Yeah man, after O&A split and all the dirt came out, you can really hear and feel the negative vibes sweating out of Opie. Burping into the mic for some desperate attention
+Daniel Wagner what bothered me is Ant was the one saying it the first day they watched the clips on XM, and than opie just started blatantly copying him???
And they keep talking about he "talks about old games, and obviously they suck because they're old" but no, he's talking about old SHITTY games. How do you miss that?
@@nypad5 they did and it didnt go great. James by his own admission is not a great improve guy also he is a fan and was obviously nervous. Also didnt help Opie didnt really know anything about his work. Perhaps now that he has been doing it for over a decade he would be better
I like that Ant has a base level of appreciation for what James does and Op doesn't have a fucking clue. Jimmy doesn't either, but he at least has the good sense to not act like he does.
You can insert this dynamic in hundreds of situations and plays out the same, Anthony appreciates, Opie is too cool to get it, and Jim Norton is aggressively annoyed by it
James Rolfe is a fuckin' legend. Still my favorite TH-cam content provider of all time. He doesn't make as many "Angry Video Game Nerd" videos these days, but his content is still great. He does a lot of movie reviews these days, and he interviews people for his channel from time to time, also. Plus, every Monday, he and Mike Matei do their gameplay videos, which are fun to watch.
@@spych0367 I wasn't defending him, just stating that I think he's a great TH-camr. Maybe if people aren't familiar with him, they'll look him up based on my comment.
He absolutely still makes traditional Angry Video Game Nerd content to this day but there is obviously a good gap of time between each of them and branching out to other things. I appreciate that he never outright stopped doing it so many years later and beyond.
I can't express how happy I was when listening to this live when I first got xm back in college cause I was put on to avgn when he first started back in 2006. Still watch all his cinemassacre stuff.
+E101ification i think he says it just as a plug basically saying you should watch his shit on youtube. i hate opie as much as the next guy, but he does have some good moments. he's good at making good radio.
Cherevolution1 Agreed. He’s insufferable 90% of the time, but he was good at setting the funny ppl up. Sometimes Ant and Jimmy would get too directionless or beat something to death. I like how Opie would set them up or move shit along.
Again Anthony brings something great to the show and Opie just makes stupid, useless comments. Also, you can tell this is like 2006-2008 Ant by his voice. Much less angry. Pre daily black guy rant.
"Man, it's got a million views!" I forget how rare that was to achieve in the earlier years of TH-cam. Still an impressive thing today, but you'll see countless videos on your feed on just about any platform with millions on millions.
It was extremely rare to see that in those days. Thankfully, AVGN is still around and putting out the same content to this day, although there are bigger and bigger gaps of time between the vidya videos. It's still admirable that he's around and never stopped doing it.
I'd love to get James and Ant in the same room to talk movies and TV shows, they are both very knowlegable in those areas. Although the one time James was on the show he seemed so shy that it really went nowhere.
Apparently James is a total phoney. A total shitbag behind the scenes. I hear he no longer talks to his old staff after hiring his new staff. That doesn't sound like much, but what that actually means is he alienated himself from Mike, Bootsy, and Justin-- his actual friends from their college days-- with his shitty attitude and non-passion (he's a sellout script READER, NOT writer) and had to hire on new people with ZERO connection to him. So what we're left with nowadays are Nerd episodes written by other people (which to be fair has been the case for a very long time now) to be read by James with the same effort and passion as when I read the morning papers aloud in my head. Then there's the podcast. James and the newer crew. Holy fuck. Look up the "Who Are These Podcasts" episode about Cinemassacre and James Rolfe. Both Opie's and Stuttering John's shows are followable and coherant in comparison. Mike and Justin (or Mike and Bootsy) have a gaming podcast that supposed to be good. The other one (again, Justin or Bootsy) has a show with someone else as well, so they are all still doing things at least. That all might sound harsh, and I'm just relaying what I've heard, but at the end of the day he was never a gamer. He owned some games as a child, then bought a collection as an adult. He is and always was a CINEMA nerd. The Angry Nerd charactor is based on Mike, who always was and still is a gamer. James always was a phony, and people are mostly just recently finding out. Some people don't care, some people can't see past the revelations.
*AVGN was funny back in the day but now it’s a whole different show..it’s not even half as funny either. No more guzzling Rolling Rock beer when he got upset..no more F bombs flying off like crazy...no more of anything like he was...ya he’s still successful but only because this older stuff locked in a huge fan base for him...if it wasn’t for these old videos he wouldn’t have nearly as many fans or the success he has today.*
His different shows are worth it because he’s just burnt out on the avgn project but his film reviews you can hear his passion. I still visit the channel every once in a while.
@@Robb1977 well also the general public’s preferences on entertainment have changed in general too. And he’s adjusted to it accordingly. Back in the times of 2006-ish internet this was fucking hilarious but now that the general public has moved on to bigger better things, he just does what he wants to do along with milking that money maker of avgn content. I don’t watch any of the new episodes. If I’m honest, I’m fine with it dying too. But I still feel like James deserves to be around and is still an important part of the internet. Just talking about stuff you love is the thing that brought him to this point and how he’s still doing it is something next to no entertainer can do. Fuck look at pewdiepie that guy fucking hates making TH-cam now and he’s retiring sometime soon, and the fact that James is a much older personality and still has endless ways to make content off of the stuff he loves doing is an anomaly as far as I’m concerned. I couldn’t wish him more luck in his future endeavors.
@@theeoddments960 believe me i can understand there was a time and place... but i guess the fact i didn't really watch him back in the day, nor was i a big Nintendo/sega fan as a kid, his avgn stuff doesn't appeal to me... because im a pretentious ass i like the casual lectures on classic movies.
No one every said "the graphics will never get better than this" on the Atari 2600 Opie! You've said that almost as much has "he's found his niche"! It wasn't about the graphics until the end of the NES era during the console wars. No one cared in 1982 it was all about game play. He just wants to get a "amirite guys?"
Around 4;40 ant teaches opie the word niche and from then on he’s destined to prove he knows what it means. Anthony was like opies dad teaching him new things.
One thing that puzzled me about O&A with the FCC-controlled portion of the show was their occasional decision to run segments or content that would be subject to censoring. Also, Opie saying 'effing' on terrestrial was yet another of the annoyances from the litany.
Did you see avgn's episode revisiting it? He admits he was confused by it say go up or down because he didnt know if it meant flight controls or actual directions. Then he realizes you just watch the meters, and its easy. So he addressed it.
James admitted he was nervous and he isn't his TH-cam persona which is probably what Opie wanted and expected for the air. It wasn't the worst interview but it was more or less uneventful.
5:47. Ant repeats exactly what the video game nerd said, WORD FOR FUCKING WORD. Thanks ant, i didnt hear it the first fucking time when he said it. Literally a fucking second ago. I must have memory of a fucking goldfish. Dope.
patrice & avgn, a combination I never knew existed until today.. RIP
+tehjamez word
you beat me to it
Same same
I'm just happy Patrice got to see Custar's Revenge
I thought the same thing
I love how you can hear jealousy in Opie's voice whenever someone comes up with an idea that becomes a hit.
Mister smith
So true
He wants to go viral
Yeah man, after O&A split and all the dirt came out, you can really hear and feel the negative vibes sweating out of Opie. Burping into the mic for some desperate attention
This interview must have happened before 5:40 PM.
Hearing anthony cumia enjoying the nerd warms my heart.
listen to Ants rant about Half Life for even more heartfelt feelings
The guy has found a niche for himself with these video reviews. I know because Opie told me, several times.
I didn’t catch that... when did he say it? Plus they say the word wrong, it’s niche like knee-sh or is that an American thing?
Craig Smith ant says it first early on in the video as they initially describe his videos
Hold on hold on hold on
@@Mollar2692 As usual Opie just spews words other people say to try to look smart. God he makes me sick
I read the comments before I watched video so expected him to say it loads. Ant says it 3 times, Opie 1-2.
This.... Is... Fucking.... GOLD!
I'm so thankful to have found this. AVGN on O&A with the lovely bonus of having Patrice in the mix.
Agreed except for the murdering of the word niche it's fantastic
@@incandescentbeverage247 both pronunciations are correct
the planets aligned for one day only. and it was glorious!!
Do you think he found his niche?
+deeditmane I do. I know he did because Opie told me.
I don't know, I should ask Opie.
+Daniel Wagner what bothered me is Ant was the one saying it the first day they watched the clips on XM, and than opie just started blatantly copying him???
Opie is the Irate Gamer of radio.
And they keep talking about he "talks about old games, and obviously they suck because they're old" but no, he's talking about old SHITTY games. How do you miss that?
Oh man...I didnt know they talked about AVGN. I was so nervous to watch because I didn't want to hear them trash the Nerd.
+Zachary Christy so how's listening to new Opie and Anthony shows going for u? I'm guessing they are very hard to find
I like Ant's show, but he does seem to be missing a conversational sparring partner aka Jimmy.
And Patrice is doing standup in the afterlife.
TheForsakenEagle ha haaa, what a gay comment! "afterlife", ha ha
Al Raw
So edgy, kid.
I was a fan of both and never heard the connection of them, but what’s really awesome is how great AVGN plays on radio. Especially O&A radio.
"It brings my piss to a boil."
I couldn't tell if he found his niche or not. Does anybody know the answer?
+Nuwanda84 They repeated it almost as many times as this joke.
Nuwanda84 A dress or something about a dress, there was a dress
He did
YEEESSSSSS (Jim’s Steve voice)
Anthony said the niche thing long before, but now its opies thought. Do not miss Opie
I really wish Sam and Jim would have James Rolf on the show. Dude deserves more mainstream attention. He's done a lot of good stuff over the years
im pretty sure they got a phone interview one day with James... it would probably still be on cinemassacre.com thats where I remember it.
@@nypad5 they did and it didnt go great. James by his own admission is not a great improve guy also he is a fan and was obviously nervous. Also didnt help Opie didnt really know anything about his work. Perhaps now that he has been doing it for over a decade he would be better
The Nerd broke 3 Million Subscribers recently...
Hey i know im 4 years late but heres a link to the interview. m.th-cam.com/video/Ob1hqBFEN3k/w-d-xo.html
At this point AVGN has more mainstream notoriety and actual fans than Jim and Sam combined.
Wow, never knew O&A had any part in growing James' audience lol
I became a subscriber to AVGN when this originally aired and am still to this day. Thanks Ant!
I like that Ant has a base level of appreciation for what James does and Op doesn't have a fucking clue. Jimmy doesn't either, but he at least has the good sense to not act like he does.
You can insert this dynamic in hundreds of situations and plays out the same, Anthony appreciates, Opie is too cool to get it, and Jim Norton is aggressively annoyed by it
Love how Jim wants to know about the intellivision
Dude! You are doing Gods work editing these! Please don’t ever stop…….I share this with everyone on all my social media! …….,thanks bro!
the editing on this is great. thanks for the upload!
Youre welcome
James Rolfe is a fuckin' legend. Still my favorite TH-cam content provider of all time. He doesn't make as many "Angry Video Game Nerd" videos these days, but his content is still great. He does a lot of movie reviews these days, and he interviews people for his channel from time to time, also. Plus, every Monday, he and Mike Matei do their gameplay videos, which are fun to watch.
? Yes he does.
No need to defend him ant clearly enjoyed him
@@spych0367 I wasn't defending him, just stating that I think he's a great TH-camr. Maybe if people aren't familiar with him, they'll look him up based on my comment.
once he started workin on the AVGN movie .. i think 2014... ever since then his content has been absolutely cringe and embarrassing
He absolutely still makes traditional Angry Video Game Nerd content to this day but there is obviously a good gap of time between each of them and branching out to other things. I appreciate that he never outright stopped doing it so many years later and beyond.
As macho as Ant always was, he is a big old nerd at heart. I think he would concur.
Machoness is a mask. Usually the most macho looking guys are the biggest dorks in existence.
Ive never considered Ant - the guy who famously was uncomfortable with any kind of face to face conflict - macho.
What are you talking about…Anthony is a coward.
Nana is the furthest thing from Macho
Nowadays both the AVGN and O&A have their own ex fan communities mocking what they've become. TheCinemassacreTruth and the PFGforums.
And coincidently everyone in those forums are fucking losers.
I can't express how happy I was when listening to this live when I first got xm back in college cause I was put on to avgn when he first started back in 2006. Still watch all his cinemassacre stuff.
Those were the days my friend.
I always saw the WOW sticker on his TV so this is awesome to hear.
I'm blind, til now i noticed lol.
Whippem Out Wednesday
Anthony Cumia and AVGN on the Anthony Cumia Show, NOW!
I wonder when Opie is gonna finally find his niche.
Matt Ashton And impale himself on it.
networth
He crapped out his niche a long time ago.
Deaf and retarded people?
He found his niche between the ass cheeks of a confused fraternity kid.
18:38 Thanks for that fascinating contribution, Opie.
+E101ification i think he says it just as a plug basically saying you should watch his shit on youtube. i hate opie as much as the next guy, but he does have some good moments. he's good at making good radio.
Cherevolution1 Agreed. He’s insufferable 90% of the time, but he was good at setting the funny ppl up. Sometimes Ant and Jimmy would get too directionless or beat something to death. I like how Opie would set them up or move shit along.
#LongLiveTheOpester
I dunno if I've ever heard James mention being talked about on O&A, but I'm curious what the nerd thought of it.
when your friend groups cross over and it goes ok
It's crazy to think that pretty soon after this, James surpassed O&A by leaps and bounds. He's legendary nowadays.
He definitely found his niche
@@Bishidonscare hahahahaha nice one mate
I can't believe I found this, and I'm glad it did!
When I saw the WOW sticker on the nerds television I became a fan!
Of who?
Again Anthony brings something great to the show and Opie just makes stupid, useless comments. Also, you can tell this is like 2006-2008 Ant by his voice. Much less angry. Pre daily black guy rant.
Classic Opie obsessing over the "viral" aspect of AVGN too
Rob Peterson and to think Opie got paid more than anthony.
he's so goddamn clueless
What? I thought they always got paid the same.
opie got paid more way when they first got together. but when they werw syndicated and started to make real money they were on equal terms
what a wild crossover
I've noticed that sticker on his tv before, but never realized it was an O&A sticker
Wow, pre-obama Ant
Two of my favorite things coming together
"Man, it's got a million views!"
I forget how rare that was to achieve in the earlier years of TH-cam. Still an impressive thing today, but you'll see countless videos on your feed on just about any platform with millions on millions.
A million views in 2007 was like a billion views now
It was extremely rare to see that in those days. Thankfully, AVGN is still around and putting out the same content to this day, although there are bigger and bigger gaps of time between the vidya videos. It's still admirable that he's around and never stopped doing it.
Man I haven’t thought of AVGN in a while. My cousin and I were laughing so damn hard watching all his videos.
The interest overlap is real
Galaxy Dog *interest overlap* : if you coined that term then you are the fuckin man, dog. If not, it's still a keeper I never even knew I needed.
The Back to the Future review is the best one, with the quick edits of lines from the movie.
I'd love to get James and Ant in the same room to talk movies and TV shows, they are both very knowlegable in those areas. Although the one time James was on the show he seemed so shy that it really went nowhere.
They realized James irl doesn't act like how he does in the AVGN videos and so they lost interest
Apparently James is a total phoney. A total shitbag behind the scenes. I hear he no longer talks to his old staff after hiring his new staff. That doesn't sound like much, but what that actually means is he alienated himself from Mike, Bootsy, and Justin-- his actual friends from their college days-- with his shitty attitude and non-passion (he's a sellout script READER, NOT writer) and had to hire on new people with ZERO connection to him.
So what we're left with nowadays are Nerd episodes written by other people (which to be fair has been the case for a very long time now) to be read by James with the same effort and passion as when I read the morning papers aloud in my head.
Then there's the podcast. James and the newer crew. Holy fuck. Look up the "Who Are These Podcasts" episode about Cinemassacre and James Rolfe. Both Opie's and Stuttering John's shows are followable and coherant in comparison.
Mike and Justin (or Mike and Bootsy) have a gaming podcast that supposed to be good. The other one (again, Justin or Bootsy) has a show with someone else as well, so they are all still doing things at least.
That all might sound harsh, and I'm just relaying what I've heard, but at the end of the day he was never a gamer. He owned some games as a child, then bought a collection as an adult. He is and always was a CINEMA nerd. The Angry Nerd charactor is based on Mike, who always was and still is a gamer.
James always was a phony, and people are mostly just recently finding out. Some people don't care, some people can't see past the revelations.
Patrice is definitely the guy who said he was great at street fighter and then picked Chun Li. Still love him though.
This is the game Bobo masterfully referenced when insulting The Virus. Awesome.
i actuall discovered AVGN thru this
dante040 he's been on TH-cam since 2006
I watched AVGN like 10 years ago but I only discovered opie & anthony a couple of years ago through louis CK hehe
@@RudyCantGame Lotta shit on TH-cam....not easy to randomly come across a channel
notice how opie purposely pronounces 'mario' wrong so he can pretend that he is too cool to have played video games
opie stole everything ant said. what a tool
Opie is still looking for that "big it".
Ha, I hadn't heard this before. Thanks for the upload.
That one guy seems like hes a legit nerd fan.
Hes quoting him, hisscenes, even mentioned tune to channel 3!! Lol.
Anthony has always been a fukin nerd
*AVGN was funny back in the day but now it’s a whole different show..it’s not even half as funny either. No more guzzling Rolling Rock beer when he got upset..no more F bombs flying off like crazy...no more of anything like he was...ya he’s still successful but only because this older stuff locked in a huge fan base for him...if it wasn’t for these old videos he wouldn’t have nearly as many fans or the success he has today.*
the same can be said for O&A... lol, except AVGN is still making videos that people enjoy, and none of the o&a boys do anything enjoyable anymore.
His different shows are worth it because he’s just burnt out on the avgn project but his film reviews you can hear his passion. I still visit the channel every once in a while.
@@theeoddments960 yeah honestly I prefer the look at classic movies to "id rather eat elephant diarrhea that's been festering in the hot saharan sun"
@@Robb1977 well also the general public’s preferences on entertainment have changed in general too. And he’s adjusted to it accordingly. Back in the times of 2006-ish internet this was fucking hilarious but now that the general public has moved on to bigger better things, he just does what he wants to do along with milking that money maker of avgn content. I don’t watch any of the new episodes. If I’m honest, I’m fine with it dying too. But I still feel like James deserves to be around and is still an important part of the internet. Just talking about stuff you love is the thing that brought him to this point and how he’s still doing it is something next to no entertainer can do. Fuck look at pewdiepie that guy fucking hates making TH-cam now and he’s retiring sometime soon, and the fact that James is a much older personality and still has endless ways to make content off of the stuff he loves doing is an anomaly as far as I’m concerned. I couldn’t wish him more luck in his future endeavors.
@@theeoddments960 believe me i can understand there was a time and place... but i guess the fact i didn't really watch him back in the day, nor was i a big Nintendo/sega fan as a kid, his avgn stuff doesn't appeal to me... because im a pretentious ass i like the casual lectures on classic movies.
God I hate Opie. He makes everything unenjoyable
Say niche ! Say niche again! Say niche one more fucking time! I dare ya! I fuckin double dare ya!
Two of my favorite things in the world.
Knights Who Say "Niche!"
Get James and mike on TACS when ant gets back from "vacation"
No one every said "the graphics will never get better than this" on the Atari 2600 Opie! You've said that almost as much has "he's found his niche"! It wasn't about the graphics until the end of the NES era during the console wars. No one cared in 1982 it was all about game play. He just wants to get a "amirite guys?"
So glad he found his niche
AVGN can't get any better praise for being funny than being promoted by O&A !!!
Around 4;40 ant teaches opie the word niche and from then on he’s destined to prove he knows what it means. Anthony was like opies dad teaching him new things.
its hilarious how it was an unbelievable niche, yet today its 90% of TH-cam.
It is sad
Lol i read all the comments after the clip. I'll just reiterate: He found his NICHE we get it.
Jimmy introduced RedLetterMedia
Anthony introduced AVGN
Opie introduced jack shit
Jesus Christ I thought all the "niche" jokes/comments were overblown... Then I watched the video.
I THOUGHT I saw a OandA sticker when watching one of the nerds earlier videos.
I lost it @ 12:25 "It brings my piss to a boil! What a piece of shit!" LMAO!!!!
One thing that puzzled me about O&A with the FCC-controlled portion of the show was their occasional decision to run segments or content that would be subject to censoring.
Also, Opie saying 'effing' on terrestrial was yet another of the annoyances from the litany.
Say niche again opie...
Alright already with niche. We get it.
I can't imagine how the bit would have went if they looked up the first Bible game video he came out with
This is a weird crossover hahaha.
I think niche is Opies safe word...
not bragging, but, landing and refueling was not too difficult in Top Gun
H R
It was easy AF
Did you see avgn's episode revisiting it? He admits he was confused by it say go up or down because he didnt know if it meant flight controls or actual directions. Then he realizes you just watch the meters, and its easy. So he addressed it.
🎼 He’s gonna take you back to the past
Is he?
I love how Opie used to think that he could say, "let's get them on the show" and it would magically happen just like that.
I can’t believe you’re still French kissing that man’s sack in 2024, 10 years after the O&A show ended.
any idea what year this is from?
You know what's funny tho?........I'm pretty sure I saw a WOW sticker in one of his videos but never knew what it was before until now.
25:50 'Bashlerette party and Bashler party' -- Opie (professional talker)
Imagine being a game developer for one of those games and then watching an episode about the one you worked on...
Fucking achievement
Hahahahaha ur comment is gold and underrated
Didnt know Patrice was in this one. Saw this video for years but never finished it
I think he found his niche
AVGN was my favorite shit to watch back in the day
I just found out about avgn yesterday but o and a forever... crazy to see them come together lol
i love avgn he is funny and ilike the way he does his vids and the cheesy fun effects he does
I like when opie says “it’s just a Mario rip off.” 🤔
I need the song in the intro
Found it
th-cam.com/video/ci7YvXWKUOI/w-d-xo.html
Were they ever able to get james to go on their radio show?
Not in the studio, just a phone interview and James didn't make a big impression on them.
@@djjukeboxhero6491 They actually got him a radio show. They always liked him
James admitted he was nervous and he isn't his TH-cam persona which is probably what Opie wanted and expected for the air. It wasn't the worst interview but it was more or less uneventful.
Video game nerd's delivery is the same as sam roberts. love it.
Gonna take you back to the past
Is it his niche though?
What's the music at the beginning? Trying to place it is driving me insane.
nogoodbastid I think its the Game of Thrones opener theme
Joe Cameron Nah, that's not it.
+nogoodbastid Stairway to Heaven?
Allen Turing Similar but there's no part of Stairway to Heaven with this particular melody.
nogoodbastid Darude - Sandstorm
5:47. Ant repeats exactly what the video game nerd said, WORD FOR FUCKING WORD. Thanks ant, i didnt hear it the first fucking time when he said it. Literally a fucking second ago. I must have memory of a fucking goldfish. Dope.
With the way Opie responded I just took that as Ant explaining it to a confused Opie.
i like how they have a pretty good knowledge of games
I wonder if Opie was right about his niche. I'm sure he's also huge because Opie said so. Opie also said it's gonna go viral.
+Charlie Tries (Charlie Wilson) Opie seems to think the only reason anyone would ever post videos online is to go viral.
#LongLiveTheOpester
I cannot believe these worlds collided lol
watch it ma niya
Old TH-cam and peak O&A was a magical time.
Dude what is that 8 bit intro song? I used to hear that when a was a kid and I can't figure it out
Jennifer's theme from Splatterhouse
AVG is the best. I got him to sign my Atari 2600 at my friends arcade in Red Bank NJ. YESTERcades.
Ant needs to get James on shitting on games for Compound Media.
He’s too busy with his band Rex Viper now.
I would love to see this dude play Guerrilla War.
Kenneth Pogue I fucking loved that game
I dunno, that was a fun game
You kinda look like James if he was a hipster
I worked at a store in Oklahoma that sold these games
Daniel Roy So did millions of other people all around the country.