Thanks for the post. I never saw this before. I had high blood pressure after Al Sharpton said, "What do you mean by you people." Thank God Patrice was honest and spoke his mind.
I listen to O&A sometimes from the current era, but I've been listening to Patrice Oneal on O&A as of late. I only listen to some shows that are posted this year, or late last year. So I'm not really too up to date, and I think Jim did say shit like that in the Patrice era, but even so I didn't connect the dots. Plus even if I did I'd still probably would have said what I said.
I've never had any sort of feeling one way or the other about a public figure of any sort until Patrice. And not on any fanboy level shit like self important assholes always do about every dead celebrity. I can't explain it, dude just changed my life in some respect.
Yeah man, honestly he was such a nice guy and a funny guy it was hard not to like him; and I really liked him. I remember back in October of 2011 my Teacher told me that he died, she heard it on the radio on the way to school, and she said he was funny and if I had the chance to check it out. I was the class clown in school, and she knew I was a fan of comedy and told me to check him out. I've always liked comedy, and I love stand up so I eventually did. So one day I watched the Elephant in the Room special on Netflix and I lost my shit. Patrice was ridiculously good in that special, everything was on point. His special is probably the most watched special for me, I've seen it 8 times in it's entirety, six of the eight times was with friends who didn't see it yet. I loved his special, and I couldn't get enough of him. I remember googling his name and he was on the Opie & Anthony show, he was even funny on that, at the time I never ever heard of O&A despite living 10 minutes away from NYC. I loved his stand up and personality. I started watching all his appearances on O&A and I really started loving the guy. I remember in one show he had a stand up gig for Point Pleasent in NJ and the tickets were on sale. I wondered if he had any other appearances there in 2012, I checked his site, and I then realized that I forgot he was dead, I forgot about it, I thought he was still around. I know I'm a bitch for it, but I cried man. I was sad that he wasn't around anymore, and I was sad I never heard of him when I was alive. I remember the only thing I saw with Patrice was the Web Junk show when I was younger, and I always wondered what happened to him after that, I wish I googled him sooner, but I never rediscovered him until he was dead.
TLDR; I really liked Patrice, and I was legitimately sad that he died.
I started listening to O&A through random youtube clips I came up upon. Specifically opies occupy Wall Street videos, on the side there was a link to them discussing the video and arguing with intern Matt. After those short clips I was hooked to O&A. But I only listened to the same ~10 clips for a few months.
Then one day I decided I wanted to listen to em live. I tried to sign up for Sirius but i dint have a credit card. So I got the week long trial instead.
The first day I ever listened to O&A was the day that Patrice died. I remember being excited to hear em live for the first time and I dint know who Patrice was or that he had even passed. The intro pops up and finally I'm hearing em.... And they sounded so lame... 0 energy, 0 fun. I turned it off after an hour cause they just kept talking about some comedian I had no clue about dying.
Looking back on it now it's kinda funny cause Patrice literally changed my entire life. I have a successful career and a great relationship with my gf thanks to him. I live the "righteous" life that he lived.
My boss once insulted my profession and essentially called me and my co-workers expendable. They wanted a lot of work done in a short amount of time and we all argued that there was no way we could do it properly. So my boss goes "if you guys don't do it then we'l get rid of you all and hire others that will" and I just replied with "alright then consider this my 2 week notice".
The room was fucking stunned. No one could believe what just happened. A day went by and I got a call from my bosses bosses boss who dint even fucking know I existed till that day. I had a 1v1 meeting with him and he asked me what happened. I explained to him what my boss had said and that I dint want to be part of a company that sees me as just another piece of shit and that I would rather be unemployed then be talked to and treated that way. We worked out a deal that would keep me at the company and I got promoted for it. He told me I had balls to stand up to a boss and barely anyone has em these days.
Anyways I ranted for nothing. Patrice literally made my life a hundred times better and all I honestly wish I could do is thank that fat mother fucker for having such a big mouth. RIP.
That was well worth the read my man. I've always felt Patrice was perfect in breaking things down to its core.. It's that purified way of thinking and acting that I took with me and will always live by.
I'm sitting in the second row stage left in Elephant in the Room. I got on some casting email list a long time ago and get random invites now and then when they need to fill rooms for a DVD filming. I remember having to take a cab home afterwards rather than going for drinks because I had such a massive headache from laughing so much.
Hey we want to talk about a really complicated issue. We should get 5 people who all want to talk about it and give them a couple hundred seconds to talk about it.
The thing I dislike the most about this is that the underlying premise was, it is horrible to say something offensive. That was not addressed, and everything they said just followed from that line of reasoning. Hurting peoples' feelings is now treated like a physical assault.
None of these people who get in trouble for things they say ever do anything bad to anyone. It's not just an attack on how freely people can speak, but it's really about whether the person is committing thought crime. He hasn't hurt anyone, but secretly deep in his heart he might be racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic, and that cannot be allowed.
I listen to O&A sometimes from the current era, but I've been listening to Patrice Oneal on O&A as of late. I only listen to some shows that are posted this year, or late last year. So I'm not really too up to date, and I think Jim did say shit like that in the Patrice era, but even so I didn't connect the dots. Plus even if I did I'd still probably would have said what I said.
23 comments
7 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
Thanks for the post. I never saw this before. I had high blood pressure after Al Sharpton said, "What do you mean by you people." Thank God Patrice was honest and spoke his mind.
5 sakuramboo 2014-02-26
Damn, I miss him.
14 ImOnlyBleeding 2014-02-26
GET OVER IT!!
3 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
I'll never get over it. He was, and always will be, the best ever.
5 felixunderhill 2014-02-26
Don't you listen to O & A? You have to read that last comment in Jimmy's "Eagles voice"
1 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
I listen to O&A sometimes from the current era, but I've been listening to Patrice Oneal on O&A as of late. I only listen to some shows that are posted this year, or late last year. So I'm not really too up to date, and I think Jim did say shit like that in the Patrice era, but even so I didn't connect the dots. Plus even if I did I'd still probably would have said what I said.
1 Viking_Lordbeast 2014-02-26
No it's something he's started doing for the past week.
1 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
Alright so then I'm definitely out of the loop. I'll get into the more recent shows eventually, but I'm living in the past for now.
4 Misterbrownstone 2014-02-26
I've never had any sort of feeling one way or the other about a public figure of any sort until Patrice. And not on any fanboy level shit like self important assholes always do about every dead celebrity. I can't explain it, dude just changed my life in some respect.
5 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
Yeah man, honestly he was such a nice guy and a funny guy it was hard not to like him; and I really liked him. I remember back in October of 2011 my Teacher told me that he died, she heard it on the radio on the way to school, and she said he was funny and if I had the chance to check it out. I was the class clown in school, and she knew I was a fan of comedy and told me to check him out. I've always liked comedy, and I love stand up so I eventually did. So one day I watched the Elephant in the Room special on Netflix and I lost my shit. Patrice was ridiculously good in that special, everything was on point. His special is probably the most watched special for me, I've seen it 8 times in it's entirety, six of the eight times was with friends who didn't see it yet. I loved his special, and I couldn't get enough of him. I remember googling his name and he was on the Opie & Anthony show, he was even funny on that, at the time I never ever heard of O&A despite living 10 minutes away from NYC. I loved his stand up and personality. I started watching all his appearances on O&A and I really started loving the guy. I remember in one show he had a stand up gig for Point Pleasent in NJ and the tickets were on sale. I wondered if he had any other appearances there in 2012, I checked his site, and I then realized that I forgot he was dead, I forgot about it, I thought he was still around. I know I'm a bitch for it, but I cried man. I was sad that he wasn't around anymore, and I was sad I never heard of him when I was alive. I remember the only thing I saw with Patrice was the Web Junk show when I was younger, and I always wondered what happened to him after that, I wish I googled him sooner, but I never rediscovered him until he was dead.
6 Moh7 2014-02-26
I started listening to O&A through random youtube clips I came up upon. Specifically opies occupy Wall Street videos, on the side there was a link to them discussing the video and arguing with intern Matt. After those short clips I was hooked to O&A. But I only listened to the same ~10 clips for a few months.
Then one day I decided I wanted to listen to em live. I tried to sign up for Sirius but i dint have a credit card. So I got the week long trial instead.
The first day I ever listened to O&A was the day that Patrice died. I remember being excited to hear em live for the first time and I dint know who Patrice was or that he had even passed. The intro pops up and finally I'm hearing em.... And they sounded so lame... 0 energy, 0 fun. I turned it off after an hour cause they just kept talking about some comedian I had no clue about dying.
Looking back on it now it's kinda funny cause Patrice literally changed my entire life. I have a successful career and a great relationship with my gf thanks to him. I live the "righteous" life that he lived.
My boss once insulted my profession and essentially called me and my co-workers expendable. They wanted a lot of work done in a short amount of time and we all argued that there was no way we could do it properly. So my boss goes "if you guys don't do it then we'l get rid of you all and hire others that will" and I just replied with "alright then consider this my 2 week notice".
The room was fucking stunned. No one could believe what just happened. A day went by and I got a call from my bosses bosses boss who dint even fucking know I existed till that day. I had a 1v1 meeting with him and he asked me what happened. I explained to him what my boss had said and that I dint want to be part of a company that sees me as just another piece of shit and that I would rather be unemployed then be talked to and treated that way. We worked out a deal that would keep me at the company and I got promoted for it. He told me I had balls to stand up to a boss and barely anyone has em these days.
Anyways I ranted for nothing. Patrice literally made my life a hundred times better and all I honestly wish I could do is thank that fat mother fucker for having such a big mouth. RIP.
2 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
I'm glad to hear that you were touched by the righteous hand of Patrice Oneal. God bless that dude.
1 [deleted] 2014-02-26
That was well worth the read my man. I've always felt Patrice was perfect in breaking things down to its core.. It's that purified way of thinking and acting that I took with me and will always live by.
2 Misterbrownstone 2014-02-26
I'm sitting in the second row stage left in Elephant in the Room. I got on some casting email list a long time ago and get random invites now and then when they need to fill rooms for a DVD filming. I remember having to take a cab home afterwards rather than going for drinks because I had such a massive headache from laughing so much.
2 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
Lucky you. I would have loved to be there, and I'm assuming you got in there for free. That's doubly great.
4 PhilipeNegro 2014-02-26
How many times did Patrice want to call that other dude a faggot? I say +/- 30 in that segment.
-1 Viking_Lordbeast 2014-02-26
How do you call someone a faggot a negative amount of times?
3 pekingoose 2014-02-26
jesus fuckin christ, Hannity needs to shut the fuck up for two minutes.
2 [deleted] 2014-02-26
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1 fattypigfatty 2014-02-26
Hey we want to talk about a really complicated issue. We should get 5 people who all want to talk about it and give them a couple hundred seconds to talk about it.
1 mr__hat 2014-02-26
Inexusable to have videos where the audio is almost a second out of sync in 2014.
1 NotoriousENT 2014-02-26
RIP :(
1 whatisthishere 2014-02-26
The thing I dislike the most about this is that the underlying premise was, it is horrible to say something offensive. That was not addressed, and everything they said just followed from that line of reasoning. Hurting peoples' feelings is now treated like a physical assault.
None of these people who get in trouble for things they say ever do anything bad to anyone. It's not just an attack on how freely people can speak, but it's really about whether the person is committing thought crime. He hasn't hurt anyone, but secretly deep in his heart he might be racist/sexist/homophobic/xenophobic, and that cannot be allowed.
0 Epithemus 2014-02-26
Kind of enraging how they wouldn't let Patrice speak without interrupting every 3 seconds.
14 ImOnlyBleeding 2014-02-26
GET OVER IT!!
1 RatherPleasent 2014-02-26
I listen to O&A sometimes from the current era, but I've been listening to Patrice Oneal on O&A as of late. I only listen to some shows that are posted this year, or late last year. So I'm not really too up to date, and I think Jim did say shit like that in the Patrice era, but even so I didn't connect the dots. Plus even if I did I'd still probably would have said what I said.