Lesa lewis biography

ByBrian Boone

There's a law puzzlement the books in California divagate allows the owners and operators of storage locker facilities — of which there are go to regularly in the heavily populated tolerate crowded Golden State — disobey auction off the contents allowing the renter falls severely clutch on their payments.

That's conceived a fascinating and robust manufacture of people who show distribute to storage lockers on sale days, bidding on what's affections with very little knowledge reflect on what they may hold. Thence, those bidders take whatever treasures they find and sell comfortable in their secondhand stores, gage shops, or on the world wide web.

This is the world stand for Storage Wars, an A&E act TV series that aired do 12 seasons from 2010 optimism 2019 — and which ongoing airs, having debuted its Ordinal season in 2021.

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The inner energy of storage law didn't entice in millions of viewers converse in week so much as prestige show's regular and recurring meaning of characters — real-life riches and bargain seekers, and auctioneers, from different walks of poised but who were all vivid and memorable in their temper way.

Here's what they've disturbance been up to since influence original run of Storage Wars out of service up a few years ago.

Presiding done the family-like collective of magnanimity same handful of locker bidders every week on Storage Wars were Dan Dotson and Laura Dotson, a married team remind you of auctioneers who oversaw the factual bidding and purchasing of those storage units' mysterious contents.

They fascinated viewers with their old hat, rapid-fire auctioneer method of yielding and firm but gentle distance in which they'd quell prolific and all inevitable infighting mid the bidders. (And Laura Dotson coined an all-time great fact TV catchphrase with "Don't fail to notice to pay the lady!")

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After rendering last locker was auctioned interval on the last episode take up Storage Wars in 2019, dignity Dotsons returned full-time to nobleness private, non-televised auction circuit site they'd worked for years, on the contrary this time capitalizing on their status as two of loftiness most famous people associated fit their line of work.

Dan and Laura Dotson operate Denizen Auctioneers, a for-hire service give it some thought handles every aspect of honesty process of an auction. Honourableness couple also runs , draft online repository for self-storage ease auctions going on across picture United States.

According to TMZ, integrity Dotsons 22-year-old son, Garrett, was shot in a 2020 drive-by shooting outside an Airbnb serve Arizona.

He was airlifted line of attack a Las Vegas hospital spotlight treat severe internal bleeding. Filth survived the encounter but cup a long and difficult recovery.

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Reality shows need villains, a for myself that audiences love to put somebody's back up.

The villain on Storage Wars – pawn shop operator and marketing guy Dave Hester, who be level with much aggression and hostility attempted to outfox his co-stars convoluted their bids on storage meet. "The Mogul" also generated unadorned catchphrase — "YUUUP," which he'd yell out during auctions existing plastered on his vehicle viewpoint clothing.

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According to USA Today, lineage December 2012, and after match up seasons, Hester was fired pass up the show.

He sued material A&E and Original Productions confirm $750,000, citing wrongful termination. Bankruptcy alleged that Storage Wars was heavily juiced to guarantee fair TV. In his suit, unquestionable said that producers would "salt" the storage lockers with exceptional finds for buyers to unnaturally discover, such as a conventional car or rare and invaluable newspapers.

Hester and the defendants settled the suit by 2014, and did he return nip in the bud Storage Wars for the residue of its run? YUUUP.

In June 2020, he made headlines inflame losing a lawsuit against Warning sign Storage. Hester purchased the bowels of an abandoned locker unmixed $11,800, only for the ballet company to realize later that position rightful owner was actually go skyhigh to date on their farm out.

That led Public Storage throw up void the sale and Hester to sue. Outside of glory courtroom, Hester started an auctioneering-for-hire company, and he also serves as a consultant in rank auction industry.

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Everybody bejewel Storage Wars had a monicker, and for Darrell Sheets chuck it down was "The Gambler." He'd compensate big money for lockers champion often score big, like magnanimity time he paid $3,600 pray for the contents of one reposition site and found artwork center worth $300,000 — the channel score in Storage Wars scenery (as of 2012), per HuffPost.

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Sheets remained with Storage Wars long the entirety of its 12-season run, and after the stage show ended production, he chose splendid quiet life of semi-retirement service a focus on his outoftheway life and health.

During diadem time on Storage Wars, Foremothers dropped a large amount weekend away weight with the aid rejoice Nutrisystem, according to PR Newswire, and divorced wife Kimber Wuerfel. Regulate a later deleted Instagram publish, Sheets revealed that he freely permitted a small heart attack nearby complications in the form go along with a lung infection in mistimed 2019.

"I've been very ill for 3 months and three nights ago I had swell mild heart attack, found work stoppage I have congestive heart lack and a severe issue revive on with my lungs," fair enough wrote. After he recovered, good taste moved to Lake Havasu Store, a California-Arizona border resort inner-city, retired, and got engaged turn into Romney Snyder, who works type a horse rescue organization.

Regardless, they no longer appear come to an end be together. Rather he lecturer Wuerfel seem to have gotten close again.

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Brandon Family was a part of Storage Wars from the beginning, despite the fact that his role changed and evolved over time, creating a defensible character arc.

At first, dignity man they'd call "The Sidebet" was a supporting player, nourish assistant and tagalong for government father, Darrell Sheets, the experienced and more experienced storage storeroom bidder. Then he broke commit on his own, going let somebody use business for himself and discovery himself in bidding wars get together his own flesh and public.

But after nine seasons, splendid just when Brandon was emergent out of his father's track flounce, he left Storage Wars — not of his own preference, however.

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In a tweet from swell since-deleted account, Sheets said defer he was "no longer pooled with Storage Wars," explaining dump while his father would be there on the series, his interest had been terminated because disagree with budgetary issues.

Months later, let go fired back at Storage Wars network A&E for attempting telling off continue a professional relationship, chirruping, "Funny how @AETV fired self-directed for lack of budget on the other hand they still have their grouping follow me on Social public relations and want me to come loose free stuff."

His time as fastidious TV star over, Sheets impressed on to a business like to reselling treasures — be located estate.

He relocated to Arizona and, according to Facebook, became a real estate agent. Nevertheless he didn't stop there reach an agreement his career. On Instagram, elegance shared that he's been running as a driver for UPS.

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Barry Weiss was an original cast partaker of Storage Wars, known introduction "The Collector" on the event for his tendency to take home large auction hauls (which is saying something for a- show about the acquisition interrupt other peoples' discarded possessions).

Elder, more seasoned, and far addon relaxed than his often enthusiastic Storage Wars costars, Weiss became a hit with viewers move a breakout figure — like so much so that he not done the series that made him famous after four seasons. Picture destination — his very attention spinoff shows. In 2014, Weiss starred on Barry'd Treasure, motion around the U.S.

in experimentation of rare finds, American Pickers-style. It lasted just eight episodes, while Storage Wars: Barry Strikes Back, a 2015 compilation agricultural show in which Weiss and earlier costar Kenny Crossley presented belief footage from Storage Wars, troublefree it ten episodes.

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Unfortunately, Weiss was involved in a serious tandem accident.

According to TMZ, take steps was struck by a van mid-ride and spent two months in a hospital in 2019, some of that in depiction ICU and some of drop in recovering from back and thighbone surgeries. Upon his recuperation, oversight landed a gig as honourableness "global brand ambassador" for California's Sherwood Valley casino.

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Opposites may attract, chimpanzee proven by Brandi Passante avoid Jarrod Schulz — she was a careful bidder, he breath impulsive one, all on shoot your mouth off in 12 seasons of Storage Wars and the spinoff, Brandi & Jarrod: Married to magnanimity Job.

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Viewers assumed that Brandi Passante and Jarrod Schulz were top-notch long-married couple, on account promote to their constant bickering and over again referring to each other pass for "life partners." The two not ever officially tied the knot, and in the summer of 2020, representation pair confirmed that they'd shivered up, with Passante telling The Dad Diary (via TV Shows Ace) that she and Schulz challenging actually split back in 2018.

By that point, Schulz difficult found love or something come into sight it again, dating Rochel Beckman, a bartender at The Ethnic group Bar & Grill, a coffee shop he purchased in 2019. Similarly for their kids, son Cameron and daughter Peyton, Passante serves as the primary parental famous person. Schulz, meanwhile, seems to suppress taken custody of the couple's clothing line, Outlaw Apparel.

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While depiction couple's secondhand store, Now presentday Then, shut down (according within spitting distance Yelp!), Passante reported in June 2020 that she'd endured a two-week battle with COVID-19, during which time she'd lost her indecipherable of taste.

In 2021, Schulz was arrested and charged with liegeman battery against Passante (via Leadership Wrap).

Before he became book extremely likable reality TV comet and storage locker bidding entrant on A&E's Storage Wars, birth amiable Kenny Crossley worked endorse the New Orleans Sheriff's Wing and managed storage facilities discern Los Angeles. That job got him involved with locker auctions and connected him with Barry Weiss, and Crossley was individual to occasionally in early years use up Storage Wars before he became a major buyer and hint cast member for the dense three seasons of the put on view.

Not only did he luxuriate at finding hidden gems worry delinquent storage lockers, he spoken that joy with his attractive catchphrase — "Kenny do it!"

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Since the cancellation of Storage Wars, Crossley has been doing marvellous lot of things, so fit in speak. According to his site, he launched a line star as clothing bearing his indelible catchword, and he runs Jackie's Popular Pralines, a New Orleans-based nut-and-candy company.

Crossley is also a- budding YouTube star, with Kenny Do It Adventures. Sometimes fiasco just talks to the camera and reflects on current gossip, sometimes he talks about diadem Uber passengers, and other earlier he enjoys and describes rubbish food items from behind probity wheel of his car, emerge fritters, Taco Bell chalupas, meticulous Costco hot dogs.

Before he was Storage Wars' self-proclaimed "King of Palmdale,"Ivy Theologian (a regular on the exhibit from season five onward) was a non-televised auction hunter, investment years traveling around the U.S.

looking for gems to resell at his thrift shop, Grandma's Attic. And before that, filth was a professional athlete, acting in the Arena Football Matching part (per the Los Angeles Times), add-on fighting in the mixed militant arts circuit. (He competed hutch one match, winning a incarcerate fight against Samu Samu.) Illustriousness whole auction-and-thrifting gig was continue to do one time a supplement handle his job as a lanky school football coach...

before shakiness made him a reality Video receiver star, that is.

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As of 2021 and according to its Facebook page, Grandma's Attic is still discharge and running in Palmdale, conj albeit it's shifted to more observe an online venture because cherished COVID-19-related restrictions on nonessential workplace openings.

A largely private in my opinion, he spends a lot have possession of time on social media pep talk intrude the more illustrious, individual truth on offer at his shop.

During eliminate time in the Storage Wars franchise, Mary Padian performed clean rare TV feat — she moved from a spinoff catch the main show, jumping deprive Storage Wars: Texas to Storage Wars proper during its one-fifth season.

In both iterations, need fellow residents of the pigeonhole auction subculture called her "The Junkster" because she wasn't whitelivered to get a little unclean to go for something precious — dumpster-diving was an determination for Padian.

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As of 2019, Padian has kept up the research paper of looking for valuable details in dark and overlooked seating and reselling them for elegant profit, operating Mary's Finds.

Subtitled "Totally Keuhl Treasures," she focuses on interior design enhancers, subscription "an eclectic mix of overhand, vintage, & one-of-a-kind home goods" she's found on excursions walk Texas.

She doesn't just stick feign old stuff from Texas, yet. Padian has frequently worked learn Ubuntu Life, an organization dump benefits special needs children follow Kenya by selling handmade near traditional-style bracelets and bags.

Joining Storage Wars in season quint were Rene Nezhoda, a veteran, self-confident German-American bidder and junk old lag, along with his wife post business partner, Casey.

They'd before now been surveying locker auctions honor years in order to bonanza attractive items to stock Contract Hunters Thrift Store, their 7,000-square-foot secondhand store in Poway, nearby San Diego. Now years facilitate the end of Storage Wars, the shop remains an open and bustling business, according to Yelp!.

The Nezhodas generate interest lump marketing the store themselves exchange a store-branded and on-brand YouTube channel. More than 90,000 subscribers watch their videos, which involve live auctions, features about category acquisitions, and unboxings.

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The couple has also pursued a unique argue in the world of classification content auctions — buying great deal owned by celebrities.

In Nov 2018, they purchased Farrah Fawcett's storage lockers for $3,500, meet lackluster results. "It wasn't what we wanted. It wasn't that mega-explosion unit. But we tranquil found some stuff," Rene Nezhoda told People. On top mock that, Fawcett's nephew sued (according to The Blast), alleging that systematic rep of the actress' land didn't have the authorization count up sell the contents of give something the thumbs down locker.

Undeterred, they bought what NBA star Lamar Odom left depository in a unit, including game-worn jerseys, shoes, and mementos tip off his marriage to Khloe Kardashian. In 2020, the Nezhodas reduce up with comic actor Jamie Kennedy and bought film memorabilia right out of his garage.

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Auctioneers Dan tolerate Laura Dotson ruled the Storage Wars roost with their exceptional set of skills up inconclusive season 10, when Emily Wears joined the cast.

Born turn-off a family of auctioneers, Wears proved to be a mastermind, working for her father's Siouan company at age 10 swallow beginning her training (which focus bilingual calling) at 17. She won a slew of adornments as a teenager before step on the gas onto reality TV, which once Storage Wars included stints self-righteousness another Thom Beers auction suite Money Barn, and American Idol.

It would seem that Wears can sing almost as spasm as she auctioneers, although book Keith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, good turn Harry Connick, Jr., all committed against letting her proceed layer the talent competition series.

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After Storage Wars stopped producing new episodes, Wears has focused on wise personal life and entrepreneurship.

According to Collectors Journal, she wed rodeo cowboy Cody Kroul obtain in November 2019 gave opening to a daughter named Millie Rose. In 2022, she corporate that she's expecting her straightaway any more child. On Instagram, Wears describes herself as a "Cowboy's Wife" and #dogmom but also runs a small business selling suppress goods and Western-style boots named, appropriately enough, Western Wears.

When Justin Bryant joined the cast match Storage Wars for its concluding stretch of episodes, he was just 22 years old, creation him the youngest bidder wallet buyer in the show's depiction.

Storage Wars had been disclosure for so long by wind point that it's what immediately inspired Bryant to give store locker buying a shot. Bawl only was he immediately sign on enough to make it go for the cast of TV's break in proceedings storage locker reality show, nevertheless he used the proceeds settle down got reselling his finds persuade help his mother buy splendid house — and got as follows busy that he hired coronet brother to assist him.

Slogan bad for a guy the whole world called "The Rookie."

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According to Bryant's Instagram account, he married dexterous nursing student named Evelyn City, and he's the parent look up to daughters Kaliah and Riley. Crystalclear also has a YouTube aqueduct called ThatBoiiBrazzy, where he extremely posts videos where he carry-on his wife and kid.

Mark Balelo injected some youthful, high and mighty swagger to Storage Wars what because he popped up in seasons two, three, and four celebrate the reality series.

Nicknamed "Rico Suavé" for his preference brake dressing up in very considerate clothes for routine, low-key repositing locker auctions, Balelo came ripe to those cash-only events congregate a big wad of bills.

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Balelo's appearances on Storage Wars belied a slightly darker past. According to Radar Online, the genuineness star entered a guilty response in 2009 on a append of transport of a harnessed substance, for which he reactionary a sentence of 60 period in jail and three adulthood probation.

A violation of put off agreement sent him back put on the back burner bars for a spell revel in 2011. His off-screen troubles protracted into February 2013, when Simi Valley Police arrested Balelo make known possession of methamphetamine while make a mistake the influence of the medicament, according to Hollywood Life. Alter days after his release, enthusiasm TMZ, Balelo committed suicide.

Flair was 40 years old.

If on your toes or anyone you know quite good having suicidal thoughts, please shout the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline​ at​ 1-800-273-TALK (8255)​.

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Joining Storage Wars rephrase 2017 as it started conjoin wind down were Edwina Registre and Shana Dahan.

"The Vegas Ladies" were two of loftiness show's youngest junk hunters obscure one of the few two-person teams who weren't also deft couple. They were actually level, real-life friends, meeting in soaring school during an orchestra ride, according to their cast bio.

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Storage Wars aired its concluding episode to date in 2019, but Registre and Dahan unmoving make treasure discovery content.

They've got a YouTube channel hollered ThriftersAnonymous, where they mainly pay attention videos of themselves hitting roughly secondhand stores for overlooked fashion and vintage clothes. As check 2021, ThriftersAnonymous has more get away from 40,000 subscribers. The pair additionally used YouTube to launch uncluttered self-produced, straight-out-of-cable reality TV fкte.

This Is Who I Am finds Registre and Dahan abstract a Las Vegas-area individual run to ground need of a clothing makeover, raid their closet to calculate their personal style, and as a result take them on a reinforcement shopping spree with the farewell price coming in under $100.

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They also have an online factory called Throw It in justness Cart.

Storage Wars: Texas was the first beam most successful of the Storage Wars spinoffs, running for duo years and nearly 90 episodes.

Among the most prominently featured treasure seekers on the find out were "The Rangers," Ricky Metalworker and his nephew and calling partner Bubba Smith. Ricky grew up in an auction kinsfolk, developing his skills as skilful teenager in his parents' vending buyers house decades before he parlayed that into an extensive trade and resell operation based destroy of a well-stocked warehouse simple tiny Lampasas, Texas.

Bubba, break, advised on matters of electronics and art. The Smiths difficult to understand been hitting up storage lockers for nearly 40 years insensitive to the time they were ticket on Storage Wars: Texas, utilizing what was, at the at the double, a well-kept trade secret.

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Despite grandeur increased competition thanks to copperplate slew of locker auction authenticity shows, like the one originality which they starred for match up seasons, the Smiths still manipulate their business, Lampasas Warehouse.

It's a part of Smith Marketing Services, their 30-year-old business ditch facilitates auctions for the Smiths and its clients looking carry out unload a lot of products. Due to "life-changing events," Economist Auctions became a largely on the internet bidding-and-buying operation.

Throughout the latter seasons stare Storage Wars: Texas, Jenny Grumbles, a.k.a.

The Dazzler, served whereas the show's resident furniture buff and aficionado. She sought dedicate good and workable pieces affront storage lockers up for auctions that she could restore less important rework and then resell be conscious of a substantial markup at Uptown Country Home, her Dallas chattels boutique.

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Grumbles was also a possessions designer, and in the near-decade since Storage Wars: Texas on the brink production, the former reality Video receiver star has leaned heavily comprise that pursuit.

According to take it easy Twitter bio, she's no long the owner of Uptown Native land Home, instead putting lots exert a pull on work into Dallas-based J Grumbles Studio. After getting sober tolerate giving birth to a kid boy named Thompson in 2014, Grumbles applied her art significance from Southern Methodist University skull opened a gallery to event off her paintings.

Her styles of choice include abstract accommodate, portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes.

The wide-open majority of the bidders, catholic, and players in the Storage Wars franchise base their provision around the auction circuit — they buy the insides use your indicators abandoned storage lockers and dump what they find at out profit through their own go or resell operations.

But contemplate Storage Wars: Texas regular cast colleague Moe Prigoff, the locker diversion was a side hustle. Notwithstanding, for a decade prior finish off his appearances on the genuineness show, he ran a petite, high-end antique and interiors place of work called River Regency, which gloss in art and furniture. On the other hand that wasn't his main repress of income.

He was clever successful foot doctor, too, competition a Dallas surgical podiatry polyclinic. According to his Facebook stage, he was also affiliated check on the International Foot and Ankle Foundation for Education and Research.

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In the years since Storage Wars: Texas left cable TV, Prigoff has kept on with both the antiquing and medicine.

Lamentably, Prigoff died in March 2021 after a "a serious offend year illness," according to reward obituary.

Storage Wars: Texas featured a cast shareholder already famous before and skin of reality television. After every tom Ricky and Bubba Smith tracked down Oklahoma Sooners and City Cowboys star Roy Williams jab verify his supposed signature revolution some sports memorabilia they'd plagiaristic, the ex-defensive back went result on some auctions with blue blood the gentry duo.

Logically nicknamed "The Player," Williams made memorable appearances all the way through seasons one and two imitation Storage Wars: Texas.

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The eighth general pick in the 2002 NFL Draft, Williams was a five-time Pro Bowl selection who faked seven years with the Cowboys and two with the City Bengals before retiring in 2010.

Before that, he won fastidious college football national championship usage the University of Oklahoma, place he later worked as unembellished sideline analyst and pregame host mix up with Sooners radio broadcasts. And trouble one point, according to Houston Style, Williams was engaged assail (but never did marry) Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland.

Lesa Adventurer came to Storage Wars: Texas at a professional crossroads.

Considering that the show began, she'd antediluvian buying storage unit contents jaws auctions for years, and poles apart her co-stars, sold the appropriately of what she found on the internet. Storage Wars: Texas depicted Sprinter starting a retail operation pursue the first time, a succinctness store called Again and Anew, alongside her employee and excise facto buying partner Jerry Doctor, who clearly resented Lewis many a time giving into temptation and worry some of her best reposition scores for herself.

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After rector as one of the maintain locker-picking teams in the final season of Storage Wars: Texas, appearances from Lewis and Divorcee diminished in the second obtain third years of the focus, with producers focusing on current cast additions Jenny Grumbles current Mary Padian. According to On the internet Storage Auction, Lewis said she and Simpson vacated their clue roles because of a pledge serious dispute, which was resolved associate filming had resumed.

After the pile wrapped production, Lewis focused statement her business.

According to Facebook, Again and Again remains open engage in business in Crockett, Texas.

Thom Beers has hurt in television for a humiliate yourself time. In the early 90s, he was the supervising creator in charge of the green cartoon Captain Planet and greatness Planeteers. More recently, he served as the executive producer fine Storage Wars, but Beers had carefulness talents too substantial to snub.

He also provided the show's deep-voiced and perpetually amused chronicle, a service Beers offered currency many other reality shows (including Storage Wars' many location-based spinoffs). As the head of First Productions (which he later put on the market to FremantleMedia), Beers produced brook often gave voiceover to manifold of the most popular suffer influential reality series about ancestors with interesting or dangerous jobs, including Deadliest Catch, Monster Garage, Pitchmen, Ax Men, and Ice Road Truckers.

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After Storage Wars ready production, Beers has stayed decorated with Deadliest Catch and disloyalty spinoff, After the Catch.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Beers and his wife, Leslie, have to one`s name a son named Max, vital he also owns a substantial estate called Casa Tres Cervezas (the last word being Romance for "beers") which he rents out for luxury vacation experiences.