I don't know why people assume only white people would like o&a, it was an amazing show and funny for everyone. I never cared about the staff fights, for me it was Norton and Anthony and the Colin Quinn "crew" that made the show.

It's the type of show somebody who doesn't want to appear offensive listens to in secret. I've always suspected that it had a larger black following than most people think

it helped me through some really shitty depressing years. Basically the only thing that would help me get through it. I think it was down to basicly either listening for hours of Patrice talking about movies or drink myself to death.

I think it did something similar for a lot of us at different points in our lives. A shame it's gone now, but we still get to have a little of it in this place. Queer

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Well, when it was free.

Oh slam!

All the comics shitting on each other and anybody mentioned.

Yep. That's always been the core of my interest here.

I feel like this began once Norton started making his regular appearances. That's when the tough crowd guys started coming in a bunch

Very true.

The very first clip I heard of them was when they had Louis on, and they all bashed that movie, Gap. Also, that's the first I ever heard of Louis CK. I have no idea how I came across the clip, but I've been "all in" ever since.

I watched Tough Crowd and one day the L'il Nothin' was wearing an O and A shirt so I looked into it. Then soon they were on XM so I signed up.

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I actually didn't like O and A originally, I was a Ron and Fez fan and then I just started listing to them because they were there.

I started listening for Jimmy as I loved Tough Crowd. This is when they were on WCMF in Rochester. I kept listening after the Shawnee Smith beating Burr gave Anthony.

I can imagine it would be hard to get into if you're not listening for a specific person like Jimmy or Patrice. So much of the shit they talk about are inside jokes. It pissed me off for a while, I was like "why don't they give some backstory to whats going on", the exact thing Opie rags on other radio hosts for doing. Context is important, they seemed to assume every person listening was a fan since the beginning. If I was just driving and flipped to their show I'd probably turn it off cuz I'd have no idea what they were talking about. I get most of the inside stuff now, but not all of it. I still don't know why people call Denny the piss lord, for example

I completely understand. Denny is the piss Lord because Sam thought it was funny to make a professional uncomfortable. It was one of the super shows I believe, and the people on this sub ran with it. I can take it or leave it

Yeah I get, it took me a while to really follow but the stuff I did get made me laugh enough to stick around.

I got into it because of Opie. Said no one.

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I started listening cuz of Patrice. I remember watching his last special and talking with a friend about it and he told me he died. I was shocked cuz i just saw the special, so i started digging up any audio of his that I could find. That's how I came across the show. I hated it at first but eventually grew to love it, I guess because of the brutal humor.

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When I first heard it I thought Anthony was Dee Snider, because they played his shit show in Columbus, and I immediately turned it off.

About a year later I came across it and they were busting on Terry Schiavo. I've been on the path to what I'm certain will be an unpleasant death ever since

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It was 99 or 00 when I caught them on WNEW during my commute. It was just something to listen to. I got hooked after I heard the 55 Gallon Drum Challenge. I remember sitting in my car in traffic on the NJ Turnpike and laughing my ass off. I became more of a fan of Ron & Fez, but always listened to O&A in the background in the car and at work. I started listening regularly and became a real fan when Jimmy started in 2000.

Patrice, Jimmy and Anthony hooked me. It was hard getting through those Patrice shows though...fuckin opie ruined a lot of potentially great moments. I became a fan despite opie. Fuck opie.

I started listening in the early 2000's and went all in because it felt like a hang out. The wack pack characters getting shit on, them complaining about management, shitty phone pranks. The comedians came later but I fell in love with those guys.

I remember playing GTA3 and thought the game's talk station was kinda funny. I turned on shitty terrestrial radio in search of something similar and found nothing. My buddy tells me about Ron and Fez, and it wasn't what I was looking for but was good enough. Left the radio on that station, and woke up the next day to O&A. WNEW 102.7 in NY had an all talk format for a little while. Good times.

It's what i listened to in the mornings.

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Are you a closeted homosexual?

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Perhaps you suffer from autism?

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Actually I got into it from Louis CK. The past few years have been entertaining. I've always enjoyed good comedy/talk radio and had a decent show or two locally until they petered out to make more nigger stations or whatever. Found O&A and it was like wow, radio can be this good.

2001, Robert McClary interview, six o'clock queef, Jimmy was starting out, only thing on the radio worth listening 3-6 at my boring ass job and it stuck with me. Took a hiatus for a while and came back to hear better radio as they got better at it, had better comics, and Patrice made the show much better, with Patrice as a fourth guy it just made everything less forced. Then he died and it was never the same, though it was still better than anything else. Then Ant discovered Twitter...

Yep. That's always been the core of my interest here.

I feel like this began once Norton started making his regular appearances. That's when the tough crowd guys started coming in a bunch

I can imagine it would be hard to get into if you're not listening for a specific person like Jimmy or Patrice. So much of the shit they talk about are inside jokes. It pissed me off for a while, I was like "why don't they give some backstory to whats going on", the exact thing Opie rags on other radio hosts for doing. Context is important, they seemed to assume every person listening was a fan since the beginning. If I was just driving and flipped to their show I'd probably turn it off cuz I'd have no idea what they were talking about. I get most of the inside stuff now, but not all of it. I still don't know why people call Denny the piss lord, for example

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