American Pickers’ charm used to be Mike and Frank putzing around, with Frank often humorously getting excited about stuff Mike would never be excited about.
Still, despite Frank wanting to get back to TV, there are deeper issues between the two TV personalities that are also worth mentioning.
Frank also simply has different interests with picking than Mike does, so in previous seasons he’d been kind of a fun counterpoint on the show.
But Mike Wolfe is the more known name and the one often doing the majority of the actual picking, though if you hear Frank Fritz tell it, that’s due to the show’s slant being “tilted towards [Wolfe] 1,000 percent” and not due to him doing less work.