Ron & Fez and Stern?

[ryno1974]

I head on a recorded replay yesterday ESD mention Stern. It was just in passing, but nobody said anything about it and they moved on.

I am not too familiar with Stern (he never had much exposure here in Canada) but I do know that O&A have a serious hate on for him. Any mention of him on their show ends up in a 20 minute bitch fest.

i realize they are different people that can all think for themselves, but I am surprised that since they seem to be good friends of O&A they never seem to rip on Stern.

Any thoughts out there? Or should I just get back to catching up on old shows?

[Reynolds]

They never really got into the whole talk show competition thing. Have always said everyone does their own show, that relates to different people. "Why can't we all be buddies"?

[SmallFry]

Most of their jabs are kept to one line. Since I've been listening to R&F, I've never heard them get into a 'radio war' or even trash another show. They just do their show. Now when Imus was under his heat, or maybe it was at the time when O&A were in trouble, they may have mentioned Howie, but only in passing.

[Framey]

Ron and Fez have a unique show. They get along with everybody. Even when O and A had their problems with Don and Mike, Ron and Fez were friends with both shows. Buddy

[donnie_darko]

i think ron had his fill of the "shock jock" shows when he was in florida, that is what makes their show different.

if you want cock jokes you listen to O&A.

And honestly from what i've seen the RON and RON show was probably a bit further out there than stern ever was.

the part of your post i dont get is i realize they are different people that can all think for themselves, but I am surprised that since they seem to be good friends of O&A they never seem to rip on Stern."

[Badinia]

Yes, Ron and Fez like and respect everyone in the whole world.


Except Matty Fridays.

[AKA]

R&F have a history of their own with HS that goes back to the Ron and Ron days (they did discover Elliot Offen, after all!! haha), but while on WJFK they often referenced him when they would discus a topic that they knew he had covered in the morning - it seemed just a little forced, but they made it work, and showed they were team players.

That's not to say that they haven't made cracks about Howard - they did talk about not agreeing with the muzzling of O&A, etc, and they did take great glee in The Pests attacks during Stern's long, puyblic goodbye.

Anyway - I'm guessing all speculation with relation to the show is easily traced to the merger - Ron also mentioned Stern earlier in the week (with relation to Imus), and it wasn't in a necessarily negative context - same thing on O&A on Friday when a guest mentioned Howard and they didn't have a reaction one way or another.

[ryno1974]

What do you guys think will happen is the merger ever happens? All 3 shows stay, or does someone lose their slot?

[Tenbatsuzen]

What do you guys think will happen is the merger ever happens? All 3 shows stay, or does someone lose their slot?

All three shows stay. I think as long as they aren't in the same building, they'll be fine.

[Gvac]

Should this merger ever go through, Anthony will promptly leave the Opie and Anthony show and live out his dream of being third mic on the Howard Stern show.

Opie will continue on with the Opie & Artie show.

Ron and Fez will dominate.

Any more questions?

[MikeB]

I know most of the people on this board don't listen to O&A (but sure doesnt stop them from acting like they do) but they have pretty much made peace with Stern. Stern and Anthony ran into each other at a casino recently when they were at tables next to each other. They said hello to each other and when Stern left he shook Anthony's hand.
Ever since then they have not trashed Stern, even when doctor Z was on friday and she kept bringing up him they said nothing bad about him. The merger is clearly on everyone's mind.

[mikeyboy]

I know most of the people on this board don't listen to O&A (but sure doesnt stop them from acting like they do) b

Wait. Wait. Wait. You're making my head hurt. You're calling out the posers who say they listen but don't, when you listen but hate the show? I'm not quite seeing where the judgmental thing comes up.

[Coach]

I know most of the people on this board don't listen to O&A (but sure doesnt stop them from acting like they do) but they have pretty much made peace with Stern.
NO they didn't! What brand of bull are you peddling??
There is still a hatred of the man for gagging them by OnA! The fact that Ant and Howard shook hands is simply a matter of being a gentleman in an openly uncomfortable situation. I am sure both germiphobes used plenty of Purel immediatly afterwards. Dr Z. was just good radio and she was hot! The BBoys don't care if guests do Howard. Howard has a problem if guests do OnA!
Ron and Fez have nothing to do with Hoo Hoo as they have an entirely different show. They have shown their dislike for Howard over the way he had Opie and Anthony gagged.
Ron and Fez do their great show and that's it! They don't have to care about Hoo Hoo!

[jauble]

When the merger happens I assume they keep all shows, Howards channel has a lot of junk on it but I assume they will be on different channels overall. If RnF somehow get axed so does my sub.

[AKA]

What do you guys think will happen is the merger ever happens? All 3 shows stay, or does someone lose their slot?

I have never even begun to think about that - even if it has been a year now. I'm sure there are oodles of possibilites and scenereos, and I'm sure not all of them are great - i just want nothing but good things for Ronnie and Fezzie, though. Everything just seems like it's going to be very fluid for the first year or so, to see how things work, etc. I wouldn't at all be surprised if we are faced with a situation again where, as a merged XM/Sirius moves closer to Stern's contract expiring, that Mel (once more) tries to angle in other talent in as the heirs, to try and play to Howard's ego - if that talent is (once more) O&A or R&F, I dunno.

Man - radio is one fucked up bitch.

[MikeB]

Wait. Wait. Wait. You're making my head hurt. You're calling out the posers who say they listen but don't, when you listen but hate the show? I'm not quite seeing where the judgmental thing comes up.
I never said I hate the show.
I point out somethings I don't like about the show now (just like people do with The Wire, SNL, and wrestling on this board) and you have people that RARELY listen to O&A come in and defend them.


NO they didn't! What brand of bull are you peddling??
There is still a hatred of the man for gagging them by OnA! The fact that Ant and Howard shook hands is simply a matter of being a gentleman in an openly uncomfortable situation. I am sure both germiphobes used plenty of Purel immediatly afterwards. Dr Z. was just good radio and she was hot! The BBoys don't care if guests do Howard. Howard has a problem if guests do OnA!
Ron and Fez have nothing to do with Hoo Hoo as they have an entirely different show. They have shown their dislike for Howard over the way he had Opie and Anthony gagged.
Ron and Fez do their great show and that's it! They don't have to care about Hoo Hoo!
You have to be that board character from opieanthony.net right?

The merger most likely is going to happen. Stern and O&A both know they will most likely be working together.
O&A have said nothing negative about Stern recently. They said the other day they respect Stern and he isnt in the class as mancow and maxwell.

[sailor]

Should this merger ever go through, Anthony will promptly leave the Opie and Anthony show and live out his dream of being third mic on the Howard Stern show.

Opie will continue on with the Opie & Artie show.

Ron and Fez will dominate.

Any more questions?

can you direct me to the gvac is mentally unstable thread?

[MikeB]

can you direct me to the gvac is mentally unstable thread?

I am sure there will be an artie one in our future.

[samechick]

If RnF somehow get axed so does my sub.

I agree with this.

The bbboys have always said that they came to the NY market with much respect for Stern and what he'd accomplished. Still, he and Mel treated their show like shit, mostly because Stern is a narcissistic egomaniac (I mean really, Howard100 News? PLEASE!). IMHO neither Mel nor Howard have had personality makeovers, and that is my biggest concern when it comes to O&A and R&F.

[evil6]

If RnF somehow get axed so does my sub.

x2 QFT.

[NewYorkDragons80]

R&F have a history of their own with HS that goes back to the Ron and Ron days (they did discover Elliot Offen, after all!! haha)
Really?! I saw a youtube video of Ron and Elliot and I wasn't sure about the origin/backstory. That's hilarious that he "ripped off" the buddays.

Ron and Fez are the most talented people on radio. Of the Stern/O&A shows, they are the safest of all non-anchor shows on either Sirius or XM.

[Death Metal Moe]

I love Ron and Fez becaue they just can't be bothered to start wars with shows, but then they don't shit on O&A for wanting to engage in them.

They're doing their thing, everyone else just do theirs. Like others have said, Ron and Fez don't act like other shows don't exist either. I know Ron said Dave's "Roberto" bit was "Jackie Puppet" like everytime he started doing it.

I love hearing the Stern Bullshit Reports on O&A but I love Ron and Fez for taking it in their own direction and just staying out.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Ron & Fez are the reef

they don't attack other shows, because it would be too easy


btw I enjoy XM O&A, the XM only O&A show could go head to head with Ron & Fez

but we get that awful candy coated z morning zoo show on K Rock, that hurts my fandom

[underdog]

O&A have said nothing negative about Stern recently. They said the other day they respect Stern and he isnt in the class as mancow and maxwell.

They trashed Stern like two days after they talked about the handshaking.

Even before the handshaking, they hadn't trashed him as much as they used to.

[AnnoyedGrunt]

I don't think Ron and Fez dislike Howard as much as they don't like the fans who think that because they're knock offs because they're talking on the radio. I remember one caller in the WNEW days who accused them of being Howard clones. When Ron pressed him as to why he thought so the caller just said "Listen to you! You obviously are!" Ron then plugged the fact that Frank, the Alcoholic Midget was coming up next and then Earl would be reading the news.

Though I do remember them bashing Robin a bit on WJFK. Their intern Benicio did a paper on her for his "Women in the Media" class. Benicio said he read her autobiography and Ron quipped that it should have been called "Robin Quivers: More Success than her Talent Deserves" or something to that effect.

[underdog]

They trashed Stern like two days after they talked about the handshaking.

I just remembered that they trashed Stern when they were listening to that Vietnam guy's radio tapes.

[Dan G]

I thought it was funny when Al Dukes admitted that he thought Ron & Ron were Howard clones.

The funny thing is Howard was never heard in the Tampa Bay market until 2004, 7 years after the Ron & Ron era had ended.

Having grown up in Tampa, my only exposure to Howard was his Saturday night WOR show, his autobiographies and then years later, his E! show

[SpetsnazC4]

I did hear Artie bring up Ron and Fez last week when Stern was talking about the merger. He said he tried to listen to the show but it was boring. Of course I disagree with him.

I listen to a bunch of different shows and they all bring different things to the table. Strangely enough I like it when shows talk positively about other shows. Maybe I like it because I hardly hear it.

Just this last Friday Ron and Fez were brought up on Don and Mike.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1415291

[Dan 'Hampton]

So i guess Ron and Fez just isn't the show for obese junkies.
Anyone else find it unbelievably hack for Artie to end his shows with Bababooy?

[mike from philly]

i think ron had his fill of the "shock jock" shows when he was in florida, that is what makes their show different.

if you want cock jokes you listen to O&A.

And honestly from what i've seen the RON and RON show was probably a bit further out there than stern ever was.

the part of your post i dont get is i realize they are different people that can all think for themselves, but I am surprised that since they seem to be good friends of O&A they never seem to rip on Stern."
good point, I never heard cock jokes from R&F... with June approaching I have a feeling this may change:wink:

[walking joint]

I never said I hate the show.
I point out somethings I don't like about the show now (just like people do with The Wire, SNL, and wrestling on this board) and you have people that RARELY listen to O&A come in and defend them.

that is all you do. its never positive posts about the show, just things you don't like. and how do you know how much anyone listens? do they say, i hardly listen and then go on to defend them.

[Radioguy]

I wouldn't at all be surprised if we are faced with a situation again where, as a merged XM/Sirius moves closer to Stern's contract expiring, that Mel (once more) tries to angle in other talent in as the heirs, to try and play to Howard's ego - if that talent is (once more) O&A or R&F, I dunno.

O&A. Mel, and O&A, always angled that they were the heir apparents to Stern, and would take over when Stern kept hinting at, but never delivering, retirement while on FM.

I did hear Artie bring up Ron and Fez last week when Stern was talking about the merger. He said he tried to listen to the show but it was boring. Of course I disagree with him.

There was another reference to R&F on Stern a few years ago. Stern himself said something like he thought both were gay, not just Fez. I think the clip made O&A or R&F at some point. It wasn't that much of a dig, but it did sound like thought little of them. Even then Ron wasn't provoked, but O&A would have made a show out of that.

[MikeB]

that is all you do. its never positive posts about the show, just things you don't like.
Nope.

how do you know how much anyone listens? do they say, i hardly listen and then go on to defend them.
Yes.

[walking joint]

you set me straight.

[MikeB]

you set me straight.

no prob.

[K.C.]

This radio war discussion is a whole lot of nothing.

Even if O&A were so consumed with the fact that Stern had them forbidden from talking about him back in the old days, the fact that they don't seem to have done particularly well on commercial radio told me all along that they weren't going anywhere by choice.

And Stern's not stupid. He and Mel Karmazin know that there's a built in O&A audience on XM and aren't conceited enough to drive away potential subscribers for a medium that needs all the help it can get, because it still hasn't turned a dime of profit.

Just follow the money.

As this pertains to Ron & Fez, unless the new company squeezes its talk format programming down to just two channels, things will be as they've always been.

Right now, I anticipate three channels.

-The Virus
-Two Howard channels (one that runs his show on loop, the other that runs the other Sirius talk programming like Bubba and Ferrell).

And that would basically be the same as it is now with the two companies.


If anything goes, the first thing on the chopping block would be the XM 152 programming.

[codenhead]

The boys can talk about F you money all they want, but when you start buying big houses and places in Trump Tower...you have to plan out the future a little.

[ryno1974]

This radio war discussion is a whole lot of nothing.

Even if O&A were so consumed with the fact that Stern had them forbidden from talking about him back in the old days, the fact that they don't seem to have done particularly well on commercial radio told me all along that they weren't going anywhere by choice.

And Stern's not stupid. He and Mel Karmazin know that there's a built in O&A audience on XM and aren't conceited enough to drive away potential subscribers for a medium that needs all the help it can get, because it still hasn't turned a dime of profit.

Just follow the money.

As this pertains to Ron & Fez, unless the new company squeezes its talk format programming down to just two channels, things will be as they've always been.

Right now, I anticipate three channels.

-The Virus
-Two Howard channels (one that runs his show on loop, the other that runs the other Sirius talk programming like Bubba and Ferrell).

And that would basically be the same as it is now with the two companies.


If anything goes, the first thing on the chopping block would be the XM 152 programming.

Hmmmmmm..... Too bad the Canadian customers are getting FUCKED and cant get 152. I dont even have the option of deciding for myself if it is any good or not.

[underdog]

The boys can talk about F you money all they want, but when you start buying big houses and places in Trump Tower...you have to plan out the future a little.

Isn't buying real estate planning for the future?

[lleeder]

Isn't buying real estate planning for the future?

They should have invested more money in Citadel.

[MikeB]

They should have invested more money in Citadel.

llllllinnnngggerrrr looo

[underdog]

They should have invested more money in Citadel.

llllllinnnngggerrrr looo

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