I love Ronnie B, but he has checked out
15 2019-07-21 by Phkna1
But Unmasked is some boring, ballwashing bullshit. Bennington makes me miss Ron and Fez.
15 2019-07-21 by Phkna1
But Unmasked is some boring, ballwashing bullshit. Bennington makes me miss Ron and Fez.
51 comments
1 SibHashian13 2019-07-21
Fez was a fascinating person
1 lolercakesmcgee 2019-07-21
A standalone fruit some may say.
1 JoeCumiasFryingPan 2019-07-21
Some say he was like an animal with a great beard
1 InnocentChrisKuhn 2019-07-21
but we have Gail now with her unique perspective as a 3rd wave feminist and NYC hipster
1 JoeCumiasFryingPan 2019-07-21
Tsssssss
She's unique den a mug
1 SirSodomy 2019-07-21
We don’t make baby noises here
1 Superbad415 2019-07-21
Tsss ga ga goo ga asumptin
1 chex_and_texlemeneux 2019-07-21
I like it when she repeats the same things as her dad and makes chewing noises on the mic. Shock and Jock radio man!
1 chex_and_texlemeneux 2019-07-21
He was right about those creepy fucks Mikey D and Paul O.
1 drudrudrudru 2019-07-21
I listen to a lot of the old shows and fez was right on all of them. BL, Mikey D, Paul O, they were all trying to move in during his breakdown years. They disguised it as help or tough love but in reality they wanted to get Fez’s spot on air or income. Fez was just in such tough shape mentally that he made himself seem paranoid
1 TurningFrogsGay 2019-07-21
What shows are you talking about? Paul O is way crazier than Fez; in what era was he deluding himself into thinking he was a potential replacement for Fez?
1 drudrudrudru 2019-07-21
Well maybe not necessarily a actual replacement but he kept trying to get paid for his calls into the show. Particularly when Ron was doing the bit of trying to get Fez to buy his mansion. I don’t think Paul O was ever considered by Ron as a potential replacement. But the bit they were running of Paul O being a life coach is something I’m sure Paul O actually thought was serious thing
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
Even breakdown Fez was compelling radio
1 warchief1978 2019-07-21
"What do you mean how do I want my steak cooked? Wipe its asshole, cut off its hooves and put it on a plate."
Ronnie B
1 JoeCumiasFryingPan 2019-07-21
And they say Donny Trump brought America together
1 Persianschlong 2019-07-21
Brian Kilmeade doesn't count
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-07-21
William H. Macy says "dehorn it, wipe its butt and send it on in," in a movie called Happy, Texas. That's all I remember from the movie
1 chex_and_texlemeneux 2019-07-21
How's Benny gonna go out playin his last game at the Yankees? What's he s'posed to do while I find a 100 year old man to sponge off? Benny? Benny? Benny? Benny!!!!
1 ManbadFerrara 2019-07-21
My uncle molested me Benny! It was only an accident though, he was trying to finger the family dog!
1 Jungies 2019-07-21
Always was.
Ronnie had the option of retiring like Fezzie, or doing a couple of well-paid shows that no-one listens to on the only station in the world that doesn't collect ratings - while setting up his daughter for the rest of her career.
At this point Ronnie will have made another million, and if he's smart (and he is) Gail will have a bunch of celebrity interviews to pad out her reel; plus four years of radio experience. He'll have ordered Pepper to cut together anything good she does each day into her clip reel (and at what other radio channel can you order staff to help on-air talent get a new job somewhere else?), and when SiriusXM finally knock it on the head he'll retire and Gail will be set for her next job.
It's bad for us listeners, but once you understand that Ronnie's not working for us then his scam looks kind of... admirable.
1 MalcolmX_InTheMiddle 2019-07-21
He made this abundantly clear during one of their Christmas shows. Right after talking about all of the friends who had died that year. He doesn't want to work till he dies, it's all about setting Gail up and collecting the dump truck load of money SXM offered him during the Fez retiring contract.
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-07-21
He said something once about liking his health care plan there too
1 MalcolmX_InTheMiddle 2019-07-21
Yeah u remember gum going off in a caller about his health issues. He has to take shots or some daily treatment. It's why he suddenly blew the fuck up out of nowhere during the R&F years.
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-07-21
R: Fez, I know what would be best for you.
F: What's that?
R: Dying on the table.
1 MalcolmX_InTheMiddle 2019-07-21
One of my favorites is when he tells Fez he knows God can't possibly exist because Fez still claims and cashes his check saying his still also a number one mic and a just God would strike Fez down.
I'm on mobile, but I'll find it. Give me like 5 minutes.
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-07-21
That one had me going, too. Ron seems to have a great sense of timing with this kind of thing. I replaced O&A clips with R&F a while back and will get to full shows eventually. "New therapist... what's his name? Shlomo?"
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-07-21
Speaking of... /u/CCRED95 ... links to your massive O&A/R&F etc archive may be buried with the old sub.
1 MalcolmX_InTheMiddle 2019-07-21
He put a lot of them on archive.org
But I don't have the links readily avalibe on my phone
1 CumpoundMedia 2019-07-21
Poor Pepper. Ron should have put a bullet in his head years ago instead of bleeding his soul out bit by bit.
1 Jungies 2019-07-21
I'm pretty sure he got enough money from his mother's lawsuit to retire.
He's just hanging in there for fun, now.
1 TurningFrogsGay 2019-07-21
Something tells me Pepper did not invest that money wisely.
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
I dig the scam, and respect him for it. But I hate the show.
1 TriangleDimes 2019-07-21
I hate when people use the "taking care of his daughter" thing. If she sucks she won't get any other jobs and if she was good then a reference and a hookup would have sufficed, like every other celebrity kid in history.
1 WuTang4Evaaaa 2019-07-21
Opie could have gotten a job if he wanted to. He sees himself as semi-retired and just wants to do shit on his own terms.
Gail, even though she sucks, could always go get a job as the hole on some morning zoo show in Wisconsin.
1 TriangleDimes 2019-07-21
oh shut the fuck up, Opie was job hunting for months and landed on Westwood One who ended his contract.
1 Jung_Skywalker 2019-07-21
Bennington is mildly amusing now that Earl is back on being the exact same kind of fuck up he's always been.
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
They should shoot Gail and just have Earl
1 Jung_Skywalker 2019-07-21
Yeah she is truly awful.
1 TurningFrogsGay 2019-07-21
This sums it up. Still listen when I can for Ronnie B. As much of a drop as it's suffered, it's still a reliably funny show.
1 Leofan7 2019-07-21
Peas hode.
1 ellencakehorn 2019-07-21
Gail got her father to hand her a six-figure career on a silver platter and actually got a living male human to jizz in her.
A charmed life indeed.
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
Guys will jizz in anything.
1 ellencakehorn 2019-07-21
I will not have Terry Clifford insulted in my presence.
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
Please do not suggest that I in any way disparaged Ms. Clifford, who is a saint among women. I was thinking of u/LinzBella.
1 anonimescu 2019-07-21
He took a page out of Howie muh wig Stern's book and quietly milks the sirius jews out of a decent amount of money for the Benington family while doing what he wants, basically.
He is about the only one left there with any semblance of diehard fanbase that sub just for him. Looks good on a spreadsheet at yearend corporate meetings where they try to pretend Siriusxm isn't some money laundering scheme or a placeholder company for some future satellite tech like the one Elon Musk (and Google and zuckerberg) are trying to get off the ground.
I bet the original sub had a lot to do with post antwan opie&jim not becoming the second besy in this sector. They seemed to pump a lot of capital,talent (interviews ie famous people), revamped studio etc in the new show immediately after Ant left(probably bc some metric showed that a couple of thousand old xm subs cancelled) but bx nobody gives a shit about satellite radio every criticism stuck out like greased shit on Antolinis bed sheets . They probably used some crowdsourced(mturk) or AI to sift through all the opie&jim social media reactions,which ofc included reddit. This explains Opies obsession with Viral Spiral, the fake likes company, he was trying to counter all the human hate with robot love. Sad!
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
I can't read this many words. Sorry, but I'm not very smart
1 Jungies 2019-07-21
Interesting theory, although Starlink and OneWeb seem to be operating at 10x the frequency, and I'm not sure if their phased array antennae can do both.
1 SueFuckedAnt 2019-07-21
He still has a show?
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
He has to soothe the guilt because he roofied his daughter and it made her retarded.
1 WNEW 2019-07-21
Why he doesn’t try his hand at voice acting is beyond me.
1 Phkna1 2019-07-21
Why should he work when SiriusXM pays him to do nothing?