# Hoarders + Antiques Roadshow = The Keno Bros. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 25, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028 "2011-08-25T13:22:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/21 "2011-08-31T13:25:13Z")
There was a second sort of Hoarders and Antiques Roadshow crossover that piloted on A&E a while back called Dirty Money. It even starred Matt Paxton of Hoarders fame, so not surprisingly it was closer to Hoarders than Antiques Roadshow. In it, the Paxinator went to a hoarder’s house to see what kind of salvageable and sellable antiques he could find in it. There was a beautiful Persian rug in one room…but it was all but destroyed by cat pee so it was worthless. (Choice line from Matt: “This smells like urine. And I work with urine every day.”) An apparently valuable wine collection hadn’t been stored properly so it was junk too. IIRC he did find a stash of designer dresses from the 1960’s that eventually sold for thousands; somehow those did not get moldy or shredded. I think the pilot is somewhere on the A&E site. Matt says that he doesn’t know if A&E is going to pick up the show yet, although they seemed positive about it. (Matt and I are Facebook friends for what it’s worth, so that’s where I’m getting that info.) The pilot is certainly worth checking out if you’re a Hoarders fan. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/22 "2011-08-31T13:30:30Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > There was a second sort of Hoarders and Antiques Roadshow crossover that piloted on A&E a while back called Dirty Money. It even starred Matt Paxton of Hoarders fame, so not surprisingly it was closer to Hoarders than Antiques Roadshow. > > In it, the Paxinator went to a hoarder’s house to see what kind of salvageable and sellable antiques he could find in it. There was a beautiful Persian rug in one room…but it was all but destroyed by cat pee so it was worthless. (Choice line from Matt: “This smells like urine. And I work with urine every day.”) An apparently valuable wine collection hadn’t been stored properly so it was junk too. IIRC he did find a stash of designer dresses from the 1960’s that eventually sold for thousands; somehow those did not get moldy or shredded. > > I think the pilot is somewhere on the A&E site. Matt says that he doesn’t know if A&E is going to pick up the show yet, although they seemed positive about it. (Matt and I are Facebook friends for what it’s worth, so that’s where I’m getting that info.) The pilot is certainly worth checking out if you’re a Hoarders fan. Oh jeez. I can totally see how that would make a great show. But it would feed into the desperate dreams of hoarders everywhere and greatly increase their difficulty letting go. I hope it never sees the light of day. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/23 "2011-08-31T13:36:44Z")
I love Matt, but is he an antiques expert? I hope he brings one along. I’d love to see his partner a Franklin Pangborn type who swoons dead away when entering a hoarder’s house and stepping on a sailcat. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/24 "2011-08-31T14:07:43Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Oh jeez. I can totally see how that would make a great show. But it would feed into the desperate dreams of hoarders everywhere and greatly increase their difficulty letting go. I hope it never sees the light of day. Oh, I forgot to mention the sneaky part of the show. The hoarder didn’t get to keep the money. The deal was that Matt cleaned the house for free, then sold anything he could find in there for expenses and to pay his crew. It was kind of like Clean House on overdrive. **Eve** , I can’t remember if he had an antiques expert on-site. He took the dresses and some other items to an appraiser, although they didn’t show that on camera. I think if A&E picks up the show, that part might shown in future episodes. I’ll have to ask Matt next time he joins our live-blogging crew how the negotiations are going. I’ll also have to pitch my show idea to him: Heavy Hoardervention Wars, where overweight drug-addicted hoarders battle to win the contents of dead people’s storage lockers. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/25 "2011-08-31T14:11:02Z")
“I Didn’t Know I Hoarded My Eight Tiara’d Toddlers!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/26 "2011-08-31T16:15:56Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “I Didn’t Know I Hoarded My Eight Tiara’d Toddlers!” Oh, **Eve** …this made me “eep!” Out loud! Make the host Michael Galanes from “Little Miss Perfect” and we can put GLBT equality back 20 years with just one season! 😃 ETA: I agree with you about the Kenos. Not my usual type, but there’s just something so engaging about their almost breathless excitement when they spy out a really good piece of furniture on Roadshow… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/27 "2011-08-31T22:59:14Z")
Just a quick bump for those of you who wanted to be reminded . . . And who of course are probably not online tonight . . . ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/28 "2011-09-01T00:46:23Z")
_Oy_. This is what happens when you move from PBS to Fox: amped-up drama, goofiness, music stings, sound effects, manufactured cliff-hangers. As much as I love the Lesbian Meryl Streep Brothers (and I adored Sparky and Snarky), this episode was plucking my last nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/29 "2011-09-01T02:07:35Z")
This show demands to be watched on DVR. Fox shows like this are damn near ruined by the CONSTANT suspense-to-commercial moments. Every time they get ready to say anything substantial they cut to commercial. I realize they are trying to trap you into watching through the commercials but do Americans really need to have false drama injected into interesting shows in order to get them (us) to watch? The show is interesting but I can’t watch it live ever again. There is only MAYBE 30-35 minutes of content here stretched out into an hour long show. It’s horrible. Oh, Rembrandt guy and his wife had to be faking their relationship dynamic for television. There is no way a guy is going to put up with a wife that acts like such a raging c\*\*t all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/30 "2011-09-01T02:30:27Z")
> [@monkeylucifer](#): > > The comic book guy was an f-ing joke. He had landmark Silver Age Marvel books that weren’t sealed and more importantly, weren’t graded. I’ve worked in a comic store in years and I’m out of touch with grading because I know standards have changed, but even I could have looked at those and told him they were damaged and therefore sharply devalued. > > Then there was the whoring out of his comic that I’ve never heard of but looked like some 90’s Image crap. He had posters all over the place, a T-shirt with it on, and it looked as if that stupid leather jacket was custom made to look like the country. What a tool. > > Anyway, if this means that the Keno brothers are going to be on Antiques Roadshow less then that sucks. This episode is on right now, guess its a rerun. Those dudes from Metropolis came across as total douchebags and struck me as completely unprofessional with all their sighing and moaning because the guy didn’t want to sell his super rare comics for, what I believe to be, lowball offers. Professionals don’t behave like that. I felt like there was something amiss with that entire scene though. I have a REALLY hard time believing that a guy who works in the comic book industry is just going to have Amazing Fantasy 15 lying around in a neoprene sleeve in his apt. Same for the Hulk #1 (which, contrary to the Keno Bros was NOT the 1st appearance of the Hulk). A real Hulk collector would have paid far more than those douches were offering, even with the restoration job. Same for the AF 15. Something seemed off about the whole thing. Additionally, what was with that jacket he was wearing throughout the episode? ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/31 "2011-09-01T02:30:30Z")
Hey, maybe she’s a great cook, an award winning beer meister, AND a wildcat in bed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/32 "2011-09-01T17:47:40Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > This is what happens when you move from PBS to Fox: amped-up drama, goofiness, music stings, sound effects, manufactured cliff-hangers. Agree. I tried to watch it and the production was extremely irritating. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/33 "2011-09-01T18:03:55Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Additionally, what was with that jacket he was wearing throughout the episode? It came off to me as the guy has his own crap comic that he was using the show to try and pimp out. The jacket looked like it was based on the costume of the character he created which, again, looked like some 90’s Image crap. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/34 "2011-09-01T18:38:05Z")
Next up, collectors who gather more useless stuff through sexual favors: Whoring Hoarders And don’t miss the Swedish version: Whoring Hoarders Börk, börk, börk ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/35 "2011-09-01T20:45:18Z")
I finally saw it. I found the brother’s resemblance to Data from STNG very distracting. > [@Cubsfan](#): > > . . . > > Oh, Rembrandt guy and his wife had to be faking their relationship dynamic for television. There is no way a guy is going to put up with a wife that acts like such a raging c\*\*t all the time. I disagree completely. Every time I watch hoarders I wonder why nobody in their family has stood up to them. Sure, he paid $3,000 for a painting which turned out to be worth $10,000. But their total for worthwhile goods was what, $30,000? Do you really think he hasn’t secretly spent more than that? And if my spouse was sneaking around making $3,000 purchases, I’d be a whole lot worse than she was. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/36 "2011-09-01T20:47:33Z")
I felt really sorry for horse farm lady. She ahd already lost so much, and as much as she wanted to save the farm, she seemed really sorry to have to lose her family heirlooms. I hope success comes back her way. I’m afraid the horse market may not be what it was for some time to come. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/37 "2011-09-08T12:31:23Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > The Kenos are . . . _interesting_. One of them mentions his wife and sons at every opportunity, the other not so much. They are kinda hot, in a nerdy “male Meryl Streep” private-school way. What an apt description, Eve! I finally watched this show .. saw Sparky’s Rembrandt and the distressed horse lady. I noticed the Keno’s dramatic hand waving going on whilst trying to state the antique’s dollar value .. “Ten .. Thousand .. Dollars!!!” A real Rembrandt sketch? 400 years old, signed .. and only worth $10,000? I’d expect a higher value, but I’m not an antique expert. Same story with Horse Lady’s furniture: the table could bring $70,000, but that huge cabinet was only valued at $1500 due to the top being changed. $1500 just seemed so low in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/38 "2011-09-08T12:43:48Z")
The third ep., last night at 8:00, was much better, I think I will keep watching. They had two stories instead of three, and there wasn’t \*quite \*so much hysteria and manufactured melodrama. Maybe someone slipped the Streep Bros. some valium. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/39 "2011-09-08T12:57:20Z")
Was the third episode the family selling artifacts to send their son to medical school? How did that Chinese burial bowl come into their possession … _she asked suspiciously_? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028/40 "2011-09-08T13:05:02Z")
> [@Vita\_Beata](#): > > Was the third episode the family selling artifacts to send their son to medical school? How did that Chinese burial bowl come into their possession .. _she asked suspiciously_? . . . And was that a pile of Chinese-guy ashes on the rug? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hoarders-antiques-roadshow-the-keno-bros/594028.md?page=3)