"Anyone else remember how the boys would keep ragging on the soup guy for not giving them good enough soup? This guy gave them food daily for a plug. But the soup wasn't good enough for em, they wanted the more expensive one. This was a plug, years back in the XM days where their fanbase was entirely truck drivers, for a new york deli. I'm sure the soup guy didn't make out in this deal."

All of this is wrong. Like every last part. The "Soup Guy" was the infamous "Soup Nazi" guy from Seinfeld. It wasn't one little mom & pop store, it was a chain at this point and still is. He paid for the time the soup was just a bonus.

http://originalsoupman.com/

Also, this wasn't an XM sponsor, this was a local NY 92.3 KROCK spot. In fact I don't remember any bitching about the soup. I DO remember everyone not being able to shut the fuck up about the Turkey Chili and how amazing it was/is.

Things got way worse more recently.

Opie would "plug" the Cro-nut guy - but only if he was allowed to cut the line and get his cro-nuts first.

That didn't happen for a while, so Opie specifically asked for the Cro-nuts to be hand delivered to him.

This went on every show, for approximately 2 months.

The fucking cronuts. They obsessively talked about one niche pastry sold in one store for months on end. Riveting radio.

I don't know what a cro-nut is. I guess this makes me a man.

It's a faggy New York pastry. A cross between a croissant and a homeless man's nut-sack.

Your buddy Roland got way worse after you left. He was pals with all the NY food faggots and this one French shithead made something and it got big and Roland used the show to promote it so he could get free food so he could (hopefully) die faster.

There WAS bitching; apparently towards the end, they'd consistently get shitty split-pea soup. They accused the vendor of going cheap on them.

and split pea soup is really fucking delicious if it's got dat ham in it. ungrateful fucks

I dont think it was wrong but there was quite a lot of soup quality bitching from what i remember. Didnt really bother me much though.

There were multiple instances where they bitched about not getting good soup, you're not wrong.

Well, CBS years so, 2007-2009? He sure wasn't a sponsor on Sirius when I was there.

What about the constant NutriBullet begging Opie did. Then once he got one he would tell us all about the juice he made with it. I haven't been in radio since I was 18, so maybe this really was good radio.

The Nutribullet thing was way over the line.

Not only did he specifically mention the company for an entire month, he asked for a freebie in exchange.

Nutribullet obliges and Opie had the balls to say, "I want the higher end model."

What an entitled piece of shit.

Im so glad i didnt listen to shows after 2011

Every fucking day during that period, he told what was in his smoothie. One time I'm pretty sure Jim made a joke about it and he said "I'M GLAD YOU ASKED JIMMY HERE WAS WHAT WAS IN MY SMOOTHIE."

The implied insult to the audience that anyone gives a shit about his fucking frothy beverage to help his blistery Irish asshole pass "great radio" into the toilet more efficiently was insanity.

anybody remember hotcans

https://youtu.be/K8nh8LBdBTM

The guy actually got mad when people did nice things for him, but also mad when people did nice things for the other hosts of the show and not for him.

You can't win with him. It's like a fucking box of cereal with no price, except the cereal is dried shit flakes and the prize is a bad joke.

Don't forget the robotic arm Vos and Bonnie got his kid

Add on the fact that he sells no product for any company. I boycott any company that he does a live read for.

Remember his throwing a bitch fit about getting a pic with Pearl Jam?He kept saying they COULD have helped me out and they CHOSE not to. They blew him off. Well, that made me so happy because its exactly what he did to me in that story. I almost called the show to say something but I didnt think id get thru.

wasn't oqie supposed to give the samsung watch to a caller, and never did? didn't that guy post on here awhile back?

Let me preface this statement: Opie is by far one of the most ungrateful cunts I've ever known about. My sister has borderline personality disorder, and listening to a Opie is just like listening to her. Obviously it's not cool to feel entitled to free shit, especially expensive technology. However, concerning the soup guy, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect the soup you like. They were helping him out by plugging his soup to their incredibly loyal fanbase, and in return he gave them low end soup just to save a few dimes. It's soup for christ's sake, does it really coast him anything to give them the good stuff?

and split pea soup is really fucking delicious if it's got dat ham in it. ungrateful fucks