So in listening to Cornette's reply back on Friday about the NWA deal...
- Cornette was home and working downstairs when he claims Lagana called him. He called back and left a message that evening.
- That next morning Jim got up and checked his twitter and was like WTF is happening as people were calling him the worst human and swearing at him. So he quickly learns its about the NWA episode. So that morning Lagana calls him as they discuss it.
- Jim claims that the joke is a 30 year old one he used for Big Bubba Rogers to get him heel heat and was about starvation in Eithopia. That he coined the joke as the guys were in Charlotte getting chicken after switching cars.
- He asks why Lagana didn't say anything then after it was shot and he claimed it was by so quick he didn't notice it. But the outrage had exploded and Cornette blamed the AEW fans for circulating it. Cornette countered how you don't give in to these fans or they will see this and demand you do more. That its gonna keep doing it. So he said you can release a statement since you already called me up and reprimanded me over the line since its what your doing.
- The joke he discovered as a fan told him is also one ran on a 1995 WWF Superstars show. That the chicken joke is there as well from what someone discovered. Cornette claims the joke has been aired on TBS , USA Network and was aired internationally as well. It surprised him this joke was too much for Youtube to handle.
- Then he goes in on the fact this episode was sitting in a can for 6 weeks waiting to air. That Lagana , the co-host beside him didn't stop him right after or the TV people in the booth didn't say a word as it came across. That no one in 6 weeks saw a problem with this line used. That if anyone had a problem they could have said , hey were removing that line of a joke then fine. Ok , sorry it put extra work on you to do.
- If anyone had said , hey Jim that joke is racist and we can't air it , well its about starvation and is meant to be funny about that. Cornette brings up the Starvin Marvin episode of South Park as a reference. He also brings up he wished they had issued a better statement of , hey one of our announcers made a 30 year old joke that is now in bad taste and we apologize. It should have never made it past editing. Instead he feels Lagana tossed it all on him without any blame on not telling him at all weeks ago.
- Cornette claims he only did the show because he likes the NWA and the approach its doing. That its about pro wrestling and he did it for fun. But when things aren't being fun as he's had people demanding every couple weeks he apologize for something then its not fun.
- Jim apologized for any belief the joke was racist. That was not his intent. His co-host himself was asked about it and he told Jim the joke isn't good. That its in bad taste now for what many already know . That maybe it works for a heel manager trying to get his guy heel heat as was with Rogers , but not with today.
- Cornette understands that and he would have understood if they removed it saying it was a bad joke. His co-host of the podcast brings up that he has known him for 25 years way before the podcast. That he doesn't believe Jim is racist or anything like that. Since he is Jewish and he has literally hit people who have said terrible things like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOvRmf_HYAU