2001 (WNEW)

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Wackbag communities, the fans from the past like OpieAnt, ChuckRadio
from SyndicationUnderground (an old streaming/fan site around the early
2000s), TheBobWhooKidSamShow for preservation / clean-up / creation of
the rundowns. Included in this description will be the rundowns and a
fan-made collection of reviews, written by /u/ChuckECheese and /u/im_not
originally posted to reddit, recapping their experience while listening
to this material more than a decade later. The reviews are subjective
and opinion based, they also include many 'easter eggs' -- things that
were said that foreshadow a later event, or hints that things were
happening that we now have the full story on later because they re-told
it on the XM show, etc.

Enjoy!


January and February

Spaz
quit his job at the radio station for an undisclosed reason, so he is
now gone from Opie and Anthony and has been replaced by his protege
Stinky.Stinky accidentally introduces the show as "January 4th, 2000." instead of January 4th, 2001.Opie
and Anthony were almost fired during their vacation while a ton of
other jocks were fired. The reason is not announced on the air and any
mention of it is dumped out of.Apparently them almost being fired didn't have anything to do with the Voyeur Bus incident.Two teams Opie picked to win sports games lost, thus beginning the Sports Curse (TM)Black Earl came into the studio furious and shook the CD rack. When asked why, he couldn't provide a reason.Lady Di calls in. It's the first time I've heard her on the show but it's not her debut, apparently.Lady Di admits she has a crush on Anthony and is upset that he doesn't have a crush on her.Opie
was furious with management and wasn't going to go on with the show,
until Andrew "Dice" Clay contacted him privately and told him he has to
go back on the air.Opie and Anthony decide they want
to rename WNEW to "WONA." They research if these call letters are
already taken, and they are by a radio station in Mississipi.Opie and Anthony call the woman who owns the radio station WONA and try to buy the call-letters off of her.Anthony: "WNEW are iconic call letters and they belong in Mississipi!"
Two cousins were supposed to come onto the show and eat each other out for WWF tickets but they no-showed.Opie and Anthony are sending Stinky and Black Earl to Mississipi to give gifts to the woman who owns WONA.Wynona,
Mississipi has no bars. Most of their stores aren't in business anymore
and strip clubs don't allow women to enter as guests.Opie and Anthony are finally using Street Fighting Man.Rich Vos and Jim Norton laid in bed together masturbating with a girl in between them. Rich Vos insists that this isn't gay.When
the guys arrived at Mississipi, the fan who drove them there dressed in
full KKK attire. According to the woman, "he's lucky he wasn't shot by
one of my neighbors."You cannot show the confederate flag in Mississipi. It's banned.Opie predicts that Stalker Patti will never have sex.Two hot girls shave Patti's nipples on the air. Then they do her chin, mustache and butthole.In
discussion of football, Opie keeps referring to The Giants as "us" and
"our." (aka "We totally beat them that year.") You're not on the team,
sir.Opie and Anthony were going to get syndicated in
Washington DC. They even played a "Best of" show on a station up there
but it was pulled when Opie and Anthony upset management.Opie
mentions The Islanders, and right after he says their name the coach of
the team is struck in the face on television. The curse is getting
worse.Lady Di and Marion came into the studio. It's noted that Lady Di is wearing leather pants and lingerie to impress Anthony.Lady Di says she's going to lose weight.During Sex for Sam, Psycho Mark let a couple have sex in the manager's office. He was immediately fired.Opie and Anthony have a one night show in Bostom on WBCN. It's being simulcast in New York City, but they're actually IN Boston.Opie and Anthony were given rooms at the hotel they were fired at when they said the mayor was dead.After
the Voyeur Bus incident, Opie and Anthony said that police arrived at
the studio to arrest them but they fled the studio before they arrived.Opie
and Anthony say that the old radio station in Boston they used to work
for has not contacted them since they were fired three years ago.The XFL pre-game show will have two hosts: Opie and Anthony.Opie
tells a story about a crazy ex he had who, after she broke up with him
and he moved on to a new girl, sent Opie 15 messages on his machine. The
last message had her getting fucked by a new guy just to make Opie
jealous even though she broke up with him. Opie apparently played these
tapes on the radio back in the day and got in deep trouble.

April

I
figured I'd take over the hindsight report here, since /u/CuckECheese
understandably couldn't take listening to this shit anymore. This month
wasn't easy, and I probably won't do another one of these for a while.
If somebody else wants to take the torch, please, for the love of God,
help me.

Opie introduced the story of how he went diving on
vacation with Sandy and he got in an altercation with a scuba diver and
threw a punch at him underwater. Hearing him describe this story made me
embarrassed to be alive.

The show is soo high energy. There's
something to be said for circa 2013 O&A, when they weren't easy to
please. But boy these guys in 2001 sure get a good laugh out of
everything. Especially Ant. He's just high on life, this guy. Whether
it's a caller, some inside joke/show reference, or a good string of
soundboard clips, these two radio hosts are giggling like a couple peas
in a pod. Fuck whatever Opie said last year about Ant's divorce in 1999
ending their friendship, these guys are the furthest thing from enemies
and it shows.

It must have just been the style of the time, but I
find it difficult to get through this. Maybe this type of radio at the
time was fresh, new, and exciting. And to an extent, it still sounds
more genuine and edgy than any show you'd hear on regular radio today,
but their over the top giggling and "Oh boy we might get in trouble for
this one!" attitude is so douchey .

There was a technical problem
with one of their computers at the beginning of the April 10 show that
made it so they couldn't use Napster. They spent the first 10 minutes of
the show trying to figure out what a router is and what purpose it
serves.

Ant recently moved to Bay Ridge

They make fun of a guy on staff for wearing UFO pants.

They're now making parody songs to celebrate WoW. Steve C made "The Boobs are Back in Town" a la Thin Lizzy. Ugh.

A
commercial aired that was promoting the new Matt and Trey project
"That's My Bush" on Comedy Central, a sitcom based on the presidency of
George W. It would go off air a month later.

One of their sponsors is Cafe Java.

Club Soda Kenny can no longer work for Dice. Nobody is entirely sure why.

They've been interviewing all the contestants from Survivor the Australian Outback and they ask them sex related questions

A
Norton clip was featured in a WNEW station promo. Jimmy says that the
US government at the time was trying to genetically alter species of
monkeys so they could glow in the dark (seems unlikely, maybe Jimmy was
lying but needed it as a set up), and the promo featured Jimmy saying
"the government is doing this so homeowners can identify where their
televisions are disappearing to at 3 o'clock in the morning...this was a
company-approved promo on regular radio.

They always allude to X or E. The kids are doing lots of ecstasy these days.

Opie is still, in fact, using the term 'patch' and 'taking a crunch' without a hint of irony

Aside
from that though, Opie really isn't that bad. he's still a chronic
complainer when it comes to management, but he otherwise sounds like a
different guy from today. Not sure where he turned into the jackass he
is now, but very few of the crutches we attack him for today he has in
2001. It's almost as if his mental function has significantly
deteriorated in the years since, because here he seems pretty coherent
and engaged most of the time.

These guys are straight up having 17 year old girls in studio on a regular basis.

Opie
got mad at KROCK for not letting Buckcherry interview with O&A.
They send out the pests to call up and annoy KROCK. Opie says phrases
such as "let's go, you wanna play? Let's do it. Let's take it street
level" many times.

The boys say that Dane cook, an upstart comic, doesn't like them. So they won't ever have him on.

Tough
guy Jeff Norris recounts the infamous story about how he got in a car
accident and his gun flew upward onto the dash. The boys, who have
gradually begun to think of Norris and his stupid Archie Bunker
impression as completely hack, pick his story apart. It becomes obvious
that he only called up because he is needy and just trying to get
attention from two radio hosts that never have him on anymore. I think
this is the point in which they pretty much excommunicated Jeff Norris
from the show.

May

This was a very jam-packed month
and was actually pretty good in comparison to the past several months
of shock jockery. This post is a little long, so bear with me.

For
the first time, O&A have gone meta. "Possum Kingdom" by Toadies was
played as a rejoiner and the boys reminisce about how they used to hear
that song a lot back at WAAF.

Opie said that about 20 years ago (1981) his grandma sued his mom. He's still bitter about it, and says he is glad she is dead.

Stinky
rolled a joint for Rodney Dangerfield and they smoke on air. It's hard
to tell, but I think you can hear Anthony coughing. Rodney says "This is
good shit." Opie does not indulge.

Here is every Lewis Black
appearance. Anthony: "Hey so there's a news story where a random guy did
this silly thing..." Lewis Black: