Norton and Friends™ this morning!

50  2016-09-22 by arobben

Have a good day gang

83 comments

Opie bailed on his last day working with Jim?

Would that surprise anyone?

Noooooo!

Hello, exactly

How is it that a middle-aged man can be such a fucking baby?

Low testosterone - exhibited by outbursts of bursting into tears, thin skinned paranoia and big, swollen man breasts.

Which guy? I think you mean Opie but then again Jimmy was crying watching the Oscars

I didn't think Opie could do anything to surprise me at this point, but he somehow found a way to breathe new life into my disgust towards him.

It's actually perfect.

a lil passive aggressive hissy fit from the opster is the perfect way for his career to end

Oh shit is that right? I just realized it's almost October...

Jocktober, fezzie.

im thinking sirius told him they wanna hear more of jim and sam together so they know what theyre getting into. essentially an audition.

edit: either that or opie was fuming about the uncle paul bit because it undermined his authoritah

When they came back from the first break Jim says "...Jim and Sam next week, Ope back for the fina..final..following week." I know everyone expects O&J to end, but if he doesn't show on that monday, we can kiss the Opester goodbye for good.⌛👶

"Family emergency", so that probably means his wife's second cousin's kid had an asthma attack and he'll need to take a week.

(Interesting that Jim knew nothing about it though, he said he only found out when he walked in and saw the Norton & Friends sign up. Normand seemed to know what was going on, so it looks like Gregg texted or called him about it but not Jim.)

Interesting that Jim knew nothing about it though

They aren't that close.

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Fine! That's fine!
sniff

(Interesting that Jim knew nothing about it though, he said he only found out when he walked in and saw the Norton & Friends sign up. Normand seemed to know what was going on, so it looks like Gregg texted or called him about it but not Jim.)

LOL holy shit

Or Normand was first in the Studio

Just tuned in and heard Norton and Normand laughing and exchanging jokes. I waited for about 30 seconds and heard no shoehorning in of irrelevant unfunny bullshit, and realized that Opie was not in. Show seems pretty decent so far, it is amazing how removing Opie from his own show improves it by a factor of at least 7.

Yeah, but the show needs Sam (or someone to drive things) cause Jimmy is a sniffling rambling mess. Better now that there is a guest.

Jim, Sam, and another comic is a great combination. Jim and Sam alone gets a little stale.

The Sam and Chipper Show, Chipper and Sam Show!

The Sam and Chipper Show, Chipper and Sam Show!

The Sam and Chipper Show, Chipper and Sam Show!

The Sam and Chipper Show, Chipper and Sam Show!

And Travis too!

Normand "my niece has the cunt the size of a hoagie" Jimmy was just out uncle pauled and didn't know how to react.

Erock, comment?

What's the facts? Why is this possibly the last show? I feel so out of the loop. Is it October already? Fuck

I think they announced Opie is out next week and Its all that jam jim sam shit

Oh do i hope they split up and management is not happy with the direction of the show and gives Opie a shit contract, then Opie finds out that his Jew accountant has lost all his money in some scam bond. The Opster then has to get a job at Panera bread.

Wonder how Amy's audience would feel about her regular opener talking about his nieces cunt?

Right who said something bad about F. H. Riley's this morning!!!

I'm listening some more of this now. When did Op, Ant and Jim get the idea that watching YouTube videos on the radio was compelling for the listeners?

Twitter and Youtube ruined radio

Twitter/social media absolutely fucked up so many things. It feeds the reactionary nature of most people. Just think, BLM would have never existed

I usually enjoyed when they did as it provided a base for riffing. Gotta listen to 8-track porn again sometime soon

Today pathological liar Mark Normand stole Anthony's teahouse Richard story and passed it off as his own...

You think Opie called out because Uncle Paul was just inevitable today?

Jim is a rambling dope.

he will preach about drugs are bad mmkay with vos and bobby again

Joey Diaz making excuses about a warrant in Washington State. "They wanted me to go to anger management on a Saturday at 9am" What a fucking putz. Take your fucking punishment. And then when Jimmy tells him "try taking it now" and he responds "I'm trying". No you're not. Doing a Google search about your warrant in Washington State does not count as trying to get it resolved. What an ass.

He's obese. What do you expect

*a nigger

Actually the show has been pretty good, even with Normand

Norm and who?

Tssss

Ouch. Mark Normand, won't see him no more.

He's a cutter offer

Waddya mean I cut people off Mark sniff

Why are radio guys so cowardly when it comes to last days? Like when Anthony bailed on the last show he was supposed to do before rehab.

....but it's Mark Normand....

guh HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

I kinda want that drop for my phone.

I had already submitted this post before I saw the "friend" was Mark Normand, sir.

Honestly, out of all the Opie regulars, Normand is the one I can tolerate. If it weren't for all the bullshit stories, he probably wouldn't bother me. He at least cracks a funny line once in a while. Destefano is a liar and is fucking boring to boot.

You like him better than Soder? Heresy.

I can't help but think that his entire persona is lifted from Norm Macdonald. "Ahhhhh yeahhhh" It's hard to duplicate through text, but his voice and inflections are exactly the same. He is obviously more gifted than someone like Destefano, but I find him unlistenable.

I've tried to listen to Tuesday Stories or whatever because Joe List is great, but I just can't because of Normand's noises

And his shitty fake radio voice and unnecessary overreactions are being exposed this morning. Jim is attempting to have a normal discussion and has to deal with responses from a bad morning zoo hack voice incapable of a real conversation. I'm surprised he doesn't have a non-sarcastic wacky horn.

Well, he's usually playing off of Opie, who eats that shit up like it's the life-force of his next victim

But it's an absolutely terrible dynamic with Jim.

So what seems to be happening then? This is the last Opie and Jimmy show and Opie bailed because Jim is walking out?

I think the Australian shows jimmy did were to decide what he does.

If he bombed he would crawl back to the show and avoid any greg shells for the next 2 years. If he didn't bomb. Well who knows.

You think Jim went all the way to Oz to figure that out?

I still don't know why he went and for such a short amount of time........ladyboys? He went for the ladyboys of Asia! Holy shit that's so what it is.

He's always said he's worried about going out the states and failing. But you can tell his state of mind is different now since he's come back. Which is good for jimmy. I think he would do ok over here in the UK and he did ok in OZ.

So i can see him doing more stand up outside the states. Which would of course impact him doing the show.

Tss whats OZ, Old Zealand or sumptin?

Real question

Joey Diaz and Jimmy are talking about nasal passage problems for the last ten minutes. Good christ.

O&A always brought out the worst in Joey Diaz. He seems so boring on every appearance I ever heard

I have severe apnea and use a bipap machine. It's truly a lifesaver. I never whine about it because the alternative is an awful, oxygen deprived, life shortening slumber. Jimmy needs to put the damned mask on every night and shut up.

No, he should talk about it more.

Especially with guests.

It's compelling radio.

First day of Fall! Let's hope this show gets put to rest soon

Show was good except for Spader. What a dud. His uncomfortable pauses made me turn it off.

The Zip Recruiter guy doesn't sound pretentious at all... Ugh I hate that commercial more than Kars 4 Kids now.

But recruitment is a zip!

Zip................................Recrutah!

I thought it was "chef Gordon" on the interview and I kept wondering why he dropped his accent.

Thw new business talk brought me back to reality.

I tried listening to the Shep Gordon interview, but either he was too far away from his mic or they had his levels too low because I had to turn my radio up super loud to hear him, and then my speakers would rattle when Normand or Jim would interject.

Still a better show than Opie & Sherrod.

I thought they said Jeff Gordon, wondering what Jimmy would ask him.

"So your cars doesn't have an automatic transmission? How do you do that? I never learned how to drive a manual transmission. Was it difficult?"

So that car has a huge engine right? I would be a problem if I had an engine that big. Must feel good to know that a guy cant just walk up and steal your girl without you racing him.

"Have you seen Danica Patrick's feet?"

It wouldn't necessarily make for great radio, but I would surely LAWF if Opie gets ousted from his own channel and Jim is the only remaining one at SiriusXM.

Opie Gregg Hughes had a 3 day wedding,so no finale,wake up white people.