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I remember logging onto one live Live from the Compound Show early on in its inception. It was just Nana sitting at his desk taking calls and one extremely creepy older guy with a Long Island accent called in. Nana was only half paying attention so the call went on for far too long but what the creep was saying was that he wished they made slip-on braces for girls to wear so they would look younger in bed. Nana was not really paying attention and kept saying something to the effect of "oh, yeah, cool" and the guy just got creepier and creepier. Finally, Nana hung up and even he looked a little perved out.This was a huge issue with Sirius legal when Anthony began doing his Compound shows from his basement. He had no oversight or management and it was just him and a microphone with no one to dump out on him saying anything illegal or slanderous. Even worse was that he would do those shows openly drunk. If he said something slanderous there was no one there to cover for him and it made Sirius look like an unprofessional company with no control over their biggest shows.
It was bad enough he was violating his contract by broadcasting a show from outside of Sirius-XM. But him doing things like abusing mentally retarded people like Bobo, drunkenly lusting after his relatives, and making an ass of himself publicly was enough to get Sirius to tell him to stop. Though eventually he went back to doing shows and then doing stuff like flying drones over elementary schools and sharing the footage. At that point Opie and Jimmy were clearly disgusted by Anthony hence refusing to follow him after his firing. They had seen what his Compound Shows looked like and would rather stay at Sirius. I would argue that Anthony's early Compound broadcasts were so gross that it permanently damaged his relationship with Opie and Jimmy.
I know Rogan likes to say that Anthony's Compound shows were some 'huge influence' on him but Rogan is a massive corporate tool who does a show with all sorts of lawyers and managers looking over his work. Thus him allowing Spotify to censor tons of his shows and choose which political guests he has on and does not have on. Rogan loves that corporate structure but tries to fool his dopey listeners into believing he is some radical free thinker with no bosses.
The show would often follow the same stories as the news and it was fine. 9/11, crazy chimp attack, Mel Gibson tapes, Kramer, Boston Marathon bombing, and so on. Anthony's Trayvon and other race rants were awful because they were not funny, not insightful, and coming from a deranged maniac who was not even fully White.
Pretty much every Neo Nazi or White or Aryan political group in the US is run by jews or the FBI or both. Anthony would probably look more Aryan with his mongrel ghoul features than the average member of the KKK currently.
When it came out that Sirius was mad at the Count doing his own broadcasts, content like this made me realize why.