Jim Cornette Experience Special - Remembering Harley Quinn Cornette

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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to

a different Jim Cornette experience today.

Now that I've started it, I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish it.

It's not going to be as long as it usually is.

We'll make that up to you in the next several days.

And we ain't going to talk about too much bullshit going on in the world because I wanted to talk to

you guys that listen to us regularly.

And by us,

he's here,

my co-host, my partner, and at this point,

most importantly, my good friend

Brian Last.

Shit.

Well, hello, Jim, and hello, everyone.

And obviously, a lot of people following.

you and following Stacey online and members of the Culticornet Facebook group all over the place.

People are somewhat aware of what's going on, and everyone can understand that this is a difficult thing to talk about, to talk through.

Well,

I wanted to talk to everybody that listens to the show because,

you know, we get emails all the time and we read some of them and some we just send,

you know, acknowledgements or greetings or well wishes or whatever to people without reading their emails.

And we don't read as many as we get because we don't want to be, sound like self-serving.

Oh, look how great we are, people.

But a lot of people have emailed and said that listening to our shows has helped them through

tough times,

I mean, illnesses, deaths and family, major crises.

And

we've taken their mind off of it, or we've helped them get through it, or whatever.

And I've said to you, Brian, probably, and I've thought,

you know, how does our

bullshit show

where we just take the piss out of wrestling and make fun of

because why not

how can that help people

through this series of stuff i mean this is not you know

great you know

goddamn literature we're putting out here right

But now I know what they have meant

I haven't even said this to you really out and out, and you probably figured it out.

Past couple months,

doing our show

has

done the same thing for me.

It's taken my mind off some stuff that was going on

because

just being able to come up here and

even with all of our technical problems, man, you can still hear me, right?

I'm not just babbling into the ether.

Yes, I can hear you.

Perhaps I am babbling into the ether.

But with all the technical problems we've had lately, trying to upgrade the equipment, make the show better, but just being able to come up here in the office and sit down

and

do this show and talk about the stupid ass bullshit that people, wacky people do,

and make fun of it

has been the only time that I've really been able to get away from some things that's been going on here.

And

everybody that's listened to the show for a long time knows that

about a year and a half ago, Harley Quinn, our mine and Stacey's little baby,

our little Princess Pomeranian,

she got an infection.

And

I'm not going to go through the whole medical report, but it exacerbated shit that she may have had going on with her kidneys anyway.

She'd never been really sick a day in her life, but

we got her through that.

And it was kind of bad for a little while.

And

it changed some of her behaviors.

And it took a little bit of her energy away.

She lost some weight and had to be catered to a little bit more.

But we didn't mind that, but she was still a happy, frisky baby.

You know, she was on a few different kinds of medicine, had to go to the

vet down here for fluids for her kidneys and everything, which that was a daddy-daughter trip, you know, three mornings a week.

But

she was, even though she'd have a puny spot every now and then,

she was doing fine and happy.

And

then

I guess I should say, some people now are going to go, oh, it's, you know, he's talking about his dog.

Well, for people who have had pets or have pets or had bad things happen to them they know

and for people who don't it's fine if you don't have a dog because you can't or it doesn't fit or whatever people who don't like dogs are other people that i don't trust and have no goddamn time for whatsoever because there's something wrong with them

but we got harley almost 11 years ago

when i was still traveling and it was stacy found her on the internet and we went to the place and picked her up.

Instantly, she found the place, didn't find her specifically.

She said, Oh, we've got several cute little Pomeranian puppies, and she was the one, right?

And the perfect dog, because

at the same time as she was happy and she was playful, and she was frisky, and all that stuff, she never destroyed anything.

She liked to tear up Kleenex if she found one laying around.

She never barked until she was a year old, and then she would only bark at other dogs or if somebody was coming up to deliver a package.

She had all of the good dog traits, the lovableness without all of the bad dog traits

that people have issues with.

And she was what was able to keep Stacy company while I was traveling first five years or so of her life.

And then over the last five,

she's been inseparable from me, too.

First thing we see in the morning, last thing we see at night.

And,

you know, to be perfectly honest, in the miserable world we live in these days, most of our fond memories of the past 10 years are involving Harley in some kind of way.

So she was a kid to us.

But

in December, that's why I was saying

that,

you know,

the show started being a way for me to get away because she'd had a few bad spells, you know, for a day or two, and then she'd snap out of it.

But in December, she started having more of those and she wasn't in any pain.

She just tireder and less energy and wanted to eat less.

And

we had medicines addressing all the issues with the organs, but that can only do so much.

And

so it's been a couple of weeks ago that we realized that something was going on, and we had a test, and

there wasn't really anything they could do.

And so we brought her home for a couple of days so we could spend with her because she still knew what was going on.

And she,

you know, wasn't, as I said, hurting or anything.

She was just tired.

And I think she

just, you know, at that point, like some people do, is say you know what it's I'm kind of tired of the whole thing

and

and then we lost her yesterday which was February 12th

and I want to say this

this is not a paid advertisement but if you're in the Louisville area

and You might not want to come from Shively.

That's a little ways.

But the Middletown Animal Clinic, if you're in eastern Jefferson County, they've been so wonderful to us.

And

Laura and Eric, the front office staff,

and the Dr.

Kohler and Dr.

McReynolds, and Emily and Chelsea, the technicians,

if you do need a veterinarian, give them they're on Main Street in Middletown.

They have no fucking clue that I am anybody.

And we've been going there for since Harley was a puppy, mostly just for her annual checkups, but I've been in there three times a week for the last year and a half.

They think that Stacey and I are a

wonderful couple that loves their dog.

They have no idea that I'm some kind of pseudo-celebrity that talks to anybody.

But

I can't say what they did for us because

they've never done it before and don't plan to do it again to make what we had to do easier.

But it's because they loved Harley too.

And

when you get veterinary technicians that see multiple sick dogs every day and do a lot of this shit crying and coming in for the exam when they're not even involved just to see what's going on,

you can kind of tell what

kind of a lovable little pooch this was.

And I want to thank everybody because so many,

she's in so many of

Travis Haeckel's caricatures and

the thumbnails on YouTube, but so many of the listeners

over the years have sent her presents and

toys and stuff.

And just since

Stacey let it be known on Twitter yesterday, we've had bouquets of flowers and different things delivered to us.

And I can't tell you guys

how much it means to Stacey, especially that you did that.

And

so that's what we did today was

Stace got

a beautiful metal box and got the blanket that her mother had made made for Harley when she was a puppy and wrapped her up.

And we put her in there with some of her favorite treats and her toys, and

a couple of the flowers that the fans had sent, and

a picture of me and her under the dogwood tree last spring.

And we put her out in the backyard because there's a redbud tree back there, and it's where when we'd go out back, she used to like to sit under the redbud tree.

And

I told you she didn't do a lot of dog-like behaviors that were destructive.

And that dog had never

ever dug a hole in her life.

But last week, right, the last couple of days that she had some energy, when she was sitting down there, she went under the tree and started trying to dig a hole.

So that's exactly where we put her.

And

I know everybody thinks I'm an asshole, or I'm some kind of fucking lunatic, or well, you're right on that one.

But a dangerous lunatic, harmful lunatic.

Hey, fuck you.

I love

animals of all kinds, dogs specially.

And I love people that aren't stupid or fuck around with me.

But

like I said, if you understand, you understand.

And if you don't, well,

you're probably an asshole.

But I wanted to let everybody know why I've been, the show's late and we got a big listenership and Brian gets harassed on Twitter if things don't come out.

And

I just didn't exactly know how to say to Stace, well, go ahead and keep crying.

I'm going to go watch Raw and talk to Brian for four hours

so

that's why we're a little behind this week folks but

anyway um

we are going to get back to a schedule and we know there's all kinds of things going on and people want to hear about it but i wanted to let everybody know

again thank you for giving me some distraction, you guys.

If nobody was listening to this thing, there'd be no reason to do it.

And thank you all for understanding understanding if we're a little verklimped on our schedule.

And

thank everybody who's sent some kind of

word or just encouragement or whatever on Twitter or Facebook or whatever it may be.

And otherwise, I don't really know where I don't have a finish for this bit.

Otherwise, and it's going to be awful quiet around here.

But I'll tell you on a positive note,

I said this also on the show.

People had sent well wishes last summer when Stacey's mother came to visit, had a

medical emergency, had to be hospitalized, and we made the decision that they should move out here where they can be closer to family and doctors, et cetera.

And they'd been in the same place for like 15 years, and it wasn't like they were just

able to tote that barge and lift that bail, but they've they've finally been able to pack up their house and/or pair down their house out there and get all the arrangements made.

And

they are landing in Louisville tonight to move in their new place over here on Monday.

So

we thought we were all going to get together for Valentine's Day, which

is probably not going to be celebrated in this location this year, but

at the same time, you know,

look forward to a new change of pace and someplace that we can all keep an eye on each other and support each other.

And I appreciate you guys being our

family

online.

And now we've tried to get some more of us all together here.

And my cousin Larry's feeling better.

More on that

in the near future.

But anyway, that's what uh

brian again am i am i still on the air you're still on the air and i think everyone uh

understands what you're going through whether they own a dog or not and i also think

there is a relationship as crazy as it sounds between the listenership and harley whether it was travis's artwork and some of them are just ridiculous

Or whether it was sometimes you may have noticed faintly in the background, one of the noises I couldn't get out was you would almost hear someone scoffing at Jim.

It would be hard.

She had a little allergy and she'd cough.

Like that.

And that's, you know,

she's, she's the only dog I know.

I think last time I checked, she had like 5,000 followers on Twitter or something because we started her Twitter years ago.

Just, I think,

if I remember correctly, I just wanted my dog to have more followers on Twitter than Vince Russo.

Do you remember what happened?

I remember this now.

I forget what happened.

And for a while, she did, right?

Well, someone hacked the account, like some porno person, like at the Harley Quinn account, wasn't it?

Oh, yeah, that's that's one thing.

Yeah.

We had to cuss them out.

Like, what kind of idiot hacks a fucking dog's account?

And then we quit working it, so Russo passed her.

But yeah, she's, she's been a social media darling because that, that face, again, everybody that ever met her, ever saw her fell in love with her.

They couldn't resist it.

And it was just, it was something, it was an attraction

that you couldn't explain.

And

she's been around me and stayed so long that she picked up on,

I mean, seriously, if I'd get up in the middle of the night, I know, well, she had a pad, I've mentioned, and she had a pad up here in my office bathroom because she couldn't go down the stairs by herself.

And she had a pad in the master bathroom down there,

you know, for both of us.

I'd get up, pick her up, I'd set her on the pad.

We'd both pee and we'd get back in bed.

Stacey never even knew we were, had ever been up.

But she, you know, if you were out in the yard with her, you had to go back inside.

She's sitting there.

It's okay.

And she would get up and take off on her own, like to the, so it just, it was ESP with a dog.

that she got to know, you know, what she needed to do.

If she left the house out of the back door and ended up a place where it was closer for her to go to the front door.

She knew to go there.

Anyway, all right, I'm rambling now.

Well, you know, I was going to say one of the things that a lot of people probably saw and think of,

maybe the best thing they ever shot for Dark Side of the Ring.

They had that footage of you and Harley Quinn.

So it's not like it's just a character people have heard about or a still image that people saw photos of.

Harley was on TV many times on Vice TV.

Yeah.

And

as a matter of fact, she was a big hit with the crew there.

They always used to come in and ask about Harley first thing, and we'd try to figure out:

Have we done Harley this season?

You know, we don't want to overdo it, but we got to get Harley in.

But anyway, I digress.

The point is now, while I'm halfway,

I'm drumming on my desk while I'm halfway at a positive note, and before this defective cable that I've just found

notches out again, we have to go through some other kind of technical difficulty.

Again, folks, you know,

if you know, you know.

If you don't, you'll never get it.

It's kind of like wrestling.

And I just appreciate everything that everybody's done and said over the past day and a half or so.

And

like I said, plug the vet.

Don't tell them who I am.

If you call and want to make it a point, tell them Jim Cornette recommended you, but don't tell them I'm anybody.

They just think I'm a kind of halfway entertaining elderly guy with a cute dog.

Famous TV personality, Jim Cornette, told me to call.

Oh, please.

And

I guess I'm trying to think if I've covered everybody.

But

otherwise,

we're going to take a Stace and I are going to take another day or so.

We've got her folks coming in, and we got to

get them settled.

And within a couple of days of the time, hopefully, that you hear this, we will be back with a regular show and we'll pick things up.

But

until then, different sign-off for today.

I'm just going to say thank you, everybody.

Bye-bye.

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