02-22-2002, 07:12 PM
The show isn't less interesting because other cities can merely hear it. Although I used to listen to them in Boston before they left, I just started listening again since syndication.
It's the first few months of syndication, the show has changed. They now do incessant contests to give the show structure instead of just bullshitting for four hours.
They have guests more often than they used to, and a lot of their really mean, nasty shit that they were doing has stopped now because they have more visibility. T
hey repeat bits over and over again in order to appease the people who barely listen or are in new markets. Instead of doing 4 hours a day for 5 days, they do like 3 hours a day and then an hour of old clips or replays from that week. Which, from a business perspective, makes sense, but I don't care about that. I'm selfish and want the best show possible.
They are doing exactly what they used to shit on (rightfully so) as cheesy wacky radio. I remember right after syndication, they were harping on how the studio smelled like puke. They wouldn't shut up about it, and finally someone came in and said that Don and Mike had done a contest where people drank water until they puked. Opie specifically went off on how stupid that is, how it's cowbell radio, blah blah blah. Like three months later, there they were, doing the chowder-puke contest, and now they're talking about having someone drink milk until they puke. The examples of their hipocrasy regarding this type of radio are numerous in the last few months.
They've become everything they used to shit on, and that's why a lot of the "hardcore" fans were so into them before, and are now pissed at how much they've regressed.
It's the first few months of syndication, the show has changed. They now do incessant contests to give the show structure instead of just bullshitting for four hours.
They have guests more often than they used to, and a lot of their really mean, nasty shit that they were doing has stopped now because they have more visibility. T
hey repeat bits over and over again in order to appease the people who barely listen or are in new markets. Instead of doing 4 hours a day for 5 days, they do like 3 hours a day and then an hour of old clips or replays from that week. Which, from a business perspective, makes sense, but I don't care about that. I'm selfish and want the best show possible.
They are doing exactly what they used to shit on (rightfully so) as cheesy wacky radio. I remember right after syndication, they were harping on how the studio smelled like puke. They wouldn't shut up about it, and finally someone came in and said that Don and Mike had done a contest where people drank water until they puked. Opie specifically went off on how stupid that is, how it's cowbell radio, blah blah blah. Like three months later, there they were, doing the chowder-puke contest, and now they're talking about having someone drink milk until they puke. The examples of their hipocrasy regarding this type of radio are numerous in the last few months.
They've become everything they used to shit on, and that's why a lot of the "hardcore" fans were so into them before, and are now pissed at how much they've regressed.