I desire that and how do you
Get it without always revealing your hand so to speak.
Well, first of all, you constantly need to take a look at it as an organisation offer, not a psychological offer.
And then the top guideline I inform everyone about working out, want to leave deals wrong offers.
Not right.
I get that concern all the time doing interviews, web, what’s that a person offer you want you would have handled, I stated non since if the offers not right, the offers not right.
If you begin taking.
When you go purchase an automobile, get that little details box called your phone.
Find out what you must spend for it, and if they will not offer it to you, leave.
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[LAUGH] And then among the current ones we spoke about the other day, which I was actually thrilled about, is you purchased Kareem Abdul-Jabbars safety glasses.
Yep.
The ones he used in video games.
Tell us a bit about that yet.
Okay, well,>> Any specification about it.
It’s likewise the method history goes, like you’ll have like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who was the best basketball gamer of his time.
And then along comes Michael Jordan.
And they resemble, everybody like no, Kareem was still much better.
But
[LAUGH]
well, no, I’m like,
Really extremely renowned sports individuals like that are well-known individuals like that.
Anything that was, you understand, his toe nail clippings are never ever going to deserve cash, fine.
But his safety glasses that he used which resembled the most renowned aspect of him are going to deserve a fortune.
So I provided him 22,000 for his safety glasses From one set well, however, we got to remember this is the 1970s.
It’s not like today where a sports gamer will have a brand-new set of safety glasses each and every single day.
He used a set for a couple months prior to if they got scratched or something he would change them.
So, there’s really few of these sets out of there.
He’s through a great deal of them away.
So I provided 22,000 couple years of ages.
If the collectible market simply keeps the method it is for a couple more years, which I believe it might, I’ll get 50 or 60
And you have like an intriguing method to get it provided to you however, didn’t you?
Yeah, I informed him I provided him the 22,000 if he brought me to a Lakers video game, so That resembled, yeah, that’s certainly a container list thing, sitting 3rd row with Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the Lakers video game, is quite cool.
Did the Lakers win?
No.
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Then circling around back a bit, at your store and things we spoke about The opposite with all individuals being available in, I could not assist however see individuals simply having the bags and placing on the counter and, and speaking to use.
But would you have suggestions for individuals I need to state I’ll state 2 methods.
How can individuals not lose your time like since I go, hey, I’ve got to bring these in and someone’s like they’re unworthy anything.
How can somebody determine they have some
details box, fine, suggest, that remains in your head.
But however individuals simply do not understand anything.
I suggest, like I had actually a man been available in the store with like, we’re going to we shot with it the other day that he believed was this actually actually essential file, I believed it was definitely remarkable, I saw them go like it’s yeah, F word.
Xerox copy man.
[LAUGH]
No.
Do the very best research study you can on the web and sadly, that certainly does not make you a specialist on a great deal of things.
That so you would lack a program them since that’s a few of the most enjoyable parts of things, they’re not actually what
I’ve been doing this for 40 years.
So Seen almost whatever.
So we were talking backstage, or a few of us were speaking about you backstage and we resemble, what do not you understand?
It appears like you understand whatever.
And if you do not, you constantly have a specialist that you end up being a specialist in something.
Well, One of the important things my father taught me is the day you believe you understand whatever, you’re not gonna have the ability to find out anything, fine.
And I was likewise a truly ill kid.
There was times when I was a kid, there’d be times where I could not stroll for a couple weeks and things like that.
So my father’s in Vietnam, we weren’t making a great deal of cash.
So my mama would simply select me up books at the library.
And I check out a great deal of books.
And I keep in mind being 9 years of ages and informed my older bro, you must learn more books and enjoy less tv, and he punched me.
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Yeah, however being the geek made me abundant.
Yeah, well that assists, right?
Just, I continuously checked out and have my entire life.
I found out a great deal of odd unknown things.
Don’t ask me anything about like pop culture.
I suggest I’ve had like mega stars call me up and when I hang out I’m like actually who’s this man.
They’re gonna resemble huge offer.
[LAUGH] At house undoubtedly we’re including innovation program there’s a great deal of wise house things.
You stated you have some brand-new innovation however you likewise rely a fair bit on old innovation and you are off grid for a few of the year.
I’m for like 5 months a year.
I live up in the mountains off the grid.
I have a 1952 Caplin hydro turbine.
So I have my little tiny hoover dam that I.
That it’s pure mental retardation like setting up irreversible magnet generators and doing the diode loads and the rectifier get getting a charge controllers, the work and resistor pack so the turbines do not draw out and I need to attempt to go from Six stage windmill generators to correcting that to DC back to an inverter in the 3 stage rotary converters and there’s constantly an issue.
There’s never ever time whatever’s simply simply working ideal.
Okay, so prior to the program you’re walking a little bit of CES, have you seen anything that captured your eye or you resemble, that looks sort of cool.
There’s a great deal of inner we there resembled this 3d and there’s a great deal of odd things you’re constantly you understand, under the TELEVISION organisation so, the cams are simply remarkable.
I’d resemble I’m over the Nikon stand and they have a lens.
That’s if you do not actually consider f stops on an electronic camera.
Okay?
That should not exist.
It’s 0.9, F.95.
And the mathematics states it can’t go listed below one however they determined a method to do that.
[LAUGH]
But yeah, there resembles comparable like, Kubrick had actually purchased like a some outrageous something listed below one f stop lens to movie 2001 and they got it off like a satellite from NASA.
Yeah, I suggest you understand, it’s a. But this is a business items.
It’s not even a property.
I suggest it’s remarkable the things they have now.
I keep in mind in the 90s stating that Bill would never ever disappear since she would, by the laws of physics, you would never ever have the ability to take a look at that numerous pixels on a sensing unit.
Yeah, however they discovered a method around it and there’s constantly that Every year you see things remarkable.
And then 5 years later on you go remember what we believed that was remarkable.
[LAUGH] When I must fix prior to I went get on the line, it was in fact Barry Lyndon, he got this Zeiss lens that was utilized by NASA however it’s whatever.
He needed to get it from NASA we can go purchase it in the BestBuy.>>Yeah, you can simply go purchase it at BestBuy.
Now well that, I spoke to individuals at Nikon there.
They’re like enormous back order on it today, however it’s quite damn cool.
Was your wallet still complete when you left?
Well you where leaving the Nikon cubicle and things like this.
I might simply see you wishing to purchase all those lenses.
Yeah, it’s constantly amazing here.
It’s like innovation is excellent.
It’s much like.
Getting, you understand, simply developing quicker and faster so
And then you have actually been simple to speak about remaining in business for 40 years, what keeps you going
Well, the whole aspect of organisation with innovation, whatever is develop or pass away.
If I was running my organisation like I did 20, even 10 years earlier, I’d run out organisation.
You understand, never ever get contented What you may believe it’s silly your clients like, do what your clients like.
And the ball will fall, will fall and do not be contented.
If I had my [UNKNOWN].
Harrison guide to life.
It seems like constantly read and finding out to be much better.
Always develop my method to life and organisation and live off grid and have outrageous things I need to repair all the time.
I suggest to this day I still walk the pawn store and if the restrooms are filthy I go crazy.
Cuz you need to listen, develop, that’s what keeps an organisation going.
Okay, constantly be continue looking down the roadway since if you see among your line of product or something like that it appears to be going, it’s decreasing and you’re gonna recognize that you’re gonna need to recognize like this line of product is disappearing develop something else.
Do you believe that like likewise like, the reality that you’re still you resemble running a store and handling even ordinary things like that.
kinda assists.
You appear like a really simple individual.
Despite your popularity like do you believe that assists keep you simple?
I’m quite truthful person like being truthful.
It’s simply sort of like this the sincerity and staying in business.
If you rip someone off by 7 degrees of separation, everybody is going to state do not work with you.
You do?
People right?
Really excellent.
2 degrees of separation gets you a couple of more clients.
Don’t be excellent to your clients does not connect as far as being bad however like there’s a reason that the most effective pawn store in the United States, have a pawn store with over 100 workers plus all my other organisations and whatever like that.
But no Like I stated, simply you develop or pass away.
It’s 100% Darwinism.
I like that.
Okay, so the last concern I have is, among the greatest things at this program this year are collapsible screens.
We have collapsible phones where you’ll have a flat screen, so think of like an iPhone or Android phone having the ability to fold in half and not have a joint on it.
What do you consider that innovation?
And is that something you believe will be around for 50 years?
Later?
Let’s see if it captures on.
Remember 3D tvs were latest thing a couple of years earlier.
Yeah, we dealt with 3D Tvs.
It’s collapsible with whatever, however is it useful?
Absolutely, yeah.
I suggest, you got to fold it and put it in your pocket?
It appears like if it resembles a wallet, I might fit it smaller sized my pocket, however I would question wear and tear which’s the comic concern to have.
Yeah, I suggest like
You could fold it, however the number of times can you fold it?
Yeah, so it’s amusing you discussed so we got among these Samsung fold.
Folding phones are called the galaxy fold.
And we in fact ran it through among their makers and it didn’t rather reach the number.
They stated it would divide that method,
Give it a year or more, perhaps I’ll attempt it out.
Yeah,
Yeah, a bit like, it’s the stunning aspect of commercialism.
Yeah.
Adam Smith composed in 1776, to the hidden hand will figure it out.
[LAUGH] Well, that’s a fantastic location to stop.
I suggest, so thank you a lot for taking some time to talk with me and thank you a lot for needing to your store here today, it implied a lot more than you understand to me.