Just watched ALL of Friday's Redbar episodes and Ktc's response on TACS.

23  2017-01-19 by PaintedPicture

I've heard about him for years now, but I just became a loyal fan after watching all of the six hours. It's a long form show that is a slow burn, but produces BELLY laughs like old O&A and R&F. Those kind of laughs where your mouth is agape and laughs for five seconds straight without even being conscious of it. You can see the talent in Redbar just by the impression of Matarese. He nailed it so hard after observing and listening to Joe for less than 10 minutes. He deconstructs everything about the show and Matarese. He runs a really good show that is targeted and focused on the pay off laughs.

Keith's response was pathetic and typical corporate Yes Man bullshit. The caller they had on was spot on,"why kiss ass to wait for a big name guest that might never show up anyway"? The caller is cancelling out of principle. This principle is what the network was founded on. Ant's refusal to apologise and play the "im sorry" PR game with Sirius is THAT principle. It's the same principle that Redbar quit over. Ant could pass it off to Keith to take the blame, but the principle is what matters most here. Ant should bend over backwards to get Redbar back on the network (Out of principle). Redbar has the passion to really generate interest in his show and the network. He's controversial and doesn't give a fuck just like old Stern and O&A.

Sorry for the ramble, say "principle" one more time, no "p" word or "c" roll to end it. Just venting. Yes I'm a faggot.

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Jesus

I hate to dispute you, sir, but I've heard that Redbar is quite the talentless faggot.

I heard that too. He might be, but he's also funny and runs a good show.

Even so, that's a lot of listening hours for something I'm not even sure I enjoy. Care to timestamp some of the funniest moments from that episode? If it wins me over, I'll be honest about it.

Just watch Part 2. That has all the meat and potatoes.

Part 1 is a two hour set up.

Part 3 is the one hour conclusion.

No thanks. That wordy faggot should read some Mark twain quotes

where is the part where you kill youself lets fast forward this tape.

Okay, that was pretty great.

As Fez would say, " Thhhhank Youuuu"

Yeah he's pretty fucking douchey. And the jury's out on him being naturally funny. But he kept our attention for six fucking hours. His Joe impression was pretty funny and the PeaPod shit was great. Dislike the guy, don't like his show but this matarese dress down was GOLD

That caller was such a faggot. Was that you, OP?

Your insecurities made me laugh.

Gold? Wtf

At least Knickers didn't get it.

It's a false flag operation by Red Bar, to promote his show. (We have the documents) It takes like 5 bucks and a few minutes to make fake accounts and threads. Surprised some other hack hadn't successfully done it sooner.

Mike Finoia really missed the boat off your gravy train proposal

100%. Redbar spends alot of time and money promoting himself while pretending to be fans on Reddit and Twitter. He makes it very transparent too.

It almost sounds too pathetic to be real, but he's either doing it himself or paying somebody else to do it. It's transparent because they make the same points about how he's funny because of his origin story of "having his bar taken" or whatever the fuck. We don't care, he's not funny.

I know the background story of him crying on the air and begging 4chan to accept him because "he's one of them" and he thought he was gonna be a big hero for that type of internet loser, hoping they'd embrace him.

No one's paying me faggot. I do push for shows i enjoy just to spread the word to fellow former O&A fans. ESD, LOS,Redbar...i like nyc crime report but i don't push that. I haven't really listened to cumtown yet. Stop thinking everything's a conspiracy. I felt the same way you did before listening to it.

I don't think it's a conspiracy, and you don't have to be paid off for it to be true that he's still doing that and has been for a while.

I'm new so i don't really care what he's done in the past. The Matarese shit was compelling and hilarious at times

Yeah? You're new here? Why don't you linger longer before running your mouth about, ya fucking rookie.

Not new here queer. Been part of the sub since before you started listening to Bennington. New to redbar

when did I start listen to Bennington though? So your taste is deteriorating and you like shitty podcasts hosted by a fan wannabe.

RED BAR SHILLLLS REEEEEEEE

Did you give yourself gold sir?

No, but i downvoted my own post out of principle.

faggot

I haven't listened to Redbar much but his impression of Materese on Friday was one of the best things I've heard in a while. If someone could compile all the Materese impressions during the show it be a hell of a video.

Red Bar is not good.

I thought Red Bar did a really good job breaking it down. His whole demeanor is a little gay though. I just drank a bottle of wine and followed it up with a whole pot of coffee, why does my stomach hurt WTF!?!?!?!? i hope he stays on matarese/peapod though. His sidekick was such a pussy

Ryan Katsamajuju

He was semi apologizing to Matarese at one point. Felt bad for the guy

I actually like RedBar.. it would be interesting if he could riff with a co-host or is just more comfortable with solo shows.

The shows were almost impossible to watch because Mike is not funny at all. He rambles on and that one callback he had to the grocery shopping thing was the worst. Also he's talking to some non-contributing Asian on Skype?

Asian Gavin McInnes held his own and did a good Artie impression

That guy stunk, sir.

I watched that whole Redbar thing too, and while I enjoyed it, I'm not really sure it was actually any good, and I didn't really find it funny either. I just enjoyed watching someone shit on someone I disliked for 6 hours - basically my entire night. It's the kind of thing that really makes me think someone should just throw my life in the fucking garbage can because it's absolutely worthless.

someone should just throw my life in the fucking garbage can because it's absolutely worthless.

Agreed.

I know what you mean. It should not have been so compelling to watch, but it was. It's trivial nonsense but it's like having a spotlight and magnifying glass on our own little world of the O&A Universe. I found some parts to be hysterical and I think there is a talent in being able to dissect this nonsense for six hours and keep it entertaining.

I probably agree with this. It wasn't funny as much as it was satisfying. Seeing Joe get a bashing trumped my need for him to be funny or to entertain.

some 30something no name comedian spent 6 hours commenting on a one hour clip from 40something no name comedian. embarrassing.

Without context it does sound pretty fucking stupid! But the matarese video was a pretty big thing. He's a guy Ant has been supporting with TACS. He's fairly known in the podcast world with Nick DiPaulo and Artie featuring him. He was building up steam in his own world. And then he had the balls to roll with the big boys with this fixing Joe. It seemed like everything was building up beautifully to the Cumia/Norton/Lange show and it spectacularly collapsed all around him in one hour of magic. Dress it down all you like, you gotta admit that's a fucking satisfying story and worth bashing him for!

shut up thats too many words

"fixing joe" is just as useless as "red bar" eat a dick fucko

Does Billy Burr know you shamelessly adopt his insults like a mindless retard?

Since your infant mind need this spoonfed, here goes. Jim, Ant and Artie on a show killing it whilst an Opie-like ship-steerer imploded in one of the biggest bombs caught on camera was kind of a big thing to talk about.

Now go away please.

no you are

Redbar is better than tacs, if I'm being honest with myself

Yeah it probably is. TACS is pretty bad objectively speaking. Probably the worst show of any O&A alumni.

He just tries too hard. Like I said before and I'll keep saying it again. He'll talk shit but with what background or skill can he actually offer? Is he a writer or a comedian, is he just the average guy just calling shit out. But the truth is that he's none of these things. He's one of the horrible O and A fans that think shitting on people without the humor or knowledge of the is entertainment. If I need to listen to some pissed off 40 year old that wears real yezzy's and listens to Kanye's last album on repeat (it stunk, only 3-5 good songs on it), I'll ask myself.

There's a reason this comment currently has - 2 downvotes. Think carefully about what you've done.

Jesus dude -2 downvotes, :/ time to kill myself then

Yeah, that would be great thanks

As much as they're shitting on Matarese for being a showstopper, that Asian guy was complete conversation-wrecking shit.

Who the fuck gave this gold?

Mikeys mommy.

Bullshit /u/PaintedPicture

I actually watched that entire shit show

It Suuuuuuuucked, somehow he took all the laughs out of a clip that was actually funny. He watched that "Fixing Joe" episode and didn't laugh once. Which leads me to believe he is kind of retarded.

imo he is a nit picky anal retentive host with nothing to add to the actual subject manner.

He laughed a few times actually, particularly towards the end. I'd time clip but I'm not that autist

Was this written by Redbar himself? Jesus get off his dick homo.

"Redbar has the passion"

You most certainly are you new, he fucking hates broadcasting. He finds it very gay and thinks very lowly of his listeners, he just prefers this to doing actual work. His show started in 2003 when it was a new and exciting medium, but by now this became his job and he's stuck in it. He shits on people he hates one day a week and he takes the rest out, so it's a good gig. It's definitely better than being stuck in a cublicle and doing soul crushing monotone nonsense, even if he hates it.

Have we gotten Keith fired yet?

After that clusterfuck, including the explanation, Ant should at the very least consider hiring a consultant.

Fridays show was admittedly pretty entertaining, but most red bar shows are attacks on unknown boring people, and he spends about 3 times too long doing it.

Also the hipster clothing/Kanye West talk is just terrible...

I saw the jack buckby and tony hinchcliffe attacks and you're right, though i do like the jocktoberish vibe of the whole thing.

Yeah you're probably right in that he dwells on topics for too long. But his targets are always justified. The Proud Boys, Lady Alchemy and Buckby deserve a good bashing.

Sure, but its more of a problem when he spends an hour and a half on an old intern who sucks, or that other chicago podcaster he hates. Having said that i'm not a 100% negative, i guess i should watch when its about something i'm interested in and ignore the rest.

Fair enough - I've only seen a very small window into Redbar. I watched a few eps where he bashed Gavin and Bucky/Lady Alchemy and then the Matarese show. I can definitely see myself getting bored fast once the novelty wears off.

I think the only way for them to get it back is for Ant to go back with Opie to REAL radio in the morning and Video podcast type show later maybe 2 hour morning and 1 hour in the afternoon or something like that. Similar to how they did it before on K-Rock

I don't know how that would feel, fucker!

Fuck Redbar getting all "What happened to Free Speech?". Free speech isn't shitting on your co workers as your sole bit of content. If your on a network which will let you basically say anything, and all you want to do is drop N bombs and fuck with your team, then you deserve to be let go.

Howard Stern and o&a built a career in this.

It's way different. They were apart of old media mega conglomerates. This Cumia Network thing is a small business that needs to grow. Redbar is trying to build a career shitting on dudes that are apart of this small network with a very limited reach. He's a cunt.

It's easy to say that with hindsight, but each station they were on was just a small market competing with the big boys.

If you can't spot the hypocrisy and double standards in how a network sold to consumers as a bastion of free speech forces a guy out for speaking his mind, then you're beyond help Faggot.

Maybe you should write another monologue about how you are cancelling your sub, you fucking teen girl.

I am not going to watch that redbar shit until Braun makes me, last time it was on he was begging people to give him a chance snd acting quite gay.

It's a two hour Show. If you don't like it fine, but give it a chance if you want.

sounds like you gay-v it a chance, queer.

Nawt funny!

Seems like a lot of people don't like redbar, which is fine. He does some real douchey shit. But I challenge you to sit through the entire matarese show and not fucking love it. I watched it live and was in tears. I hadn't watched a single redbar show before this. I only saw this one out of necessity. I was desperate to find somebody out there who'd have the balls to slam Matarese for his embarrassing shit he pulled on fixing Joe. Seems like nobody else wanted to touch it (cus Joe's a nice guy).

I'm just glad somebody out there truly doesn't give a fuck. Even if you hate the guy, at least give him that.

And great analysis of the KtC/tranthony response too. Agree 100%.

Sure, but its more of a problem when he spends an hour and a half on an old intern who sucks, or that other chicago podcaster he hates. Having said that i'm not a 100% negative, i guess i should watch when its about something i'm interested in and ignore the rest.

Jesus dude -2 downvotes, :/ time to kill myself then