I'm always suspicious of people who don't list Anthony's pedophilia first (or at all) in a list of his flaws.

yeah but that’s literally what your entire post is

You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t one, brothaman. 💜

Now? You willingly paid for a Compound Media subscription. You've always been an idiot.

Abandoning the mother makes my blood boil too

I was a fan of his and I won’t make excuses. It should have bothered me but it didn’t at the time.

To be fair to me (and I think most Ant fans) most of us were never cheering him on, like “Yeah Ant! Go get that underage pussy! You’re so cool!” (although some people were, and are, like that). We just tuned him out when he brought it up, just like we tuned Norton out when he talked about sex with men.

It makes my skin crawl today, and makes me regret being a fan of his, or even listening to the show at all.

In defense of AntH’s former fans including me, I knew AntH was genuinely into that, but it’s one thing to make it sound funny on a radio show and it’s another thing to realize he is grooming girls online and hanging out with a literal child rapist, Jeffrey Hollander. Among other things like Liking pictures and Vines of very young girls which goes against “the right kind of 13”

If he was exposed for all of this during the radio show, I would have called him out for it. I never put the guys on a pedestal. For example, I really never liked Jim as a person. Did I think he was funny? Yes I did but I always thought he was a disgusting creep.

Credit to Opie for really masking their flaws. His ability to stop the talk of 13 year olds and not allowing shitty guests made AntH and Jim look better than they are.

That I didnt stop listening the day that Patrice O'Neal passed away, peace be upon him.

I’m embarrassed by how much Jim made me laugh, given he’s a baby boy/old woman now.

It’s actually quite easy to justify, and I say that as someone who didn’t like Jim as a person during the O&A years. First of all, yeah, he obviously changed, but more importantly, listen to the old shows and note how little he talks. Jim was OK because he was silent most of the time and jumped in for a good joke.

It’s easy to look good when you’re not contributing and usually only contribute when you have something funny to say. He was like the opposite of a radio hole at the time. And when he debated or was serious, he was still boring and awful.

You don't remember Little Jimmy's hilarious animal-hate bits (Oh Jimmy, they don't have sapience, they can't understand abstract complexities like humans do!)

The one where he talks about punching a deer might be the funniest thing he’s ever said.

That was Louis CK

Nah there was one where jimmy unloaded about punching a dumb deer. It’s wasnt in standup. It was on the show. I’ll see if I can find a clip.

https://youtu.be/z5PJ1gErn2Y Found it

I am like Walter Sobchak in that I’m god damn right living in the past. I listen to the old show without acknowledging the flaws of the guys and I actually do enjoy listening to the old shows. I also listen to old Howard Stern bits and ignore the fact that Stern is a hateable pelican. My parents both died from long drawn out battles with cancer when I was young. To be honest the dark humor of these shows helped me cope with those rough times when nothing else could. Therefore, I can ignore their flaws as human beings and enjoy the old shows for what they were.

Nice life, stupid.

Listening.

Listening after "And here's our new intern, Sam Roberts." The beginning of the end.

When is your book signing? Don't forget the sharpies

I regret having been a fan at all.