O&A: Listener Poll. When did you start listening to O&A?

[joshm210]

Here is a poll just to check the percentages of wackbaggers and how many of us are newer listeners and old listeners

[peewee]

i started sometime in 2000. one of the first shows i can remember was the fake jay mohr fat guy fight. i was hooked ever since.

[Chuckyarla]

Here is a poll just to check the percentages of wackbaggers and how many of us are newer listeners and old listeners

I'm an old listner I'm over 40

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[PorchMonkey4Life]

i started in the early days on wnew... back when they were being told to shut up and play the music..
i see your sig pic needed to be resized.... it cant be bigger than 300x200 pixels.
here ya go...
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[Begbie]

You may even want to add an 'after syndication on Infinity". I started in late 2000, I think.

[PorchMonkey4Life]

I'm an old listner I'm over 40

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i think you ment this...
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[Saffron's Curse]

Early WNEW days long before St. Pat's.

[XMScott]

The day the music died?

Fagots ruined my classic rock station. Wasnt till weeks of a friend forcing me to listen to their dribble. The rest is an addiction

[zagman76]

Whenever they were syndicated in Buffalo is when I started listening regularly. Before that, it was only when I was home from college on break, or occasionally on live365 :)

[Chuckyarla]

i think you ment this...
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yes I did bam

[JPetrucci23]

wnew days... i remember the old WNEW webpage which had the studio cam on it. they should bring that back.

[BobSaget666]

I started downloading clips of the show a few months after they got fired from WNEW.

[gumhead]

I have been a faithful listener since 1995 :icon_cool

[Farm Flufer]

I started when they got syidicated to WJFK (DC)

[ThaPplsChoice]

Late 2001, about 8-9 months before St. Pat's. They were gone so soon...

[hillarythegreat]

I voted for before the mayor prank because I listened when I was in the car with my mom. I didn't start listening on my own though till O&A came to XM.

[MikeHimself]

WNEW days when they finally got syndicated.

[MisterSinister]

WNEW days. Spaz shit was funny as hell.
Lineup was: Howard in the morning, radio chick, then O&A, then Don and Mike, then Ron and Fez.

[Stormrider666]

i started in the early days on wnew... back when they were being told to shut up and play the music..
i see your sig pic needed to be resized.... it cant be bigger than 300x200 pixels.
here ya go...
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Same here like it says above my avatar, Novemember 1998. I used to turn the radio down, when they played music and wait till it was over, to hear the boys. I mean come on how many times can you listen to Limp Bizkit's "Break something"

[zerofischer]

i started about a month after they were syndicated to philly. a friend of mine told me to check them out after he went to their first road show in philly at dave and buster's in which he said there wasn't very many people there, so i gave them a listen and never turned back.

[IDontCare05]

I have been listening since 98' and have been listening ever since.


The good ol' WNEW days.....

[Chimpo]

Late Spring/early Summer '99.

[DoughBoy]

The day they took my rock away and put those two shitty DJs on. Quit talking and play some fucking music!

[NikDaSchwugie]

I started in about 2001. Funny thing is, I don't remember a single thing except the first bit. After that, it's all a blur.

[droopygirl106]

back at the WNEW days, yo

[judoGTI]

I started in 1905, right after XM started putting radios in those Model T's

[click]

Early 2001. Friends had been telling me to check them out for a couple of
years before that. I'm a little slow, they even got me a ticket to the
softball game and I turned them down. I'm sorry I missed that

[generoso]

Eve though I put down the Wnew days. I was a listener back in WBAB days the nighttime something....Fingers metal shop was better though....

[[Mike]]

I started in their WNEW days about a month or two after they got syndicated to Cleveland.

[Trippy]

I first listeren in the 'NEW days with Spaz and his 10 inch moving trucks. The rest is an addictive haze......

[Jimmy's Dignity]

I started listening in '98, still remember Spike kicking that guy in the balls live. Then I was in the radio dead-zone called the Lehigh Valley, PA for college. Got re-addicted during the boys time off thanks to OAVirus

[kvuo]

the last Homeless Shopping Spree was the first show I heard (either late 2001 or 2002 I think)... on AM 970 "extreme talk" here in Portland OR.... they were replaying O&A on saturdays, I was listening to some other shit FM show on a sister station one saturday morning. the shitty FM show mentioned they were simulcast on their AM station, so I checked out the AM station after the shitty show was over. .. O&A replay of homeless shopping spree. it was destiny... started listening live every day at noon, was hooked in a week. The station flipped to Oldies format a week after S4S..

[SuperGolfer]

WNEW 1999, Late Summer/Early Fall.

[billyb1173]

Way back to the AAF days. They kicked ass from Day 1. Who was the bitch they replaced on afternoons at AAF. Was it Liz Wilde?

[Ivebeentussled]

The day they were syndicated to Philly. The best part of those days were when they added a new city, and they got calls from that city, telling them to shut up. This isn't what I'm used to!

[Grady's Ax]

Way back to the AAF days. They kicked ass from Day 1. Who was the bitch they replaced on afternoons at AAF. Was it Liz Wilde?

Yeah, I think the bbbbboys took over Liz Wilde's spot. I was also lucky enough to hear their first show in 1995 on WAAF. You could tell back then that they were different than the other jocks, and their banter between songs was fucking hilarious.

[Corky's Revenge]

I started listening to the boys when they got syndicated on WYSP in Philly.

[loki]

right after they started at WNEW. My wife told me to check them out. Hooked instantly. Thought I'd lost them forever after the St.Pats scandal. then this past Christmas, my wife gave me the bestest present ever....I got OnA back.

[WhackFlash]

I started in 1905, right after XM started putting radios in those Model T's

You, Anthony, and Groucho, right?



I started listening in 2000...whenever WBCN in Boston started running them in the afternoons...I remember being all pissed off at 1st...of course...and then the infection set in. 1st show I heard was Black Earl lost on his way to a sticker stop.

[kloraferm]

I remember hearing them when they started at WNEW in '98 because I had that station programmed on the radio in my old car at the time, and I didn't really listen that closely at first but I remember thinking "these guys are actually entertaining" (unlike most run of the mill boring jocks). At that point I was still used to thinking Howard was the best, but after a while I made a point of listening on the drive home from work and whenever people would call in saying "shut up and play the music", I'd be saying "NO! These guy's have talent. How many more times do I need to hear the same fucking songs?!" And that's all she wrote. I guess I've been hooked since

[wbab]

I'm a listener back from the WBAB days, thus the reason for the name; to give tribute. It was always exciting back then when Opie would announce that Anthony would be in the studio.

[TheAngryGolfer]

WNEW... around 1999

Still think the offensive song contest was one of the best bits ever, and they should do another one.

I almost crashed my car when I heard the KKK song

[Etherfiend]

February

infected for life now...

[WyldeBill]

Back when they were still playing required music breaks on NEW

[Zyklon B]

late 2000 early 2001 when syndicated to Cleveland. I heard them doing a bit where latch key kids were encouraged to snoop through their parents rooms and call in with what they found.
The next day's angry parent calls and the way Op and Ant just didn't care got me hooked for life

[JOHNNY HAIRDO]

I started in 1998, with a story aboy Big German Ed with a bullet wound in his head, although I don't remember the exact story, anybody recall this at all?

[Vic Mackey]

I was one of the very few listeners in Chicago when they were on WCKG. Unfortunately they were on at night and never got much of a push from the station, if they had they would be a lot bigger here no doubt. I remember I couldn't stand it at first, but I kept listening and I finally got all the inside stuff. Once I got it, the show went from crap to the best thing I've heard since Steve Dahl when he was with Gary Meier.

[atrophy]

the first ron and fez show i heard was the one the day opie smashed al dukes' pinball machine present. the first opie and anthony show i heard was the one the day after that. so yea

[drugsRus]

I started listening in 1996 at AAF, about the time that they started getting dissed by WBCN. Ironically when they got fired from Boston, they ended up replacing that same jock via syndication.

[Ballbuster1]

I started listening when they got syndicated to Philly on WYSP.
Been a loyal listener ever since.

[dirtydunky]

wnew i heard opie on wbab but wasnt a fan
the 1st show i ever heard was when rick just got back from his honeymoon

[MetalSign]

I started listening when they got syndicated to Philly on WYSP.
Been a loyal listener ever since.

Same here. I think it was summer 2001 when they got syndicated to YSP in Philly and Tim Sabian pitched a tent in his slacks. I remember hearing the PLAY THE MUSIC!!! calls. The rest is history....

[reefdweller]

My first O&A show was the one when Kevin was putting blindfolded and putting the tampon on Dottie the fatty and he let out his famous astonished scream. I was hooked from then on.

[APortablePhone]

I started listening a few weeks into their run on WYSP in the summer of 2001. The first bit I heard was the Frank Caliendo doing the Superfriends bit (http://files.foundrymusic.com/RA/10162001caliendo_superfriends.zip). One of the first shows I remember is Sex For Sam 2. I'm still not sure, but I suspect both of these were worst of's, but I couldn't tell the difference at that point.

[5erdude]

Started hearing them when I first got on the job in 99. I was working with a Fiberoptics guy and he had it on in his truck. They were trying to convince this woman to do a 3some. The next day I listened in my truck on the way in and Anthony was doing Popeye saying they were gagged from doing that again heh. I was hooked ever since. My co-workers thought I was insane because I was laughing a lot listening to the "radio".

[THE FEZ MAN]

i started with in a couple of weeks of there arival here in philly

[Neo_Is_God]

end of 99 if i remember corrrectly
and funny enough it was a worst of since they always took vacations
you fuckers
laura corn in the studio and ant doing mike tyson
funny as shit

[GreatAmericanZero]

i was listening on 'NEW back early when they were still playing music breaks. I was in highschool at the time and my dad always took business trips to boston so he heard of them when they came to NY and introduced them to me. i would be like "i like the guys but these long music breaks are awful". and opie was always a sarcastic asshole and introduce the music as like, "here is the same goddamn jimi hendrix song uve heard a hundred times before". You can tell they were antsy to do a full talk show with no music at all.

[Goblin]

I started by downloading the first week of XM shows. The bit about Howard's daughters was brutal. I fucking loved it. :clap:

[whoisisthis]

I think in '01 or '02.....when they first came to Sacramento

[Bunny™]

WAAF .... Summer of 1996.

[Dr Midnight]

I was listening to WAAF way back in 95 or so... nya nya

though I don't remember ANYTHING from that period of the show other than Opie responding to some email I'd written with "Don't worry dude you just need some pussy -Opie"

[AngryPest]

All the way back to WAAF.

[TheBattleVirus]

Started listening during the WNEW days a couple months before St. Pat's. I became addicted after downloading clips while they were off the air, then got XM shortly after they debuted last year.

[Dryblood]

I love listening to old bits from back in WNEW.

The days of Spaz and his tomato lover.

Rick and his fish on his car and chocalate dick in his mouth.

.... So many others, good times :)

[TreeFortRichard]

WAAF...I remember their arrival there was awkward because they took over the 3-7 which had a popular dj...."Hey what happened to..." calls all the time. They never converted the shift to all talk, like they did at WNEW...I remember anthony use to talk about rot gut all the time, and the first time i saw him he reminded me of Inigo Montoya from the princess bride....Oddly enough he does have a Rapier....
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[dillweed]

i started sometime in 2000. one of the first shows i can remember was the fake jay mohr fat guy fight. i was hooked ever since.
ron fez where the fuck is ferell knee to groin punch to the head shake it up

[dillweed]

i started sometime in 2000. one of the first shows i can remember was the fake jay mohr fat guy fight. i was hooked ever since.
55 gallon drum challenge is my first memory

[THE FEZ MAN]

th 55 gal drum challange was one of the first times i accualy listend till 7pm

[abudabit]

Any pre-Boston listeners?

[Dirty_Sanchez]

WNEW days like 2 months before they got booted... I was steamed when they got kicked... I was at that time really beginning to love the show.

[Stinky's Ghost]

I started listening to the boys right around 9-11.

I'm from Boston but did not listen to them on AAF because of that fat fuck Rock-hole.

I met Rock-hole and when I realized what a fucking hog puffing tool he was I vowed never to listen to another minute of AAF, thus missing out on the boys boston shenanigans.

[OverHereNowOh]

I started listening to them on wnew, My first show was when they were fighting with Ben Stine about the term chew down, he thought they said jew down...then they just went on and killed him for an hour.

[ramonA]

i started with in a couple of weeks of there arival here in philly

Same here. I wasn't really into talk radio until O&A. When they went away, I was sad. Got xm for this show.

[FBA_Psycho]

I started listen a couple of months before they got syndicated to Philly. First time I heard them was when I downloaded one of their bits off of kazaa.

[ol' Cabey leg]

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Where you get the Ricky doll?

[chili chest]

Been listening to O&A since day one on WNEW.

[Mike Foxtrot]

The boys were syndicated in Portland, Oregon for about a year before the St.Pats scandal. I began listening about six months before they were kicked off. They were on a shitty AM station, with ZERO promotion (deja vu?). I can still remember laughing uncontrollably when Ant told his story about getting that girl drunk on 151...'No sir, we were drinking cokes'!

[freud]

I listened to O&A a few weeks after they were put on WYSP in Philly. For no real reason I decided to sit and listen to the entire show one afternoon, and since then I've listened pretty much everyday they've been live. I also put up with the two years or so when they were off air by storing a few gigs of full shows and bits that I lost when my computer crashed, and of course was listening live for the first XM show. It's hard to believe I've been listening to O&A for over four years now...though most of that time was with them off the air.

[Rrrr Crash]

ive been listening since november 1999, I think it was a repeat of ant's impression of mike tyson punching and a girl screaming. I would like to see a poll breaking down the months of the year since their start at xm

[enema bag]

i heard about o&a but could never hear them 'cause of our stupid crtc (canadian radio/telecommunications council... kinda like the fcc) regulations and canadian content (can you believe 36% of all music on the radio has to be from canadian artists?).
i got xm because i wanted to hear their show, and now having the other 200 channels are completely irrelevant.

[BigJewishTits]

I listened to the first wnew show cause I was curious to hear what was replacing "the music, man". I remember thinking they were funny but didn't become a full time listener until the KISS interview which was a short time after they first came on the air.

[SonnyForelli]

I have been a faithful listener since 1995 :icon_cool

Same here ! I have always listened to O&A since they came on in 95 on AAF. I was a hair metal band junkie from the 80's that got hooked to AAF back in the days of LIZ Wild (The Cream Cheese Bitch ). When Opie and Anthony made their 1st show I was listening, back in those days they played alot of music but during the breaks it was great! It Made me forget all about the bitch they had replaced ! We didnt have WOW bumper stickers back then kids , We had to do it the old fashoned way, with tape or writing it in the dirt of our trucks, or just plain white paper with a big WOW written on it. WOW was Really Really big in the Boston area back then !It seemed thet by the summer of 1997 every man between the ages of 16 and 35 had a WOW on their vehicle! Today I am lucky to see a 1 WOW sticker in a week. I sometimes sit and wonder WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED !

Well when they got fired in Boston I stoped listening to WAAF all together as my taste in music and talk radio changed,,I got older :icon_roll , then one day around 2000 ,my dates could be wrong on this , but I heard The O&A Show on BCN on a weekend ?? It was kind of like a teaser show to get boston ready for what was to come, Praise the lord for good old Edipus! One of the Biggist Goals of the O&A Show on NEW was to break through Back to the Boston market so they could shove it up Dave Dickless, and the FAT man that took their place when the got canned from AAF. I beleive that Edipus had something to do about getting back in the Boston market, I could be wrong on this but I would think its a good guess seeing that the boys speak highly of him as a Program Director, maybe not his vacation habits though ! Anyways, I think I said enuf for now, Puching out Sonny Forelli

[tysonpunchinguterus]

Very start of the WNEW era. I started listening on my way to work in the afternoon because my tape deck was busted in my old car. I remember them tooling on all of the newscasters and bad radio guys for their lame Hurricane Bonnie jokes ([wacky voice]"My Bonnie flew over the ocean."[/wacky voice] *wacky horn*).

[Chubzie Ubzie]

Listened on WNEW then on YSP when they came to Philly.

[HerkyJerkyLiz]

i started listening when i was a senior in high school so 1999.

[khemystri]

Started listening their first day on WYSP.... hated them.... for a lil while... :)

[BeeHive Helen]

Listened to WNEW the days I traveled far enough norf to pick up the signal, and then everyday once they hit WYSP.

[APortablePhone]

Started listening their first day on WYSP.... hated them.... for a lil while... :)

You were silly goose.

I can proudly say I was hooked on the show after the twenty minutes Rick Delgado allows all listeners to form their opinion. I listened to the show every single day from 3-7 after the first time I turned them on until they were canceled. I then bought an XM just for the show and have never missed a day.

[Mother Shucker]

Early WNEW days. I was skipping threw the chanels while (please don't flame me) Rocky Allen was playing some gay song and heard Don Imus on WNEW during the afternoon. I had no idea why Imus was on, but he was saying some outrageous shit. Well, as it turns out, it was some ponytailed Dago doing an Imus impresion. I was hooked.

Worst thing about my little story is that FM radio was so bad in P.M. drive, the Rocky Allen show gram was the best thing on.

[Kace]

June of 1999
I was 14 years old listening to O&A having an unmentionable former employee remove a tampon from a fat woman blindfolded, hooked ever since

[rottwielerinpa]

early wnew days ...

[JimsInfectedEye]

Started listening their first day on WYSP.... hated them.... for a lil while... :)

Same here - figured they were a Stern wanna be. Would tune them in occasionally, and like when I started listening to Stern, began to pick up on some of the sayings and inside jokes. I remember listening to them one day interview Jason Newsted (the former bassist from Metallica) when he left the band. It was actually a cool interview, not full of "I bet you get tons of girls", or "you got so much money stacked away", or "you can say it, the rest of the band sucked", which is exactly what Stern would be saying. Letting him talk and go on about what it was like being in the band was really cool.

I often wondered why they would make innuendos about Stern but never say anything full blast until I came here one day and learned that Stern put a gag order on them - which really pissed me off, when in the past Stern would bash other jocks all the time. Thats when I really started to see how much of a hypocrital asshole Stern was.

[Bigg Dogg]

I got hooked on them during the 2 yrs off the air. I heard about them through another message board I post on

[Hitler is God]

I started listening when they were on WAAF.

[khemystri]

Same here - figured they were a Stern wanna be. Would tune them in occasionally, and like when I started listening to Stern, began to pick up on some of the sayings and inside jokes. I remember listening to them one day interview Jason Newsted (the former bassist from Metallica) when he left the band. It was actually a cool interview, not full of "I bet you get tons of girls", or "you got so much money stacked away", or "you can say it, the rest of the band sucked", which is exactly what Stern would be saying. Letting him talk and go on about what it was like being in the band was really cool.

I often wondered why they would make innuendos about Stern but never say anything full blast until I came here one day and learned that Stern put a gag order on them - which really pissed me off, when in the past Stern would bash other jocks all the time. Thats when I really started to see how much of a hypocrital asshole Stern was.

One thing Stern was really good at, was making you think that everyone in the business is ripping him off.... but once you actually sample some of the talent out there, you begin to realize that there are some DJ's....
doing original material....

Took a short time for Op and Ant to break the spell... Stern's evil magic
is strong, but not that strong!!! :action-sm

[stupernicus]

On the first show I heard, the boys were having
listeners call in and light off firearms in their
back yards. Way f'ing cool, instant addiction.

[Mike_From_Texas]

Listened on and off during the syndication days on KYNG 105.3 in Dallas, TX (now KLLI) ... downloaded shows during the time I was out of work, when I went back to work earlier this year, I started paying for XM Online.

[Whatzinmypants]

Started listening back when they were in Boston at WAAF.....They get better with each version of the show!

[SharkMeat]

I got the virus just before they got booted, and have had the sniffels since

[Legate]

WNEW back when I was young lad in high school

[burningsun]

WNEW days. I started listening when they got syndicated on WYSP in Philly.

[NevrLandRancher]

WNEW Summer 99....... but who cares???

[mayor menino]

the first time i tuned in was when they were playing the telephone prank on the guy trying to call carol miller. i laughed my ass off and i've been hooked ever since

[JoeyDVDZ]

I caught the boys practically since day one at WNEW. Well, their first week anyway. The Rocky Allen Showgram had just been cancelled from one of the AM stations, their last stop on the downward spiral to obscurity, and I was tooling around the dial looking for anything other than the standard top 40 bullshit, and found these two jacktools babbling about whatever they were talking about, and they played a song called "Little Asian Man" about a dude named Yoshi who apparently was a bicycle delivery guy from a chineese resturant. It was funny as shit, and I've been hooked ever since.

[mikeandamy1013]

WAAF days before anybody really knew these guys at all. They sure have come a long way since then......

[mudflap69]

I started listening about Feb. 2005, and have been laughing my ass off ever since. Yeah, I caught the virus bad, so just take the antidote and dump it in the crapper, because I don't want to be cured.

[cactus pete]

I actually got hooked by a bit they played on XM150 b-4 the freeplay. I haven't heard it since but they called it "coming or going" where you had to guess if the audio from movies was a death scene or a murder scene.I've been hooked ever since.OOO OOO , TELL 'EM FRED!

[IsThatATrain ?]

Listening since the first week @ WNEW...

The - "You guys suck...shut up and play some music" days


Spread the Virus !

[pinheadrbc]

I wish we could get a better sample. It took me a few years to feel like I could join WB, and I wonder how many listeners there are that either dont have the capability (or our pathetic abundance of free time) to play with the boards. THey won't release the stats, but I would be curious to know how many listeners the bbb-boys average on a given day.

[pinheadrbc]

I have a specific first show? The show immediately following the celebrity softball game. I remember watching the video of Big Kev sliding into first after i got home and thinking, "there is no way I'm listening to another show ever again"

[antwanp]

I remember hearing them on 105.3 "The Talk that Rocks Texas" back in the day when they were at WNEW. God, that must've been like 4 or 5 years ago...

-Antwan L.

[Anthony'sFinger]

got mp3s before syndication from a friend of mine in NY. loved it when they got syndicated to New Orleans.

survived on mp3s until i got xm a few months ago. (thank you to whoever puts the things at the place so i could keep up before i got xm.)

[Jigzaw]

They were in Reno for a whole whopping 3 months on the HAWK before WHAM Church sex, I still reminence of the first show we heard, so bring back the Staple Gun Challenge

[blevine77]

In the summer of 1998, I interned at a bank in Manhasset during my summer off college. I used to listen to Stern in the morning and any of the rock stations on the way home -- 92.3, 102.3, 102.7, 104.3. By July, between songs on WNEW, I kept hearing these funny, non-typical DJs just talking, doing the occasional bit, lots of impressions, etc. So I kept the dial to 102.7 on the way home for the rest of the summer.

I went to school in Rochester and then lived up there after graduation, so I'd only catch O&A when I visited home on break, and only when I remembered them. Finally, Buffalo started playing them live, so depending on where I was, I caught them in the car driving in the afternoons. Then, Rochester finally got them on delay from 8pm-12am, and I listened pretty much nightly.

I decided to move back to Long Island at the end of the summer of 2002. I was psyched that I'd be able to listen to Stern in the morning, R&F mid-day, and O&A at the end of the workday and the way home. During my LAST FUCKING WEEK up in Rochester, Sex For Sam 3 happened that Wednesday, and their final show was that Friday. I moved home the next weekend, got to listen to R&F for four months, and suffered along with the rest of you until last fall.

So that's my boring story.

[JWalsh]

I've been listening since the first day they started on XM. I am addicted to the bbboys and actually saw a WOW sticker for the first time last week here in Charlotte,NC.

[ChrisC_EIT]

I started listening when a co-worker of mine sent me a few downloaded clips and of course, I laughed my ass off. Probably the first clip was the 100grand clip but all the kevin clips make me fucking roll. In fact, I still listen to them.

Yes, I know he's dead and we shouldn't speak of the dead.

[Tickle The Bag]

WNEW, late 2000 I think. My memory is trash.

[Shane1V]

I was there for the 1st day at WNEW. It was funny hearing the tools calling to complain"Wheres the music, MAN?!?" :fight6:

[Shane1V]

Since I can't make my own threadn yet(fucking bullshit) Ill say it here.

I am NOT happy about R&F coming to 202. I like being able to hear the replays of O&A throughout the ENTIRE day/night to catch parts i miss during the morning/broadcast day..
R&F is ok, but I don't want them interrupting the replays. fuckin annoying, shit decision.
Give R&F their own fuckin channel and dont fuck up 202 :fight6:

[Agent86]

I jumped on board during the Free Play week - I was hooked right away, although I am still learning more about the show daily...

[Jim McGreedy]

I was listening to 'NEW before they got their and I was on my way to the gym after work and laughed my ass off at the play my music assholes. I bet most of those people stuck around and became fans. On the same note as the previous post I was listening to R and F back when they started in New York and were Ron and Fez.com. Just listening to the replay and didn't hear anything specific about them actually coming to XM. Is this more speculation or are they officially the show added to 202?

[gasbuddah]

The first week they hit WYSP! and I been addicted ever since.

[Joker]

I've been listening since early 2002 when they came on WCKG in Chicago

[chesters_liver]

I came across them when I was on vacation in NY with my ex-wife back in 98 or 99, and at the time I lived in NC and had to hear them through the “ underground “

[Chaza]

WNEW during their first month where they still had to play music.

[Farside]

WBAB days
ah boo boo boooo

[LetsDoThisLucas]

wnew days 98-99

[JerseyMeatHook]

The good ole day on NEW. Psycho Mark, Spaz, Rick

[Phenomenal]

Started listening to OnA during the first week on 'NEW. "Just play the friggin music" was the banter of the old classic rock fogies who hated afternoon talk on WNEW. By the time I heard the boys make Carol Miller insane I was hooked. Loved the Fast Times at Ridgemont High trivia, 55 gallon drum challenge and the professor Scott Muni samples.."Heh Heh CUMMIN" and the general way they took over NEW and literally caused a format change at the place where rock lived. It was MAYHEM! truly great radio! Ah the good ol' days....

[Rupert Jee]

Technically I started wit day 1 on WNEW. But i bought all 3 cds that WAAF put out even though I never heard of them yet. I bought the first 2 for the songs and after that I just had to get Demented World. Then lo and behold, they pop up on WNEW here in NY. Didn't even know they got fired from AAF till later. AH.. listening to them trying to get famous people listening to call in was priceless. I think the guy in the Barney costume was the biggest call in if i rememeber. I could be wrong

[pmbillrich]

I'm a WNEW Day 3 Listener. The one disadvantage of XM is no "Play the music" Calls. During the Haitus I downloaded the entire Wnew history to re-listen.

Yeah, I got a problem, but I can quit any time I want...I just don't want to. SO LEAVE ME ALONE-I'm listening to O&A!!

[richedward]

def an wNEW listener...just never decided to join up wackbag till recently. cant wait for ronnie and fez to get back on the air, been missing them on jfk

[SGTMAGOO]

The day the music died?

Fagots ruined my classic rock station. Wasnt till weeks of a friend forcing me to listen to their dribble. The rest is an addiction


Ah the day the music died, O&A burying the rock station in a casket, then creating FMTALK @ 102.7, that was after I began listening when I was in high school, the hook for me was turning on the station back in 98 and I heard the 'Tourette's Whorehouse' bit and was hooked ever since. Remember the old TWO FOR TUESDAY'S!!!!

[XMScott]

didnt know i was being quoted :)

It was 3 or so months after they started at WNEW

Friend tried to turn me on earlier, did not work out.

[timmykidd2104]

I was driving into NYC in the Sept 1999 and heard Anthony doing his greasman crayons bit. "Polish Purple, look it's gr-r-r-een!" Thought it was the funniest bit I'd ever heard and been listening to them ever since.

[saigon]

Had no access to the show before XM. Didn't know about all the shit available on the net.

When the show first came to XM some guy on somethingawful.com started posting the audio of the full show every day. There wasn't a lot going on during those first couple shows (Other than someone fucking with the computer between shows) but I still thought it was interesting and O&A were pretty funny.

Then, skip to last month when I finally bought an XM and caught the virus for good.

I also didn't know shit about Jim Norton until I saw him on tough crowd and became an instant fan. When I found out he was part of the show I nearly shit myself. :clap:

[illeffeqt]

I've been an Opie and Anthony fan since their very first days at WAAF in Boston, when I was a middle schooler. I remember them being the talk of my school when they would fuck up and get suspended from the station all the time. It was priceless.

When the WNEW show got syndicated back to Boston, I was there on day one and from that point on, I have never missed a show.

[Ruindit]

WBAB, later WNEW Well before syndication, another post reminded me about the music being played on early WNEW.

[N.Y. Johnny]

I caught the virus on a XM Radio display at a best buy...i happened to be walkin by and heard channel 202 on there playing and it was some funny shit!

I was hooked and curious so i bought me a radio and then it was all over...I've been listening to Opie And Anthony on XM 202 ever since and caught some of the older shows when they are away on replay and never miss them live everyday. I'm hooked now and i'm spreading the virus around and have now made like 5 others listen and hooked them on this program too :clap: :clap: :clap: :icon_mrgr

[neckbeard44]

Someone left their taped copy of Demented World in my radio at work back when they were in Boston.....

[Jayhawk]

Right when they came off of the premium channel on XM. Never heard of them before, fell in love, and can't stop listening.

There's no such thing as good radio in Kansas City.

[WhoDoYouThink]

First heard O&A on WCMF/Rochester during the summer of 2001.

First bit that hooked me? Cindy Williams Hasbeen Corner.

[Sexy Fender]

like a week after they came on in cleveland on xtreme radio 92.3 my friend ryan told me to listen to them and as soon as i did i never stopped i was a softball scorekeeper then and id prob mess up a few scores cause id be laughing so much. Then one day I looked online and i saw they were on xm so i bought an xm and listened to them on the premium prob a few months after getting on the air :icon_mrgr sorry i talk so much i deserve a car crash punching out.

[JonBenetRamsey]

i was on their show during the wnew days. i got a wow shirt inside the trl studio and on the air.

[ToddTheTrucker]

Who is O&A? Is this not the Norton and Friends message board?

[prozac]

[QUOTE=Big ASS Member]i started in the early days on wnew... back when they were being told to shut up and play the music..

Same here..I remember those days. Must thank the bboys for the move to XM. It has brought my addiction to another level!

[CM Mark]

I was driving into NYC in the Sept 1999 and heard Anthony doing his greasman crayons bit. "Polish Purple, look it's gr-r-r-een!" Thought it was the funniest bit I'd ever heard and been listening to them ever since.
That's the same bit that got me hooked. I had just gotten my first car and was looking for stations to program into it. Needless to say, WNEW was number 1 in my block. And 202 is al 30 presets on my Sky-Fi2!

[Tree Killer]

I started around 2000, listen to WBUF.

[Wackbag Poster]

danza bits did it for me.

[Tree Killer]

Good call dugout doug

[DJBigFatCock]

just thought Id give this one a bump.

[Anonymous Barbs]

Started when they hit Dallas, then promptly blew up. In the short time they were on the air I knew I had to figure out where they eventually would end up.

[Smex182]

Ever since The Carol Miller on air fight WOW that's a long time now.

[PDpudge]

I was driving home from chicago one night in May when I decided to give them a try. It was the replay of the show when Arthur Chien got fired. I laughed for three hours straight and have been hooke dever since.

[angrybeerguy]

I started when they got syidicated to WJFK (DC)
same here. What ever happend to the stoners from Virginia? I remember OnA sending them beer and bringing them up to NYC for a stoner spelling bee.

[abudabit]

What is this, the 10th time they talked about this subject? O&A are so 2001.

[UnOriginal]

actually I listened to alot of the shit on their 2 years off, didn't even see that option before to be honest.

[KAI]

When they came to XM

[IDontCare05]

When they came to XM


Poor fella...you missed so much.

[Jmeier]

Freeplay week.. and promptly subscribed that week

[VersionX]

When they first came on WYSP in Philly, Ant did his Don West bit where he was selling Britney Spears' virginity. I had to pull my old stupid Ford Escort to the side of the road I was loffing so hard, and I've been an addict of the b-b-boyssssss ever since

[ChimneyFish]

When they first came on WYSP in Philly, Ant did his Don West bit where he was selling Britney Spears' virginity. I had to pull my old stupid Ford Escort to the side of the road I was loffing so hard, and I've been an addict of the b-b-boyssssss ever since

Same hear. Except it was when they had Bruce Campbell on as a guest.
Not only were they funny and entertaining, but a guest that Hoo-Hoo would never have on.

[jpiceman]

I have only been listening for about 2 or 3 months, but I will have to say there isn't one bit or show that I don't like. O & A is truly the best radio that is around.

[Peachy]

I started listening when they were still on WNEW, and Spaz was still around.

[chrislehr]

I voted back in Boston, but it's actually been much longer. Opie and I followed each other around. I grew up on Long Island listening to him (WBAB i think) and then WCMF in Rochester with Brother Weeze in college, then Boston after college. I met them a BUNCH of times at Ebeneezers in Framingham where there was much drunken debauchery.

[Marshmallow_Ass]

Freeplay week.
I noticed the honesty of the show right away. They actually say what they're thinking. The political and social commentary is fucking brutal.
...and they teased us with the drilldo bit, so I had to subscribe.

[The O&A Van]

I may be wrong here...didn't O&A use to play a game called phone-call roullette at the end of their show on WNEW? They'd take calls until a bad one (i.e. what would deserve a car crash nowadays) and then sign off the air.

I was pretty young when I heard that and I may actually be thinking of Don and Mike.

[XSkater2099]

Back During the the Waaf Days before the mayor joke, i remeber when WOW was created and was up at Hampton beach strip, ahhh.. the good old days, making homemade wow signs hoping to see some tits at the age of 15

[Kneecaps]

I was a visitor of Sickboy's website since it started and I first heard about O&A when The Rock got pissed at him. The website was shut down, so I thought I'd go and see what the hubbub was about. I spent the night on Napster (!) searching out O&A stuff after I heard the whole Rock interview.

[Major Burns]

I may be wrong here...didn't O&A use to play a game called phone-call roullette at the end of their show on WNEW? They'd take calls until a bad one (i.e. what would deserve a car crash nowadays) and then sign off the air.

I was pretty young when I heard that and I may actually be thinking of Don and Mike.

I'm pretty sure it's a D&M thing. I used to listen to their show, and it sounds like one of their bits.

[shark80]

I started about 6 months ago. I had gotten burned out on Hoo Hoo in 2000 and figured these two were the same thing. I was searching for something to listen to and heard the commercial on XM 150 so I figured I'd give it a try. I got hooked right away. I have no idea how they do it.

I have an hour commute home and sometimes I don't hear the end of a bit that just started when I got in the car because they get on a tangent but no matter what it is fucking hilarious!

[G. Yogurt Liddy]

The day they took my rock away and put those two shitty DJs on. Quit talking and play some fucking music!

"I don't like it...it's different!"

---Regan commenting after syndication

[Door2Door]

I started listening 3 months ago. Was listening to 150 and accidentally found that this station was even out there. Been hooked ever since. Must say that I am not big on Ron and Fez though. Sorry to all of you asses who are going to blast me for that last line.

[OLHANGERHEAD]

I started listening when they got syndicated to Philly on WYSP.
Been a loyal listener ever since.

I started listening in July of 1999 I believe they were fairly new to WNEW 102.7 here in NYC Metropolitan area. The first show I heard was the show with the "MOST OFFENSIVE SONG" contest. Those were some sick fucking songs back then and that was before the FCC started cracking the whip. I was hooked (pretty sick I know) but the WOW thing was huge in my area and that is what intrigued me to listen.

So do I get a medal or just a chest to pin it on???

L.O.L.....YUCK - Sorry Jimmy!

[FaceMelter]

I started listening because I knew Norton was on the show by way of Tough Crowd. But I didn't even know they were on until March or April. That XM marketing is really overrated by them and everyone on this site. I got all the old clips d/led though. But I did catch them once before they got fired and couldn't stand it, I thought it was just typical cliche shock jock stuff. They run my life now though.

[CUZINPETE]

I started listening when they first became sydicated here in Buffalo...August of 2001

[Shadow812]

The 1st time i saw a wow sticker with the Wnew station i tuned right in heard Ant doing a spot for horney goat weed and been hooked since.

[stupid nothing]

As soon as they came to 'AAF. The hole they replaced wasn't bad, but they were on a level all their own. I remember a bit they did back in the day when they gave away a Toyota( actually a toy Yoda ). Fuckin hilarious. The boys got much better when allowed to do the talk format. So nobody really missed much form the Worcester, er, I mean Boston days. Way more gooder now.

[AlpacasRcommies]

i had xm before they were hired. i drive trucks for my whore money. had a problem with my account with xm, got that fixed and the dot head on the phone asked if i wanted to sign up for O&A. on blind faith i took a chance to see what they were about. i've never turned back. i base my day on the show, when i drive, when i stop, everything. loser? maby not, but i dont want to miss a thing.

[VengeanceDemon]

I've been listening since the day the 2nd Austin powers movie came out.
I remember driving to the theater the day it opened and tuning in to hear Ant go off on Bill Cosby.

I haven't IMDB'd this yet for an official date, but I know it was that day.

[girthymac]

Freeplay for me, since then.......it's been a blur!!!:action-sm

[chief]

I've been listening since July 2005, my brother got me hooked and since then I've turned a few more people on to the O&A show.

[badcellphoneguy]

I had the virus since the WBAB days..."opie's nighttime attitude" then the Opie and Anthony show.

later

[Beeman99]

I had never heard of them up here until I got my "illegal" xm radio. I started listening to them the day I got it last October, and I've been infected ever since. I've also done my part in spreading the bboys up here to a fairly large audience :D

[Premarital Sex]

I remember when the b-b-b-boys got fired up here in Boston the fuckin Herald did some typical 'Opie and Dopey' headline. I remember reading that and have hated the media ever since *squints eyes at fox*

[Michael Ryder]

I started listening when I would go to Western Mass. to visit my grandmother back in the WAAF days. All my cousins and uncles were huge fans.

[Lil Precious]

I started listening when they first started on WNEW, when they still played music...if they played music ...
I cant remember, the only thing I do remember is the first thing I heard was a girl doing a fake O and I was hooked.

[freak8]

Nov 1999

[CTDennis85]

I was listening to them since the WNEW days......long time.....great show......just recently got back to hearing them again.....

[ChimneyFish]

I had never heard of them up here until I got my "illegal" xm radio. I started listening to them the day I got it last October, and I've been infected ever since. I've also done my part in spreading the bboys up here to a fairly large audience :D

Keep it up, sir.
We need XM and O&A to take over Canada.

[Hugh Jorgan]

I started during the freeplay, turned to 202 just as the drilldo audio started. Holy shit, what an introduction to OnA.

[TexWack]

I started listening right after the boys went "free" on XM....been hooked ever since. My satellite is was the best birthday present I ever got (a little sad, but true.):icon_mrgr

[Precious Fatman]

1999 Spaz Days

[Special Eddie]

Since starting at WNEW. They played blocks of music between bits. I will never forget when SPAZ talked about the raindrops falling from a cloudless sky. Bring back Jamaican Mike!

[ChimneyFish]

I started during the freeplay, turned to 202 just as the drilldo audio started. Holy shit, what an introduction to OnA.

I started listening right after the boys went "free" on XM....been hooked ever since. My satellite is was the best birthday present I ever got (a little sad, but true.)

Welcome to the wonderful world of Opie and Anthony.:)

[Special Eddie]

The voices of Anthony:
George Burns, Alan Funt, Mayor Guliani, Andrew Dice Clay, Popeye, Popeye doing Clay, Spaz, Qvc guy, Ben Stein, Ronald Reagan, Dr. Smith and Robot - Lost in Space, Steinbrenner, OJ Simpson, Dan Ingram, Chimp, Scott Muni, Bill Clinton, Charlton Heston, Judy - ex mother-in-law, Regis Philbin, Bill Cosby, Stalker Patty, Bob Murphy - Mets Announcer, Mike Tyson, Greaseman, Jerky Boys, They call my names Bill, Babe Ruth, Gene Simmons, Ted Night, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Rock Quarry, Fake Fred Flintsone, Barney Rubble, Mike and the Mad dog, Marv Albert, Wheelchair Fred, Florida, Casey Casim, Dudley Moore, Star Jones, Tom Brokaw, Arnold Swartzenager, Louie Anderson, Neil Diamond, Iron Shiek, Bruce Springstien, Howard Stern, Frank Sinatra, Homeless Black Man, Rich Vaughn (Voss), Clint Eastwood, The Fonz, Doc from Back to the Future, Norm Crosby, Tony Danza, Charles Nelson Riley, Tippy Tom, Rev. Al Sharpton, Trainer in Rocky movie, Yogi the bear, Simon
from American Idol, Pee Wee Herman and many more.

[CTOAFan]

Funny thing is I got XM for the MLB package. Now when people ask me why I still have XM it's for O&A.

[whammy10]

I remember when they were playing music, like right after they came on.. I remember one of the first few times I listened regularly, they had some guy on with a huge cock that was showing through his spandex. I wanna say June of '99 or so. Anyone remember that? They needed to get some of the gay out, even back then.

[FBDIII]

Eventhough I am new to wackbag, I started listening to the show in Sept. 1999. I had heard of the show from a buddy, but I was in "Hoo-Hoo denial". Then one day I was trolling radio stations while waiting for the Yankees Pre-Game to begin and stumbled onto the show. 'Ol Dirty was in the studio and I was hooked. I clearly remember that it was right before WNEW formally changed formats from Classic Rock to that FMl Talk BS. The boys were talking about a Funeral for the "Rock of NY" that they were going to have the following week. Needless to say, I was hooked from the start.

[tmbrwn]

I started during the freeplay, turned to 202 just as the drilldo audio started. Holy shit, what an introduction to OnA.

cheap ass didnt want to spend $2.00 extra a month

[Philly Jack]

WNEW I was working in north jersey and scanned the fm dial and found some raido show getting a gay guy eat pussy for concert tickets and I was hooked.

[secularist]

started listening to the bbbb-boys on WJFK. got hooked quick and never looked back.

was listening day 1 on XM.

[ArmitageShanks]

When they went free on XM.

If I had known about them before then I would have paid for the channel.

[YouAss]

WNEW via WJFK...my life has never been the same (cough) - virus and all...

[NJEagle]

The day they took my rock away and put those two shitty DJs on. Quit talking and play some fucking music!

Same here... and the rest is history! Remember the time they had to play the whole rock library from A to Z.... how horrific was that!

[cancerhead]

why not..

my buddy's dad got us into dice in the late 80's or early 90's, we were in our early teens i guess.. anyway, years went by and sometime in maybe 2001 i ran into a dice clip on napster or kazaa or whatever.. then i had to download all the dice i could find. i adore dice, always will.

all the dice stuff lead to norton.. loved what i heard, so i searched out more of his stuff... which lead to o&a. that was a few months before they got booted, so i spent the 2 years they were gone doing my o&a homework.. must've heard everything, the syndication underground was cool, the WNEW days were beyond wonderful........................


but the xm shows are better

i listen every day for free too

so fuck you

you have more listeners than you think :action-sm

[JerseyboyAndy]

I got into them while I was at UMass in 1997 on WAAF I moved back to Jersey and heard the first show on WNEW and been with them on XM since November of 2004.

[docgoblin]

I used to listen to Opie on WBAB, Long Island, in the early 90's, but never heard Anthony on that show. When Opie left WBAB I never gave it a second thought until they brought Opie AND Anthony to WNEW. I wondered if it was the same Opie I had heard a few years before, and sure enough it was! I was hooked on these guys from that day forward.

[UCFGavin]

christmas fo me

[dodisman]

life long stern listener but caught the freeplay and that was that...hooked.

[omni]

AAF. I was in 8th grade when they started in Boston.

I was listening to BCN but switched over after Liz Wilde left the station and these funny fucking assholes took over.

Later found out Opie lived next door to one of my friends, I'm from Wellesley.

[NoSurviivors]

i listened today.
































can i have a blowjob?

[Teddy]

when they came off the xm pay to here

[Howack]

Started listening during the AAF days but when they went to New York I went without for a few years until the SU came about and I could catch up. No other radio show ever caused to me adjust my travel plans so I was going through NY during their show.

[Lil' Doe]

started listening day 1 in Philly. i was one of the first callers bashing then, now look at me......i'm ova here now.

[robinquivers]

Early days when they were on AAF

[mikeybot]

It was after they were on in Philly for a while. Started getting really into them just before SFS2. It was acutally the day after the South Park aired where they were having the sex ed classes.

[ReganFan71]

Off & on in 1998. Daily listener starting in '99.

[wherestincky?]

I listened here and there at first back in the WNEW days. But it was around the time i went to a live event at Webster Hall in NYC that I "Got the Virus".

Sammy Hagar played and .... was there. I had the honour of shaking Anthony's hand. He actually came over to the crowd and shook probaby 30 fans hands. I guess he wasn't so much of a germ-afobe then.

When they came to XM I'm sorry to admit I at first found underground ways to listen, and I didn't miss a word. But I eventually got the radio to support the boys and also because it sounded like a cool thing. After all TV sucks these days.

Anyway I'm glad I did it, I love the radio. And the best part is I listen live on the way to work. I actually find myself looking forward to the ride to work. I wait till the last minute in my parked car listening before I go in to work.

[Hydrosludge]

When I turned on my favorite rock station, two ass holes were talking about triangles, wood floors and the like.

[altarboytoy]

I started listening to the show the day before gay Marco had to eat pussy for N'sync tickets; been listening ever since.

[PJWilliams]

I've been listening since before the Mayor prank and still have my original copy of "De mented World", I loved the "Hi Mom, I'm in porno" bits and the evil Barney stuff from WAAF and tuned back in when they came back to Boston 3 years later.

[thrawn42]

i listened today.

can i have a blowjob?

That's why we invented money with female genitalia on it. We needed a currency.

[doomwarfare]

Heard about them for years, but would never listen even for a second, since I just could not get past the name Opie. Not knowing the origin, I ignorantly figured with a name like that they might be a little too jerky.

Having given up on radio when howie hit the wall, I had no interest whatsoever in suffering through endless commercials. In Feb '06, a buddy with an amazing track record for turning me on to cool stuff starts giving me the hard sell on satellite radio and O & A and gives me his XM online password and guarantees conversion within a week. Took about two shows to realize my blunder. Jimmy was out the first day and returned the second and that was it. The three of them killed. A week later a Roady XT in the house. A month later an Alpine in the car. A week after that an Inno in my hands.

Now my daily obsession is fueled with the current show in the morning and as many as two XM catch up shows throughout the day as I take in the entire XM run from day one and as much WNEW stuff as time will allow.

[BigFeet]

September, but did my research by going to OAvirus and listening to all the WNEW shows.

[HellToupee]

AAF years

I wonder what Rocko :icon_roll is doing these days

[Dr Evil]

Started in WNEW days. Casual listener at first, then hardcore after i had to give myself the heimlich, choking on dinner while listening to Don West selling brittney's vagina.

[skibum]

Started listening on WNEW in 2000, got xm when i herd they were on, always spread the virus no matter where you hear them.

[Joe Orthex]

I thought I started listening in 2000. The show bruce campbell was on was the first show I ever heard, and that was june 22, 2001. I guess I am not as big a fan as I thought. :icon_cry:

Maybe I should change the tag under my avatar. Na, fuck it. One day it will be right.

[TheKnitterCook]

Started a little over a year ago..

Attending night-school courses at OAVirus..

[...AllDayLong]

Great idea for a poll:clap:

[Brezo]

I somehow found them when they got syndicated into Chicago. Terrible listening times, but I tuned in everyday possible. Now spreading the virus on the west coast.

[patty1h]

I started listening back around 1999 - on WNEW. Back when .... was an intern and he did the Friday News. Hilarious.

[BitWrecker]

yeah, look at the poll. Free FM is a really bad move ?!?!?!
there is no question when they blew up, and this is just putting an exclamation point on it.

[TaDa1096]

i live in North Dakota no one here has ever heard of O and A. i disocvered them on xm (threw in a extra 2 bucks) and have been hooked sence. others around here must have done the same cause you see the ocasional WOW sticker from time to time

[Chin nuts]

The day they took my rock away and put those two shitty DJs on. Quit talking and play some fucking music!

Same for me, those were some super cringe times. Kinda reminds me of all the recent bitching now. They got over it then they'll do it again this time only bigger. I'm hooked for life.

[scrot69]

been with em since aaf days

[JiggyFly]

WNEW 2001 I live on LI so the 102.7 would only come in further west toward the city, I actually knew when I would lose reception on every road, but I missed alot because of that

[The Stormrider]

I actually first heard about the boys about 15 months ago, but only started listening religiously about 8 months ago.

[shwoogie]

I started listening in the WAAF days. My friend Tim had me listen to the Demented World CD and I thought it was fucking hilarious. I still remember driving around listening to the Green Poopie and Buttplug calls and laughing my ass off. I was hooked ever since. It was like nothing I had ever heard. No radio show, ever, made me sit in front of a radio for 4 hours like O&A did.

Same thing when they came back to WBCN on syndication. I had pretty much forgotten about them during the previous 4 years and I think the first thing I heard when they came back was Stalker Patty getting felt up by Ron Jeremy and I was convinced that this is the best radio show ever.

[Tyra's Pet Dolphin]

I started listening to them in 2001. Miss the 55 gallon drum challenge. That was some funny shit!!

[tarpat1]

I am proud to say I called and complained when they took off Couzin Ed from WYSP the first day of syndication, they told me I would keep listening and here I am......

[jaffreyconcert]

i live in jersey andi went to college in new hampshire...i listen to them on aaf...then on wnew....then i bought xm when i saw jimmy on tough croud with an o$a on xm t shirt

[Starman]

I used to listen to "The Night Time Attitude" ABOO BOO BOO!!

But since its not a choice I'll go with almost day one WNEW

[Chapel]

The Nighttime Attitude :)

I started listening back in AAF days but wasn't a HUGE fan...

[billb914]

somewhere around december 1998 if I remember correctly.

[wetandstickyjim]

WNEW days. First show I heard was the Louie Andersen "show me pudding" bit. Never looked back. Well, except when visiting OAVirus during the time off. Got XM Dec 04 just for O&A.

[TimPud]

Started listening in January 2001, think my first show was when they called to WONA in Mississippi for the first time. Syndication Underground through August 2002... Then I took to the archives for the next 2 years.

[FranksWildYears]

i forget there year i think 1999 when i first heard the week in review

[MinusBlindfold]

Been listening since 1997 on WAAF. Got detention in seventh grade when using the school computer to access the "underground" O&A website that featured the Boob-art section.

[kloraferm]

First time was the first day on WNEW, but didn't realize I had heard Ant on Howard's show before that, just didn't know who he was.

[SmellyFingers]

I heard them when they were first syndicated to WYSP in Philly. I thought they were retarded the first day, but quickly caught the virus.

[Farside]

Opies Night Time Attitude
"ah b-b-booo"

[Terragen]

Started when they came to JFK and saved DC radio, for a while... Now its shit again and I am a happy XM subscriber

[A duck]

Started listening to them on WAAF in Boston in around 1995. I still have my copy of Demented World from a local signing they did back then, signed by Op, Ant, and...Wheelchair Fred.

[MOTHRA]

Pre Boston, on WBAB.

I'm a day 1er.

[Tooz]

Early '99 i believe. A co-worker would beg me to let him listen to "Those 2 guys" each afternoon since the radio was mine. I'd call "those 2 guys" Howards little boys, howard clones, howard wanna be's ect...But would let him listen. Of course I thought they sucked and weren't funny.....Then one day while working by myself, I relized it was almost 3pm and put them on to see what they would say about my hero howard. It was the day Stern talked about his divorce. Ant was doing his howie voice "Hoo Hoo hoo ...Jackie...Allison left me Hoo hoo hoo ....it's all about Allison" And I found myself laughing, and laughing out loud. Been a fan ever since. Bought CD's on Ebay of their past shows when they were canceled, got my XM a week before they came on, and listen every single day to the entire show.
So let Sterns fan tune in each day, let that virus slowly creep into their system, before they know it, they will be infected and will have no choice but to listen !!

[Krinkle]

This may sound absurd. I started with XM when they first started and was available'

I waited just about two years before O and A started and even pay the premium cost before they started.

I have not regretted that move at all.

When they first came on XM, Opie stated that it was only going to get better.

They have proved it. Now I get them for 5+ hrs. a day now.

In the immortal words of Master PO. "O and A Party Rock!!!!"

[hairy_beast]

I had never heard of the Fancy people when they came to XM. The week long freeplay just wasn't enough for this cheapskate to fork over an extra $2 a month. But I have been a fan since they went free, now that I have come down with the full blown virus I wish i would've paid the extra money for them, All that's on radio in N. Dakota is absolute crap. I've Been using marketing department methods to spread the VIRUS, a pen and truckstop bathroom walls.

[Kid Brock]

I moved to Vegas in June of 2002, found the boys on a shitty am station and then had them snatched out from under me. Luckily I had XM since the second day it came out, ( I was a dork Circuit City manager) So when they came back I was already waiting for them.

[I_got_gas]

I was a causal listener back in '02. They were only on in Rochester about a month I think. Got XM about a yr. before they came back then listened from the first day back on till now 2 sometimes 3 times a day (I love the replays).

[hivoltage202fan]

About 6 months ago for me. I bought a used computer that had some old O&A bits on it and have been listening since. I caught the virus and now have a SkyFi2/Delphi signal repeater that I use only at work so I can tune in each morning at 5 just as I am getting started with my day. The XM portion of the show was great today! I recorded the replay with my MyFi.

[DonTheTrucker]

I started about 2 weeks before the WNEW boot.

[Jimmie Hats]

Listened every once in awhile during Boston days on WAAF, a little more when I was in the NY area on WNEW, then turned addict when syndicated from WNEW to WBCN in Boston. Loyal pest ever since...

[dgcooper]

Back on kxoa, then it became 93 howie after the church thing

[rvrctyshrk]

Got my XM Radio installed the same day I bought my Scion XB and it was free for the first 90 days.

Tuned to every channel, kept it on O&A and have been hooked ever since. It was their third show and they were honest enough to say that they were working out the kinks. Stuck with it and now...

Radio in this nook of the Northwest sucks... Easy call... XM w/O&A > the rest.

rvr :action-sm

[Mister__Hughes]

I signed up when XM announced they were coming to the platform, and heard the first show.

[Radioguy]

Their first week at WNEW.

[3R1L]

I started "listening" when they came to NEW - Unfortunately I was a baptized Stern Zombie and HATED them. Until I actually listened to them and discovered Howard was as old and irrelevant as they said he was. I held out on getting XM until R&F signed on. btw - if you don't "get" R&F - you're the white trash fan that O&A don't want.
Sorry - the truth hurts sometimes don't it.

[Jerry1]

I've been a fan since their WNEW days before the church thing. Still remember seeing Psycho Mark in Times Square trying to get women to WOW.
Can still remember going to the Webster Hall show back in 99. Had a great time. Didn't know anybody there but everybody was so cool to me. Made some friends.
Best part was I got Opie & Anthony to sign my "Demented World" CD I found in Brooklyn of all places. they more than happy to sign it. In fact Anthony couldn't believe it what it was. He was like opening it up and asking "Where the hell did you find this?".
Great memories!

[DeltaPin]

Within the 1st year on WNEW. Took some time to be clear of Scott Muni.

[smilin'_reaper]

Checked out the show during freeplay in spite of the lousy ads XM had for the boys ("wanna see our two headed baby in a"... yechhh!).
Now I'm all in.

[ASSMAN]

1st heard about the show on that bill orielly special about protecting the kids or whatever back in 2002. at first i figured they were stern copies or some rather lame attempt at over the top radio, but for some reason i looked into them and found audio online. the 1st show i ever heard was actually the 9/11 show, then later i got hooked when i heard anothony do his imus impression. 1st time i heard the show live was the 1st day on XM. i prob didnt miss them as much as most of you cuz i learned about em shortly before they were fired and had two years to listen to old shows

[God is a Sock]

WAAF guy here :)

[Pussah]

dont remember the date but remember the first bit I ever heard, stephen lynch debuted the priest song and if I were gay

[D Dawg]

This may sound absurd. I started with XM when they first started and was available'

I waited just about two years before O and A started and even pay the premium cost before they started.

I have not regretted that move at all.

When they first came on XM, Opie stated that it was only going to get better.

They have proved it. Now I get them for 5+ hrs. a day now.

In the immortal words of Master PO. "O and A Party Rock!!!!"


....my story exactly... heard about the St. Pat's incident, had xm, heard about the bbboys coming, paid the premium, blah blah blah...

[Koz]

I started back in the early WNEW days long before St. Pat's.

[rtep1079]

july 99 when they had dice in the studio

[Douche Chill]

I first heard an entire show the Monday after Jimmy and Opie had their huge fight. I first heard about the boys when Jimmy was on Tough Crowd.

[Mr_Beer]

Been listening since the beginning at WNEW and the callers bitched about them not playing enough music.

[Violette]

Well, it looks like I'm in the WNEW majority. :rolleyes:

[groundhog]

I first heard O&A Sep 05 when i got my XM. It was the last time Steve O was on and I got infected that day.

[Suzieohbaby]

I listened to them when they we on the radio when there was radio chick then somebody then O & A I think that was like 98 or 99. I stopped listening in 2001 when I left NY and moved to Atlanta. I miss it bad

[tonypop]

My wife got me an xm setup this past christmas. I listened to channel 150 98% of the time and o and a 2% for about a month. Then the virus took hold apparently.Now it's all o and a and ron and fez 99% of the time with some '90s music thrown in occasionally.

[OvaHere]

Woo since late 99 I think. Been a long time. Wayyy before they even started doing Sex for Sam, when shit really started brewing between them and Gay-rock & Howie.

[westben2002]

i used to listen to howard, then when i heard these two fancy gentlemen on the afternoon trip home, i was hooked and i gave howie the finger and have been an O&A fan since WNEW

then i got hooked on ron and fez back on wnew and i've been following them, so its nice to hear the boys and the buddies back to back again

[Southern Fried Pest]

I started in Jan 06, after using my mothers XM online, got my own XM in March. I do remember hearing about the 100 grand bit when it happened, but had no idea it was O&A

[LilChester]

Never heard of O&A before XM and, where I live, will probably never hear them again when the move to freeFM is complete. I do enjoy the show although not as much as when the first came to XM and had no cares about auditioning for or being on terrestrial. Those early XM days were the kind of thing that made me late for appointments and made me a fan.

[ron2000]

I started listening in 1999 on WNEW. A friend of mine had a WOW sticker on his car and I asked him what it meant. His explanation lead me to O&A.

[City View]

heard bits and segments from friends in NYC but started listening on a daily basis, day one of original syndication to Philly.

[thecompletetool]

I used to check out the show when I was in the boston area, then on the XM. Ive been enjoying the show ever since.

[thickdickeddie]

...Just after I rolled off your mother....

[nofate301]

Here is a poll just to check the percentages of wackbaggers and how many of us are newer listeners and old listeners
you're forgetting WBAB! Opie and the night time attitude! with Rotgut.

[clinton70]

Bits and pieces of the WNEW days (on WAZU here). More siriusly on Feb 6 '05 when I got the premium. Props to OneWithDog for that.

[BroGonzo]

I'd heard some clips of old Bruer appearances, but other than that, I only really started listening when they returned to free FM. Now I've got an Audible subscription and never miss a minute of any show, even though I have to wait to listen.

[Carter]

WNEW, back when I was twelve years old.
And I'm 20 now, so they've been a pretty big influence on me

For better or worse

[Coll76]

When my husband bought me XM and I figured I would check it out. That was last year. Patrice was on, and while I have no problems with swearing, he was driving me nuts. But I still couldn't change it. I kept listening and each day to work and home it was like this force that made me hit 202.

Now it's pretty much the only station I listen to.

I did listen here and there back in the day though. O&A came to the college I went to in MA, (Worcester State) for some reason, I think to judge some show or something. Afterwards they tried to get into the college pub, but one of them didn't have their ID so the manager (college kid that had to check all ID's) wouldn't let him in. Everyone was saying.................It's O&A just let him in! She refused.

Lets just say she was brought up the next day and not in a good way. :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

[habachi]

I live upstate and started listening just a month or so before the church thing. I had a freind streaming WNEW for me so I could pick up the entire daily lineup. I was not as big a fan then as I am now. I had XM almost a year prior to them landing there. Once it was announced, I signed up for the premium service. I have not looked back since.

[Coll76]

Daaaaaaaaaah, dare I say I live in Lake Hopatcong!

[Polack]

I started When they came to XM. The lady in DC asked if I wanted to pay extra for O & A. she said they were funny so I paid the money. I thought it was 4.95 but I guess I'm wrong.

[Gailpolly]

It was fairly near the start of the WNEW-as-talk period. I think it was sportsguys in a.m., the Chick in middays, O&A p.m. drive. I remember O&A talking about how all the previous WNEW FM listeners left, as shown by the ratings. They called it "the purge" and that they would build their own audience from there.

I was never a big Stern fan so I found the O&A content crude at first, but found myself laughing at it during my evening commute; they kind of grew on me. Also loved my Ron & Fez in the evenings. Truly missed them all when it all ended; after a year or so it was kind of sad to see a beat up WNEW Wow sticker here & there, rather lost & forgotten.

I thought at the time that satellite or internet radio would be perfect for them to stage a comeback. I'm gratified that satellite indeed provided the way back on the air for O&A; delighted to see the turn-about in luck that puts them not only on terrestrial radio again but in Howard's former time slot, station, and studio!

[Carter]

If I had to pin it down to an exact time
I remember the "shutup and play the music" days.
Pre "RonandFez.com".

I really miss those days.

[Joker]

I think it was in February of 2002, when they started at 9 PM and were pre-empted by minor league hockey in Chicago

[uNeedDiscipline]

About 6 months ago when Free Fi Fo Harumph FM put them on the SF affiliate. Otherwise I'd have to get up at 3am and Listen Live on the website.
But that would mean possibly replacing my trusty 1973 Zerox Alta computer and get an audio media ready new fangled contraption. Some high falutin' set up.

[topher520]

My friend played me Wheres Bill phonecall and Ive been hooked ever since...Hoo Hoo...Tell Em fred

[Dr. Hoffman]

Back in the NEW days on the WAZU, before this whole bull shit change in format that I guess just happened. Got XM back in February of 05 while they were still premium and of course have been listening ever since.

[hotshot70]

I first heard the O&A show when that guy took a dump after drinking that laxative. I became a regular when the "I'm Paul R. Nelson" stuff started! Laughed my ass off and been hooked since. I tried calling in and I keep get cut off. Once I got out "this is (name) from Iowa..." and click! Are they anti-Iowa? I even have some clever stuff I could add to the show. Not asking for a lot of "me me me" time, but how about some more respect, O&A?

[UrMomInPanties]

I'm a new listener, one night in late April might of been early March last year, woke up for no real reason at like 3am Sunday night/Mon morning, and was like hmm nothing is on and I cant sleep and was like oh I havent listened to them music choice channels in a long time I'll see whats on them, noticed instead of music choice it now said xm and was like cool when did Directv switch them and seen the last channel in the guide.

Turned to it, Ron and Fez was on, cracked up at something Ron said and listened until it went off and was like is this when Opie and Anthony starts I have to check them out now, and yea listened to that entire show cracked up some more and then got hooked and since then and still now during the week and sometimes on the weekend when nothing is on my tv stays a blank black screen for at least 9+ hours a day.

Theres the long version since I'm bored and wanted to waste time, short version I started listening a few weeks before Directv took the channel off for a week and still listen now.

[Gamephile]

Way back in Boston in the good ole days, when WOW first took off.

[Reaper G]

My first time listening was their first day being syndicated in Vegas. I'd heard of them, supposedly being Stern clones, but while what I heard didn't hook me in (this was a day when Opie was really tearing into Stalker Patti), I could at least tell they were different from Howie.

I started listening more and more here and there, and getting into it more and more. The clincher was the Charlton Heston NRA Cafe bit

[boodadude]

WNEW once they shot the bottle rocket out of that lady's snatch to celibrate the fourth of July I was hooked

[JAFO in Maine]

I listened to them back at the WNEW days, then when they cam to XM I paid the extra for them.

[MondoTopless]

i started this summer....since then have become an xm listener. greatest fucking virus around. i can still remember the first bit i listened to was crying audio in mid-june 2006.

[dirty cheerio]

i listened on fridays while driving from Groton,CT home to queens. Then once they were on XM i was all over it

[UrMomInPanties]

Ahh I'm a backwards ass, meant to say late Feb was thinking of when I started lurking on whackbag which was in April.

[Darth Mode]

My brother (RobeSoup&Tears) turn me on to them back in 2000. Fan ever since.

[SurlyTruckDrivr]

Waaf

[banana cock]

Whenever they got syndicated in Vegas, about 6 months before St Pats

[ERICSAWFULHAIR]

i know i was listing in 2000 around august but the first thing i remember is some chick putting goldfish in her snatch