July 18, 2025 • 21 mins
Dive into a classic moment from the Opie and Anthony Show featuring comedy legend Patrice O'Neal! In this unforgettable segment, the crew calls a McDonald's to congratulate Leonard on his 50 years of service, only to hilariously prank him with a fake firing. The mix of Patrice's sharp wit, the hosts' outrageous antics, and Leonard's heartfelt responses make this a must-listen for comedy fans. Laugh, cringe, and enjoy the chaos! Subscribe for more classic radio moments! #PatriceONeal #OpieAndAnthony #ComedyGold #PrankCall #McDonalds
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Leonard, Welcome to the OUPI and Anthony Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, hi Leonard, congratulations on fifty years of service at McDonald's.
What congratulations on fifty years of service at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's fantastic. We saw the news story.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Uh, and you've been there in the same store for
fifty years.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Fifty years fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
How many days have you taken off? Have you ever
taken a vacation?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I get vacations.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Really. What do you do on vacation Leonard?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
What do you work for the show?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yes? Leonard?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Do you remember what year was the first negro allowed
in McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, I don't know. Was it during the time you
were there?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Probably right, I would imagine, yeah, I would think so
before that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hey, Leonard, do you like those people? I like?
Speaker 7 (01:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Leonard?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Do you eat McDonald's every day?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Not every day? No?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, I do a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Do you get it for free if I'm working?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They don't give it to you for free if you're
not working?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Leonard?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What did your scumbag owners get you for fifty years
of service? What kind of gifts did you get watch
gift gifts? Well, I got some gifts, that's all. That's it.
For fifty years they gifts. Yeah, a gift certificate gets
(02:00):
for what?
Speaker 8 (02:01):
Leonard?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Years?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, what were the gift certificates for? Yeah? What couldn't
you get with them?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you work at a McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Later you be happy with the gifts?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Do you remember when the bathroom said white and colored? Oh?
I was asking a little history.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
Was he was he? Did he deserve?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Did you think he deserved more? Leonard?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Do you were you?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Were you satisfied with those with with what you got
for your fifty years of service? Let me ask you
a question, Leonard? Have you ever gone for promotion?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Why you're only a bust?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I want to why?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I just didn't want to. Did they ever offer you
a better position at at McDonald Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was off twice.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What was the better position.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Being a manager?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You said?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Why? Leonard?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Why would you say no?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That isn't it more money?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Not that much?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So more aggravation, but not that much more money.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Now, if they had a paid you maybe triple what
you're making now, you might consider it.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It could be Maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Are you working now, Leonard, damn. Oh, you're working right now?
Is your boss there?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Can we please speak with your boss?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Do you want to talk to my manager?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We would love to to forty seven?
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Damn, damn? That's did I hear?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Who?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's the manager there.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I'm a manager, what, Susan?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
This is the Op and Anthony Show.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
We're very excited about Leonard and his fifty years of service,
and we figured we would talk about him today.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, Now he's been there fifty years. How long have
you been working.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
As his boss?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Twenty two years?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Twenty two years, so about half of his tenure there
has been under you your leadership.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Huh wow, so you've been covering for his mistakes for
the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now, did you have anything to do with the planning
of this party that made the news?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I know our owner did it. Oh, the owner did it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Are you a little taken aback by the fact that
he's been there fifty years and really didn't get that much?
I'm sorry, my phone was beeping in when you were talking.
All right, Well, do you think he didn't get that
much for having been there fifty years?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (04:57):
He did a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And Susan is your name, Susan. The question I'm trying
to put this delicately. We saw the story and we
were touched by and we wanted to know if Leonard
is you can't say the same stuff you could say
in nineteen forty, which is you know, rhyme's would he arded?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But is is he a little a little slow or
a little.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Bit learning kind of disabled or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But as you get a little old, you get a
little handicap, you can't quite keep up.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So but what about the thirty years before?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, like the thirty years before, like he's sixty eight, Now,
how about when he was, say, twenty two years ago,
when he was what forty forty five?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Is his mind really sharp?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Hmm?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Am I wrong on this?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
I think he's a shrewd guy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I just think we want to know why he never
why he never ascended to your level?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
You know, why he never got a real job, a
real job this is real, yes, a promotion?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
No, to your level?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Why didn't he isn't he at least your same? Like,
why wouldn't he go to management? That's what we're trying
to figure out. He didn't want to, He didn't want
to with the maintenance man.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Originally maintenance man. Wow, and now and now he's like
a bus boy. He can't Now he can't lift and
do the trash and do the maintenance.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
So now he's the lobby man.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Okay, And what is that?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What is he What is his actual duties? What does
he have to do?
Speaker 9 (06:27):
He cleans the dining room, talks to the customers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, still talk about Now do you.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Worry about him doing things to the burgers? He don't
go back, don't the food? Oh, Susan.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
We really want to know why he's just the clean
up guy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean, you guy story behind us that isn't coming out.
Why is he still just the clean up guy?
Speaker 9 (06:56):
That's what he can do?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Does he get boy? Then I fessed up?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
This is funny.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Does he get touchy feely with the rest of the employees?
Any any human resources problems? Is he trying to Susan's funny?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
She can't, she can't.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Is he trying to spread.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
His his own special sauce?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
He's back to him sucking the burghers, Susan. Susan's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Susan.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh my god, man, I like Susan.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Well, good old Leonard Susan. Yeah, all right, can we
talk to Leonard again? Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Put Leonard on a lot more. I believe you're a
corporate McDonald's guy, and you fire please.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Hello Leonard again?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Hi, Uh, this is uh Bill Zamwick with McDonald's Corporation.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Bill Zamwick. Yeah, I'm with the McDonald's Corporation. Oh yeah,
and uh you put in fifty years of service with us.
I recently learned and I just want to let you
know something has come up. You know, we have been
in a recession. You do understand this in a recession. Yes,
(08:13):
you've heard about that. Leonard. I'm very sorry. We're gonna
have to let you go. We're gonna have to let
you go. Uh, I'm heartbroken about this.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The McDonald's Corporation recognizes your years of diligence service with
the company, but uh, you're gonna have to clean out
your stuff and uh we'll let you finish out the week,
but on Friday, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You're you're being terminated, okay?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh you're gonna replace.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Me with Well, we're we're doing away with the position.
It is useless.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh, it's it's been deemed redundant. Uh, there's other people
that can do that. I really do a pologize for this.
I I'm sorry. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
As a matter of fact, why don't you just, you
know something, just pack up now and and take off?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Uh yeah, because it's pretty much over.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Now.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
We don't have to.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Call no one back.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
By the way, that wasn't That wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's all right, he's what's gonna do? Walk in front
of a bush ship?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What happened to Leonard? Leonard jumped in drunt of a little.
I think he really thought he was fire. I feel
I don't call back.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Please call me, you tell him he's not fired.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Nope, Or she'll call corporate and they'll go he's been
there on get rid of that motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He's feeling me. She's probably talking right now.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
My heart probably was so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He's probably crying. He's like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That was so that was so even talk to her
and he throws himself on the grill, or so.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He just stops cooking himself.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
That's so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Like he's got so much grease in his clothes. He
just goes up like a indow a poor Leonard, Poor Leonard.
That was pretty fucking cold.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Uh, people asking if we're gonna be on the.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Air tomorrow, I was fucking faking. Did that sound like
something we'd get fired for? That sounded come on.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Mike, Mike yo.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I've been listening to you guys for twelve years and
I've never.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Ever hit my limit, and you just hit my limits.
Total man who's worked for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You got to be I hope some feedback just writes
no prank calls. Huh, fuck you, Stephen King, you and
you fucking uh you enlightened us.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We were inspired by Stephen King.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
That's right, Leonard.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I hope Lennard's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You call McDonald. Why won't we call McDonald's back and say.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Leonard was joking on that? Carry what's up? That's the
whole thing of not knowing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, Carry.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
We like going through our day wondering.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, thank you guys for the years of Last Georgia,
Last Program.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I like being nervous every time the phone rings when
I go home.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Now, Yeah, I like the phone rings and I go, oh, ship,
Jimmy the Creep writes, that's what I love.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
About the on a show.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Every show could be their last.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Ready for reading from.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Reading from genericshow dot com. Leonard probably just went to
his car and pulled a gun.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
With the close.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm telling you, no leanid o, no pull leanid like
he thinks they light him off.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
I no, nu yeah, I n oh, well, what can
I tell you?
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Oh? Well, Larry King is checking it in.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, i' mean a Hindu, because sometimes hindu is like
protests by dousing themselves in gas and lighting themselves on fire.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, Larry. She thought I'm in Hindenburg and said it wrong. Job,
Oh Larry, Larry.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
It's a strange machine from Dallas. Right. It's times like these.
I wish you guys had a hole.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah see the hole.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh no, Leonard, You're It's okay, Leonard, you still have
a job.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh no, n Leonard's little old voice was just he.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Did sound a little like down. He was like, yeah,
let's see the reach of the show.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Anybody out there close to this McDonald's, you know there
see how Leonard iss the McDonald Crestwood, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Someone just wrote that. I bet you he just ran
headfirst into the latter.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He just put his head in the fryolator.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
John for Virginia tomorrow. They're gonna find Leonard hanging with
the words Leonard was here. That's why we got the
funniest listeners of Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
McDonald's redemption.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
I could picture Leonard riding his tricycle away in tears
his big wheel.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, oh, poor guy, Bet.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wish that character that I play on the radio
didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Sometimes I passed by the McDonald's I used to work at,
and I know I don't work there no more. I
could smell the French fries and burgers, but that's long gone.
My job's over. I was fired the other day by
some stranger on a telephone. Life just goes too fast.
(14:17):
I don't think they'll misshold Leonard much, so I'm leaving.
He's gonna toss this rope over this beam and clumsily
kick the fucking stool out with my old man's shoes.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Instead of tossing the rope over the beam, he could
toss his big tongue over the beam.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
He probably has a pet sesame seed bun that he
kept on his show.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Anthony.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, what what management? I have a comment?
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Official comment?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh sid I did.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
There?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
You said something though, in that though, that that actually
made it make sense for me. Yeah, I just got
fired by a stranger on the phone.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He was talking to radio station and then all of
a sudden the manager gives him the phone.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Susan is probably rolling right now.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Susan isn't appreciating the fact that that this guy has
been there fifty years.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
She's she's been doing all the work for two of them.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That actually makes me feel better that you would actually
add that. And here's the thing that's funny that you
had to figure it out yourself, like, huh shit, this
is kind of dicey. But he's like, Nah, a stranger
just fired you like that over the phone the day
after his big party.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Stephen as from being sure again, I just pretend you
were playing a tape of an old bit you did
years ago.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
That's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She won't let him back with the food, huh, won't.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Fuck.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He's doing something.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
He's doing something, Oh boy, Brian and Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Brian puts his dick in the McNuggets.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Brian, how do you.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Guys he's doing man?
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Good man?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Hey, I guess who was the hole on that McCaul
McDonald's O'Neil.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
With the whole yeah a little bit, yeah, yeah, did
you hear that, old man?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You cruel piece of garbage.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
That motherfucker went if he believed it for a second,
that's him, that fifty he's been working at McDonald's longer
than I've been alive, fifty years of Greece under his nails,
and he thought he was fired.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They won't let him back with the burgers. This motherfucker
is a mess, you cocksucker. Jesus evil beastiness was it was?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
It was.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
It was sad, sad. I will say stop, but I
was sad.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
His voice was like, you know, oh, okay, okay, I'm fired. Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
People are saying they can check out to McDonald's. Just
go and check it out and calls place. Yeah, strange machine, strange.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Machine in Dallas, right, So hope you had a hell
of the piss susan.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Fucking fast times. That's great.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Oh ship, probably hang himself from the arches.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
That's the cars in Scotch.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Ah Man honored for fifty years of service at McDonald's
and completely fucking torn down here in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's just the reason we called.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Because we were mad at the fucking order.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
When you go, Leonard, this is you don't even remember
the name, Yeah from I'm from the main office, Leonard said.
He he got happy, and then that's when I went fuck.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
He went yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Like this was as big, like they finally noticed me
after fifty years.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But here comes the car.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
He was hoping, he said the same.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He had the same excitement as the guy at the
bottom of his ship that that that was in the
oil on water World.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We've got him out six yards from the flack stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Lennon thought he was gonna be killed, yeah, and his
family would be taken care of.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He went yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
And then you was like, you know, there is a recession,
and he went yeah. That's when it stopped hurting. And
I'm like, don't do it. Just don't get him emotionally.
If he has said go fuck yourself. You the radio guys,
you would.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Go Leonard all Leonard's onto us.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You think Lennard's might be this is what's happening right now.
Leonard is in the back crying on top of a
box of FedEx frozen ketchup package, and and Susan's going
they were radio guys, Lennon, you're okay, No, get that
she's consawing this fucking asshole.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Her garbage is piling up. There's no trays left.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
They're all stacked up on the fucking garbage cans.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Oh fuck bulls.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh, Leonard's wiping his tears with that fucking jersey he
hasn't taken off. So man, I'm gonna feel bad when
I leave. That's how this show works. In this fucking studio.
I'm impervious to guilt because we're a second. I leave,
I stuck going why.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Did I do that?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
No? Why?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
And because his studio is filled with evil. Yeah, And
then you go outside, it's a bright sunny day.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
You see normal people, there's good human beings, and you
get some good whole thing.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
But getting an update Scott and Missouri, Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Scott, Holy shit, I really hope that that was fucking
Leonard and I just saw at the bus stop. I'm
not shipting you. I just drove through Crestlin, Missouri. I
live here in Saint Louis. I'm listening to you on
the iPhone, so it's delayed a little bit as I'm
driving along, just as you're saying this ship. About one
hundred and fifty yards down the road, there's an old
(19:57):
guy walking up to a bus stop and McDonald's in
a warm No way, I'm not sitting it. It could
have been old fuck going to work.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But that was maybe a shifts over.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh no, really a shifts over where he started three
point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh no, no, I n Leonid.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What happened to Lena?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I no.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Ah, he thinks we tooast him, wanted to freckle.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I love that we got to pe Teresa.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You can see it because it's just that old man
went yeah, yeah, he was very excited at first.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Sad news tonight from the entertainment World, comedian Patrise O'Neil
has died. When Neil died this morning from complications from
a stroke he suffered last month. The Boston native appeared
in September's Comedy Central's Roast of Charlie Sheen, where his
struggle with diabetes was a punchline for many jokes. When
Neil was a well known presence on talk shows in
the stand up industry and was a frequent on the
(21:00):
Opie and Anthony radio show, he was fourteen years old.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
That's a hell of a career.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Forty
Hi, Leonard, Welcome to the OUPI and Anthony Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, hi Leonard, congratulations on fifty years of service at McDonald's.
What congratulations on fifty years of service at McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
That's fantastic. We saw the news story.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Uh, and you've been there in the same store for
fifty years.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Fifty years fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
How many days have you taken off? Have you ever
taken a vacation?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I get vacations.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Really. What do you do on vacation Leonard?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nothing?
Speaker 5 (00:49):
What do you work for the show?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yes? Leonard?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Do you remember what year was the first negro allowed
in McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
No, I don't know. Was it during the time you
were there?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Probably right, I would imagine, yeah, I would think so
before that.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hey, Leonard, do you like those people? I like?
Speaker 7 (01:16):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Leonard?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Do you eat McDonald's every day?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Not every day? No?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
No, I do a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Do you get it for free if I'm working?
Speaker 6 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They don't give it to you for free if you're
not working?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Leonard?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What did your scumbag owners get you for fifty years
of service? What kind of gifts did you get watch
gift gifts? Well, I got some gifts, that's all. That's it.
For fifty years they gifts. Yeah, a gift certificate gets
(02:00):
for what?
Speaker 8 (02:01):
Leonard?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Years?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, what were the gift certificates for? Yeah? What couldn't
you get with them?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
But you work at a McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Later you be happy with the gifts?
Speaker 8 (02:17):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Do you remember when the bathroom said white and colored? Oh?
I was asking a little history.
Speaker 8 (02:28):
Was he was he? Did he deserve?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Did you think he deserved more? Leonard?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Do you were you?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Were you satisfied with those with with what you got
for your fifty years of service? Let me ask you
a question, Leonard? Have you ever gone for promotion?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Why you're only a bust?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I want to why?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I just didn't want to. Did they ever offer you
a better position at at McDonald Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was off twice.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
What was the better position.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Being a manager?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You said?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Why? Leonard?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Why would you say no?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That isn't it more money?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Not that much?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
So more aggravation, but not that much more money.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Now, if they had a paid you maybe triple what
you're making now, you might consider it.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It could be Maybe.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Are you working now, Leonard, damn. Oh, you're working right now?
Is your boss there?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Can we please speak with your boss?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Do you want to talk to my manager?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
We would love to to forty seven?
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Damn, damn? That's did I hear?
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Who?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's the manager there.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I'm a manager, what, Susan?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
This is the Op and Anthony Show.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
We're very excited about Leonard and his fifty years of service,
and we figured we would talk about him today.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, Now he's been there fifty years. How long have
you been working.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
As his boss?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Twenty two years?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Twenty two years, so about half of his tenure there
has been under you your leadership.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Huh wow, so you've been covering for his mistakes for
the last twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now, did you have anything to do with the planning
of this party that made the news?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I know our owner did it. Oh, the owner did it. Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Are you a little taken aback by the fact that
he's been there fifty years and really didn't get that much?
I'm sorry, my phone was beeping in when you were talking.
All right, Well, do you think he didn't get that
much for having been there fifty years?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (04:57):
He did a lot.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
And Susan is your name, Susan. The question I'm trying
to put this delicately. We saw the story and we
were touched by and we wanted to know if Leonard
is you can't say the same stuff you could say
in nineteen forty, which is you know, rhyme's would he arded?
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But is is he a little a little slow or
a little.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Bit learning kind of disabled or anything like that?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But as you get a little old, you get a
little handicap, you can't quite keep up.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
So but what about the thirty years before?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, like the thirty years before, like he's sixty eight, Now,
how about when he was, say, twenty two years ago,
when he was what forty forty five?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Is his mind really sharp?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Hmm?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Am I wrong on this?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
I think he's a shrewd guy.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
I just think we want to know why he never
why he never ascended to your level?
Speaker 9 (05:56):
You know, why he never got a real job, a
real job this is real, yes, a promotion?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
No, to your level?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Why didn't he isn't he at least your same? Like,
why wouldn't he go to management? That's what we're trying
to figure out. He didn't want to, He didn't want
to with the maintenance man.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Originally maintenance man. Wow, and now and now he's like
a bus boy. He can't Now he can't lift and
do the trash and do the maintenance.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
So now he's the lobby man.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Okay, And what is that?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
What is he What is his actual duties? What does
he have to do?
Speaker 9 (06:27):
He cleans the dining room, talks to the customers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah, still talk about Now do you.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Worry about him doing things to the burgers? He don't
go back, don't the food? Oh, Susan.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
We really want to know why he's just the clean
up guy.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I mean, you guy story behind us that isn't coming out.
Why is he still just the clean up guy?
Speaker 9 (06:56):
That's what he can do?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Does he get boy? Then I fessed up?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
This is funny.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Does he get touchy feely with the rest of the employees?
Any any human resources problems? Is he trying to Susan's funny?
Speaker 5 (07:10):
She can't, she can't.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Is he trying to spread.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
His his own special sauce?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
He's back to him sucking the burghers, Susan. Susan's hilarious.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Susan.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Oh my god, man, I like Susan.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
Well, good old Leonard Susan. Yeah, all right, can we
talk to Leonard again? Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Put Leonard on a lot more. I believe you're a
corporate McDonald's guy, and you fire please.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Hello Leonard again?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Hi, Uh, this is uh Bill Zamwick with McDonald's Corporation.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
How are you.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Bill Zamwick. Yeah, I'm with the McDonald's Corporation. Oh yeah,
and uh you put in fifty years of service with us.
I recently learned and I just want to let you
know something has come up. You know, we have been
in a recession. You do understand this in a recession. Yes,
(08:13):
you've heard about that. Leonard. I'm very sorry. We're gonna
have to let you go. We're gonna have to let
you go. Uh, I'm heartbroken about this.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
The McDonald's Corporation recognizes your years of diligence service with
the company, but uh, you're gonna have to clean out
your stuff and uh we'll let you finish out the week,
but on Friday, I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You're you're being terminated, okay?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Oh you're gonna replace.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Me with Well, we're we're doing away with the position.
It is useless.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Uh, it's it's been deemed redundant. Uh, there's other people
that can do that. I really do a pologize for this.
I I'm sorry. I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
As a matter of fact, why don't you just, you
know something, just pack up now and and take off?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Uh yeah, because it's pretty much over.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Now.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
We don't have to.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Call no one back.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
By the way, that wasn't That wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It's all right, he's what's gonna do? Walk in front
of a bush ship?
Speaker 8 (09:39):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
What happened to Leonard? Leonard jumped in drunt of a little.
I think he really thought he was fire. I feel
I don't call back.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Please call me, you tell him he's not fired.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Nope, Or she'll call corporate and they'll go he's been
there on get rid of that motherfucker.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He's feeling me. She's probably talking right now.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
My heart probably was so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He's probably crying. He's like.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That was so that was so even talk to her
and he throws himself on the grill, or so.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
He just stops cooking himself.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
That's so sad.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Like he's got so much grease in his clothes. He
just goes up like a indow a poor Leonard, Poor Leonard.
That was pretty fucking cold.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Uh, people asking if we're gonna be on the.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Air tomorrow, I was fucking faking. Did that sound like
something we'd get fired for? That sounded come on.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Mike, Mike yo.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I've been listening to you guys for twelve years and
I've never.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Ever hit my limit, and you just hit my limits.
Total man who's worked for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
You got to be I hope some feedback just writes
no prank calls. Huh, fuck you, Stephen King, you and
you fucking uh you enlightened us.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
We were inspired by Stephen King.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
That's right, Leonard.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I hope Lennard's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
You call McDonald. Why won't we call McDonald's back and say.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Leonard was joking on that? Carry what's up? That's the
whole thing of not knowing.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, Carry.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
We like going through our day wondering.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, thank you guys for the years of Last Georgia,
Last Program.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I like being nervous every time the phone rings when
I go home.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Now, Yeah, I like the phone rings and I go, oh, ship,
Jimmy the Creep writes, that's what I love.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
About the on a show.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Every show could be their last.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Ready for reading from.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Reading from genericshow dot com. Leonard probably just went to
his car and pulled a gun.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
With the close.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I'm telling you, no leanid o, no pull leanid like
he thinks they light him off.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
I no, nu yeah, I n oh, well, what can
I tell you?
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Oh? Well, Larry King is checking it in.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, i' mean a Hindu, because sometimes hindu is like
protests by dousing themselves in gas and lighting themselves on fire.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, Larry. She thought I'm in Hindenburg and said it wrong. Job,
Oh Larry, Larry.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
It's a strange machine from Dallas. Right. It's times like these.
I wish you guys had a hole.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah see the hole.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh no, Leonard, You're It's okay, Leonard, you still have
a job.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh no, n Leonard's little old voice was just he.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Did sound a little like down. He was like, yeah,
let's see the reach of the show.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Anybody out there close to this McDonald's, you know there
see how Leonard iss the McDonald Crestwood, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Someone just wrote that. I bet you he just ran
headfirst into the latter.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
He just put his head in the fryolator.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
John for Virginia tomorrow. They're gonna find Leonard hanging with
the words Leonard was here. That's why we got the
funniest listeners of Radio.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
McDonald's redemption.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
I could picture Leonard riding his tricycle away in tears
his big wheel.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, oh, poor guy, Bet.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I wish that character that I play on the radio
didn't do that.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Sometimes I passed by the McDonald's I used to work at,
and I know I don't work there no more. I
could smell the French fries and burgers, but that's long gone.
My job's over. I was fired the other day by
some stranger on a telephone. Life just goes too fast.
(14:17):
I don't think they'll misshold Leonard much, so I'm leaving.
He's gonna toss this rope over this beam and clumsily
kick the fucking stool out with my old man's shoes.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Instead of tossing the rope over the beam, he could
toss his big tongue over the beam.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
He probably has a pet sesame seed bun that he
kept on his show.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Anthony.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, what what management? I have a comment?
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Official comment?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Oh sid I did.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
There?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
You said something though, in that though, that that actually
made it make sense for me. Yeah, I just got
fired by a stranger on the phone.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
He was talking to radio station and then all of
a sudden the manager gives him the phone.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Susan is probably rolling right now.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Susan isn't appreciating the fact that that this guy has
been there fifty years.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
She's she's been doing all the work for two of them.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
That actually makes me feel better that you would actually
add that. And here's the thing that's funny that you
had to figure it out yourself, like, huh shit, this
is kind of dicey. But he's like, Nah, a stranger
just fired you like that over the phone the day
after his big party.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
But it's stupid.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Stephen as from being sure again, I just pretend you
were playing a tape of an old bit you did
years ago.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
That's a good way to look at it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
She won't let him back with the food, huh, won't.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Fuck.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He's doing something.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
He's doing something, Oh boy, Brian and Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Brian puts his dick in the McNuggets.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Brian, how do you.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Guys he's doing man?
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Good man?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Hey, I guess who was the hole on that McCaul
McDonald's O'Neil.
Speaker 9 (16:16):
With the whole yeah a little bit, yeah, yeah, did
you hear that, old man?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You cruel piece of garbage.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
That motherfucker went if he believed it for a second,
that's him, that fifty he's been working at McDonald's longer
than I've been alive, fifty years of Greece under his nails,
and he thought he was fired.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They won't let him back with the burgers. This motherfucker
is a mess, you cocksucker. Jesus evil beastiness was it was?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
It was.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
It was sad, sad. I will say stop, but I
was sad.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
His voice was like, you know, oh, okay, okay, I'm fired. Okay.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
People are saying they can check out to McDonald's. Just
go and check it out and calls place. Yeah, strange machine, strange.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Machine in Dallas, right, So hope you had a hell
of the piss susan.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Fucking fast times. That's great.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Oh ship, probably hang himself from the arches.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
That's the cars in Scotch.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Ah Man honored for fifty years of service at McDonald's
and completely fucking torn down here in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's just the reason we called.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Because we were mad at the fucking order.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
When you go, Leonard, this is you don't even remember
the name, Yeah from I'm from the main office, Leonard said.
He he got happy, and then that's when I went fuck.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
He went yes, yes.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Like this was as big, like they finally noticed me
after fifty years.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But here comes the car.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
He was hoping, he said the same.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
He had the same excitement as the guy at the
bottom of his ship that that that was in the
oil on water World.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
We've got him out six yards from the flack stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Lennon thought he was gonna be killed, yeah, and his
family would be taken care of.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
He went yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
And then you was like, you know, there is a recession,
and he went yeah. That's when it stopped hurting. And
I'm like, don't do it. Just don't get him emotionally.
If he has said go fuck yourself. You the radio guys,
you would.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Go Leonard all Leonard's onto us.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You think Lennard's might be this is what's happening right now.
Leonard is in the back crying on top of a
box of FedEx frozen ketchup package, and and Susan's going
they were radio guys, Lennon, you're okay, No, get that
she's consawing this fucking asshole.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Her garbage is piling up. There's no trays left.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
They're all stacked up on the fucking garbage cans.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Oh fuck bulls.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh, Leonard's wiping his tears with that fucking jersey he
hasn't taken off. So man, I'm gonna feel bad when
I leave. That's how this show works. In this fucking studio.
I'm impervious to guilt because we're a second. I leave,
I stuck going why.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Did I do that?
Speaker 7 (19:24):
No? Why?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
And because his studio is filled with evil. Yeah, And
then you go outside, it's a bright sunny day.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
You see normal people, there's good human beings, and you
get some good whole thing.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
But getting an update Scott and Missouri, Scott.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Scott, Holy shit, I really hope that that was fucking
Leonard and I just saw at the bus stop. I'm
not shipting you. I just drove through Crestlin, Missouri. I
live here in Saint Louis. I'm listening to you on
the iPhone, so it's delayed a little bit as I'm
driving along, just as you're saying this ship. About one
hundred and fifty yards down the road, there's an old
(19:57):
guy walking up to a bus stop and McDonald's in
a warm No way, I'm not sitting it. It could
have been old fuck going to work.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
But that was maybe a shifts over.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Oh no, really a shifts over where he started three
point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh no, no, I n Leonid.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
What happened to Lena?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
I no.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Ah, he thinks we tooast him, wanted to freckle.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
I love that we got to pe Teresa.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
You can see it because it's just that old man
went yeah, yeah, he was very excited at first.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
Sad news tonight from the entertainment World, comedian Patrise O'Neil
has died. When Neil died this morning from complications from
a stroke he suffered last month. The Boston native appeared
in September's Comedy Central's Roast of Charlie Sheen, where his
struggle with diabetes was a punchline for many jokes. When
Neil was a well known presence on talk shows in
the stand up industry and was a frequent on the
(21:00):
Opie and Anthony radio show, he was fourteen years old.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
That's a hell of a career.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
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