They all love knives, and they’ve helped SMKW build a community that welcomes everyone who loves knives. Swaggs: The SMKWarmy is the greatest group of knife people online – over 100,000 strong on Facebook alone. KNR: You’ve mentioned it a couple of times now. They’ve accepted me as a host from the get-go, and I love them for it. You can definitely be one of the “guys” on Guys Talk Knives and not be a dude. And Jason and Andy really do make it easy to laugh and just say what’s on my mind. It’s a conversation about sharp and pointy things with people who love sharp and pointy things. But, I found out that I can, and it’s so much fun. If you told me six months ago I’d be able to hold my own on a 30-45-minute knife show twice a week – one of them being broadcast live – I would’ve told you that you were insane. Swaggs: Other than crazy town? No, it’s fun. KNR: I know you’ve co-hosted Guys Talk Knives quite a few times as well. Every week we do seven of these Swaggs Reports, and every week I want one. Swaggs: They’re lots of different kinds, and if you find out you’re a knife person like I have, once you have one – you want them all. KNR: So what have you learned about knives? That’s really how the Daily Swaggs Report was born. We tried to come up with a way for me to be a part of the mix in a way that I could learn more about knives. After our two shows aired, we had quite a few requests for more.
Swaggs: I’m guessing that was based on demand from the SMKWarmy – they’re awesome, by the way. KNR: How do you go from a couple of shows to the Daily Swaggs Report? It was like having a good discussion with your friends or family – I guess I just fit. Doing those first couple of shows was a lot of fun. They treated me like family from the get-go, and I had nothing to lose. And they made it so easy at Smoky Mountain Knife Works and on the show. To be honest, I probably didn’t understand the show’s reach when I went on. When he asked me about it, I didn’t hesitate. He wanted to get someone on the show who had never carried a knife before and find out what would happen if he gave them a knife for a week. I’d known Andy for a while, and he told me he had been kicking around this idea for about a year. Swaggs: I know, right? It’s been a whirlwind for sure. KNR: So, how did this happen? Seems like we turned around and suddenly you were everywhere. She graciously sat down with us for a Q&A where we asked her to tell us what it’s like to be “one of the guys” on Guys Talk Knives, how she really feels about knives, and what it’s like to be a woman in the knife world in 2019 (spoiler: it’s awesome, she says). We caught up with Swaggs on a recent trip to SMKW. She’ll have done nearly 100 of them by the time this article is published. SMKW tells us it’s been a real hit with their online community, the SMKWarmy. In 30-45 seconds, Swaggs shows you a knife you may or may not have seen before and tells you about some of its features. It’s a daily video post that drops across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram like clockwork each morning around 7am. Swaggs also hosts the Daily Swaggs Report. “She asks questions we all take for granted,” one of the GTK hosts tells us, “and she helps us reach a lot of people who are just getting started with knives.” Since then Swaggs has been a regular on Guys Talk Knives where she lends a very different perspective from the other hosts who have been involved in the knife world in one way or another for a combined 45 years. It involved cat rescue and bead work – all with the knife she took home, and it was clear that she was hooked. A week later, she was back to tell about her experience. The episode titled “ Never Carried a Knife” featured a vivacious, fun-loving young woman who had lots of good questions and was willing to carry a knife for a week to see what it was all about. The 22-year-old East Tennessean first appeared as a special guest on SMKW’s series, Guys Talk Knives. She goes by Swaggs, and if you keep up with the knife world on social media at all, you’ve probably seen her slide through your feed at least a time or two. You’d never guess that until February of this year, she’d never even considered carrying a knife. She wears a Smoky Mountain Knife Works ball cap like it was made for her, and she drop closes a Spyderco Para 3 like it’s nothing.
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