The show really isn't bad at all. The Soder and Bob Kelly shows were really god damn funny. The show IS different but still entertaining. If Opie pulls it off, the channel could have some good shows on it. This sub reddit stinks now. I still listen like the rest of you silly geese. Get over the change and try to enjoy both shows.

Jesus Christ, a comment saying "the show really isn't that bad at all" with positive karma and top comment spot.

Could this be the beginning of the end for the extreme anti-Opie circlejerk? Is the pendulum finally swinging the other direction, towards casual acceptance and tolerance of the hand we've been dealt? I, for one, think the new show is at at minimum listenable, and sometimes it can be really entertaining. Especially lately, with Bob Kelly, Soder, and Joey Diaz

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(This guy is an admitted pedophile)

Also, your efforts to try and find some hypocrisy in me after I called you out publicly in /r/Documentaries is pretty lame. I have never supported the racism in this sub or on the show

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Um, an ad hominem is when you insult or discredit someone instead of refuting their argument.

I pointed out your pedophilia, then I refuted your argument. If you're going to turn to calling out logical fallacies when you've no other argument to resort to, you should at least know what those fallacies mean.

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Just because you don't literally go out and rape kids doesn't make you ethical. Not raping kids is the minimum standard everyone else in society lives up to. It doesn't make you a good person. You're a terrible person not because of your attractions (not that you shouldn't be ashamed of them), but because you post to /r/TheRedPill and defend convicted child rapists on Reddit.

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Holy shit you're a pedo.

Wouldn't be surprised if there were more pedo TweRPs

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Agreed, the shows haven't been nearly as bad as this sub lets on. Picking apart Opie's annoying idiosyncrasies used to be fun before this place decided every single word the guy said violated their sensibilities to their very core.

I thought the Bob Kelly show was boring other than Uncle Paul yesterday. It felt like they were stretching for time like an hour in.

And I had to turn off the interview with the Airplane Repo guy. Not that I thought it would be radio gold or should have been a serious interview, but Airplane Repo is kinda interesting, the guy was a fan of O&A, and Bawbby just broke up any flow with the manic jokes and stepping all over the guest like he just graduated from the Opie School Of Radio^tm .

Yea, that segment should have been like 20 minutes at best but it felt like they stretched it to an hour by just throwing horseshit in and repeating the same shit over and over.

It think it's been improved over the past few days, likely since they signed the contract. It went through a disastrously bad stretch before that. The quality has been very inconsistent. If it gets consistently good, the subreddit will turn around. Honestly, enough talk about the state of the subreddit. Just let things play out naturally.

I find myself listening a whole lot more than anthonys show and im a paid subscriber of that. The shows with the o and a regulars have been great but i dont quite get the circle jerk that the tacs subreddit gives it. Every time its a solo show i just read the description and its a discussion about ISIS, language policing or what the black man is up to this day in the news. It seems o and j are on the upswing and finding a new groove while ant is falling into the same old traps.

Mods, please show this man the door.

most of these people in here are following jerk offs. They pretend to hate the show so much, and to hate OJ, nonsensically calling them traitors, but then they listen every single day

Well said.

like the rest of you silly geese

Wrong. Speak for yourself.

Do you really think that everyone still listens? I don't. I'm sure there are plenty of other people on this subreddit that don't. Stop projecting your insecurities onto other people, we honestly think his show sucks.

If Opie the program director would fire Opie the host, then he's a hit!

He turned into Jerry Jones so gradually I didn't even notice

I really think that if Opie hadn't met Ant he would've ended up in management eventually. He clearly knows radio better as a business but he's been fooled into thinking he was the talent for the last 20 years.

I have passion for this entertainment end of the business, I would never work for corporate.

Plus it pays better right? Gotta keep the golddigger happy

shhuuuUUUUuuuuuttttTTTT uuuUUUUUUuuuppppPPpppp.....

Why don't you come back here and shut up!

Before I get down-voted to hell

It's sad that it's got to the stage you have to qualify your statement with that. It's like no one can say anything positive about Opie any more. I happen to agree with a lot of what you said by the way. I honestly think now they have a new contract for 2 years (or at least 1) we'll see the show start to take shape more. That might be starry-eyed optimism on my part but we'll wait and see.

I downvoted you for being a starry eyed faggot

That's fair.

It's just a little bit I do here and there.

Keep up the good work.

Welcome to "Gregory's Talent Mooching Emporium".

legit laugh at your username! Thx

Sam doesn't deserve his own show. He's not a talented broadcaster. He's useless on mic. He's boring and interesting. I can never forgive Opie for giving him any air time.

You don't like his unfunny nasal whiny voice while he adds nothing to the show and thinks he's on the same level as Kevin Pollack? That was the day I gave up on him. He thinks he's on some level where he's not only equal to but above Kevin fucking Pollack. He makes me sick.

The problem stems from the fact he is aware his voice is awful but thinks that's his only flaw. Although his voice is terrible, I used to listen to his after show stuff and it's just absolutely unlistenable. I tried for weeks to find any redeeming qualities about this talentless piece of shit, but there aren't any. Some argue that he's a hard worker, but no matter how many times your buff a piece of shit, it's still a piece of shit.

Kevin Pollack was hilarious but annoyed me that the main focus of his disdain towards Sam was his voice; someone needs to finally tell Sam it's not the voice, it's him.

BOTH KEVIN POLLACK AND SAM SHOULD DROWN.

Did you ask yourself why he's doing it? is it to help the "friends" or to save his own ass because his show is unlistenable to any fan so the only thing he can do is offer more content without him so people keep subs.. before was it the company not willing to give air time to these or opster or not giving a fuck about the "friends" ?

I think for awhile especially under Sabean that Opie had less control of the channel because Opie and Anthony have always helped friends out since the Saturday Night Virus days and trying to get Patrice and Bill Burr especially there own weekly shows. You're sounding like a complete uninformed ass right now. Put the petty dislike for Opie aside for a moment and realize these changes are good. Opie even tried to get regular comics on the show paid at one point.

the changes are necessary for channel to survive, does a bit of good from a lot of bad justify the actions? it's horseshit all around no matter what you think of me.

Nah you're just an idiot. These changes are nessessary and so far they've been good moves like bringing Ron on for Friday's and giving comics there own time on the channel. sxm could have very well went into another direction with the channel and made Opie the morning show while controlling the rest of the content and just making it some shitty talk channel with Jenny McCarthy or something. SXM didn't go in that direction though. Instead Opie has made a lot of proper moves with the channel and things are improving.

lol opie is improving a failed channel, you agree with me, but I'm the idiot... wtf

Uhm yes you are an idiot and everything I said clearly went over you head. I can't believe how stupid you're being but here we go. The channel wasn't failing however you can't replay the same show over and over again with out adding other content and expect people to be happy. It could be the best show in the world but if all you do is replay the same show again and again people lose interest. You have to provide other content just like Howard does for his channels. He has a number of other shows and new content on his platform. The changes they're making to the channel are good things and a move in the right direction. You're just being an idiot hater that thinks Opie does nothing right which makes you a disingenuous douchebag. Just stop.

you're bad at this. If you truly believed it all went over my head and I was an idiot you wouldn't repeat yourself still trying to make the same point, instead you're a self centered dolt who somehow hangs onto the idea that OA& show can be replaced by others and reach equal entertainment value. No one cares about replay point you've made, except few truckers who work 16 hour days, most of us with regular lives used to listen in the morning or in the afternoon and that's it, it didn't affect anyone that the show was replayed 11ty times throughout the day nor should it, we have lives. If you have time in your day to listen to more than one thing on that channel you may want to re-evaluate how you spend your life.

Do you know what I do for a living? I'm not a trucker but I am able to listen to the show, podcast, or anything else I want through out my day. I could probably even put Netflix on if I pleased and my boss wouldn't say a fucking thing unless I just wasn't working at all. There are several people in my position. Also a few truckers? Who do you think saved Opie and Anthony for years? Truckers. Also alot of people like myself would rather listen to a podcast or talk radio over music or TV. It's okay for you to zone out of reddit for hours on end but I'm lazy because I want to listen to something I pay for? Are you dumb? One of the major criticisms of the channel has been the fact it's been nothing but replays with no new content. The Saturday night virus days were huge for the channel. People don't always want to listen to Opie and Anthony either. Sometimes were looking for something else. Getting new and different content on the channel is refreshing for alot of fans. I don't know what you're trying to say but if this was an attempt at insulting me then you have failed miserably sir. I'm not sure how much of a life you really have considering you've had time to reply to me rather quickly in fact.

oops I hit a nerve. I'll just pick apart this one sentence that lacks any common sense... "Sometimes were looking for something else. Getting new and different content on the channel is refreshing for alot of fans. " Nearly all of that content is already available elsewhere, why do you find it refreshing NOW that it's on that channel, it makes no sense. It's a filler, it's a filler to hide how bad O&J are by themselves.

No its not filler. How do you expect the channel to survive with just replays and why did they always give friends show? Where do you think a lot of these podcasts started? Saturday night virus shows. Also alot of the content is new and not available as a podcast. Ron, dr Steve, erock, Sam, vos, florentine are all doing shows separate from there podcasts. You're a fucking dope. Yeah giving erock a show on Saturday really is masking the show. You've exposed them. Except did you think that maybe replaying Opie and Jim the entire weekend is piss poor programing? Is Howard also putting shows on his channel because he's exposed as well? Don't be stupid. The early XM years with Saturday night virus and when all the friends had shows was some of the best years. Just shut up already.

actually yes, howard does it for the same reason, so he can take more days, weeks off and do tv more while somehow maintaining respectable subs in the satellite world that he hasn't cared about, or so it seems, for a while. Opster would do other things too, except no one wants to let him.

The Sam and Erock shows were here long before the firing, and also got Ants approval - they BOTH ran the channel before. And, let's be honest here - the only reason that little shit Sam has a "show" is that they wanted to leave early every day, and had an hour to fill.

and had an hour to fill.

This is true with almost everything on the channel- filler material that they could get cheap.

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I think you are really over-estimating what Opie is doing in terms of programming.

Wait, you're allowed to say positive things on the sub?

It's impressive he was able to keep it all together and sign the new contract.

Jim's been on fire lately, I think the contract signing relieved a lot of tension/uncertainty that was going on around August-September.

And Anthony's show is pretty impressive considering the time he had to get it together and the guests he's been getting. Can't wait for Colin next week. It just sucks the Opie and Anthony show is (currently) a thing of the past.

I actually have to think that Opie has at the very minimum some input on the programming of the channel. I doubt some XM executive thought to put Vos and Florentine on the channel and I also doubt they know who Sam and Erock are. I think XM knows that without Anthony they can't just plop out a channel and expect anyone to value it, they are probably trying to let Opie give some input onto what they can add to the channel.

I'm not going to give him credit for making calls that most of the fanbase would've done as well. If they start doing Colin Quinn Thursdays where Colin sits in with them every week, I'll be excited to listen but i'm not going to think Opie is a super genius for doing it.

It's a good move to add more content to a subscription when the main show's quality has dropped. He's doing what's needed to keep the channel alive. Can't fault him for that, can fault him for the other things though.

Right, awesome calls like the terrible new station name, and new logo?

It's inoffensive which means more rubes may check it out when they first get their rental car or whatever.

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Thanks for the support bud couldn't agree more

I think more content is better. I work 13 plus hours a day six days a week so I would hear the show numerous times throughout the day and even more on Saturday. adding more live content in the same genre as the show is a good marketing move. People are less likely to change the channel

I just wish the Opieradio show would be more consistent. It has it's moments, but Maybe that's the show finding it's legs, or that the new direction just isn't for me.

It was probably really easy for sirius to agree to the friday deal. Jimmy is usually away doing comedy on fridays so it was either opie alone or ron alone.

Yeah. As far as radio goes. This is still the best show out there. If I had to listen to the Todd show even semi regularly I would fucking shit on a fuck.

Opie is smarter than anyone thinks. Especially, if he steps up to fill the void left over his channel by Tim Sabean. That is the correct use of his talents. He can't replace Anthony on air, but he can run the channel like it should be run.

If the suits actually give him some latitude in programming and give him a real budget to work with he could end up being more successful than ever.

Cool. He's a great program director. Anything else?

He's also a great board op...

Yeah Opie is the man when it comes to driving the ship (as we call it in the biz) I've been loving OJ since Ant left and it's been getting better and better. (obviously not even close to as good as when Ant was there) but the best they can do. You people all know deep down, that you enjoy the show way more then you let on. You just won't admit it cuz shitting on the guy who created this show and made every important decision concerning this show over the past 20 years is the cool thing to do here

Opie is not responsible for putting Bennington on Fridays. He doesn't run the channel, and he never has. SiriusXM makes these decisions; the same people who fired Ant. So thank them for bringing Bennington to the channel, not Opie.

Jesus. Why do you people buy into his bullshit?!

Ron And Fez getting taken off the channel pretty mush disproved that notion, don't you think? O&A are the reason why Ron and Fez are there in the first place, they brought them to XM.

They lost ALL power over the channel in the merger. The beginning of the end was the channel numbering.

He's not. I'm sure he has input, but final decisions on hiring and firing are not his. Naming the channel after him is an empty gesture on SiriusXM's part; like a director having it in his contract that their name will be above the title in all advertising. It's just ego maintenance, and it costs the company nothing to give it to him.

You're right, I'm sure Opie did not negotiate Ron's contract himself, but look at all the programming on High Voltage/The Virus/The O&A Channel over the years, does it seem more consistent with who Opie would want on the channel, or who the company would want? Ron & Fez, Patrice, Louis, Burr, Vos & Bonnie, Kevin Smith, Joe Rogan, Dr. Steve, Sam and Than. Even Jason Ellis got on the channel by buddying up with Opie.

so basically the rat is getting a million bucks a year to do 12 hours of radio a week and get other people to fill in for fuckall.

I can see why a rodent like you can respect opie for that.

I think Opie, the radio show host, is frustrating but Opie, the program director, has a lot of potential based on what we've seen recently.

HAHAHA

what a fuckwit

you're bad at this. If you truly believed it all went over my head and I was an idiot you wouldn't repeat yourself still trying to make the same point, instead you're a self centered dolt who somehow hangs onto the idea that OA& show can be replaced by others and reach equal entertainment value. No one cares about replay point you've made, except few truckers who work 16 hour days, most of us with regular lives used to listen in the morning or in the afternoon and that's it, it didn't affect anyone that the show was replayed 11ty times throughout the day nor should it, we have lives. If you have time in your day to listen to more than one thing on that channel you may want to re-evaluate how you spend your life.