hello, i'm steve bryant. i'm your show host today for a very special program.ing to meet a man that some people call the viceroy of value; the count of all things culinary. most people call him the king of the kitchen. who is this great american inventor? ron popeil. let's give him a big round of applause, he's here today. a's inventor, and i'm proud to call him, my friend. hello ron. hi. i'd shake your hand, but i'm loaded down. i was gonna say. look at these. these are knives that i have and i have a drawer like this at home. we all have drawers like this at home. am i right? yeah. let me take these knives and put them where they belong okay. all right. that's that. problem solved. so ron, what really great innovative product have you brought us today? well, i've created the greatest knife. a knife that'll never get dull. we call it the showtime six star plus series. they're perfectly balanced, but before we get into the knife and why it's such a great value i want to introduce to you my daughter shannon, my other daughter lauren and over here my cousin arnol

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