He needs someone(s) with him.

True. I'm just not convinced Jim would prepare enough to not be fumbling.

So pretty much Opie? You want Jim to become the Opie show...

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He learned the board because his partner was about to become a father, and it seemed likely he would have to do a week or more of solo shows while Sam was on paternity leave. Rather than have a producer sit in and control the show while Jim hangs out with a temporary co-host each day, Jim took the opportunity to actually learn the job of "radio host". I know we're not supposed to give The $60,000 Bandito any credit, but it's actually pretty admirable.

He apparently didn't realize that Sam puts his career on a much higher level than fatherhood and he wouldn't take any time off.

Also, for the first time in his life, he's involved in a situation where the other parts of the show aren't so insecure that they won't relinquish control. I know it's hindsight, but if Anthony didn't irreparably destroy "the O&A brand" and there was an opportunity to grow a show with Ant & Jim, how would Opie have any value to ensure he's kept on board?

Why do you think Anthony is solely responsible for the "irreparable destruction of the O&A brand"? It's not like he quit or sabotaged the show. The dude got fired over some racial PC nonsense.

As a listener I would say that Opie's moods and constant passive aggressive behavior did far more damage to the show because when the heat came down on Ant, Opie decided that it was an opportune time to be rid of Ant. Opie even admitted that he felt like Ant and Jim had a better chemistry with each other and that he often felt on the outside. If anything Opie is the one who sabotaged the O&A brand by purposefully letting the snowball pick up steam until the point that Anthony had to go. Just because it wasn't always centered around Greggshells. I agree that I would love to see Jim & Ant do a show together but I couldn't have realistically seen Opie walking away and letting those two keep on doing "O&A".

I think the only time that a Jim & Ant show could have possibly come together was after he got fired. That gives them the opportunity to get Opie out of the picture. However it seemed that there was never a shot that Jim would turn down a Sirius contract to go to an unestablished Compound. The flip side of that coin being that Sirius won't allow Anthony back on their channels.

When Jim and Opie didn't re-sign I thought that was the best chance to get J&A together but then Sirius offered Jim the morning show with Sam.

The sad thing is that I can't picture seeing Jim turn down Sirius to go off to a sort of "indie" radio/visual market kind of thing (Compound) with a far fewer fan base. And I can't see Sirius allowing a Jim, Anthony, and possibly Sam as a third mic show to come together in the near future. They only let Ant back on the Sirius soundwaves once and that was when JN&SR did a live event that wasn't in a Sirius building.

Sorry for the length, I got really into this for some reason. Probably because I have no friends who listen to O&A that I can talk to about this stuff.

Six god damned paragraphs. Six.

I read not 'a' one

I read it; and, Ant give Opie every single bullet to put in his own back.

it's Ant fucking fault for getting in a drunken rage and letting his twitter fingers get the best of him.

What really fucked up, is if he said on air what he type on Twitter nobody would have gave a fuck.

I didnt read this either