With no running costs Opie's podcast probably gets pretty good numbers, will organically grow continually as it's free and Westwood One will genuinely be happy with the exposure it gets.

10  2018-05-25 by CrozzCat

He will make money from it and not have to pay any associated costs and he seems stress free and happy just podcasting whenever and whereever.

Ant rents a garment factory office and pays the salaries of a team of people to stream his video podcast behind a paywall, sitting in front a gay green screen. Why the fuck did he go down that route? It just becomes more baffling every week. Just podcast from your house and pay Garrett a few hundred bucks to produce it.

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1  AntwansBobo 2018-05-25

Those people like to show off and live beyond their means

1  CrozzCat 2018-05-25

Why won't he just BEHAVE

1  SamsHairLine 2018-05-25

You should check out this Brian Gilgore kid. He does these Bill Burr style rants.

1  homerj123 2018-05-25

Some Opie shill made a decent comment. Why is Anthony's podcast more expensive than Netflix? Anthony thought he was "above" everyone else in the podcast world and how money is made in that business. He is literally making less money than 14 year old kids playing games Twitch.

1  fingerrockets 2018-05-25

Thats honesty a great idea nana should do a twitch channel he would make more money and be more relevant. He would be exposed to a younger audience and many if not most would love to hate him.

1  Dr-Seepage 2018-05-25

And we know how much ant loves exposing himself to younger audiences

1  fingerrockets 2018-05-25

it's win, win!

1  SHITLORD_CUNTDICK 2018-05-25

Why is Anthony's podcast more expensive than Netflix?

Worse, it's twice as expensive as other podcast networks. Stitcher premium has 10 million shows and comedy albums and is only $4.99 a month.

1  AnthonyDLC 2018-05-25

I theory is he did it because he had to pay the bills so he needed money fast

1  Bluesmoky 2018-05-25

One thing about the O&A world now is you never know when the tide will turn and what direction it'll go. You just know that it will turn and the result is a lot of free entertainment. This train-wreck sub should be dead but it keeps growing because of this.

1  Mu_Scevich 2018-05-25

Opie’s viral marketing team is working overtime on this sub lately.

1  tonydogs 2018-05-25

If he had gone the podcast route he could have gone into nyc and interviewed people from his apartment, a "studio in the city" if you will.

1  AirBuddDwyer 2018-05-25

Equipment...podcast...into the city...etc.

1  pcro69 2018-05-25

Anthony made an error in his business model to be sure and should have gone the free route supported by ads. However he also is not disciplined enough not to drive advertisers away. So he was not destined for great financial success either way.

That all being said, let’s not suck opies dick here. To attract listeners to a free podcast you still have to put out a product that’s interesting. He is putting out shit. He can no longer afford his paid friends to come in to pretend to like him for an hour and evidently has no idea how to produce a show on his own. Any money he makes on this thing will be minimal because it will be based on downloads and listens. Those are going to be small.

1  EugeneGrimgold 2018-05-25

it's free but WestWoodOne is still paying Opie for it, they'll quickly realize whatever they're paying him is too much.