Jim Cornette's Deep Dive Into The Biggest Heel In Nashville Wrestling History

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From Episode 505 of the Jim Cornette Experience

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  2. 23:40 He talking about when my old man was a kid. My dad was born in 1926 and talked about having his crystal radio kit he'd sent away for from an ad in a magazine listening to the Grand Ol' Oprey broadcasts in his room because his mother didn't approve of this new hillbilly music and he never got to hear it on the nice radio, no. He had to listen on this little unpowered receiver through an ear plug. He'd spend hours listening to broadcasts from all over Tennessee, Kentucky and even the Virginias when the weather was right. Much later and far away we'd watch the local wrestling on tv and he took the whole family out to the live shows now and then. My first live show was headlined by Dusty Rhodes at the old Robarts Arena.

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  3. Really wish you guys would get back to this more. My wife & I don’t listen nearly as much as we used to because we are just over (honestly, sick & tired of it) the modern Wrestlong reviews. The shows have gone up to 3.5-5.5 hours long now. We just can’t do it, anymore. Used to listen to every second of every show. But, it’s been over 6 months, since we’ve done that. Drive-Thru was CALLED that because it was originally supposed to be the fan questions show. That’s gone to shit now.
    But, hopefully they get back to it. Get back to fan questions & more classic wrestling. Only talk about modern wrestling, when there’s big news, a major fan question, & so on. I began listening, before Brian Last was even there. It was still the NPR-voiced chick that would put me to sleep. lol!
    I actually enjoy Brian Last. I think he’s good at what he does & he truly knows his shit.

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  9. 2,500 weekly in Nashville in 1940 with no tv, computers, or social media, which equals 130,000 in a city that only had 167,000 in it at the time.
    Tony Kahn with billions, tv, computers, and social media with a roster cost of over 50 million, got the same amount of people here when they last here a few months ago, in a city with a metro area of over a million people and also the top tourist city in the country. Goes to show that we still respect and want good wrestling, sadly, that hasn't been around for a long time here. SummerSlam a couple years ago was the closest

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  14. Seriously, if WWE decides to have a physical HOF building, Jim should be the orator for the building. Jim knowledge for wrestling history serve the role well and he can tell stories about why so and so wrestler from the older era in the HOF to the new generations of fans/international fans

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  16. I grew up in Nashville in the 70’s. I missed the Hippodrome by a few years, but always heard of Hippodrome Oldsmobile on West End, I think? But it turns out the actual Hippodrome was down by Centennial Park, by Vanderbilt. Did the Olds dealership move? Or did they just take the name because of how popular it was? Any Nashville old heads know??

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