Opie and Anthony are Back
After being inactive for over a year now, Opie and Anthony are going to be back on radio. They have signed a deal with XM Satellite radio and will have a show Monday through Friday from 6 am to 10 am daily. That is a time slot shared by none other than Howard Stern. I don’t have XM Satellite radio, so the decision will be an easy one, but I wish I could listen to those guys. They used to make my day in the afternoons when they were on 92.3 here in Cleveland from 3 pm to 7 pm.
Then that ill-fated show, when they “encouraged” listeners to do a very explicit act in a very famous cathedral in NYC, took them off the air. I know that was a stupid thing to do, but I really miss their radio show. They were totally off the hook all the time and had some of the funniest people in the studio. Jim Norton who is a regular in the studio is one of the most grotesquely funny guys I have ever listened to.
I will never forget the one time they had a guy on the phone who ran a business that would test your significant other’s undergarments for signs that they were cheating on you. The interview was quite raunchy, but turned an ugly corner that went about 25 steps over the line. It was about one of the grossest things I have ever heard, but it typified the “nothing is sacred” style of the Opie and Anthony show. Jim Norton spoke up and asked the man on the phone if he had ever tested any underwear that had positive signs of “blood and girl scout cookies?”
The man on the phone didn’t know what to say, and I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I have heard some outrageous things in my day, but this was about the most shocking, ever. This is what made their show so great. You never knew what you were going to get and despite what some people say, the shock value alone was worth the listen in my point of view.
So, welcome back to radio boys. Let’s hope someone is recording the show and putting the MP3 files up on the internet so I can supplant the XM Proprietary Satellite Radio thing. I am not going to spend all that money for one show, unfortunately.
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XM is off the heezy dude. You can install one in your car for under $150.00. I got Donna the Sky-Fi unit for her B-day and she is hooked. I dont know if I am all about paying the extra $2.00 bucks a month to get the O&A Station, it seems sort of silly to me, but then again people pay $9.95 extra every month for HBO, so it may not be that far fetched. I guess it depends on how much car time you have.
That Norton take on the GS cookies was epic. I would love when he would talk about giving peoples hair a little tussle. Funny stuff!
Late to the party with commenting as always, but I am beginning to think that I am the only person on the planet that absolutely loathed Opie and Anthony and was totally overjoyous to not have to deal with them any longer while station surfing the radio.
In other news, my brother has XM radio, and he’s been trying to sell me on it for months and months and months. Possibly even more then a year now. Either way, it’s pretty decent, and I like that you can use it with the car and with the boom box, but I don’t like that you have to pay for the radio per month and there are STILL ads, and I don’t like that around these parts, the further north you travel, the more it goes out, because I am, of course, the person who travels north all the time. Fat lot of good it does me, but I guess if you [heart] your music and you have a nice system (or at least working speakers) and you want more to choose from, this is your gig. It does have a lot of sports stuff, like an ESPN channel and such. That is pretty handy.
no, heather, you are not the sole soul the third planet from sol that despised O&A. I too found their antics too childish and self-gratifying. Glad to see them leave, and glad that they won’t be on network airwaves. let ‘em have XM, sirius is better anyway. no commercials on 60+ stations.
The myriad of soul up there threw me for much of a loop on this Monday afternoon. My head hurts, now.