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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;whopper64, post: 4850479, member: 101364&quot;]Hold onto your hats, ladies and gentlemen:&nbsp; About 4 years ago, we were visiting Las Vegas and decided to check out the Pawn Stars shop.&nbsp; As we were browsing, they notified us that they were closing a little early to shoot an episode.&nbsp; My wife&#039;s niece (an attractive 40 yr old) was asked to be part of the &quot;milling crowd&quot; during the taping.&nbsp; She talked them into allowing her mother, my wife and I to be part of that crowd.&nbsp; They promptly took us into the &quot;secret&quot; duplicate room where Chumley would be featured.&nbsp; They say Chumley is smarter than he looks, I say not by much.&nbsp; It took him about 15 minutes to memorize two lines and then he adlibbed anyhow.&nbsp; We were told to mill around and not to stop or look at the camera. Right after the taping, we were told not to divulge the &quot;secret&quot; room to anyone, and that the episode would be aired &quot;in the future&quot;, and they couldn&#039;t (or wouldn&#039;t) give us an exact date.&nbsp; The kicker was that the individual who was trying to pawn the object to Chumley came over and talked to us as we were leaving.&nbsp; It seems he was a paid actor who had quite a few gigs with the Pawn Shop over the years.&nbsp; He said it was normal to use paid actors rather than the real people who actually owned the articles and presented them originally.&nbsp; Talk about a burst bubble!&nbsp; Nothing was real, except for Chumley&#039;s ineptness.&nbsp; And their prices on slabbed coins were about twice market price.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got to give Rick credit, quite a showman who turned a so-so business into a hot made-for-TV product.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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