Jim Cornette Experience - Jim Cornette Experience Special - Remembering Harley Quinn Cornette

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

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Hello again, everybody, and welcome to a different Jim Coronet 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 listened to us, regularly and by us he's here my 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 Stacy online and members of the cult of Cornett 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 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 shit because

why not how can that help people through this serious 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 because I haven't even said this to you really out now and you probably figured it out the 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 you can still hear me right I'm not just babbling into

the ether. Yes, I get here. 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 Stacy'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. It had to be catered to it a little bit more. We didn't mind that, but she was still a happy, frisky baby, and you know she was on a few different kinds of medicine

and 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 uh 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 I know some people now were going to go He's talking about his dog. Well, for people who have 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 or other people that I don't fucking 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 play some picture 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 Stacey 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,

the 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 away 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 tired her 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. So it's been a couple 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 days that we could spend with her because she still knew what was going on, and she, you know, wasn't, as I said, hurting her anything.

she was just tired. I think she just, you know, at that point, like some people do, is say, you know what? I'm kind of tired of the whole thing. And then we lost her yesterday, which was February 12th. And I want to say 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 their own main street and Middletown, they have no fucking clue that I am anybody. And we've been going there 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 Stacy 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

or no 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 poohs.

just was. And I want to thank everybody, because so many, she's in so many of Travis Heckel's caricatures, the thumbnails on YouTube, but so many of the listeners

over the years have sent her presence and, you know, toys and stuff. And it 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 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 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 red bud tree back there and it's where when we'd go out back she used to sit under the red bud tree. And I told you she didn't do a lot of dog-like behaviors that were destructive, and the dog had never, ever dug a hole in her life. But last week, 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 of 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 go ahead and keep crying I'm going to go watch Rod and talk to Brian for four hours. So that's why we're a little behind this week, folks. But anyway, 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 if we're a little ver-climp 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, it's going to be awful quiet around here. But on a positive note, I said this also on the show, people had sent well wishes last summer when Stacy'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, etc. And it'd been in the same place for like 15 years, and it wasn't like they were just able to tote that bar. and lift that bail, but they've finally been able to pack up at their house and or pare 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, they look forward to a new change of pace in some place 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's. Brian again, am I still on the air? You're still on the air, and I think everyone 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 hardly in the background. She had she had a little allergy and she'd cough, she'd like that. And that's you know, 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 her I just wanted my dog to have more followers on Twitter than Vince Rousseau. Do you remember what happened? I remember this now.

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 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 Rousseau passed her. But, but yeah, she's been a social. 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 some it was an attraction that you

couldn't explain and she she's been around me and stay 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's 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 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 know 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 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, if 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 that while I'm halfway, I'm drumming on my desk, while I'm halfway on 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 him Jim Cornett recommended you, but don't tell them I'm anybody. They just think I'm kind of halfway entertaining elderly guy with a cute dog. Famous TV personality. Jim Cornett 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've 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.