Speaker 1: Shake it up.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite people. It's so funny.
Speaker 3: Scott Farrel is on OPI Unfiltered Podcast, and uh, everyone's like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, this is gonna be crazy. No, we
Speaker 3: buried the hatchet years ago. Brother, people don't realize we
Speaker 3: buried the hatchet years ago. So for the people that
Speaker 3: don't know, I worked on the same radio station as
Speaker 3: Scott Farrell back at W and E W.
Speaker 2: And the short history is this, Scott Farrell was fuck it.
Speaker 2: You were a rock star. Back then, we were rock stars.
Speaker 3: Everything was going well, and then uh, well, yeah it happens.
Speaker 1: I had been in so much fucking trouble right as
Speaker 1: a as a host on the air. Yeah, in those
Speaker 1: days that I mean, I made them a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I got the gigs because I was good at it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I was always in trouble. Like so, before before
Speaker 1: I got to any W, I had been on in
Speaker 1: three hundred cities working from Mel Parmersen, and I was
Speaker 1: on at night time and I was like on WFA
Speaker 1: and New York and so I got huge ratings like
Speaker 1: you guys did. Yeah, pade me a ton of money. Yes,
Speaker 1: then when they moved me from LA to New York
Speaker 1: because I never listened. They would scream and yell at
Speaker 1: me all day on the phone, and I was on
Speaker 1: my raft in my pool, smoking a fucking hog leg
Speaker 1: the size of fucking Texas, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever you say, Mark turn Off was my boss. I go.
Speaker 1: Anything you need, buddy, I got you. Meanwhile, I've got
Speaker 1: fucking whoes wrapped around my school a blow and I
Speaker 1: wasn't fucking listening. So when I came to New York,
Speaker 1: they moved me from National syndication to put me on
Speaker 1: any w in Morning Drive. Yeah, like, we're giving you
Speaker 1: a pay cut and if you don't like it, you
Speaker 1: can go fuck yourself. I went from making a ton
Speaker 1: of money to making good money. And then I saw
Speaker 1: down the hall you two funny motherfuckers were making all
Speaker 1: the money, and I was like, well this, but I
Speaker 1: need you guys here great And I really loved what
Speaker 1: you did and I loved going on with you, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was the greatest radio station I'd ever
Speaker 1: worked on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the weren't you living in a like
Speaker 3: a crazy ass, like kind of shitty hotel when you
Speaker 3: were doing Yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Would pick me up in the morning with the with
Speaker 1: the NW BAN and I was strung out and high
Speaker 1: and tweaking and drunk, and I would show up to
Speaker 1: do the show drunk and they would say, like Oliverarro
Speaker 1: would knark on me to Ken Stevens and Tim Sabian
Speaker 1: and say, I think he's high, right, he's drunk. And
Speaker 1: then I would say, I go on the air and
Speaker 1: I just start raging, and I would I would get
Speaker 1: away with it because I was so good at like
Speaker 1: snapping out of my funk and going on the air
Speaker 1: and being funny and crazy like I was just a
Speaker 1: performer at that time. I was younk. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, there's a couple things in there.
Speaker 3: First of all, when you're if you listen to management
Speaker 3: back then, especially, you were doing it wrong.
Speaker 2: Everything management told.
Speaker 3: Us we did the opposite, were like you, you don't
Speaker 3: know how to fucking do this. If you knew how
Speaker 3: to do this, you wouldn't be sitting at a cubicle,
Speaker 3: you'd be on the air making the real money, So
Speaker 3: go fuck yourself. Secondly, with the hotel thing, we always
Speaker 3: talked around the radio station like.
Speaker 2: Is this guy even alive?
Speaker 3: Like they're going to pick him up at that crazy
Speaker 3: hotel and then you'd roll in and just crush it
Speaker 3: every time you're on the air.
Speaker 1: My office with all the boxes in it, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had all my shit and yeah at the radio station
Speaker 1: in boxes because I lived in this like studio. So
Speaker 1: what it was was it was it was a fancy
Speaker 1: hotel where like the New York Rangers stayed when they
Speaker 1: try Okay for the season, and the garden was on
Speaker 1: thirty four then last, but on the side of the
Speaker 1: hotel they had studios, right, So originally they put me
Speaker 1: in one of the suites at the top on the
Speaker 1: thirty six floor in the hotel. But after I ordered
Speaker 1: like one hundred grand in food and boot then they
Speaker 1: started figuring out the grift that I was like scanning them, yeah,
Speaker 1: and that that I was, you know, free loading. And
Speaker 1: then they moved me to this fucking crack room. It
Speaker 1: was like a studio apartment for crack addicts. And I
Speaker 1: went from and I was like looking out the window
Speaker 1: jerking off to the skyline of New York. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it was awful. At first I was penthouse. I'm up
Speaker 1: there banging house. And then I moved into this cracked
Speaker 1: neighborhood and I'll never forget in the back of the
Speaker 1: hotel where I lived. They the guys producers, was banging
Speaker 1: on my door to get me out of bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, it was. It was a day to day
Speaker 2: thing with you.
Speaker 3: But I could never even though we went through our
Speaker 3: issues back to the day, I could never hate this
Speaker 3: guy because when me and Anthony got fired for the
Speaker 3: sex for staying back in two thousand and two, you
Speaker 3: famously went on the air and defended us.
Speaker 2: Bro, You defended us, and what did that get you?
Speaker 1: I got fired, right, So I remember I went on
Speaker 1: This is how I remember it. I went on in defended,
Speaker 1: Uh what you did? I said, I did something to
Speaker 1: the extent of what did they fucking brainwash the guy
Speaker 1: to go in on the day of Atona and bang
Speaker 1: he is wide and he asked, and they like got
Speaker 1: inside their head and walked them down the aisle to
Speaker 1: do it. And then so I remember the next morning,
Speaker 1: I was in bed with thirty four CE I lived
Speaker 1: at the time in north Bergen in like this apartment,
Speaker 1: and the phone rang and it was CBS and they
Speaker 1: said you're fire. I said, what did I do? And
Speaker 1: they're like, you're friends with them? Click call five minutes
Speaker 1: later and said, and God ahead and sue us and
Speaker 1: see how that goes for you, because they owed me
Speaker 1: a couple hundred grand, right, we got a penny other
Speaker 1: I ended up moving to I ended up moving to
Speaker 1: Boca did morning drive on QAM Miami. I was number
Speaker 1: one in Miami in two weeks. But the best thing
Speaker 1: that came out of it open was I worked with
Speaker 1: Neil Rodgers. He was the funniest dude that I have
Speaker 1: ever worked with in my entire life. He was filthy
Speaker 1: and repulsive, disgusting, the racist. He was nasty, mean, but
Speaker 1: he was so curmudgety funny that it was brilliant. I
Speaker 1: think we were getting a twenty share together in morning drive.
Speaker 1: I did mornings, he did middays, and we killed it.
Speaker 1: I had so much fun in that year that I
Speaker 1: got thrown out of New York after sacks for Sam.
Speaker 1: It was the year the Marlins beat the Yankees in
Speaker 1: six games in the World Series, and I went to
Speaker 1: every game. It was fucking titties.
Speaker 2: That is absolutely awesome.
Speaker 3: But then after that we all came back to radio,
Speaker 3: and we all ended up on satellite, and you started
Speaker 3: working for Howard Stern, and that's when that's when the
Speaker 3: battle begun between.
Speaker 1: To this day. Not with me, no, but you and
Speaker 1: I have been friends ever since. Your fans they've wanted
Speaker 1: me dead, be dead for twenties sex years. I get
Speaker 1: threats yesterday this day, when people are online talking about
Speaker 1: because I do a podcast and millions of people watch it,
Speaker 1: and I get millions of threats and everything. And then
Speaker 1: I'll constantly see like, yeah, yesterday, I didn't tell anyone
Speaker 1: I was doing your show because I opened up the
Speaker 1: floodgates and say I'm going on the Opie Live podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fucking I'll get I'll get six hundred thousand threats. So
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything. And then someone yesterday wrote, uh,
Speaker 1: tell everybody about this cunt Anthony Takumia, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see what he did or responded to, or
Speaker 1: if he even did at all. I just know that
Speaker 1: if I would have said I was coming on this show,
Speaker 1: I would have gotten all that gay ass party raw
Speaker 1: er right, fucking pussy shit. I'm you know, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I get it. What happened. Here's the truth. I went
Speaker 1: to work for Tim. I wasn't one of Howard's guys.
Speaker 1: I didn't I wasn't. I didn't suck his balls. I
Speaker 1: didn't swing from his balls. He didn't. He doesn't like sports. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is not a sports guy. If he goes to
Speaker 1: a nick game, it's to be seen and then ten
Speaker 1: minutes later he leaves the game. Right. So I went
Speaker 1: to work for Tim Sabey and that was my guy.
Speaker 1: I worked for him at YSB Philly. I worked for
Speaker 1: him at any W in New York, and he asked
Speaker 1: me to go to the Stern Channels. I think the
Speaker 1: reason I was selected for the Stern Channels was because
Speaker 1: I had five million fans and they wanted me to
Speaker 1: bring five million fans to Howard Steet Right. They wanted
Speaker 1: my fans to suck his dick, and they did that
Speaker 1: and it worked. I was there but nine years whatever,
Speaker 1: and listen, I had a wife and kids. I'm taking
Speaker 1: care of my family over here, and they paid me
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And then I went to his wedding.
Speaker 1: But that was the only thing I ever did with
Speaker 1: him in nine years. And then when it ended, I
Speaker 1: think I got it the same way he just did
Speaker 1: everyone else. He did me a little cooler than them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Buckwald was my agent. So They brought me
Speaker 1: in one day and they said, we're gonna move you
Speaker 1: to mad Dog Radio and I want you to go
Speaker 1: to lunch with Chris and I was like at the time.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was like, he's a pussy and
Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to do that, and they said,
Speaker 1: You're going to lunch with Chris. Yeah. I went to
Speaker 1: lunch with him and we got along and he was
Speaker 1: really cool to me. And I was surprised because I
Speaker 1: fucking hated him and fact sessa with a fucking vengeance.
Speaker 1: But when I went to start, he respected me because
Speaker 1: I did well for Howard. So once he got that
Speaker 1: job there making millions, he always groveled to Howard and
Speaker 1: he was one of the one of the guys, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he started treating me better. But they asked me to
Speaker 1: move to his channel. I declined, and I went back
Speaker 1: to CBS Sports Radio to do bro Own Invention nationally
Speaker 1: with like Jim Rome and them, and I did ten
Speaker 1: more years. And the reason I did it, though, was
Speaker 1: I got ten more years of pension out of SAG
Speaker 1: after him, So I did it for the pension because
Speaker 1: when I went back there, that was the biggest pussy
Speaker 1: fucking radio show I've ever done in my life. I
Speaker 1: had to be clean and I had to be perfect,
Speaker 1: and I had bosses Mark and Eric Smith work so
Speaker 1: far on my ass. They thought I would fuck it
Speaker 1: up and get fired within a year, and then I
Speaker 1: would screw it up. So I behaved on my best
Speaker 1: and I got away with ten years. And then what
Speaker 1: I get out of that, not to bore you, is
Speaker 1: that so I'm sixty one now, in five years, I
Speaker 1: get that pension till I'm dead, right, which is pretty
Speaker 1: nice because I did the white husband double easy money
Speaker 1: every month till I'm dead. Now, I should already be
Speaker 1: dead with all the Russ booz that I have fucking done.
Speaker 1: But I played basketball six days so we can have
Speaker 1: a great shave. I'm a monster, so I'm still here,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I get that fucking pension. So I'm not
Speaker 1: as dumb as people think. I didn't go to work
Speaker 1: as I like power. I went to work as I
Speaker 1: like fucking money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, I get it. Victor goes, Wow, you made
Speaker 3: up with Scott.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I first started the podcast. When I first started
Speaker 3: the podcast, when I got screwed over by Sirious, I
Speaker 3: got Scott Farrell on the show, and I didn't know
Speaker 3: were gonna fist.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what the fun.
Speaker 1: Was gonna fight with you.
Speaker 2: Remember though, we're like, are we are we supposed to fight?
Speaker 2: Because when you.
Speaker 3: Went on Howard one uh one o one uh, you know,
Speaker 3: the rivalry between Open and Anthony and Howard Stern was insane.
Speaker 3: And uh, I think you start talking about us. We
Speaker 3: were talking about you, right, I did so.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I'm old, who gives a ship?
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I think at the time
Speaker 1: one day you I remember you walking through the studios
Speaker 1: and I'm not bigger than you. Let's just get down
Speaker 1: to business. I'm I'm a I'm a six four fucking
Speaker 1: fuck off, right, I'm a lot bigger than you. And
Speaker 1: then i'm your buddy is even smaller than you. Ye like,
Speaker 1: I'm not like and I'm not suggesting anything other than
Speaker 1: I will fucking truck you. I'm a lot bigger, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but by I get it fights playing basket. I've been
Speaker 1: in fifty fist fights. I have the ship beat out
Speaker 1: of me. I have left with fat lips out here
Speaker 1: with dude with my mouth. I'm like dick and I've
Speaker 1: had black dude punched me in the mouth and I'm
Speaker 1: on the round leading with fucking teeth loose and black
Speaker 1: eyes and everything. But when I played basketball in the
Speaker 1: hood and when I played basketball in general, it's very violent.
Speaker 1: I've been in a ton of fistfights. Yeah. Time, like
Speaker 1: I was crazy, I did drugs. I fucking was not
Speaker 1: afraid to fight people. And I remember I think the
Speaker 1: night you walked and I was like, let's fucking go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kill you.
Speaker 3: See my problem in life has always been I've I've
Speaker 3: never been scared of people.
Speaker 2: So even though you're six four and you like you
Speaker 2: said you would have trucked me, I would have.
Speaker 1: I would have.
Speaker 2: I would have been in there. I would have been scared,
Speaker 2: and I would have I might have.
Speaker 1: Remember that night I remember you walking. I was like,
Speaker 1: I think I started up with you. I was like,
Speaker 1: my fucking god, the problem since yoursell live, didn't I
Speaker 1: at Westwood or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I was at Westward for a moment, but
Speaker 2: me too, I got it. I gotta say.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, you know, with the Howard Stern rivalry,
Speaker 3: I had to watch my back with you in the hallway,
Speaker 3: bubb with a love sponge who I now love Me
Speaker 3: and him have done. He's been on this a few times.
Speaker 3: He's threatening to beat me up.
Speaker 2: So I'm waiting for a giant, fucking beach ball to
Speaker 2: come walking down the hall. I'm worried about him showing up.
Speaker 3: It was exhausting to watch your back like that back
Speaker 3: in the day with me.
Speaker 1: He's too fat. He would drop dead. No man, they
Speaker 1: went longer than a minute or two. I think there's
Speaker 1: potential for him to keel you do you remember them
Speaker 1: till this day. I love him. He's funny as shit,
Speaker 1: and I just haven't seen him in years and years.
Speaker 1: Like I do a show, but I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: and I hadn't seen him in a decade at least.
Speaker 2: Well, no, the problem with the fighting fat guys.
Speaker 3: Do you remember Billy Staples from the WNW days.
Speaker 2: We got into a thing with Billy.
Speaker 3: Staples and Paul through j Moore and they surprised us.
Speaker 3: He came marching through the studio and Billy Staples grabbed
Speaker 3: me in a bear hug, and that's when you realize
Speaker 3: you're fucked.
Speaker 2: When it's a big guy, you're fucked. I couldn't I
Speaker 2: couldn't move, And.
Speaker 3: Then it turned out, and then it turned out, and
Speaker 3: I was relieved that it was as that's a long
Speaker 3: story for another day, but I was relieved when he
Speaker 3: was whispering to me, this whole thing's been a prank.
Speaker 2: This whole thing's had been a.
Speaker 3: Prank, And the only thing I was thinking was thank God,
Speaker 3: because he's gonna squorch me like a fucking pancake if
Speaker 3: this continues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never got in. I think I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: like so, through the years, I've done the show for
Speaker 1: like forty one years, thirty five years basically syndicated nationally,
Speaker 1: and then the last thirty years or so i've been
Speaker 1: in New York. I think the only I mean legitimately,
Speaker 1: the only radio fight I was ever in was with
Speaker 1: you guys. And meanwhile, meanwhile, you know how much I
Speaker 1: loved you, and how fucking great I thought this show was.
Speaker 1: I thought the show was the greatest show I'd ever
Speaker 1: heard in my life in terms of it was so
Speaker 1: funny what you guys did, and Jim and everybody involved
Speaker 1: in the show, Norton, all these guys, it was just
Speaker 1: the funniest show I'd ever heard. So I thought it
Speaker 1: was brilliant and then for me, it was a bummer
Speaker 1: that when I went to how one on one that
Speaker 1: it turned into that because I loved you guys so
Speaker 1: much that I thought it just sucked dick that it
Speaker 1: turned into a war because I've never had one of those,
Speaker 1: like I legitimately legitimate. I've never like my whole career.
Speaker 1: I get along with everybody, producers, people, the cleaning lady.
Speaker 1: I'm nice to everybody. You know, that's true. I'm not
Speaker 1: a dickhead, but I got turned into one because of
Speaker 1: that fight. And that fight got nasty. And once it
Speaker 1: got nasty, I was like, well, sink or swim. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm either gonna fucking stand up for myself or I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fucking end up being a bitch. Right. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: then let's fucking get it on. But I never enjoyed
Speaker 1: that time in my life. I thought it stuck. I
Speaker 1: thought it was nasty. I thought it was gay. I
Speaker 1: thought it was fucking unnecessary, And it was really disappointing
Speaker 1: for me because you guys were like my heroes. When
Speaker 1: I was doing the show there in mornings. Even though
Speaker 1: I don't remember much of it, you know, I said
Speaker 1: one thing I said that Olive would end up being
Speaker 1: the CEO in that company one day, and he is,
Speaker 1: He's impressment and I and then I just I thought
Speaker 1: that it was that they ruined the greatest station ever.
Speaker 1: They fucked that out of so juicy Baconator style. They
Speaker 1: fucked it up because that was a money making, multimillion
Speaker 1: dollar radio station with huge ratings, great talent, great people,
Speaker 1: and we had a lot of fun and they fucked
Speaker 1: it all up. So they went pussy and turned it
Speaker 1: into a fucking bitch ass radio station with disco musics.
Speaker 3: Right, So let me let me say, to this day,
Speaker 3: people say, ope, you're obsessed with Howard Stern, and I go, yep,
Speaker 3: because he ruined everything his narcissism. I don't know what
Speaker 3: you want to say, and it's fine, you don't have
Speaker 3: to fucking comment. But this guy was such a narcissist
Speaker 3: and it had to be all about him. CBS Radio
Speaker 3: had at the time, it had Opie and Anthony.
Speaker 2: Howard Stern.
Speaker 3: All they had to do was sit everyone down and say, look,
Speaker 3: just get along.
Speaker 2: We're printing fucking money.
Speaker 3: But Howard Stern couldn't take that shit, and behind the scenes,
Speaker 3: that's what drove me nuts, and that's why I'm obsessed
Speaker 3: to this day. He would call the bosses at bitch
Speaker 3: and complain. But he never fought his battles on air.
Speaker 3: You fucking took his on head to head when when
Speaker 3: shit got ugly, not Howard.
Speaker 2: Howard would go behind the scenes that you can't can't
Speaker 2: tell you just set the fuck up, and then he
Speaker 2: would act like a tough guy in the air.
Speaker 3: But but behind the scenes he was the biggest I'm
Speaker 3: telling you right now, Scott Barrow, the biggest pussy I've
Speaker 3: ever ever.
Speaker 1: I didn't like fair enough. I don't absolutely have I
Speaker 1: will not dispute any of that. I just absolutely like
Speaker 1: so like he just did you know my guy? Uh?
Speaker 1: I know everyone there obviously, and I was rassigned. Uh.
Speaker 1: I brought on he was mine, right, he was an intern. Uh.
Speaker 1: They never paid him a nickel. And I brought his
Speaker 1: brother on, great basketball player, by the way, six five.
Speaker 1: I played a lot with him. He was a He
Speaker 1: was a great player. He would come out to my
Speaker 1: crib and play and these these insane games and violent games.
Speaker 1: And he was just a black dude that pissed off
Speaker 1: white people and he was so good at it. He
Speaker 1: was so great at getting on the people's skin, and
Speaker 1: I would put him on he at night, and I
Speaker 1: mean he would start ship immediately, and I mean the
Speaker 1: show would just fucking blow up and it would be
Speaker 1: crazy every night, every night. So he ended up doing
Speaker 1: the wrap up show I think with Gary for like
Speaker 1: at least twelve years, and then I think the last
Speaker 1: fifteen or three or four years he did Stern Biology. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got fired, and a lot of my friends there
Speaker 1: got fired. He was the one I cared about the most.
Speaker 1: But I knew how they how they felt because it
Speaker 1: didn't happen to me. I would have changed the channels
Speaker 1: as well. Look when they did it to me, I thought,
Speaker 1: this is a good idea. I would I would make
Speaker 1: one on one more about Howard and less about whackpackers
Speaker 1: and Pharrell doing sports shows. I didn't think it was
Speaker 1: a bad decision. This thing. Now, my opinion of it
Speaker 1: is it's a lot different, Like he's an old man
Speaker 1: now and he's doing like show a week or something.
Speaker 1: It's just it's over, Like, I don't know, so the
Speaker 1: ICA listens to it, right, Being honest, I don't know
Speaker 1: one fucking person on the Easy hurt, and so I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, like, at some point you have to look
Speaker 1: the vein, you know, I gotta keep going. I've never
Speaker 1: been that dude, though. Listen, it's simple. I got fired
Speaker 1: last July on television and I told thirty four C
Speaker 1: I said, my mortality. I understand it, real simple. I'm finished.
Speaker 1: No one wants me, I'm old, I make too much
Speaker 1: money and I don't listen to a fucking soul. I'm impossible,
Speaker 1: I'm high making. It's over. So I have not got
Speaker 1: one radio job. I have not done any TV. You
Speaker 1: know what I do. I do the Fellu podcast. I'm asked.
Speaker 1: That's it. And I got it to the point where
Speaker 1: millions are watching and I don't have a boss, and
Speaker 1: everyone will suck my fucking dick and I give you
Speaker 1: a job. I made a lot of money like you.
Speaker 1: You're so fucking rich. You're living at the fucking beach
Speaker 1: and you're having sex four days a week. I'm over here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to work at fucking for anyone anymore.
Speaker 1: Eat a fucking cop you.
Speaker 3: So this is refreshing because a lot of people go, man,
Speaker 3: hope you you burn a lot of bridge, and I.
Speaker 2: Forgot I forgot that you're worse than me.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 3: Because that's where the good stuff came from when you
Speaker 3: didn't listen to the horseshit that radio. They made radio
Speaker 3: so hard because you had these just these bosses that
Speaker 3: desperately wanted to be on the radio. They failed, they
Speaker 3: failed being radio show hosts back at college, and they're
Speaker 3: trying to tell you what to do. As soon as
Speaker 3: I realized to everything that they don't do anything, I
Speaker 3: should say that they tell you to do, and you're
Speaker 3: going to be very successful in this business.
Speaker 1: I did. They WFAM put me on on Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year's and then I did the last show ever
Speaker 1: on Infinity Sports Network, which was ce Thees Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: I started to network with the very first show and
Speaker 1: then I ended the network with the last show when
Speaker 1: it went black. Now it's on Westwood one Sports. So
Speaker 1: they had me to do a shows and I did shows.
Speaker 1: And after the first show, I did a show on
Speaker 1: like the day after Christmas, like the twenty Seconds, and
Speaker 1: they told me that like four hundred and thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand people mail of the station, and he said to
Speaker 1: me in a meeting, thirty five thousand of them were
Speaker 1: death threats, and I went, hey, that's pretty good. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't think so. And I go, listen, man,
Speaker 1: you're such a pussy. I go, if four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand people emailed you about one five hour
Speaker 1: show that I did on the Fan on the night
Speaker 1: after Christmas, you have to understand if I did a
Speaker 1: show every day, you'd fucking get a ten share and
Speaker 1: you'd make millions. Iven talk about people that fucking hate me.
Speaker 1: Do you think I give a fucking cunt hair about
Speaker 1: fucking people that don't like me. I am the most vilified, hated,
Speaker 1: despicable bio person ever on radio. Now here's the difference
Speaker 1: he's seen me. The program directors, this young guy that
Speaker 1: used to run Michael Kay's show at ESPN, he runs
Speaker 1: wf Fan. Twenty minutes after I went on the air,
Speaker 1: he was calling the fucking board hop and yelling and
Speaker 1: screaming for me to talk about the mix. As I
Speaker 1: was talking about penises and radio that run radio, the
Speaker 1: students that have destroyed me. You know what they do now,
Speaker 1: They hire young hat talent, pay them nothing, and you
Speaker 1: know what they do with the rest of them. They
Speaker 1: give them thirty five hours a week, not forty so
Speaker 1: they can't get benefits, right, They fucking like screw everyone.
Speaker 1: No one makes an I got a job offer oh
Speaker 1: to do a show in Hartford, Connecticut, and won five stations,
Speaker 1: two sports stations. I asked, my god, David Katz is
Speaker 1: my fucking agent. You know who that is for sure?
Speaker 1: So he got me this job. They offered me seventy grand.
Speaker 1: I go seventy grand. I made that last week betting
Speaker 1: on the Red Sox. You fucking grand after taxes, it's
Speaker 1: forty five. Move to Hartford. I want to fucking kill myself.
Speaker 1: Radio is so awful now. No one listens to the radio.
Speaker 1: People watch the Opie podcast, people watch for lu that's
Speaker 1: what people do. And my kids are perfect group. They
Speaker 1: all listen to their own goddamn music. They don't listen
Speaker 1: to the fucking faggy radio music and they're fucking stupid
Speaker 1: gay ass playlist. Yeah, fucking quote me on that. I'm
Speaker 1: right about that ship too.
Speaker 3: I finally had to drop the radio in my name
Speaker 3: because like my kids were looking at me, like, fucking
Speaker 3: radio that's archaic.
Speaker 1: It's archaic and serious.
Speaker 2: XM is literally a graveyard now there's no nothing, I
Speaker 2: mean nothing.
Speaker 1: To listen to over there yesterday because you I follow
Speaker 1: everything you do, right watch the show. But did you
Speaker 1: see when I posted people still listen to the radio?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I got the only obviously. Ron Bennington's
Speaker 3: still crushing it.
Speaker 1: And he's a guy.
Speaker 3: He's fighting stage four colon cancer and he's better than
Speaker 3: anyone else that serious exam, the rest of the rest
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 1: You, no one gives a ship.
Speaker 2: What's he on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's on serious exam.
Speaker 1: All right, he just had Uh that comedian was it Dylan?
Speaker 3: He's doing ship while he's getting chemo. That's funnier than
Speaker 3: anything else that has to offer. But now their golden
Speaker 3: goose Howard is down to one day. That fucking turn
Speaker 3: off the goddamn Like that guy.
Speaker 1: Do you know that guy? Jared Fox? He used to
Speaker 1: be Tim's bitch, and he's the president. He's the senior
Speaker 1: vice president of sports. He runs the whole sports division. Uh,
Speaker 1: he won't even talk to me. Now. I remember when
Speaker 1: he ran errands for me, and now he's in charge
Speaker 1: and won't return my emails. I'm on the serious XM app.
Speaker 1: So I have a gambling podcast, yeah, from Profitable TV
Speaker 1: that I do with my partner, but we rarely do
Speaker 1: it because he's rich as fucking He's out on his yacht,
Speaker 1: cruising out of your house now on the shore, and
Speaker 1: we only do it like once a month. We're doing
Speaker 1: it Saturday. He's in Nashville. He's a really busy guy.
Speaker 1: I do forell you every day, but I do the
Speaker 1: one with him like once a month. And it's actually
Speaker 1: on their app and they have but they have three
Speaker 1: thousand podcasts and like, if you went to look for
Speaker 1: a podcast on there, you wouldn't come home for three
Speaker 1: fucking days. Of course, it's awful if they don't promote
Speaker 1: it or anything. I loved being on it. It's great
Speaker 1: being on it, but it's no different than being on Apple,
Speaker 1: Spotify and all the rest of Yeah, I just do
Speaker 1: for lu as. I just work on that market place.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 2: I got it, but I gotta.
Speaker 3: I gotta jump in because you're you're giving me so
Speaker 3: much ship I was. I follow you on Twitter. I'm amazed.
Speaker 2: You're just fighting people all.
Speaker 3: Day long, which is crazy because those people they're not right,
Speaker 3: like x X alone is just as.
Speaker 2: Cesspool at this point. But you're there fighting the good
Speaker 2: fight every day.
Speaker 1: I just like I do it to a humor someone
Speaker 1: like you. Oh, I'm laughing the funny comments that I
Speaker 1: meant because every one of them now is so nasty
Speaker 1: and bulting and hateful and spiteful. And I tell people
Speaker 1: to kill themselves, and like, you know, people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a very this is this is
Speaker 1: a serious problem in this country. And I'm like, fucking
Speaker 1: you kill yourself to a motherfucker, right, dude, a bridge,
Speaker 1: drive off a cliff, drunk driving. I do everything bad.
Speaker 3: I I check my I check my Twitter, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of times a day as I'm enjoying my life,
Speaker 3: and I'm i'm I'm like, these guys are just hanging
Speaker 3: out on Twitter trash would be all day long as
Speaker 3: a as A'm boogie boarding with my kids.
Speaker 1: It's fucked up.
Speaker 2: I'm not even there to read half your sitious.
Speaker 1: It is vicious. The difference is like so like back
Speaker 1: in the day when what we were on, you know,
Speaker 1: together on age, I used to get a lot of
Speaker 1: death threats and everything, and I and the NYPD Cybercrimes
Speaker 1: Division would come to the station and talk about all
Speaker 1: the threats that I was getting. And then one day
Speaker 1: I actually got attacked. And I was on forty eighth
Speaker 1: and eighth and a guy came up and he just
Speaker 1: fucking hammered me with one hundred mile an hour haymaker
Speaker 1: right in a temple. I was fucking and I'm just
Speaker 1: lining in my own business. I'm all stunned and shit,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I just got whacked and
Speaker 1: I went down. I split my head open, I'm bleeding,
Speaker 1: I was out cooled. They put me in an ambulance,
Speaker 1: and all I know is I lived in Hell's kitchen.
Speaker 1: So when the guy hit me, he started running. And
Speaker 1: the guy that parks the cars in my building, I
Speaker 1: used to give him Yankee tickets and get him weed.
Speaker 1: So he loved me. So he chased the guy and
Speaker 1: when he got to his car to take off, he
Speaker 1: took a picture of his license plate and then they
Speaker 1: put him in rikers for a year. That that I
Speaker 1: mean that attack, right, Some people do actually uh stock
Speaker 1: and pursue like an animal, so actually want me dead,
Speaker 1: and they they have actually done their diligence and gone
Speaker 1: after me. If I would have seen it coming though.
Speaker 1: I think I had a shot with him. I would
Speaker 1: have fucking so he liked rab punches. You fucking just
Speaker 1: fucking just keep fucking punching.
Speaker 2: Listen, Scott, So this is amazing.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how much money I made off
Speaker 1: of a Red Sox.
Speaker 3: I know, I want to talk about the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about, uh what I do want
Speaker 3: to ask you about?
Speaker 2: Uh? I was reading up on you a little bit.
Speaker 3: You had some kind of health emergency and had to
Speaker 3: lose like twenty twenty five pounds or something.
Speaker 1: So I had open heart surgery. My heart exploded. Go figure.
Speaker 1: I did a little coke and my so my, you know,
Speaker 1: think about the years of partying that I did right right, So,
Speaker 1: one day I was in bed, right and I was sleeping,
Speaker 1: and I went like this. I walked up and I
Speaker 1: thought I was having like a nightmare or some shit
Speaker 1: like a you know, a scary dreamers. And I was like,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? I mean, my whole body, I mean
Speaker 1: I just came out of that. I was wah fuck.
Speaker 1: And then I so I at five am, I went
Speaker 1: to play basketball and playing ball and thirty seconds into
Speaker 1: the game and the guy garden. ME goes, yo, hey,
Speaker 1: kind of, he goes yo bo, You're like fuck with purple,
Speaker 1: and I went, I don't feel good, and I went
Speaker 1: over to the sideline. I sat down. I went home.
Speaker 1: I laid on the couch all day, and then at
Speaker 1: three I had to do my TV show. Five minutes
Speaker 1: into the show, my producer Mafia goes, hey, listen, you're purple,
Speaker 1: and I went, yeah, listen, I don't feel good, and
Speaker 1: he goes, all right, go to the hospital. I go
Speaker 1: finish the fucking show. And so I finished the show.
Speaker 1: When I got off the air three hours later, I
Speaker 1: walked upstairs and I saw lett. I go, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't breathe. I don't feel good. She goes,
Speaker 1: your daughter has a basketball in go to the hospital.
Speaker 1: I get in a car and driving into the hospital.
Speaker 1: I hate this fucking place. Every time I go this
Speaker 1: goddamn fucking Osby, I end up in an operating room.
Speaker 1: I fucking cocksucker, fucking hate this doctor. Cock fucking dick
Speaker 1: and mothered fucker. And then I get to the parking lot.
Speaker 1: It's twenty degrees outside. It's November and it's freezing cold
Speaker 1: and raining. I walk into the hospital on a fucking
Speaker 1: waring sweat, like fucking I had just done an eight ball,
Speaker 1: and I fucking booked at the lady. I go, I
Speaker 1: think I'm having a heart attack, and they rushed me back,
Speaker 1: put me in a machine. Came out, you're in full
Speaker 1: heart failure. Boom. Put me in an ambulance one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour. They got me tied an ambulance. I'm
Speaker 1: doing one hundred. It's like a movie to hack you.
Speaker 1: And they took me to a heart specialist. They brought
Speaker 1: him in. It was he's there heart valve specialist. So
Speaker 1: it turns out both of my heart valves had exploded
Speaker 1: off of my heart when I had the When I
Speaker 1: was in bed right at sixteen hours with my heart
Speaker 1: rain blood, he said, you should be dead. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: save your life. I'll see you in the morning. I
Speaker 1: wake up with one hundred tubes in my in my
Speaker 1: chest and in my mouth. I had a cock down
Speaker 1: in my throat. I had fucking all your all your
Speaker 1: fans would have been happy seeing me fucking dying. I
Speaker 1: had to fuck my fucking eyes and so I was
Speaker 1: there for six weeks in cardiac and I was in
Speaker 1: a week in I see you, I had both of
Speaker 1: my heart valves replaced with cowbalves, and I have a
Speaker 1: clamp that runs my heart. And fourteen months later I
Speaker 1: was back playing basketball like it never happened, and my
Speaker 1: wife wanted to fuck my surgeon. He was Greek, really thick,
Speaker 1: care perfect tan rolex. He had a surgeon jacket from
Speaker 1: six foot tall, handsome, shiny white vinear teeth. And she
Speaker 1: said to me, holy shit, I want to fuck the
Speaker 1: shit out of your surgeon. And she goes, I want
Speaker 1: to do it in the room by the radiant you're
Speaker 1: over there while you're laying in that fucking bead tied up,
Speaker 1: because I want your fucking life insurance. Motherfucker, I don't
Speaker 1: even love you, so she so the nurse came in afterwards,
Speaker 1: she goes, tell your fucking count wife to get in line.
Speaker 1: Just number one oh four. We all want to fucking
Speaker 1: why four kids rich lives in a mansion. But I
Speaker 1: was there for six weeks. By the time I was done, though,
Speaker 1: I was taking bets from uh the nursing staff was
Speaker 1: playing poker with him. I had my like mobster friends
Speaker 1: bringing pizzas and strombolis Vike it in purpose set because
Speaker 1: when you're in the hospital and you have heart surgery,
Speaker 1: they give you like a piece of lettuce and a
Speaker 1: pear every day to have a plan to have shit
Speaker 1: smuggled it. I'll never forget. My buddy's like a mobster,
Speaker 1: came in with a pizza. Lady's like, sure, that's not allowed.
Speaker 1: He was like, fuck off, bitch. She brought my pizza in.
Speaker 1: And then my nurse would let me have one slice
Speaker 1: of night in the microwave ove and he was nice
Speaker 1: enough to s meet me. Same guy in the morning
Speaker 1: would put me in the corner in the fucking shower
Speaker 1: spraying with a hose. Make it in the corner, my
Speaker 1: little new heart, and they would spray. It was like
Speaker 1: a scene out of a movie. It was awful.
Speaker 2: Bro. I you know we're older now, it's so it's
Speaker 2: I'm so happy to see that you have a change.
Speaker 3: This is the same energy you had when we were
Speaker 3: like fucking kids doing stupid radio.
Speaker 2: You're in you're insane. So did you have to change
Speaker 2: your diet? Did you have to do so?
Speaker 1: So? I lost? I got up to two forty and
Speaker 1: now I weigh like two twelve. I stopped eating. They
Speaker 1: made me stop literally eating junk food. I don't eat bread.
Speaker 1: I don't eat dessert. I had to stop drinking rum
Speaker 1: and coaps because I drink about three four doubles a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to stop drinking beer. They made me stop
Speaker 1: smoking weed. When they opened me up, he said I
Speaker 1: had coal miners lungs. I go, what's that? He goes,
Speaker 1: they're very black and it sappy. I was like, what
Speaker 1: the fuck does that mean? He goes, your lungs are
Speaker 1: gone done. I don't smoke, mother. People think I smoked
Speaker 1: because of my boys, smug fucking ganja for like thirty years,
Speaker 1: forty years. Yeah, So I quit that, and I don't
Speaker 1: do edibles. I don't do if I get into purpose,
Speaker 1: which is highly unfortunate. I don't do anything now. But
Speaker 1: I lost thirty pounds and I eat like fish, and
Speaker 1: I eat salad, I eat, and I eat pistachio nuts.
Speaker 1: Like that's another one. Your fans are like Burrell's eating
Speaker 1: nuts now for a living, Get out of that. That's
Speaker 1: all I eat is nuts, and I eat healthy, and
Speaker 1: I work out a lot, and I played basketball a lot,
Speaker 1: so I'm look dude, I think like for a sixty
Speaker 1: one year old. That will fuck you up. I put
Speaker 1: thirty on you right now. I play every day against
Speaker 1: all these retired NBA and D one stars. Yeah, either
Speaker 1: or not. I played in the best run in New
Speaker 1: York City, and I got in it because my daughter
Speaker 1: played for one of the guys that played at Villanova
Speaker 1: and he was her coach. My daughter was an All
Speaker 1: County Star basketball star, so she was the first girl
Speaker 1: that played with the boys. And he said one day
Speaker 1: to me, got any game, old man, I go. I
Speaker 1: got a little and so I went down and played.
Speaker 1: And then when I started showing up and they saw
Speaker 1: I was committed and that they could count on me,
Speaker 1: and I was dependable, and I would show up at
Speaker 1: five in the morning. Then I became part of the crew.
Speaker 1: And they're all way better than me. I played with
Speaker 1: guys like Andre Baret, who played in the NBA, played
Speaker 1: at Seaton Hall, played at Rice High School in New
Speaker 1: York City. I played with great players. I'm a good player.
Speaker 1: They're great players. I'm just a good player. I can score,
Speaker 1: I can finish, I can read on I can pass,
Speaker 1: and I can I'm just lucky I can play ope.
Speaker 1: After having an open heart surgery, it really sucks.
Speaker 3: So, by the way you keep mentioning the the Opien
Speaker 3: Anthony fan base, I would tell them to leave you.
Speaker 2: Alone, but they go after me now too, so they ah,
Speaker 2: they're eating me alive too.
Speaker 3: Because you know, being Anthony don't get along, so that
Speaker 3: they eat me alive too.
Speaker 2: So I can't even help you, Scott, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: This is all he does over there at Coumpound is great.
Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic that he started his own thing
Speaker 1: and the shows he does with Jim and I haven't
Speaker 1: seen Jim since I think Florentine's wedding. I was at
Speaker 1: that wedding as well, But those guys were all in
Speaker 1: anyone that's doing anything creative and that's doing something they
Speaker 1: love and then, yeah, enjoy doing in life. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of I don't have anything against either one of
Speaker 1: those guys. I understand that you may not get along
Speaker 1: with them. I'm cool with that too. Everybody has issues
Speaker 1: with Peovil. I just try to fucking go day to
Speaker 1: day and just do my thing, play ball, work out,
Speaker 1: have a couple of Vodkas now, I will tell you
Speaker 1: I'll have a couple of vodka Zobie because I commence myself.
Speaker 1: It's low calorie vodka, and I can see through the
Speaker 1: right like so that the coke is what's bad for
Speaker 1: the rum is sugar and that's bad and the coke
Speaker 1: is really bad for you. So when you can see
Speaker 1: through your cocktail, also still see through a vodka cranberry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can see through the glass. And yeah, someone on
Speaker 1: the other side, I'm willing to have five to ten
Speaker 1: of those.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, fair enough, we haven't even talked to
Speaker 3: we haven't even talked sports.
Speaker 2: Uh, you're making a.
Speaker 3: Shit tont do it on the Boston Red Sox, who
Speaker 3: are having a killer year. I'm not a huge baseball
Speaker 3: fan these days, but I understand that the Red Sox
Speaker 3: are crushing it. And aren't you like a Yankees fan,
Speaker 3: but you're you're rooting for the Socks because you're making
Speaker 3: money off them.
Speaker 1: I mean I am, but like I went to the
Speaker 1: Yankee doubleheader against the Pirates a couple weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I went to both games, and I whatever one o'clock
Speaker 1: and seven o'clock, right, I got home at five point
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. Jesus Christ, going to a baseball game,
Speaker 1: that's when you know you're sick, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: this much. Let me just give you the numbers. It's crazy, right.
Speaker 1: So they this is lap just last night. They were
Speaker 1: down to nothing. They were down four to nothing. They
Speaker 1: were down four two, they were down five two, they
Speaker 1: were down five three, they were down seven five, they
Speaker 1: were down seven to six. They were down nine seven,
Speaker 1: they were down nine eight, they were down ten nine,
Speaker 1: they were down eleven ten and they won the game. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then how about this. It gets even better than that.
Speaker 1: You have to even hear it to believe it. They
Speaker 1: came back five times during this eight game street they
Speaker 1: beat the White Sack twelve, eleven, and thirteen and eight straight.
Speaker 1: They've won twenty six of twenty nine games. Jesus are
Speaker 1: now twelve games over five hundred, and they were twelve
Speaker 1: games under five hundred on June twenty fourth, and on
Speaker 1: that day they started the next day, they started on
Speaker 1: the twenty five at the four game series with the Yankees,
Speaker 1: and David Cone was doing the game and he goes,
Speaker 1: you know, this is where they can turn around their
Speaker 1: season that year. I cheet it out. Fuck up, They're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, are you fucking kidding? They swept the
Speaker 1: series and they've lost three times since that day. And
Speaker 1: so what I did was opie. As you know, I
Speaker 1: have a massive gambling problem, and I bet literally on
Speaker 1: the Red Sox every single fucking day since. And people
Speaker 1: know because I you know, I sell picks like I've
Speaker 1: always done. I've always had right my company profitable. Dot
Speaker 1: tv is where people buy pavages to get my picks.
Speaker 1: I have thousands of people customers that buy my bets
Speaker 1: because I'm fucking good at making people money and I'm
Speaker 1: good at betting, and like, for instance, I just had
Speaker 1: a run of twenty out of twenty five bets. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox. I just had a run of twenty
Speaker 1: three out of thirty. I mean, I'm hitting it. An
Speaker 1: eighty percent clip, a seventy six percent clip, fifty two
Speaker 1: you have like a semi would. If you're at fifty
Speaker 1: five percent in Vegas, you're a fucking ron airing me.
Speaker 1: And in Vegas if you're in the seventies or I'm
Speaker 1: fucking king, I'm fucking king fucking all right, all right,
Speaker 1: well how much how much?
Speaker 2: How much money did you make in this run?
Speaker 1: So you know the rollover, the rollover, if you did it,
Speaker 1: you're talking about making I think it's somewhere around. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I think it's somewhere around seventy
Speaker 1: five seventy six thousand dollars if you like, rolled over
Speaker 1: every single day on the money line. And I could
Speaker 1: be wrong about the number, but I've made a lot
Speaker 1: of money. Okay. So I bet on him every night,
Speaker 1: and like, I woke up, So I go to bed early,
Speaker 1: and I get up at five to play ball. So
Speaker 1: I go to bed to games and like the fucking
Speaker 1: second inning. When I go to bed, I wake up,
Speaker 1: I'm pissing. I got a fucking boner. I'm pissing. In
Speaker 1: the morning, I look at my phone twelve eleven, I'm like, God, damn,
Speaker 1: they fucking did it again. They win every fucking night,
Speaker 1: and the Braves are one eight in a row as well.
Speaker 1: So when I get a team hot, I always bet
Speaker 1: on teams that are hot on heaters. Yet the team
Speaker 1: on a heater, you ride it. You ride that hull
Speaker 1: until she stops sucking dud.
Speaker 2: You're you're obviously crushing it. Look how big your chain is?
Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, I haven't say uh that I'm a
Speaker 1: fucking fag because I wear a gold chain. Gave me
Speaker 1: this chain twenty six years ago. When I'm still with
Speaker 1: her and you can fucking eat a cock and you
Speaker 1: don't like my chain again, fight again. We're not fighting, alright.
Speaker 2: This is love. This is pure love right now.
Speaker 1: I just people like you. Just see me when I
Speaker 1: go out to dinner. I wear a fucking diamond pinky
Speaker 1: ring too, you fucking bitch.
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, one last thing.
Speaker 1: I'm now sweating. You got me fucking one last thing
Speaker 1: because I try to keep a heart attack on the
Speaker 1: Opie Live.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we haven't even talked to the ratings.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to come back because we barely did anything.
Speaker 2: We just were just catching up and I tried to.
Speaker 1: Talk to you about the really quick. The Dodgers deferred
Speaker 1: money the contracts they have through twenty forty eight is
Speaker 1: one point one billion. There are sixteen teams combined in
Speaker 1: baseball that have a deferred payment of one point one billion.
Speaker 1: Sixteen teams combined all their deferred payments equals the same
Speaker 1: amount as the Dodgers are paying just their team their
Speaker 1: luxury tax. Listen to this is also I think it's
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven million dollars their luxury tax
Speaker 1: this year. And there are sixteen teams in baseball with
Speaker 1: a lower entire team payroll than their fucking tax bill.
Speaker 1: They have to pay that to pay this team they have,
Speaker 1: they have to pay a luxury tax bill, and they
Speaker 1: have to pay that bill. That bill is higher than
Speaker 1: sixteen teams payroll entirely. So you wonder why they're in
Speaker 1: the World Series every year, just like the Yankees used
Speaker 1: to do it. They're buying their championship. Yeahyball, moneyball. Indiana
Speaker 1: bought their college football title forty million dollars payroll. Now,
Speaker 1: I went to Indiana, right and I was there for
Speaker 1: one of the three Bob Knight national championships. I worked
Speaker 1: for Bob Knight. We wanted an eighty seven. We beat Syracuse.
Speaker 1: The schools won five basketball national titles in their history.
Speaker 1: Never before had they been good in football. They sucked it.
Speaker 1: But last year they became the first team in the
Speaker 1: history of college football to go sixteen and zero, and
Speaker 1: they did it with a forty million dollar nil payroll
Speaker 1: and a great coach, Kurt Signetti. So today in sports
Speaker 1: Opie the lesson of the day on the Obie Live podcast.
Speaker 1: Is money buys you everything? Of course shan't buy you happiness,
Speaker 1: bull fucking well, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: But the Dodgers are fucking up baseball because all the
Speaker 3: small market teams don't even have a chance.
Speaker 1: When they have open day for a strike December first,
Speaker 1: they'll get a lockout, which will turn into a strike.
Speaker 1: What's the difference if the owners lockout the players or
Speaker 1: the players strike either or baseball will not happen. The
Speaker 1: last time it's not happened was nineteen ninety four, ninety five,
Speaker 1: no World Series. Get ready, because you know what, the
Speaker 1: players will never accept a salary cap when they're getting
Speaker 1: paid contract like they earn now right, Soto steel he
Speaker 1: got seven hundred and fifty million fucking dollars and the
Speaker 1: Mets swallow cops. Yeah, I only got seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars.
Speaker 2: I only got two minutes left.
Speaker 3: But I got to ask you, because you are a
Speaker 3: basketball guy, what's your thoughts on the trans athletes possibly
Speaker 3: going into the WNBA. It's starting to look more and
Speaker 3: more like a real possibility. Where are you at with
Speaker 3: trans athletes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think kicks with Dick
Speaker 1: should be playing against women. I'm not. I'm not and
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in a war with these people. I
Speaker 1: don't give a shit. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Guys dominate chicks in sports. That's all there is. Too. Like,
Speaker 1: I played with a chick the other day. She played
Speaker 1: Division one college basketball. She was great, she saw the floor,
Speaker 1: she shot well, she's hitting threes, making great passage, she
Speaker 1: knew how to run an offense. She did everything. But
Speaker 1: she also didn't have a dick right right.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think it's obvious too, but I
Speaker 3: would love for someone to explain to me why this is.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't get I don't get it.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 3: And the WNBA is gonna, you know, they're gonna fuck
Speaker 3: it up. But everyone's paying attention to the WNBA. They're
Speaker 3: gonna fuck They're not in that league's blowing up right now,
Speaker 3: and it's right huge.
Speaker 1: I think it's it can be okay at times, it
Speaker 1: can be decent. It can be fawn man, I enjoy it, okay,
Speaker 1: so it can be good. It can be good. I've
Speaker 1: also seen it very bad. I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, really bad basketball. When i've watched it. Listen,
Speaker 1: I just learned to say that when the Knicks won
Speaker 1: the title, I honestly it was better than fucking popping
Speaker 1: ant Like. I actually thought it was the greatest night
Speaker 1: of my life because I had waited thirty years for
Speaker 1: that shit, and I watched that suck for thirty years. Basically,
Speaker 1: I mean, they made it ninety four ninety nine, but
Speaker 1: see them win it all the way they did in
Speaker 1: five games against that guy Wemby. I fucking partied so
Speaker 1: hard with my son and watched that game. That was
Speaker 1: the greatest. Like my six Steeler Super Bowls and my
Speaker 1: five Penguin Stanley Cups, couple Pirate World Series that I
Speaker 1: went to nothing. You know, the Penguins and Steelers mean
Speaker 1: more to me, but I love the Knicks so much
Speaker 1: and to see him win it, it was fucking better
Speaker 1: than stacks.
Speaker 3: All right, let's cut it off. Here we caught up.
Speaker 3: This is my old friend Scott Farrell. We buried the
Speaker 3: hatchet many years ago, but I guess the old fan
Speaker 3: base doesn't know that. Give the big plug, Scott.
Speaker 1: Just keep killing it, Opie. I don't need to plug anything,
Speaker 1: but Pharrell use on X and hate me all you
Speaker 1: fucking want.
Speaker 2: There you go, the great Scott Farrell. Thanks guys,