It's a lot better than anything we've had for the past two years. They're improving. Worth a shot.

I'll go as far as to say a few moments have made me LOL....if you know what that means.

Lol means laugh out loud in case he didn't know

Fuck. I've been thinking it was "lots of laughs"

I thought it was Lots of Love.

"Grandma got tooled by an orderly but she's recovering. LOL"

Jim & Sam is to Opie & Anthony As Better Call Saul is to Breaking Bad

And the Opie afternoon show gets to be Walt Jr.

I saw H-h-h-h-h-h-oward in the h-h-h-h-h-h-allway

Better Call Saul started strong though and seems to be going nowhere.

Hopefully Jim & Sam have no where to go but up!

I enjoy it. It's not O&A, but Jim and Sam have chemistry and the show is consistently funny and improving as it goes. Some of the interviews are pretty boring depending on the guests though

Show is definitely getting better.. they need to give less time to guests.. the best radio so far has been Jim, Sam, tefft and d-boy just pissing about, being silly and having a laugh

Colin and Bobby were good guests.

Sky is blue.. what's your point?

Feels a bit like O and J with out the seething undercurrent of anger. Whether you like it better or not seems to depend on whether you're more a fan of a seething undercurrent of anger or people getting along.

It's the best we got. Only show I look fwd to at this point.

Way better than O&J or TACS

The show with Vos and Serra was fucking hilarious

It goes from absolutely terrible to sometimes awesome and back almost daily.

I was never an anti-Sam guy, but he's starting to wear on my nerves. He ruined the Ken Bone thing completely by a cocky and wiseass setup so Bone was never completely comfortable to not taking a couple quick fake calls first to lull him in, and then he talked OVER about 1/2 the Ramones so you couldn't hear what Jimmy was saying. He's completely corny, and while he entertains Jimmy while he's being goofy, it's the same sarcastic gag over and over. When Jimmy can't make it, the show is unlistenable. He seems to love a lot of chicks in studio as much as possible, and while a chick once a week is a nice break up of the norm, I'm tired of hearing these corny bitches almost daily. He's better than Opie though.

TL;DR The new show is hit or miss. Sam stinks.

It's good but it hasn't recaptured the "hang" vibe yet.

I hope you get a sort of hang vibe

yesssssssss.

It's pretty good. Better than anything else out there. I could do without the barrage of guests every day though, unless it's a regular like CQ or Bobby. These randos they pull in are just worthless 90% of the time.

I agree, show isn't bad, but way too many guests. I skip a lot of that.

I wonder if Sirius had a stipulation in their contract to take certain guests. I remember Jimmy getting irritated at times on O&A when random dumb guests were always getting on. Keep the regular comics, and only take interesting guests. Id also love to see guys like Sam Morril, Ari, Tom Segura, Luis J Gomez and Big J get on more. Especially Segura, he is a funny fucking guy.

Yes.

I love it. It's its own show, but it's a nice offshoot of the old show in tone and quality.

If Opie & Anthony was Alien, Jim and Sam is Aliens.

Travis is like the "Bishop."

It's strange how the guests somehow feel weaker than Opie and Jim even though they are slightly more entertaining.

Apart from that its a vastly better radio show. I laugh more at it than any of the podcasts i currently listen to.

Blame Roland. I think he sided with Opie.

Jim says the show is getting amazing feedback. Not just polite good but wild applause good.

So in a roundabout way, management loves the new direction of the show?

Ha, exactly.. the show isn't great, unfortunately nothing will come close to O&A in it's heyday

True, and I've come to accept that. Seems that Jim and Sam also think that, and just want to do a radio show without worrying about living up to anything - letting whatever happens happen.

Opie seems desperate to reclaim what he had during the best days of O&A, however

They abuse those who deserve it, I approve.

They gota iron out the kinks but soo far it's not bad.

Fewer laughs and occasionally a bit forced. It takes guests like 49 minutes to settle in and feel at ease.

Like people said, it's no O&A. It hasn't had me rolling on the floor but it's listenable and improving, and a nice companion for my morning commute

It's listenable. If forgettable. It doesn't have the magic of O&A. But i think O&A worked well as A&J worked so well together and O just brought the unsaid bubbling anger.

Strangely I prefer ron and fez to bennington for this same reason. I used to love pep's constant anger at fez and ron trying to not loose his rag with fez. Then fez when he could be bothered to talk generally having a meltdown to people that didn't really give a fuck. Now it's all happily families :(

Yes. Nothing close to O&A in their prime; but a hundred times better than O&J and TACS, and a thousand times better than Opie Radio.

Sam stinks....does his stupid beavis laugh everytime jimmy makes a joke. Everytime sam attempts a joke he giggles before he says it.

It's excellent. Yes, there are far too many trannies, MMA cunts and random Aussie playboys, but it is hilarious. Just be prepared to not listen on Fridays when Jim fucks off for some shitty gig.

It has potential in my opinion you have to remember it's still a pretty new show they just need to stop doing so many fucking interviews. Colin pointed out that interviews were the worst part of o&a and guess what interviews are the worst part of jim and sam as well

That ain't gonna happen. They have access to unlimited celebrities at SXM, especially in the morning. It's those celebrity interview you tube clips that help draw in new listeners as well. Jimmy and Sam are both whores when it comes to meeting celebrities.

I come from listening to mainly Patrice on O&A + Louis CK/Jim Jefferies and not really listening to the normal show and so far i really like the new show maybe its just because its new but ive liked every show so far and plan to keep listening.

Its.......well.....not Opie. But, I find myself not really enjoying it.. especially with the guests somehow getting worse than they were with the old show. Jimmy will eventually get sick of having a spineless cuck as his co host.

Your assessment is fair. They're less hate-able than O&A and that can sometimes make for a less dramatic show, but I enjoy it.

it's actually good.

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I love it

It's better O&a haven't been good since the move to Sirius. They give off the xm vibe, like they actually care again

Its not better than anything. it is nothing but an experiment for management. a waste of money and time. sirius could put a better show together. They know these 2 duds will do whatever they say to do, and work for standard money, and will show up with bells on.

we dont need this much truth around here sir.

It's not horrible. At times it's really funny but can go to extremely boring quickly depending who's on with them and what topics they bring up. I just love the fact that SXM threw Opie out of his morning slot and gave it to Jimmy & Sam.

YEEEEEESSSSSSS

20K new subscribers can't be wrong....

The only reason people are fooling themselves on this Reddit into believing it is good is because they hate Opie and Anthony now. They are a still bit butt hurt since July of 2014. So to answer your question, the show isn't the groundbreaking great white hope it is made out to be. I mean it's better than Elliot in the Morning but that's not hard to do.

What would be your main criticism of Sam & Jim? The unbearable douche chill moments are gone now that Opie is out. Jim is using all of his characters and just being goofy and weird again. Sam is good about cutting off shitty callers, and not just letting them babble like Opie did. Travis is a lot more involved, and everyone loves the Teft. They actually have somewhat of a buzz again because of th Nancy Grace video. Not really sure what you mean when you say "the show isn't the groundbreaking great white hope it is made out to be." Other than a handful of fanboys on this sub, the majority of feedback has been mixed. People are genuinely happy that Opie is gone, and the show is actually listenable again (besides the days that Jim is out and Sam is by himself).

MY point exactly. The love for Jim and Sam is connected to Opie hate. You can't point out that Jim and Sam is a "great/decent show" without mentioning that Opie isn't there. It's an O&A reddit straw man that state's "Everything in the world is great because Opie isn't there". When in reality it's not that great. As far as the show I'm Not a fan of the Teftisms. It's pretty weak. Hacky even. I like Jim, I like Sam, I like Anthony, I like Opie. The Jim and Sam show IMO is overrated by this sub for now.

I like Opie

Well, that tells me everything I need to know.

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it just bleeds from unfounded enthusiasm on sams over enunciating part, and jim thinking any hyper and boring low comedy voice or quip will be lapped up by the audience.

its everything i wanted. They fucking ramone'd Ken Bone.

not at all. sam is more hatable than ever. he cackles like an 18 year old girl in a morning zoo format at every fucking thing. jim seems much happier though.

Sam is atrocious... He seems to be under the impression that he's a comedian now.

True, it's not a great show at all, let's be honest... don't know why you're being downvoted.

downvoting, lol. who really cares?

Sky is blue.. what's your point?

Fuck. I've been thinking it was "lots of laughs"