DownNDirtyTN Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Fire in the Mountains The Chronological History of Smoky Mountain Wrestling http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:113856477/sounds.rss https://soundcloud.com/ricky-whittenburg/fire-in-the-mountains-smoky-mountain-wrestling-1 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was considered by many the last of the true territories. Jim Cornette had a vision and produced several years worth of quality entertainment to the Southern wrestling fans. Many guys got their starts in SMW and others got a chance to shine. Tucked into a little corner in East Tennessee near Johnson City, SMW was a home town territory for me. This show will take a chronological look into the history of SMW where each episode we will go through the TV shows sequentially as well as cover all of the big shows of the time period. This will be a show where we take a fond look back at a great, underrated territory from the beginning to the end. Each show we will cover two TV shows or one big card. During the weekly show reviews we'll discuss the matches and angles playing out and overall thoughts on the shows. You can look forward to end of show awards including Match of the Week, Dutch's "Ditty" of the Week, Most 90s Sighting of the Week, and Best Interview of the Week. We will also keep a running tab of the top 10 matches in SMW up to the point we've watched which will be updated on the forums after each show. I will post the link to the show after it is uploaded right here on PWO. So join myself Ricky Whittenburg and my two co-hosts Andy Waddell and Justin Edgell as we dive into the history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Sounds fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Awesome to see a pod covering a fresh topic. I'm looking forward to this show giving me the excuse to finally dive into the promotion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Awesome to see a pod covering a fresh topic. I'm looking forward to this show giving me the excuse to finally dive into the promotion I may be doing the same as Kelly here. I've always wanted to sit down and watch this stuff, but never have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachchaos Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 I started the 1992 Yearbook the other day and have noticed a decent amount of early SMW popping up. It will be nice to have a podcast to accompany the footage. Awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradhindsight Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Sounds good Ricky. Looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Hell yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 If ever a podcast was my thing, this is it (along with Excite Series). I adore SMW, Once it gets going, some of the most enjoyable TV you will ever see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted September 15, 2015 Report Share Posted September 15, 2015 Nice. I've recently started watching the TV (am up to October '92) so looking forward to seeing how your opinions compare to my own. There will be fierce competition for Interview of the Week, whereas Dutch has some blinding lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl Posted September 17, 2015 Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 When do we expect this to be uploaded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 You better have Ronnie Milsap's classic "Smokey Mountain Rain" mixed in as a song! = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 My 1st or 2nd concert ever.... Ronnie Milsap! Still love his music and I hate country music as a rule of thumb. I can't wait for this podcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 My two favorite parts of early SMW was Rip doing squats for an entire show and that awful video where Tim Horner sang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 And how could I forget the Dirty White Boy living in a school bus in a junkyard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingSavage Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 When is this project going to kick off? I've got the entire SMW collection on one of my external hard drives, but I haven't watched any of that stuff since at least the summer of 2013. Now I'm thinking I'll bust it out and try to delve back into it as you move along. This pod should certainly make for a great companion piece to the footage, and I like that it could be an easily accessible gateway to get unfamiliar fans plugged into Smoky Mountain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 And how could I forget the Dirty White Boy living in a school bus in a junkyard! Washing by pouring water over his head (and then drying himself off on Dutch's poncho) and cleaning his teeth by swigging on some beer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownNDirtyTN Posted September 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Hey guys thank you for the positive comments regarding our show. I want to give a little inside view into what to kind of expect. We are doing our kickoff show tonight and it will be uploaded tonight or tomorrow on Soundcloud. So the show will be up no later than 9/19 barring a computer failure during our show or something very strange. We do a weekly NASCAR show right now and I've not had any problems so far knock on wood. We'll give our backgrounds a little during this first show. I consider myself a diehard wrestling fan but I'm nowhere NEAR the level of some of you guys on here. Holy christ I only thought I knew alot about wrestling but I've came to realize I am a peon compared to some of the knowledge dropped on the PWO boards. My main focus is to try to bring you the news, stories, interesting facts, etc about the wrestlers and what's going on as we recap the shows. One of my co-hosts Andy Waddell has been my best friend since we were about 10 years old and we are both 35 now. Andy was a big fan of old school NWA and we were huge, gigantic fans during the Monday Night War Era and followed WCW/WWF/ECW as closely as you could follow at that time. Andy, like me, grew up watching Smoky Mountain on Saturday mornings here in the Tri-Cities. Our racing buddy Justin is a big wrestling fan but he's more of the fringe fan. He's a Cincinnati boy so he's never really watched Smoky Mountain and he's not as big into the history of wrestling as I am. This show will be a look into SMW, it's players, etc but it will also be an education for Justin into southern-style wrestling so I know that dynamic will be fun as we go through the shows. I know as he was watching these first two episodes for the first time the other night he was messaging me all throughout his watching and he went from what kind of hokey shit is this to holy shit that Cornette promo was awesome. Wow, Rip Rogers was a fun guy to watch. So it will be an education for him and a refresher for myself and Andy. We strive to have a fun show that will definitely be one that's not boring but will also give hopefully good insights and maybe some things you didn't know. After getting hooked on wrestling podcasts last year by finding Where the Big Boys Play then diving into other great shows like Titans, Exile on Badstreet, Between the Sheets, etc I really got the itch to do a wrestling podcast myself. We'll see how it goes but if nothing else I hope it will be entertaining! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Looking forward to this. Seen a smattering of SMW, but need to watch more. Sounds entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 And how could I forget the Dirty White Boy living in a school bus in a junkyard!Washing by pouring water over his head (and then drying himself off on Dutch's poncho) and cleaning his teeth by swigging on some beer! Yes! It was some of the best character work I've ever seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny P Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 I'm looking forward to this as I've never watched a full episode of Smokey Mountain Wrestling as a TV show either (footage, sure.Promos, matches, all in pieces. Yes. But a full episode, start to finish? No.) So I'm excited for this. A piece of advice: We have a TON of wrestling savants around these parts, which is AWESOME. But Justin is the key to your entire show. sure, you can give background with your friend Andy, and rate matches, talk about "work/workers," so on and so forth. I'd really appreciate that myself. I need the context for some things, for sure. But Justin is the "fringe fan." Please don't make him feel pressured to BE knowledgeable. I LOVE the idea of someone who just watches the show telling us what they like and don't ,like as a common fan(assuming your not saying, "he was a fringe SMW fan, but this guy reads all the news sites and subs to like 4 paysites/newsletters the last 10 years). If Justin is the common/fringe fan, his best use for someone like me as a listener is to be kept in the dark on what popular thought is about wrestler's work/SMW's angles, the company as a whole as compared to contemporaries like ECW. One of my favorite podcasts I ever produced (Yes, back in 2007-2009 I actually would do pods of my own for random shows I attended, and a few other things) was a live-to-tape post show on ROH's Hammerstein show (May or Aug. '08) with two old friends. They both would watch wrestling periodically, and were old fans, but didn't follow anything but WWE, and were never fans of anything else to the point they follwowed it. I'd say once every 2 years they'd go to ROH with me, and I would ask them questions specific to what they thought of it without the context of the crowd reactions as guides. It was really interesting, especially my friend Tommy, who wasn't as well versed as the other friend (he was not in any internet circles, nor had he ever really seen anything other than WWE, and was very honest about everything.) That could be a real strength to the show, even a "gimmick" for your pal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DownNDirtyTN Posted September 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Constructive criticism welcome. We had fun taping this show hope you enjoy listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Are you using a headset or an actual mic? Invest in a pop filter if you haven't already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 The mental image of Killer Kyle carrying an 18 inch dildo around in his case got a laugh out of me. You sirs, have a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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