Episode 425
Jim Cornette’s Drive-Thru
Arcadian Vanguard
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Drive Thru, Jim reviews WWE Raw, and talks about the 2025 South Korean wrestling awards, Chris Jericho, Vince McMahon & Endeavor's pre-sale plans, Dave Meltzer's top rated matches of 2025, the Dallas wrestling war of 1953 & the burning of the Sportatorium, WWE without former AEW stars, Steve Keirn & Nelson Royal at Crockett Cup '87, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, oh. Hello! |
| 0:41.0 | Hello again, friends, and happy New Year! A week or so into the year, but we are here the first new drive-thru of 2026. I'm your host of Great Brian Last. As you can tell, |
| 0:47.5 | we're going to have a good time today, folks. We got a lot going on with this man, the leader of the |
| 0:53.1 | cult of Cornette, Mr. Jim Cornett. |
| 0:56.5 | You know, I was thinking, Brian, we had the holiday break. |
| 0:59.7 | I haven't heard those molyfluous tones from your organ for a couple of weeks. |
| 1:06.5 | And as you started into it, I was starting to think, you know, I haven't heard this in a while, |
| 1:12.7 | and maybe it'll be nostalgic and fun, and then you went sour, and it just reminded me of |
| 1:19.4 | what it is instead of what I thought it would be. |
| 1:24.4 | And no one went sour, you just didn't. |
| 1:27.1 | You went, you know, you're not used to that song. You're one went sour. You just didn't. You went stone sour, baby. |
| 1:29.5 | You're not used to that version of the song. |
| 1:31.9 | And that version. |
| 1:33.4 | That version. |
| 1:34.6 | Everything's a little free form with you. |
| 1:38.6 | Didn't we just talk? |
| 1:40.9 | See, here, I'm going to say this again. |
| 1:43.9 | Because some way mathematically, I'm getting, I'm getting bamboozled and flim flammed out of what I thought was a vacation at the holidays, because we recorded extra stuff beforehand. |
| 1:58.1 | Now, we just, I just spoke to you 36 hours ago to do the new experience |
| 2:04.4 | or the first experience of the year 26, 26, well, I guess we've got 600 more years. Anyway, |
| 2:13.4 | we just did that and now we're back here doing this we're going to come back a couple days doing |
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