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So long, Tom O’Dell

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Edit (as of 5/8/06): For those of you who don’t feel like schlep­ping your way through hun­dreds of com­ments: yes, I know the knife show is back and on the air on your local PAX (or what­ever they’re call­ing them­selves now) affil­i­ate. This post was writ­ten over 2 years ago, when the world was a much darker, O’Dell-free place. Read on, know­ing that some­times in life, there is a happy end­ing after all.

The Knife collector’s show is off the air. A cher­ished part of my recent past is now rel­e­gated to the scrap-pile of history.

Let me try to explain, here. When I lived with my buddy John 5–6 years ago, we both kept really odd sched­ules — his the sched­ule of a third-year col­lege stu­dent, mine the sched­ule of a second-shift call-center rep. In other words, we both stayed up pretty late, usu­ally watch­ing TV.

One of our favorite pas­times was watch­ing the Knife Collector’s Show on the Shop At Home net­work. At 2:30 Sat­ur­day morn­ing, what could pos­si­bly be more enter­tain­ing than watch­ing a large South­ern man try to sell knives, spout­ing non­sen­si­cal wis­dom while seem­ingly under the influ­ence of way too much caffiene (or, per­haps some less legal stim­u­lant)? Tom O’Dell, the main host of the show, gave us all these things and more.

He pro­vided even more enter­tain­ment when he briefly took over the fol­low­ing night’s Sports Col­lectibles show, turn­ing the phrases “Gem Mint 10″ (or, as O’Dell would say, “Jeeyim, mint, TIN!”) and his cry of sales­manly desperation,“They’re AUTOGRAPHED!” into instant comedy.

John and I recently tried to tune into Shop at Home late one Fri­day to see if O’Dell was still up to his old tricks. Sadly, he had been replaced by a sub-QVC level bland talk­ing head sell­ing jew­elry. We held out hope that maybe Tom had been shuf­fled in the sched­ule, but now sadly the worst has been confirmed.

Thanks for the mem­o­ries, Mr. O’Dell. May you and your knife-selling buddy Shaun Leflar live to hawk one more Conan the Bar­bar­ian special.

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177 Responses to “So long, Tom O’Dell”

  1. Isn't the Light OK? » The past inside the present Says:
    December 15th, 2004 at 4:55 pm

    […] cold/upper res­pi­ra­tory thing. It’s inter­est­ing how, in my “absence,” a post regard­ing a for­mer late-night TV obses­sion of mine has becom […]

  2. Steve Says:
    February 11th, 2004 at 1:00 am

    At last! Some­one else who misses these guys. Man, I loved their on-air ban­ter and jabs at one another. Does any­one have any idea why they replaced TKCS with Moissan­ite
    Mad­ness or some-such inane­ness? I read some­where that our boy Tom O’dell was one of the orig­i­nal founders of Shop-At-Home network.…where did they put him? I tried
    email­ing S Leflar but he never answered me.

    FORTEETHREEE TOTAL INCHES OF RAYYYYYZOR SHARP STEEL IN THE TOTAL OVERALL LENGTH DIMENSION!!!! OF COURSE EVVVVRTHING COMES WITH A LEATHER SHEEATH!

  3. Heather M. Says:
    July 12th, 2004 at 4:01 pm

    The worst part is that the Knife Collector’s Show was on for over a decade.

    Sharpen, whet, and pol­ish in peace, boys…

  4. michael Says:
    July 16th, 2004 at 2:01 pm

    “A FIFTY EIGHT INCH SCOTTISH CLAYMORE DESIGN, okay slap me in the head A FIFTY SIX INCH SCOTTISH
    CLAYMORE DESIGN WEIGHIN IN AT A WHOPPING TEN TO TWELVE POUNDS”

  5. Ben Says:
    July 16th, 2004 at 4:56 pm

    “You get the Katana, you get the Wak­iza­shi, and you get the Tanto!”

  6. jeff Says:
    August 5th, 2004 at 9:46 am

    tom odell now has a new show of his own, enti­tled cut­lery cor­ner. the web­site for the show is http://www.cutlerycorner.com. he’s the ceo of the ‘net­work’ and has a new co-host, named todd. check it out. the qual­ity of the show is so much cheaper than even that of his for­mer net­work, they’re always drop­ping things and he has his step daugh­ter, michelle, work­ing for him, as well. i thought my life was over, also, until i stum­bled upon his broad­cast last sun­day morn­ing. check it out.

  7. jeff Says:
    August 15th, 2004 at 3:20 pm

    i messed up. the site is http://www.cutlerlycorner.NET.

  8. jeff Says:
    August 15th, 2004 at 3:21 pm

    damn it i meant http://www.cutlerycorner.net, no extra l. sorry.

  9. michael Says:
    August 18th, 2004 at 11:17 am

    i have a video of tom and shawn! con­tact me for copies. mjmaniscalco@hotmail.com

  10. (a different) Andrew Says:
    September 14th, 2004 at 9:33 am

    I have recently started to watch cut­lery cor­ner and i love it. Tom’s co-host Todd Boone is a ass though and trashes Tom con­stantly and it’s piss­ing me off because much like you folks i share a deep love for Tom O’Dell. Have you seen the clip from the Shop-At-Home net­work where the katana breaks and stabs the other guy in the stom­ach and Tom just walks out laugh­ing. It is at ebaumsworld.com under the video part, you have to check it out, i will get the link as soon as possible

  11. (a different) Andrew Says:
    September 15th, 2004 at 12:29 am

    Who has had the most influ­ence on my life you ask? Well I’m sure there are great deals of peo­ple that have had a large impact on my life. Is it my dad? Or maybe it’s my mom, or broth­ers, or even a teacher that showed extra inter­est. Although all of these peo­ple have changed my life in some large way, there is still one man who stands out in my mind when posed this ques­tion. And that man is Tom O’Dell.
    Some may ask, “Who is this Tom O’Dell?” Well to those peo­ple I would laugh, because I believe that in this day and age in which there is such a vast love for cut­lery, and cut­lery col­lect­ing is one of the fastest grow­ing hob­bies in the world it is fool­ish to say that you haven’t heard his name men­tioned. Even if it were just whis­pered in leg­endary sto­ries that seem unbe­liev­able.
    Tom O’Dell is the host of the Cut­lery Cor­ner Net­work. If you tune in every Sun­day morn­ing at 12:00 a.m. and again on Thurs­day at 12:05 a.m. you can watch Tom throw out end­less amounts of non­sen­si­cal knowl­edge about cut­lery. Their main goal is to get high qual­ity cut­lery straight from the fac­tory to the con­sumer. Tom sells every­thing from swords to pocket knives at unbeat­able low prices. As Tom says, “If you find a bet­ter price any­where I will eat a big bug!”
    Their prices at times are so unbe­liev­able that their charis­matic host can not even believe them. He has often times mum­bled and stut­tered through many state­ments he is in such shock. Once they sold a set of 73 pocket knives for mere pen­nies on the dol­lar. It was only $89.99, which broke down to only $1.15 a knife. Some of which could sell for up to $19.95 on the retail mar­ket! You may not real­ize what this means but let me pose this sit­u­a­tion to you. Sup­pose you wanted to resell all of these knives, you could turn a profit of nearly $1300 if you sold each knife for $19.95. Of course I don’t know why you would want to since every sin­gle one of the knives that Tom sells you is sharp enough to cut threw a sin­gle run sheet.
    Mr. O’Dell has a vast knowl­edge of all sorts of cut­lery, but his spe­cialty is “big­guns” as he likes to call them. Big­guns are any bowie that is twelve inches and up. Tom is the man who made these types of knives pop­u­lar in the main­stream world of cut­lery col­lect­ing, but that isn’t the only type of sharp object that he can enlighten you on. Once, while sell­ing a col­lec­tion of swords which included a repli­cate of the High­lander sword, Tom effec­tively showed his vast audi­ence how to wield the sword and explained how they were safely car­ried in medieval times.
    Sadly Tom O’Dell’s cut­lery sell­ing career nearly ended before it began. Years ago, before Tom started Cut­lery Cor­ner; O’Dell worked on the Shop-At-Home Net­work host­ing their knife col­lect­ing show. He was backed up by his co-host Shaun Leflar, who was not quite the con­nois­seur of cut­lery as Tom O’Dell is, but what he lacked in knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence he made up with charisma. Their chem­istry together was amaz­ing, and their on-air ban­ter and shots at one another enter­tained view­ers and moved the mer­chan­dise off the shelves at an aston­ish­ing rate. But late one night while they were shoot­ing this pro­gram live, tragedy struck the set of the Shop-At-Home Net­work. Shaun was sell­ing a set of prac­tice katanas. As he started to demon­strate the dura­bil­ity of the blade by beat­ing it on the counter, the blade failed him. It snapped in two and the nose of the sword flipped back toward Shaun and sev­ered his stom­ach. As he fell to the floor cry­ing for Tom’s help, O’Dell coolly and calmly walked onto the set to try and set­tle the shocked cus­tomers at home. How­ever, try as he may, you could see the fear in Tom’s eyes. Was he going to lose his co-host? Would this faulty blade be the end to his friend’s life?
    Luck­ily for us all it wasn’t. The EMTs arrived in time to per­form some life sav­ing emer­gency surgery right there on the set. Shaun was fine but his career in cut­lery deal­ing was not. He was too trau­ma­tized to con­tinue. Tom is a dif­fer­ent story. He was able to pick back up the pieces and start anew. Giv­ing up his one true call­ing and love was unthink­able to him. But Tom O’Dell was furi­ous with his old net­work for try­ing to pass of sec­ond rate cut­lery as being high qual­ity. That is when he decided to started Cut­lery Cor­ner. He is deter­mined never to present another poor qual­ity sword or knife to his audi­ence ever again.
    Over the past few weeks that I have been watch­ing Tom O’Dell’s show I have learned more than I ever imag­ined that I would about cut­lery. I have been shown the beau­ti­ful light of this new hobby and as strange as it may sound to you, I feel that I have made a new friend in the process. Every Sun­day and Thurs­day morn­ing when I tune in to watch more fine Frost Cut­lery prod­ucts be sold by Tom it seems to me that when he pre­tends to beat his co-host with a ham­mer or slices threw a sheet of paper with a room tem­per­a­ture knife like a hot knife threw a stick of but­ter, I feel like he is doing that all for me.

  12. andrew (the admin) Says:
    September 15th, 2004 at 3:31 pm

    Wow, I turn my head away for a few months and sud­denly this post is the haven for Knife Show junkies…man, I love the internet!

    Andrew, thank you for your impas­sioned essay about the man who has changed all of our lives, regard­less of how vehe­mently we deny it.

  13. Andrew Says:
    September 17th, 2004 at 12:31 am

    To those who wish to see this clip — http://www.media.ebaumsworld.com/index.php?e=katanaslip.mpg

    I recently turned my essay in for one of my eng­lish classes. I have made some changes and added to is. I may post the revamped ver­sion soon.

  14. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 25th, 2004 at 2:09 pm

    I’ve been watch­ing Tom O’Dell for years on both HSN and now CCN, but I never knew about Shawn’s “self stab­bing inci­dent”. You may laugh at his sales pitch, you may laugh at the prod­ucts he sold, but you have to admit, Shawn is one tough cus­tomer. How may peo­ple do you know who have been stabbed with a sword, and still had the pres­ence of mind to walk off cam­era before col­laps­ing? :)

    Tom is still sell­ing the “Self Stab­bing Katana” on his web site: http://www.cutlerycorner.net/productDetail.asp?id=165&pc=8 It’s only $29.95, you can’t stab your self with a sword cheaper than that!

    By the way, if your won­der­ing who would buy pocket knifes and bowies buy the dozen, just do a search on eBay for “Pan­ther Bowie” or “Under­taker Bowie” and all will be made clear to you….

    P.S. I was watch­ing CCN thrus­day night and I must say that $59.00 for a Nag­i­nata is a steal, so what are you wait­ing for call now!

  15. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 25th, 2004 at 2:21 pm

    On a seri­ous note, I believe some­one above asked why HSN stopped show­ing The Knife Col­lec­tors Show. I believe the rea­son for the can­cel­la­tion of both The Knife Col­lec­tors Show and the depar­ture of Don West, (the loud mouthed base­ball card guy), was the change in own­er­ship of HSN. Con­trol­ling inter­est in HSN was bough by the group that owns both the Food Chan­nel and Home And Gar­den Tele­vi­sion. They wanted to take the HSN image upscale, and attract the same sort of view­ers as their other chan­nels. Sadly, two foot long knifes, and Scot­tish clay­mores, (big­ger than the peo­ple sell­ing them), did not fit into the new image.

    P.S. If you miss Don West he now does play-by-play for the NWA:TNA wrestling tele­vi­sion show IMPACT: http://www.nwatna.com/superstars/main_stars.shtml

  16. AJ Says:
    September 25th, 2004 at 10:52 pm

    What chan­nel is Cut­lery Cor­ner Net­work on??????? I don’t see that chan­nel listed for either DirecTV or Adel­phia cable.

    Thanks!

  17. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 26th, 2004 at 10:28 am

    Cut­lery Cor­ner Net­work is not actu­ally a net­work, nor is it a chan­nel, it’s just the name they give to the 3 hour block of tele­vi­sion time they pur­chase to do their show with. In essence, CCN is just another infomercial.

    In Alabama CCN actu­ally comes on the PAXSAT chan­nel, which is 78 on the Knol­ogy cable sys­tem. The “TV Guide” on my Tivo, (yes I real­ize how sad it is that I Tivo this), lists the show name as “Knife Show”. Try look­ing for a pro­gram called “Knife Show” on your cable/satellite sys­tem. If you don’t find it that way, they may not list it as “Knife Show” buy may instead call it “Paid Pro­gram­ming” as they do with most of the “shows” that are infomercials.

  18. Tony Says:
    October 12th, 2004 at 11:56 pm

    OH MY GOD!!
    Other fans of “The Knife Show” while I didn’t watch the show they had on the shop­ping net­work, I do how­ever, make a weekly visit to my friends house to catch it on DirectTV every Sat­ur­day at 10 till 1 and laugh hardaly at the man him­self Tom Odell.

    Me and my coherts stum­bled upon this show prob­a­bly how every other Cut­lery Cor­ner fan has, smok­ing pot, drink­ing beers and chan­nel surf­ing, and am I ever glad of find­ing this gem of a show. While other waste there time on lame ass sit­u­a­tional come­dies and real­ity based tele­vi­sion shows, I have found a friend in Tom Odell.

    =t0NY

    P.S. I believe there should be a Cut­lery Cor­ner web­site and or Doc­u­men­tary on Tom Odell, I mean come on… The man’s a genious in the art of cutlery..

    P.S.S IT’S THE DELTA RANGER!!!!

  19. Roberta Klaus Says:
    October 16th, 2004 at 11:53 am

    Finally a well-deserved trib­ute to the man who knew how to bust out them Biggens! I Loved Tom O’ Dell and Leflar. Along with Don West (who sold base­ball cards ) and Rob Chambes who sold coins. They were the best thing about Shop At Home(not to be con­fused with HSN) Their style blended enter­tain­ment and sales­man­ship in the best way and in the process made SAH refresh­ingly dif­fer­ent from the trite­ness of big­ger rivals like QVC and HSN.

    EMERSON BIGGGGGENS!

  20. michael maniscalco Says:
    October 22nd, 2004 at 12:10 pm

    i have a dvd of a knife col­lec­tors “episode”

  21. michael maniscalco Says:
    October 22nd, 2004 at 12:12 pm

    would you like a dvd of tom and shawn?

  22. michael maniscalco Says:
    October 22nd, 2004 at 12:23 pm

    a fel­low alabamian, would you like a dvd of odell in his early days?

  23. michael maniscalco Says:
    October 22nd, 2004 at 12:33 pm

    where did this clip come from if there are full lenght videos out there let me know
    mjmaniscalco@hotmail.com

  24. Rick Early Says:
    October 26th, 2004 at 1:19 am

    My God Boys, I’ve finally found the trib­ute site to the true Kings of Cut­lery, Shaun and O’dell! It is unbe­liev­able that some net­work exec­u­tive never had enough insight to cap­i­tal­ize on the real­iza­tion that these guys had a fol­low­ing that FAR sur­passed ped­dling knives at 2am. Man I would pass up the best movie all week to hear O’dell boom­ing: “SHAUN LET ME SAAAAY THIS AGAIN. THIS IS THEEEEE MOST UNNNNNNBELIEVABLE DEAL I HAVE EEEEEEVVVVVER SEEEN OFFFFERD ON THIS SET OF KNIVES! THIS KNIFE HAS A DIAMOND CUT LASER GUIDED PATTERN INLAYED ON A 4140 GRADE STAAAAAAAINNNNLESSSSS STEEEEEEEEL BLADE!!! GENUINE DUEL SIDED EBONY BONE HANDLE CRAFTED IN GERMANY AND SUPPORTED WITH DOUBLE REINFORCED BRASS SLIP PLATES AND FULL LENGTH SNAP RIVETS!!! haha­ha­haha I LOVED THESE GUYS!

    I wish we could send all these posts to some pow­ers that be so they would real­ize just how pop­u­lar our boys were.

  25. Tony Lewis Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 6:29 pm

    YES!! YES OH GOD YES! How do I go about get­ting this per­ver­bial dvd?

    –tony

  26. tina long Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 12:08 am

    i just recently started watch­ing. i have worked for the BSA Sup­ply Div for 25 years. I work in cus­tomer service(which may I add yours definently needs some improve­ment). In have been exposed to a lot of dif­fer­ent knives and ven­dors. I ordered a pkg for 89.95. Tac­ti­cal Remix. I was impressed. I took them to work and showed them to the Mer­chan­dis­ing buyer for our camp­ing sup­plies. He was impressed! That sold me! I had orig­i­nally planned to give these as Christ­mas gifts but once I received the ship­ment and saw how many and how nice mopst of them were I changed my mind. I am plan­ning to set up my son-in-law to sell them at a boot at the flea mar­ket in Dal­las, NC Gas­ton CO. tHERE ARE A LOT OF good old boys there in that area. I was really impressed with the propduct. The thing I am dis­ap­pointed in is your Cus­tomer Ser­vice dept. I could explain but just from one order and one ship­ment I have had at least 3 ques­tions and one prob­lem with my ship­ment. I can­not get a con­crete answer. That makes we a lit­tle skep­ti­cal. I know from watch­ing last Sun. morn­ing (2 AM or so) you do not spend a lot of money on the props and such. There was a rock hold­ing up a table and atten­tion on the air was given to it. Which I thought was great. But when I call and ask a ques­tion OR make a sec­ond order but instead of my debit card I elect to pay by money order for my 2nd 200.00 order Jason calls me on 10–26 and tells me my card was denied for my order. I calmly info­prm him I paid with my card the first order I made but do not my account charged for this more recent order. I would be mail­ing a money order. He called me but I got the feel­ing I was both­er­ing him. So wrong! I did call cus­tomer ser­vice yes­ter­day to tell them one of the knives I received Did not have a dragon on the blade as pic­tured. His name was JD and he was most help­ful. My sit­u­a­tion was resolved quickly and effi­ciently. JD did not sigh in my ear. I could actu­ally imag­ine his face from our phone con­ver­sa­tion. (Although I do admitt I have a lot of expe­ri­ence with this) I am not hard to please I just hate bad cus­tomer ser­vice. To close may I say for some­one that had no real inter­est in knives except for a 17 year old son that has always had some type of col­lec­tion and a father that deer hunts reli­giously every year. I have an aware­ness but noth­ing until your show has sparked that in me. What a great show. I love it. It is infor­ma­tive and com­i­cal. If I could find out what time and chan­nel you come on for Direct TV which I have, I could have a lot of peo­ple watch­ing your show. I have talked about it a lot. But my cal­en­der I received in my ship­ment is for Dish Net­work. I tuned in @ 9 and 10 tonight. NO KNIFE SHOW. I called cus­tomer ser­vice. EXCUSE ME AS THEY CORRECTED ME I got the Sales dept. Must call back between 9–5 tomor­row for cus­tomer ser­vice to get the cor­rect days and times to WATCH THE SHOW.(I HAD 3 PEOPLE IN MY LIVING ROOM READY TO SEE THE SHOW) NO GO. What­ever you want to call it, let me tell you from expe­ri­ence that was BAD cus­tomer ser­vice. Any­way, thank you. You have tru­ely enter­tained me @ 3 in the morn­ing when I could not sleep and found your show by chance just chan­nel surf­ing. I MAY be order­ing again. I really got some nice feed­back on your prod­ucts. Tina Long Char­lotte, NC

  27. Ginny Says:
    October 30th, 2004 at 12:15 am

    I’ve watched the Knife Shows for about 9 years…first on Shop at Home with Tom O’Dell, Todd Boone & Shawn Lefler (yes, Todd used to work with both of them). Then Todd left & became high soci­ety hav­ing the Col­lectible Knives show on HSN. That’s when Shawn joined Tom. There used to be some wild times with the knives on Shop At Home.…I loved the big block of wood they used to stick the knives in…or tried to. Now Todd is also on the sis­ter sta­tion of HSN…something like Shop Amer­ica sell­ing knives. I had no idea he was back with Tom O’Dell on another channel…I never real­ized you could become a TV icon by sell­ing knives but I guess I was wrong. My favorite host was some guy that had a shop at home show about 9 years ago named Chris. He was usu­ally alone & tried to sell stuff he had bought (coins, jew­elry). He would get so mad when folks wouldn’t call in and bid on them — it was a riot. I think he might have had some men­tal issues from the looks of it. Yep, those late hours watch­ing shop­ping chan­nels can really get you in trouble…just ask a friend of mine who has cases of knives that he bought from Todd & me who has a set of three Span­ish Bowie knives…what was I thinking????

  28. Slartibardfast Says:
    October 30th, 2004 at 11:32 am

    This is a lit­tle off topic but…

    As I’m sure you’re all aware, the results of Tues­day night may well change the course of our nation for­ever. I’m not going to tell you what you should do, but I’m sure you real­ize that mak­ing the wrong choice will lead to reper­cus­sions that could be felt by gen­er­a­tions to come. Although mis­takes have been made in the past, (of which I’m sure we are all aware), that is no rea­son not to do what is best for this coun­try and sup­port the man that has done the best pos­si­ble job under the most dif­fi­cult of circumstances.

    Hey, what are you get­ting so bent out of shape over? What? No, I’m not tak­ing about the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion you fool, I’m tak­ing about some­thing far more impor­tant! This Tues­day night, (Wednes­day at morn­ing at mid­night to be exact), our man Tom O’dell will launch the debut edi­tion of THE COIN COLLECTORS SHOW!!!!!!!!!

    That right, what Tom has done to bowies, and tac­ti­cal fold­ers he’ll be doing with quar­ters, dou­bloons, and proofs! I’m call­ing upon every Amer­i­can to turn out on Tues­day night, and make the right choice buy pick­ing up their remote con­trol and tun­ing in to the most impor­tant event in the his­tory of late night sales. If this show becomes a hit who knows where it could end? First knifes, then coins; can sports col­lec­tables be to far behind? We could have a return to the Golden Age of Shop At Home!!! So come on peo­ple, put aside your par­ti­san bick­er­ing and for one night, for one three hour pro­gram­ming block, let us stand side by side, hand in hand, and cry out to the Shop At Home Net­work in one voice, “YOU CAN FIRE OUR FAVORITE HOST, BUT YOULL NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR BOWIES!!!!!!!!!”

  29. andrew Says:
    October 30th, 2004 at 11:52 am

    Slarti…thank you for remind­ing us of what’s truly impor­tant. The price of Odel­lian free­dom is eter­nal vig­i­lance (or at least keep­ing a close eye on your cable company’s pro­gram­ming schedule…)

  30. michael maniscalco Says:
    November 2nd, 2004 at 11:32 am

    send me your address and i will burn you a dvd send address to mjmaniscalco@hotmail.com

  31. michael maniscalco Says:
    November 2nd, 2004 at 11:37 am

    nobody cares about your bs links to bs poker biguns biguns is what we want fool

  32. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 7th, 2004 at 9:07 pm

    If you missed our man Tom this week, you missed his lat­est sales tech­nique: “Sub­lim­i­nal Per­sua­sion”, which may have been the cause of the dam­age to his micro­phone later on in the show!

    If you missed Tom last week, you missed what might have been the first ever men­tion of KY Jelly on a knife col­lec­tors show… :)

  33. electroaddict Says:
    November 16th, 2004 at 9:09 pm

    Is any­one tap­ing Tom’s new show? I don’t think it airs in my area and I’d really like to see it.

  34. Inuyasha Says:
    November 20th, 2004 at 4:47 pm

    It’s nice to see a trib­ute on Mr O’dell. The man was a class act. He deserved an Emmy for the shows he did with Shawn Leflar. BTW I can’t believe they let him (O’dell) host a sports col­lectibles show on SAH, Don West sell­ing sports cards is hillar­i­ous, but Odell doing sports would be a riot! Does any­body have a tape of it?

  35. Jeff Says:
    November 21st, 2004 at 4:15 am

    oh man what did Tom say about ky jelly? i just heard him say a wasp got into the stu­dio to get in on the big savings.

  36. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 22nd, 2004 at 12:54 am

    For­tu­nately, Tom’s KY com­ment was very brief. Todd was has in full sales pitch mode, extolling the virtues of the katana he has hold­ing. He began to explain that since the blade was made of car­bon steel, (as opposed the 440c), it would be shipped with a light layer of oil to pre­vent rust­ing. He remarked that oil was “good stuff”, at which point Tom added “Yeah, just like KY”.

    This brought the show to a halt for about 2 sec­onds, as Todd had to com­pose him­self, while Tom just stood there look­ing at him with a “I bet you didn’t think I would say that on TV.” look on his face.

  37. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 24th, 2004 at 1:32 am

    If you missed our man Tom this week, you missed:

    Tom find­ing some­thing more fun to cut that paper, (either that or this is the worlds worst sui­cide attempt): http://zaford.textamerica.com/?r=1694501

    Todd get­ting a lit­tle to famil­iar with the han­dle of a broadsword: http://zaford.textamerica.com/?r=1694516

    The use of turkey calls to aid prod­uct pro­mo­tion: http://zaford.textamerica.com/?r=1694527

    Tom let­ting us know what he’s up to when the cam­eras are not on, (and Mrs. Odell is not around): http://zaford.textamerica.com/?r=1694539

    P.S. Is any­one else hav­ing a prob­lem post­ing new mes­sages? Maybe this page only allows so many comments?

  38. andrew Says:
    November 24th, 2004 at 2:51 pm

    P.S. Is any­one else hav­ing a prob­lem post­ing new mes­sages? Maybe this page only allows so many comments?

    I was hav­ing a prob­lem with com­ment spam, so I turned on com­ment mod­er­a­tion. This might mean a delay in view­ing your mes­sages, but it keeps the bottom-feeders away rea­son­ably well.

  39. Josh "The Swift-Blade" Samsonite Says:
    December 13th, 2004 at 4:57 pm

    ” A piece of that…the tip of that just got me O’Dell…” These are the words of a cham­pion. Rest in piece, Katana wound man, and may the O’Dell bless you in the afterlife.

  40. Inuyasha Says:
    December 23rd, 2004 at 1:41 pm

    Tom o’ dell is the great­est. EMMERRSSON BIGGENS!!!!!

  41. CheapNinjaBlade Says:
    January 13th, 2005 at 7:11 pm

    Rumor has it Sean sur­vived a nor­mally fatal Katana self-wounding with the help of Don West and a stack of Mark McGuire rookie cards to stop the bleeding.

  42. Bluechip Says:
    January 16th, 2005 at 7:41 pm

    LOL I miss Don West hock­ing the gem mint 10’s of Tiger Woods cards and the Blue Chip boxes.

  43. Shane Pierce Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 6:36 pm

    Greet­ings fel­low fans of cut­lery, y’see. My friends and I have been view­ing the fan­tas­tic antics of one Tom O’Dell for over three months now, and we had basi­cally just assumed that we were insane for lov­ing it so much, but you have allayed our sus­pi­sions. We have made a prac­tice of record­ing Tom and our com­men­tary on a mp3 player, and have assem­bled a small col­lec­tion. http://www.purevolume.com/cutlercorner We rotate clips and put new ones up there peri­od­i­cally when we get them. We were also plan­nin some designs for some shirt, if any­one would be inter­ested email me gandalf_the_gray25801@yahoo.com , and i’ll explain the design, and if you would be inter­ested we will be dis­trib­ut­ing them.

    “THIS IS WITHOUT DOUBT A SWORD DEAL, THAT IS LITERALLY.….. A SWORD DEAL TO BE RECKONED WITH!!!“
    “Big­guns, or BUST!”

  44. Shane Pierce Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 6:41 pm

    I spelled the Web site Wrong! http://www.purevolume.com/cutlerycorner
    There we go, enjoy.

  45. andrew Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 8:55 pm

    This is just pos­i­tively bril­liant. Thank you for bring­ing some O’Dell into all of our lives.

  46. Brian Butcher Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 11:23 pm

    Well I must say that cut­lery cor­ner is one of the great­est shows of our age… in fact it is the only show that i watch on tele­vi­sion. It is so incred­i­bly funny. I was the one that made those beau­ti­ful record­ings and i can be heard mak­ing com­ments on it. I must say that my sat­ur­days are made brighter just by watch­ing this show and its exis­tence has improved my qual­ity of life!

  47. Geoff Says:
    February 3rd, 2005 at 4:00 pm

    I think one of the great moments from the Tom O’Dell/Shawn Leflar era was when the two of them were sell­ing one of those grab-bags where you don’t know what you’re get­ting (pre­sum­ably 20 of the same knife). Any­way, Tom would ass­sure us that “Jerry in the back of the ware­house fills these orders, and he makes sure EVERY order goes out PACKED with VALLLL-YOOUUUU”

    Wednesday’s (2/2) Cut­lery Cor­ner fea­tured Tom ram­bling on and on about grow­ing up in the woods and being a good ol’ boy — I assume this is par for the course.

  48. inuyasha Says:
    February 5th, 2005 at 3:51 pm

    Don West, another great home shop­ping leg­end. JIMMINTTEN!

  49. paul Says:
    February 19th, 2005 at 1:09 am

    i sent tom an email with a link to this web site, so he may just be check­ing it out every once in awhile, paul

  50. Slartibardfast Says:
    March 6th, 2005 at 9:36 pm

    Do you think ol’ Tom will ever sell some­thing like this:

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=43325&item=6516377146&tc=photo

    I might actu­ally buy one of these…

  51. mariam Says:
    March 8th, 2005 at 11:08 am

    My friend Kristin and I would watch this show in col­lege as well–
    We would roll around laugh­ing so hard at this man.

    He was a true enter­tain­ment piece. Soon he was hit on our floor
    “ODELL»»»»>!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

    I am pretty sure Kris­ten taped a lot of the episodes.
    She may be able to sell you copies.…

  52. LINDSAY Says:
    April 7th, 2005 at 11:58 am

    WOW…I’m in SHOCK at how many peo­ple were into KnifeShow. How­ever, I just watched it last night…So what­ever. You all RULE and so do I, but mostly TOM O’DELL rules. I want a pic­ture of him. Prefer­ably auto­graphed, but any pic­ture will do. Even online. So if any­one knows of good pic­tures of Tom, or even his side­kick Tod, let me know. THANKS!

  53. Ken Says:
    April 8th, 2005 at 6:58 pm

    Tom was the best. Is he still on the air somewhere?

  54. Nathan Says:
    April 16th, 2005 at 7:05 pm

    Oh. My. God. I watched this show in high school and about shit myself from laugh­ter every time it was on. And I thought I was the only one.

  55. Chris Helms Says:
    April 18th, 2005 at 9:44 pm

    Lind­say, send me your email address and I will get Tom and Todd to auto­graph some pic­tures for ya.

  56. Buck Says:
    May 3rd, 2005 at 8:23 pm

    you can now watch the knife show off cutlerycorner.net, just click on videos

  57. Chris Helms Says:
    May 4th, 2005 at 11:32 pm

    for­get watch­ing it on the website…i get to watch it in per­son since i work in the stu­dio :mrgreen:

  58. Buck Says:
    May 5th, 2005 at 1:56 am

    What kind of work do you do in the studio?

  59. Buck Says:
    May 5th, 2005 at 1:58 am

    sorry for the repeats, hav­ing a hard time post­ing comments

  60. Chris Helms Says:
    May 6th, 2005 at 11:45 pm

    I do a lit­tle bit of every­thing includ­ing walk­ing thru the live cam­era once in a while. I have done some pro­duc­tion work, cam­era work but mainly I just setup the items.If you hap­pened to catch the show where Tom gets hit by the rub­ber mal­let that was tossed to him.…I threw it

  61. Chris Helms Says:
    May 6th, 2005 at 11:47 pm

    I have that clip on DVD. I will con­vert it to mpeg and post a link once I get it uploaded.

  62. Gregg Stalter Says:
    May 15th, 2005 at 3:07 pm

    Too Kewl! I live in the north­woods and just ran into Tom and Todd since I am up at night because of the pain I am in a whole nights sleep just does not hap­pen. They are great and Tom rules. I watch them over any­thing else on Direct TV and 100 what­ever chan­nels. I haven’t bought any­thing yet but I wouldn’t know what to do with any more knives than what I already have and the money isn’t there since my acci­dent. I love these guys so tell em another wood­sie guy that lives in a log cabin says keep on with it all! They are my early morn­ing enter­tain­ment! I wouldn’t know what to do with­out ‘em!

  63. Gregg Stalter Says:
    May 15th, 2005 at 3:08 pm

    Too Kewl! I live in the north­woods and just ran into Tom and Todd since I am up at night because of the pain I am in a whole nights sleep just does not hap­pen. They are great and Tom rules. I watch them over any­thing else on Direct TV and 100 what­ever chan­nels. I haven’t bought any­thing yet but I wouldn’t know what to do with any more knives than what I already have and the money isn’t there since my acci­dent. I love these guys so tell em another wood­sie guy that lives in a log cabin says keep on with it all! They are my early morn­ing enter­tain­ment! I wouldn’t know what to do with­out ‘em!

  64. Billy Says:
    May 20th, 2005 at 1:50 pm

    Did any­body see the Cut­lery Cor­ner where Tom O’dell say “This is a much bet­ter deal than a rock?” and then holds a rock in front of the camera

    I almost died laughing

  65. Jimmy Says:
    May 21st, 2005 at 3:17 pm

    Biggens Rule. ODELL IS THE KING OF BIGGENS!

  66. James O Says:
    May 26th, 2005 at 11:34 pm

    Tom is also on http://www.coincountry.net.
    Show Sched­ule
    Dish Net­work
    Tues­day: 9PM — 11PM on chan­nel 221, 11PM to 1AM on chan­nel 217.
    Thurs­day: 9PM — 11PM on chan­nel 221, 11PM to 3AM on chan­nel 217.
    Pax TV Nation­wide
    Start­ing Novem­ber 2nd
    Tues­day nights from 1AM — 4AM.
    DirecTV Chan­nel 255 — Dish Net­work Chan­nel 181
    Click here to find PAX in your area.

    He is doing coins as well now.

  67. Tanqueray Texas Says:
    May 28th, 2005 at 3:26 pm

    Holy christ. Before i had satel­lite i had only basic cable and my friends and I used to come home from the bars, drunk as hell, and then we’d get stoned and try to find some­thing funny on TV to watch. many a night we would set­tle for the hillar­ity of Tom O’Dell. we often called his 1–800 num­ber to f**k with his staff but unfor­tu­nately now we are blocked.

  68. Michael McNeely Says:
    June 7th, 2005 at 5:39 am

    Hey Chris Helms, Can I get a auto­graphed pic­ture of Tom & Todd as well? Me and my son stay up just to watch the most enter­tain­ing pro­gram on TV these days. We are both into knives and I have ordered dif­fer­ent sets and I am very pleased with their qual­ity. But to tell you the truth, it’s Toms “plain ole” talk and sale­man­ship that con­vinced me. Loved the show, and I look foward to it’s air­ing every week. Tom rules!

  69. Tom O'Dell Says:
    June 13th, 2005 at 7:14 pm

    You just never know what you’ll find if you ‘google your name’. That dude was pretty enter­tain­ing. I would flip through chan­nels late at night and hear my name… just couldn’t help but to watch it for about 30 min­utes after that. While drink­ing one night, damn near almost bought some frig­ging knives and a big ass samarai-lookin sword!

  70. Chris Helms Says:
    June 19th, 2005 at 11:33 pm

    “Tom O’Dell” you just wish you were Tom. As for the rest of ya’ll that want auto­graphs, I will take my dig­i­tal cam­era in for the Wednes­day night show and get a photo. Email me at helmsc@comcast.net and we will work out postage. I don’t think he will mind auto­graph­ing 12 or so 8x10’s

  71. Chris Helms Says:
    June 19th, 2005 at 11:34 pm

    Did any­one catch the Clean­ing Kit pre­sen­ta­tion about 30 min­utes into the show tonight? Todd let it slip and called it a “Clean­ing Clit”. lol

  72. Thomas Says:
    June 21st, 2005 at 11:38 pm

    WHAT ARE Y’ALL TALKING ABOUT!! I WATCHED KNIFE SHOW 2 NIGHTS AGO (then again I have sattelite).…it was only like 11 at night.….…I’m glad I’m not the only per­son who loves to see him make a fool of him­self. One time.…he had this knife and was pre­tend­ing it was a pen­guin (mak­ing quack­ing noises) HI-LARIOUS!!! I’ve never watched his coin show…but it’s com­ing on @ mid­night 2 night…so I’ll check it out. Hmmmmm

  73. Chris Helms Says:
    June 25th, 2005 at 6:29 pm

    I never got any response con­cern­ing the auto­graphed pic­tures of Tom. I have asked him about it and he is game to auto­graph for who­ever wants them. Email me at helmsc@comcast.net to work out postage.

  74. Alan Says:
    June 30th, 2005 at 4:58 am

    Hey Chris, I want an auto­graph, but i guess since i work there with you, i should just ask him, what do you think?…I know he always asks me to give the cus­tomers the best price possible.…Oh, in case you don’t know…i do work at the show with Chris…i’m in the con­trol room…

  75. Chris Helms Says:
    July 3rd, 2005 at 12:26 am

    Alan, you don’t need an auto­graph where you are going…just a “big­gun” bowie. btw…if you talk to jes­sica before you leave tell her she still owes me that date ;)

  76. Robb Says:
    July 4th, 2005 at 2:53 am

    “I tell you what, this knife, with a beau­ti­ful kokobolo han­dle and 440 stain­less steel tem­pered blade can be yours for only 19.95″

  77. Robb Says:
    July 4th, 2005 at 2:53 am

    “I tell you what, this knife, with a beau­ti­ful kokobolo han­dle and 440 stain­less steel tem­pered blade can be yours for only 19.95″

  78. Jen Says:
    July 15th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

    I walked into my liv­ing room to find my boyfriend watch­ing this and said “what the hell are you watch­ing” he said.. “Baby you GOTTA see this !“
    2 min­utes later I was laugh­ing so hard I could not breath…some of our Fav lines…

    “Frog gig­ger dear skinner !”

    “I do belive thats gonna require a band-aid.”

    “That un getcha ?…no (groan) not too bad.…(more goaning)”..by the way we are dieing to get a copy of this show,its the one where the excal­ibur sword falls off the stand.

    “Owww…sharp.”

  79. Jen Says:
    July 15th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

    I walked into my liv­ing room to find my boyfriend watch­ing this and said “what the hell are you watch­ing” he said.. “Baby you GOTTA see this !“
    2 min­utes later I was laugh­ing so hard I could not breath…some of our Fav lines…

    “Frog gig­ger dear skinner !”

    “I do belive thats gonna require a band-aid.”

    “That un getcha ?…no (groan) not too bad.…(more goaning)”..by the way we are dieing to get a copy of this show,its the one where the excal­ibur sword falls off the stand.

    “Owww…sharp.”

  80. Jen Says:
    July 15th, 2005 at 4:04 pm

    Oops sorry for the dou­ble post all the header warn­ings thru me off.

  81. Warren Says:
    July 15th, 2005 at 9:42 pm

    I’m Jen’s boy friend. There have been many nights where we are try­ing to fall asleep and we burst into fits of gig­gling and one of us will quote Tom… “An actu­aly DEPLICTION of Robin Hood on the sword.” or, “We pet him once a week wether or not he needs it.”.

    Who knows more/less about knives? God or Tom? IT’S A TRICK QUESTION! Tom IS God! LOL

  82. Jen Says:
    July 17th, 2005 at 8:44 am

    Yet another clas­sic line from Mr O’Dell last night when he men­tioned the price of steel going up…

    “Have ya noticed your neigh­bors weed eatin those old cars, findin em and now haul­ing them to be recy­cled. Ya know why ? Cuz metels at an all time high !”

    Hilar­i­ous !

  83. Aaron C. Sears Says:
    July 21st, 2005 at 2:46 am

    You know, I thought I was the only per­son who tuned in on a reg­u­lar basis. If I had a need for 300 knives this would be the guy I would talk to.

  84. Aaron C. Sears Says:
    July 21st, 2005 at 2:47 am

    You know, I thought I was the only per­son who tuned in on a reg­u­lar basis. If I had a need for 300 knives this would be the guy I would talk to.

  85. CodeWarrior Says:
    July 31st, 2005 at 1:07 am

    I admit to being a Cut­leryCorner watcher, in fact, am watch­ing Tom O’Dell and Mr. Boone on right now. They are on the PAX net­work here in Texas and are on start­ing mid­night on the week­ends. I’ve watched the show on the web, WHILE it was on on TV.

    My probkem, as a knife col­lec­tor, is being broke and want­ing to order those Bowie collections…

    I thought I was the only Knife Show nut…

    Cool to find others…

    ~Code

  86. CodeWarrior Says:
    July 31st, 2005 at 1:12 am

    “The Hun­ners (Hunter’s) Com­pan­ion and the Squir­rel Skinner..on our sum­mer siz­zler sellathon”

    “You know, so many peo­ple are in the out­doors right now…“
    at 1:12 AM? :)

  87. Jack Comeaux Says:
    August 2nd, 2005 at 4:05 am

    I started watchng this show about a year ago and thought this guy sounds drunk (oDell) but hes hav­ing fun obvi­ously. Hes a nut and the world needs more nuts like ODELL. i saw the show where he tells his bleed­ing part­ner I think thats gonna require a band aid. You turn off them lousy movies on Skin­i­max and Hoe­Time late at night and jump on over to the Cut­lery Cor­ner for some real down home enter­tain­ment. Get your­self a BIGGUN!!

  88. Real Tech News - Independent Tech » Late Night Confession: I Watched Cutlery Corner and Bought a Ton of “Tactical Folders” Says:
    August 13th, 2005 at 12:26 am

    […] ls off the stand. “Owww…sharp.” ——————- Source: Is The Light OK? and of course… CutleryCorner.n […]

  89. james Says:
    September 10th, 2005 at 10:49 am

    Yo queiro Tom o’ Dell?
    Tom is THE MAN !Where else can you see a South­ern guy bust out bowie knives and samu­rai swords left and right.

  90. theknifer Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 10:51 pm

    whats cut­lerycorners website?

  91. Don West Says:
    September 29th, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Reply ot theknifer:

    http://www.cutleycorner.net

  92. Don West Says:
    September 29th, 2005 at 9:13 pm

    edit:

    can’t spell.

    http://www.cutlerycorner.net/

    One dol­lar and a nickel for all these knives.

  93. Jasen Says:
    October 12th, 2005 at 1:57 am

    Tom is the best. My wife and I have been watch­ing for some time. I have read all of your post­ings about Tom and Todd. Tom is great but Todd needs to go. There is one per­son on the show that none of you men­tion, the cam­era­man Tick. We have turned many of our friends onto this show and they all love it, but we all agree that Tick needs more face-time. Put Todd behind the cam­era. I think it is great that Tom has such a large fol­low­ing. There is noth­ing bet­ter than watch­ing him when he brings out my favorite BOOOOEEE, TOMZILLA. If I could just buy TOMZILLA, instead of 187 knives for $1.23 each, I would be inclined to pur­chase it just to be the first of my friends to own one. If every one of you Tom lovers would just tell your friends to watch, it wont be long before Tom’s show is big­ger than QVC.

  94. Steve McQueen Says:
    October 12th, 2005 at 10:28 am

    Tom is an out­right leg­end!! Not only does he dis­trib­ute a won­der­ful high qual­ity prod­uct, he also enter­tains the masses with the ease of a court jester. Tom has taken the some­what mun­dane job of sell­ing knives and turned it into an art form. I do how­ever, agree with an ear­lier post­ing made by “Jasen.” Tick needs more face-time!!! Tick seems to be very com­i­cal and an entrep­neural genius. I think the show and its loyal fol­low­ing would both ben­e­fit from Todd and Tick swap­ping roles. Todd seems to bring the show down much like a pay toi­let in a diar­rhea ward. I was relieved to find this web­site and learn that I was not the only pas­sion­ate Tom O’Dell fan!!

  95. Bo Says:
    October 31st, 2005 at 3:55 pm

    Best show ever. Found it 3 nights ago and fell in love.

    Where can I get that DVD ?

  96. Josh Says:
    November 3rd, 2005 at 8:55 pm

    does any­one have any footage of don west from his shop at home days?? will pay $$$ for any tapes or dvds of this great man! please email me bigcheese211@yahoo.com Seems like every day I get some­one call in say “Don, I’d like to buy that hall of fame set” or “i’d like to buy the grand slam ven­tures tiger at 5,000 buck” but the fact is, folks, if you missed it, then you missed it. There’s no going back in time here, folks, so be sure you get ver­i­fied on more than one. — Don West

  97. #1 Tom Fan Says:
    November 12th, 2005 at 3:25 pm

    I LOVE TOM O’DELL HE’S THE BEST, LAST NITE HE WAS EATING PUMPKIN PIE AND SHOWING THE CAMERA WHILE TODD TRIED TO BE ALL SERIOUS AND SELL A DEAL. TOM IS A GENIUS SALESMAN

  98. BUBB RUBB MACINTUBB Says:
    November 21st, 2005 at 7:45 am

    I think Mr. Thomas O’dell is one of the most enter­tain­ing peo­ple on tele­vi­sion. With deals like “Todd’s Back­door Blowout” and the infa­mous Red Bone Muskrat Skin­ner, how could you not love him? There is noth­ing like a lonely week­end night with a few beers and Tom.

  99. Tyler Says:
    December 5th, 2005 at 9:54 pm

    Mr. Thomas O’dell is the great­est man to ever live. I was watch­ing some fine Cut­lery the other night and Tom was goof­ing on Todd, as usual. The “kit name” was called Todd’s Par­adise. Tom came on first and said, “This is Todd’s Par­adise: No women! Just good ol’ Tom O’Dell and fine knives of Cut­lery!” I laughed so hard I nearly pissed my pants.

  100. Harold Says:
    December 31st, 2005 at 9:23 am

    dude that show isnt off the air, i just watched it this morn­ing and bought some stuff off there.…sheesh some­one must not paid their cable bill and hasn’t real­ized it.….

  101. Craig Says:
    January 2nd, 2006 at 12:08 am

    Yeah, I watch the Knife Show all the time. I never knew that there were more peo­ple like me and my friends who like to laugh at the hilar­i­ous antics of Tom.

  102. johnnie Says:
    January 7th, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    Yeah, I watch the Knife Show all the time. even if I did not buy somthing every night i just enjoyed watch­ing the show for the laugh at the hilar­i­ous antics of Tom.

  103. Walt Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Does Cut­lery Cor­ner broad­cast on (Time Warner) cable any­more? An email to Tom O’Dell broiught no response.

  104. andrew Says:
    January 31st, 2006 at 3:25 pm

    My buddy John claims he’s seen Cut­lery Cor­ner on our local PAX affil­i­ate (or what­ever they’re call­ing them­selves these days) — he has Time Warner Cable in South­ern Maine.

    YMMV.

  105. Without Tom Says:
    March 10th, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    I live in the sub­urbs of Detroit and we used to have the plea­sure of view­ing Mr. Tom O’Dell. I am really upset that the PAX net­work that we used to watch him on no longer has the show on or at least that I’ve seen. If any­one knows if this show comes on in the Detroit area, please let me know what chan­nel and time it comes on. For now the only time I can laugh my ass off is if I watch their taped shows on http://www.cutlerycorner.net Its just not the same watch­ing it on the com­puter. Maybe they stopped air­ing it in our area because we pranked the show to much! Oh, well long live Tom O’Dell and his great art of sell­ing knives!

  106. Chad Says:
    March 22nd, 2006 at 4:26 am

    ok, first off, my # is blocked from prank call­ing cut­lery cor­ner. I would like to con­tact tom odell.. but at any rate
    FOLKS RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE AXETACY!
    AND LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT THE SCIMATAR OF POWER! A RUSS FARRELL LIMITED SERIES

  107. leo gayten Says:
    March 27th, 2006 at 10:49 pm

    I par­tic­u­larly liked the sword extrav­ganza with 6 swords. That included the Robin Hood and five other fine qual­ity blades that I am very sat­is­fied with. Thank You Leo Gayten

  108. Brad Says:
    April 16th, 2006 at 2:32 am

    I can’t believe no one has men­tioned the beanie babies don west used to sell on shop at home, that was fun­nier than than the sports col­lec­tables. I just pur­chased a small set of knives to test them out, i could buy one knife for fifty bucks or i could buy 26 knives for 45 bucks. I just had to pull the trig­ger sooner or later.

  109. Holly Says:
    May 5th, 2006 at 11:27 pm

    It’s still on. You just have to look for it. You can still get your DRAGON SLAYER FANTASY knife. Do you think his side­kick will ever stab him for always inter­rupt­ing him?

  110. Don Says:
    June 3rd, 2006 at 8:25 am

    To Holly: I hope not

    Ton’s not just a tal­ent, he’s an institution.

  111. Don Says:
    June 3rd, 2006 at 8:28 am

    By the way I just want to inform you all that Shop at Home, the old home of Tom’s knife show (as well as the Don West Sports Show and other enter­tain­ing late night shop­ping. is going out of busi­ness. IMO serves them right!

  112. Shane Says:
    June 4th, 2006 at 3:51 pm

    My friends and I were watch­ing last night, which we have not done in a while, and we were dis­mayed to dis­cover that Tom was nowhere to be found, and had been replaced by a lame woman. We pro­ceeded to call, of course, and inquire as to Tom’s where­abouts, and were fur­ther dis­mayed to dis­cover that there is a pos­si­bil­ity that Tom will be fired from Cut­lery Cor­ner! This is ter­ri­ble news, and I think we should travel to TN and protest until they re-establish Tom as the head of operations.

  113. Slartibardfast Says:
    June 5th, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    I got the impres­sion from this week­ends show that Tom is just on vaca­tion or doing some­thing else that has taken him off cam­era tem­po­rar­aly. They also men­tioned the clos­ing of Shop At Home, in what I think was a lit­tle dig. If Tom doesn’t come back I’d imag­ine their view­er­ship will drop. I’m hop­ing the King of Big­gins will be back Sat­ur­day morning.

  114. letthebrotherreceivethelight Says:
    June 11th, 2006 at 4:48 am

    You guys and gals are mak­ing it too hard on Todd Boone. He is an inte­gral part of cut­lery cor­ner and with his mul­let hair­cut and good ole boy drawl, he fits right in. Long live Tom and Todd!

  115. Shop At Home is Back, but is O'Dell? Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 9:05 am

    Shortly after post­ing the news of SAH’s clos­ing, I was pleased to hear that Jew­lery TV bought the net­work from its old owner EW Scripps and has reverted the net­work to its’ old col­lectibles for­mat. includ­ing the return of knives . Last week I man­aged to catch a show with Todd Boone and Shawn Leflar, and i’ve heard rumors that they have brought, or are bring­ing O’Dell back, is this true?
    could this even­tu­ally lead to the return of the glory days of the best
    biggens-busting Knife Show in the world?

  116. King James Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    Tom & Todd are cool. Kinives are cool. But the chicks have got to go! These girls don’t even know which end of the knife is the blade.

  117. Isn’t the Light OK? » Blog Archive » Tom O’Dell Trimuphant! Says:
    August 1st, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    […] I’d like to think that I was was a cat­a­lyst for this, con­sid­er­ing the ongo­ing pop­u­lar­ity of my Knife Show post:Wikipedia entry on Tom O’Dell […]

  118. Doc Funky Says:
    August 19th, 2006 at 2:31 am

    Oh my God…I used to watch the KCS all the time a few yers back…and actu­ally bought “the Zato­ichi sword” from them.

    And not only did I find the new Knife Collector’s Show on tonight…but then I find this page. Not only do I see that good old Tom’s alive and well, and with a new website…but I also get to see a clip of Leflar act­ing like a com­plete dum­b­ass and (deservedly) pay­ing for it by get­ting a bro­ken blade in the gut.

    This is the great­est night of my entire life.

    Now if only O’Dell would come punch out this “Todd Boone” guy and stand next to Leflar where he really belongs. C’mon, Shop At Home.

  119. geddingsm Says:
    August 19th, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    Tom rocks!!!!! I thought I was the only one watch­ing, along with my son, now I feel better.

  120. Editortr Says:
    August 20th, 2006 at 2:13 am

    Chris was the MAN! I agree with the post above that he may have been a lit­tle deranged some­times — very patri­otic and some­times a lit­tle too heavy on the reli­gion but he did have prod­uct — strange as it was. Any­body have a clue what hap­pened to him?

    O’Dell and his crew are clearly the rem­nants of the Deliv­er­ance woods­men — O’Dell may actu­ally be the Banjo Boy all growed up. Don’t get me wrong — I have bought knives from them and I do have a mod­est col­lec­tion. I just always fig­ured O’Dell was the rea­son they invented TIVO, either that or the MUTE but­ton on the remote.

    Actu­ally, I’m dis­ap­pointed that they re-run their shows on sub­se­quent nights instead of hav­ing new STUPENDOUS deals every dan­ged night!

  121. Kathy O'Dell Says:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    I can’t believe Tom has such a fol­low­ing. But I am very pleased for him. I am Tom’s sister-in-law and have known Tom for over 20 years. He is just like you see him on TV. Except maybe fun­nier. Tom is a great guy and every bit the out doors­man he claims to be. I am sure he appre­ci­ates all who watch his shows.

  122. David Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 5:01 pm

    Man, I am amazed some enter­pris­ing sort hasn’t slapped up a site for the world’s great­est media per­son­al­ity — TOM ODELL. Clearly there is a need and some­one should fill it. I have spent the last hour online try­ing to locate any­thing about our hero, and it’s tough going. Any­one else have any info on his loca­tion? The Cut­lery Net­work site says to check their cal­en­der for show times… but none are listed! HELP!

  123. Chuck Brown Says:
    September 5th, 2006 at 9:08 pm

    I recall com­ing home late from work­ing the sec­ond shift one night and think­ing about how badly my life was going down the toi­let when I plopped onto the couch and found Tom’s Show.

    For the next 2 hours I was riv­eted to the screen for what was some of the best, most enter­tain­ing tv I had ever seen, watch­ing that almost hyp­notic cross­cut log on the turntable spin­ning round and round as Tom planted count­less exam­ples of the world’s finest col­lec­tor 440 sur­gi­cal steel into that rotat­ing log while declar­ing in the full Tom deliv­ery, “Big­guns or Bust!”

    Tom, ya may have saved my life that night, and I thank you for all that youve given to those of us on the “night shift” since!

  124. John Hunt Says:
    September 6th, 2006 at 5:51 am

    I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time. I have never ordered any­thing because I assume that for this price the knives must be nov­elty items with very low qual­ity and that they are to col­lect only. I agree that the show is very enter­tain­ing, but in all hon­esty.. What is the qual­ity of the knives?
    After read­ing this thread I think I’m going to place an order and see for myself.

  125. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 20th, 2006 at 8:43 am

    What does every­one think about Tom’s new female assis­tant? Per­son­aly I miss the days when he did the show with Shawn.

    P.S. Kathy, make sure to tell Tom about this web site!

  126. Chris Helms Says:
    September 20th, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    Slart­ibard­fast, Tom knows about this site. I showed it to him before they moved from New­port to Dan­dridge last year.

    As for a Tom O’Dell web­site, I can host one on my home com­puter if “ya’ll” are inter­ested. I could even do a domain name if I could get donations.

  127. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 22nd, 2006 at 8:58 pm

    A Tom O’Dell web­site would be great. I’ll look around and see if there is a way to do it for free. All it would take is a free blog or wiki type of site, and the abil­ity to add links to clips from youtube. Maybe a site like blogger.com would do the trick. It would be nice if it was an “open” site so any­one could post there. Again, I’ll look around.

  128. David Says:
    September 25th, 2006 at 7:22 am

    I actu­ally do run some web sites, and it can be done for about $15 a month. I’d want to get as much video up as pos­si­ble of course, and I’d feel the need to have Mr. Odell’s bless­ing. We could run a forum and that sort of thing, and pro­vide a cen­tral loca­tion for all things Tom. The idea that the only place for fans to meet on the entire www is here is goofy. Also, I’ve sent sev­eral e-mails to his cur­rent employer ask­ing for some kind of sched­ule and they’ve never responded. I can be reached at this proxy e-mail address if any­one wants to make an attempt at a “next step”. Here’s hop­ing we can get some­thing going!

    NKLTFIUXYLNG@spammotel.com

  129. Rick Early Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 2:12 am

    Hey Guys, If you go back to Oct. 26, 2004 of this thread, you’ll see what a true fan I am of these guys. If any of you are inter­ested, my son, a friend of his, and myself, cre­ated some­what of a parody/tribute video to Shaun Leflar and Tom’s antics on http://www.YouTube.com

    The name of the video I uploaded is called, “The Knife Show”. We sim­ply loved those guys and usu­ally tried to work in some type of crazy assed antic of them every time we got together.

    As a side note, Slart­ibard­fast, do you rec­og­nize the name “Laz­GunX” by any chance ;-) If so, such a coin­ci­dence, and you’ll know who I am.

    Shaun and O’Dell are still the kings baby!

    Rick Early

  130. David Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am

    How is it all these peo­ple can love this so much and no one will get them a show? I watch these guys read the phone book.

  131. Rick Early Says:
    September 28th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

    Sorry, on the post above where I men­tioned for all of you to go check out the Shaun and O’Dell com­edy bit, I didn’t give you the proper link.

    (YouTubes search engine really sucks and you prob­a­bly won’t be able to find it by search­ing on “The Knife Show”)

    Try this link:
    http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lazgunx&search=Search

    If that doesn’t work, just go to YouTube, then do a search on Laz­GunX and that video will come up as an option.

    It’s no Eddy Mur­phy, but have a great time immi­tat­ing the fun and chem­istry those guys had.

    Enjoy.

    Rick (Laz­GunX)

  132. Rick Early Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 12:00 am

    BTW: Feel free to click on the “Leave Com­ment” link after you watch the clip above and let me know what you think about our crazy assed/fun lit­tle video. lol

    I think we’re going to do another one and actu­ally cre­ate a set like Shaun and O’Dell had, and do a full length “real­ity” par­ody of the actual show. I’ll keep you guys up to date. Let’s keep our boys in the spot light. Someone’s bound to take note of what a fol­low­ing these guys had/still have.

    Rick (Laz­GunX)

  133. Chris Helms Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    David… you wanted the times Cut­lery Cor­ner are on air. From Alan, the graph­ics per­son, here they are.

    Wed., Fri., Sat. and Sun all are 9pm-4am EST.

    I am not sure about other time zones.

  134. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 13th, 2006 at 12:47 pm

    I just saw Shaun sell­ing knifes and swords again on Shop At Home, I though they stopped doing that a few years ago? Per­haps we will get a reunion some­time soon?

    Remem­ber if you miss Tom he can always been seen here: http://www.cutlerycorner.net/showvideo.asp

    P.S. Rick Early that was a funny video clip. You guys should do a 3 minute knife col­lec­tors show parody.

  135. Fan of Don Lapre Says:
    December 18th, 2006 at 10:35 am

    Con­grats!!!!!!! And please you tell me, is this very impor­tant? I don’t think so.

    Fan of Don Lapre
    larisa@larisajoyreilly.com

  136. Slartibardfast Says:
    December 26th, 2006 at 9:48 pm

    Tom has dis­ap­peared from by cable provider, (Knol­ogy), has he left any­one else?

  137. El Pierco Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 1:54 am

    Same here… used to watch Tom every Sat­ur­day night. We recorded it many times, made the pure vol­ume account, suf­fered through the long nights of just Todd and that other girl. Then when our wait­ing finally paid off and Tom returned to us, the damn provider yanked it. Bastards.

  138. north carolin Says:
    January 21st, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Get­ting ready to watch at 9pm on time warner cable tonight. Is any­thing they sale worth buy­ing? Im being serious.

  139. Slartibardfast Says:
    January 22nd, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    North Car­olin,

    I think their “dis­play” pieces are just that, for dis­play only. You don’t want to swing around those swords, or even worse hit any­thing with them. As for their pocket knifes, I imag­ine they are as good as any pocket knife you would find at your local Wal­mart or out­door sup­ply store. As for Tom’s “big­gins”, again I think they are just dis­play pieces, (which can be had for about $20 a piece on ebay).

    With that in mind, if your look­ing for a typ­i­cal pocket knife/folder, or more likely 70 of them, Tom just might be your man.

    Heck, even I wouldn’t mind hav­ing a Delta Ranger or two. :)

  140. Isn’t the Light OK? » Blog Archive » The O’Dell Files: 2007 Edition Says:
    February 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 am

    […] few years back, I posted a short piece about how my buddy John and I used to watch really bizarre stuff on late-night TV, and thus became […]

  141. Slartibardfast Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 5:26 am

    This week on the knife show:
    See Tom eat cake. 1:59
    See a knife set shown that they don’t actu­ally have in stock. 28:46
    See Tom hurt him­self with a Katana 53:29

    mms://media.streamtoyou.com/frostcutlery/ccnshow.wmv

  142. Slartibardfast Says:
    April 14th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    I love Tom’s new whis­per sales tech­nique. The man is brilliant!

  143. Slartibardfast Says:
    May 4th, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    How long before Shela loses a fin­ger? She is con­stantly stick­ing the fold­ers into the stumps with­out first lock­ing the blades into place. She’s been lucky so far, but how long can her luck run?

  144. spurfan Says:
    June 10th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    Tom O’dell for pres­i­dent. I’m seri­ous. Also, we think Sheila is a fine addi­tion to the show. And I do mean fine.

  145. o'dell's ghost Says:
    June 12th, 2007 at 8:58 pm

    o dell looks sickly! the man has lost half of his body weight since his hey­day in the knife show!

  146. Slartibardfast Says:
    June 14th, 2007 at 6:37 am

    I think Tom saw that video footage of him­self on Kim­mel and decided that he needed to drop the weight so that when Hol­ly­wood calls next time, he will be ready!

    P.S. I don’t think he looks sick, but his face does have that look a per­son gets when they lose a great deal of weight very quickly.

    P.S.S. Every pound Tom loses, Todd gains.

    P.S.S.S I’m sur­prised they don’t have Sheila try to “sexy” the show up a little.

  147. andrew Says:
    June 14th, 2007 at 7:12 am

    P.S.S.S I’m sur­prised they don’t have Sheila try to “sexy” the show up a little.

    Weren’t they try­ing to do that toward the end of O’Dell’s time on Shop At Home? I seem to recall read­ing an arti­cle about them hold­ing audi­tions for a “knife girl” to join O’Dell and Leflar…

  148. Slartibardfast Says:
    June 23rd, 2007 at 2:49 am

    andrew said: ” Weren’t they try­ing to do that toward the end of O’Dell’s time on Shop At Home? I seem to recall read­ing an arti­cle about them hold­ing audi­tions for a “knife girl” to join O’Dell and Leflar…”

    I don’t remem­ber, but I’m bet­ting your right, see­ing as Shop At Home is sell­ing knives again with Todd Boone, and they have teamed him up with a knife babe. They have her in a low cut sleeve­less, spaghetti strap top.

  149. Slartibardfast Says:
    June 23rd, 2007 at 7:59 pm

    Mar­ket­ing genius! Now Tom is sell­ing a knife/sword set, and he won’t tell you what the price is! You have to call up in order to find out the cost.

    P.S. Looks like Tom broke his leg. He has a cast, and did the lat­est show while sit­ting in a chair, while Shela did all the phys­i­cal work.

  150. cjwalton Says:
    June 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    Last night he actu­ally called him­self a “one-legged man;” my wife and I couldn’t quite decide whether he has actu­ally lost a leg or not. He looks ill. The left leg looked arti­fi­cial below about the knee. Hadn’t tuned in for a while; hope he’s there next time I do.

  151. Slartibardfast Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 12:22 am

    It does look like he has a pros­thetic leg from the knee down, but I can’t be sure. Does any­one know any­thing about this?

    I hope he’s ok…

  152. Slartibardfast Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    The new show demon­strates the lat­est in early morn­ing sales tech­niques. They now have Tom, She­lia, and Todd all talk­ing over each other at the same time. I can’t under­stand what any of them are say­ing, but it must be impor­tant because they are all shout­ing. :)

  153. Slartibardfast Says:
    September 9th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Looks like they are break­ing in a new guy…

  154. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    The site is back! I was wor­ried that it was gone forever.

  155. Michael Maniscalco Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    “A FIFTY SIX INCH SCOTTISH CLAYMUH uh oh slap me in the head A FIFTY EIGHT INCH SCOTTISH CLAYMORE DESIGN WEIGHING IN AT A WHOPPING TEN TO TWELVE POUWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNDDDDDDSS.”

    one of my favorite O’dell quotes. It goes from intense to reg­u­lar to intense. classic.

  156. Michael Maniscalco Says:
    November 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    any­one ever hear the story Tom tells about the Mickey Mouse Bowie?

  157. Slartibardfast Says:
    November 9th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    Mickey Mouse Bowie? I missed that one. Have they ever had one on the show?

  158. Nancy Odell Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

    Hey!…I Googled for jason o dell, but found your page about Dell…and have to say thanks. nice read.

  159. michael maniscalco Says:
    December 17th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    I have a dvd where he tells a story about his first knife. A mickey mouse bowie. The knife was never on the show. Its only a story.

    I can make copies. I was going to do this at one time but was really busy with work. well now I am semi retired. Send me your address to mjmaniscalco@hotmail.com and i will make you a copy.

  160. Slartibardfast Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

    Michael,

    A DVD will not due. It is a crime to hoard the good­ness that is Tom O’dell! Post that bad boy on youtube. Show the peo­ple there is more to Tom than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLYxlqc3gQ

    :)

  161. michael maniscalco Says:
    December 19th, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    10/4

  162. Doreen Larkin Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    I just stum­bled across this site and am SO HAPPY to see that I am not the only one out there record­ing The Knife Show. I started out watch­ing Ron Popeil in col­lege, and recently (sev­eral months ago) dis­cov­ered Tom O’Dell. My fam­ily now watches The Knife Show regularly.

    So I read above about some­one who works in the stu­dio obtain­ing auto­graphed pho­tos. I would DIE to get one of those. The post was from awhile back, but is this still a possibility??

  163. Jesse Says:
    February 12th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    just wanted to announce that the knife show reunion is on right now

    todd, tom, and shawn are talk­ing about the good ol days

  164. todd Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    I find some­thing oddly com­fort­able with the show. Leflar is a lit­tle nutty but lik­able. Todd Boone cracks me up when he tells you the names of the knives. This one is the “howl­ing wolf”, this one is the “Night Ranger”.

    It’s funny how todd can’t pro­nounce “old”. “Told” becomes “toad”, “sold” becomes “sode”, “hold” becomes “hode”, and so on.

  165. andrew Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 5:40 am

    Reunion show??!? Please tell me some­one DVRed this and is upload­ing it as a tor­rent soon…

  166. Russ Says:
    March 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    I too was a fan of the now gone knife and coin show of shop at home tv.

    I think I first saw Tom and Shawn back in the late 90’s. Tom was a much larger man than he now is and Shawn is still the same old Shawn.

    I never saw any bad acci­dents but a few bandaid incidents.

    Seemed like Tom was always being harassed about his favorite break­fast bev­er­age. Some­times you would almost think it was a break­fast of wild turkey.

    I have the mul­le­nium Daisho set with the fur­ni­ture grade stand and cer­tifi­cate of authenticity.

    Shawn “440stainlesssteelandremoveablebeltbootandpocketclip”.

    Here in Min­nesota you can now see Tom And Todd boone on broad­cast tv chan­nel 41 after mid­night on Fri, Sat. and Sun. nights. cutlerycorner.net

    Trade in the gal for Sean and get rid of the rin­ing phones in the back­ground and this would be clas­sic three stooges.

    In fact I would look at their old reruns and not even need to buy a knife.

  167. Robert Merritt Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 3:55 am

    Hello this is Rob. Im actu­ally Tom’s step­son and I also work in the stu­dio with them. I set all the knives up for them to show. O and for all the prank callers, yes thee knives are sharp!! I cant remem­ber how many times Ive cut myself now. Its a fun job though. O and the show is on cmt now also. 9:00p.m.-1:00a.m. Toms half of the show usu­ally starts at 11. Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun., are the days. Ill keep in touch. Later.

  168. Brent Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Wow guys, well what can I say that hasn’t been said. First off I’m 23 years old and I got started watch­ing this genius of a pro­gram at a friends house late one night. I remem­ber him say­ing some­thing like “You gotta see this shit, it’s a knife sell­ing show and it’s LIVE!” Didn’t think much of it at the time but when I sat down I was hooked instantly. You can’t beat live TV peo­ple you just can’t, even bet­ter you defi­nately can­not beat LIVE Tom O Dell. Any­way that was about 6 years or so ago and I for­got all about the show.…until I got cable this week!

    Knife Show isn’t about the knifes at all, or at least not for me. It’s about hear­ing Tom use every crappy cheesy corny sales pitch in the book, and some before the book was written!

    If you REALLY want to enjoy the show then my advice is before you sit down on the couch to watch (you won’t be mov­ing for awhile trust me) grab your bong or 6 pack or 40 or what­ever drug/stimulant of choice and just GO NUTS! (we don’t judge) I need to make sure I clar­ify that. If you’re a stoner then just bowl after bowl after bowl OR make a smoking/drinking game out of it. You CAN be sober to watch but It’s just THAT much bet­ter when you’re not, lmao. Pot­heads seri­ously if you have never seen this show you don’t know what you’re missing.…

    Some of my favorite moments (that I can remem­ber lol)

    - The one that sticks out to me is the first time I heard this: Now Tom is there any­thing else in this set that’s gonna make peo­ple pick up that phone? WELL TODD HOW BOUT A NINJA SWORD!?! I lost it, I mean I f*cking lost it.

    - Another one I remem­ber is one of their giant sets of what­ever, long story short it was “too good of a deal” so Tom kept telling us at home DON’T WAKE UP JERRY or BOB or who­ever the boss was. I just thought that was funny, 5 min­utes later they super impose it on the TV in a blue banner!!!

    I could go on for awhile, but Tom is a hero man, for the late night stoner com­mu­nity and knife and ninja sword con­nois­seurs every­where. It’s really cool to see that so much of us watch this show because like most of you I thought we were the only ones…

    It says the show airs at 3:00 tonight (well tech­ni­cally Sun­day) on ION what­ever the hell that is. I’ve been look­ing for it on CMT and any other sta­tion late at night with “Pd Pro­gram­ming” on. I thought I used to watch it on F/X but I might be wrong. Are there any other sta­tions it comes on dur­ing the week or am I doomed to only be able to watch on Sun­day early mornings?

  169. Slartibardfast Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    If any­one out there doubts Tom’s great­ness, just look at this clip:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS45NGYBqUw&feature=related

  170. edward bliss Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 am

    i miss the tom odell show and his antics as they were funny and des­per­ate sounding.sean was the coolest soc­cer player turned host id ever seen and he didnt bs as much as the oth­ers did everyday.they all-odell and west would shout and say be dialen,be dialen as were sell­ing out.major don west was hillar­i­ous and the beany babies were the best thing hes ever sold period.it was like a griz­zly bear sell­ing mit­tens lol.he was billy mays role model i think.he used to mis­rep­re­sent alot of cards val­ues or was mis­taken pos­si­bly but i dubbed him and kenny golden the kenny and friends psy­chic friends network.they seemed to be smarter than the aver­age bear with the unc jor­dans and that youd retire with the aid of many 1989 wax boxes purchased.unfortunately you didnt as they arent worth­less by no means but nowheres near what you were promised.purely spec­u­la­tion on their part but it was a great time had by all as they would spout off until wee hours.limited edi­tions cards they said but had a seem­ingly end­less sup­ply for over 2 years esp year 1.lastly hows can you take a card worth $1.30 cents and grade it as a 10 and then mirac­u­lously it jumps to $200?well idk but they could! maybe its worth $3-$8 now and maybe $10,$15,$20-$30 in future years/decades.they might even tell you that you will receive 2 gem sosa and mcg­wuire cards that are sought after.yeah,they might come from a drakes box and be highly prized among mid­dle school­ers and worth $1 each.there was plenty of great cards thrown in with worth­less ones so you never made out prop­erly if you stuck to basics.the exclu­sive pack­ages were the ones that if you got rid of imme­di­ately once got­ten in the mail youd eas­ily dou­ble your money or make a nice profit anyways.but if youve waited until now with the excep­tion of a few deals you got stranded and spent far too much on them.you might as well sell those auto.cards,rookie cards,gold cards,jersey cards,motion cards,ball cards,wax boxes at your local flea mar­ket and or ebay.but you might still get stuck with the major­ity of your goods as peo­ple real­ize the decline in them nowdays.alot of the stuff they were sell­ing was just that,stuff! but one things for sure! it was a plea­sur­able shop­ping expe­ri­ence in some ways as it was comedic how theyd argue and say this cards gonna be worth $3,000-$4,000 –5,000 next year when its a $400-$500 card tops accord­ing to high rollers only and maybe $300 elsewheres.never increas­ing in value and now about 8 times lower in value today.worse is the fact that theres plenty of those griffeys,oops i said it so there,floating around.they abused the tiffany mcg­wuires and as good/desirable as they were rare they arent close to what they were sell­ing for then and now in my opin­ion. the folks over at ken­nys psy­chic friends are about as amus­ing as kenny rogers psy­chic friends on mad tv lol.but in the end theres noth­ing too too enter­tain­ing about get­ting taken to the clean­ers pro­vided they were out to do that to us,eddy

  171. edward bliss Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am

    ok maybe i was a bit harsh with don and kenny as i dont hate them at all and they did offer lots of great cards and sets at huge savings.the blue chips were atro­cious some­times as you got nowhere what was promised in book.maybe some did but mine was like $300-$350 if im frig­ging lucky.they said $500-$600 or so.thats how it should stack up but it was about half that or 2/3rds at best in my case.thats not what they offered and said so do the math peoples.don went to tna and some­one says hes the worst wrestling announcer in his­tory but id think thats his true calling.weird if hes not good as a host but then again hes a seller and not really a vince mcma­hon type.then theres a com­ment he had white residue pow­der under­neath his nose in a youtube video.the way he was so wiry im not sur­prised if it was u no wut and not caf­feine that kept him rid­ing high.maybe he needed it to keep going but ill not assume its ille­gal any­things and just a rumor for now.they had nice deals but do you really wanna know how they did it all?by get­ting your hard earned moohlah and buy­ing cheap from there wide list of ven­dors and pass­ing on that sav­ings to you.what they were really doing was tak­ing a dol­lar from the pig­gie bank and putting a dime back in. don was bril­liant how­ever and like his apprentice,billy mays could sell you a white shirt and a jar of tomato sauce.he was the loud­est guy on tv and mays a close sec­ond lol.kenny,if youre read­ing this as i hope you are,i did receive an awe­some deal from you a cou­ple times.but wheres my elvis 45 gold plated record framed/unused con­cert ticket com­bined deal from 2000 i paid for and never got?i paid for 3 deals and hon­estly got 2 but never the 3rd.you will receive,my ass ken.theres also the $100 rookie 1986 mcg­wuire to which instead i got a 1987 topps $7 card.what hap­penned to you will receive?its not that im call­ing you a sucka u sucka but im the real sucka here u sucka.but its a car­ni­val type pro­gram you ran and duped many unsus­pect­ing folks.i say you guys were forced off the air as law­suit­ers were feel­ing com­pelled to file a class action suit as i pondered.can you blame us?hows about the bea­t­les suf­folks downs unused con­cert tick­ets which don swore repeat­edly was book­ing at $1,250?i looked it up finally in a rock n roll guide and it was $125-$150.maybe $175,$200,$225,$300,$325 tops to a des­per­ate buyer.this is the juve­nile ripoff­ing bs im talk­ing about.while every­ones prais­ing you guys over here im both bless­ing and curs­ing as its right­fully and richly deserv­ing and merited.i luv the old show and great deals but it was bet­ter all together if i had avoided them all together.how come kenny was always on the phone?because he was too busy laugh­ing his ass off at all us idiots or a guilty con­science and prob­a­bly in the next room.we never saw him ever until he had his own show.he was a great voice and a knowl­edge­able expert but mis­used and abused that talent/power ill accuse.he tried very hard to make money as any­one would.heres a quote from him in forbes mag,ill not stay in a busi­ness thats not prof­itable he said.well ill not buy into a biz thats a scam going on at least from time to time im say­ing to him.im not the only one grip­ing and complaining,trust me fellas.go over to youtube or eopin­ion and youll see more good and esp bad press alot.far be it from me to whine so much as its past but i say if i had the same expe­ri­ence back then i do today id be 3 steps ahead of them.id buy only what i knew was a sure thing like the because we cans-the best in my utmost opin­ion and the 30 rook­ies in a 10 grade each.why did don/kenny exxager­rate to the point of rip­ping us off?because they could! how about the wax boxes like 10/$200 as those were pretty damn good at 1st glance but lots and lots of worth­less cards and some fan­tas­tic ones in the mix as well as mediocre and com­mons run­ning ram­pant i figure.no exp there in buy­ing them but i did see them opened on the show dozens of times.i might be wrong but ill bet its just barely worth your time on most but not all of those deals.70%-80% on the high end ill bet in that sen­tence as an aver­age stat. its bet­ter to buy 1–2 of those pack­ages and if you sell them all ok thats great.but col­lec­tors im sure had them in groves already and dont need so many repeat cards.the rook­ies ok but if you sell just them you might make your money back and all the rest are not the greatest.you might double,triple,quadruple,fipple your money-5 times as its a word made up but you might not.id say how could you not sell big there and make it all back more than once but so much com­pe­ti­tion and its not like youll never see those cards going away.they will always be among us in the biggest quan­ti­ties usu­ally any­ways ill sound off.its like mego star trek dolls from 1976 as theyll always be with us.if you see none this week youll see some next week or next month or next yeear but usu­ally there avail­able to would be buyers.last thing ill say is kenny claimed that he was los­ing far too much moohlah which ill get too in a moment.but first he is a bs artist most of the time.maybe almost sub­con­ciously but im sure his camp pointed out his flaws which were quite obvious.one being lelands and christys is 2 places that elite go to buy things and theyp ass on some items ill holla.regular folks like me dont buy/sell from there so we are at the mercy of a more down to earth rea­son­ably priced seller.that how­ever wasnt always fore­most the case with mr golden.but he did redeem him­self 1 par­tic­u­lar night if he was being on the level which i think yes he was but idk sometimes.8 top auto.cards of shaq,bird,clemens,etc for $100! i didnt even get a chance to get it as it was sold out in no time.he was noto­ri­ous for the bait and switch routine.its a pro­fes­sional shell game hed play and often times.another words is he turn­ing a new leaf here or more of the same shenanigans?this is when he said hes got tax time com­ing up and owes some mean green.my words not his! he puts a 1986 fleer gem mint 10 michael jor­dan rookie card in a 4 card set for an unbe­liev­able char­i­ta­ble like $1,000! it was the fleer 86 rookie,sticker,1989 unc b/w card,fournier estrel­las card all 4 in pris­tine gem mint 10s.he promised all 4 and that the jor­dan was the real deal as it was psa dna graded.if that was a $25,000 card at the time wouldnt he just sell it for full price or at least $15,000,$18,000-$20,000 or so?heck even $5,000-$10,000,$12,000 is far bet­ter than $1,000 for it plus 3 other decint cards.i shit almost mesas pants as i wouldve rather had got­ten that deal but i got ripped off with there other deals and shouldve saved up and stopped spend­ing on the sucky,junky cards i bought.ok,thats $250 for it in this deal.but lets call that $500 by todays stan­dards as the other 3 have gone way low in price.fournier idk as they get big money sometimes.but lets argue $500 today for that card in the deal minus the $500 in value for the other 3 and its a fair esti­mate ill consider.maybe off a bit but close i feel.so youre telling me hed sell a card worth $25,000-$30,000 at auc­tion and always in demand for 50+ times less its retail price?was it a reprint as it couldnt be if its psa,right?did he ever send it out at all?too bad i didnt jump on that one as i wouldve made sure i got it with a lawyer even if pos­si­ble! it might have been legit and whyso retard­edly low ill never fathom.maybe if it was true he sud­denly felt like the heel he was for a decade or more and threw us a pearl there,eddy

  172. edward bliss Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am

    before the break ill say to ken­nys psy­chic friends net­work lol again that if a com­pany gives you both good and not so good prod­ucts on a con­tin­ual basis theyre incon­sis­tent and not prac­tic­ing good busi­ness ethics to say the least.it cheap­ens the whole purpose.they did try and occa­sion­ally but not always bent over back­wards to impress us viewers.a pub­lic­ity stunt and some gen­eros­ity thrown in too now that i think of it.just because i got some good deals on shop at home and wouldve got­ten plenty more down the line doesnt mean i never got taken to the clean­ers by kenny/don more than once.it was going to con­tinue as i had that gol­drush men­tal­ity so i luck­ily backed off.also i for­got they screwed us kinda sorta with a beany baby pack­age and cheap gum­ball machine like base­ball medal­lions say­ing they were so valu­able as with the coin set from 1986 and the 1lb sack of wheat pen­nies in the mix.there was some stick­ers and some pho­tos i think plus some other stuff to sweeten the deal.id com­pare its sweet­ness to that of grape­fruit for at least half of the items.it wasnt expen­sive nec­es­sar­ily but i had much bet­ter things to spend my $80 on at the time.my fault but what the heck i figured.all in all we got some real nice get what you pay for items but they made it the deal of the decade those brats lol.the unfor­tu­nate thing is i hadnt the fore­sight to con­vert the mail­bag styled sack­cloth from the wheaties into a jason 2 mask and that wouldve been eas­ily today a $100+ item alone.so maybe i need not crit­i­cize them fools too much.but on a liner note to them it was just a $3 sack.the coin set i was told was change but he was wrong-coin dealer as they are worth con­sid­er­able amounts in uncirculated/laminated cond naturally.we got a flag and a glory beany-mcds and a cou­ple other bean­ies so we might have not got­ten ripped so grossly but i think we did to a point.today you can get a glory mcds promo beany for around $5 but in 1999 they were com­mand­ing $25-$30 some out­lets and sold out prac­ti­cally every­where so that was a nice item for its tenure ill not debate it.we got much much cheaper items than was offered as a whole and the cards were no named col­lege amateurs/stars it appeared.if they went some­where then ill bet we got a bar­gain in just them.but they didnt last i recalled and not a def on that line.look at it this way,ill rather have the mcg­wuire $100 rookie which was promised but not deliv­ered than 300 no names that are 10 cents each.$30 is bet­ter than noth­ing but a $100 card is $70 more and couldve hit $200-$300+ in no time back then.but im lis­ten­ing to them too much and will eat that com­ment as for now.hey i got 300 vir­tu­ally worth­less cards of play­ers who could be your cousins.do you want to buy them?nope is the answer for about 87%-92% of the pop­u­la­tion if not more.but ask that guy if hed like a rookie mcg­wuire card for $100 and hed jump on it back in its heyday.i planned on sell­ing that 1 card to make up for my $80 spent and every­thing else wouldve been free.maybe a mixup and not on pur­pose but know­ing them they mightve thought i wouldnt care or notice.well need­less to say i did pay attention.it was the head­liner of this deal and w/o it offered in the first place i may have passed on the issue.yeah its not that bad a ship­ment minus it and i didnt get stuck in the mud as bad as im say­ing here folks but its far more lucra­tive if they didnt go cheapo on us.im a bro­ken record here again and its time to close.but i do hope that ken­nys psy­chic friends see my posts and respond maybe.its late to make good on my losses per­haps and that sucks but i got my feed­back in to demon­strate how wronged i felt and still do.you get a good deal on mer­chan­dise youre always thankful.you get duped with junk you stop buying.kenny-don-etc made me stop being a loyal cus­tomer but not a loyal viewer.i didnt get deterred from tun­ing in and hav­ing some laughs and being informed at ripof­flogy 101.i never tried their meth­ods as its improper but ill bet id be rich if i did that for­mula of theirs on the web.ok guys im out­tie and you will receive a nice hall­mark xmas card kenny but it wont be a hall­mark but a cheapo generic hol­l­i­day card worth about 25 cents.hey gimme a break as its the thought that counts.a nice ges­ture i hope youll view it as too dear boy! its to say thanks for all of the won­der­ful mem­o­ries and for sav­ing me money,eddy

  173. edward bliss Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 am

    last post and ill 4eva leave as im all out of gas! too much neg­a­tiv­ity today on my behalf and its time to give more pos­i­tive data.the knives show was the best.i have not 1 neg­a­tive com­ment about it.the show was enlight­en­ing and it was funny to see burly men sell­ing delta rangers for $1.87 each.ill take a bak­ers dozen guys.it was unreal the incred­i­ble bar­gains offered.you just had to have them and yes the lovely women hosts kept us looking.now im gonna be mean again,sorry,and say why wasnt kenny gold­ens psy­chic friends-i repeat this as they seemed to be so good at relay­ing false pre­dic­tions of cards ris­ing in value,so unlike the knives salesmen?they-knife guys didnt bs around and they used clever sales pitches.they didnt steal your wal­let however.its too bad that kenny wasnt forced to sit through a train­ing sem­i­nar with these guys.he may have devel­oped good inter­per­sonal skills and pos­si­bly a con­science! let me rephrase that state­ment as its too unfair.he may have devel­oped an atti­tude of ok ill take your money but ill make you a sat­is­fied cus­tomer for life.he knew the biz well and manip­u­lated our pock­ets and our con­cep­tions of money to the out­er­most extremes.he did have great com­men­tary regard­ing ath­letes and knew alot of them from signings.i thought the world of ken­nys psy­chic friends and looked up to him/them for months and months but now i must look down.oh the shame of it all.ill invite kenny to respond to my blogs as im not the one who ripped me off,they did.ill refuse to hide as im not wrong but they are! the more kenny talked some­times the more i became appalled at times.he did talk on and on and i was intrigued for months but i grew up fast.if he had been mildly like he was in 2005-better ethic and bet­ter bar­gains i wouldve came run­ning back on bended knee beg­ging for his biz but it was so short lived that ive a the­ory as to why.the view­ers asso­ci­ated him with the ole bad boys net­work and took not too much stock into him or he for­got to pay his airtime.i speak on behalf of 1000s of loyal patrons who he did a whammy job too.its more than the chump change dollars-cents amount.theres a big­ger pic­ture here.what about our pride and his indif­fer­ence to us padres?well thats up to them too to bark but i say that we all need to step up to the plate.he will think were unim­por­tant nui­sances now i say but were peo­ple too.i claim lit­tle psy­chic abil­ity as was oppo­site with kenny for­merly of ken­nys psy­chic friends network.but let me say openly and whole­heart­edly to ken,i pre­dict that if you sell nice stuff like was the shadow of your for­mer self youll be back in the race.but if you make false claims and empty promises as well as emp­ty­ing our wal­lets with your hoopla then youll go no far­ther id imagine.its like why go to you guys when theres topps,steiners,and ebay­ers who sell cards at a dis­count and what you see is what you get.i want to go in the nicest way and flat­ter you.you did offer up a star wars poster-protege of luke n leia cast as mod­els many years ago-95 lim­ited to 500 posters. its a true trea­sure at $100 as i know a guy who got one.i offered him like $500-$700 for it.its a nice piece.well,you ulti­mately trav­elled from tatoonie to the death star and went to the dark side.say it isnt so kenny of ken­nys psy­chic friends hot­line! woe is me as im afraid its true of you and youre not my only hope as theres tons of more hon­est sellers.i think you could start off mak­ing ammends by giv­ing ttm every­one who bought your whacky pack­ages a check for $500 but only to fans of yours who got duped and or lied to.but ill cease that behav­ior as youd go bankrupt.so its your nature to be cun­ning and its mine to know about it.but ill accept no credit as your mav­er­ick atti­tude was out in the open for all of us suckas,oops i meant to say con­sumers to see! if kens got bona fide psy­chic abil­ity then prove it right now to me.tell me how much money i made or wouldve made off of your phoney baloney dri­ves in the late 90s and early 2000?answers minus profit.thats about how the cookie crumbles.its an unpre­dictabile busi­ness and kenny offered some hypothesis.hes a right to his opin­ion and never forced us buy­ers to pick up the phone.im not mean­ing to annoy him as i still think hes the great­est ever bs artist at what he does! i do feel its time for all of us oppressed pupils of ken­nys psy­chic friends to come for­ward in a might­ily big way not to over­throw ken or put him down as we mean to lift him up.we really do.but how can we w/o tuff luv to the mas­ter of pickpocketeers,kenny golden-formerly of ken­nys psy­chic friends network.i want to leave but i am reminded of don lapre-smart man-con man as he bounced back with vit­a­mins but we grew sick of that commercial.it sounded like a great prod­uct but it wasnt for the needy.thanks to kenny-formerly of ken­nys psy­chic friends net­work we all got the shaft.we envi­sioned being on a cruise ship rub­bing elbows with him and telling him how much he helped pio­neer the hobby and increase our incomes.but now id refuse to be a waiter on that same ship with him and would quit before serv­ing him.hows that pos­si­ble you say as its a contradiction?well since ken­nys the jet set­ter dude and so inter­ested in us patrons he had col­lected id be com­pli­ment­ing him by refus­ing menial labor.id rather act the part of bigshot and larger than life just like my hero,ken golden.hes a cult hero sta­tus and worked smarter not harder to get where he is now.i feel we all should tell kenny what he means to us and no don youre not dis­missed yet.ill ask that kenny n donny go and rein­state them­selves at another shop­ping channel.it could be called return of the ripoff dead.or bet­ter yet the kenny and don­nys psy­chic friends net­work! i surely hope they wont fight over whose name comes first as thats easy to unravel.ken comes pre­miered as hes started it all.he never wanted to leave shop at home or tv but found out that he was no longer a tv giant and mogul.he had so much poten­tial and ambi­tion but he threw it away.recapture that atti­tude of take no pris­on­ers mr kenny as we miss youre rev­e­la­tions and alot of your sug­es­tions have come to pass.you said that wed be sell­ing tons of these jor­dan unc 1989 and 1990 cards in 10 years.congratulations old chap as you got that one nailed perfectly.yep were sell­ing hordes of series 1 and series 2 cards as theyre so worth­less esp series 2 that we need to stay afloat.so ill say that proves youre a psy­chic and im right in say­ing i should apol­o­gize to you for ever doubt­ing your pow­ers oh great one.you did offer a fan­tas­tic bonds spe­cial with the sand bat,game used bat and cock­tail party ticket for barry with you in attendance.forget barry as id rather meet you.bonds cant make us rich but you and youre inquis­i­tive­ness can peak our motivations.kenny,you are w/o a doubt the most famous psy­chic in tv history.they got natta on you.you pre­dict stuff and it comes out most of the time.but its not really as we expected its outcome.im opti­mistic though that the hordes of cheap cards you sold us all will be in high demand soon.if ken said it ill go with it as far­fetched and ludi­crous not to men­tion hail mary it sounds.its a good thing you were on the air all those years as i cant help but to pay homage to your skills.its not that youre always right kenny but youre never wrong in your pre­dic­tions for our futures.i only accused you of a bs artist as youve got to be one to survive.id do the same thing if i were you but alot less frequency.thanks to you con­ning all of us for years youve given us the chance to make a livli­hood with the boxes upon boxes of cards that not even a local would buy for more than a few lousy bills.but hey weve got ken on our side for­merly of ken­nys psy­chic friends net­work and if he says theyll sell then believe you me theyll sell! it cant not hap­pen as i believe in ken­nys mys­te­ri­ous vibes.lastly kenny how can 2 of the most gifted psy­chic men­tors be on the same show? ill call that fate and maybe the word accom­plice can apply.afterall this was the sin­gle most great­est duo next to lau­rel and hardy.i miss ken­nys net­work­ing live psy­chics who coun­seled me on sports,love,friendship,my cat,my dog,my wife,my finances.what would or where would we be w/o him and donny?in the gut­ter but although weve arrived there now its not for long as ken­nys intel­lec­tual insight will save us from ourselves.hes wait­ing on pur­pose to bail us out.its to pro­mote char­ac­ter in each one of us disciples.but hes so amus­ing about it that it almost seems as if he cares not about his following.let the truth be known that ken­nys psy­chic friends rules the media and what they say goes for all of us.me,you,our children,our chil­drens children,theyre children,whew! bye bye kenny and donny for­merly of ken­nys psy­chic friends chan­nel wfxt-25 and thanks for think­ing of us all.ill bet youre on an island sip­ping mar­ti­nis as you took the money and ran.but thats ok as mas­ter of your flock you the right to do that.afterall its not long before our ships come sail­ing in as you promised 100s of times andwere on that same island with you.in the mean­time send me a post­card from suck­av­ille as a suckas born every minute.thanks psy­chic kenny and hope you get richer and richer regard­less what hap­pens to your confederates,eddy

  174. edward bliss Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am

    sorry i lied and 1 para­graph and im throw­ing in the towel kenny.ill hope that when i go to sell my 1000s of worth­less but not in my opin­ion cards as theyre from your vault that i only men­tion theyre from kenny and that 1 sen­tence lets the canary out of the cage.its not what you know but who you know kenny.we got you the rat­ings and you reward us with a friendly kick to the ass.but its only as to get our attention.well im all out of words an hour ago but these posts are for you kenny-formerly of kenny goildens psy­chic friends network.ill bid you farewell and i sees how you went to $100,000,000 or more in revenues.you are smart,gifted,had a help­ing hand-us suckas,but also us enthu­si­asts who like bar­gains while com­ing back for more great deals-honorable men­tions are series 1,2 of unc jor­dan wax boxes.the great­est show on earth.im proud to say i was a part of ken­nys psy­chic friends net­work for quite some time.im in luv with the schemes of the fine folks of ken­nys pshchic friends who pre­dict future sales and card val­ues at over 90% accu­racy and are so nice to have left the show as they want to give oth­ers a fair shake.if im right, chances are that theyll return to the shop­ping chan­nels as we all miss them tak­ing our hard earned monies for there pri­vate benefit.its an invest­ment i now know as weve all sit­ting on a pile of hid­den cash.trust in those fine psy­chics at kenny and don­nys psy­chic friends net­work and as im not paid a dime to say this all these times i want to say it.they deserve it as theyre the best psy­chics and bs artists on tv.thats a big com­pli­ment as thats how they roll and its got­ten us rich.well tech­ni­cally not yet but its gonna hap­pen as i trust my best friends kenny and donny as two utmost com­pe­tent psychics/mentalists ive ever seen.ive had the plea­sure of get­ting ripped off by them but now know its reverse psy­chol­ogy tac­tics they employ.how can we make dough from oth­ers if we fail to give out our hard earned cash to ken­nys psy­chic friends hotline.theyre motto is give them a buck and they will turn it into 10 bucks.but youll not see it as its for a big­ger cause,theyre wal­lets! im fine and dandy with that as its an investment.once we make trial monies off our sup­pos­edly worth­less cards weve bought well make more money by invest­ing into more cards to make even more revenue.hopefully well all become mil­lion­aires and drop kenny a per­sonal note such as this one.i cant thank him enuff as hes still a huge dri­ving force in my life.everytime i see a waxbox of worthless,cheap,valueless jor­dan cards from unc i think that its the start of my retire­ment and a brighter future for my family.all of this in part to ken­nys psy­chic friends network.ill hope to hear from any­one at shop at home esp kenny him­self as ill want an auto­graph prefer­ably on a check to me for reimbursement.thats a small token which id be hon­ored and ill def­i­nitely put it back-the money into buy­ing your mean­ing­less cards which as a gifted psy­chic you promised would rise to mars.but take your time kenny as its the staff and not your mis­guid­ance. ccc301_1@hotmail.com

  175. edward bliss Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    kenny and donny,ill con­fess that this entire blog of mine was a prac­ti­cal joke strictly for enterain­ment purposes.look how many times i men­tiones psy­chic friends and bs artists and ram­bled on about wortrh­less coal turn­ing into diamonds!seriously and i repeat seri­ously kenny was a bril­liant genious who i admired and still do but he did bs alot but then again its in his nature to.hes on tv and not some­one across the street or in the park you met yesterday.alot of what i had writ­ten was a joke but alot wasnt.he offered tons of great deals on sports cards and other stuff to which none can argue! i was off kil­ter say­ing he only sel­dom had them deals.i meant to say he always had incred­i­ble cards but a good deal of time they wer­ent the great­est stuff and so valuable.profitable ok but to an adult col­lec­tor you got what you paid for.but with them you got that and then some ill add.im not jok­ing about the unc jor­dans as theyre prac­ti­cally worth­less com­pared to 10 years ago.but i feel kenny sin­cerely thought theyd go some­where as they would sell out all the time.but the over­hype on them was w/o a doubt the worst ive ever seen.the cards were guessed at ris­ing in value and for a time did.they were on top for about 5 years,maybe less and for 2–3 years scored very well.but they are got for $20/each in gem mint 10.maybe not entirely worth­less to a por col­lec­tor but com­pletely worth­less to an investor who bought many boxes hop­ing to send his jids to col­lege and then pay off that house and a car perhaps.im talk­ing the big kahu­nav here ladies and gen­tle­men! noth­ing wrong with a twenty dol­lar bill every­time you sold a card you got for around $4-$5 but when you payed $30 for it and its since dropped to $20 youre screwed basically.maybe sell it for $30 to break even or a tad higher to profit.but these cards were promised to sell for over $20,000-$30,000/set or more if in big­ger demand.now at that rate id be a rich man but well a mil­lion­aire at least once over with my cards and id be happy.but buyer beware as its not ken­nys fault or don­nys but the nature of the hobby in general.im dis­ap­pointed in not ken and don but the industry.thats ulti­mately whose to blame and the poor econ­omy behind it too.im not say­ing im in full defense of ken and don as my let­ters dic­tate otherwise.but im giv­ing them the ben­e­fit of the doubt as i didnt become wealthy by any stretch but i might at least dou­ble my mon­eyand basi­cally no harm done.its good i dont have kids but i di have 2 youths in mind who i pur­posely saved cards for until they were old enough.they will sur­vive some­how but i did try to help them out with the jordans.they seemed so good at the time that if i can reverse mat­ters and say i was ken/don ill bet they being me/another wouldve came my way to buy them gems.its a very unpre­dictable hobby alot of the time as you dont know whats gonna be here today and gone tomorrow.what comes up must come down and its the same in the music industry.many times robert cham­bers would say that he wont promise youll get rich with your coins as thats not what that show was about.now thats a good sales pitch and vio­lates no moral ethic code i can think of! i like that.don would tell you if you fail to but cards youd regret it.other way around sometimes.but he also said he esti­mates and didnt always promise the cards future value.hes just a guy and makes mistakes.hes a gam­bler who if lis­tened to atten­tively might get you in the poorhouse.might make you some money too but its tuffs all im con­clud­ing here folks to be blunt.if youre not sure about cards then shut up say­ing theyll be this much later on.say you have no clue but a hunch youll profit big.don had an amazind deal at tna.an auto.sting black bat,auto.card,shirt and all for $175! thats the old don i miss as yes thats worth it at $300 to me.but then he does it again by say­ing its a $700 deal to him.talk is all it is and a rose is still a rose and wont change into a daisy.its like you telling me my big macs worth $15 when ill say its worth $3.50 as thats the price of it.thats alot for one btw as i liked them at 2/$3 years back.no hard feel­ings to ken­nys psy­chic friends net­work for get­ting us into the red as maybe ‚just maybe well see a turn of events soon with our chep cards we thought would rule the world.so far they havent ruled our dogs!

  176. edward bliss Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    i for­got to ask some­thing here which if they can prove it will get both kenny and donny not com­pletely ok with me but alot ok with me if they do one thing?id like them to pro­duce that price guide from 1999–2000 which stated the $2,500-$3,000 prices on those unc series 1 jor­dan col­lege rookie cards from 1989.i never saw any such prices!they do that and it will estab­lish some cred­i­bil­ity with their high pres­sured sales tac­tics on tv off all places.the vinac­u­lar state of the cards is pen­nies on the dol­lar com­pared to what the prices said in those mags today.they might make a come­back as ill not say its impossible.theres so many out there that its a long time com­ing however.lastly as my arms gonna fall off they had coke stamped on them and were nice to look at.a guy said they wer­ent but i liked their appearance.its like the say no to drugs cards that soar in value later to drop like a ruined cake.they were a char­ity drive so im glad we all helped out the school and ok that is.but what about my school and my wallet?maybe ive taken the fun out of this and got greedy.perhaps and its bet­ter to say that occurred here! but with the premise of $1,000s in rev­enue off of 1 card who can blame me?30 cards equals $60,000 while 300 equals $600,000 and 3000 equals $6,000,000.not overnight but in 5–10 years or 20 at most hope­fully i was look­ing at those sta­tis­tics! now every­one can see the method to my madness.its plain to see and thank you kenny of ken­nys for­merly of kenny gold­ens psy­chic friends netwok.its been a trip guys,eddy

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