Pawn Stars Rick Harrison Reveals Secrets Behind His TV Show (Big Profits, Fakes, & Conspiracies)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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You’re here because you want to win—big. Brad Lea doesn’t mess around. In this episode, he sits down with Rick Harrison from Pawn Stares to tear into the origins of his Vegas pawn empire, insights on negotiating and spotting value, the realities of running a pawn shop, and dives into conspiracy theories, crypto skepticism, and behind-the-scenes stories from the show, delivering the unfiltered truth you won’t find anywhere else. No fluff, just real talk and actionable steps to crush it in business and life.
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https://www.instagram.com/pawn.afterdark/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/@PawnAfterDark
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| 0:00.0 | I'm probably the most successful pawn shop in the United States. |
| 0:02.0 | It's because I've always been honest with people. |
| 0:04.0 | But there's been a few times when people come in, they're just being assholes because they just want to be on TV. I'm like, fuck you, get the fuck out of my store. What do you see as far as crypto? I still think it's fucking Dutch tulips. What about the Epstein list? Maxwell, she was convicted of trafficking young women to who? who. But we want to know who was down at Epstein Islands |
| 0:02.1 | being a creepy fog. And Cash Patel |
| 0:04.2 | says, we watched the video and addicted of trafficking young women to who? But we want to know who was down in Epstein Islands being a |
| 0:21.5 | creepy fog. Then Cash Patel says, we watched the video. Then the video has a one minute missing. |
| 0:26.9 | Why do you think they're not releasing it? Question, number one, when I moved here in 1991, |
| 0:35.8 | you guys saved my ass multiple times, just FYI. There was no pawn stars at the time. It was just fucking golden pawn. I think golden silver pond, I think. Golden silver pawn shop. That's what it was. It was that was still where it is. Yeah. You guys had a window out front. Yeah. I'd slide. I'd... I'd... I'd... I remember you. |
| 0:55.9 | I remember your dad. I remember... I remember... I don't really remember everybody. I remember you. I remember you dad. And you guys just worked there. Yeah. I mean, I mean... Not worked there. You owned it. But I didn't know you owned it. and nobody knew who you guys were, |
| 0:51.7 | and you guys were just doing your thing. |
| 0:53.5 | And I used to think, |
| 0:54.2 | God damn, dude, I want a pawn shop. |
| 0:56.1 | Because you guys were. And you guys were just doing your thing. |
| 1:11.1 | And I used to think, God damn, dude, I want a pawn shop. |
| 1:13.8 | Because you guys must have just got smoking deals every day for 100 years. |
| 1:19.9 | I know you got a smoking deal on my shit. |
| 1:23.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.7 | And fortunately, you know, I got the first pawn license in Vegas in 33 years. |
| 1:30.8 | Wow. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | How? |
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