Barry Weiss originally left "Storage Wars" after appearing on its first four seasons between 2010 and 2013. In the immediate aftermath of this run he both hosted an eight-episode spinoff titled "Barry'd Treasure" in 2014 and a ten-episode series titled "Storage Wars: Barry Strikes Back" in which he and co-host Kenny Crossley commented on past "Storage Wars" seasons. This latter show wrapped up in 2016, after he which he simply contented himself with a life away from the spotlight.
His accident, then, occurred during this period when he was no longer a public figure. Weiss kicked off the trajectory that led to his "Storage Wars" return when, after he concluded a roughly three-month hospital stay in June 2019, he took on a gig at the Sherwood Valley Casino in the remote Northern California city of Willits. He worked for the casino as a brand ambassador, effectively returning to a public-facing role, albeit on a smaller scale than his former national TV stardom.
Today, Weiss is back on "Storage Wars" as of its Season 14 premiere in November of 2021. His near-death experience, then, seems to have led him to first working at the Sherwood Valley Casino before returning to "Storage Wars" and coming back in a big way from an accident that some outside observers presumed he hadn't survived.
