REMINDER: O&A voluntarily gave up 30 mins of their broadcasting block to SAM ROBERTS so they could sleep in

[Mick_Mickerson]

Those two idiots really thought Sirius would continue paying them a couple million a year until they decided to retire on their own terms in 2030 or so, didn't they? And they would just keep adding more vacation and retire in place like

My 30 minute commute in 2014 used to line up exactly with Sam's "pre-show" and it was fffffuuuuucccckkkkkinnnnnng ENNNNRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGING.

@LingerLonger can fact check me on this, but I want to say I even got the Pre-show on my drive back. Didn't they replay the pre-show all day along with the real show? For what possible reason would you replay the fucking Sam Roberts pre-show in the afternoon?

This was also exactly when podcasts were exploding and starting to become mainstream as the bbbbbboys continued to put up a whatever effort

Nice hubris, stupids.

 

[NoBacon]

I mostly listened live, as well.

I was never compelled to replay later so I could hear every topic and every bit and know every reference and I later watched YouTube compilations as mostly background noise while working.

This is some kind of egregious crime to guys like the DMAN who have rainman knowledge of everything Danny Ross said 30 years ago because he listens to the full archives like it’s studying the Dead Sea scrolls.

Some days the show was great and I’d be bad at my job because I was laughing too much and other days it would be a total dud and I’d turn it off, usually when Morton was lying about something or Ant was ranting about blacks again, or a porn star was in.

This total worship of the show is mostly from homosexual young people like @Sue Lightning

 

[I'm Not Loying]

This is some kind of egregious crime to guys like the DMAN who have rainman knowledge of everything Danny Ross said 30 years ago because he listens to the full archives like it’s studying the Dead Sea scrolls.

More like the Dead (Steve) C scrolls. Punching out

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

I mostly listened live, as well.

I was never compelled to replay later so I could hear every topic and every bit and know every reference and I later watched YouTube compilations as mostly background noise while working.

This is some kind of egregious crime to guys like the DMAN who have rainman knowledge of everything Danny Ross said 30 years ago because he listens to the full archives like it’s studying the Dead Sea scrolls.

Some days the show was great and I’d be bad at my job because I was laughing too much and other days it would be a total dud and I’d turn it off, usually when Morton was lying about something or Ant was ranting about blacks again, or a porn star was in.

This total worship of the show is mostly from homosexual young people like @Sue Lightning

I'm just talking about the absurdity/laziness of the two to give Sam a 30-minute preshow during their 4 hour broadcasting block. And it literally did coincide with my commute so I was paying for Sirius for O&A and didn't get to hear them due to their unwarranted self-confidence and lack of Protestant work ethic

It all worked itself out in the end, I suppose

 

[PogromStallone]

Them not giving a shit is a big part of why the show was so good. If they went in with a mindset that they shouldn't do that, it would reach into other areas like kissing ass to celebrities and shit like that.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Them not giving a shit is a big part of why the show was so good. If they went in with a mindset that they shouldn't do that, it would reach into other areas like kissing ass to celebrities and shit like that.

I fail to see how continuing to do your show and not voluntarily giving part of it to Sam Roberts would lead to kissing Kristen Bell's ass.

I actually forgot this "pre-show" happened until I saw there was a guy from YouTube who is uploading all the daily shows from 2014

 

[Sue2]

This total worship of the show is mostly from homosexual young people like @Sue Lightning

Yeah because i’ve never shit on the show or the three guyszzzz. What are you talking about? The only people who do total worship of the show is Nana ballwashers. But even they hate Opie so thats not true.

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

More like the Dead (Steve) C scrolls. Punching out

Fawwk yeah!

 

[cachorro]

I mostly listened live, as well.

I was never compelled to replay later so I could hear every topic and every bit and know every reference and I later watched YouTube compilations as mostly background noise while working.

This is some kind of egregious crime to guys like the DMAN who have rainman knowledge of everything Danny Ross said 30 years ago because he listens to the full archives like it’s studying the Dead Sea scrolls.

Some days the show was great and I’d be bad at my job because I was laughing too much and other days it would be a total dud and I’d turn it off, usually when Morton was lying about something or Ant was ranting about blacks again, or a porn star was in.

This total worship of the show is mostly from homosexual young people like @Sue Lightning

Youtube clips of the best segments 15 years after they’ve aired is unironically the best way to listen to OnA

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Youtube clips of the best segments 15 years after they’ve aired is unironically the best way to listen to OnA

It does seem that way with the benefit of hindsight, because the full shows are often fawkin' brutal

 

[CorradoSoprano4]

Youtube clips of the best segments 15 years after they’ve aired is unironically the best way to listen to OnA

Do people on here still listen to the show unironically with everything we know?

If I listen to O&A nowadays I get infuriated by just hearing Jim speak knowing he will marry a man in the future and refer to him as his wife. If I hear Anthony speak I get mad because of all of his many transgressions and stupidity he displays daily on Twitter.

 

[wbgreen]

It was funny how those dopes took their jobs for granted considering it was the only company willing to employ them and that company had a much more valuable personality doing their same thing at the same time of day.

 

[Ants Hard Drive of Horror]

They really sacrificed the magic of the early show.


Woah! Ugh... okay, welcome every-body. Mics are a little hot, huh? Can we? Okay, thats better. It's uh... whats today, Tuesday?

Toos-dey.

Fawk. .. lot to get to today. We, we got that uh... mayor thing. Got that mayor ting, out in uh... San Diego was it? San Diego mayor said some stuff. We got that. What else is there? Oh, that uh Bieber stuff. Get into some Bieber later. Maybe, I don't know.

I uh.... I had a little twitter beef, as they say.

Fawk, you wanna start with that? Then we'll get into some other stuff for ya. Ants twitter beef? ...You're always beefing.

I've been known to uh... beef.


Miss it every day.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Miss it every day.

Did the pre-show get you pumped up for the bbbbbbbbboys?

 

[cachorro]

Do people on here still listen to the show unironically with everything we know?

If I listen to O&A nowadays I get infuriated by just hearing Jim speak knowing he will marry a man in the future and refer to him as his wife. If I hear Anthony speak I get mad because of all of his many transgressions and stupidity he daily displays on Twitter.

I have my playlist of bits I still enjoy. Some jocktobers, opie throwing shit at people, stuff like that

 

[BrotherMan1488]

It was funny how those dopes took their jobs for granted considering it was the only company willing to employ them and that company had a much more valuable personality doing their same thing at the same time of day.

Opie deserved a month off during the summer Sometimes The Captain needs to recharge his batteries, child

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Do people on here still listen to the show unironically with everything we know?

If I listen to O&A nowadays I get infuriated by just hearing Jim speak knowing he will marry a man in the future and refer to him as his wife. If I hear Anthony speak I get mad because of all of his many transgressions and stupidity he displays daily on Twitter.

The staff fights still hold up.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

Opie deserved a month off during the summer Sometimes The Captain needs to recharge his batteries, child

I would rather they take a month off in the summer vs. have Sam Roberts do a pre-show during my commute

 

[FingerofGod]

I would rather they take a month off in the summer vs. have Sam Roberts do a pre-show during my commute

They would’ve ended up giving Sam a temporary summer show if they decided to take a month off.

 

[LingerLonger]

Those two idiots really thought Sirius would continue paying them a couple million a year until they decided to retire on their own terms in 2030 or so, didn't they?

Sirius would pay random nobody celebrities eight or nine figures. Or just dump trucks of cash on Eminem or Oprah. Not to mention paying Howard so much money that they actually lose money on the overall subs and advertisers he brings in. They probably thought that Sirius was dumb enough to pay them millions for the rest of their lives.

They were probably right. If they didn't get fired and just kept their heads down they would be making probably $5-$10million a year at Sirius like a random celebrity podcast or whatever. Sirius bought Conan O'Brien's podcast for $150million. They bought Jason Bateman's podcast for $100million. They are notorious for wasting money on programming. Do you know anyone who listens to those podcasts?

Didn't they replay the pre-show all day along with the real show? For what possible reason would you replay the fucking Sam Roberts pre-show in the afternoon?

They would replay the pre-show, the post-show, Norton's awful advice hour, and anything else to fill time if they needed to hit another block of programming on their channel. Stern is even worse as he only works three days a week and has almost no other live shows and on top of that has two premium channels to fill.

And even worse than that is that Stern's archives from the 80s up until Artie quit basically do not get replayed ever because Howard hates his shock jock former self. So his recycling of content consists of the most recent shows and those need to fill nearly every hour on two stations aside from the three days a week he broadcasts.

This was also exactly when podcasts were exploding and starting to become mainstream as the bbbbbboys continued to put up a whatever effort

Sirius told them to stop focusing on podcasts. They had the O&A Podcast and they were regularly hosting other podcasts on their channel on the weekends. They tried to get Sirius to sign people like Rogan, Nick Dip, or Bobby. The answer was always 'no'. If you are not in the Stern camp you will get zero attention from corporate at Sirius.