I always enjoyed him. I feel he didn't have the skills to manage other people which led to many of his issues with staff. He got zero respect from everyone.
I really don't like opie and when he says "I hate steve on the radio," it annoys the shit out of me. Steve was gold. Jim and Ant would go off and it would always be hilarious. Also Steve did have good produced bits. Opie bashed steve on the air but it was never funny. It was always about how he wasn't good but in a serious way. I do believe that's probably why Steve got fired and before that, he was an emotional wreck so that wouldn't help him at all.
@Savage Cabbage there's 2 sides to that story.. he was making bank on the website. He was completely indiscriminate in terms of selling ad space to fucking anybody and excessively littering the entire site with them.. I don't blame steve for doing that, but for him to act like he was losing money and needed to be comped for running the site? Fuck no. Even when he was still working there, several times they approached Steve about relieving him and foundrymusic. As an EP it shouldn't have been on him to begin with. So what did he do? immediately balk at the proposition and begin backpedaling.. foundrymusic was making him a significant percentage of his annual income. Giving up the site would be immediately waving bye bye to several thousand dollars. He wanted it to be both ways.. doesn't work like that. You can't bitch about something and then tell a person to fuck off and leave them alone when you present them with a solution.
I can see some of the grounds for the financial dispute -- Steve was obviously marketing the site + ads all over creation (for personal profit) if gay male porn banners were popping up on the website -- that's not a joke, I'm honestly saying that his paid-adverts got out of control -- on the other hand, he was a 'fan who slowly matriculated onto the show,' and perceived his on-air wages as not covering his prior and off-hours web work. Anthony seems to genuinely enjoy Steve, even during the Steve-vs-Danny interludes. Opie gives off an entirely different vibe; towards the latter years, he's obviously all done with the guy. Doesn't seem like a deserved reaction IMHO.
Would have been better if Steve was sitting in Opies chair and the roles were reversed. Imagine Opie producing the show. He might have actually been good at that.
Opie complaining about Steve’s improv is awfully rich. When have you ever heard opie even try to improv? He was too scared to try. Steve C dwarfs opies contributions to the show. Steve C rocked.
Same thing with e rock as the "virus". Opie made fun of him constantly about not being able to come up with a punchline, but opie was the only other one that couldn't either 😂
But in defense of Opie he never claimed to be a stand-up comedian or improv actor. Guess what else? You don't need to be something or do something to have an opinion or critique on it. He didn't contribute to the show? If you don't have a normal radio guy there the show would have gone off the rails. Opie is dumb, that's for sure. However, he deserves credit for the things he did do. His contribution was being the professional broadcaster on the show. Keeping the advertisers happy and yes, taking calls, cuz that was part of having a radio show back then
Steve stepped on rakes constantly. Sam made fun of him for it, they all did. Steve was caught in multiple lies just in this clip alone. I don’t want to shit on the guy, I thought he was great, but they are right that he created most of his own problems. And he was paranoid and he did have a victim complex. Sam had nothing to do with that. And it’s not Sam‘s fault that Steve lied constantly. Sam didn’t treat Steve any differently than he ever treated anyone else. Some people don’t like that personality type, and that’s fair. But the idea that he was some kind of undermining snake is ridiculous when he did everything in the open. Most of it made the air at one point or another. You make it sound like he was hiding the things he did, nothing could be further from the truth.
It's really something how Opie can fail at everything nearly 100% of the time. People love Steve C on the radio, ant and Jim cracking everyone up whenever he's on, and Opie hates it. It just never ceases to amaze me how Opie is off the mark every. fucking. time. For 20 years.
Opie is like joe Biden he never mnows wbat to say or what is going on i hate greg hughes and alter ego opie. At least they'll both go to hell at the same time.
generally, in the rarer instances where opie is right, or on the mark, it gets soiled by: repetition of the same joke/point until it decays into a 'funny' voice. dragging someone who wasnt paying attention/was doing something else into the bit: halting all flow/progress. not paying attention and squashing someone elses bit/joke. being uninteresting, or uncertain how to defend his point or idea. Although the mayor menino apology is probably his high point.
This video is also coincidentally the greatest display of Opie's awfulness. Opie's constant bitching about Steve's work on air in a serious tone is probably what got Steve fired. Everyone else was in a joking mood about it but Opie took it extremely serious.
Did what are you talking about, erock, Danny, Sam, Than, all seriously bitched about Steve. I love Steve C but the idea that Opie was the only one is just wrong. Btw love the profile pic and name, great flick
@@zachpalmero1356 I was talking about between the hosts of the show (Opie, Ant and Jim) Opie was the only one angry for real. There's a difference between the host of the show bitching and the interns/producers bitching (who do you think the higher-ups listen to the most?). Also Anthony did say that Opie fueled the hate towards Steve and that Opie turned the staff on the show against each other, and showed favoritism. Everyone made jokes about Erock but Opie was the only one of the hosts that was genuinly awful towards him in a serious manner as well.
As comedically mean as the show is- Opie was just a plain bully to Steve. No humour at all, he clearly hated him and couldn’t wait to stick the knife in
Opie going on the "Monday Conspiracy" was the moment he outed himself for what he was. They were making hundreds of thousands a year on their contract while Steve had to schlep it out for what what probably lower-mid five figures. There was no profit-sharing or contract incentive for Steve to throw away days-off he had earned. Ant and Jimmy did express some reservation and concern, but it was Opie who made him toe-the-line and explain himself and I really wish Steve had called him on it right there.
Steve would have died on that hill instantly. Although, he was too naïve to realise that it was already over by that point for him. He’d lost the respect of the presenters and producers
Steve’s Monday plan pissed off his coworkers, too. Missing every Monday? On a radio show? Steve had to know it was a terrible idea but lacked self awareness. Love the guy, but Opie also knew it would make great radio and he was right. People still reference it to this day. Opie has his flaws but I’m not going to nitpick on the Monday thing, especially considering it came out later than Ant was pissed about it too but let Opie be “the boss” yet again. At least Opie went to Steve’s funeral and gave his respects to the family. Ant skipped it.
It seriously is. Youd think management would jump at the chance to replace someone that was a constant pain doing shit like re-signing at the last possible second. They could have dropped ANYBODY in there and it would have been better. Could have saved a shitload of money too.
I love counting how many times Opie goes to the feedback from audience for a joke and he doesn't read it correctly and isn't funny as it's met with silence from everyone
Man, I think Steve's strength was in production, he was a writer and a producer, and he had a great laugh and was great fodder for jokes, but it seems like the guys put him in this corner where, even if he said something funny, they'd all just look at him. Good writer, decent singer, decent guitar player. I wish they would have had him back after he was let go by Sirius. It sucks that he made that stupid, impulsive decision to end his temporary problem with a permanent solution, RIP Steven Carr, child abandoner
I listened to the memorial that Eric (E Rock) did, but I'll be listening to the entirety of this as well. Rest in peace Steve C and good health to his wife and child.
Listening back on it, I can clearly hear Ant (and most especially Ant + Jim) goading Opie to tell stupid obviously-fabricated personal stories, then murmuring "Oh yeah," "Oh sure," "Oh I bet you did" as he gets carried away. Went on for easily a decade.
@@leetskeet4476 Jimmy let it slip one day. They were joking about Steve after hid death and Jimmy called him Suicide Steve, he proceeded to ask for that to get removed from future broadcasts. Then as of recently Anthony blamed Gregg for Steve's suicide. The family also refused to let his cause of death to be released, telltale sign of suicide.
@@RealGateGuardian Well, what Anthony said was "He wound up killing Steve C...!" at the end of a list of shitty things Opie did over the years - then after a few seconds he said "I'm kidding of course about that last one." I do think it was more than just a joke, though.
If ever one bit distilled the worst of Opie it’s arguing about the Mondays off. He makes multiple references to how he plucked Steve from obscurity and how close he comes to stopping them from making “great radio”, but obviously Opie overcomes it. Obviously only the real greats talk about how good they are rather than letting the work speak for itself or others talking about it via word of mouth. Marketing is what you say about yourself...keep telling people how great you are and it has to be true. Steve C says something in that bit like “it’s cool, I was in the wrong but you’ve cultivated a work environment that’s like the Lord of the Flies. Staff backstabbing each other to get some faint recognition from Opie. Most of the time Jimmy and Ant don’t really care when Opie brings up stuff, they’re just trying to back him up. Then you hear bits like Opie refusing to have a 10 minute meeting and wanting to throw your speakers at the wall as he steps on another great joke. Then there’s just the nastiness that he seems to think is “edgy” like the fugitive bit with Bobo where it’s hilarious until it’s apparent that Bobo is really worried that he’s in trouble and his mother is out of pocket having spent $40 to get them all Turkey. The others all want to end it letting him know he’s off the hook and I think someone brings up reimbursing his mother but Opie just says “fuck him”. Arrgghhh, drove me mad cos in that fugitive section Bobo is funnier than Opie was throughout the course of the show. Norton had a good comparison that Opie is like if a conductor became resentful of the musicians so he uses the wand to just hit the instruments so he can make any noise that’s loud so he can heard rather than be happy he’s helping people make something tuneful and being paid handsomely for it. Sorry for the long comment, but I’ve been listening to way too much OandA recently and the show is good despite his best efforts to ruin it.
As much as I despise Gregg "Opie" Hughes, the Mondays thing really was shitty of Steve. So many people don't seem to understand that he didn't actually _earn_ all those Mondays off, it was an anomaly that arose because of the merger and the legality of the XM contracts and Sirius contracts. There's a maximum amount of vacation days people can earn per year and if you don't take them within the year you lose them. The reality is everyone else there had 'earned' the same amount of vacation days as Steve but they all had the sense to realize if they all took them the show would come to a screeching halt, would probably get cancelled and they'd all be out of a job. Steve C was the only one to think "Oh, fuck everyone else, I'll take all my days off while they're making the 'sacrifice'. It was just a shitty thing. Opie was way over the top, and considering how much of a cunt he was to Steve C every day he can't exactly act surprised Steve C booked all those days off just to get away from him and the toxic environment he'd created, but still, Steve C was in the wrong.
@@E101ification you sound like every inept boss, ever. "Here, have all this vacation time. But you shouldn't use it before you lose it." The real world doesn't work like that. It's not like he took every day off for 2 months. He took Monday's off. The show would not have come to a screeching halt. Someone else would have to step up (like that patsy, Sam) or Monday's would have been less-than. People do this in the real world all the time. I'd bet that almost 0 companies or departments within them failed because people used the vacation time that was given to them.
@@dogfacedgod Exactly. They should let them take the days or pay them out. Plus Opie took so many days off for “his allergy attacks” that the company wanted to charge him for it, the hypocritical douche.
Lol I just don’t understand why they rid him so hard for the Monday conspiracy, he immediately clears it up and no harm was done. Yet, Opie whines about “what does he ever do for the show?” The hours of material for this compilation, Pendulum, all RAMONE prank calls, grrr, no no no no no, get out now? Pure gold.
Most valuable producer they ever had. Him and Erock. They had seniority there and provided a shitload of content and never bitched or connived. I don’t hate the other producers, but no one is looking up a Sam Roberts or Danny compilation. Sam could take a joke more than Danny. Danny couldn’t take one at all. But they got treated really well considering the environment.
Jordan Dixon - Opie: hold on, hold on, hold on, wait a minute...why are you blowing up his spot? (Homer): boring, boring, (Homer): Boooo Think that is pretty much the “best of” Opie. All that’s missing is stepping on something really funny by going to the phones or talking about Howard Stern to the point that Ant and Jim clearly feel forced to come in and back him. Stern didn’t even realise he was in a feud.
"I hate Steve C on the radio." - Says the person who ruined this compilation. I honestly think Opie is just jealous because Steve makes radio gold and Opie just gets shit on for being a train wreck of comedy. I kinda get what might've lead to Steve's mindset towards the end though. It is brutal listening to O&A have these "HR Moments" on-air with Steve that are supposed to be internal. That Steve C. paranoid at 04:02:03 definitely shows he had been beaten down by that point.
I wonder what Norton's angle was here. When he started, I first thought it was Jimmy's traditional "ask probing serious questions as if he doesn't get it" schtick -- which I typically find insufferable -- but, as it goes on, it feels more like Norton is probing some sort of why-aren't-you-happy-here, why-are-you-so-touchy thing. Basically a gentler foreshadowing of what Opie himself does to Norton a few years later: why are you being so quiet, you're paranoid, don't you like it here, if you don't like it here you shouldn't hang around on the show till October. Sort of a destructive spiral. If everyone picks everyone else apart, eventually it'll come down to the last man standing, or nobody at all, which is effectively what we're seeing in 2019/2020.
04:02:00 God damnit, this is fucked up.. Steve was so DEEPLY hurt and not even trying to hide it any longer. He was completely broken by this point.. I love laughing at Steve C, but it seems like the office took it way too far. His fucking subordinates were openly disrespecting him on a regular basis.. fuck.. I've heard all of these O&A clips tons of times, but this one is way more brutal than I remember. Honestly it makes me really fucking sad. He should still be here.
I actually checked out his band Foundry Musics album on TH-cam a few years back and the band wasn't bad at all. They sounded like a band who had some good written songs and you could tell if they kept playing together they would of gotten tighter and really found their sound and possibly could of been a steady touring band making money. Damn shame he let his demons get too him and he did what he did. Damn shame man.
The way Opie cranks on the sound effect board in these old clips really is grating. Maybe at the time it was cool but now I find it grating. I think I've heard him play jim bruer laughing for no reason like a thousand times.
Ohhhh holy fuck, is the Jim Breuer laugh the one he uses all the fucking time? Its like obscenely loud and obnoxious fake.. wow. If it's the drop I'm thinking, the entire time I thought that opie was playing a sample of himself obnoxiously laughing.. in retrospect I have no clue why I thought thatm.
@@tarrasque419 yesssssss stay with me here. that's a thing right? The opester gas lit us dood! Like he solidly did this for at least a week or something?
Listening back on it, I can clearly hear Ant (and most especially Ant + Jim) goading Opie to tell stupid obviously-fabricated personal stories, then murmuring "Oh yeah," "Oh sure," "Oh I bet you did" as he gets carried away. Went on for easily a decade.
"Glory Glory Hole-ellujah" is one of the funniest fuckin' things I have ever heard a caller say!! This clip proves that some of the fans were absolutely hilarious!
steve deserved better, not that he was treated badly by jimmy or ant, maybe he was by opie and sam. But i wish he wouldve stayed with o&a and became a huge part of the show. wouldve loved to see him on the compound
Steve did a lot for O&A. I used to listen to them on regular radio back in like 2000 or so. He started giving them an internet presence by posting bits like 50 gallon drum challenge online. They resented him because he didn’t lose his job when everyone got fired from WNEW… I forget what the reasoning was, maybe he wasn’t an official employee of the show but WNEW itself or something like that. Black Earl kept his job too. But Steve put his time in for them and obviously gave them countless hours of material for the show. RIP
If that dude doing the Star Wars One-Man Show decided to not try to impersonate extremely famous characters voices and decided to do the show as Voices he can actually do (whatever those voices might be, because these aren't it/If he can do Tony Danza or something, make Tony Danza be Han Solo) because he has the script written close to the real thing so it could be a Parody and he could have had to pay nothing to Lucas, he would be actually successful and rich. Selling Out is easy when 90% of the tickets are Free with a 2 Drink Minimum.
I always laughed at the flaming bear that was Steve C whether they were making fun of him or 1 of his bits or whatever. Honestly hope his widow and child are doing good.
A nice guy who had no clue what he was walking into. Stunned that he decided to walk back in, after being hung up twice. He had to have known that Jimmy was the caller.
A fan once did a sort of hip-hop song about Steve with lots of references, with the 'nothing but cock-meat' line as part of the hook. If anyone could find it, that'd be amazing
Ive always wondered about why he killed himself. They did bash him a lot but i really dont think this is what set him over the edge. He didn’t seem annoyed enough during this to take his own life imo
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Almost 10 years later and i still do the YESSSSS any time i hear Steve. It just never fucking ends. RIP
I walk around my shop and "grrrrr" still to this day and make that jetsons car noise whenever we get a hybrid in to work on
Same and nobody around me gets the reference 😂
And that man’s name was… _STEEEEEVE CARLISIIIIIIII!!_
@@Zzz-j2f YESSSSSSSS
Even today listening to TH-cam at work and I hear a "yeeeesss" and it brings a smile to my face. Rip to Steve.
I honestly miss him. I loved his promos, especially Ramone.
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Open your mouth!
I always enjoyed him. I feel he didn't have the skills to manage other people which led to many of his issues with staff. He got zero respect from everyone.
We all loved Steve C.
R.I.P.
Yes
RIP Stevie...Hopefully you're up there watermarking random shit
3 Shot Tim Knight hahahha
God is furious that Steve is watermarking everything up there.
@jerry cruz Ramon is working Mondays
Every cloud has a foundry logo
I really don't like opie and when he says "I hate steve on the radio," it annoys the shit out of me. Steve was gold. Jim and Ant would go off and it would always be hilarious. Also Steve did have good produced bits. Opie bashed steve on the air but it was never funny. It was always about how he wasn't good but in a serious way. I do believe that's probably why Steve got fired and before that, he was an emotional wreck so that wouldn't help him at all.
Opie was the one that stunk on the air.
@Savage Cabbage there's 2 sides to that story.. he was making bank on the website. He was completely indiscriminate in terms of selling ad space to fucking anybody and excessively littering the entire site with them..
I don't blame steve for doing that, but for him to act like he was losing money and needed to be comped for running the site? Fuck no. Even when he was still working there, several times they approached Steve about relieving him and foundrymusic. As an EP it shouldn't have been on him to begin with. So what did he do? immediately balk at the proposition and begin backpedaling.. foundrymusic was making him a significant percentage of his annual income. Giving up the site would be immediately waving bye bye to several thousand dollars.
He wanted it to be both ways.. doesn't work like that. You can't bitch about something and then tell a person to fuck off and leave them alone when you present them with a solution.
I can see some of the grounds for the financial dispute -- Steve was obviously marketing the site + ads all over creation (for personal profit) if gay male porn banners were popping up on the website -- that's not a joke, I'm honestly saying that his paid-adverts got out of control -- on the other hand, he was a 'fan who slowly matriculated onto the show,' and perceived his on-air wages as not covering his prior and off-hours web work.
Anthony seems to genuinely enjoy Steve, even during the Steve-vs-Danny interludes. Opie gives off an entirely different vibe; towards the latter years, he's obviously all done with the guy. Doesn't seem like a deserved reaction IMHO.
Would have been better if Steve was sitting in Opies chair and the roles were reversed. Imagine Opie producing the show. He might have actually been good at that.
At this point, I think everyone agrees that Opie was utterly useless and an all around douche.
Opie complaining about Steve’s improv is awfully rich. When have you ever heard opie even try to improv? He was too scared to try. Steve C dwarfs opies contributions to the show. Steve C rocked.
Same thing with e rock as the "virus". Opie made fun of him constantly about not being able to come up with a punchline, but opie was the only other one that couldn't either 😂
Yeah but one man is swaying in the wind and the other has a hit podcast that competes with the likes of Joe Rogan. Rich rich.
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Aren’t you forgetting, “let’s go to the phones” 🙄 keep up
But in defense of Opie he never claimed to be a stand-up comedian or improv actor.
Guess what else? You don't need to be something or do something to have an opinion or critique on it.
He didn't contribute to the show? If you don't have a normal radio guy there the show would have gone off the rails.
Opie is dumb, that's for sure. However, he deserves credit for the things he did do.
His contribution was being the professional broadcaster on the show. Keeping the advertisers happy and yes, taking calls, cuz that was part of having a radio show back then
Sam crept in his shadow while undermining him the whole time like a snake!
Ye?
you noticed too?
Steve stepped on rakes constantly. Sam made fun of him for it, they all did. Steve was caught in multiple lies just in this clip alone. I don’t want to shit on the guy, I thought he was great, but they are right that he created most of his own problems. And he was paranoid and he did have a victim complex. Sam had nothing to do with that. And it’s not Sam‘s fault that Steve lied constantly. Sam didn’t treat Steve any differently than he ever treated anyone else. Some people don’t like that personality type, and that’s fair. But the idea that he was some kind of undermining snake is ridiculous when he did everything in the open. Most of it made the air at one point or another. You make it sound like he was hiding the things he did, nothing could be further from the truth.
Its always the usual suspects
Sam was still hilarious back then.
The pendulum is swingin back the other whheeeyy
The lounge version of Pendulum was stuck in my head as I was in the check out line at the grocery store.
I frequently have the lounge, Johnny Cash, 8-bit, and original versions in my head
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Another great video TEFFT. Your live streaming video marathon is such a brilliant idea. Keep up the hard work man. It doesn't go unappreciated.
Steve was such a great person of the O&A show,been listening to clips for many years.Such a good guy,wish he was still here.
It's really something how Opie can fail at everything nearly 100% of the time. People love Steve C on the radio, ant and Jim cracking everyone up whenever he's on, and Opie hates it. It just never ceases to amaze me how Opie is off the mark every. fucking. time. For 20 years.
Opie is like joe Biden he never mnows wbat to say or what is going on i hate greg hughes and alter ego opie. At least they'll both go to hell at the same time.
Well somebody had to steer tha ship! He’s been doin ray-di-oh since he was 18!
generally, in the rarer instances where opie is right, or on the mark, it gets soiled by:
repetition of the same joke/point until it decays into a 'funny' voice.
dragging someone who wasnt paying attention/was doing something else into the bit: halting all flow/progress.
not paying attention and squashing someone elses bit/joke.
being uninteresting, or uncertain how to defend his point or idea.
Although the mayor menino apology is probably his high point.
The Radio God works in very mysterious ways,...!!!!
That's terrible I'm sorry.
Opie actually mad about the mondays while everyone else is goofing. So annoying
Greggshells at its worst
He really was the definition of a shit boss. If you don't use your time off, you lose it. But, if you try to use it all up-- you're getting shit on.
6:42:50 And he wanted to snitch to the big boss (off-air btw, so you can’t even say it was a bit)
Steve C was a goddamn treasure
a wonderful, hairy, hybrid mess of a treasure
Still a treasure, just buried now...
@Miles Davidson Ugh...the whole using the word 'beta' thing....
@Miles Davidson Is there something about being an alpha that renders you unable to spell?
He was worth it just for the parody voices Ant and Jimmy would do of him alone
Ope really thought that minute long visual family guy clip would be a huuuge hit.
No see the first 15 seconds that actually had the guy talking which was the entire point wasn't clear enough. Haha family guy
Martini Steve caught a lot of shit, but I think the Steve C years as producer were the height of OnA, aside from WNEW.
@D Ceased I've only been into O&A for about 5/6 years now, and there is definitely a difference with the WNEW clips and it's not a good difference...
I always loved when Norton couldn't keep it together screaming Ramone lines. Him breaking Is the best.
Jimmy leaving to do Steve from Yellowstone to a guy that was in studio was fucking ruthless.
Darth Vader has aids.
Sam pushed him over the edge. And he could care less.
I believe it's couldn't care less.
why would anyone click on this and "dislike" it? this is great. thanks for taking the time to do this.
In honor of Steve C Yeeeeeeessssssss!!!!!
This video is also coincidentally the greatest display of Opie's awfulness. Opie's constant bitching about Steve's work on air in a serious tone is probably what got Steve fired. Everyone else was in a joking mood about it but Opie took it extremely serious.
"I hate Steve on the radio"
Kind of a hilarious thing for someone who is almost universally hated as a radio host to say. Self awareness level - 0
Did what are you talking about, erock, Danny, Sam, Than, all seriously bitched about Steve. I love Steve C but the idea that Opie was the only one is just wrong.
Btw love the profile pic and name, great flick
@@zachpalmero1356 I was talking about between the hosts of the show (Opie, Ant and Jim) Opie was the only one angry for real. There's a difference between the host of the show bitching and the interns/producers bitching (who do you think the higher-ups listen to the most?). Also Anthony did say that Opie fueled the hate towards Steve and that Opie turned the staff on the show against each other, and showed favoritism. Everyone made jokes about Erock but Opie was the only one of the hosts that was genuinly awful towards him in a serious manner as well.
As comedically mean as the show is- Opie was just a plain bully to Steve. No humour at all, he clearly hated him and couldn’t wait to stick the knife in
Opie going on the "Monday Conspiracy" was the moment he outed himself for what he was. They were making hundreds of thousands a year on their contract while Steve had to schlep it out for what what probably lower-mid five figures. There was no profit-sharing or contract incentive for Steve to throw away days-off he had earned. Ant and Jimmy did express some reservation and concern, but it was Opie who made him toe-the-line and explain himself and I really wish Steve had called him on it right there.
Hundreds of thousands? They were making atleast low 7 figures. Upwards of 5 million at some point.
That would have been like calling out Stalin on air, with predictable results. Always shells, all the time.
Steve would have died on that hill instantly. Although, he was too naïve to realise that it was already over by that point for him. He’d lost the respect of the presenters and producers
Steve’s Monday plan pissed off his coworkers, too. Missing every Monday? On a radio show? Steve had to know it was a terrible idea but lacked self awareness. Love the guy, but Opie also knew it would make great radio and he was right. People still reference it to this day. Opie has his flaws but I’m not going to nitpick on the Monday thing, especially considering it came out later than Ant was pissed about it too but let Opie be “the boss” yet again. At least Opie went to Steve’s funeral and gave his respects to the family. Ant skipped it.
Steve should have shot Opie and Sam before he offed himself.
How Opie kept getting re-signed is beyond logic.
It seriously is. Youd think management would jump at the chance to replace someone that was a constant pain doing shit like re-signing at the last possible second. They could have dropped ANYBODY in there and it would have been better. Could have saved a shitload of money too.
Do not go gentle into that good night you big bear.
Grrr
Grrrr grrr against the dying of the light
(Ahbooooo)
I love counting how many times Opie goes to the feedback from audience for a joke and he doesn't read it correctly and isn't funny as it's met with silence from everyone
Man, I think Steve's strength was in production, he was a writer and a producer, and he had a great laugh and was great fodder for jokes, but it seems like the guys put him in this corner where, even if he said something funny, they'd all just look at him. Good writer, decent singer, decent guitar player. I wish they would have had him back after he was let go by Sirius. It sucks that he made that stupid, impulsive decision to end his temporary problem with a permanent solution, RIP Steven Carr, child abandoner
he could play that one song really well
I listened to the memorial that Eric (E Rock) did, but I'll be listening to the entirety of this as well. Rest in peace Steve C and good health to his wife and child.
legit felt bad for the star wars guy, he sounded like he was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown.. lmao
2:55:42 Opie is the worst! So annoying with his fake bravado.
Listening back on it, I can clearly hear Ant (and most especially Ant + Jim) goading Opie to tell stupid obviously-fabricated personal stories, then murmuring "Oh yeah," "Oh sure," "Oh I bet you did" as he gets carried away. Went on for easily a decade.
@@sskoog okay opis
Appreciate this Tefft, Steve C is missed
Man, I completely forgot about Steve in GTA. Almost like I never heard of that. Wow. What a rush down memory lane. I miss the guy
Never realized until right now how many times Steve joked about killing himself.
ShadowRulah I've relistened to years and years if O and A and Steve talks about it a lot
Christ, it was right in front of us...
@@RealGateGuardian he offed himself? Always figured he died from some health condition
@@leetskeet4476 Jimmy let it slip one day. They were joking about Steve after hid death and Jimmy called him Suicide Steve, he proceeded to ask for that to get removed from future broadcasts. Then as of recently Anthony blamed Gregg for Steve's suicide. The family also refused to let his cause of death to be released, telltale sign of suicide.
@@RealGateGuardian Well, what Anthony said was "He wound up killing Steve C...!" at the end of a list of shitty things Opie did over the years - then after a few seconds he said "I'm kidding of course about that last one."
I do think it was more than just a joke, though.
Steve is is producing in heaven while Danny Ross is in a living hell. RIP Steve
Danny's dead too???
@@LIQUIDSNAKEz28 we can only hope
@@LIQUIDSNAKEz28 Danny went broke and ended up in a mentaI hospital after being bullied by a subreddit. No joke.
@@bdelectr7411 Jesus Christ, that sucks. I knew he was a sensitive dude, but not THAT sensitive.
Danny really is the biggest piece of shit the show ever had.
Listening to Opie cry about Steve taking 70 Mondays off makes my blood boil.
If ever one bit distilled the worst of Opie it’s arguing about the Mondays off. He makes multiple references to how he plucked Steve from obscurity and how close he comes to stopping them from making “great radio”, but obviously Opie overcomes it. Obviously only the real greats talk about how good they are rather than letting the work speak for itself or others talking about it via word of mouth. Marketing is what you say about yourself...keep telling people how great you are and it has to be true. Steve C says something in that bit like “it’s cool, I was in the wrong but you’ve cultivated a work environment that’s like the Lord of the Flies. Staff backstabbing each other to get some faint recognition from Opie. Most of the time Jimmy and Ant don’t really care when Opie brings up stuff, they’re just trying to back him up. Then you hear bits like Opie refusing to have a 10 minute meeting and wanting to throw your speakers at the wall as he steps on another great joke. Then there’s just the nastiness that he seems to think is “edgy” like the fugitive bit with Bobo where it’s hilarious until it’s apparent that Bobo is really worried that he’s in trouble and his mother is out of pocket having spent $40 to get them all Turkey. The others all want to end it letting him know he’s off the hook and I think someone brings up reimbursing his mother but Opie just says “fuck him”. Arrgghhh, drove me mad cos in that fugitive section Bobo is funnier than Opie was throughout the course of the show. Norton had a good comparison that Opie is like if a conductor became resentful of the musicians so he uses the wand to just hit the instruments so he can make any noise that’s loud so he can heard rather than be happy he’s helping people make something tuneful and being paid handsomely for it. Sorry for the long comment, but I’ve been listening to way too much OandA recently and the show is good despite his best efforts to ruin it.
As much as I despise Gregg "Opie" Hughes, the Mondays thing really was shitty of Steve. So many people don't seem to understand that he didn't actually _earn_ all those Mondays off, it was an anomaly that arose because of the merger and the legality of the XM contracts and Sirius contracts. There's a maximum amount of vacation days people can earn per year and if you don't take them within the year you lose them.
The reality is everyone else there had 'earned' the same amount of vacation days as Steve but they all had the sense to realize if they all took them the show would come to a screeching halt, would probably get cancelled and they'd all be out of a job. Steve C was the only one to think "Oh, fuck everyone else, I'll take all my days off while they're making the 'sacrifice'.
It was just a shitty thing. Opie was way over the top, and considering how much of a cunt he was to Steve C every day he can't exactly act surprised Steve C booked all those days off just to get away from him and the toxic environment he'd created, but still, Steve C was in the wrong.
@@E101ification you sound like every inept boss, ever. "Here, have all this vacation time. But you shouldn't use it before you lose it." The real world doesn't work like that. It's not like he took every day off for 2 months. He took Monday's off. The show would not have come to a screeching halt. Someone else would have to step up (like that patsy, Sam) or Monday's would have been less-than.
People do this in the real world all the time. I'd bet that almost 0 companies or departments within them failed because people used the vacation time that was given to them.
@@dogfacedgod Exactly. They should let them take the days or pay them out. Plus Opie took so many days off for “his allergy attacks” that the company wanted to charge him for it, the hypocritical douche.
I didn’t understand that, Steve had days off, and had to use them? So opie was mad? What a shitbag
Lol I just don’t understand why they rid him so hard for the Monday conspiracy, he immediately clears it up and no harm was done. Yet, Opie whines about “what does he ever do for the show?” The hours of material for this compilation, Pendulum, all RAMONE prank calls, grrr, no no no no no, get out now? Pure gold.
Most valuable producer they ever had. Him and Erock. They had seniority there and provided a shitload of content and never bitched or connived. I don’t hate the other producers, but no one is looking up a Sam Roberts or Danny compilation. Sam could take a joke more than Danny. Danny couldn’t take one at all. But they got treated really well considering the environment.
Can you rename this "Opie tries to create drama for 9 hours"
You mean 9 hours of great radio?
This is very nice of you do to, tefft. A very nice thing.
Christ Opie, slamming the sound board doesn't count as contributing. It's a hybrid and it's "futuristic", WE GET IT.
Jordan Dixon - Opie: hold on, hold on, hold on, wait a minute...why are you blowing up his spot? (Homer): boring, boring, (Homer): Boooo
Think that is pretty much the “best of” Opie. All that’s missing is stepping on something really funny by going to the phones or talking about Howard Stern to the point that Ant and Jim clearly feel forced to come in and back him. Stern didn’t even realise he was in a feud.
@@radiusone216 That’s what WE do!
Ant did a lot of the hybrid effects. A lot of the Steve stuff wasn’t even on Opie’s board.
He added so much to the show, even if most of it was being a punching bag.
yesssssssss
thanks teftt keep 'em coming-you're making my summer way better and less boring
I don't know how Opie, Danny and Sam sleep at night
Sleep rather soundly for murderers
@@jaysmoker9849 ha i get it
"I hate Steve C on the radio." - Says the person who ruined this compilation. I honestly think Opie is just jealous because Steve makes radio gold and Opie just gets shit on for being a train wreck of comedy.
I kinda get what might've lead to Steve's mindset towards the end though. It is brutal listening to O&A have these "HR Moments" on-air with Steve that are supposed to be internal. That Steve C. paranoid at 04:02:03 definitely shows he had been beaten down by that point.
I wonder what Norton's angle was here. When he started, I first thought it was Jimmy's traditional "ask probing serious questions as if he doesn't get it" schtick -- which I typically find insufferable -- but, as it goes on, it feels more like Norton is probing some sort of why-aren't-you-happy-here, why-are-you-so-touchy thing. Basically a gentler foreshadowing of what Opie himself does to Norton a few years later: why are you being so quiet, you're paranoid, don't you like it here, if you don't like it here you shouldn't hang around on the show till October. Sort of a destructive spiral. If everyone picks everyone else apart, eventually it'll come down to the last man standing, or nobody at all, which is effectively what we're seeing in 2019/2020.
"Steve doesn't feel part of the club" - Opie
O the irony
04:02:00 God damnit, this is fucked up.. Steve was so DEEPLY hurt and not even trying to hide it any longer. He was completely broken by this point..
I love laughing at Steve C, but it seems like the office took it way too far. His fucking subordinates were openly disrespecting him on a regular basis.. fuck..
I've heard all of these O&A clips tons of times, but this one is way more brutal than I remember. Honestly it makes me really fucking sad. He should still be here.
Ol Graham Cracker back. this is the first time I heard Steve c laugh lol. damn poor guy. rip
YEESSSS
Sometimes I’ll play master chief collection and foundry will come up on halo 3 and to myself I just go yeeesss!
I actually checked out his band Foundry Musics album on TH-cam a few years back and the band wasn't bad at all. They sounded like a band who had some good written songs and you could tell if they kept playing together they would of gotten tighter and really found their sound and possibly could of been a steady touring band making money. Damn shame he let his demons get too him and he did what he did. Damn shame man.
This Star Wars bit sounds like the world's biggest dork having a psychotic break. . . which, in retrospect, it probably was.
Losing good eggs like Steve meanwhile opie still breathing. Life is so unfair
What do you mean? Seeing Opie lose his family and become a worse unemployable version of Scorch is hilarious. PFG if you ask me
The way Opie cranks on the sound effect board in these old clips really is grating. Maybe at the time it was cool but now I find it grating. I think I've heard him play jim bruer laughing for no reason like a thousand times.
Yep skipped after his jetsons car thing in the hybrid bit cracked himself up for the third time. It was shockingly bad the second.
Ohhhh holy fuck, is the Jim Breuer laugh the one he uses all the fucking time? Its like obscenely loud and obnoxious fake.. wow. If it's the drop I'm thinking, the entire time I thought that opie was playing a sample of himself obnoxiously laughing.. in retrospect I have no clue why I thought thatm.
@@tarrasque419 yesssssss stay with me here. that's a thing right? The opester gas lit us dood! Like he solidly did this for at least a week or something?
The PS3 story was riveting. Gregg bringing that radio gold.
This Jack Burton guy sounds like a real bitch lol.
steve was a big asset to the show for its best years.
RIP you lovable flaming bear😉
The vacation days pissed me off I had to skip it causes Opies' fake outburst is the worst.
It wasn't a fake outburst, which actually makes it worse.
3:03 Ant responding "I like that" heres the wheels spinning for him getting the idea to do everything eventually from his home
Steve C. was an excellent punching bag. A really great character. The pendulum is swinging the other way. 🕊
The Fez of O&A if you will
@@nip9898 well put! 🎯
such a good compilation. thank you my lord
Rip Steve C. He's at that big glory hole in the sky now.
you couldn't find a better sport. he was a talented dude. rest in peace 😎
Steve was a good old bear.
If only Steve hooked up with Ron and Fez or another show instead of the toxic trio
1:19:00 Opie sucked every bit of energy out the room for that awful story
Toby Richardson 8:40:00 as well. Ant and Jim were on a freaking roll and he stops it for some caller talking about mundane municipal taxes?
That and every story, brotha man. Opie and stories got that chemistry
Listening back on it, I can clearly hear Ant (and most especially Ant + Jim) goading Opie to tell stupid obviously-fabricated personal stories, then murmuring "Oh yeah," "Oh sure," "Oh I bet you did" as he gets carried away. Went on for easily a decade.
@@sskoog Its tremendous happens all the time once you notice
Leave it alone.
"Glory Glory Hole-ellujah" is one of the funniest fuckin' things I have ever heard a caller say!!
This clip proves that some of the fans were absolutely hilarious!
Miss you flame Bear 💔
Patrice is roasting Steve’s promos in heaven lol
steve deserved better, not that he was treated badly by jimmy or ant, maybe he was by opie and sam. But i wish he wouldve stayed with o&a and became a huge part of the show.
wouldve loved to see him on the compound
Steve did a lot for O&A. I used to listen to them on regular radio back in like 2000 or so. He started giving them an internet presence by posting bits like 50 gallon drum challenge online. They resented him because he didn’t lose his job when everyone got fired from WNEW… I forget what the reasoning was, maybe he wasn’t an official employee of the show but WNEW itself or something like that. Black Earl kept his job too. But Steve put his time in for them and obviously gave them countless hours of material for the show. RIP
@@leahcimolrac1477 RAMONEEEEE
You're truly a good egg.
You’re a legend Tefft. Amazing work
Opie was getting really unbearable by the late '09 it s very rough listening to the last bits
Is the Foundry logo on Steve's headstone?
“One small step for man.. I’m tired” 😂 that last segment is great
RIP Steve C....for all his incompetence, he brought some great stuff to the show. Even if it was from him getting destroyed on a daily basis.
Oh nice!! RIP steve. Suicide is a struggle.
Marcelo Abans
Was it suicide though? I thought he had a stomach issue
nah theres a famous opie line where hes talking about steve and says "fuck why'd you have to do it steve"
Depression is a struggle suicide is an answer
@@Trashcanman- Jimmy also made a joke calling him "Suicide Steve". It waz editted outvof all later broadcasts. Just wish i knew what show date it was
Anytime I listen to one of these extended compilations I wonder how many Opie bombs there are. It must be like 50 plus
awesome job
If that dude doing the Star Wars One-Man Show decided to not try to impersonate extremely famous characters voices and decided to do the show as Voices he can actually do (whatever those voices might be, because these aren't it/If he can do Tony Danza or something, make Tony Danza be Han Solo) because he has the script written close to the real thing so it could be a Parody and he could have had to pay nothing to Lucas, he would be actually successful and rich. Selling Out is easy when 90% of the tickets are Free with a 2 Drink Minimum.
Is this where Ramooooone comes from? I honestly never knew. I'm phhhhlllaaabbergasted
I always laughed at the flaming bear that was Steve C whether they were making fun of him or 1 of his bits or whatever. Honestly hope his widow and child are doing good.
Opie should really face some kind of charges for Steve
Yeah because he was the one who made fun of him the most...
R.I.P. STEVE C !!
The pendulum swung back the other way on Chester Bennington today.
Completely Incorrect its Been Two years already? He is 100% decomposed by now
@@Experiment53. can you imagine now
Opie killed him
I agree he had a shitload to do with it. Opie always degraded Steve at every turn because of his hatred for him. Opie is chickenshit.
it's really upsetting how often Opie got in the way of "Funny"
I'm a little tea pot short and stout. Here is my dinner and here is my mouth. Grrr
“And that’s how you executive excuse” has to be one of my favourite lines
If I were Steve I would've quit just to beat the shit out of danny
N-n-n-n-n-n-n-no
That-That's terrible, I'm sorry.
How did your producer die?
The star wars guy made me so uncomfortable. What a sucker.
A nice guy who had no clue what he was walking into. Stunned that he decided to walk back in, after being hung up twice. He had to have known that Jimmy was the caller.
44:00 Ant telling Jim he stinks, followed by immediate laughter and pushing right into another Ramone. Little Yimmy and Ant are a treasure 🤣🤣🤣
03:21:00 listen to opie summarily attempt to shut down a great bit before it even starts, and throughout.
Steve was so perfect for the show, I miss them all together 😢
archive.org/details/stevecmemorial/
It's all in here btw.
God, I miss Steve so much... Rest in Cum you big bear
2:11:00 all I can think of is Colin saying I hate Norton’s affinity for Borscht belt hunoo
1:05:13 "Ah, the uncomfortable snort." Really, Opie?
Opie drove Steve to Suicide
just for coming up with steve from yellowstone he should reieve an award
A fan once did a sort of hip-hop song about Steve with lots of references, with the 'nothing but cock-meat' line as part of the hook. If anyone could find it, that'd be amazing
No, not that one, it's a different one. It's a more quiet delivery.
Ive always wondered about why he killed himself. They did bash him a lot but i really dont think this is what set him over the edge. He didn’t seem annoyed enough during this to take his own life imo
RAAAAAAAMONEEE GET ME A CRANE, THE ROPE WON'T HOLD MY WEIGHT
Christopher Wernli hahah God damn man.
If Mr and Mrs Roberts had never met Steve would still be alive.
GOD BLESS