ep. 213: Erik "Erock" Nagel denies Grand Theft Auto 6

The great Erik "Erock" Nagel returns to the podcast to cover the return of the Opie vs Anthony feud, his reaction to Sam Roberts being the sole survivor of the classic radio era, Erok responds to accusations about his handling behind the scenes of Compound Media and most controversially of all... Erock (who did voice acting work for previous GTA games) denies that GTA 6 is coming out. 

Co-hosting on this episode is the great Chad IanB from Eyes Up Here. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is usually Hello everybody, and we are back with
an interview special and a returning guest. I don't think
he's been on for maybe a year, or at least
two years or whatever, but I always love talking to him.
He's a perfect guest. He's done this type of shit
for decades. He even knows exactly what to say, what

(00:46):
not to say, and when to stop talking. Talk about
of course the great Eric E. Rock Nagel, a host
of his own show, and of course of Opie and
Anthony Fieme. And we are joined, of course by Chad
Iraq Barclay that's right or whatever. I don't think that's

(01:06):
his name, And it's great. You know, we're talking about
the well, frankly, the fall of compound media. The I
rack addresses a couple of acquisitions that kim his way
here and there. He avoided the chat. There was some
a lot of negativity in the chat, but you know,
fucking what can you do. We spoke about the return

(01:29):
of the open, Anthony Feud, and a whole bunch more.
Of course, this is dry January, so we will not
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But you know you will have to wait for that. Shit.
If my mic clicks during this episode, tough. It happens

(02:12):
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(04:43):
Rocking around the Christmas Tree, but it's dry January, so
we're just gonna call it Ericon. And here is the
great Erican American. It's Eric Diegel Eric. How you doing today?

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Hey pal? How are you? How's things in Ireland? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Worse than that? And we are of course joined by
he worked for Hard Stern, he worked for Vince McMahon,
so if he works for you and I, that means
you're a cunt. It is the great Chester Chichester. How
are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm doing great. I should have come on before E Rock.
He's the bigger cell, so I had tough shoes to
fill coming on afterwards.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
We all good. Apparently we work at the or at
least I have deals with the same network there, so
it's it's all good there we go, oh.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
The any scoop, any insight, No.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
He's got the iHeart thing. I got the iHeart thing.
And it's it's never a surprise when you run into
somebody that works there, because the company's so vast and
bloated that you go. It's like, oh you, I guess
that you work there too, Like you never know who
works at this company.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
iHeart is the company that just keeps growing. I mean
my contact at iHeart, I mean, if I ever meet
him in person, I mean I don't know where he's
out of I don't know where he lives. But I'm
in the iHeart family, so happy to be there, happy to.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Be a joy will Less.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
We were at one point going to be joined by
the great I'mholt. Of course he is busy, but we
do have a goal setup that if we can get
ten super chats within the next hour, a rock is
going to take off his shirt. So that is the goal.
They can be minor, they can be huge, but whatever
they are, let's get something offensive and bigoted. And speaking

(06:29):
of which, we're starting off well with a nice one.
I'm sure it'll be friendly from two bucks for Don
from nice podcast, Stupid Docs, Yo e roch Coke Oreo
is still number one, or you got a new fieve.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I know him. No soda, been no soda since June.
So all done with all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I will never drink soda ever again. And you can
quote me, because it's it's nothing but shit and it's
bad for you.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
There are a couple of good ones still, but I
just got to the point I was like, yeah, I'm
kind of done with this, so it's all uh, it's
all iced tea or crystal light.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Now, well, speaking of shit, that's bad for you. Of course,
you guys both have worked for serious in the past.
You know, I worked for iHeartRadio. But we are now
living in the golden age of radio because finally the
King has taken his vital throne and Sam Roberts, the

(07:38):
funniest guy in the world, is the host of what
used to be the greatest radio show of all time,
but now it's better because Sam Roberts is hosting it
all by himself.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And if there's one thing better or batter, I can't
tell with your accent.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
That's racist. But what we're gonna do is that what
I need to know is a from your thoughts Iraq
to see what the fuck has happened in the past
from a show that was literally called the greatest radio
show ever, that competed with Hard Stern, that I the
fucking the will farreled with concert looking shipthead is the

(08:23):
sole survivor your thoughts, iraq A, you lovely man.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Good on him. You know, any any company that's willing
to pay anybody nowadays, take it for all it's worth,
don't leave write it out till it's done, and then
deal with it after the fact. So if he's last
man standing, good for him. I don't think that company's
due to be around much longer. But you know, take
it for what they're giving it for him.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
So, oh, have you heard a little bit of scoop?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Not scoop. It's public. They got to cut two hundred
and seventy seventy five million dollars this year and they
they're not claiming any profit, and they decided that they're
not focusing on streaming anymore. They're only focused on the
car subscriptions. And they had to admit they have no
one under thirty five that subscribes, so it was all
public information. So there's no scoop. It's like they came

(09:14):
out and said, hey, we have to admit we're in
a lot of shit, so they to be fair, all
the media companies are in a terrible place right now,
so everyone's lucky to have whatever they got.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
And they think that Sam Roberts is the way to
fix that that. I have no idea, que quad child,
What do you think about this Sam Roberts stuff? Do
you hit his fucking guts as much as I do.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'm just I'm not a fan of his his work,
but I guess his work ethic because he stayed with
it and inherit the Timeslot officially fully to himself. I
mean again, it's it's a credit to how long he
stayed with that commitment, you know. I don't know. That's
That's all I could say to him. Again, not a
big fan of what he does. I don't think he's

(10:03):
very funny. I think he's very funny looking, but I yeah,
I guess it's just a credit to how long he
stood he's stud with it. I mean, and I don't
think if you asked him the first day he started
there that he would end up taking the spot in
twenty twenty five, I don't think he would have said yes,
but there he is. He's got it and nobody else
does so good on him, just not a fan.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I would rather put Eric Clapton in charge of closing
my Kedge bedroom window. Then I would have Sham Roberts
be put in charge of hosting my radio shows. He's
as funny as find them a lump. But do you
have any contact?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Windows are pretty windows are pretty high up in that building.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Unlike they're riddings. Oh but Iraq, do you have any
form of contact to Sham at all?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I haven't. What was the last time I took We
did a Steve c ten year anniversary special three or
four years back, and that was the last time I
talked to any of them.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
And did did Sam admit to the guilt behind it all?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
No? I don't know any guilt. But he wouldn't admit
that his head was full of candy like Steve used
to claim and kept trying to grab him by the
head and smash his head open on a regular basis.
Wouldn't admit to that, even though everybody knows that is
a fact. Other than that, No, there was nothing else
he admitted to.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I just think that it's it's such a crazy sign
of the times that like, if you look at little
Jim Norton, if you remember that guy, I heard.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Of him, I'm as gay as it gets.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
The fact that he would, at this stage of his
life and career be thinking, Okay, I'm done with the video,
I'm not doing this shit anymore. I'm gonna do my
own thing, and it's already taken off. Like I just
I just think that Sam Roberts is the perfect example
of why radio is dying. And fuck him.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Okay, that's you.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I mean, you know, I'm not gonna I'm gonna piggyback
a little bit off of that because I kind of
felt like, again, I don't love his style, so I
kind of felt like when he started to evolve up
and started to get more you know, bigger, bigger time slots,
bigger exposure, it kind of seemed like anybody could really
get into this and do this because he wasn't a standout,

(12:39):
you know, performer. I'm not gonna just kiss the rocks,
but because he's here. But I always thought that you
were very good as a as a single broadcaster. I
thought that you had a than a than a Sam Roberts,
and I could never understand why Sam would always be
at the lead if people were out and that E
Rock wasn't at the lead when people were out. So

(13:00):
when when Sam started to get the lead and started
to be I just never understood. And I think that
kind of paid the way for others with not so
great broadcasting presence too now also begin to take the forefront.
So yeah, I think Hughsi's kind of got it that
it's a it was kind of the start of a
not so great era for radio.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
And I mean it could be a whole bunch of
different things. You know. It could be that they when
Ant left and then they got her. Of Ope, they
saved a lot of money, So I want to sit
here and spout about black people. Okay, Still, yeah, they

(13:41):
saved a lot of money. And then the same thing
with Norton too. I mean, I don't know the facts
of why Jim left, but the little rumblings I heard,
I I'm guessing was still over money, that they were
trying to undercut him and he just was tired of
doing it, and especially for whatever they wanted to pay him.
I found out, like everybody else else where, he was

(14:01):
taping a episode of his he brought back his advice show,
and he was doing it. I guess it was during
the holiday break, and he admitted during the recording that
he wasn't coming back, and that's when, I guess was
the official notice that he was done. Everybody there right

(14:22):
now earned their spot, but they're all just hanging on
because where else you're gonna go? Anybody at serious right
now that's not a major name, a celebrity influence or
any of that stuff. If they left tomorrow, what other
network's going to pick them up? I can't think of
any And that wasn't the way even ten years ago,

(14:43):
that wasn't the way I could picture. I mean, anybody
who was who would leave. I knew places that could go.
I knew where there were availabilities. Now, unless they're spending
millions of dollars to license somebody else's property, they don't
want to own anything. They don't want any kind of
high price talent if it's not going to translate into
sales money for them. So I don't know where any

(15:05):
of this is going to go. But look, if he's
managed to hang on and and they I guess they
made him a new deal and they kept his guys
with them, then you know, God bless him good that
they could get it.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, I'm just glad for Jim Norton he's able to
spend more time at home with his wife. Six hundred
and thirty four blow chops in five days.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
This is how many jobs? How how much time during
your week? Is it just finding obscure drops that you
think are going to work in every conversation to punch
it up?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Turd?

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Yeah like that that's an old one, that's like thirty
years old. That drop that's yeah, that's a nineties drop.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah know that's that. That may be my favorite part
of it all. I don't think out thing. Yeah, that
was just just the way Anthony kept saying, fucking turd.
It's a classic. But that's what I just think. It's
such a shame that and I still and I still

(16:02):
think it's really weird that it's still not happening, that
these video shows aren't taking advantage of social media, and
there's all these classic bits and segments and conversations that
should have been uploaded and released officially. Like I I
just the other day did my annual listen to the
Mel Gibson Tapes roast, and it's a funny, like that's

(16:27):
the fact, that's my favorite ona bit that that is
just the darkest fucking stuff of this guy, this complete psychopath,
having him an insane mental breakdown, who's admitting to hitting
his pregnant wife, who's saying all this racist shit, all
this homophobic shit, and as guy as it gets, but

(16:50):
they just make it so fucking funny, like that's gold
and that's funny. Sam Roberts talking about Summer Slam memories
is not. He's a scunt. He's a skunt and he's
a cunt and I don't like him, and I think
it's a shame. And it's kind of like when you
have a band you love and it didn't stop when

(17:13):
it should have. It's like bon Jovi, look at the
state of those fucking.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Guys, Night and cornif one guy was named after him
so he can keep going as long as he wants.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hitlike, thank you Corndiff for the reminder, you're you're a
good boy, well raised. But bon Jovi, I'm always confer
pretty sure that that band took that name simply for
the initials, so that he could do some cheesy chatter
blind like hey, how about it BJ for JBJ and

(17:47):
he would laugh every time that had happened. He's a
disgusting person. Let's cancel. John bon Jovi, there you up.
But I gotta ask you as well. A couple of
weeks ago, you know, it was last month we interviewed
the lovely Pat Dixon, lovely smile, lovely headed her, just

(18:12):
all around, the lovely, lovely man. And but I have
to say that there's a Pat Dixon fan. And again
I like the guy. He was kind of in this
phase of passing the blame for everybody. It's Gino's fault
that this happened, even though Pat's on the punched him.
It's Chrissy Mayer's fault for this, even though they had

(18:34):
their ship going on, and it's it's Brennan's fault, and
it's this person's fault and all this ship where he
fucking flat out. And I thought this was kind of weird.
Seemed to put the blame on you for Compound Media.
We're not closing down, but moving down. And I thought
it was kind of weird to do that because it's

(18:57):
obviously well I didn't agree, But from your perspective, what
was your thoughts on where did you.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Say that on this show he did. Okay, I'll have
to go back and check that out. Yeah, it wasn't
my doing for the decline of compound or any of
that stuff. I do what I'm told, at least in
that position there. I don't handle any of the finance stuff,

(19:26):
so I had nothing to do with that. And look,
when you have a boss that wants things to go
a certain way, and it's my job to either execute
that or not do certain things that other people want.
That was my only position there, you know, I mean,
that was one of my jobs. It wasn't my main job,

(19:48):
but it was one of them. And I can only
do what, you know, what, what was asked of me
or what was wanted to do for the direction of
the company. And there were time I used to try
to an ant will attest to this. There were times
I used to try to change a lot of the programming.
I used to try to change a lot of the
content that they were doing, because like, why aren't we

(20:09):
getting more ads? Why don't we getting it? Because you
can't sell this kind of stuff the way they were
doing it. But then it got to the point where
they didn't care about the ads, They didn't care about
all those things, So it's like, all right, I'm here
to do what you want me to do. So that's
what I'm doing. And everybody else was responsible for the
content of their own shows, whether people liked them or not.

(20:32):
That's the fault of the hosts, not of the company.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do you think in a way that a compound media
was a good idea that went too big tuition, because like,
obviously it's okay in hindsight, but I always thought that
if Kumea had have done like a free show for
like a few months or a year, he'd have been

(20:57):
up on that Rogan Adam Carolla will he's not so
big anymore, but he'd have been up on that level.
Do you think they're going straight into paywall service with
multiple shows? Was it also its tiinfall?

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, I wasn't there for any when they went to expand,
you know, to add other shows and move it into
a facility in New York. All that I was there
way after the fact, So those were decisions Keith and
him made long before I was there. The paywall thing,
I think at the time he had to just because

(21:37):
of everything that was surrounding why he left Sirius, so
he had to do what he had to do, but
eventually there should have been a way that we opened
it up a bit more. It was just going to
be difficult with the way the content went because a
lot of the content you wanted to open up for
free would not fly on YouTube and another platform, So

(21:58):
you then you kind of became stuck behind the paywall
where you couldn't unless you did a drastic change, you
couldn't get out from that, just because the way all
the other platforms are run. If I was around back
at that time, I think Aunt should have just stayed
a solo entity and he could have been something like
a Corolla or I don't know who else is really

(22:22):
not like a Ben Shapiro that kind of stuff, but
you know somebody who was funny, who did radio, was
commentary like Nick Depolo's doing his own thing now, but
he's kind of a slave to the to the paywall
service too, because every time he puts something out, either
with the exception of Twitter, puts it on Instagram or
YouTube wherever, his shit's getting flagged every now and then.

(22:43):
So that's got to be extremely frustrating. The content they
want to do and the topics they want to talk
about is unfortunately nowadays, just it has to be behind
a paywall. I think he should have stayed a solo entity,
and I thought I think he would have been. His
show would have been a lot bigger than where it
is right now, not that it's not doing well where
it is currently, but it could have been a lot

(23:04):
bigger if Jimmy shared that direction.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Do you mean solo as in he should have just
kept it as his show and nothing else, or solo
as he never should have added anybody to the act
at his.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Oh, just like not having the network of I mean
at one point there was like shows, so it has
a lot to manage, payroll, logistics, even when we had
advertising for it. That's just a lot to oversee. And
it fully admits he didn't want to do a lot
of the works. He wanted to own it and come

(23:38):
in and do a show. And that's where you know,
Keith and myself and other people who were who were
hired there were to run everything else, so he didn't
have to. If I was there back when he was
making those decisions, I was just focus on your thing,
build your thing, and just the soul because you can
see it now everybody's podcast networks, there's one big name

(24:00):
and then who cares about really whoever else is on there,
Like that Alex Cooper deal that Sirius just did. They
spent one hundred and twenty million on her for her
call Her Daddy podcast, But she also part of that
deal is also she has a podcast network with like
several other shows. And you go looking like, who knows
these shows? Who cares you're paying for her? It should

(24:21):
have just been him.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
But what you said makes a lot of sense because
like take in hot Water for example, I thought that
Gino and Arnberg were fucking hilarious together, but if you
watch their stuff and they're doing jokes about essay and
they're using certain words that you can't use, and then

(24:45):
the show and like shit Scott porn and stuff, how
can you put that online to promote it if it's
going to be completely heavily censored and there's proof to
should have confirmed that, lovely Geno himself, even though he's
got a lovely smile and me talk about that afterwards.
You know you want to his own YouTube channel, good note,

(25:08):
because he like violated every term of service and now
he's doing fucking what do you call it? A uh a,
fucking the rumble is out what it's called.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
So he's doing rumble only and then you just think,
but that's because you were being stupid. You didn't know
what you were doing, you didn't play by the rulers,
and you fucked yourself over. So in a weird way,
any of the criticisms he may have had about how
a Compound was run, they have all been proven right

(25:46):
in the semi Pat Dixon, he get kicked off YouTube twice.
I don't specifically you know why, but whatever he was
talking about this thing, So maybe accept the blame on
this one and take the response and right.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Chad, I agree, but you know that whole lineup, I
completely agree with what he Rock's saying, is like, they
never need to be anybody but Anthony on Compound Media
because he's the draw, and when it first came out,
you wanted to hear what his show wasn't the period
in the story, I never had any interest in any
show but Anthony, So I never subscribed because I never

(26:25):
want to hear it. And if anything popped up for
free on YouTube, that's when I would check it out
a lot of times, if you don't have a lot
of professional people being put into a professional spot, they're
not going to know what to do. So if they're
controlling their own content and they're throwing out scat porn
like you're saying, yeah, they're not going to realize you
can't do that. So, you know, I'm not surprised that
it ended up getting a little too much. And like

(26:46):
you were saying, twelve people or so at the time,
it's a lot, but should Yeah, a lot of turds,
but it should have stayed Anthony and it probably still
be just Compound Life from the Compound by itself was
a great show, so I should just stay that.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
But what you were saying when you were describing and
how water was very funny with Aaron and Geno, and
then it did start going into spiraling directions with some
of the content in the material they were showing on
screen and saying on screen, and then expecting that it
was going to get bigger or it was going to
reach more people because they're just because you're uncensored doesn't

(27:24):
always mean that it's always going to be entertaining or hilarious.
You know, it frees it loosens the rains a little bit.
For you to talk about subjects and go in weird
directions and explore conversation and stuff. But when you're when
you're going so hard in the paint to things that

(27:45):
none are just taboo. It's just it's going to fuck
with business in the future. It's going to fuck with
your comedy dates. It's going to fuck with everything just
because the world isn't tolerant of it or the world's
not going to accept it. And no business, no matter,
no matter what they stand for, is going to accept it.
You're stuck behind the paywall. You'll always be behind the paywall.

(28:06):
And the second you come out of the paywall is
when they all got fucked and because they didn't manage
their stuff that they weren't paying attention. And like you
said with Gene, I don't know what the exact reasons
why Pat lost his YouTube thing, but for Gino's thing,
it was a stupid error that could have been easily
avoided if he would pay attention to his stuff. But

(28:27):
he wants to come on there and just rattle and
spout off what Gino does, and that's fine. That's why
people like him, or maybe that's why they hate him.
But they're watching him for either way. But you have
to be mindful of some of these things. Where you're
now your own business, you got to pay attention to
these things, and they didn't. And you know, unfortunately that's
the world you live in right now. You want to

(28:48):
do what you want to do, but okay, we got
to find a place to do it. Those aren't the
places to do it.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Hey, did you ever fail to combine? Was she? It
was a paying job for you, But did you ever
feel that there was a time before it ended? Did
it that was a right time for it to end?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Wait for was there a right time for Compound to end?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
I don't even know what I just said. Do you
think that Compound Media should have ended earlier than when
it did?

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah? I think there was a time. But I also
knew that we were trying to get to the ten
year mark on the company, and it made sense like yeah,
you know, by year eight, year nine, there were discussions
about maybe is this worth keeping to keep going? Should
we you know, shrink it down to jes Anthony? Should

(29:47):
we close the doors altogether? Those conversations were being had.
I didn't make those decisions, but those conversations were being had,
and you know Ant, with his generosity, kept it going
as long as he actually did. He didn't have to.
I wanted to see he thought like, dah, let's go,

(30:10):
Like ten years was probably would be enough. And we
got to that threshold, and the way everything was executed
leading up to and after that part within that last
year was way out of my hands. I wasn't even
there when Gavin took over and fired everybody. I just wasn't.

(30:32):
I wasn't there those days. I was. I was in
Dallas doing stuff for the Blaze, and then I get
these calls and these texts come back, and then I'm
find like, oh, I guess this is done. We were
supposed to be uh several months down the line because
it was going to be a merger. There were you know,
we were going to let the least for the studio

(30:52):
run out and and just wind things down kind of
lead to a big Hey, this is the last day
of this. Now it's going to become the next thing.
And Gavin had other plans, so it should have ended
I think a year or two before that. And when
Ann had the heart attack in the fall of any three,

(31:15):
it was like, yeah, this, we can't keep this going
much longer. He just was at the point where he
and rightfully so, he's done everything. He's in a different
place in his life. He had moved. I just he
just wanted to do a show, and that's it. Not
even have the rest of the responsibilities of even owning
a business anymore. And you can't blame the guy.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, and GTA six is coming like this year, like
he has priorities.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I want to sit here and spout about black people.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Chad, do you want to read this comment so that
I rock will actually because he won't be able to
understand what I say.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I don't even understand it. I've been trying to read
it that whole time. I don't even get it. Do
you I want to hear you read it?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
You read it?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
From Honky to Tennessee, Opie and Norton try harder for
Fox's sake, or do not bother? By the way, not
Norton's wife, Nicki, she's she tries hard enough. Hey, mister
Culis's nickname check this, Nicki's enough enough Norton. But I

(32:23):
gotta tell you about Gavin. I think he's gonna have
a rough time coming up. His whole marketing thing is
that he is he was like the big rebel and
he was fighting against the system. But no, I don't
know if you heard, like confirm the news Trump won
the election, So all that rebellious stuff about like, oh

(32:45):
we're fighting and we will say what we want. Yeah,
what are you rebeund against NYE?

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, I mean that was always the way with going
back to the days with like conservative talk radio. You know,
they were always fighting democrats and liberals and socialists in
the government, and they make their most money is when
the opposition's in power. Like you don't if you're a

(33:12):
conservative talk host, you don't want the Republicans and the
Conservatives in power anywhere because then you can't really, like
you said, rally against the system. You can't argue a
lot of the stuff because it's your guys in place
making the policies. So then you're on the defensive then
because if they fuck up, now you're on your national
radio shows defending your guys, your team, your candidates for

(33:35):
all that stuff. So back in the nineties when Rush
Limbaugh blew up because Bill Clinton won out of which
was a surprise at the time, beating the first George
Bush and then for his two terms, Rush Limbaugh and
conservative talk radio and conservative program even Fox News during

(33:56):
that time all blew up because Clinton was in power.
The Democrats were controlling everything. Now, I don't think I
recall a time when you had the Republicans controlling almost
every single branch of the government. Right now, I don't
know what you rally against. I don't know what you
argue over. It'll be interesting to see how they adapt

(34:18):
for all of this going forward.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Mel Gibson is running hollywoodn't. I like Trump puts the
loan in. Mel Gibson in charge of Hollywood. This is
fucking amazing. By the way, I don't think I'm gonna
have to let you skip by. You think that a
GTA sex isn't coming like this year?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Fuck you not at all?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Why? Why? What? Why why do you think that? And
that's that's sudding you should joke about I rock. You
can hurt people's feelings with that.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Now it's gonna come out sometime in twenty six if
that yeah, that that trailer they didn't want to release.
It got leaked first, so then they had to put
it out. But and everybody I know that it worked.
They're all left. All the original people that were at
Rockstar during the heyday of Grand Theft Auto Dad. They're
all gone, they all left. That company is completely different

(35:10):
than it was, So I don't know. It's a priority
to get it out, but it's not a priority to
get it out sooner than later. And they could care
less when it actually does come out, which is unusual
for a gaming company to work that way. But they're
not in any rush to put this game. And I

(35:31):
heard they had one or two little setbacks on something,
so that's just going to delay it even more. You're
not going to see this game till twenty six at least.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
It makes me wonder if because rumor I'd heard for
a while is that it was going to be quite
socially conscious, but they took so long to make it
that social consciousness has kind of reverted back to what
it was like for GTA at five, right, So it
makes me wonder if they're gonna the back so that,

(36:00):
you know, hold L two to look up her skirt
or something like that. Fucking bitches, right, Chad, Yeah, there
you go, But it just didn't one last compound media thing.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
I over with. He was a move on. It's gone.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oasis is back gta's coming back, this is a good
year for the lads, and there's a new Fantastic Four
coming out. Fuck yes. But I remember when people would
leave Compound media, specifically the Burnham Bridges Show hosted by

(36:38):
notorious nice guy lovely man at Kevin Brennan. They would
specifically come out and blame you, which I thought was
kind of weird, Like when they can't.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Take responsibility for themselves, it's always somebody else's fucking fault,
and it's their fault. They fucked everything up, so they
can blame whoever they want, but look where they're at now,
it's all their fault.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Yeah, And I just wanted to say, with Kevin Brandon,
how the fuck do you go from? You wrote on
Saturday Night Live, you played Santa claus On Spence City
with Michael J. Fox. You wrote, Oh, he was Santa
claus On Spence and he get into a Chauvin match
with Michael J. Fox. I'll watch you fucking problem. It

(37:24):
was really funny stuff. And then and then he wrote
that TV show with fucking Norm McDonald the the what
was it called Sports Show with Norm McDonald the name right?
Then he tours with fucking Luis K and he's got
all this stuff and all these contacts, he's got Sarah

(37:46):
Silverman publicly calling them out as a white racist on
bad stuff. So all this ship in his life. Yet
you go check on Kevin Brandon show NYE and he
and he's going, FKA, mommy, he's a huh, why do
I care about? Way to aim out? And it's like,
who you have what? Maybe you should take the blim

(38:07):
Maybe you should fucking accept that you're the problem. That
maybe Burnham Bridges was shite, that you're grumpy old man.
You don't have it, And it's not Eroch's fault. Who
wasn't actually the boss of the company unless you were?
Were you?

Speaker 2 (38:21):
No, I was up to a certain extent, there were
certain things I had no control over. So and then
of course it's Anthony's company, so whatever his final decision
was or his word is, was the law of the land.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
So basically, Anthony told you to fire everyone, and Anthony
hits them all, and it was the whole time.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I don't think he hates any of them, even I
know some of them hate him, but I don't think
he hates really hates, and he doesn't care enough to care,
which is both a you know, a compliment and detrimental
to him that he doesn't care enough about anything. The
stuff he should care about or the stuff he shouldn't
care about. He doesn't care about any of it. He

(39:04):
just wants to play his games, do his show yell
about certain people on on social media platforms, and then
go and play video games and and live. If you
think about it, he's got like the ideal life of
like a teenager or a college student, you know, and
God bless him, he's got the means to do it.

(39:24):
That's where he's at in his life, and that's how
he's going to go out way down the line, just
living and being what he was. Yeah, he doesn't care.
He doesn't care. I want to sit here and spout
about black people. See he even admits it, and he
is go ahead, say.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
So so errach say so, it's all your fault, right, No.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
That's all Arnberg's fault.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Arnberg of course starts all for leaving. That's it's that's
what caused the collapse of compound.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Yeah, the star of a bowl film. So there you go,
and they say the compound, Well, you know, I'd rarely
get the chance to share that liked. But they have
to say though that a lot of these people here
like shit talking, shit leaving. If you're good enough, you
would have grown and made it with items. Don't point

(40:20):
the blame because you feel if if you didn't blow
up while there, your fault.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Hey, here's a question. The child will read to your
iraq to open up in their next topic.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Okay, IRAQ. Have you seen Opie's crazy hilarious new prank channel.
First prank was buying envelopes? True genius.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Yeah. I think the world has seen that more so
than on his YouTube channel. Everyone's seen it elsewhere. He's trying,
he's trying to find something. He's definitely not doing the
right thing at all. But he's another one that never
listens to UH, to UH criticism, to concern, to actual

(41:10):
you know, thoughts and ideas. I'm like, this might not
be the best thing to do. He got into that
point that had been where he doesn't need to listen
to anybody anymore, and his work is definitely the result
of it. You know, he's doing everything on his own.
He has nobody helping him, and I don't think anybody's
really watching it. So he's got to try something.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Hey, you've gotta admit though, that that ticks some fucking
balls to go buy envelopes, Like, that's pretty fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
I know something people don't really even use anymore. So
let's just go and get something so antiquated that this
will be funny. I saw, actually, I saw a clip.
I don't remember where I saw it, but he was
walking around Manhattan and talking to like the wax figures
at Madame Tussau's wax Museum in Times Square there, Like

(42:05):
he's trying to talk to the figures and then one
of the guards comes up to him and ask him
what he's doing. It's just like, as soon as I
saw him trying to talk to Jimmy Fallon the way,
I said, all right, this is stupid. God bless them.
Do what you're gonna do. But this is not a
way to to go out quietly into the night. It's
not very dignified.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
But that that's funny because when you think about it,
wax statues can't speak right.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
So when he tell him that.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
When he goes up to the Jimmy Founding, Jimmy Fallon,
they have the old envelopes for shale.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Uh oh, so you saw the content go down.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
You you know, no, I'm just I'm just thinking of
a follow up sketch that was gonna stand tim But but.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
That's faring far off.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
So, but think about how funny that is because Harbould
statue a be able to speak and be nor envelopes like,
this is fucking we're gonna go viral. This is a
glorious time to be alive. Guys, you're not excited.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
That's always long before people were putting stuff out to
go viral. He has been obsessed, obsessed with getting things
to go viral. And half the time you're like, it
doesn't matter. You can't make it happen. It either happens
or it doesn't. You can't say I'm gonna put It's

(43:27):
like when you get those ads on Instagram or something
like that, and it's everybody trying to tell you how
to increase your engagement. And you should be using this
program to cut up like one hundred clips from your
podcast for vertical videos on things. So if you want
to be badass like me, you fucking do it. Yes,

(43:47):
it's like you know guaranteed at least you know two
hundred viral clips. And it's like, you can't think like that.
If you think like that, it never happened. This is
worse than like nighttime hip hop radio where they're constantly
playing the airhorn and sound effects and stuff like that.

(44:08):
You're pretty damn close.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
I love your reactions.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, it's just so dumb. You listened to black people
at night New York City. Yeah, I grew up listening
to all kinds of radio here.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
But the reason why I ask about that great Opie
thing is that over the last couple of days, pretty
much since the start of this year, what seemed like
a dormant feud, and it seemed like, as you mentioned earlier,
the ant man had health issues and there was a
lot of nights well which has been being set online.

(44:45):
I know you don't listen to this show that much, Iraq,
but Obi had for quite a while been very complimentary
towards you, and he would sit say about how, in hindsight,
the level of work skill you had part to the
I can't think of the word, but the pay they
you were getting. He says, it was ridiculous that you

(45:07):
were working so much and then not being rewarded for it.
That in hindsight, he was like that's the one. That's
the one thing I would change it, you know, we'd
have done that sort of shit. So it seemed like
there was the hint of some kind of niceness coming
or some type of pace.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
And after that, A that's a long way to go,
just to say what you're trying to say, but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
But then recently the Opian Anthony feud has restarted all
over again, all on fucking at Twitter. It's like a multiple.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Times credit generate business, it's all. That's all it is.
He launched that new YouTube channel. It's not getting the
subscriber numbers or the viewer numbers like his other channel was.
I don't know how legitimate his numbers are on his
other channel at the subscribers, because the ratio from subscribers
to views and all that stuff never added up ever.

(46:07):
But he's just trying to He's stirring up shit to
generate business. That's all it is, you know. And Ant's
playing into it a little bit. I saw some the
other day. Ant did like a forty minute rant on
Opie having a video about his his Roy Scheider glasses,
you know, and it was hilarious, but I mean it

(46:31):
was giving Aunt material to play with for a while,
but Opie's trying to stir up business for his channel,
to generate heat buzz everything he didn't want anymore when
he kept saying, I don't want to talk about oen A.
I don't want to. I've moved on from this. Now.
He's got a new entity, a new product he's putting
out there, so he has to go back to the
well to try to get people to check him out.

(46:53):
And that ain't gonna work either, and it shows it's
not working at all. He can be tough guy, keyboard
war on Twitter all he wants, but it's just not
ain't doing anything.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Yeah, and it seems like that he's going after Norton
as well, which I really don't get why he's like Norton.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Seems like Norton doesn't give a shit. Norton won't never
talk about him, Norton on the rare times that Norton
even alludes to that Norton took the other direction. He's
just like, I don't want anything to do with the
guy anymore, and and followed that never brings him up.
Sam never talks about him unless it's absolutely necessary for it,

(47:32):
or if it's right in front of them that he
has to say at least something Nobody talks about the guy,
and that's what he wants. But it's not what he wants.
He wants constant people talking about him so that he
can respond. He can get agitated, and you know that
it will translate again to business for his YouTube channels,
maybe paying him during his super chat stuff and what

(47:55):
have you. It just draws in the old fans that
are still clamoring for what we all missed. It was
the actual show, but it's never going to be the
actual show. We'll never get in anything remotely close to
that back. Even if they all decided to sit down
and do an episode together, it'd be nice. But it's
like it's like when your favorite sitcom goes off the

(48:15):
air and then they have the ten year reunion episode,
you know, and you're like, oh, that's kind of cool,
but it's not the same anymore, and you don't want
to see more O and A again because it's just
not going to be what you remembered. Yea, Ope can
say what he wants. He speaks out of both sides
of his mouth. Oh it is what it is. It's
not an insult, it's not an insult. He sit there,

(48:37):
I don't want to talk about OPI and Anthony, but
he puts Opian Anthony clips up. I stop asking me
about Anthony. But he takes all the super chats that
are coming in that they're saying stuff about Anthony. He's
dumb and he's not at the same time. That's the
best way I can put it.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Let me ask you this, So, do you think there
could be any possibility that the new YouTube channel was
created as a way to still keep the flame going though,
just to give people more ammunition to continue to talk
and keep the feud going. I mean, because look, just
trying to find something to talk about the Pat Cooper

(49:12):
glasses is you know, that's stretch. But to keep the
channel and making this content what it is, you know,
keeps everybody talking. Everybody's got new videos up every day
about Ophie.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
No. A lot of it was it's kind of lazy too.
A lot of it was he had these clips like
if you remember his stuff, he some guy reached out
to him that worked at the Chrysler building and got
him up to those levels that you can't go to anymore.
And the one guy was walking outside on those eagles
or that stick out the side of the building. He

(49:45):
just like, Oh, I could take all that stuff, put
it on a new channel and make money again for
the third or fourth time off those videos, and then
this will be different from his morning chat coffee chat
thing that he does. I could put him over here.
Somebody told him that if you move him over there,
it'll show up in the algorithm because it's a different channel.
He could make more money. He could do all these

(50:06):
other things. So that's all it is. It's just a
way of trying to cash in on the same thing
for the third or the fourth time. If he really
didn't want to be a part of anything anymore or
talk about anything, it wouldn't be called Opie Unleashed one
because the unleas is stupid. But two you still it
wouldn't have been Opie. It would have been more of
a brand instead of his name on there. But because

(50:27):
he kept that name on there, which is from the
show that he says he hates and doesn't regret. I
did a thing on who are These Podcasts? A while ago.
These clips came out that were sent to us of
Ope talking about how he regrets ever doing Opie and
Anthony that and he wasted his youth in the best
years of his life doing this program. As he's sitting

(50:49):
five hundred feet above Manhattan and you're seeing the Hudson
River and the New York Downtown landscape and everything from
where he's sitting there, He's like, I regret all of this.
It's like, you made millions of dollars and if he
regretted it, he'd have a more humble background, a more
humble situation that he's talking about that. It's like, do
you remember the artist Sam Smith, the music guy, And

(51:14):
I know, yeah, okay, he did a video where he
was sitting in his lavish mansion crying that he's isolated
from the world and feeling bad for the people in
the world that we're all stuck at home during this
pandemic and we can't go. You don't put that kind
of video out when you've got like fucking giant pillars

(51:36):
and fountains and a really uh like nice kept landscape
right behind you as you're sitting there crying talking about
how you feel the plight of everyday people and what
we're all going through. Everyone went go fuck yourself, Sam Smith,
with all your bullshit like that. The same thing with oh,
put that stuff out there, and you can find it

(51:56):
on the w ATP channel where we talk about it,
where it's that that particular clip was I don't want
to say resentful, it was. It actually insulted everybody that
worked on that show. Wasn't just attacking Anthony this time
or Norton this time, or Jim and Sam or whatever.
It was saying everybody that worked there, the show, the staff,

(52:19):
the management at all the different companies that were paying us,
and that the whole thing was just a big regret
and he wishes he never did it. It's like it
was a big fuck you to everybody, revisionist history kind
of shit. You know. At that point, I was just like,
you know what, na fuck you, dude. We all loved
being there, first as toxic and chaotic and also as

(52:42):
fantastic as it was doing that show and having those
jobs and getting the access to things that we did.
I don't regret any of it. You know. I've had
people saying, oh, you got to abuse the most. How
do you still look back. It's like, that's only what
you saw in the air, and a lot of that
stuff I brought to the air. It wasn't like there's
some stuff. We all got called off for doing something stupid,

(53:04):
got caught or whatever, not thinking about some are saying
the wrong thing. But a lot of that shit I
brought to the air and I said, I have this
all right, We'll figure out a way to do that.
Why would you tell us this because it would be
funny on the air. The thing where when I there's
an infamous bit where my refrigerator door fell off my
refrigerator in my kitchen. I was in another room at
my place and I'm I'm in my office. All a

(53:26):
sudden I heard this crash. I go, what the fuck
was I walk over the door fell off, and I went,
that's hilarious. You can't write that. So I took the photos.
I took the photos of everything, and I sent to
text this just happened. I don't believe it either, but
I'll have the photos. Tomorrow morning, I bring it in.
We have the photos, we put them online. We're talking
about all that stuff there, and then you get what

(53:47):
you do it to yourself. You bring it on to
yourself by doing this stuff. Yeah, because we're a fucking
multi million dollar national radio show that needs to constantly
generate attention, and material. That's why we all brought our
lives to this show. That's why we were all doing
all this stupid shit all the time, not just because
it's fun to do, but we were getting paid, and
this is a job and this is what we were

(54:08):
supposed to do. None of us look back at that time.
We have regretful memories, but we have a lot more
fond memories of doing that show and having that privilege
and that ability to do what we did and then
to turn around and say, well, fuck this, I hated it.
I wasted the best years of my life. You got
everything from that show. A lot of us got almost

(54:29):
everything that we have right now from that show. None
of us are looking back and regret we go. It
sucks the way it ended, It sucks the way our
relationships have all diverged since then, but that's life. None
of us regret doing that show, except that asshole. And
that was the point where I just like, I've had
enough with this shit because I've I've made comments about

(54:51):
him here and there, and for the most part, I'd
never deal with him because he causes his own problems
and he'll never learn. But that thing really pissed me off.
Because it's just like we we all knew what that
show was, the audience knew what that show was, and
we all loved it. There's still to this day, we're
we're eleven years now removed from that show existing, and

(55:13):
people still talk about it. Those clips are still surfacing online.
His dumb Cake video, which is hilarious that he keeps
getting shit on it, and almost in a cycle, every
six months to a year, it shows up on Ready,
it shows up on some foreign website and they all
go crazy and start attacking him. I think that's hilarious,
and he doesn't. He has not found a way to
capitalize on that, which is again his fault for one

(55:36):
doing the video, his fault for not figuring out how
to make money off of this thing if it's never
going to go away. But we all don't regret this stuff,
and now he's saying he does. And that wasn't even
a way of generating business for or attention for his
YouTube channel learning that stuff, because that happened before he
launched this new thing. It's just his He sits on

(55:56):
the beach in the morning and talks and that's all
it was. He's just he's so angst filled and he's
so abused, and it was always him like he's wireds
everyone picking on me. It's like, asshole, you're the one
leading the charge of everyone else getting picked on on
that show. Now it's coming back to you. Oh well,
that was the nature of what we did.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
And and the real shame is, of course, with Opie
or with too.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
I'll see that tomorrow in big green letters. He Rocks
goes after Opie or whatever.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
The such a clippy clip. It couldn't be clipped faster.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
I know how to segment this stuff.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah, I will flag and he silently clips up. But yeah,
I just think it's a shame because you see with
Jim Norton's show with his wife who's a lady, and
when Anthony was on a couple of weeks ago, it
was fucking hilarious. And apparently Anthony just recorded another episode yesterday, son, I.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Is wait, is it up or did he just do it?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
I have no idea, but I will be watching him regardless.
But if we wanted to watch your stuff a Rock,
where could we find it?

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (57:07):
In fact, before we do that important question, what does
Rock think of Dogie?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
He doesn't. I don't, I didn't even I heard he
had a dog. I don't know what it looks like
or any of that stuff. I don't care. Best of
luck with the dog.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
And if we want to watch you talk about Opie's
dog online, where can we go to find it? Of
course they all the links will be done.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Below, but for the audio, it's it's all on iHeart.
It's Eric Nagel dot com. You can go there as
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Speaker 2 (58:40):
B Chad send me a link to something to watch.
I want to check out your stuff.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Absolutely, we'll do.

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Thank you.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
See this shinna g.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
We're gonna figure out a way to then edge that.
Where's the window that way? We're gonna figure out a
way to edge that guy out.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Get Yeah, just typical. A Rock always won the kick
hueses under the radio business. It happens you get one
for one that would actually be good. You could do
a show called hard Stern versus O being anteony and
you could just trade stories and click bit.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
So I worked I worked in the office k Rock
right before the transition.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Oh you were you were?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I was at the I was at both I was
end of k Rock beginning the serious and I worked
in his office at his actual personal production company, you know,
at the at the house.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
So you were you working? Uh yeah, my friend Ben,
he used to work on the tapes team, And uh,
were you working on that network thing where they were
logging all the tapes and.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
So I actually one of my jobs was to work
on this thing called the Bonded Book project, where you
had this giant book where you had to log every
piece of media that had his name in it, whether
it was print, video, anything that had Howard Stern. They
had it and they were logging it and sending it
out to Iron Mountain Storage, and yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
He has everything.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
I was thinking, there's gonna be a museum someday with
all the Stern one of.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
The smartest things when I learned what was going on
when he moved to Sirius. It was one of the
smartest things I've ever seen. And to this day, I
never could find somebody who could archive their material better
than I did for for Opie and Anthony, except when
Stern started to do that television network logging, where it

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was everyone could get into the terminal. It was keyword searches.
All that stuff expensive as hell, you know, you have
to invest money into it. But that's what like that,
that's what National television does, the news does all of
that stuff. Nobody else could even thought of archiving. Like
they had spindles of CDs recorded from their shows in
the studio that day, never logged anything, never archived anything,

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didn't even know where to find something if you brought
it up. And I always went to every other show
and talk to their producers try and figure out how
if they had a better way to do this, and
it turned out they didn't, and it was really depressing
until like Ben showed me what you guys were doing,
or Will and Jason stuff they knew, would show me

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a couple of things, and Tim Sabian and I was like, God,
blessing that you had the money and the resources to
do all that. Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
That's why I mean, it was always a it was
like such a machine, you know that. There was so
much going on after that show ended. It was crazy.
But it was also was at the building, but then
it's also at his personal office. There's so much going on.
So yeah, that's what I did the morning at the show,
and then I'd walk over to was his office, which
was in his apartment building. So that's where I spent

(01:01:42):
the rest of my time. But then I lived there
to go to WWE, and it was not a good decision.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Somebody. Yeah, I knew a few other people from different
walks of life that went over there, and that was
a rough time in the late two thousands to deal
with stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I also knew somebody that we worked with that was
obsessed with Howard's apartment building and constantly was walking past
there and pointing it out, and we're like, nobody cares,
none of us here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
I always say, though, I tried to jump ship. At
one point, I was trying to email the show your
show and trying to tell the ship yeah, because they
wanted me to sign an NDA at one point, and
it was right before I was going to leave, and
I was like, look, I was like, I'm going to
sign an NDA here, but I really want to see
if there's any opportunities at the Opie and Anthony show.
Before I signed this NDA, and nobody ever got back

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to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Oh wait from your from your end or ours, No,
on your end.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Nobody ever got back to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Talk to me off air. I'm curious to see who
you read, because it wasn't me. I would like to say.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
I can't remember, honestly, I can't remember. It was two
thousand and six. I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Oh yeah, okay, all right. We were.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Everyone to know. This was the start of the Returnable
by Anthony went, this isn't it right here? Everyone so excited.
It'll be joke happening.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
It'll be not happening. Get over it. It's over, it's done.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
It will be Joe Kumist in the show. It's so
called Kumi in hughes and we're technically not lying. A
Rock will turn up every once in a while. We're
all gonna do grid. We get all the plugs out
of the way.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Got him, Yeah, look at him, he's got stuff. Yeah,
I think you did.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
I'm virgin on a on a pist bonner, so I
have to go before something happens. I just want to
thank chadister coming on, but specifically I want to thank
a Rock for coming back on. You're gonna eat those
words about g TA six, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I would U. I would wager not.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Oh, well, fuck you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
I think it's gonna be that asshole in all the
comments you said we got John Cena coming back before
g t A six like that kind of nonsense.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
You're that but John saying it did come back before.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I know, I know you're that douchebag in all the
comments that says we got whatever before GTA six, it's
gonna happen twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Well, I'm gonna get to take this pest before GTA six.
I can quote you on that. So I want to
thank everybody for coming out. This is possibly the last
try January episode. So for the next episode, get ready
for me being belligerent and talking about black people more often.
So thanks everyone for listening. Thank you chat to thank

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you Rock, and we will see you all on the
next one. Okay, thank you Chat and thank you Erck.
I love talking to Iraq. He's a busy man, he's
a parent, he has a whole loadly shit to be
doing multiple jobs, so for him to take the time
to do it always great. Love talking to him, and
I'm very happy with this episode, Very happy for you

(01:04:53):
to listen to this one. I have been into DMS,
planning a whole bunch of episodes to come over the
next couple of months. This is going to be quite
the year for the Hitsman. So I would say between
February and March, I should I'm going to try to
be very busy. April is going to be crazy for me,

(01:05:16):
may potentially very busy, but we're going to see this
is going to be a good time. We're all going
to have a good time together. And by together, I
mean just me by myself because I don't know what's
fun anymore. Anyway, thank you for listening, everybody, and it
is husy. Bye bye