Jim Cornette on Howard Finkel's Interesting Collection
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- From Episode 261 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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Fink can collect whatever he wants, because hearing him say “The winner of this match……….AND NEW…” was like snorting pure adrenaline.
Hahahah
There will never be another like the Fink !
Actually, it's "The winner of this contest......AND .......NEEEEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!!....."
@@sjdrifter72 "The winner of this bout"
This and because he came up with the name for Wrestlemania.
I remember a VCR being a big deal when my parents bought one in 87 so we could record Wrestlemania 3 ! It was like 400 bucks ! HAHAHA !
And 400 bucks is like ...1000 now ! Can yall imagine paying 1000 dollars for a VCR ???? LOL !!!! You cant even find a VCR at a pawn shop now ! Yard sale stuff for 3 dollars ! Crazy how that fast technology has came .
It was wild as a little kid to record TV shows and watch them later. How this guy watched SNL w/o Parental Supervision.
I own one of the very first VCRs; in the box still. Weighs probably 20+ pounds and claims to be portable. Lol
@@chada75 Hahaha ! Totally ! I got a dubbed VHS tape of Eddie Murphy RAW from HBO and me and my friends would DIE laughing ! I can still recite that whole show word for word !
@@gregjohnson2824 LOL ! crazy right ? heh . Now you can have on your phone a computer that took up half your room ! If you had 10 grand to buy one ! HAHAHA !
Fink was the voice of a generation. He defined so many incredible moments and was so important to making a great moment feel epic.
Watch out for the chokeslam
I started watching wrestling in 99, so near the tail end of his career. Then Garcia and Toni took over
@@azazaeldevile2506 Lilian Garcia debuted the night after Summerslam ‘99 in Ames, Iowa. The night Triple H won his first WWF Championship.
I was in a C grade town so grew up with he whom the WWE pretends never existed aka Mel Phillips. Fink didn't become the sole full time announcer till late 80's/early 90's I believe. He was just the "special occasion" guy before that.
@@jasonfrost6448 Beginning in 1977 Finkel was the only ring announcer we saw at house shows at the Springfield Civic Center in MA. He did all the Springfield house shows up until Hogan won the belt, then WWF didn't come back for a couple years.
I feel like his Finkel Report's on the latest Pornos would've been god-tier
And you could read em in his voice in your head lmao
"I know more people like fuckin' than wrestling"
that's a hell of a sentence, Jim lol
Clearly, that sentence doesn't apply to Young Bucks fans.
@@theevilascotcompany9255 Ayo!
And NUUUUUUUUDE!!!! (Who can't hear Fink saying that?) RIP Fink
I love that this clip is 30 minutes.
"I can't imagine that it rivalled mine." lol
When I was in the military, there was a guy I knew with so many adult DVD’s that he could’ve opened up his own Blockbuster.
The crazy (craziest?) part was, half of the DVD’s weren’t even single movies, they were 8-24hr ones!
Wouldn't have been a Blockbuster, as that was a Mormon owned operation. They famously censored even regular movies, without warning consumers.
Maybe a Hollywood video.
@DoobieKeebler the Blockbuster I went to outside of Goose Creek South Carolina carried Jesse Jane’s “Pirates” so I guess they didn’t get the memo. However you are correct in that Hollywood Video was the sleazier of the two.
@@wilcee238
Yeah, they'd have some adult movies, but randomly censored regular movies. Swear words taken out, or adult scenes removed.
@DoobieKeebler I think the censored movies were just in the Mormon areas, and they wound up getting sued by the movie studios for altering their movies without permission.
@@wilcee238 haha everyone remember that vivid pirates movie
Looking at all the bland and/or bad announcers these days, you miss the legendary Fink even more, no one can touch him
This might be the greatest 30 mins of the Drive Thru ever, hilariously funny, insightful and fascinating.....Big thanks to Fink's massive collection of smut.
I completely agree with you.
Mush brain
Wrestling & Porn always had a lot in common: ruthless promoters exploiting performer’s bodies in a carny business designed to separate a mark from his money
I've been a mark for both ha ha
Hahahaha, how many times did Jim say, "You remember...?", and Brian just sits there, silent. LMAO 🤣
Well.... You know
Finkel whipping out the ole dinkel
1986. My dad rocks home with this brand new VHS video recorder. Oh, and the movie COMMANDO. I was 10...I think I may or may not have watched that movie atleast 4 times that day. Back to back.
I bet you were one of the few families to have a VCR back then, and it was a big event that even neighbors came to your house in groups to watch full-blown movies with no commercials on a home television. It was like that were I lived too around that time.
"Ladies and gentlemen... THE NUUUUUUDE PLAYBOY CENTERFOLD."
Take your pick, folks: Taya Valkyrie . . . Celeste Bonin . . . A. J. Mendez . . . Renee Parquette (Mrs. MOX, if you will!) . . . Sasha Banks . . . Naomi . . . Mandy Leon . . . Becky Lynch . . . Mickie James . . . Bayley . . . Tylene Buck . . . Mandy Rose . . . Gigi Dolan . . . Jacy Jayne . . . Rok-C . . . Angelina Love . . . Velvet Sky . . . Cassie Lee . . . Jessica McKay . . . Sonya Deville . . . Maryse Mizanin . . . Shotzi Blackheart . . . ODB . . . :D
Several things...
A) if your copy of "new wave hookers" has traci lords & ginger lynn in it, then it's the first one.
B) porn unequivocally turned the videotape tide from Beta to VHS in america, no argument.
C) to answer brian's question; you don't have to sell porn, it sells itself, people seek it out... remember that chris rock bit about "crack salesmen"? Same principal.
D) i owned a video store for several years in the late 80's - early 90's, we owned 10 VCR's that we bought off crackheads for $60 and less, we used to make copies of all the new releases and rent them out, because buying 10 copies of new releases was way too expensive for a little mom & pop store like us (statute of limitations applies) ...our 'adult section' accounted for about 40% of our income, but it was only 1/5 of our inventory ...also; I had 4 VCR's at home, hooked up with antennas (no cable), timers set, and I recorded every major wrestling show that came on every saturday morning/afternoon. (I'm from philly, and we had that magical time when we used to get WWF, NWA, AWA, UWF, World Class, carlos colon's territory, and some tiny midwestern territory with Ox Baker and Don Kernodle)
What also helped VHS was the fact that on SLP (super long play) you could record 6 hours of content. A few of my friends had beta and they couldn't record more than 2 hours.
When I worked at a flea market in the early to mid 90's, the two biggest sellers for VHS were porn and wrestling. One vendor was selling lots of ECW shows and FMW shows with Hayabusa featured prominently. Hell, you could get 3 VHS porn tapes for 10 bucks, but they were mostly compilations.
This reminds me of dark side of the ring XPW where new Jack said Rob black paid him in porn and he was using a forklift to carry all the porn in the warehouse he was taking home
Kinda adds a whole new meaning to his name...New "Jack"...hee hee hee...
The Yogi Bearskin rug is a chef's kiss.
The whole "VHS became the home video format, because that's what the porn industry pushed" crap is just not true. The reason VHS was the preferred format was because JVC was willing to license out the format to other manufacturers and Sony wouldn't license out Betamax.
SOMEONE who knows!
2 things can be true in conjunction. I’m sure the huge push helped JVC’s decision be easier.
@@elijahnakumura4375 from porn? Doubtful. The format wars are pretty well documented. Much like the HD/Blu-ray format wars, it came down to ease and convenience, as opposed to which was the better format, as Beta tapes were smaller and had better VQ. VHS had longer recording time. In the end, it came down to a flexibility issue with the format. Which format was more accessible and less expensive for the consumer.
Home video recording was a big deal to consumers. A big enough deal to hold Congressional hearings on it. No less a celebrity than Fred (Mister) Rogers spoke out in support of recording television at home for later viewing.
While "the boys" have always enjoyed swapping porn tapes (we'd be asked if we carried anything when we actively worked regular territories), it's doubtful, despite what the porn industry may profess, that they had anything more than a nominal influence.
@@sfpincchicago I see where you're coming from, but for a long time now it has been considered a metric of the industry to look and see what the pornographic Community will adopt. Porn adopted Blu-ray rather than HD dvd. They adopted VHS instead of betamax. Like somebody else said there are multiple truths to some things, but the porn industry will always be the earliest adopter to what is likely to succeed, by virtue of what they are. The porn Community is essentially very much in this moment. You might get people that will purchase older films for the Retro aesthetic or because they are collectors, but by and large it's a purchase of the moment. So they are going to look to what software and Hardware would be most likely to grab the most buyers.
Can you argue that they look at the factors that you've indicated? Yes definitely. But I've seen that reference in various articles and trade references. I think it's a lot like the Waffle House index. You can tell how serious the storm is by whether or not the waffle houses in the area will close
The Fink the Kink
That was super educational about the early TV and tapes. Thanks Jimmy
Brian hating on RC Cola means we have heat.
RC Cola and a Moon Pie.
He's not wrong.
Well, this explains the Adult Friend Finder reference back in the Express VPN ad reads.
I love that Brian asked Jim what wrestling can learn from the porn industry. Didn't expect this clip, but I'm glad it exists.
Hence why Russo and Omega got into the business
"Didn't expect this clip, but I'm glad it exists."
this applies to so many clips on this channel lol
Porn is always ahead in technology. Home video, paywalls, OnlyFans, CC billing, etc
"Candid photography ?" - Jim Cornette
credit to travis heckel. I love corny, but the artwork makes the video that much more enjoyable.
I've been listening to this show for years, And this has been by far the funniest topic/question covered on this show lmao🤣
Ehh you could be very wrong tho, I've heard some way funnier stuff on here and it was just random at that. Such as the car on the fence of jims house
@@ASCUMBAGWh0re Or the anime dating sim discussions.
@@imwithstupid086 or Hulk Hogan Lies
@@ousmansano21 or the spoiled mayonnaise
@@ASCUMBAGWh0re or the post office hunchback
“Pong graphics”. God damn Corny! Always never fails to make me 😂
My local territory sold a VHS tape at the shows around 1986 i also remember buying a wwf coliseum home video at ridiculous price like 79.99$
I remember my family's first VCR. The first movie we rented was Running Man, so it must have been 1988. Released in theaters in 1987.
what a fine choice
I didn't notice at first but it looks like the bearskin rug is made out of Yogi Bear, I'd recognise that collar anywhere!
My grandma had the wrestlemania collection. I remember wondering where hogan and savage went. Had no idea wcw existed until like 2005 😂
The first time I ever saw wcw was on an old portable tv ( we had no money ) The signal was somehow picked up by that tv from next doors, whatever they watched or played appeared on my tv lol. I then bought a second hand vcr player and borrowed every WrestleMania from them when they were on holiday as we were looking after their house. the house was like one of them hoarder houses and I needed a bath after every visit..
@@Run187 Your comment reminds me of the old Wrestlemania X-7 promo. Always thought it was weird where they had, like, Chinese farmers in a rice paddy watching Wrestlemania on a portable TV. Guess it wasn't so far from reality after all 😁
What an unexpected history lesson about the beginnings of tapes. I love this shit
I mean, they are incredibly wrong about most of the shit they are saying.
@@edwells4769 In what way?
Jim’s first laugh is so genuine and funny lmao 😂 :30 seconds in
I remember my father buying a VCR in 1982. It cost him $500, and had a WIRED remote that had only a "pause" button. I bought one myself in 1985 for $555., which was FAR more advanced because it had 4 heads, and mine had a wireless remote with a few functions (though, of course, far less then later ones).
I like how porn turned into express shipping tv tapes first class
Our first couple of VCRs were top loading and had a wired remote.
Corny come back to wrestling!!!
The greatest wrestling announcer ever.
I may be remembering this wrong but when Jim said Fed Ex wasn't in existence in 1986 didn't he once cut a promo on Dusty where he said they called either Dusty's sister or Baby Doll Federal Express because when she went to a guys apartment she absolutely positively had to be there overnight. 😂😂😂
I think a little. He didn't realize they they'd been around since 1966, not 86.
30 minute Friday night clip about Fink and Porn what a great way to start my weekend 😀
Lords of the Ring was the first wrestling tape that I ever was able to rent. I still remember the closing montage with Willie and the Hand Jive playing in the background
Prichard does Heyman perfectly and Hayes hilariously, but I do a carbon copy of the Fink..... been doing 'coming down the isle' announcing wrestlers from the late 80s. Introducing school teachers into class always got a pop!
My father was stationed in Okinawa in the late 80's and the local flea markets had thousands of pirated copies of movies on beta and once you got past the recorded program it would go static and then hard core porn would pop up. Thinking back now it is hilarious to me that I would watch Pinocchio or Peter pan then get a screen full of porn cause we didn't know better at the time
As a disabled guy, I’m usually pretty good at spotting the porn junkies. Not the guys who just watch every once in a while. The guys like me who can’t get a passing glance. Corny didn’t seem like the type, but Fink? Definitely. Then again, you’d think in the wrestling business, you’d get someone’s sloppy seconds.
Some guys just aren't into that. I'll bet Fink's collection probably had some stuff that's very far away from mainstream
I miss his booming voice. I wish Triple H would find a copycat.
WWE Network has someone that sounds a bit like Finkel. Don't know his name but he does the voiceover to the intro montage on WWE Old School videos: "WWE Old School! Let's go to the ring!"
Didn't you guys see that scene from Legends House where Piper walks In on Finkle
This one was fascinating. Well done.
How many people out there remembers dangerous Danny Davis 🤣
Most golden era fans remember crooked ref danny davis. But jim was talking about nightmare danny davis, a different guy.
With his shitty black and white trousers in the Battle Royal at WM4
At one point in the by the midnight news early 90s my family had over 1,200 VHS tapes with three to four movies piece and I had seen every single movie at least once usually two or more times so between the time I was born in 79 until 95. And another 300 or so that we had bought as official releases
we had our first VCR I think in 84 my parents got their first DVD player around 2000 and by the time my mom died in 2017 they had just as many DVDs
I don’t know about the packaging, but two major advantages porn has over wresting are that if you like it you’re gonna be able to find a lot of good stuff and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination.
Maybe this explains why McMahon went insane with all these women. Lol doing it for the fink
Miss the Fink
I'm sure Pat Patterson,Mel Phillips and Terry Garvin had collections too.
Howard looks like he's doing "something" with his left hand.🤔
It's kinda interesting with how much 'riske material' I've seen/collected over my lifetime that I've never heard of HALF the stuff Brian and Jim are talking about in this clip 😳
Back then i always copied movies from the video store from VHS to BETA because the copy protection only worked from VHS to VHS...! So my old BETA VCR was still useful back then. ☺
Beta was higher quality and longer tapes
@@edwells4769 Yeah, Beta was better actually. Here in Germany we had third system for a few years called Video 2000. Really large tapes, but i never had one of those!
The Fink is The Freak😂
This artwork needs to be framed
Corny suprise by fed ex in 1971 had me dead 😂
As a porn producer its definitely not as easy as it was back in the day thanks to the internet but at the same time it allows us all to network faster.
Cornette's noise at 0:31 sent me
where to?
@@dr.loomis4221 Off my chair
"The Fink" was the best ring announcer ever! Thank you and continue to rest in peace, Mr. Finkel.
That illustration of Fink is adorable.
"RC Cola is the most disgusting shit ever"...between his opinions on soda and his opinions on pizza, I've got to wonder if Brian has had his taste buds removed at some earlier point in life! Send that man down to the South and give him a steady diet of good ol' Southern Cookin'!
I like Corny was offended by the idea Fink's collection was bigger than his.
28:32 hello to the gibson family if they're listening today 😂
I still have my barely legal catalog
Part 4 was my fav...those girls! 😳
I don't think there's ever been anyone as good as Howard Finkel . And I don't think there ever will be again. Yes the Buffer brothers are good , but The Fink was in a class by himself . I grew up on JR , Mean Gene , Gorilla Monsoon , Bobby Heenan and Howard Finkel . Ed Whalen was also damn good as a wrestling announcer in the territory days . Damn I'm old !!!!!
I guess it’s time to say rip to the guest artist segment again.
This collection is now on eBay for ….. one million dollllars
Back when porn had class. Not like the garbage trash today with the spitting and hitting and ramming multiple weird objects in holes or eating cereal from an ass or the disgusting constant step sister, step mother, step father
I used to get around the copyright protection embedded into videocassettes by copying from VHS to Betamax.
Blockbuster and the surrounding movie stores gave me so many vhs wwf tapes, that massive amount, started my large collection
“High class porn packaging”.
Happy birthday Jim!
Beach blast medusa Hyatt was watched a lot when I was young on video 😂
Missy looked great then, her absolute peak.
@@stoneroses1989 she was stunning
I was playing this while watching my 3 year old gonna pause and listen later.
And Jim..... Louisiana is STILL 20 years behind!!
I just watched the OSW review of Survivor Series Showdown from 93. There's a skit with Shawn Michaels pretending he's visiting Stu Hart. Apparently it was Finkle's house they used to stand in for the Hart family compound.
Maybe he was showing off about his collection then.
I've heard that vhs tape prices were so high back then was because if rental stores. I think there was a lawsuit about it, and in order for the studio to make money off of their home movies, they jacked the price up.
Close. When rental stores first started, all the major Studios took them to court to try and prevent them from doing it. The argument was that if you could rent a movie for a dollar, why would you pay the $20 or $30 for the tape.
It went all the way to congress, at which point an agreement was reached. If you were an individual, you were charged the 20 to $30 per movie. Rental stores would pay substantially more, maybe a couple hundred dollars per film. This way the studio was guaranteed to, in theory, recoup the losses from people who would rent rather than own. This is why all the way through the 90s, if you lost a film at Blockbuster they would charge you a crazy amount of money. They weren't trying to gouge you, they were recouping the loss for what they paid for the film.
@@cthulhupthagn5771 Also, the rental copies of videos were made available months ahead of to-own versions of the videos, so if you wanted to see something like True Lies again after it left theatres, you either had to rent it, wait for it to come out on consumer video, or pay 3X the amount of a retail video to own a rental copy of it.
I still like watching Howard Finkel soak in his entire pop before announcing CM Punk at Survivor Series 2011.
Maybe that's how Sable made a million from Playboy 😛
I think that Bear is Smokey Bear or Yogi, LOL.
The Fink!
I still remember the first movie I videotaped. It was Godzilla vs Monster Zero.
Me & my childhood friend were putting off transfering our VHS recorded 90s live ppvs into digial. With the coming of the network it's kind of superfluous but you do get that original music, no edits with that crappy video quality
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM
83, 84 There were video stores...Vince Rsso was gainfully employed.
When I worked the Performing Arts Center in Nashville back in 81-82 UPS made regular stops back then.....don't remember Federal Express being around yet then.....
Jim Cornette in "America's Guilty Little Pleasure" . I still have my BetaMax Stash
The adult film industry picked blu-ray over hd dvd too!
The Bash 86 video came out before starcade 86
Corny looking like a Don Bailey flooring billboard.
I remember the first three wwf videos: WM 1 - Hulkamania - Piper's Greatest Hits
Nope. Bloopers Bleeps & Bodyslams, Hulkamania & Wrestlemania
I think Pipers greatest Hits was the first VHS I ever had my parents rent me. I got into wrestling in early 1986 .
The monetization for this video is probably non existent 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hell yeah! Gaffney sc shout out! 👏🍻
Coming down the isle…
I’m marking out so much listening to Jim and Brian talking about porn 😂😂
Whatta Fink!