💼 Careercow Anthony Cumia - A once successful radio host crashes and burns, turning on all his fans and the drama around it

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Angry Shoes said:
It's really annoying to listen to old O&A bits and hear Opie stomp all over them with awful jokes or try to change the subject. But all you have to do is listen to one episode of TACS or Jim & Sam and it becomes blatantly clear how much that structure was needed.
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Exactly. I hated when the O&A sub would do an Opie kayfabe pivot, it started ironically praising him to piss off Ant but then people would genuinely say he was a great professional. All these niggas were hack, there's a reason nobody listened to their serious interviews.
 
Rekkington said:
Exactly. I hated when the O&A sub would do an Opie kayfabe pivot, it started ironically praising him to piss off Ant but then people would genuinely say he was a great professional. All these niggas were hack, there's a reason nobody listened to their serious interviews.
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They really all needed each other, but my point is that Opie isn't a great radio personality, but considering how fucking insane Anthony apparently always has been - Opie is going on the Mount Rushmore of Tard Wranglers.
 
Funny racist > unfunny "that's the bit" hack any day of the week. And Opie isn't a nice person, either; he got off on abusing the homeless and the O&A Wack Pack (not that I give a fuck if radio personalities are "nice," lol). Opie's only real talent was reining in Anthony, and the show ended when he lost that ability.
 
Tanner Glass said:
They really all needed each other, but my point is that Opie isn't a great radio personality, but considering how fucking insane Anthony apparently always has been - Opie is going on the Mount Rushmore of Tard Wranglers.
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I get what you're saying but I would rather listen to Ant complain about black people on his own network than Opie doing a fucking show on his phone while biking to Carl Ruiz's shack. Opie can wrangle nothing, he wanted to be Howard Stern and failed.
"Oh let's get a bunch of goofs and retards we can mock too!" Fucking try-hard faggot.
 
Opie was good when the shock jock era was a thing. Then people grew out of it and he just wasn't able to offer much to the show that had evolved past it.
 
Rekkington said:
I get what you're saying but I would rather listen to Ant complain about black people on his own network than Opie doing a fucking show on his phone while biking to Carl Ruiz's shack. Opie can wrangle nothing, he wanted to be Howard Stern and failed.
"Oh let's get a bunch of goofs and exceptional individuals we can mock too!" Fucking try-hard faggot.
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I'm not saying he's a good radio guy, especially not now. I generally avoid all of the shows now just because they aren't very good to me. Frankly I find myself sifting through reruns/bestofs before I can listen to anything from The Compound, Sam Roberts, or Jim Norton.
 
Mister Qwerty said:
I was listening to the latest Who Are these Podcasts episode and the host is under the impression that Carl Ruiz's business venture is in trouble and he might have to close down the restaurant and Opie is hoping that it's true so that he can rope Carl into doing his podcast with him full time. Poor talentless Opie, still trying to capture lightning in a bottle once more despite the fact that nobody wants to work with him.

Opie (and Anthony's) current state of affairs make me think about what Patrice O’Neal said about fame and the entertainment industry.

“This business is the beast and it eats everybody and shits them out. But here's what's funny about the beast: it's a neverending line of people who want to get in the mouth and get chewed up and shit out. It's because, when you get in the belly, you get $2 million a week. And when you get shit out, you're a pile back there. And you have the option to wait to get back in line, and wait to go get back in the beast, and get eaten and shit out! And we line up!”
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Opie wont be podcasting with Carl anymore since Carl is dead now. He actually died the day you made your post.
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By the way, Opie's podcast is only worth listening to if Carl is on it. In fact, he's the only reason why I listen to it. Smart and funny fucker that Ruiz guy was. Brilliant chef too (he won a bunch of Food Network shit back in the day). Carl has the best stories too and he's an absolute animal. I'd say he's on the level of Patrice in terms of knowledge of how shit works in the world, but can also throw in the random cooking fact now and again.

Opie Podcast with the late Carl Ruiz: 10/10 essential listening
 
Tanner Glass said:
They really all needed each other
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This is why the show went on as long as it did. These guys by themselves are not funny in the slightest, but together, they used to play off each other so well; like when you're listening in, you feel like you're with a bunch of friends making jokes.
 
Senor Cardgage Mortgage said:
This is why the show went on as long as it did. These guys by themselves are not funny in the slightest, but together, they used to play off each other so well; like when you're listening in, you feel like you're with a bunch of friends making jokes.
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I wouldn't say they were humorless before the show. Opie didn't just invite two random, humorless nobodies to do a show with him.

The split did take the wind outta their sails. Jim and Ant were comedians, not "hosts". They needed an intermediary, a "straight man", to separate them from the boring stuff (introductions and transitions of new topics, and the like) so that they could bring the funny. Ope was right that his purpose was to "steer the ship" (but he incorrectly assumed that he fulfilled his role well).

They didn't even have to feel once removed from the boring stuff, but were twice removed. Opie and Ant could carry a conversation with Jim only occasionally dropping lines. The Jim and Sam Show could've hypothetically worked with Jim having his "straight man", but it still couldn't be the same Jim because he was now a co-host, one role removed from the funny.

Something simple I haven't seen touched on is that these are old guys that've been pushed into a new setup after their formula for years and years. Maybe they're just too tired to build up again from scratch 😑
 
Haunter said:
I wouldn't say they were humorless before the show. Opie didn't just invite two random, humorless nobodies to do a show with him.

The split did take the wind outta their sails. Jim and Ant were comedians, not "hosts". They needed an intermediary, a "straight man", to separate them from the boring stuff (introductions and transitions of new topics, and the like) so that they could bring the funny. Ope was right that his purpose was to "steer the ship" (but he incorrectly assumed that he fulfilled his role well).

They didn't even have to feel once removed from the boring stuff, but were twice removed. Opie and Ant could carry a conversation with Jim only occasionally dropping lines. The Jim and Sam Show could've hypothetically worked with Jim having his "straight man", but it still couldn't be the same Jim because he was now a co-host, one role removed from the funny.

Something simple I haven't seen touched on is that these are old guys that've been pushed into a new setup after their formula for years and years. Maybe they're just too tired to build up again from scratch 😑
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To be 100% fair, Anthony wasn't humorless (although a comedy cover band is kind of cringe) when he started with Opie - but he was absolutely a nobody at the time. Jim Norton (when he joined the show as a guest) wasn't exactly a nobody, but he wasn't a well known comic and was regarded as an "opener" and not a "headliner" and was brought on as part of Andrew Dice Clay's entourage - not even brought on directly.

Opie (and Jim, to an extent) are too tired to build up from scratch and are seemingly content to ride the "old radio" concept all the way into the ground. Jim would likely do a radio show with literal homeless people if SiriusXM paid him to do it and Opie seems content to take any gig that contains the word "radio".

Anthony, unsurpsingly, was very smart about changing the forumula and format of his content. He built his own company, studio, AND focuses on live/video content with a subscription model which is something that a lot of other content creators (aka Youtubers/Streamers/etc) still haven't done nearly a decade later. However, while Anthony is very much regarded as the "funny" one - he is dogshit at running a business, is a horrendous host, and has no sense of how to identify or handle staffing issues.

Ironically, if Opie and Anthony were still friends/partners, Opie would be exactly the type of person who could run Compound Media correctly and if they stuck together they might be finding success in new media (like Joe Rogan) instead of dying slow, embarassing deaths by themselves.
 
How's Anthony's old butt buddy doing, Danny Ross? Last time I heard he was in a psych ward and still warding off his drug addiction.

He seems like the kind of guy to constantly Google his own name.

He's an attention seeker through and through. He went to the OnA Reddit (who absolutely hated him) and thought it was a great idea to leak Red Dead Redemption 2 (hit the gaming press everywhere, because Danny Boy worked at Rockstar Games through Lazlow) early to a couple boomers on a forum about a dead radio show. He's retarded enough to ruin his dream gig at the biggest and most profitable place in the industry to get even a semblance of validation.
 
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Bonk said:
How's Anthony's old butt buddy doing, Danny Ross? Last time I heard he was in a psych ward and still warding off his drug addiction.

He seems like the kind of guy to constantly Google his own name.

He's an attention seeker through and through. He went to the OnA Reddit (who absolutely hated him) and thought it was a great idea to leak Red Dead Redemption 2 (hit the gaming press everywhere) early to a couple boomers on a forum about a dead radio show. He's exceptional enough to ruin his dream gig at the biggest and most profitable place in the industry to get even a semblance of validation.
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He would still pop in and out of the O&A subreddits when tagged but once the crackdown came a shitload of accounts who posted to said subs were shitcanned too. His most recognizable account was one of them. Just as well, as once he realized nobody was pledging to his Patreon he stopped posting any new information and once the word about his initial detox or whatever came out, he made a point to not let any new sensitive info leak.

Short of him complaining about Sam for the Porsalin doc, nobody has heard of, or really had any use, for Daniel Ben Dovid.
 
sarralinn said:
ANYONE KNOW WHERE THE O&A SUB REDDIT IS?‽‽‽
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www.reddit.com

r/OandAExclusiveForum

r/OandAExclusiveForum: Opie & Anthony Related Media and Content
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ALSO WHERE DID EVERYONE GO ONCE THE APOCALYPSE OF THE O&A REDDIT HAPPENED?!‽‽
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There was an entertaining several days where subreddits were frequently opened and closed. Many users who subbed were automatically banned from reddit too. There was even a twitter that would post the new subreddit every few hours, until that was banned.
 
Anthony and Jim Norton talking about Opie. Nothing new here but I do enjoy them criticizing Opie about his insecurities and his mental issues.

 
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