Analyzing Opie's Psychology
0 2015-01-27 by Blurgette
We all know that Opie bases his whole radio persona on "winging it" and "hanging out." He prides himself on how "loose" and "off the cuff" he is as a broadcaster and radio host, while other radio personalities are either too fake and try too hard.
Yet he is equally vocal about how he's been doing radio since he was 18, and did the O&A Show for 20 years. He seems to be leaning more on this idea of being a seasoned, salty radio veteran since Ant got fired, since the "hang" only worked because Ant was there to make it fun.
So he is pushing himself as a seen-it-all broadcasting pro's pro, yet his whole career was spent in rejecting that idea and just winging it. His career was built around learning nothing, doing no preparation, and basically being as unprofessional as possible. Yet now he's rebranding himself as an expert broadcaster. This is part of the explanation for why his show is so unbelievably bad.
5 comments
5 DeryDerpette 2015-01-27
He just proves it's possible to do something for 20 years and never get good at it.
2 Blurgette 2015-01-27
Yes. But that's not a minor thing to prove. That's pretty incredible. And it's in a very public form. Which is why it's so fun to follow.
2 dejavu4thedead 2015-01-27
It kind of challenges Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 hours rule. He says it takes that amount of time for someone to become a master at something. So either Opie defies that rule by being terrible for 10,000 hours if his craft is broadcasting an entertaining show; or he's put his hours in if his craft is being a lazy, lying hack fraud.
3 E-rockComment 2015-01-27
What are you supposed to be Sigmund FRAUD or sumthin? Tell us about the super ego ya piece of gahbige, then take us to break.
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1 cali_gunner 2015-01-27
He's putting forth a carefully orchestrated idiot persona... his homage to Kaufman.