Today is the first time I'm not listening to the show in 2.5 years

54  2014-09-17 by [deleted]

I've been a beyond faithful listener for 2.5 years. Even when I can't listen live, I'll get the show later... I went on a trip to the UK for two weeks in the spring, I downloaded every episode and listened to them there. I've not listened to episodes on the day of because I missed the day before (and would instead listen to the day's before)...

I realized yesterday that the new version of the show gives me stomach acid... I'm so uncomfortable listening. This new version of Opie is so anxious... Jim is passive-aggressive to the extreme (EXTREME!!) There is no comic relief anymore... In the words of Opie, me not listening to them anymore is not monumental... it doesn't matter, I guess, cuz the show must have passed me by.... but the point is, I was as loyal as a listener as you can get. I used to look forward to listening, then over the summer it became a chore... now I feel liberated I'm not listening to this three hour daily horse cocksucking fest anymore.

EDIT: you know I'm not bragging or anything or being some whiny bitch... I'm just saying - and if Sam Roberts does come on this sub it'd be good for him to read these types of threads and take them to heart... this whole bravado Opie and the crew (not including Jim Norton) are putting on is the reason the show gives me acid now - they are becoming fake as fuck.. it's anxiety-inducing listening to them try to RESCUE the show every day.. FUCK..

"Well don't listen then!"

EXACTLY!

♪GETTT OVVVER IT!♪

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I think Opie has revitalized the show by bringing back one of the greatest bits..."Opie the destroyer." Everyday he destroys the show and makes it cringy for our enjoyment! His brilliance is lost on you people who don't get that destroying the show.. "It's the bit!!!!"

Exactly.

OK faggot, whats next?

That's actually a good question, what should I do with my new free time?

You. You're next.

I'm in the same boat. I listened to literally every single minute for almost a decade, and I'm not exaggerating because I would download it on mp3 and listen start to finish. I stopped after two weeks of O&J coming back and the initially fun run of comic guests dried up.

I'm not angry at the show, and I don't compare it to Anthonys show, and I'm not even that sad because there are a thousand podcasts out there to listen to. It just feels...wierd, that I don't have those voices in my head for so much time every week. It's somewhat surreal how easily I have let them go because of how loyal I was, and maybe that shows just how little I have been enjoying the show subconsciously lately.

I agree. For last five years driving a truck those guys were apart of my daily routine. Every morning and even the replays in the afternoon. Laughed my balls off every day. My xm receiver broke a couple of days before Ant got canned and I still haven't replaced it. I just couldn't bear it. I know it's not popular to say right now but I always liked Opie. But knowing that the show as I knew it was over really depressed me. Now I drive around literally listening to nothing. I know I sound like a bitch right now but still...

That sucks, man. I've since found a ton of other podcasts and shows to get into. There's too much good stuff out here now. Maybe you'll find a few new shows to listen to.

"...THE JACK DANIELS BOTTLE NEVER EVEN HIT THE GROUND!" -Dusty

He says: HAVE A DRINK!

Tell us more about how you listened and didn't like it.

You missed it!! Opie admitted he was gang raped by the Philly Crew. Turns out they are the ones who chained his dragon.

It happened behind Father Doris' parish.

Where is Father Doris?

Here is a quick recap of today's show

I haven't listened for like a month but I am tempted to see just how bad it is...

Then ad the shitty tinny sound and static from Paltalk and you're spot on.

That's one I never understood, they've been doing the paltalk gimmick for years and they still haven't fixed the static you get from paltalk.

I'm totally saving this. This rules.

This is going great....

Welcome to the club.

2.5 years. PLEASE welcome to the show noobie.

i started listening to o&a because stern became the same show oj has become now

just a circle jerk of lapdogs gobbling up the host's cum and barking at any outside descent

Same here... about '08 - I should have quit listening to Stern in '03, but, like the demise of the Simpsons, I listened out of habit rather than "Oh this is good!"

Ok, terrific.

I listened to every minute of every show since around 05 or 06. And I stopped like a month before anthony-gate.

So I'm the coolest.

I thought I was a newbie, I have listened for 6 years now. I think that maybe, perhaps, possibly, Opie is doing it on purpose to show Sirius that the show needs Anthony to be as good as they used to be. I don't know, just a theory......I also used to listen to every minute of the show, even being late to deliveries because I didn't want to get out of the truck and miss what they would say next. Now I can't listen for more than a few minutes here and there without cringing and changing the channel.

I think that maybe, perhaps, possibly, Opie is doing it on purpose to show Sirius that the show needs Anthony

Once I would have wanted to believe that.

The reason it's impossible to believe though is that Opie has proven this already, consistently, for over 15 years, but never once has he proven the opposite.

I thought I was a newbie, I have listened for 6 years now. I think that maybe, perhaps, possibly, Opie is doing it on purpose to show Sirius that the show needs Anthony

If he was doing that, I'd gladly eat crow for the rest of my life, take back everything bad I ever said about him, and suck his dick in a literary sense forever.

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In a literary sense? You'd praise him in New York Book Review?

My thing is that I still, after 10 years, continue to download every show but find it hard to actually listen. Where I used to savor each one I now have to force myself to play them.

I couldn't agree more. I still have a trial subscription in my truck and for the last several weeks I've been looking for another show to listen to. I not only looked forward to it, I often planned to leave for trips (I travel a lot) for replay start times so I could listen uninterrupted. So frustrating. I agree with some that Anthony isn't innocent in all this, but I also feel a warning from Sirius would have been enough. Ant and Jim covered for Opie's mediocrity for several years in my opinion, and now it's blatantly obvious! I like Anthony's show and it has gotten better, but he's still one Jim Norton away from having a great show! We'll see!

That's the bit.

I hear a corny white mother fucker doing radio for no one but I'd rather hear him 'deciding' to go raise his son.

It gets easier the longer you go without. There is life after o an a.

Welcome to the club.

ok terrific

i stopped a week ago, will probably cancel sirius after this month - came to this sub to see if the show had improved at all, clearly it has not. Good on you brother for finally giving up this shit show - fuck opie faggot forever

You missed Denny, Lady di, and Mike Bochetti. Way to pass on gold, sir.

I'm with you bro. I listened to a good chunk of WNEW and signed up for XM for day 1. Since October 4, 2004 I listened to nearly every show missing likely less than a dozen.

I listened to Op and Jim for about a week and yeah, it probably wasn't long enough to give it a good shake, but I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. It's not funny anymore and just feels forced. So I cancelled my sub.

I love Jimmy's Vice show and Anthony's show for 2 hours a day 4 days a week is the perfect kind of time investment and has progressively gotten better because he's listened to feedback from the listeners/viewers.

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I thought jimmy killed it yesterday.

I went on vacation in mid-August. I haven't really been listening since. I've heard every single show since they were syndicated to WJFK in DC. I've pretty much heard every single show since they signed with XM at least twice. This whole thing fucking sucks. With it being football season, I listen to a lot of sports talk, but fuck, this shit sucks. I want my show back the way it was :-/

Let's make it 2.5 years before you post about the show again and say the same fucking thing everyone else had said.

Do people really have to announce that they stopped listening to a show? It's a shame the Internet wasn't always around for me. When the Brady Bunch jumped ship it's last season I couldn't keep watching. Yet I had no one to tell. Man how times have improved.

uhh..Are you talking about a big fat person?

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Nobody in power reads this shit and your faggy thread isn't going to suddenly make Opie talented overnight.

Do what everybody else does...wait for somebody to mention a funny thing that happened and listen to it on YouTube.

What do you want, a fucking cookie?

Who the fuck says that anymore, let alone type it?

And then you felt the need to announce it?

If Anthony hadn't fucked up everyone's professional lives with his blithering racism you could have still had a show.