Jim Cornette on Nevada

but I've got a an email Brian from from Brian not you though no certainly not somebody stole your name it's Brian from Marino and uh he says Dear Mr corad and I want you to help me understand this Brian last not Brian from Mareno because I don't know what he's talking about here you got to help me I just finished listening to episode 339 of the experience at about wanted to tear my ears off well that's a promising start when you were discussing aew's budget in Nevada remember we talking about that how much money they spent on doing the TV and everything yeah and that I guess that was part of the story was that it kind of exposed potentially what the overall Talent budget was annually yes yes and all that stuff well Brian from Reno says I would almost rather hear Vince Russo read the Bible with a hot poker up his ass then hear you pronounce Nevada aside from screaming Carson City when you thought my beautiful hometown of Reno was our state capital well I screaming just this guy's really into it well you know goddamn a our state capital is Frankfurt I don't expect most people not from Kentucky to know that but anyway he was also screaming Nevada Mr cornet please it is not Nada is it NE v a wwd ah it's Nevada NE V A A D ah I mean not spelling but pronunciation I think that's wrong too well he says a is in McMahon not a is in KH I thought it was Nevada I thought it's I'm but he's saying I'm not saying Nevada and I'm saying N I don't know how else to say now I've I've scared myself into thinking that now I'm trying to pronounce it right and differently from the way I've done it before but I always say Nevada Nevada right that's a lot of people say that but I think it's actually Nevada well he says Nevada it's Nevada notada that's what you said wait what what he says I'm saying it's Nevada and it's Nevada Nevada Las Vegas Nevada now you're saying Nevada how does he phonetically spell this out he he says it's not neev aww D ah that would be Nevada Nevada yeah it's Nevada NE V A A D ah Nevada Nevada no that' be Nevada how if it was Nevada how would you spell it it's the same way I'd spell n well hey hey whoa whoa what are you ripping up I don't understand it's [ __ ] Las Vegas and it's and suburbs how's that I have an email here Jim from Sam he says it's Missouri not Missouri oh godamn it down there in Old Missi Mariah not Maria well you say Maria I say Mariah and I say Mariah Maria and you say Mariah let's Call the Whole Thing Off have you how much how much time have you spent in Nevada specifically I guess Vegas have you been to Reno I've never been to Reno what about car what about Carson City it's I hear I've never I've never even nobody talks about Carson City when what do you hear never you hear about Laughlin I've been to for the lpwa you hear about Laughlin you hear about Las Vegas a time or two Reno hear about that [ __ ] Carson City what the [ __ ] going on there do they have casinos in Carson City I don't know hold on let's uh do a deep dive real quick in the Carson City no not the Johnny Carson fan site let's go to Carson City Nevada you know that godamn it Johnny Carson was making more money at one point than anybody on television and he should have bought a bunch of property in the 60s and 70s in California and they could have turned it into Carson City and made a [ __ ] fortune he could have sold it every night on TV if you really think about it he doesn't have the rights or his estate doesn't have the rights to the actual name The Tonight Show but all the existing footage of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show they own and whenever he renegotiated remember he was doing like a 90minut live show every night or at five nights a week I think sometimes six nights a week and then he got it so that he had four nights a week for 60 minutes he owned the hour after his show and he owned all his master tapes and he took off Fridays do you remember what his first Power Play was though what uh was that wouldn't have be the move to California no no what was the first one the very first Power Play was and I'm old enough that I remember some of the local stations still doing this but in the he took over in what 63 from Jack par or 62 62 yes from Jack par and still to by 6465 whatever The Tonight Show technically was an hour and 45 minutes because it would because a lot of the local 11:00 News was 15 minutes in those days not as much happened right so the Tonight Show originally came on at 11:15 and went till 1:00 but as the local stations started switching their newscast to 30 full minutes some of the local stations would preempt the first 15 minutes of The Tonight Show and and join it at 11:30 and when he got win of enough of the he said why am I going out there and doing my [ __ ] monologue when not everybody is listening or watching so he he wouldn't come on until 11:30 they would have Ed McMahon and Skitch Henderson who was the band leader then go out and play a song and War and do the audience warm-up and they would introduce Johnny Carson at 11:30 15 minutes into the and then they just said [ __ ] it we're just going to start at 11:30 and they got him to actually shorten his show on purpose if you ever see any of the old footage from when the show was longer maybe at least 90 minutes I don't know if they have any of the footage from back then it's such a better pace for conversation yeah and you know at that time too they're smoking and they literally have time in the show to like light up sit back think and ask a question it's remarkable and you don't have that anymore I mean you don't even have talk shows they have that girl they gave a show to after Steven colar and again like Johnny and like Letterman coar has the time slot after him he owns that or you know his production company does so they got to pick what was going to be there and it's not a talk show it's some kind of bizarre game show for an audience of I don't know who it's a dying art form and I think a lot of the problem is no one does it right Craig Ferguson did it right that was the last guy that really did it right Tom Snider where's he when you need him he died unfortunately well well we could try to find his kids did he have kids did you ever see the Tom Snider episode with John Leiden Johnny Rotten and Keith LaVine from Public Image Limited oh God i' I've I didn't see it live I saw the tape at one point in time and it's been many many decades that is maybe the sing one of the single greatest heel performances in Rock and Roll history and anyone who's learning how to do promos or wants to learn how to be just a just a real [ __ ] heel just to the core like you're really like oh my God this guy just hates everything watch this watch John Liden on speed and jet lagged do an interview with Tom SNY and he's just not playing along it's hysterical amazing and and Tom Snider was one of the more sarcastic individuals on network television at that point too the other ones I would say yeah and that's why they didn't Jive at all and they actually ended up right before I think Tom Snider left the air they had a reunion like in the 90s and it was very chummy and very you know I'm sorry you know I was a joke you know just all at a different tone