June 8, 2025 • 19 mins
With more auctions and action than ever before, hit series "Storage Wars" returns to A&E with an all new, exciting 10-episode season featuring fan-favorite characters. The thrill of the hunt and the battle for the most valuable locker is even more intense in these all-new expanded one-hour episodes. Series premiere kicks off on Saturday, June 7 at 9PM ET/PT delivering more drama, bigger stakes and even wilder finds!
"Storage Wars" features teams of bidders on the hunt for valuable abandoned and repossessed storage units and with only a few moments to glimpse inside, they must decide whether they've spotted trash or treasure that they can turn into big profits. Join the bidding frenzy as Dan and Laura Dotson take their place leading the auction as buyers compete to grab the best locker of the day. Brandi Passante, Dave Hester, Kenny Crossley, Ivy Calvin and his sons, Rene and Casey Nezhoda, Lisa Delarios, and Dusty Riach all return as buyers with one ultimate goal - to have their bid be the one to secure the win. It's a high stakes business where each locker possesses the unexpected and the teams will have to hone their skills to find the diamond in the rough. They're willing to risk it all in a bidding war, but will they hit the locker jackpot or be left sorting through piles of junk?
"Storage Wars" has garnered tremendous global success over the past 15 seasons, captivating audiences in 220 countries and territories across six continents.
"Storage Wars" is produced for A&E by Original Productions, a Fremantle company. Executive producers for Original Productions are Jeff Hasler, Brian Lovett, Jeff Bumgarner and Roman Mykytyn. Franklin Cumberbatch and Sean Gottlieb serve as executive producers for A&E.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
"Storage Wars" features teams of bidders on the hunt for valuable abandoned and repossessed storage units and with only a few moments to glimpse inside, they must decide whether they've spotted trash or treasure that they can turn into big profits. Join the bidding frenzy as Dan and Laura Dotson take their place leading the auction as buyers compete to grab the best locker of the day. Brandi Passante, Dave Hester, Kenny Crossley, Ivy Calvin and his sons, Rene and Casey Nezhoda, Lisa Delarios, and Dusty Riach all return as buyers with one ultimate goal - to have their bid be the one to secure the win. It's a high stakes business where each locker possesses the unexpected and the teams will have to hone their skills to find the diamond in the rough. They're willing to risk it all in a bidding war, but will they hit the locker jackpot or be left sorting through piles of junk?
"Storage Wars" has garnered tremendous global success over the past 15 seasons, captivating audiences in 220 countries and territories across six continents.
"Storage Wars" is produced for A&E by Original Productions, a Fremantle company. Executive producers for Original Productions are Jeff Hasler, Brian Lovett, Jeff Bumgarner and Roman Mykytyn. Franklin Cumberbatch and Sean Gottlieb serve as executive producers for A&E.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kenny.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Listen to that voice of yours, my God in heaven.
I thought it was great on television. When it's right here, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Like, whoa as I feel when you just finished eating
some Chinese food first thing in the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Dude, you're speak in my street. That's exactly what you're
supposed to do first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I had some some damn with the color shit lettuce wrap.
Manuse myself every little boy with the healthy shit.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bro, is that the only thing that you're doing that
that's healthy, Because I've really gotten into olives, souer kraut,
and tomatoes lately.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ooh, that shit sounds scary, Bro, that's too healthy. You
all right? You seed in the healthy our No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I just had this guy that that I work with,
and he says, Man, you got to get into the olives.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Olives break it down. They break it down, and then
you get addicted to the olives wad break down. It's
it's a it's a fatty food. In other words, it
gets in there and it gets rid of the fat
in your body. And Dude, I've gone from two o
seven to one two eating all.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm going to Costco when we get off the I'm
gonna get as big ass job.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's the one with the seeds in them.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, I
got no. I don't want to sit there and choke
on one of those things because I'll swallow that damn seed.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, Bro, that's some scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
What is it like for you to be a part
of the legacy of Storage Wars?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Man, it's a mind blowing thing. Bro. You know when
you was labeled at all.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In high school being a class clown and you never
change your personality, and then God reward you to be
on a TV show like Storage Wars, you know what
I mean. Like, it's crazy you go from class clown
to being an important part of somebody life. Because I
run into so many people on the streets, They're like, man,
(01:52):
you made me and my family laugh so hard.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yep. I'm like this by being myself, you know what
I mean. I'm like, Man, God is good, Man, God
this good.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I just love the way that you you work it though,
even you know, even though we are sitting there waiting
for those for those funny lines, the thing is, though,
is we still get to see your mind work on
this show and because I mean it really it's it's
a competition and it's about winning.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, you find I find myself doing like I've be
talking to myself. I said, you can't show too much
excitement because they're looking at you and they'll know if
you want that unit or not not. I go it's
done but tragic, but I know I want it because
if they find out I wanted ship, he's gonna breathe
that price up. So how you're gonna put them tariffs
on the Come on the back, your hands up, bro,
(02:38):
you don't want Kenny. I just hate to see you happy.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So is it like plain poker and Vigason?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh? Man, it's just gambling.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's like you never know, just like the flop machine,
you pulling it raising them damn you those up. You
never know what within those units. You know, Still you
have to scan the field because somebody they might know
more knowledge about that, i'll item than you, but they'll
go off and talk with their partner or something. So
you got to really pay attention. If you see a
(03:07):
lot of people whispering, it got something really valuable in that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So you get in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know, even when you have things that aren't of value.
There's got to be a way to sell the spots
off this leopard. There's got to be a way to
find a buyer because everything is worth something somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, and that's where Facebook marketplaces come in. Butter that
thing is everywhere. You get people from other countries asking
you about the item.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Must say, brother, you know how much it's gonna cost
to ship this shit?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, you might as well come and visit California take
it back with you to be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So now this season you get your work within a
state sell I mean, because I mean I've always wondered
what would it be like if you guys stood outside
a home. You have no idea what's in there, Who's
gonna buy it, and who's going to rent it out?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Man? That to me, that was my first time ever
doing state self.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And and I like watching movies, and the house look horned.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And sh.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was looking around, and Brandy was like, man, calm down,
I said, bro, look at that lady over there. Oh
my god, I said, our father who ought to have
a dust protect us all out here. But I ain't
never witnessed nothing like that. Man, These people buying the
guy who had the he had calls old cars looked
(04:27):
like mafia type cars. There was auction them things off
big old they were putting them in big lots and stuff.
And then all of a sudden, because Dusted the you know,
the other cast member he knew out to play the piano,
he started playing scary stuff because you know, I hanging
into all that. I walk around with Rosie beads on
around my neck, and he started paying usaid man.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Look at Dusty Bro. He always messing up the moves.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
God, I mean, I can't imagine. First of all, I'm
horrified of old things because I believe they come with ghosts.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah yeah, Bro, Me and you're in the same book, Bro.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And yet I sit inside the studio with ancient Native
American tools and it's it's like, okay, well, at least
I know who's in this room and who I'm walking with.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, they might they might be your angel do protect us? Bro?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So yeah, thank them every morning you go walk in
there and say thank you for protecting me for all things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Is their way. I could get a healthy cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now, I know people here in Charlotte that actually go
to these auctions. And then the first thing that they
do afterwards, they hit the flea market.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's the that's the jackpot over there. Dusty taught me
about the flea markets. Dusty everything Dusty goes. He goes
to the flea market the next day and set up
people glowing over there and just five stuff like he
may I said, in about four hours. He'll make about
five to eight hundred dollars in four hours.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Bro. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So how do you readjust with your emotions when you
hit a clinker, when when you're going, ah, crap, I
didn't get to get it this time. I mean you
you've got to stay straight and keep moving forward.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, because it ain't no sense of getting disappointing because
you did the same thing when you went to Vegas
trying to play the sop machine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're like, yeah, it ain't ain't no time for that
because the next one might be the jackpart.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you believe in the theory one man's trash is
another man's treasure.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There's a lot of trash, yeah, and some treasures, but
I believe in that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I believe in that, bro.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Some of the stuff people hut in them unit's like, man,
you could have easily put this in aftic bag.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And get it to the.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I've heard rumors things that don't make the actual show itself,
the things that people put in their food, bones, all
this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm like, even when they put man needs in the unit,
I get off, Bro, I'm like, you wasted the best
idem man ever created man needs.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Du mean who on this? You and I go over
there with whip them? Yeause me?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Because I mean, first of all, I mean, do we
know the real reason why people store these things away?
They just don't want it to the house. What what
is the real reason? Or did they live inside one
of these units?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
They'd be trying, though, they'd be trying. I know when
I was a property man, they was trying to live
in there. I had one guy. I was doing a
walk through to check make sure everything good. I see
the unit halfway open. There was a five by five.
This dude is hanging upside down in the unit like he.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
A bat wow, Like, get your hands out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Bro, I'm gonna call the corporate off and tell them
you're disturbing me and saying I'm gonna tell them that
you thank you a four hundred pounds bat big.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When you win the auction and you have to go
in there and you look at everything. Are you the
one that's stuck cleaning the room as well when it's
time to clear it out? Or is it that they
come in with their own team.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Nah, we got cleaned it out of ourselves. Oh, that's
all part about it. That's why you've seen me, you know,
buying like the medium lockers and all that, because I'm
by myself. I don't have nobody helping me, so I'm
gonna get something that I can control. Because if you
get one of them big old suckers, you're gonna what
they give you, like three days to clean it out,
You're gonna need more than that. You gotta be nice
(08:10):
to the manager to see if they give you some
other extra time.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you ever think about the families who lost the locker?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sometimes, but that tell you about family, because if you know,
if they know you in a situation, you mean, it
couldn't help you get a couple of dollars to be
that damn thing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Family is something bro.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Family, when you locate the diamond in the rough that
requires confidence and gut reaction, how how do you grow
from there? Like when you say, I mean, you get
a big one this time around, and the next one
could be the bad one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well that's that's a flip of the coin. Sometimes it's
like it is what it is. But when you do
get that big one, shit, you wind up being doing
cart wheels on the freeware.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You be happy there, bro, you'd be real happy. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wow, What are you learning about yourself with this?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Everything ain't serious all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You can be yourself and put a smile on by
saying the craziest thing and saying the smile and making
somebody laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I know they'd be hitting rewind on the on the.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Device and say what Kenny said, and then they realized
what I said, they bust up laughing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But to smile on somebody's face, I'm doing God's work, bro,
because I gotta get to heaven.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Because I knew they got a big old hamburger in the.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Sky with that, with that street paved with gold, we
got a burger up there for us as well.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Rights indeed, Bro, and some olives you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Got please do not move. There's more with Kenny Crossley
coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming back to my
conversation with Kenny Crossley from storage wars. When you can't
sell the merchandise, what do you do with it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know what you reposted?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You post it and they might hit some some other
algorithm or something and then next thing, you know, because
like I've reposted a lot on Facebook marketplace, you can
repost things like if it don't sell, they actually do
you want to delete or repose?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I repose about the third time. It'll be gone.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Very interesting because I mean I I have I'm a
professional DJ, and and all the equipment that I've collected
over the years, and people look at me now saying
I don't want that stuff. That's not modern day technology,
and yet the stuff still works, it's in great shape,
and it's like, how do you dump this stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Super Facebook marketplace?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
As everything go through that that Mark Zukemburger, that's his
name is Zuckenberger. Yeah, yeah, why he does some good
last name is Burger.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is this a skill or is it luck of the draw?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
To me?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
A think is part skill. I say it's fifty to fifty, bro,
because you really got it in that five minutes by
looking at their unit. You got to see something that
you can really flip real quick and hopefully in the
back they got more of that, because all you've seen
has one bit of it, one percent of it and.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It shit, yeah, I said it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Is it is it better to have the antiques or
is it something or where's the value in today's stuff
or is there such a thing as this one's going
to get bigger because it is this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
In that five minutes you're looking at their unit, and
by time they getting ready to prepare to do that,
ax to be on that damn phone and do some
research on that item you've seen, and you can make
a quick decision there, you know, because if it's selling
us at a higher price, shit, yeah, I'll hold on
to for a couple of I see about about another
(11:54):
six a year and see what the you know what
the outcome is gonna be on it. But it's just
like the market ups and down, ups, and you never
know what people are looking for.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was going to ask you about that because I
collect when when Michael Jordan went to the Birmingham Barons,
I collected every one of his baseball cards, not basketball
baseball cards. And I sit there and I tell my
wife all the time, this is really worth a lot.
And she goes, who's gonna buy it? And you've got
to hit that same wall that I do. Who's gonna
buy it?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'm gonna tell you not put it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You got them in sleeves, they're protected one in safes.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Man, you're sitting on the gold mine. Bro, I'm telling
you a sitting on a gold mine.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You get You know who's into the cards? Now, who's
in Renee? Renee does these cards?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Man, he does football, baseball, basketball, all that stuff. You
present that to Renick because he does that whatnot thing? Yeah,
go online and tell him what you have.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He might buy it from you.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow wow Yeah, because because I mean I was told
back in the nineteen eighties, if you if you really
want to support your future, buy collectibles and so of
all things. Dude, I started collecting the classic barbies and
those things are locked up and put away as well.
We don't see them. It's the investment.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And you put that thing on online with the eBay,
that's the ebit because Dusty he make a killing on eBay.
That's what Dusty said. All this stuff on ebait he
don't do with the Facebook marketplace. But there's somebody looking
for them. Damn barbies, man, Bobby everything, Bobby and the hell.
You can't even sit on the chair because it's plastic
Barbie chair.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Don't sit there, Sorry, don't sit there.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What would you do if they opened up a storage
unit and there were a bunch of beanie babies in there?
Would you cringe a region? Or would you figure out
a way to sell those things?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you know what, Bro, I didn't even know beanie
babies is all all I knew.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They came with the McDonald's Happy Meal, and I was
eating all them damn happy meal without throwing the beanie
babies away. But I found the unit with beanie babies
and it was on the episode Bro I had, man,
this lady said, you done hit the jackpipe because there
was one beanie baby, a purple one that was princessant.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Die. That's it, bro, I love that lady. Man, I
still got that one. I ain't give it. I loved her.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I loved that woman, loved I was. I thought I
was gonna be in the family because if she would
have met me, she said, I loved the Kenny Kenny
new I would have been the Prince Kenny all hamburgers
and mayonnaise for everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So away from storage, where wars are you doing anything
in the comedy world.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, everybody told me that should get masks on that stage.
Even one of my best friends, Bill Birr. Yes, me
and Bill Bird best friends.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Bro he been because I was the bouncer at the
Lab Factor in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Every like because they only work at night, so in
a daytime they all come to my apartment. Him, Dane Cook,
Bob All all of them used to be at my house.
George Lopez because I had a music studio in my
house and I saw them and they put them on
skits and uh on the album and stuff. But Bill
told me you should have had your ass on this stage,
(15:14):
but your head crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Thank you Bill, you being at that comedy club. I
mean that that that place has so much rich history.
You had to have felt things that come from those walls.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Man, because the building at their last factor Gratuo Mars
owned that building.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What wow.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, it goes to Gratuo Mars who was always there.
And I'm like, man, let me get my ass. That's
when I started wearing rosary bees in neck. I don't
need all that crazy stuff from me.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Did you ever bump up with Mark Marron around there?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Nah? No, Mark, Wow? But just unfel the Wayne and brothers,
Oh yeah, oh my god, where they see me now
they'll be go. Man, I would have known you to
be on TV Bro Yo, crazy bro.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And I mean like even Chris Rock, all of them,
they all recognize my ass.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Not just said Kenny your ass, crazy bro. You' the
starter of the laugh factors.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Everybody with you to do you wind up being one
of the biggest stores.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Man, what is next after Storage Wars?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Shit?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I might try to stand up. I might do the
stand up because I got a lot of stories to
tell brother from elementary school all the way up to now,
you know it. Might get on that stage and send
me a few jokes and do a little something. But yeah, bro,
my life has been very interesting. But being on Storage Wars,
(16:46):
I want to thank any and Original Productions for giving
me the opportunity let me be myself and put smiles
on people face.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You know. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, So do you get to go into the editing
rooms and stuff like that, because I mean, I bet
you there's things that you say that kind of edge
up to that line and they say, I don't know, Kenny,
it was a good line. We all laughing. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, they said, can you rephrase that? That said? They
be laughing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I ain't never seen a production with tears in their
eyes because they say, Man, we got so much material
on you. We could do it, Kenny, Kenny, do it
little series.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Bro, You've seen so much stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'm like, Man, that's crazy, brother when you get f
to school because you're making the class laughing and ignoring
what the teacher says, brother, not to be in people favorites.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Man, that's crazy. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
See, I've always thought they should teach comedy in school
because that's character, and from character comes personality and confidence.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yes, indeed, man, And I know like my brothers, I
think they're way funny.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
To me.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
They be coming up with the craziest stuff, Like we
talk to teach other every time an episode of Stories
will come on.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
They said, Bro, why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They beat like they're my critics, and then next thing
you know, they're saying everything I'm saying. Now you know
what I mean, but brothers of my worst critics. But
it's in a good way.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Where can people go to find out more about everything
that you're doing, Kenny.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Sure, they going to my Instagram at Kenny Underscore Crossley
and then they could go to my Spotify because I
write music. I'm under the artist named Dual Persona and yeah, Bro,
I would do that gothic music and I even write
stuff about the storage.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I write music about the storage. Bro.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I love where your heart is when you come to
our comedy zone here and Charlotte, when you make it
to that big stage, we got to get together and
have some some burgers from Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, and the whole jaw olive because I think we
could have a big, beautiful conversation well there with some
mayonnaise and all that.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, Kenny, thank you sir, and you have a beautiful
day and made a large shine on you and your hours.
Kenny.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Listen to that voice of yours, my God in heaven.
I thought it was great on television. When it's right here, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Like, whoa as I feel when you just finished eating
some Chinese food first thing in the moment.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Dude, you're speak in my street. That's exactly what you're
supposed to do first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I had some some damn with the color shit lettuce wrap.
Manuse myself every little boy with the healthy shit.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bro, is that the only thing that you're doing that
that's healthy, Because I've really gotten into olives, souer kraut,
and tomatoes lately.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Ooh, that shit sounds scary, Bro, that's too healthy. You
all right? You seed in the healthy our No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I just had this guy that that I work with,
and he says, Man, you got to get into the olives.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Olives break it down. They break it down, and then
you get addicted to the olives wad break down. It's
it's a it's a fatty food. In other words, it
gets in there and it gets rid of the fat
in your body. And Dude, I've gone from two o
seven to one two eating all.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'm going to Costco when we get off the I'm
gonna get as big ass job.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's the one with the seeds in them.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no, I
got no. I don't want to sit there and choke
on one of those things because I'll swallow that damn seed.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, Bro, that's some scary stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
What is it like for you to be a part
of the legacy of Storage Wars?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Man, it's a mind blowing thing. Bro. You know when
you was labeled at all.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In high school being a class clown and you never
change your personality, and then God reward you to be
on a TV show like Storage Wars, you know what
I mean. Like, it's crazy you go from class clown
to being an important part of somebody life. Because I
run into so many people on the streets, They're like, man,
(01:52):
you made me and my family laugh so hard.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yep. I'm like this by being myself, you know what
I mean. I'm like, Man, God is good, Man, God
this good.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I just love the way that you you work it though,
even you know, even though we are sitting there waiting
for those for those funny lines, the thing is, though,
is we still get to see your mind work on
this show and because I mean it really it's it's
a competition and it's about winning.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, you find I find myself doing like I've be
talking to myself. I said, you can't show too much
excitement because they're looking at you and they'll know if
you want that unit or not not. I go it's
done but tragic, but I know I want it because
if they find out I wanted ship, he's gonna breathe
that price up. So how you're gonna put them tariffs
on the Come on the back, your hands up, bro,
(02:38):
you don't want Kenny. I just hate to see you happy.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So is it like plain poker and Vigason?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Oh? Man, it's just gambling.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's like you never know, just like the flop machine,
you pulling it raising them damn you those up. You
never know what within those units. You know, Still you
have to scan the field because somebody they might know
more knowledge about that, i'll item than you, but they'll
go off and talk with their partner or something. So
you got to really pay attention. If you see a
(03:07):
lot of people whispering, it got something really valuable in that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So you get in the game.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You know, even when you have things that aren't of value.
There's got to be a way to sell the spots
off this leopard. There's got to be a way to
find a buyer because everything is worth something somewhere.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, and that's where Facebook marketplaces come in. Butter that
thing is everywhere. You get people from other countries asking
you about the item.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Must say, brother, you know how much it's gonna cost
to ship this shit?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, you might as well come and visit California take
it back with you to be cheaper.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So now this season you get your work within a
state sell I mean, because I mean I've always wondered
what would it be like if you guys stood outside
a home. You have no idea what's in there, Who's
gonna buy it, and who's going to rent it out?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Man? That to me, that was my first time ever
doing state self.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And and I like watching movies, and the house look horned.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And sh.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was looking around, and Brandy was like, man, calm down,
I said, bro, look at that lady over there. Oh
my god, I said, our father who ought to have
a dust protect us all out here. But I ain't
never witnessed nothing like that. Man, These people buying the
guy who had the he had calls old cars looked
(04:27):
like mafia type cars. There was auction them things off
big old they were putting them in big lots and stuff.
And then all of a sudden, because Dusted the you know,
the other cast member he knew out to play the piano,
he started playing scary stuff because you know, I hanging
into all that. I walk around with Rosie beads on
around my neck, and he started paying usaid man.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Look at Dusty Bro. He always messing up the moves.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
God, I mean, I can't imagine. First of all, I'm
horrified of old things because I believe they come with ghosts.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah yeah, Bro, Me and you're in the same book, Bro.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And yet I sit inside the studio with ancient Native
American tools and it's it's like, okay, well, at least
I know who's in this room and who I'm walking with.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, they might they might be your angel do protect us? Bro?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So yeah, thank them every morning you go walk in
there and say thank you for protecting me for all things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Is their way. I could get a healthy cheeseburger.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now, I know people here in Charlotte that actually go
to these auctions. And then the first thing that they
do afterwards, they hit the flea market.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That's the that's the jackpot over there. Dusty taught me
about the flea markets. Dusty everything Dusty goes. He goes
to the flea market the next day and set up
people glowing over there and just five stuff like he
may I said, in about four hours. He'll make about
five to eight hundred dollars in four hours.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Bro. Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So how do you readjust with your emotions when you
hit a clinker, when when you're going, ah, crap, I
didn't get to get it this time. I mean you
you've got to stay straight and keep moving forward.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yeah, because it ain't no sense of getting disappointing because
you did the same thing when you went to Vegas
trying to play the sop machine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're like, yeah, it ain't ain't no time for that
because the next one might be the jackpart.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Do you believe in the theory one man's trash is
another man's treasure.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
There's a lot of trash, yeah, and some treasures, but
I believe in that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I believe in that, bro.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Some of the stuff people hut in them unit's like, man,
you could have easily put this in aftic bag.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And get it to the.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I've heard rumors things that don't make the actual show itself,
the things that people put in their food, bones, all
this other stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I'm like, even when they put man needs in the unit,
I get off, Bro, I'm like, you wasted the best
idem man ever created man needs.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Du mean who on this? You and I go over
there with whip them? Yeause me?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Because I mean, first of all, I mean, do we
know the real reason why people store these things away?
They just don't want it to the house. What what
is the real reason? Or did they live inside one
of these units?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
They'd be trying, though, they'd be trying. I know when
I was a property man, they was trying to live
in there. I had one guy. I was doing a
walk through to check make sure everything good. I see
the unit halfway open. There was a five by five.
This dude is hanging upside down in the unit like he.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
A bat wow, Like, get your hands out of here.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Bro, I'm gonna call the corporate off and tell them
you're disturbing me and saying I'm gonna tell them that
you thank you a four hundred pounds bat big.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When you win the auction and you have to go
in there and you look at everything. Are you the
one that's stuck cleaning the room as well when it's
time to clear it out? Or is it that they
come in with their own team.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Nah, we got cleaned it out of ourselves. Oh, that's
all part about it. That's why you've seen me, you know,
buying like the medium lockers and all that, because I'm
by myself. I don't have nobody helping me, so I'm
gonna get something that I can control. Because if you
get one of them big old suckers, you're gonna what
they give you, like three days to clean it out,
You're gonna need more than that. You gotta be nice
(08:10):
to the manager to see if they give you some
other extra time.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you ever think about the families who lost the locker?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Sometimes, but that tell you about family, because if you know,
if they know you in a situation, you mean, it
couldn't help you get a couple of dollars to be
that damn thing.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Family is something bro.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Family, when you locate the diamond in the rough that
requires confidence and gut reaction, how how do you grow
from there? Like when you say, I mean, you get
a big one this time around, and the next one
could be the bad one.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well that's that's a flip of the coin. Sometimes it's
like it is what it is. But when you do
get that big one, shit, you wind up being doing
cart wheels on the freeware.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You be happy there, bro, you'd be real happy. Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Wow, What are you learning about yourself with this?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Everything ain't serious all the time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
You can be yourself and put a smile on by
saying the craziest thing and saying the smile and making
somebody laugh.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
And I know they'd be hitting rewind on the on the.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Device and say what Kenny said, and then they realized
what I said, they bust up laughing.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Man.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But to smile on somebody's face, I'm doing God's work, bro,
because I gotta get to heaven.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Because I knew they got a big old hamburger in the.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Sky with that, with that street paved with gold, we
got a burger up there for us as well.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Rights indeed, Bro, and some olives you.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Got please do not move. There's more with Kenny Crossley
coming up next. Hey, thanks for coming back to my
conversation with Kenny Crossley from storage wars. When you can't
sell the merchandise, what do you do with it?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
You know what you reposted?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
You post it and they might hit some some other
algorithm or something and then next thing, you know, because
like I've reposted a lot on Facebook marketplace, you can
repost things like if it don't sell, they actually do
you want to delete or repose?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But I repose about the third time. It'll be gone.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Very interesting because I mean I I have I'm a
professional DJ, and and all the equipment that I've collected
over the years, and people look at me now saying
I don't want that stuff. That's not modern day technology,
and yet the stuff still works, it's in great shape,
and it's like, how do you dump this stuff?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Super Facebook marketplace?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
As everything go through that that Mark Zukemburger, that's his
name is Zuckenberger. Yeah, yeah, why he does some good
last name is Burger.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is this a skill or is it luck of the draw?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
To me?
Speaker 3 (10:59):
A think is part skill. I say it's fifty to fifty, bro,
because you really got it in that five minutes by
looking at their unit. You got to see something that
you can really flip real quick and hopefully in the
back they got more of that, because all you've seen
has one bit of it, one percent of it and.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
It shit, yeah, I said it's fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Is it is it better to have the antiques or
is it something or where's the value in today's stuff
or is there such a thing as this one's going
to get bigger because it is this.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
In that five minutes you're looking at their unit, and
by time they getting ready to prepare to do that,
ax to be on that damn phone and do some
research on that item you've seen, and you can make
a quick decision there, you know, because if it's selling
us at a higher price, shit, yeah, I'll hold on
to for a couple of I see about about another
(11:54):
six a year and see what the you know what
the outcome is gonna be on it. But it's just
like the market ups and down, ups, and you never
know what people are looking for.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I was going to ask you about that because I
collect when when Michael Jordan went to the Birmingham Barons,
I collected every one of his baseball cards, not basketball
baseball cards. And I sit there and I tell my
wife all the time, this is really worth a lot.
And she goes, who's gonna buy it? And you've got
to hit that same wall that I do. Who's gonna
buy it?
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I'm gonna tell you not put it.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You got them in sleeves, they're protected one in safes.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Man, you're sitting on the gold mine. Bro, I'm telling
you a sitting on a gold mine.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You get You know who's into the cards? Now, who's
in Renee? Renee does these cards?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Man, he does football, baseball, basketball, all that stuff. You
present that to Renick because he does that whatnot thing? Yeah,
go online and tell him what you have.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He might buy it from you.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Wow wow Yeah, because because I mean I was told
back in the nineteen eighties, if you if you really
want to support your future, buy collectibles and so of
all things. Dude, I started collecting the classic barbies and
those things are locked up and put away as well.
We don't see them. It's the investment.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And you put that thing on online with the eBay,
that's the ebit because Dusty he make a killing on eBay.
That's what Dusty said. All this stuff on ebait he
don't do with the Facebook marketplace. But there's somebody looking
for them. Damn barbies, man, Bobby everything, Bobby and the hell.
You can't even sit on the chair because it's plastic
Barbie chair.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Don't sit there, Sorry, don't sit there.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
What would you do if they opened up a storage
unit and there were a bunch of beanie babies in there?
Would you cringe a region? Or would you figure out
a way to sell those things?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you know what, Bro, I didn't even know beanie
babies is all all I knew.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They came with the McDonald's Happy Meal, and I was
eating all them damn happy meal without throwing the beanie
babies away. But I found the unit with beanie babies
and it was on the episode Bro I had, man,
this lady said, you done hit the jackpipe because there
was one beanie baby, a purple one that was princessant.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Die. That's it, bro, I love that lady. Man, I
still got that one. I ain't give it. I loved her.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I loved that woman, loved I was. I thought I
was gonna be in the family because if she would
have met me, she said, I loved the Kenny Kenny
new I would have been the Prince Kenny all hamburgers
and mayonnaise for everyone.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So away from storage, where wars are you doing anything
in the comedy world.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, everybody told me that should get masks on that stage.
Even one of my best friends, Bill Birr. Yes, me
and Bill Bird best friends.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Bro he been because I was the bouncer at the
Lab Factor in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Every like because they only work at night, so in
a daytime they all come to my apartment. Him, Dane Cook,
Bob All all of them used to be at my house.
George Lopez because I had a music studio in my
house and I saw them and they put them on
skits and uh on the album and stuff. But Bill
told me you should have had your ass on this stage,
(15:14):
but your head crazy.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Thank you Bill, you being at that comedy club. I
mean that that that place has so much rich history.
You had to have felt things that come from those walls.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Man, because the building at their last factor Gratuo Mars
owned that building.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What wow.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, it goes to Gratuo Mars who was always there.
And I'm like, man, let me get my ass. That's
when I started wearing rosary bees in neck. I don't
need all that crazy stuff from me.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Did you ever bump up with Mark Marron around there?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Nah? No, Mark, Wow? But just unfel the Wayne and brothers,
Oh yeah, oh my god, where they see me now
they'll be go. Man, I would have known you to
be on TV Bro Yo, crazy bro.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
And I mean like even Chris Rock, all of them,
they all recognize my ass.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Not just said Kenny your ass, crazy bro. You' the
starter of the laugh factors.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Everybody with you to do you wind up being one
of the biggest stores.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Man, what is next after Storage Wars?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Shit?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I might try to stand up. I might do the
stand up because I got a lot of stories to
tell brother from elementary school all the way up to now,
you know it. Might get on that stage and send
me a few jokes and do a little something. But yeah, bro,
my life has been very interesting. But being on Storage Wars,
(16:46):
I want to thank any and Original Productions for giving
me the opportunity let me be myself and put smiles
on people face.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
You know. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, So do you get to go into the editing
rooms and stuff like that, because I mean, I bet
you there's things that you say that kind of edge
up to that line and they say, I don't know, Kenny,
it was a good line. We all laughing. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, they said, can you rephrase that? That said? They
be laughing.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I ain't never seen a production with tears in their
eyes because they say, Man, we got so much material
on you. We could do it, Kenny, Kenny, do it
little series.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Bro, You've seen so much stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'm like, Man, that's crazy, brother when you get f
to school because you're making the class laughing and ignoring
what the teacher says, brother, not to be in people favorites.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Man, that's crazy. Man.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
See, I've always thought they should teach comedy in school
because that's character, and from character comes personality and confidence.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yes, indeed, man, And I know like my brothers, I
think they're way funny.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
To me.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
They be coming up with the craziest stuff, Like we
talk to teach other every time an episode of Stories
will come on.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
They said, Bro, why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They beat like they're my critics, and then next thing
you know, they're saying everything I'm saying. Now you know
what I mean, but brothers of my worst critics. But
it's in a good way.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Where can people go to find out more about everything
that you're doing, Kenny.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Sure, they going to my Instagram at Kenny Underscore Crossley
and then they could go to my Spotify because I
write music. I'm under the artist named Dual Persona and yeah, Bro,
I would do that gothic music and I even write
stuff about the storage.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I write music about the storage. Bro.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I love where your heart is when you come to
our comedy zone here and Charlotte, when you make it
to that big stage, we got to get together and
have some some burgers from Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, and the whole jaw olive because I think we
could have a big, beautiful conversation well there with some
mayonnaise and all that.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Will you be brilliant today?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Okay, Kenny, thank you sir, and you have a beautiful
day and made a large shine on you and your hours.
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