Opie's a glorified producer. The only thing making the show somewhat tolerable is Jimmy and comedian guests.

It's becoming more and more obvious

Opie's a glorified producer.

Exactly. Well said.

He been called out by a few other radio guys, even. People here seem to think this is a new thing since ant left, it's just much more glaring now.

I think he's more of a glorified rock jock. The guy should be an afternoon drive rock station DJ. It's what he always reverts to, it's how he's permanently wired.

Probably because he's been doing it since he was 18, or so I hear, I've never heard him actually confirm this on air.

Exactly. "Oh, abs-so-LUTE-ly." (Florentine)

Yeah, but to be fair that was only 5-10 years ago.

You mean "Board Op"

Ant is doing a good job carrying his own brand new show. Opie is floundering with the show named after him for the past 20 years. Ant is a lot more talented and has less annoying habits.

Today's show with Colin was so bad it made me uncomfortable. Colin is always great, but Opie took incessant phone calls, read a nonsensical Michael Jackson story, and spent 10 min yelling at Shaq. Nearing the end of the show, the room had a vibe like Opie was holding everyone hostage.

Hopefully, this was just a bad Monday, but I feel like this is a glimpse of what is to come. I'm going to give them a little more time and see if it is still worth listening

Ew it did feel like Opie was holding them hostage.

This is honestly a great summary of the show today. I cousins describe how it felt but you nailed it. He had two comedy geniuses there and couldn't utilize them.

It isn't even about utilization. If the radio host can keep his dumb mouth shut for 10 minutes, Colin and Jim will be funny. It is Autopilot Radio. Talking about Michael Jackson, Shaq and taking bullshit phone calls was such a lack of awareness and instinct that it staggers.

It's not about "sides" in my opinion, its about being entertained in a way that is even remotely close to what I had come to expect.

Opie is just not good radio if he is the focus of the show in any way, shape, or form.

Ant... Time will have to tell.

I really wish Ant would have done his first week free. Or at least first two shows, maybe. I don't feel like paying per month if I have no idea if I'll like it or not. There's just too much other free content out there, I have 5 fucking podcasts a day I can listen to that I already know I like.

Yes, becuase spending 6 lousy dollars is such a fucking gamble..

How many times have you literally thrown $6 bucks into a claw machine, bought lottery tickets, bought useless bullshit at the dollar store, rented a shitty movie and zero fucks were given?

Perhaps you asked the store clerk for free samples first and once approved by you would spend the $6 or $7 dollars.

You people are acting like the show is $300 a month.

$1 a month is too much to listen to Ant take calls and make no jokes.

It's the principality, Smokey.

I wasn't paying for them on sirius because Ant was bored and lazy, why would I pay for him alone? I'll take that 7 bucks and get a beer. Better investment.

Ant's show sucks unless someone else is on it with him. He'll just sit there and give an unfunny, unenlightening, racist rant for two hours straight. Don't get me wrong, I love Ant, but he needs a co host or constant guests.

What are the other podcasts?

There isn't a podcast personality near Anthony's level imo. Burr is good but he gets old quick as he almost never has guests on.

Ant's show is good. then there's opie.

I always like both guys pretty much equally. But Opie's lack of support for Ant turned me off. The day Ant's show launched Jim tweeted about, but Opie didn't.

In fact, Opie retweeted somebody saying the chemistry w/Soder on that day was great. Was weird timing at the least, and a straight dick move at worst.

Opie's lack of public support of Ant's show could be several things. He's gotta be bitter towards Ant over that everything that happened, and they haven't had the greatest of relationships over the years. On the other side, Opie could just be looking out for his next contract from SXM, which I'm sure he wants. Maybe he feels an endorsement of that sort might be taken badly by the company, but ultimately who knows.

He's probably butthurt that Ant didn't wait to do something with him.

Opie made it pretty clear that he didn't want to do the podcast with Ant on his first day back. He kept saying that Ant wanted to go at it alone but at that point Ant hadn't said anything about that. If anything, Ant may be disappointed that Opie wasn't going to join him in October.

Because when Opie says things over and over again, he's not trying to convince himself of anything and he's being completely honest.

I got the opposite impression. I thought that Ant was going solo but Opie wanted to join and said those things rather defensively when people asked.

That's possible, we don't know what went on behind the scenes. Ant has said he is willing to do something with them again. It seems that Opie is focusing on continuing the SXM show at this point.

He's a disloyal selfish bitter talentless cunt. And its showing. He's also as good at steering a ship as the Titanic's helmsman, Costa Concordia captain, a Korean ferry operator and another fucking boat that sank some time or other.

I really just miss Jim and Anthony talking to each other.

Anthony. I stopped listening to O&J a couple of days ago, I can't take Opie interrupting anymore. It's passed me by.

But that's the b....ah fuck it

I prefer the consumer, fuck O&A

I probably won't be listening to any of them anymore so there's no reason for me to take sides. The value really was in those three being together. O&J currently aren't as good as the podcasts I listen to so there's no time for them. Also, I'm not really interested in listening to "unfiltered" Ant.

Which podcasts? Just curious

Mostly nerd/gaming stuff (Giant Bombcast, Idle Thumbs, Geeknights, Comedy Button). I used to listen to more comedy ones before I discovered O&A but now I really only listen to Burr's and Derosa's lately. I'm trying to find more comedy shows to plug that hole now.

I saw a recommendation for Giant Bombcast in this sub so I tried it out. They are pretty good but 3 hours is pretty long for a podcast.

I usually skip the first hour or so unless they're talking about a game I'm interested in. I mainly listen for the news and the emails section.

Nailed it. There's enough O&A material that I haven't heard, and stuff I never get tired of hearing, that if I need a fix I don't have to rely on desperately floundering Opie or Ant's attempt at being a low rent Glen Beck.

Ant. But I do like Opie, he's just not a leading man. He's really a terrible person not just in his lack of culture but hanging up on weeping men, attacking elderly men, playing hitler speech rallies to whiny jews, being first to pick up on a...mysterious...individual and passing the ball to the verbal assassins. He's perfect for my line of humor but he has no one to work off, that's why he and Anthony Cumia were soul mates.

I've never heard Jim shock Anthony besides his uncle paul which isn't shocking for Ant, I've heard Opie make Anthony roll away from the mic and leave the room multiple times.

from douche chills?

Shock and awe. Glad I got a reply so I can give Opie a little credit, here's a brief list of O&A moments we probably would've never had without his callousness.

Uncomfortable Interviews Retrospective - Pretty much an Opie greatest hits

Shawna Lenee has a Breakdown - Ant and Jim were smitten with this whore, Opie and Daniel Ross both shine

Opie hangs up on caller

Steve the Whistler - Opie's single greatest radio achievement

Toothpick art guy, to be fair Ant started and carried this but having Opie and Jim leave Ralphie May to interview shows chemistry o&a had for trolling, polite boy Jim woulda stayed put and ate shit without Opie leaving shortly after ant

Opie risks the lives of everyone in studio smashing Bernhard Goetz mixcd

Oh and how can I forget the infamous cakestomp that got the reddit faggots in a tizzy

You forgot Tucker Max, which was not only a great Opie moment, but it is still one of O&A's greatest moments... Tucker Max was HUGE and influential back then, and it's fucking hilarious that they took him down in his prime.

Steve the Whistler was amazing. I liked the time they called Tommy Lee a pussy & hung up on him when he was a huge news story, but that was back when he had balls in WNEW days. That's when I fell in love with those gentleman....(chimes play/screen goes wavy/flashback)

The Shawna Lenee breakdown was one of the best moments of the show.

At least its good to see some remember these. His high point dick moments will always be my favorite moments.

I know. When he threw those poker chips that may have been the worst, most uncomfortable I've ever felt. That poor woman had lost her store, I think, and brought them gifts. Oh god was that awful yet wonderful radio. It made everyone so uncomfortable, even Jim who was brutal back then. Man that was a good show. And the Whistler. Jimmy saying "it's you I can't look at" to Opie was the shit. And it seemed Steve never caught on. Dammit, man, miss those days.

Also, in the past Opie has told listeners to cancel their subs if they didn't like the show, which was pretty funny. But now all of a sudden he's butthurt when people cancel in support of Ant.

According to Opie cancelling SXM to support Ant is a "fuck you" to him and Jimmy.

I think Jim would talk about Ant's show more but he Opie doesn't want him to, either insinuated or outright said.

But that would imply that they were gasp lying about not having listener numbers!

Anthony.

I'm cancelling my SXM sub this weekend. For $5 a month, fine, just for the music and traffic.

I'd rather listen to WFAN, ESPN Radio, or 880/1010 for traffic.

Opie and Jimmy is terrible.

Interesting name you have.

They are both worse than they are together.

They belong together. It's radio's greatest love story.

.#TeamAnthony

It's not that I hate Opie, it's just that the show has passed me by.

if i heard Opie correctly - that they'll be taking a couple of weeks off at the end of the month.. then i'll likely let that be the end of my subscription... i don't think i need to pay for two weeks of 'best of' bullshit.

i've been trying to listen to both - but i'm not as tuned in as i used to be...

The value in the show to me has never been in Opie, Anthony, or Jimmy. It's in who they bring in that day. Vos and Bobby in the studio? It's going to be fun. Jimmy's there too? Even better, a bloodbath. CQ? Fantastic. The off-days where big-shots Louis and Burr come in? Great.

The show just being the show, talking on their own about whatever's in the news? Ehh.

Which is why I've been keeping up with Opie and Jim more than Ant, because at least the guys are still coming in. I'm afraid of Ant's show slowly getting more political as he runs out of fun people to bring in and starts morphing into Hannity.

If the question is who has made me laugh more - Anthony.

If it's who do I think would do a better show going forward - Opie.

Anthony's obviously a really funny, talented guy, but from what I gather from what other people are saying his show isn't something I'd be entertained by.

For everyone who shits on Opie constantly, he does do a few things that are cringeworthy/take away from the show, but they're typically momentary... they're not taking up hours the way Ant's social commentary would.

If it's just purely sexual, then Opie. But if we're talking more a long term relationship, Ant.

I listen to both, support both, but kinda dig Ant's show more. I sorta came to O & A through Yimmy on Lucky Louie...found his 'Trinkets' album which plugs O&A and a coworker finally showed me O&A five years ago. I was hooked.

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Wasn't even a question that I would listen to both.

I hate to say it, but neither one is particularly great without the other. I am enjoying O&J to some extent because of all the comics.

Definitely an unpopular opinion, but when Ant would derail the show it was unlistenable for me. Opie's tangents are just mindless fluff, not painful tirades.

I'm with you. Ant's show isn't very good to be honest, but it's still early, so I'll give him some time to develop. He's awkward when he's on his own, and I'm getting sick of his rants about the same topics all the time. I'm not saying he's wrong, but if I wanted that I'd turn on Fox News or some other right-leaning talk show. He needs to find a good co-host or some frequent regular guests. The problem is that I don't think he'll ever be able to get any big names because most wouldn't want to be associated with his show.

O&J have been relying on guests to keep them listenable, and have actually had some great shows, but yesterday's show was a great example of how much they can suck when it's just the two of them. Unfortunately, Colin Quinn couldn't save the show, but you can't blame him as it was already shit before he showed up. Although I did find the shark guy at the end pretty interesting.

Opies egotism is anyoing and Ants racism is annoying, I'd say I am equal with both.

I think all of them together is where the magic happens. That being said even though i think ant is probably the funniest his views are atrocious and his new show just reeks of those atrocious views (still watching dont know for how long though well see if he switches to something a bit less politically driven)

I thought the O and J show was particularly good today after a very bland week last week, normally i defend people hating on the show when i thought they had a good show but there really was nothing to defend last week, Jim and Colin play off each other very well, and opie dare I say actually had a few pretty good zingers today.

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Opie has all those extra millions, I think he'll survive.

Opie and Jim by themselves is a bore, Anthony by himself is less of a bore.

Stopped moistening to the ship steerer and serious Jimmy. Only doing ants show now.

Edit hmm nice spell check error...

Porque no dos?

I like Anthony, but he's not doing the type of show that most of his fans want. If he turns into a mostly political show, he's going to lose a lot of us. We love the Anthony that tells stories from his life and lampoons popular culture. Most of us only tolerated the Anthony who rants about guns, race, and violence because he gave us so much funny in between.

I listen to O&J and support Ant by not paying for his show, or even bothering to watch it illegally. I'm a terrible, cheap, creature of habit.

opie he might not be the best but hes not a racist

Exactly, so why listen to him?

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But that would imply that they were gasp lying about not having listener numbers!