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Where do they find these people
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Same with with Storage Wars. Producers bought storage lockers and filled them with expensive antiques and then had fake bidding competitions on their own lockers.
Really? That sounds really shifty. It's one thing to only show the big hits and not the 100 lockers it took to find a big hit, but to just straight up fake it goes beyond reality TV. At that point it's just a fake sitcom, not reality TV.
Thats always been their method. The "Real world" would intentionally cast the most insane people to live together, then goad them to fight or fuck.
Literally been rigging the "reality" since day 1.
Right, but that's still capturing the responses of insane people who have been goaded. It would quite different for the director to walk into a room of calm people and say "Johnny, punch Jose in the face!".
When the prompt is "Johny, dont you want to punch Jose in the face?!" from the director, there isn't really a difference.
"Won't anyone rid me of this meddlesome priest" is just "someone kill this guy" with extra steps.
I mean think about it. You could probably do 3 lockers a week for a year and not find anything valuable. Most people don’t keep Jackson Pollock paintings in some rundown storage locker.
Idk, it seems plausible to me. Why would anyone pay hundreds of dollars per month to store junk? Then they die, or end up in jail, or whatever, and next of kin doesn't know about the locker, and bammo! You just bought a dirt bike for $300! I think it probably was an okay way to spend a weekend before the shows led to everyone going to the auctions and driving the prices of a locker up. But you really do need an eBay store, or a physical thrift store, because it's not easy to sell 20 old toaster ovens, and a used suit.
Some people are just really weird, I used to work for a real estate company that has really big storage buildings for rent, they're designed for like storing rvs in the off season. Rent was something like 1000 bucks a month. One guy rented 3 of those lockers year round literally just to store Santas. Like life size Santa statutes and shit. Dude paid 3k a month for that.
They must have been for a business that rents out Santas or something.
Had a falling out with a roommate and he decided to dump my stuff in a storage locker. Time I had hunted it down it had already been raided. The storage locker people told me all those shows changed everything for them.
Problem is that the “big hit” lockers are months to years apart in reality. That makes for difficult tv show production when it’s a bunch of just barely profitable lockers and then a hit once a year for good money. That doesn’t make exciting television
They used to have real biddings and just throw in fake items for excitement (like antique shows) but people were starting to recognize the characters
Or that’s how the story goes