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๐ OSW is 14 today!!
🕑 Added 2025-05-05 20:35:29 +0000 UTCToday's OSW's birthday!!
We've been bringin' the bollix since May 5, 2011. Thanks for being with us brahbrahs ๐
On this day (May 5) in 2011, we released our very first episode, WrestleMania 1. The show was made out of spite! The Attitude Era was getting all the love, and I wanted people to know just how awesome the coke & steroids era of WWF was too :D
It came about as my bro bought me a rake of Silvervision DVDs for Christmas (someone was selling like, 30 of them!) and I thought it'd be cool to make use of 'em. I was a big fan of Review-a-Wai (now POSTwrestling) and wanted an Irish version of it, with Simpsons and Partridge and Blackadder quotes lol.
I remember we'd cancelled our podcast recording session TWICE already (it was meant to be a 4-man pod; but someone dropped out last minute both times) and third time V1 couldn't make it, but we pushed on ahead, or else I think we would've cancelled the whole thing. I'm glad we forged ahead and I hope you did too!
Our original goal was to get to SummerSlam '92 - that being the peak and the first major show this side of the pond. I had to stop episodes for about 4 months between Mania 6 and SummerSlam 1990 for exams, but took the time to improve the production. I had no idea what I was doing, having no training tech-wise. Which is why early eps sound ropey - they're done with a rock band mic held up by a tea-towel in a popcorn tub!
It was also around circa Mania VII that I knew I wanted to continue, and we've been going ever since! When OSW was impinging on my work and home life, a fan we met at WWE event in Dublin suggested we open a patreon. I was hesitant but thought, if I can show my family it brings in something, anything, that there is some merit in it. So i set the goal for $400. We blew past it in minutes! I was more relieved than anything, I thought I killed OSW!
But thankfully it grew so it could employ myself and v1, and a host of freelance editors, animators and musicians too! Thanks to NoggerU we can keep going and bring what's in my leaking spongebag of a brain to life, lol.
Anyway i'll stop blathering, know I appreciate you and let's ride until the wheels fall off! Here's to the next 14 years! ๐๐ป
Love, Jay ๐
Comments
Web Conn
Been around since 2014 during the Arquette Arc been around ever since. The TNA arcs and Warrior in WCW are my favorites
Charlie
Thank you Jay! Itโs honestly one of my favorite things in the world. Me and my best friend will just talk in OSW quotes to each other. Itโs also a huge comfort show. Whenever Iโm feeling low. Or things just arenโt going well. I put on OSW and just laugh and forget my worries
