November 13, 2025 • 10 mins
Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller talk funny about pawn shop shows like Pawn Stars and Hard Core Pawn, how a store works, a series Mark is binging, Tabitha Takes Over, what hair salon strategy can teach us, and why hair salons are better than some online therapy sites. Brought to you by Nagoyaradio.com, Nagoyacomedy.com, and stand up comic Mark Bailey.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Talk Funny, a podcast by Mark Bailey and other
comics from all over. We ended up in Japan because
we had already solved all of our problems in our
home countries and are now here to help you solve yours.
Lucky you to Talk Funny podcast from Nicoy Radio dot
com and Nigoia Comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here's Mark Bailey, Marks Bay.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mark Bully, Mike Miller and Talk Funny. You're aware of
the hugely successful reality show Pawn Stars. Yes, yeah, and
that's fun to watch. And Rick is is fair. He say,
I don't know much about this guitar. Let's get somebody in.
Expert will say this guitar is worth sixty thousand dollars,
and so Rick will go, so what do you want
for it? To the seller and he goes, sixty thousand. Yeah,
(00:42):
see the lights, see these people walking around. I pay them.
I'm not giving you sixty thousand. That's what a customer
will pay. The expert is just actually straight exactly what
it's worth. He has no stake in it. You know.
The seller says I want sixty thousand because it's worth
sixty thousand, and the owner has to explain, well, I
could give you like what or you know, forty five
thousand top dollar because you see the lights who plays
(01:06):
the letter bill? I go, yeah, And I have to wait.
I have to keep this guitar here, safe and drum.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's not gonna be sold tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's gonna be sold probably in two years. And I
got to have people that dust it off. And it
costs money. And if I could sell it tomorrow, I
could probably give you a higher price. But I don't
know when I'm gonna sell it. That's why business works. Yeah,
there's another one, and I don't want to throw my
own tribe under the bus. What do I call them?
We'll call them Cherokee. They're kind of Cherokee. I didn't know,
(01:35):
none of your business what tribe I'm in. Anyway, this
one is off the charts, and it's called hardcore Pawn
I swear. That's what the name is, hardcore pond I swear.
And it's run by my tribe. None of your business,
and and they're just in your face. Yeah, And in
(01:55):
my opinion, I could see how people could watch this.
It's very popular show. But they're kind of rude.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's a hard negotiator type. I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He's got a black leather jacket. Uh yeah, and he
kind of rude. The guy will come in and say,
you know, my mom worked for Elvis and this is
the typewriter that she used for it. It's kind of cinema,
you know. And it's collector's item because Elvis only had
one secretary with one typewriter. This is the only typewriter
that Elvis's letters were written on. I've got documentation. So
(02:25):
how much did you want for this? And they're in Detroit,
by the way, They're in Detroit, which is a lovely
city with lovely people. They don't think anybody owes them
anything to come in and go, I need two hundred dollars,
but I could give you fifty. I need two hundred, crack.
So what would you take for this typewriter, this unique
(02:46):
historical typewriter. Well, I was hoping to get five thousand
dollars for it. That's not doesn't sound like a bad
price to me.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
For history for a collectible.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, but for this guy, the owner is like five
thousand dollars. No lera. So that's part of the garat
sale mentality. First of all, just cut down whatever Mike
brings in it's not worth what he thinks it is.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then you find every flaw in it. Yeah, oh yeah,
but look there's this scratch here.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
But it's old. Yeah, because his health is we don't
even use typewriters in the word. That's why history say
five thousand, Oh god, where am I gonna five five dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh god, I've only got a major TV show. Where
am I gonna get that money?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Five thousand dollars US dollars? You talk at Canadian dollars,
no US dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Does he go into like a spiel about how his
son's going to university or something. My son he's in
that second year university. I gotta listen.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm I'm taking medication. I'm not feeling well. I can't
five thousand dollars. And then they say, well, this is
what I think is rude. They go, all right, so
what would you really take? They do it every time.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's kind of rude.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I just said five thousand. Did you hear when
I said five thousand? Yeah? But I mean come on, yeah,
but I mean come on, would you take? But three thousand,
three thousand? It's old. I doubt it even works anymore.
We don't use these. I don't think I could sell
this and only a museum.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what you could do the Smithsonium would Yes,
you could make it. You could make a great video
of him doing the appraisal when the guy comes in,
and then doing the sales pitch when he's selling it. Oh,
this was by Elvis' exactly once. This is one of
his only typewriter.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I watched all the episodes. That's exactly what they do.
Because he turned it over. I think he paid two
thousand for it. He turned it over. The next day
guy comes in, he goes, I'm looking for historical piece.
Do you have the typewriter that Elvis is secretary news?
And yeah, this big power point you know, oh this
is one of a kind. And he sold it for
(04:48):
like sixteen thousand. But he's like, you know, listen, you're
in the pawn business. You're the Anthony Robbins. You pray
on desperate people, yeah, with no money and no hope,
and you give them a dollar for the shirt on
their back, which is worth probably thirty dollars, and then
you sell that Effne's shirt for fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Which is why I'm never a fan of like Arbitragh
based businesses, because that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Basically, it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Basically whatever you can get. You know, whatever you can get, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They're charging you for storage for when they can sell it.
It's not my problem. You bought it for me. You
bought this guitar for me. I don't own it anymore.
I don't care if you have it for a hundred years.
But it's worth this. You know that. And you have
the Internet. You can look it up. So I want
to talk about one more reality show. I'm addicted to those.
There's one called Tabout The takes Over. Are you familiar
(05:40):
with this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Lady who renovates salons, hair salons.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh okay, so it's like salon clinic.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, it's like uh bar Chef Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Cheframs and then there's the other one bar Bar Bar Rescue.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, and then there's the original Chef Ramsey. She's doing this.
It's very entertaining. Let me tell you, it's fabulous. Mike.
I'm the more I watch this, the more I'm noticing
color and I noticed hairstyles. It will really change to you, Mike.
I'm hoping you watch it soon. My son in Law
is a hair salon guy in Japan, and the stereotype
(06:14):
in Japan is not the same as in the US.
In the US, stereotype is fabulous if you're a male. Right,
it's a stereotype, but it doesn't mean it's true. You
could just be smart, you could have a good eye. Yeah,
it could be a good business.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, you know who cut hair. Danny Devio started by
he talked about that on a podcast once.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But in Japan, I don't want to disparage the hairstylists here.
That stereotype is not true. So you know, if your
daughter's marrying a hairstylist, he'll be fine. If he owns it,
Gonna make a lot of money, So I have no
problem with that. And he's straight. They're all straight. As
far as I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They worked really hard because I dated a hairstylist once
and she had her own salon, which was what you want.
But a lot of those hair a lot of those
fancy salons, the hairstylists are paying rent. They rent their seat,
so they've got to make money or they're gonna because
they're gonna have to pay the owner of the salon
either way, So it can be really long hours and
(07:11):
really not not the most fun thing to do if
you're working for one of these high pressure salons.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, because you're taking up you're taking up a chair,
a station.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Kind of like a sales more like sales like as
commission made booth.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You're taking up a station of equipment and the scissors
and the blow dryer on. Everything is supplied to you.
You've got to turn out. You got to turn you know,
you've got.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
To develop a clientele.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's like you know, yeah, you've got to turn over
a clientele, and you got to keep them satisfied and
keep them coming back.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And a lot of it is being having good social skills.
It's not just about cutting the hair. You've got to
be able to talk to your customers, right. Yeah, Like
a lot of women are like I only go to
this hairstylist because she knows me and I can talk
to her about everything, and you know, it's like it's
almost like therapy for for women.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
A lot of women it is.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It's like cheap therapy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You just go get your I mean for compared to
what regular therapy would cost you when you're not with
better help, you know, like we're not a sponsor doesn't
sponsor this show.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But yeah, it's yeah, it is because my mom was
like eighty four and she still goes to the salon. Yeah, yeah,
why mom, you're not gonna be on the magazine covert.
It's like, you know, when she'll talk, it's like, yeah,
but my daughter wants a dog, and then her husband
doesn't want a dog, but I think a dog is
good for a boy. Yeah, you're right, that'll be that'll
(08:27):
be seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and they're not going to disagree with you, right,
they're gonna be. Yeah, you're right. You should tell him that,
you know, when you should tell him. It's like AI. No,
these AI chatbots, right, they always tell you what you
want to hear.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You should tell your husband this and then come back
in three weeks and I'll just refresh your I'll just
freshen you up eight weeks. I am not seventy dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I was reading this weird article about AI and how
people it's breaking up marriages because the woman or the
man will be talking to.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The AI, and that's the spouse to leave the room.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So the win arguments. They say, see the AI agrees
with me that you're not you're not doing the dishes,
or you're not cleaning well enough, or you're whatever, whatever
the dispute is.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Let AI pay the mortgage.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, call sam Aldman over there over at Open Ai,
get him to pay your mortgage.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Not good, not good. I'm gonna wrap it up with
the name of the show again. Tabata takes over. Very
well done, very well filmed. She's a short haired lady
and she's got real attitude. She she's pretty funny. I
think she was an ex. I think she used to
be a comic. But she her background is actually hairdressing.
And she goes to like Long Island and New Jersey
and these these salons, and all these women look like
(09:37):
they came out of a good Fellow's movie. Yeah, they're
still dressing like the eighties. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The chair is down there, down there, No, a little further,
your chair is down there, down there.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Right there, right down there, right. It's basically you know
the Devil Wears Prada? You remember that? Oh yeah, with
Mel Street. She she looks like Mel She lays and yeah,
she'll walk in and go. So, how many clients do
you do?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I had six schedule. Put a council too, because I'm tired.
She goes, you'll have time to rest when you're bankrupt,
and then she does. It's the Mark Twain quote for
its Will Rogers. She goes, you know how you're going
to go bankrupt with your salon slowly a person, then
all the way, Mark Bailey, Mike Miller talked funny
It's Talk Funny, a podcast by Mark Bailey and other
comics from all over. We ended up in Japan because
we had already solved all of our problems in our
home countries and are now here to help you solve yours.
Lucky you to Talk Funny podcast from Nicoy Radio dot
com and Nigoia Comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here's Mark Bailey, Marks Bay.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Mark Bully, Mike Miller and Talk Funny. You're aware of
the hugely successful reality show Pawn Stars. Yes, yeah, and
that's fun to watch. And Rick is is fair. He say,
I don't know much about this guitar. Let's get somebody in.
Expert will say this guitar is worth sixty thousand dollars,
and so Rick will go, so what do you want
for it? To the seller and he goes, sixty thousand. Yeah,
(00:42):
see the lights, see these people walking around. I pay them.
I'm not giving you sixty thousand. That's what a customer
will pay. The expert is just actually straight exactly what
it's worth. He has no stake in it. You know.
The seller says I want sixty thousand because it's worth
sixty thousand, and the owner has to explain, well, I
could give you like what or you know, forty five
thousand top dollar because you see the lights who plays
(01:06):
the letter bill? I go, yeah, And I have to wait.
I have to keep this guitar here, safe and drum.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It's not gonna be sold tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's gonna be sold probably in two years. And I
got to have people that dust it off. And it
costs money. And if I could sell it tomorrow, I
could probably give you a higher price. But I don't
know when I'm gonna sell it. That's why business works. Yeah,
there's another one, and I don't want to throw my
own tribe under the bus. What do I call them?
We'll call them Cherokee. They're kind of Cherokee. I didn't know,
(01:35):
none of your business what tribe I'm in. Anyway, this
one is off the charts, and it's called hardcore Pawn
I swear. That's what the name is, hardcore pond I swear.
And it's run by my tribe. None of your business,
and and they're just in your face. Yeah, And in
(01:55):
my opinion, I could see how people could watch this.
It's very popular show. But they're kind of rude.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
He's a hard negotiator type. I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
He's got a black leather jacket. Uh yeah, and he
kind of rude. The guy will come in and say,
you know, my mom worked for Elvis and this is
the typewriter that she used for it. It's kind of cinema,
you know. And it's collector's item because Elvis only had
one secretary with one typewriter. This is the only typewriter
that Elvis's letters were written on. I've got documentation. So
(02:25):
how much did you want for this? And they're in Detroit,
by the way, They're in Detroit, which is a lovely
city with lovely people. They don't think anybody owes them
anything to come in and go, I need two hundred dollars,
but I could give you fifty. I need two hundred, crack.
So what would you take for this typewriter, this unique
(02:46):
historical typewriter. Well, I was hoping to get five thousand
dollars for it. That's not doesn't sound like a bad
price to me.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
For history for a collectible.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, but for this guy, the owner is like five
thousand dollars. No lera. So that's part of the garat
sale mentality. First of all, just cut down whatever Mike
brings in it's not worth what he thinks it is.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then you find every flaw in it. Yeah, oh yeah,
but look there's this scratch here.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
But it's old. Yeah, because his health is we don't
even use typewriters in the word. That's why history say
five thousand, Oh god, where am I gonna five five dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh god, I've only got a major TV show. Where
am I gonna get that money?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Five thousand dollars US dollars? You talk at Canadian dollars,
no US dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Does he go into like a spiel about how his
son's going to university or something. My son he's in
that second year university. I gotta listen.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm I'm taking medication. I'm not feeling well. I can't
five thousand dollars. And then they say, well, this is
what I think is rude. They go, all right, so
what would you really take? They do it every time.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's kind of rude.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I just said five thousand. Did you hear when
I said five thousand? Yeah? But I mean come on, yeah,
but I mean come on, would you take? But three thousand,
three thousand? It's old. I doubt it even works anymore.
We don't use these. I don't think I could sell
this and only a museum.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You know what you could do the Smithsonium would Yes,
you could make it. You could make a great video
of him doing the appraisal when the guy comes in,
and then doing the sales pitch when he's selling it. Oh,
this was by Elvis' exactly once. This is one of
his only typewriter.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I watched all the episodes. That's exactly what they do.
Because he turned it over. I think he paid two
thousand for it. He turned it over. The next day
guy comes in, he goes, I'm looking for historical piece.
Do you have the typewriter that Elvis is secretary news?
And yeah, this big power point you know, oh this
is one of a kind. And he sold it for
(04:48):
like sixteen thousand. But he's like, you know, listen, you're
in the pawn business. You're the Anthony Robbins. You pray
on desperate people, yeah, with no money and no hope,
and you give them a dollar for the shirt on
their back, which is worth probably thirty dollars, and then
you sell that Effne's shirt for fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Which is why I'm never a fan of like Arbitragh
based businesses, because that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Basically, it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Basically whatever you can get. You know, whatever you can get, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
They're charging you for storage for when they can sell it.
It's not my problem. You bought it for me. You
bought this guitar for me. I don't own it anymore.
I don't care if you have it for a hundred years.
But it's worth this. You know that. And you have
the Internet. You can look it up. So I want
to talk about one more reality show. I'm addicted to those.
There's one called Tabout The takes Over. Are you familiar
(05:40):
with this?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Lady who renovates salons, hair salons.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh okay, so it's like salon clinic.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, it's like uh bar Chef Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Cheframs and then there's the other one bar Bar Bar Rescue.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, and then there's the original Chef Ramsey. She's doing this.
It's very entertaining. Let me tell you, it's fabulous. Mike.
I'm the more I watch this, the more I'm noticing
color and I noticed hairstyles. It will really change to you, Mike.
I'm hoping you watch it soon. My son in Law
is a hair salon guy in Japan, and the stereotype
(06:14):
in Japan is not the same as in the US.
In the US, stereotype is fabulous if you're a male. Right,
it's a stereotype, but it doesn't mean it's true. You
could just be smart, you could have a good eye. Yeah,
it could be a good business.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, you know who cut hair. Danny Devio started by
he talked about that on a podcast once.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But in Japan, I don't want to disparage the hairstylists here.
That stereotype is not true. So you know, if your
daughter's marrying a hairstylist, he'll be fine. If he owns it,
Gonna make a lot of money, So I have no
problem with that. And he's straight. They're all straight. As
far as I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They worked really hard because I dated a hairstylist once
and she had her own salon, which was what you want.
But a lot of those hair a lot of those
fancy salons, the hairstylists are paying rent. They rent their seat,
so they've got to make money or they're gonna because
they're gonna have to pay the owner of the salon
either way, So it can be really long hours and
(07:11):
really not not the most fun thing to do if
you're working for one of these high pressure salons.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, because you're taking up you're taking up a chair,
a station.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Kind of like a sales more like sales like as
commission made booth.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
You're taking up a station of equipment and the scissors
and the blow dryer on. Everything is supplied to you.
You've got to turn out. You got to turn you know,
you've got.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
To develop a clientele.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's like you know, yeah, you've got to turn over
a clientele, and you got to keep them satisfied and
keep them coming back.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
And a lot of it is being having good social skills.
It's not just about cutting the hair. You've got to
be able to talk to your customers, right. Yeah, Like
a lot of women are like I only go to
this hairstylist because she knows me and I can talk
to her about everything, and you know, it's like it's
almost like therapy for for women.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
A lot of women it is.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It's like cheap therapy.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You just go get your I mean for compared to
what regular therapy would cost you when you're not with
better help, you know, like we're not a sponsor doesn't
sponsor this show.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
But yeah, it's yeah, it is because my mom was
like eighty four and she still goes to the salon. Yeah, yeah,
why mom, you're not gonna be on the magazine covert.
It's like, you know, when she'll talk, it's like, yeah,
but my daughter wants a dog, and then her husband
doesn't want a dog, but I think a dog is
good for a boy. Yeah, you're right, that'll be that'll
(08:27):
be seventy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, and they're not going to disagree with you, right,
they're gonna be. Yeah, you're right. You should tell him that,
you know, when you should tell him. It's like AI. No,
these AI chatbots, right, they always tell you what you
want to hear.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You should tell your husband this and then come back
in three weeks and I'll just refresh your I'll just
freshen you up eight weeks. I am not seventy dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I was reading this weird article about AI and how
people it's breaking up marriages because the woman or the
man will be talking to.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
The AI, and that's the spouse to leave the room.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So the win arguments. They say, see the AI agrees
with me that you're not you're not doing the dishes,
or you're not cleaning well enough, or you're whatever, whatever
the dispute is.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Let AI pay the mortgage.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, call sam Aldman over there over at Open Ai,
get him to pay your mortgage.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Not good, not good. I'm gonna wrap it up with
the name of the show again. Tabata takes over. Very
well done, very well filmed. She's a short haired lady
and she's got real attitude. She she's pretty funny. I
think she was an ex. I think she used to
be a comic. But she her background is actually hairdressing.
And she goes to like Long Island and New Jersey
and these these salons, and all these women look like
(09:37):
they came out of a good Fellow's movie. Yeah, they're
still dressing like the eighties. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
The chair is down there, down there, No, a little further,
your chair is down there, down there.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Right there, right down there, right. It's basically you know
the Devil Wears Prada? You remember that? Oh yeah, with
Mel Street. She she looks like Mel She lays and yeah,
she'll walk in and go. So, how many clients do
you do?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I had six schedule. Put a council too, because I'm tired.
She goes, you'll have time to rest when you're bankrupt,
and then she does. It's the Mark Twain quote for
its Will Rogers. She goes, you know how you're going
to go bankrupt with your salon slowly a person, then
all the way, Mark Bailey, Mike Miller talked funny
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