Hard to remember the segments but I remember asking my room mate for a month,"wait which ones opie? Is that ant?".

When they came to WNEW in NYC, and we finally had good afternoon radio besides sports and news.

Dude just try and turn on WFAN and listen to Francesa or another station after podcasts, xm/satellite, music services and youtube. Listening to Francesa babble for 5 hours by himself is depressing and outdated. They are dinosaurs. Opie Jim and Anthony can survive and make money for another 10-15 years after October if they play their cards right.

Needed something to listen to after I was done with The Ricky Gervais Show and found the Louis & Patrice episodes on YouTube and listened to all of them within a few months.

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The first one I ever listened to was the episode with Louis & Dipialo where they're making fun of Mastick, the show just had such a funny feel to it back then.

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It was omgwtfitssteve. They got taken down and he uploaded a torrent with them in it. I think someone else(or him again) put them back up

The XM debut in 2004. Hearing them verbally trash interns for 2 solid hours. Skipped going to my first class of college to hear it.

Buttplug!

55 gallon drum challenge, that show was absolutely insane

I think one of the first things I remember was them talking about a HBO documentary about some 40 year old meth guy. That or when they talked about Hardcore, which I wish was on youtube.

Either the Heath Ledger suicide interview or The phone call interview when they talked to that kid whos party went out of control in Austrailia, only to find out it was some dumb kid fucking with the show. I believe it was the origin of "And thats how you executive produce!" both of them pretty much Cemented my love for the show.

I think it was the audio of Ron Howard laughing a lot during an interview they did with him.

I was at work had sirius app on phone. listening to different channel. See OandA remember hearing someone say they are funny. Tune in at end of program and they are fucking around with a box of condoms. I wish someone could get me this clip it was the funniest shit.

Reading youtube comments of O&A on Howard yt vids led me to some O&A vids.

Heard Jimmy doing voices and thought this is just hacky wacky radio voices and the pests are fucking idiots for liking this shit. I just didn't get it.

And continued to defend Howard my lord and savior for years and bash the pests in the comment section as lovers of hacky radio.

That bothered me at first too, I went on Oapedia and saw all the character's Jim has and it turned me off the show until I realised how he did them and what the characters were.

Ha, I remember browsing Oapedia when I first started listening too, and thinking that Jim Norton fella's huge list of characters seemed hacky as fuck.

I remember hearing them when I was in middle school on WAAF. I remember it being funny, and all my friends being into the show but don't remember what I actually heard.

As for the bit that got me hooked, I rediscovered the show around the time Mel Gibson went crazy on his girlfriend. It was over a week of laughing my balls off.

Same here. I honestly dont remember when, i was probably tuning the dial for the newst Candlebox or Days of The New song. Make a funny remark if you will but O&A's biggest audience in MA was probaly 5th-9th graders. Thats how i first heard of them when i was that age.

It took me until O&A brought up Scorch and Rocko in the 2000's to remember "Holy shit, THAT is the jerkoff who used to do the naked radio show on AAF." I actually believed he was naked but i was like 10 years old so... I should have been scorch's smartest listener

I remember hearing them on WNEW back in '02. I heard their style of radio and it sounded familiar and natural. Every radio guy before O&A even Howard had that pukey dumb delivery. O&A just sounded like regular guys who happened to be really funny.

Probobly their interview with Jonathan Harris, or superball

Jim Norton talking about how much he hated The Village.

My brother introduced me to them in 2002. We were on a steady diet of Don and Mike back then. I was like "whoa what's THIS?"

I remember thinking the name of the show was awkward to say, but was instantly hooked.

My first memory was back in 2005. I had just bought my first car and it came with a free year of XM. I was driving home from school and Ant and Jim were riffing back and forth and I remember Ant making a Kristallnacht joke. I was stunned to hear that on the radio and it really made me laugh. From then on I listened to them everyday when I would drive to and from school.

Wow, that's obscure! Had to Google that.

Sometime around 98-00 when I was about 10, I can still remember being in the car with my mom and the radio ended up on their show (I was in North Jersey so I guess it was WNEW?). They were doing some prank call I think and after a minute my mom turned it off saying "oh, that show. You aren't allowed to listen to that show. It's disgusting." I didnt pick up on what was so bad that they said, but of course I was intrigued in what in the show.

But I never ended up listening again after that, and was always vaguely aware of them as I grew up. I knew of the name and always saw the WOW stickers driving around, but that was about it.

Over a decade later (summer 2012) I'm 23 and looking for any sort of entertainment in my cubicle. I would listen to bill burr's podcast on YouTube and eventually found his O&A appearances. I was shocked they were still around and never would have guessed I would end up listening to that "disgusting radio show" all these years later. Now I really wish I had listened to them over all those years. I sometimes feel like I passed on going to a really awesome party only to show up as it's dying down.

I saw that "Chip ruins the moment" video and kept listening. This isn't fair, I literally just got into them. :(

In 2008 I got a new car with xm. Heard of them via their feud with Howie and figured I'd listen.

The show has such a learning curve. For about a month I didn't get most of the references.

One day they had a phoner with the author of "cuss control", a book about why cussing is bad and what words you could use instead. Norton brutally ramoned the guy.

I wouldnt know why he said "Rammmmooooonnnnneee" until years later when they explained how it was a Steve C reference, but my god I was crying from Jim's brutality. I think it was the fact that they beat up such an easy target. It was just so hilariously cruel.

Loved them, loved the show ever since!

1996 or so on WAAF. When they used to do the midget sightings

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As a kid, I could just remember seeing on channel 7 news when the boys got fired for sex for Sam. I didn't even know who they were but for some reason I could always remember being in the kitchen and seeing the news report of TV.

I used to listen to BJ Shea here in Seattle about 5 years ago (another terrestrial show that sucks now because they have to do morning zoo shit), and Jimmy, Patrice and other comics came on when they had a show around here. I started getting into Jim's stand-up, then started listening to old O&A clips on YouTube, like Jimmy ranting about Black Sabbath or how birds are douchebags. I started listening regularly around summer of '09, probably the most they've ever had Bobo in studio. Bobby Lee talking to Bobo about sexual fantasies and spitting on his dick with a bag full of his pubes is probably the hardest I've ever laughed/cringed, so that did it for me.

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Listened to clips before subscribing but I believe the first show I heard was Baby Bird. I was working that day trying to not to laugh out loud and puke at the same time.

Anthony doing the Reagan space defense thing. I think this happened after but Opie's uBid read was hilarious. There was so much going on around that time on WNEW.

I'm not exactly sure but I think it was the Donald Rumsfeld bit.

Gangsta Fag

why my toys sticky? why my toys sticky? i lost it when I heard that and patrice almost punching out just made it top level audio

Their Billy West interview (I was a Stern fan too).

Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge with a friend of time, with Big A and Twitchels doing the news. By the time we got to San Jose I was a fan.

Started listening to them in 2001, right before they blew up their spot with Sex for Sam. Thought Jim Norton was hilarious and loved the energy of the show.

This was on a Seattle talk station that had Stern in the AM, Tom Leykis during drive-time and O&A following Leykis

Back in 2007... I was stuck in traffic, flipping through channels on XM. I had just recently binge watched Lucky Louie, so I stopped when I heard Jimmy's voice, Bobby Kelly and Colin Quinn were in too. I had never heard of O&A at the time, and didn't know that Jimmy was part of the show, I just thought he was a guest. I remember really liking it, they were just trashing each other for most of the show, it was awesome.

A couple of days later I was thinking about the show, googled it, and saw that Jimmy was third mic, so I decided to check it out the next day. Doody hat day. Hooked ever since.

55 gallon drum contest. Flipping through the radio and was like "why are these girls screaming?" Life long listener from that day.

It was when they were on afternoons in Rochester, they were doing fatty pig fatty. I was gonna turn it off but then I heard Jimmy, I loved him on Tough Crowd so I decided to give them a chance and never stopped.

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WAAF shortly before they got fired for the mayor prank. Then I made it my job to find them on the syndication underground to hear their WNEW shows.

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2010: Mel Gibson phone calls. patrice breaking it down, anthony & jimmy just riffing, Opie keeping the show in line. I was jobless. I was hooked. I started uploading some good bits to youtube. This show kept me going thru 2 shitty years.

Got into them through Penn and Rogan, starting listening to them through that.

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i swear it was a bit that had to do with calling a retarded kid posing as someone else and saying they were going to take his football helmet away and the call ended with the kid crying and hanging up, ive been looking for it for years and still have yet to find it. i think telling a little boy there was no santa was among the first bits i heard too.

Yakovs Dinner Adventure.

Blind Boxing circa 1999. I tuned in on our radio setup in our living room. I listened on 92.3 Extreme Radio in Cleveland, where they just got syndicated. I remember how quiet it was while they were boxing. It was so tense that no one was saying anything. I remember Ant giggling and gasping quietly as they were swinging. I remember how odd it was to hear a show where there's actually silence sometimes. Like, how real life is. All I had ever known was loud annoying DJs teasing things and doing the radio voice.

I was hooked on it from that day. Jimmy was like my idol. I started going "eeaauchhh" about things in school (9th grade). Was making all kinds of Jimmy jokes. I also remember seeing a pic of Opie and Anthony for the first time, and I didn't know which was which, so for years I envisioned Opie's voice coming out of Anthony, and vice versa. Was strange when I realized I had it backwards.

But yea, they honestly changed my life, and I hate giving them credit for that. I've almost been embarrassed by listening to O&A in the past few years. But for better for for worse they've been a part of my life for like 15 years.

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early 2011, watching youtube vids and randomly came across a clip of lil' jimmy trashing ellen

Being in Australia, I never knew of them before but I remember thinking 'this is the most unnecessarily cruel, hilarious, vicious brand of comedy i have ever heard', ever since, I've listened to at least an hour of the show a day on average.

Sad to see it go away, looking forward to whatever happens next though

First time I heard of them was on break.com. They always had girls stripping and stuff for Opie and Anthony. First time I listened to them really and became a fan was Anthony doing Don West. Had me almost crying from laughter

My mom used to listen to WNEW a lot in the car and hated when they took over. I thought they were the greatest thing I ever heard. I have an audio cassette of the girl hooking up with Spaz to save a lobster somewhere in my parents house

I heard them interview Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker (C-3PO and R2-D2 of Star Wars) in the WNEW days, I'm guessing 1999-2000?

I avoided the show for a long time because I thought there was no fucking way a show with a guy called Opie could be good. I listened to Drew and Mike in Detroit (whose John Madden Gay Per View bit I later heard Opie and Anthony play without credit) and occasionally Howard when he was on FM. Opie and Anthony kept popping up when I searched for comics on youtube and I finally gave them a chance with the full Louis CK shows omgwtfitssteve (RIP your youtube channel) was uploading. I actually thought Anthony had an annoying, sing-songy and slightly gay voice at first, which I don't hear at all anymore. The brutality and hang-out vibe of the show hooked me and got me into Patrice and Burr too.

First ep was in 08. It was an ep where the staff was fighting basicslly the entire show. I had a hard enough time picking out op vs ant but now had 7 other people

Baby bird was the first show I ever heard.

I was ten years old or so and my dad used to listen to them on WNEW. They were doing some kind of bit making fun of Cablevision.

I also vaguely recall another bit about them making fun of some brand of bottled water.

My first memories of the show aren't very exciting.

Had XM in the car when I started driving in high school. I specifically remember them doing some sort of bit where they reviewed and talked about current movies, just a general convo, but they were so funny. I was hooked, listened only to that channel whenever I was in the car.

I remember driving home from hockey practice late thursday nights being pissed because instead of a replay of the show like every other night, they played the Sam and Than show lol.

Are you a lizard? Second was louis ck destroying Paul O's movie

First bit I ever heard was them re-running the saga of that intern who did "Ju-Ju-Ju-Julia!" and Opie threw a chocolate covered strawberry on his expensive hipster shoes.

Who couldn't love that?

I saw this on you tube back in 2004 and sought them out soon after.

Like a lot of people I suspect, listening to louis ck clips on youtube 3-4 years ago. I don't think I learned who was opie and who was anthony until about 5 appearances in.

Listening to Anthony talk about how scared he was of the ocean.

"Don't go in the ocean! There's monsters in there!"

Finding their channel, XL High Voltage, on my SkyFi2 when I was looking for comedy channels, hearing Jim Norton's voice and thinking, "Hey, that's the dude from Tough Crowd." Then I heard Ant's Tony Danza impersonation ("Do you wanna suck Tony Danza's cock?") to people in line for Danza's awful show. I have listened ever since.

My favorite memory of O&A is my father turning them off in the car whenever they got too raunchy on FM. It was usually within two minutes. Lol.

Same with Ron and Fez/Ron and Ron in Florida and my grandfather. I remember spending holidays and occasions down In Tampa and we would get in the car, listen for maybe 3 minutes and then he would have to change the channel.

Fuck, talk about the good ol days.

Listening to Sam walk around the XM building on their first day with daisy chained mic cables rubbing it in how many TVs they had.

Probably when they announced the mayor of Boston had died as an April Fools prank. When their show was syndicated in Boston again, I listened to them all the time.

From one of the GTAs didn't actually start listening to them until 2012

Thinking i heard Dice on WNEW in 1998. Got skeptical when he started promoting his gig at the Comedy Toilet.

The first week I started listening was the Nicolini rant. Ant said her tits looked like a swim cap filled with gravel. Jim said something like ' I feel uncomfortable ' and Ant said : "Good!" I remember thinking this shit is Real!

Nicolini is around when I started listening too. I remember my asshole being on fire because I hadn't showered and I was wearing a bathing suit.

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The day that they blew up on each other on air. I'd listened to a little stern online at that point and heard this clip a couple days after it happened on youtube. Caught my attention and I've been hooked ever since.

Them discussing how incredible this new game Grand Theft Auto 3 was

I purchased a new car in Dec of 2011. I have an hour commute to work each day and needed something to listen too. After finding out that I couldn't get Stern, I stumbled upon O&A. The first day I listened, Sam's shitty and old television was destroyed.

I was getting subs put in my truck. At the stereo shop they had XM banner hanging up trying to sell equipment and the booklet had a little writeup about O&A returning.

At that point I had never heard of them and they were supposed to be back on air the next monday. A buddy had XM thought it was cool, so I said fuck it and signed up thinking these guys may be funny.

That Monday night at work I tuned in on lunch and have been hooked ever sense. Don't really remember what was going on during that show - I just knew it seemed pretty raw and they were talking a little smack.

I was 12, and like humblebrag I didn't know who was who. But I remember they had just started at WNEW, and people were calling and asking what happened to the music. It's a totally vague memory, but I remember being in my bedroom and listening to my little stereo with them on. I'm 28 now. I've been listening for most of my life.

That being said, this whole situation going on now feels weird.