The history is totally fascinating

Corny’s Ernie Ladd impression never disappoints. It so priceless

Jim should do a whole show on Ernie Ladd in Ernie Ladd's voice Hahahaha I could listen to that all day everyday

Man Jim Cornette paints such a great picture of what real wrestling used to feel like !!! This his such awesome stuff !!!

Remember when Edge & Christian cut that promo where they were talking about swerves?"You know when you're driving down the road at night and a deer runs across the road and you SWERVE your car to avoid it? Well, we're not talking about THAT kind of swerve..."

Cornette’s knowledge never fails to astound.

I love Cornette's Ernie Ladd impression. I've even started using "you just dumbed yourself out of position" in casual conversation, lol.

Cornette doing "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd. Absolutely priceless

21:16 "Ding, ding, ding, the bell rings..." Never enough Big Cat stories, Jim and Brian, never enough.

Idk why but I’m fascinated by the “carny talk/terms” it’s like a lost art of the wrestling business. I feel like us fans use more carny terms than the wrestlers themselves do today.

That Booker talk at the end was poetry!

My wife bought me a really expensive gift. She swerved me when I found out it was bought with my credit card.

Arn Anderson was such a good policeman, he became the Enforcer.

Corny basically described my old job at FedEx with the swerve definition

@20:00 - "It looks like a performance rather than a conflict" This^ sums up succinctly what is SO wrong with wrestling these days and why it died for me ten, fifteen, years ago. Just a pair of people coming out and doing a bunch of moves and going back to the curtain. No psychology any more. No in-ring story telling. Oh, sure, there's plenty backstage "days of our lives" story telling - but no more tales are told in the ring. And i find that a very sad thing... So instead i watch "Brett Hart vs Roddy Piper" Wrestlemania VIII; or Shawn Michaels & Razor Ramon ladder match; Brett & Shawn Iron Man Match. Need i go on...?

where did he get a lawnmower, see thats what happens when the ref doesnt check for forgien objects

Worst term ever going public is "mark". Now everyone who has no argument just throws it around like it makes them one of the boys.

I LOVE Cornette's Ernie Ladd impressions, they're always spot on! BTW, What did they call a NWA v. WWF champion v. champion match? In Comics whenever a Marvel character meets a DC character, that's called a "Crossover"...

“What book?” “Exactly.” Hahaha anyone catch that little back and forth?

"Who shot John" should be "who hired Russo" now

People know what "bury" means. Shame is, nobody uses it properly and it's been overused to the point of meaninglessness. Person loses once that someone didn't want to lose "BURRRIED, RUINED FUREVER"

I learned some of this stuff, as a kid, in the 70s, reading old comic book stories. You got stuff like "Hey Rube!" all of the time, because circuses and carnivals were big elements of entertainment in those days. Also, ballyhoo was a favorite of old Hollywood (Check out the lyrics to Hooray for Hollywood). Fans these days deed to watch movies from before 1995; preferably from before 1945.

Jim Cornette is the best storyteller since my Grandmother.... God rest her soul

That Ernie Ladd impersonation at the end was incredible lmao

I’m such a mark for the corny drive thru .

That John Lennon joke went straight over corneys head lol, I thought it was funny 😂

Carnies gonna carn.

I know that's the Big Cat, but that looks like early 2000s Donovan McNabb in the thumbnail too.

This is one of my favorite episodes so far. Truly enjoy the terms and in a sentence.

wow, i got chills when he was outlining the match as ernie at the end. i really felt like i was there. talk about painting a picture - cornette is 100% correct. poetry.

Ahhh a new one to get me through another 25 mins of night shift!

“Bidness match” Thats where you sell dat elbow like a gunshot baby!

My uncle who was in the business from the 50’s to early & 70’s use to always tell me don’t give me a swerve job! Lol

The Rock didnt kill "jabroni"...granted, he made it a more known term, but Hulk Hogan was the one who has driven it into the ground over the last 20 years after the Rock made it cool. I never heard Hogan use the term until after the Rock, now he says it every chance he gets.

I think the only pro-wrestling terms I use regularly are "heel", "babyface", and "over" I feel like everything else gets a little muddy and changed with time

Next time I'm in public and someone gets within 6feet of me I'm going to scream "Hey Rube!" at them. Just to see what happens.

Technology has abbreviated so much of our language.

Cornette teaches me how not to get old. Words change.

"Milk it" is a wrestling term? that's a common phrase here in the UK

That drawing of Ladd looks like Venus Flytrap from “WKRP In Cincinnati” 🤣🤣

When I was a kid at a carnival and I remember hearing someone shout something right before a bunch of guys started to fight. I thought he was yelling out "Its Ken!" It wasn't until many years later while looking up carny stuff as an adult that I realized he was yelling "Its a clem". Only time I ever got to hear something like that. I wish I had been able to appreciate it back then.

Jim Cornette Jim Ross and Mike Tenay should write a book and get together on one of their shows. All that knowledge of wrestling and its stories through out its long history.

"Milk it" isn't wrestling terminology. It is English.

The last two minutes are phenomenal in an already awesome video.

This is a reminder of the sad state of modern pro wrestling as a whole. There has been so much of the culture and craft of wrestling that has been lost over the last 2-3 decades. It seems like most "wrestling schools" teach the mechanical aspects of ring work but don't go in depth about the business. Understanding the big picture is something many wrestlers these days are sorely lacking in. They may know how to get a cheap pop or spot pops but they don't understand how to build a match, they don't know how to get someone else over while also getting themselves over(they only know how to get over by burying someone else, it seems), and the list goes on. Long story short, when wrestlers and promoters these days often seem to lack understanding of things like terminology, how can one expect a random fan to know these things when they're being fed incorrect meanings by the working professionals who should know better? Losing the language of pro wrestling may not seem like a big deal to some but by losing the language and in turn a large part of the culture of pro wrestling, people are losing the fundamentals of the business of pro wrestling.

he could write a wrestling textbook lol

Jim needs to read a novel in Ernie Ladd's voice.

This was awesome! It feels like I'm at that match.

Jim's respect and passion for wrestling is amazing. He has dedicated his life to the business and he wont allow someone to shit on it without telling them to go fuck themselves. Thank you Jim for standing up for wrestling.

Could Corny do an entire show as Ernie Ladd please?

@11:10 I was just about to say the same thing..."Such cool stuff" 🤓📚

Corny's Ladd is awesome!!! We had Ladd here in Mid South when I was kid and that dude had the best promos!!!

In the uk we say to "powder out".

looking at the comments, so many people still misunderstand one or two of these despite them being clearly explained...

Joe Rogan had a pretty interesting convo about kayfabe in a recent podcast. His guest wrote a paper on it.

Milk it means - stretching it out

8:14 Greatest song by the Beatles!

"Who shot John?" ... "Mark David Chapman" .... I feel bad about laughing at that.

This podcast is the best thing about professional wrestling.

They should do a Ernie Ladd omnibus. Love Cornette's impression

Does "take a powder" come from the french " prendre la poudre d'escampette" ?

Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!🙌🐐🐐

My old man’s favorite expression was “I don’t care who shot John” lol

he hit HHH with a lawn mower lmao

I had a Sci-fi/Fantasy book called "Circus World". 'Hey Rube!' was the planetary call to war.

Really enjoyed this episode. Thanks

Jim Cornette is Wrestling Gold.

what I think would be great is a break down on the styles of wrestling from each territory

Ah... "milk it" has a different meaning today. Because milking it means that when it works, you're doing it over and over again. So getting a pop by punching a guy in the face - "milk it" wouldn't mean signaling you'd punch him... it would mean you'd keep on punching him afterwards.

Wasn’t it Randy Savage who really pushed the entire choreographed planed march? DDP was said to be famous for it as well, doing nothing on the fly.

19th century slang for $1000, Alex

I say figure me in with that context in day to day life.

"but swerves and hits Triple H with a lawn mover.." Jim Cornette channeling New Jack

Jim's Big Cat and Brian's Moxley. Just 5 minutes. That would be one for the ages.

"when he looks like he's gonna hit the finish line on ya...cheat like the criminal ya are...!!!" --There will never be anyone like a Cornette or a Heenan again in wrestling--off the charts talent. Thankfully, we have KZfaq.

I def think the swerve one is right for outta the company because that’s what swerve means in slang

Take a powder means - give me a Bump

People don’t say words like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

I know the term ballyhoo from the song The Lullaby of Broadway.

Another masterpiece by Travis Heckel! haha! This is right up there with his bald Ernie Ladd / Corny thumbnail......i"D LET THEM PLUCK EVERY HAIR IN MY HEAD, I'D BE AS BALD AS AN EGG!

"Hey Rube" was also the name of a weekly column on the now defunct Page 2 of the ESPN website, written by none other than the late, great Hunter S. Thompson.

Holy Shit Jim, you nailed my exact problem with current product (all wrestling has this problem it's like the gorram 'Rona) Ricochet and Seth Rollins specifically have this problem, they don't make anything look like a struggle. It's too fluid, no effort, I personally blame Shawn Michaels and all his goofy shit.

Can we get a Corny Tiger King review Yowie Meowie

I imagine it would hard to give wrestlers today a general story and finish of the match and let them work it out without specifying "don't kick out of each others finishers a dozen times" and "don't do some elaborate spot that would make a great finish in a later match and kill it as a two count in an eight minute match". You would have to really retrain the guys to make it work. You don't want to tell two guys in the opening match to have a five minute match with the heel reversing a rollup while grabbing the tights and then watch them no sell burning hammers at the two minute mark because they want to get in cool shit.

My father always used to say give me a shot of that who shot John so I assumed it meant a strong whiskey. LoL

are you sure " whatever the fuck" isn't part of your old school lexicon? lol

There are two terms (moves) that I wish I knew the names of (if they have names): 1.When a heel thinks he did something smart and taps the side of his head, showing the crowd that he is smart. He then turns around to be clobbered by the babyface. 2.During a tag team match, a heel is knocked silly and mistakenly goes to the wrong corner to tag out, only to be hit by the babyface.

5th time I've listened to this just to get the Ernie Ladd impression at the end

He did wrestle in England, sure, but I >have< to point out that Adrian Street is Welsh.

Ballyhoo isn't that a line from the theme to the Patty Duke Show?

Ah damn I sent in that you should do a pod on wrestling terminology

Absolutely great stuff😂😂

What Jim explained was the reason I loved Wrestling!! Goddamn I hate Sports Entertainment bullshit!!!!!!!

Now i want to watch some Big Kat promos

I've incorporated 'selling' when it comes to a prank, so basically telling someone who's in on the joke to 'sell it'. Don't give me away by laughing or knowing it was coming, me doing it, et al.

We Want More!!!

I remember an in ring thing probably late 90s where two major wrestlers were going to back each other up and talking about how they wouldn't swerve each other. Might have been WCW/Hogan can't remember.

Someone in WWE has a fetish for people hitting the ring post i every match.

The Ernie Ladd bit was great. At times though, It sounded like Dusty Rhodes.

“Taking a powder” is still commonly used, at least I think so by the smart fans. Stone Cold often throws that one out in his podcasts.