Partner Perspectives. Partner Perspectives. Partner Perspectives. RA.jpg' alt='Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' title='Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' />White Papers. Current Issue. Digital Transformation Myths Truths. Transformation is on every IT organizations to do list, but effectively transforming IT means a major shift in technology as well as business models and culture. In this IT Trend Report, we examine some of the misconceptions of digital transformation and look at steps you can take to succeed technically and culturally. State of IT Report. In todays technology driven world, innovation has become a basic expectation. IT leaders are tasked with making technical magic, improving customer experience, and boosting the bottom line yet often without any increase to the IT budget. How are organizations striking the balance between new initiatives and cost controlDownload our report to learn about the biggest challenges and how savvy IT executives are overcoming them. Video. Sponsored Video. Slideshows. Twitter Feed. Pawn Stars Wikipedia. Pawn Stars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at the World Famous Gold Silver Pawn Shop,1 a 2. Richard Old Man Harrison, his son Rick Harrison, Ricks son Corey Big Hoss Harrison, and Coreys childhood friend, Austin Chumlee Russell. The series, which became the networks highest rated show34 and the No. Jersey Shore, debuted on July 2. The series depicts the staffs interactions with customers, who bring in a variety of artifacts to sell or pawn, and who are shown haggling over the price and discussing its historical background, with narration provided by either the Harrisons or Chumlee. The series also follows the interpersonal conflicts among the cast. One reviewer referencing these conflicts described the show as a version of Antiques Roadshow hijacked by American Choppers Teutul family. TV Guide has offered a similar description, calling the show one part Antiques Roadshow, a pinch of LA Ink and a dash of COPS. Numerous local experts in a variety of fields also regularly appear to appraise the items being sold or pawned, two of whom have gone on to their own spinoff programs. Antique restorermetal artist Rick Dale is the star of the series first spin off, American Restoration, which premiered in October 2. Danny The Count Koker stars in the second spinoff, Counting Cars, which debuted August 1. Production history and format. Pawn Stars began with Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Pictures, who were struck by the array of eclectic and somewhat seedy pawn shops in Las Vegas during a 2. Purple128/v4/6c/5e/b1/6c5eb166-7d79-fa92-b9ef-f2e77e8f49d4/source/392x696bb.jpg' alt='Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' title='Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' />Thinking such shops might contain unique characters, they searched for a family run shop on which to center a TV series, until they found the Gold Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. It had been the subject of a 2. PBS documentary,1. Rick Harrison, had been trying unsuccessfully to pitch a show based on his shop for four years. The shop, and Rick, had previously been featured in the Las Vegas episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell in 2. The series was originally pitched to HBO, though the network preferred the series to have been a Taxicab Confessions style series taking place at the Gold Silvers night window. The format eventually evolved into the now familiar family oriented motif used on the series. Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' title='Interactions 1 Reading Silver Edition Free Download' />History president Nancy Dubuc, who had been charged with creating programming with a more populist appeal to balance out the networks in depth military programming, picked up the series, which was initially titled Pawning History, before a staffer at Leftfield suggested that Pawn Stars would fit better with the locale. The network concurred, believing that name to be more pleasing and easily remembered. The staffer adjusted its story line in order to bring it in line with the networks brand, which included the on camera experts appraising the items brought into the Gold Silver, though she did not discourage the interpersonal conflicts among the shows stars. World Famous Gold Silver Pawn Shop in 2. The series is filmed on location at the World Famous Gold Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although jewellery is the most commonly pawned item at the Gold Silver Pawn Shop,2. July 2. 01. 12. 3 5,0. Each episode consists of segments devoted to approximately five or six of these items, in which one of the staff members, usually Rick Harrison, his son Corey, or Harrisons father Richard known as the Old Man, explains the history behind the object. When the buyer is unable to evaluate an object, they consult with a knowledgeable expert who can evaluate it to determine its authenticity and potential value, and in the case of items needing repair, the cost of restoration or preparing the item for sale. Whoever is evaluating the object goes over the potential value with the customer, including the experts opinion, if one is given, often interspersed with an interview in which he explains the basis of his decision to the viewer. A price tag graphic at the bottom corner of the screen provides the ever changing dollar amount as the two haggle over the items price. On occasion, Rick will purchase items in need of restoration before determining its restoration costs, thus taking a risk on such costs. Interpersonal narratives focusing on the relationship and conflicts among Rick, Corey, the Old Man, and Coreys childhood friend, Austin Chumlee Russell, who also works at the shop, also comprise episode plots. These usually pertain to arguments over the running of the shop, the elder Harrisons questioning Coreys judgment,2. Chumlees intelligence and competence. Before the second commercial break, a multiple choice trivia question related to the shop and its inventory, the cast members or one of the featured items is shown, with the answer provided after the break beginning with the Season 8 episode A Very Vegas Christmas, a trivia question is asked at every commercial break. In addition to spawning imitators, such as the tru. TV series Hardcore Pawn, the success of Pawn Stars has been a boon to the Gold Silver Pawn Shop, which has become a Las Vegas tourist site,2. Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid Vol. By. coolkyousinnjya. A comedic tale of a young womans relationship with a magical transforming dragon maidnow. Originally averaging between 7. October 2. 01. 0. To handle the increased business, the shop hired nearly 3. Rick Harrison also mentioned in the fourth season episode Over the Top that he was building a gym above the Pawn Shop for the staffs use. The shop also now sells its own brand merchandise, whose designs originate from fans entering design competitions on Facebook, which saves the Harrisons the cost of hiring professional designers. The staffs presence on Facebook and Twitter also ensures audiences during local nightclub appearances, for which Corey Harrison and Chumlee Russell are paid 1,0. As a result of filming at the shop, however, the four main cast members no longer work the counter, due to laws that require the identity of customers pawning items to remain confidential, and the tourists and fans taking photos and video in the showroom that would preclude this. When shooting episodes of the series, the shop is temporarily closed, with only a handful of customers allowed into the showroom. In July 2. 01. 1, Harrison signed a record breaking 8. After being broadcast during its first four years on Mondays at 1. Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of 99 Invisible by Radiotopia for free. PM ET, the program moved to Thursday nights at 9. PM ET on May 3. 0, 2. Swamp People, which moved an hour later to 1. PM ET. 3. 4 The program also received a new opening and theme song, Winning isnt Everything, performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd. The opening was replaced again with different theme music from an uncredited artist on June 1. Episodes. Cast. Main shop staff. Richard Rick Kevin Harrison3. Co founderco owner of the pawn shop. Getting A Fishing License In Pa For The Disabled. The son of The Old Man Richard and father of Big Hoss Corey, he has earned the nickname of The Spotter due to his sharp eye for valuable items. He started in the pawn business at age 1. Rick co founded the Gold Silver pawn shop with his father in 1. Boasting that Gold Silver is the only family owned pawn shop in Las Vegas, Rick says he dropped out of high school in the tenth grade because he was making 2,0. Gucci bags. 3. 7 An avid reader since childhood, his favorite area of historical study is the British Navy, from the late 1.