Opie isn't being reasonable. Why are people taking his side? If Jimmy doesn't want DL Hughley doing the show ever again, for whatever reason, fuck DL Hughley, he's never doing the show. They have big time names and prestigious people do the show every week, what the Hell do they care if DL Hughley doesn't do the show?

And no, Jimmy shouldn't have to physically leave the studio for an hour. What the fuck is that? He's been with the show for 16 years and co-hosts it now. If DL Hughley gets that treatment over Jimmy, fuck it. Jimmy is not a co-host, he's a really, really frequent guest that gets paid to do the show. Jimmy is right on that. If he doesn't have enough pull to keep DL HUGHLEY off the fucking show, he's a zero.

Opie is the boss and the shotcaller and is Big Timing everybody, but not taking responsibility for rude and wrong choices that antagonize people who are allegedly equal partners but really have no say. He's the boss, and he fucked up, and he was lying to Jimmy about being equals.

He's been with the show for 16 years and co-hosts it now.

Jimmy is not a co-host

Pick one.

Well, he's one part of a duo and if you asked people what the relationship is, they would say co-host. However, if he has so little say that he can reject DL Hughley 3 times and Hughley still does the show, right next to him for an hour, Jim is clearly not even close to an equal partner. That part of Jim's argument is true. You can say the way he handled it before was bitchy an that he acted like a wuss when DL was in studio, but just the fact that DL Hughley was on the show anyhow was an insult to Jimmy. Asking Jim Norton, the supposed co-host, to leave the studio for an hour for DL Hughley, is another gigantic insult.

Usually I agree with you but I think the thing is that Jim's problem with DL was a simple misunderstanding that seems like it got cleared up with a simple apology (like adults tend to do). It's not as if DL was motherfuckering Jim left and right to random outlets, it was Jim being a little titty baby and pouting in the corner.

I will agree that telling Jim "well, you can leave for an hour if you want" is pretty stupid.

I will agree that telling Jim "well, you can leave for an hour if you want" is pretty stupid.

I hate Opie but I think that was a joke.

He was offering him an out that he himself has taken before. Think if all those times Ope has left the studio to pick up the kids, fly to China for the weekend, etc.

That's a ridiculous argument. Why burn a bridge with someone who has been a friend to the show for years because of a petty yes it was petty slight? If DL can apologize and the entire situation resolve itself in two minutes then why would they repeatedly keep DL off of the show. Jimmy himself has said in the past that nothing is more important than what happens on air. When Anthony had a tiff with Ralphie May, the first thing Opie said was let's call him up. Shawn F. was brought in after doing a bunch of fat Erock songs. Opie even invited Bam Margera on the show after that entirely embarrassing sex tape fiasco. The show has always taken precedent over someone's feelings. For Jim to act like that in this situation is pathetic.

he invited Bam in just because he wanted to read his body language. he studies that shit you know.

A real co-host would check his emails and take interest in who is going to be on the show the next day and not find out ten minutes beforehand. When you operate like that you forfeit your right to objections

Ah Christ, ol flip-flopping BeerCanThick is at it again.

if ("DL Hughley gets that treatment over Jimmy")

{$Jimmy != "co-host"}

else
{$Jimmy = "co-host"}

Uh, in English please?

handmethefuckinKEYS youCOCKsucka whathafuck

Fuckstick tried to make a programming joke. I think it's Javascript but I'm not sure.

It says if DL gets to be on the show despite Jimmy's objections. Jimmy is not a cohost. If he doesn't, Jimmy is a cohost. Personally I think what would be best is if the entire studio crumbled instantly killing Morton, DL and Opie.

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You didn't even fucking declare it as a string, you pleb.

You know you're right. I've realized over the past few days that I've had it all wrong these years of listening to them. It was never Jimmy's show as well. He was just a semi-permanent guest in residence apparently at his own behest as much as anyone else's. Now of course I knew this but you'd forget because he's been there for so long.

I've been finding it difficult to understand just how much he and tits really don't appear to be friends. Like, how can they work together for 15 years and end up here where, clearly, they're just colleagues waiting out their contracts. I don't know why I assumed that they had to be closer than they are to do what they're doing but I guess that's the power of their kind of show. It pulled you in and made you feel like they and you were the same. All of us enjoying goofing on stupid Rich or dumb women womening.

It's like realizing mommy and daddy don't love each other.

The show is dead dead dead.

:'(

To be fair, there are people I've worked with pretty closely for at least 10-12 years and while I like them enough as co-workers and work friends, I'm not going to be hanging out with them off-hours or chatting them up on the weekends or anything like that. Then again, I'm not a millionaire so fuck it and them and me.

Get a load of poindexter over here, "I've been employed for a long period of time." How about you take a fucking hike?

Overwritten.

Let's all dogpile this 9 to 5 dink toiling out there in the suck.

Overwritten.

Hey mister, I put in long hours at Panera to become a senior baked goods coordinator, and don't you forget it.

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It's not over here, I'm just kneading all this dough with my big burly hands.

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Ah people work you know? I got my container a coffee and I'm good for the jobsite.

They did make it clear that back before Ant got fired Opie and Jim hung out outside of the show and were real friends. I think this all started when Ant got fired and Jimmy refused to take sides which pissed Opie off and got it to this point.

Ah, I guess I forgot they said that. What a weird friendship.

they've never been to each other's apartments

It's not Opie and Jim, it's Opie and everybody around him. Nobody talks to Opie outside of work or hangs out with him. Can you imagine how awful that would be, just sitting in a restaurant with that try-hard shitmouth?

Cmon Knickers, I fucking love almost everything you post, but you are clever enough to recognize that Jim is completely, like, post radio show career damaging, in the wrong here.

It's not just if he's right or wrong.

Yes, Mr. Morton was being a wormy child who wouldn't address an issue with DL Hughley directly. On the surface it seems that, after that conversation on-air, everyone is better off.

however

After all this time, Jim should have some kind of pull on the show, you'd think he'd have earned something.

So it's fucked up that Jimmy was being a pussy about the whole thing, but it's also fucked up that he has no influence - and even that is probably at least partially his fault.

Overwritten.

If Jimmy wants to have a say over the show then don't beg to have your name taken out of title of said show. He reduced himself down to 3rd mic again. Jimmy you don't get a say anymore.

This is what gets me. Jimmy goes back and forth in the argument on how big a role he has on the show. He doesn't want his name on the show but it's infuriating he has to ask permission for guests. He's worked there for 15 years and deserves respect but it's also just a job he punches into, man.

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I think what the people defending Opie are also failing to realize is that DL Hughley SUCKS SHIT. On top of Jimmy having a personal problem with him the guy is the only comic who consistently does horrible jokes from his awful stand-up in studio.

I will take DL over a pornstar

No homo?

You're using your own bias to shape an opinion. DL Hughley has been and will forever be a bigger name than Jim Norton, both in television and in radio and in the comedy circuit, but that isn't the point.

Jim Norton got in his feelings because Roland (and Opie) didn't really give a fuck about his personal opinion concerning who should be booked/on the show and who shouldn't.

DL Hughley has the hot hand from the FOX interview and from his book and has been a good guest on the show for years now and is a respected name in the comedy community, you don't bump DL for some pornstar. That's common sense.

You got DL on the show, you've got great calls, great banter etc. A pornstar on the show then what? Nothing but Norton perving out for an hour and a half pretending the bitch got something to say.

Opie is the boss on that show, everyone knows it. Jim is second mic, he sits down and he makes funny or he takes his 'talents' elsewhere or he complains like a diva and then continues to stay on the show like he's been doing for fifteen years or so. He's got no where else to go.

I agree with you. I think Jimmy was using the DL drama to raise the point that he has zero say in what goes on in the show. For example, I'm sure Jimmy he hates Chris DiStefano but Opie thinks he's Carlin incarnate and keeps dragging him in.

Fuck. Opie is actually in the right with the porn stuff. Jimmy still thinks people want to hear slurring tired 19 year olds talk sex on the radio

Its sad that their studio is located in Midtown Manhattan and the best guest they can think of to bring in is some shitty porn star nobody cares about. Porn stars on the radio might have been interesting in 1996, but its not even remotely edgy or interesting anymore.

Well you just have to pretend that you can't get porn for free on the internet anymore and then it's compelling radio!

I bet you could simulate what that interview would have been in under a minute,

Jim: So what got you into porn?

Porn Star: I just really like sex and kind of fell into it

Jim: Do you have any weird fetishes you don't get to act out on screen? My fantasy is to sit under a glass table and have a tranny shit on top of it while I watch.

Porn Star: (Awkward laugh) I guess I like it when my boyfriend gets rough with me. Role playing can be fun too. I like to try new things.

Jim: Oh so you have a boyfriend, does he mind that you do porn? .....zzzzzzzzzzz

Yes! Why does he think this is compelling? It's fucking TIRED! This is why his Vice show failed. He is sprout of touch with the mainstream.

yeh maybe that cocksucka should try bein cucumber of touch instead

Opie: Where we at with the spanking? I like a good spank every now and then, just a lil' spank

That Duke college porn star interview was amazing radio.

Lady Di's revelation of her losing her virginity in an abandoned building on a door is what saved one of the shittiest, most banal interviews ever.

Oh yeah, hearing her say things like "I don't really like to be licked because it's like, why are you licking me?" while the writer from XOJane talked about how intelligent she really is was absolutely gripping. Lady Di was amazing on that segment though.

im totally with jimmy. he knows the show is awful and wants to try some stuff that isnt amateur political hour with gregg and friends.

Jimmy is such a fucking pervert. 90% of us don't want to hear from porn stars.

Or Chuck from NC

90% of the time i dont even want to watch porn... The other 10% though...

But yeah, Pornstars are fucking human voids. All they can talk about is their augmented shitty bodies and how they love cock.. Its like listening to Amy Schumer.

I'd rather it than stuntbrain long form

I don't want to hear Jim talk about sex ever again.

I'll listen after you guys cut up the audio, but of course Opie is calm and reasonable. He has all the power and control over the show, this situation, and future situations. This isn't like the dynamic he had with Anthony.

This isn't like the dynamic he had with Anthony.

What, a listenable show?

Well if Jimmy and Anthony werent such pussies to call him out on his shit, things like this would never happen. Walking on Greggshells for 20 years cause you cant call people out on stuff.

Jimmy just being a fucking worm to save his job even though he said hes out in October, ill bet money that he's gonna try to resign.

If he got more to say then fucking saying, dont sit quiet like a baby youre 40 years old, grow up already.

Gotta admit, both guys raising fair points. Opie needs to stop trying to divert from the fact that he's in charge.

"Opie doesn't use the show for his personal entertainment"

or anyone else's

Sir, I take this as a suggestion that you are displeased with the current direction of the show.

Opie doesn't use the show for his personal entertainment?

Ok, maybe he can watch shitty viral videos and bring in bullshit documentary weirdo's on his own time. They both do that.

It's funny you say that. I have to admit that I do forget that Opie isn't trying to be an udder useless bag o' tits; he's attempting to do his job and that's what's so appalling to me, but who cares what I think?

I say good luck to him.

Not really, fuck his mother.

Edit: changed the word utter to udder.

I'll bet the porn star woulda been better radio than this John Cho interview. Because yawn.

How about they dont have either of them on?

Sam does great interviews with porn girls at night so maybe the reason Opie doesn't get anything out of those interviews is because he isn't a good interviewer.

Sam does great interviews

Nope

The tweet he sent about it made it sound like it was to clean the show up rather than thinking it would improve its quality.

Yeah, porn stars don't appeal to the much sought-after soccer mom demographic.

So let me get this straight. Jimmy has always said he didn't want to replace Anthony or be Anthony but now he's bitching because he doesn't have equal say on getting guests and Opie makes the final call? Someone has to dummy.

Also, Jimmy suffers from arrested development. Does he really think 50 year old guys should be sitting around fawning over porn stars? He mentioned the demographic of the show. Does he not know that as they've gotten old so has their demographic?

I know everyone here hates Opie but his vision of the show is a lot more realistic considering their ages.

Jim is also not married, nor does he have a stable relationship or children. So they have that difference as well.

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I'd rather not hear porn stars or Stuntbrain.

Did Jim throw coffee in his face?

Jim doesn't drink coffee he's in recovery.

"Jim NEVER drinks coffee at home..."

"Jim never vomits at home..."

I don't like supporting the SAVAGES that run most of these delis

Audio please thank you.

Usually I just flip past OpieRaqio in the morning, but as soon as I heard the latest Greggshells cracking, I had to listen. Within 2 minutes it was clear - another case of Opie being too much of a pussy to use his phone to text Jimmy, his co-host. "An email did go out." The two fucking sniveling (and sniffling) babies are perfect for each other.

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When it's over Sherrod pulls off his face and under it was Anthony. Him and Opie mouth kiss as Gregg raises his fist in triumph as the credits roll and this plays

Happy cake day you complete cunt!

😙

Egg on my face

That's not egg.

YEAH ITS A BUNCH OF CUM!

Usually I agree with you but I think the thing is that Jim's problem with DL was a simple misunderstanding that seems like it got cleared up with a simple apology (like adults tend to do). It's not as if DL was motherfuckering Jim left and right to random outlets, it was Jim being a little titty baby and pouting in the corner.

I will agree that telling Jim "well, you can leave for an hour if you want" is pretty stupid.

That's a ridiculous argument. Why burn a bridge with someone who has been a friend to the show for years because of a petty yes it was petty slight? If DL can apologize and the entire situation resolve itself in two minutes then why would they repeatedly keep DL off of the show. Jimmy himself has said in the past that nothing is more important than what happens on air. When Anthony had a tiff with Ralphie May, the first thing Opie said was let's call him up. Shawn F. was brought in after doing a bunch of fat Erock songs. Opie even invited Bam Margera on the show after that entirely embarrassing sex tape fiasco. The show has always taken precedent over someone's feelings. For Jim to act like that in this situation is pathetic.

A real co-host would check his emails and take interest in who is going to be on the show the next day and not find out ten minutes beforehand. When you operate like that you forfeit your right to objections

Let's all dogpile this 9 to 5 dink toiling out there in the suck.