Les Gold might not give you the shirt off his back, but he would sell it to you. Gold is the owner of the Detroit-based pawnshop “American Jewelry and Loan,” and the star of the TruTV reality show “Hardcore Pawn.”

“Everything's for sale. When I get off an airplane, they go, ‘Oh, Les, we love your earring.’ ‘Not a problem. You can buy it’," he told “Off the Cuff.” “I've sold more diamond earrings out of my ear, because people know that I'm not going to wear stuff that's not really good,“ he said.

Gold is the Ernest Hemingway of pawnbroking. But his trophies come already stuffed—like the lion he keeps in his office.

“Every day when I go to work is more exciting than the day before, because you never know what's coming through the door. If I were to have to sit at a cubicle looking at a computer every day, I'd shoot myself, kill—I couldn't do it. I like the thrill of the hunt,” he said.

Except when the hunt involves live insects. A man came into the store and “he had them under this carpet, this piece of material. He pulled up the material, and oh my God, a thousand one-inch Madgascar cockroaches, an absolute frightening experience,” he recalled.

Gold works with his daughter and son in a store that’s 50,000 square feet of stuff. “People bring in everything. Everything,” he said. There was the skeleton a woman brought in, a stripper’s pole, prosthetic limbs.