I feel bad for the Opster right now

14  2014-07-03 by crookedmile

Dude has two young kids. Sure he's made a fair share in his day, but you know he's fucking terrified right now. He's got to be. I know I would be. And yeah, if shit goes down, he can get another job in radio, but at nowhere near what he's making now. Check out all the empties man.....

He could always go back to caddying I guess.

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The Opie and Norton show, with Dan Soder as the new third mic. That's the backup plan lol.

I like "Gregg Hughes' Hour of Laughy Laughs and Whimsey"

Featuring Cheeky Norton

Such a sweet boy

Opie Hughes and The Daily Gripe

How about...."The Haberdashery Hang with the Get-Along-Gang"

You guys like it?

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Not sure how well it'd work with Jimmy and Soder being traveling comics.

Love me some Soder though, no homo full homo

I would HATE for Anthony to go, but this could definitely work. Here check out this video WITH a visual aid provided for the audio of Dan on the show killing and having great chemistry. http://youtu.be/imJ88x0osI8

I could live with that.

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From the murky banks (murky banks) the Ronnie B and The Opster Show will rise!

I think we can all agree this would be just fine

My god. Ronnie B, Opie and Jim. With a staff of Hawk, Pep and Shelby. My God...listening to Jim getting mad and going off on Shelby or Pepper (or Gurian...but he would never) would be great.

Pretty sure he (and ant too) actually has fuck you money.

I hear the ancient WNEW deal was worth $30 million alone, and they've been making seven figures per year ever since.

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That 30 million dollar figure is one deal. They were also syndicated all over the country. Plus they've been making seven figures now for over 10 years. They are fine. I'd say they've been making fuck you money closer to 15 years. Ant and Opie both have more than enough money stashed away. Its not like either one of them spends cash like a rapper. Opie especially seems frugal with his money.

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You think Opie gave up his mob connections? Don't you worry, he'll do just fine...

When he was on the Robert Kelly podcast last year, he said he could retired today and never have to work again. Anthony on the other hand seems to spend a shit load of money on new toys, so he should be a bit worried.

In the long run, raising 2 kids in NYC is going to cost more than Ant spends on toys.

He does always say he hates living In NYC and clearly only does for the show. If their gig at sxm ended he'd be out of there so fast. He could sell his 3(?) bedroom apartment and buy a mansion with the money

Ant blazes through money like a motherfucker. Gambling? Nobody does that as a regular hobby do they? If so, I hang out with some poor motherfuckers.

its hard to blase through your money if your making more than a million a year without buying a bunch of cars and houses. His biggest drain is likely his gambling addiction. but i cant see him losing more than a half million a year there. but with addicts you never know how bad it is till they bottom out

Even if he lost 50k a time and went every month that doesn't mean he's going paycheck to paycheck.

Why are you speculating when none of us knows

99% of this sub is speculation and opinions. your in the wrong place if your looking for facts pal.

Who you calling pal, friend?

Who you calling friend, buddy?

He just bought a new Jag with his gambling winnings alone. He might lose 50k gambling but Ant always seems to come out on top. Plus he doesn't gamble every month. I'd say follow his twitter time line and he probably goes out and gambles a few times a year.

All gambling addicts pretend to come out on top. You never hear about the loses, but they can't shut up about any winnings.

They all hate this because it will affect their salary negotiations.

Opie can get his own hack mainstream radio show and do fine. Think of all those jerkoffs they feature for Jocktober.... he'll take one of those jobs.

The Opester will move out to the burbs and be fine. Cumia has stated that he wants to move down South so perhaps that will expedite this move. A sale of the compound along with the money he has saved will go a long ways in either Texas or Florida. That is if he doesnt have another heart attack from the stress of being fired for the 3rd time.

Opie will move down 95, into Philly. Ya know, for the Philly Crew.

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I want The Philly Crew to execute Dugout Doug for bringing up Cumia's heart attack for the twentieth time this month. Broken record piece of garbage.

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I would love an Erock, comment.

I don't think either of them would likely need to get other work. You know? It's just a matter of lifestyle. If you're in your fifties and have a couple of million, you'll be fine. What've you got, 20-25 years left? You could live at 200k a year until you're dead.

And the older you get, the less you spend. They'll be fine I think

The interest per million is over 40k a year at 4%. So if he has 10 million he is making at least 400k a year off of it. Realistically he probably makes much more than that depending how he invests it.

Yeah I was going to say if they invest there money correctly, and keep it in a bank with decent interest they could live off that alone and never have to touch any of the money they actually earned working. Ant has said before he's done quite well in the stock market at times.

Who gives 4%?

Investments can give up to ~8. Banks give good rates to people who can deposit lost of money, typically over 1 million.

He's got "FU money" right? Hey, Anthony brought him into this world (of successful radio), he should be the one to take him out. Besides, he makes a pretty penny off his youtube masterpieces.

He's not terrified, he has a healthy sum of money and a family to raise. Besides he has a booming T-Shirt business which is really picking up some numbers so don't shit on the old Opster yet.

He's probably going to stay faaaar away from this.

I feel sorry for him too but he's made more than enough money for himself and retire right now if he wanted to. He's said over the years he has a nice nest egg tucked away, and lets face it he's actually quite frugal with his money. Outside of his penthouse apartment (which im sure he can more than afford), he doesn't really have an extravagant lifestyle. He only owns one car which is like a Ford Explorer type car. I'd think its safe to say Opie has way more money than Ant does. Ant sinks his cash into all sorts of stupid shit. He had a divorce too.

I don't think Opie gives a fuck about working another day for the rest of his life. Opie grew up very poor and could not give a fuck about millions.

There's no way this effects the show. If this offended any listeners then they don't ever actually listen to the show. If anything it brings in more listeners. Ant had an incident outside of work, has nothing to do with his work.... Yeah they'll be in on Monday and loving the attention!

Are you living in the same society as the rest of us? His outside life shouldnt effect his work life....but in this society lately it most certainly will. And of course SXM is worried about backlash from advertisers etc and they want this kept quiet

Like he already said.... They try and do something he'd just lawyer up and sue the shit out of SiriusXM. If they had a problem with his way of thinking and what he says it would have been dealt with already. And what sponsors are they concerned over.... Dollar Shave Club? Guarantee there is no backlash as far as SiriusXM goes. If there were any concerns do you think he'd still be tweeting about it.... Nope!

And as dumb as everyone thinks SXM is they probably have wording in tge contract that allows them to fire him/them for any reason they see fit. This wouldnt be the first time someone thinks everything is fine with what theyre doing and gets canned days later.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see....

Why? Ant carried him for 20 years. Doesn't he always say he can go and do something by himself?

Lol, someone on Stormfront is claiming the Philly Crew is behind this.

The scuttlebutt is that the "Philly crew", in laws of his jealous co host, is behind spreading his Twitter feed to the media like Gawker. Wouldn't surprise me as the "co host" is a no talent morning zoo hack, but I digress.

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Fuck em.