You listened during the worst time brothaman they all resented each other by then and they had lost their hope of ever getting bigger the energy was gone. Find a show from the late 90s or early 00s sure it hasn’t aged well but you’ll notice how much more engaged both hosts were.
Oh I know. Even when they were first on XM it was great. Into the 2010s though it was over.y point is any reunion would just be lack luster.
Post XM Sirius Merger is when the show went downhill big time with the occasional funny bit.
There were some excellent bits, like Jimcy and of course the Jocktobers. I think where the show really went downhill was after Patrice died.
Having a laugh track was annoying at times, I personally thought the time between losing the audience and the death of Patrice and firing of Steve C were my favorite
Listening to Jim and Ulfric Jånsen Thundercock is more interesting than Sam. At least Jim will let Ron Bennington stir shit for no reason other than everyone else's amusement.
A lot of what people liked about O&A wasn't actually O&A themselves, but the extended universe of them with Louis, Vos, Burr, etc. "Cellar Crew" guys.
For sure. To be fair Anthony was pretty funny himself before Obama broke his brain.
Speaking of Ron, at risk of embarrassing myself (more than usual) in forgetting some fundamental lore, was there ever a de facto explanation for why the much-discussed Ant and Ron show never materialised?
Because he saw how much of a fucking joke Anthony became. He’d rather do shitty radio with his daughter while making easy money than be in the same room with a drunk racist who has no desire to change his ways.
To add on the other thoughts - Anthony started Compound Media fairly quickly and was pretty much blackballed from all corporate radio. The "Anthony and Ron" show wouldn't have had a real place to exist before you get into any of the personality differences between the two. SXM likely would have put their foot down on anyone being more than an occasional guest over at Compound Media (see also, why Norton stayed on SXM instead of the "Anthony and Jim Norton" show).
That's kind of my point Jocktober was funny, the Scorch videos were funny, Jimmy and Ant could have the occasional hit, and it was usually funny when a comedian was in like Patrice or someone. But for the other 90 percent of the show post merger it was just boring unless they had a fight.
The way I remember it, Ron was blindsided by Keith the Cop who pulled some retarded stunt making a graphic of the ‘Ron and Anthony Show’ trying to entice/gather interest in getting Ron to CM. I don’t think Ron knew anything about it or it was just an idea being floated with no real plans to make it real. Ron was caught off guard by it and KtC basically embarrassed himself with the stunt.