The first time I heard Ron and Fez [Archive]

Rockvillejoe

10-17-2006, 10:37 PM

Today Fez was talking about his 1 year heart attack anniversary being Halloween. That reminded me about  the first time I tuned into these two. It was on WJFK, Halloween, 2002. I was working a job that night in Northern Va., (Fez's eventual burial location), and  "Supa- stah" was a  guest. They were in NYC  preparing to head out to a party after the show, and were fielding calls on costumes and the diverse ways the holiday was  celebrated in various parts of the country. Fez's inability to say costume ("cosh-tume") was scrutinized, and they were in top form riffing off the callers comments. I think they had a "comedy pyramid, comedy pyramid"  going that night too. I called in and got on the air, I was immediately hooked. Where were you, what was the topic, and what converted you into the Ron and Fez world of comedy?   

This message was edited by Rockvillejoe on 10-18-06 @ 7:56 AM

TheRealEddie

10-17-2006, 10:43 PM

I was driving home from school and they were talking about old games that people played when they were kids. Brought back a lot of memories. Then all it took was Iris and Al Dukes and I was hooked.

Dan G

10-17-2006, 10:48 PM

Sometime in the early 90's when they were on AM 620 WSUN.

Rockvillejoe

10-17-2006, 10:55 PM

Dango727 wrote: Sometime in the early 90's when they were on AM 620 WSUN. Wow. How different was the show then? Same format, same great humor?

Dan G

10-17-2006, 11:36 PM

Rockvillejoe wrote: Dango727 wrote: Sometime in the early 90's when they were on AM 620 WSUN. Wow. How different was the show then? Same format, same great humor? The humor was there, but they had a straight man (Ron Diaz), he was more like "the radio guy" while Bennington supplied the humor as did a third mic'er known as Fez Marie Whatley.They would have naked girls in studio and guys doing outrageous stunts (well, at least back then they were considered outrageous)  like bungee jumping, tasering each other, swimming amongst alligators, etc...Fezatorials were around back then and so was Paul O, but he was in studio each week with his reviews, often getting very drunk and tattooed up.

nwm

10-18-2006, 01:22 AM

I started listening when WNEW went all talk and there show was known as Ron and Fez dot com. It was difficult back then because they were yhrown on at around 11 pm.  I worked a couple of late days back then and was able to catch some shows, the comedy styles were pretty much the same as now except without the curses.

reeshy

10-18-2006, 01:43 AM

2001...ronandfez.com....11PM....perfect for me simce I usually got off at work at 11PM!!!!!  Long live Joe Poo!!!!!!

romey79

10-18-2006, 01:51 AM

Winter 2005...It took me a couple of months to really get into the show, but I haven't missed it since.  I can't really recall the first bit I heard.

Doctor Z

10-18-2006, 01:52 AM

Winter 2001, when an injury blinded me in one eye, and I was left bedridden for weeks, with nothing to do but sit in the dark and listen to the radio. I wish I was kidding... but then again, maybe I don't.

cupcakelove

10-18-2006, 03:16 AM

I don't remember when it was, but I remember Joe Poo knocking out Al Dukes a little while after the first time I heard them.  I didn't really listen on a regular basis until about 6 months before they left WJFK.

Tenbatsuzen

10-18-2006, 03:58 AM

I can't remember the date, but it was during the Dot Com days.  They had Shae Marks on, former web model.  If you know my tastes, and what Shae used to look like before she "came to her senses", you know why I listened with rapt attention. My first impression of Fez is that he sounded like a gay Christopher Russo. Ron's humor grew on me, and I became the fan I am today.

terry1979

10-18-2006, 04:57 AM

Shortly after they wento on the air on WNEW.  There was a hilarious promo on where they had a fake guest on from some cereal web site.  I listened that night and was instantly hooked.  To this day, I don't get people who "don't get" the show.

GwEnYpOo

10-18-2006, 07:34 AM

the first time i heard ron and fez my mom kept referring to them as the gay guy and the drunk dude

Martin

10-18-2006, 07:59 AM

I started in the Ron Fez.com days at WNEW.

Then listened alot more when they moved to an earlier time slot.

SouthSideJohnny

10-18-2006, 08:17 AM

Dango727 wrote: Rockvillejoe wrote: Dango727 wrote: Sometime in the early 90's when they were on AM 620 WSUN. Wow. How different was the show then? Same format, same great humor? The humor was there, but they had a straight man (Ron Diaz), he was more like "the radio guy" while Bennington supplied the humor as did a third mic'er known as Fez Marie Whatley.They would have naked girls in studio and guys doing outrageous stunts (well, at least back then they were considered outrageous) like bungee jumping, tasering each other, swimming amongst alligators, etc...Fezatorials were around back then and so was Paul O, but he was in studio each week with his reviews, often getting very drunk and tattooed up.  Like Dango, I am old school Florida early 90's - can't remember the first topic since it was 15+ years ago.  I just remember being hooked from day one and trying to get my buddies to switch over from Howard.  The old shows were slightly different format, but still great.  Ronnie was much more of a second chair guy but he worked great with Diaz.  Fez was just a rookie back then but you could see he had talent (the Nature Boy was at least a weekly occurrence and Bobby the Brain imitations were common).  They had a great song parody guy and they totally corrupted the sweet fiance (Vicki) of their producer.  Yea, those were some great times.  I remember PaulO being around, but I don't remember hearing about GailO.  For some reason, I have a vague memory about PaulO taking a strap-on in a place it doesn't belong.After the Tampa R&R show with Diaz disbanded, I remember the boys had another "Ronnie" on the show and I seem to remember them even moving down to the Ft. Lauderdale area.  I still listened out of loyalty to Ronnie and Fez, but it wasn't the same.  Eventually, our local radio stopped carrying the shows.About two years ago, I was remembering how great the shows were and I found my Let the Puppies Breathe video.  I started wondering what happened to the boys.  I did a little looking and found this site. I felt like I hit the lottery when I found the file library.  I couldn't download segments fast enough.  The real winning ticket came when the boys made the jump to XM.  I was worried about R&F without Diaz but the show is even better now!  Ronnie was always hilarious but he has turned into a legitimate broadcaster as well.    Fez is still great as always, but I definitely see more changes in Ronnie's on air persona.

SPeeDy_Freak

10-18-2006, 08:24 AM

WNEW......ronandfez.com

dotsncoms

10-18-2006, 08:48 AM

2002 I heard Gary telling O&A what he learned and said he was going to listen to R&F next. I stayed on the station that night and it was about Billy falling up the stairsand calling in from his hospital bed. I haven't missed a sh<a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/replytotopic.cfm/Forum/46/Topic/52990/currentpage/?action=view&current=bigassclub-small.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch2"></a>ow since.  <img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/dotsncoms/bigassclub-small.jpg" border="0" />  <img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/dotsncoms/mayorwj5.gif" border="0" /><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k33/dotsncoms/ron_fez_xm_satellite_radio.jpg" border="0" />

Melrapuo

10-18-2006, 08:49 AM

It was sometime around 2000 or 2001.  My sister and I were listening to them talk about how gay the movie Top Gun really was.

Badinia

10-18-2006, 09:05 AM

My friend Ken played me a segment where Ron read one of his humorous emails (It was a Cane Pole gang story) on-air sometime in 2004, and I listened on the underground until the magic of XM Satellite Radio.

This message was edited by Badinia on 10-18-06 @ 1:06 PM

BrianInOrlando

10-18-2006, 12:55 PM

I had listened to them a few times after OnA on XM, and I guess I really didnt get the show. Then one day a buddy of mine told me to turn them on. When I turned it on, they had crazy lady from Westboro Baptist Church on the phone and it had me rolling. Ever since then I have rarely miss a show.

scorpion

10-18-2006, 01:04 PM

Dot Com Days.  I generally don not sleep that much and had was heard the boys talking to Clare about the meds she was on and ronnie just cracking me up.  Been hooked ever since.

Kevin

10-18-2006, 01:08 PM

.com days during week 3 of the 2000 Giant season. They had a Giant game on NEW against the Titans,and they played promos of O and A then listening to O and A they played promos of RF. So that is when i started.

KennethC

10-18-2006, 02:58 PM

I first heard them in the Winter of 2002 on an AM station in Portland, OR which also carried O&A. Due to the content I initially heard, I thought it was a wrestling show. I also thought it was awful. I still think the show is awful....awfully GOOD!

epo

10-18-2006, 03:19 PM

Fall 1996. I actually thought of those days on Friday listening to the Power Hour with ESD.  Paul-O calls in and ESD was being rude (as to be expected)...Paul-O chimes in with the line from hell "So you're the new me".   Needless to say if you heard R&R in FLA....that's really the funniest shit Paul has ever said.

Marc with a c

10-18-2006, 03:38 PM

i invented ron and fez

docgoblin

10-18-2006, 03:45 PM

Ron and Fez Dot Com... Show #1. I was driving home from work between 12:00 and 1:00 AM, and heard them from the second hour on. I immediately liked them even better than O & A. The show was actually quite raunchy back then, they used to get away with alot more on commercial radio. Especially at night. Boy, how times have changed. O & A spend most of their Free FM show commenting on news stories or talking about their ratings.

FreshJ

10-18-2006, 04:00 PM

I didn't get to listen to them till they came to Xm.  (not everywhere in the country has gotten to hear them before.)  I think one of the first shows I heard was the 8 year old discussion.

spot

10-18-2006, 04:26 PM

NEW the old 7-11:00Pm show. Missed the whole Dot.Com days shows era.

hereintheUK

10-18-2006, 04:34 PM

The first show I ever heard was about a month after 9/11. It was my first ever visit to New York and I was just flicking around the stations. I remember been totally hooked after hearing that the phone screener had come down with a bad case of the Anthrax. I beleive it was Billy Staples. From then on I listened to two more shows before I went home. I would get my cousin in New Jersey to record the shows and put them on a CD for me to listen to on my computer. Of course I didn't know about any kind of underground syndication in them days. It would have made things a whole lot easier.

torker

10-18-2006, 04:37 PM

Hooters on the Radio 1995. 

Hottub

10-18-2006, 04:37 PM

.com days were on  too late for me. I listened a little, but not long enough to get it. Once they went 7 to 11, I was hooked. After that, 7 to 11 every day, a good portion of JFK, and now XM.My problem now with XM is that they are on during work, and sometimes I have to work. I wind up missing chunks of show. I do my best to catch up with the weekend replays.Big Ass 203. 7p in the east, 4p in the west.

Fallon

10-18-2006, 06:58 PM

Back in 2000 or 01 when it was RonandFez.com. They were syndicated to Boston on tape delay at like midnight. My buddy worked late and turned me on to them and I've been hooked since.

Mike Teacher

10-18-2006, 07:08 PM

I forget when and where but since I'm from FLA I remember the Ron and Ron show, but just barely. I remember Lionel on WFLA then. Meaning I must have heard Lassiter, but again, cant say I remember exactly.Then coming home from DJ-ing at the Stone Pony re-opening memorial [labor?] day weekend 2000 I turned on WNEW to hear Danni Ashe being interviewed by Ron and some guy with a voice that, well, you dont forget.

FezPaul

10-18-2006, 07:12 PM

Mike Teacher wrote: I forget when and where but since I'm from FLA I remember the Ron and Ron show, but just barely. I remember Lionel on WFLA then. Meaning I must have heard Lassiter, but again, cant say I remember exactly.Then coming home from DJ-ing at the Stone Pony re-opening memorial [labor?] day weekend 2000 I turned on WNEW to hear Danni Ashe being interviewed by Ron and some guy with a voice that, well, you dont forget. Thaaaaaank you.

timhorton

10-18-2006, 08:27 PM

I heard of R&F when I used to listen to Don & Mike and they mentioned how they were leaving for XM, two days after getting my Audiovox I found O&A and then low and behold on came R&F, I didn't get it until about a week later and then I was hooked...I'm fuggin starvin'..

PapaBear

10-18-2006, 08:32 PM

I first heard them right around the time of them moving from NY to DC. I would tune into WJFK for Redskins games (I was a boring NPR guy before that), and I heard R&F and the Hideout. I was hooked from day one. Does NPR still exist?

JazzyJames

10-18-2006, 09:14 PM

I think it was 2002, Billy Staples had just fallen up a flight of stairs... I was bored one night and started flipping through the radio and landed on NEW. I caught the last hour and didn't miss another show until they moved to JFK.

margin

10-19-2006, 02:39 AM

There was about two weeks where i discovered O&A on XM and dug them real briefly. I would download their shows online. I heard that Ron and Fez had recently joined them on the XM station. So i give them a shot, dl the show (one of their earlier xm shows) and had it in my head that it was a sports talk show, because they started their show talking about the football games that were played on the sunday (must have been a monday show), so I seriously had it in my head that it was a sport talk show, which I wasn't really that thrilled about. I judged them too quickly, and turned it off ten minutes into the show.So later that week, I decided to give them another shot.  It was the show where Ron was talking about beating up 9 year olds. I couldn't believe how quick Ron was, and I liked Fez and what he added to the show, and how they interacted with eachother. The sense of humor was so great and the fact that they kept the morning zoo elements(laughing into the mics, no dumb promotions, etc)  out of the show is what made me realized how better they were than any other show out there.Since then I've listened to every single xm show of theirs, and even went back and listened to some of their earlier stuff.  It's the only show i listen to regularly.

Foul_Mouth_Elmo

10-19-2006, 05:55 PM

<div align="left">I remember the first time I heard Ron & Fez like it was yesterday! It was during the time they where called Ron & Fez .com, I think it was there first or second week on air, they were talking about witch Sci Fi frenzies was better, Star Wars or Star Trek........   I thought they where some kind of Nerdy Sci Fi talk show, so I called them up talking like Yoda to mess with them, those were the good old days! </div>

ChrisTheCop

10-19-2006, 06:10 PM

I listen to radio at night in order to fall asleep.One night I came upon "Ron and Fez Dot Com". 2 guys talking about interesting internet sites, taking calls from insomniacs, and you could tell, just having the time of their lives. I was hooked.I remember thinking that these 2 guys could do really well on regular radio, if it wasnt for their voices. (sorry guys). I was happy when they dropped the format and changed their time slot, only because I could finally go back to listening to night radio that would actually put me to sleep again.

Kevin

10-19-2006, 06:14 PM

Marc with a c wrote: i invented ron and fez <img height="768" src="http://www.edgefactory.com/Howard%20Stern.jpg" width="500" border="0" />  WHO WHO

Rockvillejoe

10-19-2006, 06:50 PM

ChrisTheCop wrote: I listen to radio at night in order to fall asleep.format and changed their time slot, only because I could finally go back to listening to night radio that would actually put me to sleep again.  great point. Thank god for the playback option on my portable. Every night, like clockwork, at 4 am I'm wide awake for 90 minutes. R&F fill  that awful, dark, void (ooooh), until sleep beckons once again. Laughing out loud in a dark room at 4:30 am  must have my fellow apt dwellers  wondering who their demented neighbor is.

big_angry

10-19-2006, 09:05 PM

The very first time I heard R&F I was travelling for work, I live in Mass and was working in NJ for about 3 months in the Spring of 2001. I heard the show a few times and liked it, but I really became a big fan when they came to XM. I've been a huge O&A fan since the Boston days, but now I go back and fourth on which show I like better.

trig

10-19-2006, 09:27 PM

Kevin wrote: Marc with a c wrote: i invented ron and fez <img width="500" height="768" border="0" src="http://www.edgefactory.com/Howard%20Stern.jpg" /> WHO WHO   he really needs to think about a new look...  Anyhow, the first time I heard a full r&f show, was when they came to xm. I've been a budday ever since.  Ron is my hero.

Drunky McBetidont

10-20-2006, 01:40 PM

found em on xm in February when I got a roadie for my car.  Ronnie was yelling at Earl.  I realized the genius that is Ronnie B. instantly.  Frequently since then I catch myself saying, "on my favorite radio show, Ron n Fez, ..." and i am constantly humming perrynoid songs.  Today, I had "Gail. Gail. Gail, you're gonna have to kill Paul." running through my head.  This show had me at hello (but not in a gay Tom Cruise way.)

calfromcanada

10-20-2006, 01:57 PM

i found ron and fez shortly after i found o&a.....took a while before r&f became my go-to over them but now its a no brainer....i think the first show i really got into was the day that fez got back from his trip with elfish....

SatCam

10-20-2006, 02:21 PM

April or May 2002 the night before Al went on the date in Central Park with Stalker Patti. I initially thought they were a music w/ talk show (I guess kind've like a morning zoo setup) because they had played an Airsick song about 10 minutes into my listening. I never heard any full songs on the show again.

Fez 4 Lyfe

shittyhambrgers

10-20-2006, 02:35 PM

i'm not sure what bit i heard first... i got into O&A when they were on the XM premium channel. stupidly, i was a stern fan for most of my life. a friend of mine kept pushing O&A on me, sending old mp3s. then my dad got 2 XM radios to try out (he's in the media) - i got one, and since everything was included, we got O&A even though they were on premium. somewhere down the road, when R&F were on at 11am, i started listening to them. i was a fan within like a day, no kidding. the way they play off each other is great, earl rules and dave has his moments. so i've been listening since like january of this year, thereabouts, but i have gigs of old material on my computer thanks to this site. now i try not to miss a show, even if it means catching the 12am replay. recently, as you can tell by my post #, i joined the site. i'm not on wackbag or FBA, only here. so that has to say something. love the buddays. wanted to edit this to say how i used to listen to R&F during my lunch break at my old job.  i usually went on break from 1-2pm, so i'd catch the last hour (when they were on 11-2).  i work free lance now, so sometimes i go in at 2:30... i catch most of the show. 

This message was edited by shittyhambrgers on 10-20-06 @ 6:47 PM

solorca

10-23-2006, 03:26 PM

I had just gotten XM and Ron and Fez was the first thing I heard.  The bit that was playing as Fez singing "I'm Too Sexy", which I thought was incredibly stupid.  I didn't listen to the show again for at least three or four months, but once I did, I was hooked.  Also, I recently heard that bit again and it was hilarious.

BYOBKenobi

10-23-2006, 04:06 PM

I used to listen to R&F if I was out at night driving after O&A's show was over (WNEW).  I fucking HATED ron and fez.  I mean, I really didn't get what the fuck was so funny about "the show with the REALLY gay guy." I caught them about once a month and really never found anything worth listening to.  Every now and then I'd get a chuckle, but I really was hoping a "more talented" show would replace R&F.Then I got XM when O&A came back.  They brought back Ron and Fez.  I was in the car a lot during the day and would be pissed when I'd miss O&A.  Somehow, and I have no fucking clue what turned me around... I think it was just being forced to listen because I had a 3 hour drive ahead of me and it was noon... but now I like to call R&F "THE Best Conversation on the radio."  I can't stand missing the show and am actually saving up for an XM device with recording capability so I can listen to every show in its entirety.I got on the air once too... but fucking choked like a bitch.

Comedian

10-23-2006, 04:42 PM

One of the JFK shows.

Beast

10-25-2006, 11:49 AM

I probably first heard them on an AFRO portion of O&A's show in the WNEW days, but that was so many years (and so many brain cells destroyed by alcohol) ago that I don't really remember.I didn't hear them again till XM, but O&A did such a great job of selling them that I've listened daily since Day 1.  (And I made the air today with my first call ever--I'm the guy who brought up Mini Wheats during the cereal discussion.)

babybagadonuts

10-25-2006, 06:09 PM

nwm wrote: I started listening when WNEW went all talk and there show was known as Ron and Fez dot com. It was difficult back then because they were yhrown on at around 11 pm.  I worked a couple of late days back then and was able to catch some shows, the comedy styles were pretty much the same as now except without the curses. yeah me too, remember the first comedy pyramids.  some of em were horrible weren't they?

Loser

10-25-2006, 08:00 PM

I first listened to Ron & Ron ...... and Fez on a station in Savannah GA (early 90s I think).  I had even bought a video they had put out, very funny!Thanks to xm for giving me Ron & Fez.

CigarCityBudday

11-09-2006, 06:29 PM

The first time I heard R&F was probably 1989 in tampa, where I live. It was magic from the first time I heard it.I was a freshman in college, home for the summer working for a lawn company, and I listened to Ron & Ron on my headphones, and they helped so much on those brutal florida summer mornings.I probably went to Ron Bennington's comedy scene about 15-20 times over the next few years. If you've never seen or heard Bennington's stand up, you have no idea how funny of a guy he is.I got XM last Christmas, and I was real skeptical of this whole ron and fez thing. I obviously liked them both, but without Ronnie D, it's hard to explain, but the thought of the show seemed weird to me. But just after a few short weeks, I was hooked. Both of these guys are radio geniuses, and I'm so hooked on it right now.

FezPaul

11-09-2006, 06:31 PM

CigarCityBudday wrote:   If you've never seen or heard Bennington's stand up, you have no idea how funny of a guy he is. I think we have an idea.

tommyj

11-09-2006, 06:54 PM

I drive about four thousand miles a month. I was a die hard O&A listener. I would catch Ron and Fez everyonce and a while. It wasn't a certain bit or anything but I finally realized I was an idiot for not listening. Now I listen live as much as possible and the ones I miss I record on my INNO. I think nine hour drive=3 shows. I don't know what it would be like with out them, now...or at least without Ron I am pretty sure Bowl of Gravy and Fez have been rotating everyother day.

FezPaul

11-09-2006, 07:00 PM

tommyj wrote:  I am pretty sure Bowl of Gravy and Fez have been rotating everyother day. <a href="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/46/Topic/53553/page/Apologies_to_Fez">Click here.</a>

This message was edited by FezPaul on 11-9-06 @ 11:00 PM

Aqualad

11-10-2006, 05:32 AM

When they were on WNEW at night.   I'd listen to O & A on my way to classes, and Ron and Fez were on after.   I didn't like them at first--- I actually preferred Don and Mike.    It wasnt' until I heard Fezzie talking about comic books and wrestling that I realized that this was the radio show for me.  

Kurtis9

11-15-2006, 06:25 AM

The first time I heard Ron & Fez was on WNEW after O & A, coming home from work and I almost swerved off the road and died laughing.